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Speaker 1: Also media, Welcome, Dick It Happened Here a podcast where

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Speaker 1: we're bringing Shitty Mayor one Day back to celebrate an

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Speaker 1: incredibly special occasion, which is the unbelievably funny federal indictment

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Speaker 1: of what New York Mayor Eric Adams with me talk about.

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Speaker 1: This is Garrison Davis, is James Stout and and we

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Speaker 1: have a New York expert, our fellow trade unionist, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Joey pat who works on what we Love and Afterlives.

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Speaker 2: Joey, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for having me. Excited to be here.

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Speaker 3: I hope I can. I can provide some insight to

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Speaker 3: New York City and everything that's been happening lately.

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Speaker 4: The Eric Adams news really is kind of the most

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Speaker 4: positive piece of duce that we've had the past month.

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Speaker 2: It's been a really bad it's keeping me going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I gotta say I found out

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Speaker 3: the news of the indictment. I was at like a

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Speaker 3: gay bar near me, like at a like queer Pool event,

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Speaker 3: and like everybody got the news at the same time,

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Speaker 2: Was one of the funniest.

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Speaker 3: Ways to learn that Eric Adams has been a yacht

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Speaker 3: was that was the like the most joy I've seen

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Speaker 3: from a from a group of New Yorkers in a while.

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Speaker 2: What a beauty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so I want to I want to open

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Speaker 1: the floor up to Eric Adams stories. But first I

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Speaker 1: need to complain about the fact that so I have

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Speaker 1: I have long as a proud Chicago Wan who has

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Speaker 1: now fled Chicago for Portland. I have long made fun

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Speaker 1: of New York for being a Tier two Chinese city

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Speaker 1: that thinks that it's the greatest city in the world.

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Speaker 1: And then I learned they didn't have trash cans, which

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Speaker 1: pushed this at like, this is not even like a

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Speaker 1: Tier five. This is a level of trash collection that

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Speaker 1: you see in like rural HOOBEI like, what the fuck Britain.

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Speaker 2: The United Kingdom where we got rid of trash cans too?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's not true though, because luckily Eric

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Speaker 4: Adams didn't make the trash cans.

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Speaker 2: It's just what is going on.

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Speaker 3: The first American city to ever think of this idea.

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Speaker 3: I'm for context. I am also in a unique position

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Speaker 3: here because I'm from Chicago, and yeah, oftentimes get my

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Speaker 3: friends and family that still live in Chicago confused as

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Speaker 3: to why I live out here. I do love New York.

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Speaker 3: I I it is a great city to live in.

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Speaker 3: But these are the kind of moments we have where

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I honestly, And then.

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Speaker 1: Think about this.

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams stuff too.

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Speaker 1: It's like the stuff he's so, there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: second federal indictment with more people in it, but the

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Speaker 1: first one it's kind of brush league shit by Chicago standards.

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Speaker 2: Like like if you compare this.

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Speaker 1: To like like Rob Lagoyevitch trying to sell off, like

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Speaker 1: trying to sell Obama's Senate seat, It's like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying New York wants.

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Speaker 3: To be Chicago. They're starting a second city here too.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, No, the ads in the subway and every

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Speaker 3: time takes away a part of my soul. Like I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you cannot claim that that is us.

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Speaker 4: It just means there's gonna be even more insufferable people.

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Speaker 2: This this sucks. Yeah, a second second city has hit

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Speaker 2: the Towers. Another great Rag Adams moment. Eric Adams hit

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Speaker 4: No no, but he had he had this great interview

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Speaker 4: where he was asked to summarize like, what.

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Speaker 4: And he gave the answer, h New York, which is

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Speaker 4: two words, and that explained it's because it's the only

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Speaker 4: eleven happen and also open up a small business. One

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Speaker 4: of the one of the funniest Eric Adams moments I've

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Speaker 4: the new funniest Aracatams moment, which we should probably get

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Speaker 4: to because this is not a short indictment.

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Speaker 5: Wait are we're doing all Eric adams favorite moments yet?

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Speaker 5: Because I have a fat we got run?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Mine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you want to hit his with yous? Jerry?

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Speaker 3: Mine's definitely. I think the ongoing saga of just whether

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Speaker 2: I didn't know this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a vegan. He talks a lot about how

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Speaker 3: because he's been seen like eating chicken on camera and

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Speaker 3: been a whole thing about how like he maybe and

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Speaker 3: he's like admitted that he's like eaten meat sometimes, Like

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Speaker 4: What do you mean he identifies as a vegan vegan.

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Speaker 5: He's like some kind of like like sixteenth century Catholic

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Speaker 5: you know where they have all these weird exceptions for

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Speaker 3: A repent and then whatever to confass and and then

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Speaker 3: he's getting he gets you get a card back.

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Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah, Jewey's

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Speaker 2: Jewi's kind of mentioned mine.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that he definitely is from New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: which I think is what allowed him to use a

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Speaker 2: There's there's no way, like.

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Speaker 5: My favorite also relates to him not living in New York,

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Speaker 5: which is when Kurb staked out his New York apartment

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Speaker 5: him doing this, and he confessed to doing it and

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Speaker 5: was like it was a terrible mistake, just an incredible

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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe that is like a New York mayor

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Speaker 2: Like yet refuses to use mass transit.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, that's true. That's true. He does hate public transportation.

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Speaker 2: God, you can just send more cops in the subway.

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Speaker 2: That'll fix it, all right, Oh God, let's uh yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's let's let's get into this. Get start.

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Speaker 1: So okay, So the things here is being indicted for

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Speaker 1: two broad categories of bribes that he took, which is

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Speaker 1: the bribes that are campaign donations that he funneled through

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Speaker 1: So what you do is you find like ten people

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Speaker 1: This is unbelievably legal. And the second type is him

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Speaker 1: just accepting unbelievable amounts of like gifts and stuff from

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Speaker 1: a Turk shairliner. Now, the interesting thing about this is

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Speaker 1: when he was a mayor, but like, no, he was,

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Speaker 1: so he was. He was the borough president of Brooklyn

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Speaker 2: And this is like as.

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Speaker 1: Burro president is when he really started doing all of

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Speaker 2: He's been doing this for almost like ten years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of love this too, because the like

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Speaker 3: Brooklyn borough president, it's kind of a fake job, like

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Speaker 3: that he still managed to find ways to be corrupt

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Speaker 3: and his like fake.

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Speaker 2: Job that he had.

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Speaker 1: It's stunning, Oh, because I'm going to read starting with

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Speaker 1: the indictment a bit. By smuggling their contributions to Adams

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Speaker 1: through US based straw donors, Adams oversees contributors defeated federal

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Speaker 1: laws that served to prevent foreign influence on US elections.

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Speaker 2: Wealth.

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Speaker 1: The individuals evaded laws designed to limit their power over

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Speaker 1: elected officials by restricting the amount of money one person

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Speaker 1: in politics. Adams increases fundraising by accepting these concealed illegal

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Speaker 1: this is really funny because so there's three different illegal

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Speaker 1: like there's like there's three kinds of campaign contributions you

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Speaker 1: can't do. It's like corporations one person there's like limits

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Speaker 2: It's it's shitty, widely incredible. I guess I would like

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Speaker 4: I mean, at some point, and I'm sure we'll get

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Speaker 4: into it as how like explicit this whole like Turkish

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Speaker 2: About it. Yeah, I'm sure we'll get to this.

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Speaker 5: It's when they're like, hey, Eric, you're not going to

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Speaker 5: don't mention the genocide.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: So Eric Adams, the defendant, also saw and received other

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Speaker 1: improper benefits from some of the same co conspirators who

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Speaker 1: fundised shchra altonations to his campaign. In particular, a senior

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Speaker 1: official in the Turkish diplomatic establishments henceforth Turkish official who

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Speaker 1: Turkey's national airline quote the Turkish Airline, which is owned

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Speaker 1: a significant part by the Turkish governments, to destinations including France, China,

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Speaker 1: companions to receive, among other things, free rooms at opulent hotels,

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Speaker 2: So this is all very very explicit.

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Speaker 3: He's got wanderlust, you know, supposed to be like a

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Speaker 3: unfortunately he had to become mayor.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, a bond of log forster.

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Speaker 3: Mayor starting to do the job he wants to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very tragic. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So actually the first thing Turkish influence thing that he did.

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Speaker 1: I actually, this is weirdly the one part of this

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Speaker 2: It was Turkish Airlines. That's true.

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Speaker 1: There's a very funny line about this, because the Turkish

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is fucking correct.

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Speaker 2: Why would Tish airlines have a flight from New York?

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Speaker 4: You know, I would take bribes from Air Canada, but

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Speaker 2: you guys seen a video clip of him. Every city

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Speaker 2: So this is all very funny. But this is all happening.

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Speaker 5: A man who was a call doing an absolutely terrible

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Speaker 1: You know who else is taking bribes from the Turkish government.

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Speaker 1: We cannot It's not our products and services. It's it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's really sounding okay. So what is Turkish government

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Speaker 1: On July twenty second, twenty eighteen, the same day as

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Speaker 1: the US a Turk, I'll give cash to him in Turkey.

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Speaker 1: We'll I'll send it to an American. He will make

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Speaker 1: the donation to you. The Adam staffer replied, I think

443
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Speaker 1: he won't get involved in such games. They might cause

444
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Speaker 1: a stink later on, but I'll ask anyways. The Adam

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Speaker 1: Stafford then asked how much do you think would come

446
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Speaker 1: from you? The promoter responded max one hundred k. The

447
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Speaker 1: Adam Stafferd wrote, one hundred k. Do you have a

448
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Speaker 1: chance to transfer that here? We can't do it while

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Speaker 1: Eric is in Turkey, to which your promoter replied, let's think.

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Speaker 1: After the conversation, the Adam Stafferd asked Adams whether that

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Speaker 1: Adam Stafford should pursue the unlawful for contributions offered by

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Speaker 1: the promoter, and, contrary to the staffers expectations, Adams directed

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Speaker 1: the staffer to pursue the promoter's illegal skime.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you should know who you're working for

456
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Speaker 1: well enough to be like, hey, this guy is offering

457
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Speaker 1: a completely illegal fundraising scheme that we know is illegal,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think my boss will take it.

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Speaker 2: And then the boss turns around to me, he's.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, fuck it, raised buddy, it might cause a

461
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Speaker 4: big stink later on.

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Speaker 2: You don't say, yeah, that's wild. To be fair, it did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so explicit, and I do want to get

464
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Speaker 4: to some some of the other text messages sooner or later,

465
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 4: because it really just shows how like aware everyone involved

466
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Speaker 4: is of over like what's going on.

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00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing crimes.

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Speaker 3: It's literally just hey, what should I do with the

469
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Speaker 3: crime money?

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Speaker 2: The illegal crime?

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Speaker 3: Have we mentioned the legal.

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Speaker 1: So partially this is being run through Turkish airlines, Partially

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Speaker 1: this is being run through a Turkish university, and partially

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Speaker 1: this is being run through just a bunch of businessmen,

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00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 1: some of whom are Turkish, some of them aren't. So

476
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: here's like the next thing I was gonna read. Although

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Speaker 1: Adams knew that Businessman one was a Turkish national who

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Speaker 1: could not lawfully contribute to US elections, Adams directed the

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Speaker 1: staffer to obtain the illegal contributions offered by Businessman one.

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Speaker 1: Following up on this directive, Adams wrote to the staffer

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Speaker 1: that business or one quote is ready to help. I

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Speaker 1: don't want his help to be wasted. So they are

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Speaker 1: just like unbelievably directly being like, yeah, we know this

484
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Speaker 1: guy can't do this, but we're just going to tell

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Speaker 1: him to send this money anyways.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane how slapstick they are about this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and like you know, they're kind of trying to

488
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Speaker 1: come from the tracks. I think this part of it

489
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Speaker 1: is one of the things that I think like was

490
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Speaker 1: one of the things that kind of went viral over this.

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Speaker 1: So Adams is trying to arrange another like fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars contribution from a third Turkish businessman, and in the

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00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: middle of this, he's saying to the staffer, quote to

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Speaker 1: be on the safe side, please delete capital P, capital D.

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00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: Please delete all messages you send me, Adams responded, always do.

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Speaker 1: Now we don't for a fact that a bunch of

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Speaker 1: these messages we're simply not deleted, considering.

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Speaker 2: That you just read them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I do also think it was worth noting that some

501
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Speaker 4: of these efforts certainly started to ramp up around his

502
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 4: mayoral campaign, because some of these Turkish officials thought that

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Speaker 4: if Adams becomes a more like prominent member in politics,

504
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Speaker 4: he ever like runs for president, if they can gain

505
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 4: influence over him from like pretty early on, that would

506
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Speaker 4: be really useful for the Turkish government. That is some

507
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 4: of like the reasoning behind this like decades long campaign

508
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Speaker 4: like puppet Eric Adams.

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Speaker 5: Maybe the Turkish government had seen Nate Silver's now infamous tweet.

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Speaker 4: It will be the next Yeah, I mean it's all

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Speaker 4: nights any such case, any case.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, snate silver who got them to chase us around

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Speaker 2: with drones last last October.

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Speaker 4: He keeps getting more businessman to donate tens of thousands

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Speaker 4: of dollars.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's so funny.

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Speaker 4: It's like repeatedly, he just keeps getting more and more

518
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Speaker 4: and more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the funniest part is that like by like guy

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Speaker 1: number four, he's doing this with he's like telling the

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Speaker 1: guy how to do straw donations where he's like, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: you can't donate ten thousand dollars, but give two thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to.

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Speaker 2: Each of your employees and they'll do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. He's doing like instructions for each of these guys,

527
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Speaker 4: and it's like at a certain point, like some of

528
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 4: the early airline stuff is yes, illegal and sketchy, but

529
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Speaker 4: like you know, it's it's just getting some nice plane tickets.

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Speaker 4: By like twenty twenty one, he's just teaching them how

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Speaker 4: to do like super illegal like campaign fraud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you've like committed so much, like you're just like

534
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 4: into deep, like you can't like.

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Speaker 2: What's there to do? Yeah, you know who else is

536
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 2: in too deep?

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Speaker 1: It's the products and services who control the podcasts podcast

538
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: support that one. Yeah wow, wows not so much to

539
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: say by the Reagan coin people.

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Speaker 2: They have a very little editorial control.

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Speaker 3: Are supposed to delete those tags.

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Speaker 2: There are so many funny ones. He also he also

543
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: is taking.

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Speaker 1: Money from this Lusbek construction guy where he takes a

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Speaker 1: bunch of money that like shows up at this like

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Speaker 1: New York like husbig Pride event to give a speech

547
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Speaker 1: because he took money from this like contruction guy.

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Speaker 2: Did he say new York? Is he Itzbekistan of America? Honestly,

549
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Speaker 2: he probably has.

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Speaker 1: That's like, yeah, he's probably said Kazakstan by accident because

551
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Speaker 1: he always says the wrong question giving his speech like that.

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Speaker 3: My favorite moment was the video of him speaking to

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Speaker 3: like the Indian group that he kept saying.

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Speaker 5: Pakistani, Oh god, yeah yeah, oh dear yeah.

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00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: I think that went down like a chocolate tipa. He

556
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: did it like twice too. They corrected him that he kept.

557
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 3: Doing it well, they were like gelling over him, and

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00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 3: he said stout God.

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Speaker 1: So there's another kind of funny one where he's he's

560
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of money from this university and he

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00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: actually returns the money because his campaign is like his

562
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: mayor campaign is over, but he's still going to go

563
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: to prison for it because he lied to the government

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Speaker 1: at where he got the money though he gave it away. Okay,

565
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: so I want to start reading some of these texts

566
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Speaker 1: so we can get into like how explicit the stuff is.

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Speaker 1: On July twenty second, twenty twenty one, Adams, through the staffer,

568
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: requested that the airline manager book flights to Istabul for

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Speaker 1: Adams in order to conceal the favorable treatment. The Adam

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Speaker 1: staffer requested the airline manager charge Adams what would appear

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Speaker 1: to be a real price, Adam Stafford, how much does

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Speaker 1: he owe? Please let them make a call and that

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Speaker 1: will make the payments. Airline manage. It is very expensive

574
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Speaker 1: because it was last minute. I am working on a discount,

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Speaker 1: Adam Stafford. Okay, thank you, airline manager. I am going

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Speaker 1: to charge fifty dollars, Adam Stafford. No, airline manager. That

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Speaker 1: wouldn't work, wouldn't it, Adam Stafford, No, dear, fifty dollars?

578
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: What quote a proper price? How much should I charge?

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00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: A smiley face emoji, Adam Stafford. His every step is

580
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: being watched right now a thousand dollars or so let

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00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: it be somewhat real. We don't want them to say

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Speaker 1: that he is flying for free. At the moment, the

583
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: media's attention is on Eric.

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00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: Amazing stuff, the smiley pairs of the tax is Briller

585
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: throwing off.

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Speaker 2: It's so good.

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Speaker 4: So he paid about like one one hundred dollars for

588
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 4: these round trip tickets and he was upgraded to business classes.

589
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 4: Suck at him, and in actuality these tickets would would

590
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 4: again be like fifteen thousand dollars. And this is like

591
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 4: the same type of stuff he was doing like eight

592
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 4: years ago, except this time he actually is paying some money,

593
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 4: whereas last time he did not actually fill up those

594
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 4: envelopes with cash. Yeah, but still he's about he's about

595
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 4: fourteen thousand short.

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00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: He also this a great one where like the staffers like,

598
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: do you have recommendations on where he can go to Turkey?

599
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: The airline manager, four season staffer, it's too expensive, airline manager,

600
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: why does he care? He's not going to fake his name,

601
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: will not be at anything either. Adam Stafford super super fun.

602
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 2: It's so super illegal.

603
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Speaker 3: I want to meet the person who's sending these texts yeah,

604
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 3: so bad.

605
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 2: It's so funny.

606
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 3: Why is this like the cadence with which they're speaking

607
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 3: in these texts, It's just insane.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible stuff. There's some great ones. I gotta read

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00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: this one.

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Speaker 1: On the day the Adams fundraiser was scheduled to depart Istanbul,

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Speaker 1: Adams created a message thread between himself, the Adams Fundraiser,

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00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: and the airline manager, quote, he will try to help

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00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: with the issue with the form he can see about

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00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: a hotel or business class lounge. The manager then arranged

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00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: for the Adams fundraiser, who was otherwise on an economy ticket,

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00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: to have access to not only the Turkish Airlines business lounge,

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Speaker 1: but also an exclusive private suite inside the lounge, complete

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Speaker 1: with a bed and free food. The Turkish airline manager explained,

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Speaker 1: this is our suite for VIPs and we want you

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Speaker 1: to feel yourself. Two words yourself sick VIP, smiley face emoji.

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Speaker 2: Fail yourself VIP. That's what we will want.

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Speaker 1: At another point in the exchange, Adams wrote, quote thanks

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Speaker 1: a million airline manager my brother. Which airline managers wanted anytime?

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Speaker 2: Brother? Oh yes, I feel physically unwell. They just keep

625
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Speaker 2: doing this. On the day he won the election.

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Speaker 1: Like the day after, the airline manager sent the following

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Speaker 1: text message, brother, congratulations, Adams responded, cannot thank you enough.

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Speaker 2: So true, so true.

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Speaker 4: That is good, although it's not as good as kind

630
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 4: of the next thing when in December twenty one he

631
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Speaker 4: was putting together his like mayoral like team for like

632
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 4: policy advisors and his transition team, and he did not

633
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: have like people from Turkey on on this list. So

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00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 4: this air manager said, didn't. It's it's not quite blackmail,

635
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 4: but it is certainly like bribery, saying like, hey, maybe

636
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 4: you should put me on like your senior on your

637
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 4: senior advisory team, and if you don't, then you're not

638
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: going to get free tickets anymore.

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00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I want to read the exact line because it's so

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Speaker 1: funny the staffer sense of the airline manager list and

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Speaker 1: the airlin manager response it would suit me well to

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Speaker 1: be lead or senior advisor. Two days later, the airline

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00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: manager sent a message reiterating lead please plz please smiley

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00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: face otherwise fifty two is empty on the way back.

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Speaker 2: Seat.

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Speaker 4: Oh good, oh my god, Lead pease you don't make

648
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Speaker 4: me a lead adviser. We're not going to give you

649
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 4: free free airplane tickets are.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so funny. Winky face.

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Speaker 4: And then I believe he did add someone onto his team.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yeah, he was added to the Infrastructure, Climate

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Speaker 1: and Sustainability Committee Transition team Jesus Christ, which the whole

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00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: Sustainability Commission is just like a slush. There's another thing

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Speaker 1: later where like he's like a secret meeting of like

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Speaker 1: these Turkish donors and he calls it like a sustainability

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00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: transition meeting, so no one will know that he's having

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Speaker 1: this meeting.

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Speaker 4: I mean you should read what the airline manager wrote

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Speaker 4: after he was added to the Climate and Sustainability and

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Speaker 4: Infrastructure Committee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, on December twenty twenty one, the senior Turkish government

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Speaker 1: official sent the airline manager a series of texts noting

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Speaker 1: the airline manager's membership on Adam's Infrastructure Climate Sustainability Committe

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Speaker 1: and sending.

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Speaker 2: Applause about you.

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Speaker 1: No, the airlineer fonded that his membership on the tradition

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Speaker 1: Committee was in service of Turkey. Quote, thank you brother.

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Speaker 1: We are doing our best to server country adequately. Your

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Speaker 1: support gives us strength here. Thank you you were always

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Speaker 1: there for us we're trying to be loyal.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. Oh wait is it?

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Speaker 3: We're trying to be worthy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're trying to be worthy. Yeah, we're trying to

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Speaker 2: be worthy. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: That is so sorry. I'm trying to be worthy of you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being there. Please be so good.

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Speaker 3: I just like want to be worthy of you. Ericata.

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Speaker 1: So by this point, I total that the Turkish airline bribes,

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Speaker 1: specifically that all the benefits total one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Seats just a general life, which is also just a

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Speaker 4: small fraction of like the total amount of money he received.

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Speaker 2: To be fat. That's probably like the face prices of

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Speaker 2: business class tickets and lounge access, which no one actually

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Speaker 2: pays for.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, because like beyond the actual airline stuff, because

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Speaker 4: of like the campaign like match like a policy deals,

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Speaker 4: like he received in the end, like like ten million

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Speaker 4: dollars right from from like all of this whole ordeal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So so so the match funding thing basically is like

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Speaker 1: there's public matching funds for like private donations for for

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Speaker 1: mayoral candidates. There's like some things you have to go through,

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Speaker 1: but in order to get that money, right, you have

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Speaker 1: to abide by campaign finance law and all of the

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Speaker 1: So all of these like straw donor bribe donations that

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Speaker 1: he's getting are being are also I think it's like

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Speaker 1: eight to one or something like matching funds are being

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Speaker 1: matched by the government. Say you got like ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars matching funds.

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Speaker 4: He's not only like doing like campaign fraud by getting

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Speaker 4: this like foreign influence amount of money. He's also just

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Speaker 4: like stealing from from everyone else too by having all

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Speaker 4: of these illegal contributions matched. Yeah, so in the end,

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Speaker 4: I think he's like he's like charged with like like

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Speaker 4: basically ten million dollars of like fraud.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is like, like this is this is how

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Speaker 1: he won the election, Like he won the election by

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Speaker 1: spending an unbelievable amount of money and like that money.

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Speaker 1: Who's like this like stuff that he defrauded the government for.

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Speaker 5: And it's ironic that like the campaign funding matching is

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Speaker 5: designed to like amplify the donations made by regular New

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Speaker 5: Yorkers and not make it all.

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Speaker 2: Like a super Pac game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Eric Adams thought he they made an end run around.

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Speaker 4: That, and like I did not realize just because I

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Speaker 4: had been keeping up with like Eric Adams news previous

720
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Speaker 4: to this, I did not realize how often his house

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Speaker 4: was getting rated by the FBI.

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Speaker 1: There were so many, there's been so many, Like this

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Speaker 1: is all just one angle on the like thirty five three,

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Speaker 1: because there's there's so much other corruption he was doing,

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Speaker 1: Like this is just the stuff they gone specifically around

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Speaker 1: him for. But like basically everyone in the circle around

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Speaker 1: him is like also going to prison. Like to the

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Speaker 1: point where remember I was talking about the Uzbek construction

729
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Speaker 1: guy that he donated money to. Yeah, that guy also

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Speaker 1: paid off like the guy who's going to become mayor

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Speaker 1: when Adams gets arrested, So like the depity mayor like also.

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Speaker 2: Took money for that guy. Amazing. Yeah, so one of

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Speaker 2: the worst parts of this twenty first two, the Turkish

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Speaker 2: official messaged the Adam stafford noting that our Median Genocide

735
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Speaker 2: Remembrance Day was approaching and repeatedly asking the Adam stafford

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Speaker 2: for assurances that Adams would not make any statements about

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Speaker 2: their Armedian genocide. Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: The Adam stafford confirmed that Adams did not make a

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Speaker 1: statement about about the Armenian genocide.

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Speaker 2: Adams did not make such a statement. New York, not

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Speaker 2: the Yerevan of America.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So she just straight up took money from the Turkish

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Speaker 1: government genocide denial for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah so that's great. That that's incredible stuff to be fair.

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Speaker 4: That is that is the mainstay of current American politics.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah, and it's the best fundate of all

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Speaker 5: genocide denials.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Well this erg Adam's guy doesn't seem like

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Speaker 4: a doesn't seem too good. It is just fascinating to

751
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Speaker 4: me that out of all the cities, New York is

752
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Speaker 4: just the one city that you cannot have a normal mayor. Yeah,

753
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Speaker 4: just like every single mayor is is weird and fucked

754
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,959
Speaker 4: up in like a different way.

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Speaker 2: Like it's just impossible. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: There was like an onion onion headline on Time that was, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like the mayor de Blasio like, well, well well

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Speaker 3: it's it's not so easy to have a not fucked

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Speaker 3: up mayor or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the exact line was, well, well, not

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Speaker 1: so easy to find a mayor doesn't suck ship down.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: The Erroganta was one hits so much harder because he's

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Speaker 4: like the law and order mayor, Like he's like you know,

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Speaker 4: like like former cop, blah blah blah. He's he's the

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Speaker 4: one making New York worse through all of like the

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Speaker 4: fucked up police stuff. Meanwhile, he's just been doing like

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Speaker 4: major crimes and having his house rated by the FBI

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Speaker 4: like every other month, also having like his friend's house

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Speaker 4: is rated by the FBI. Having was it like a

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Speaker 4: police chief or a police commissioner who was just rated.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then the interim police commissioner they put in

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Speaker 5: often the first world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it's wild stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to talk about his phone password before

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Speaker 2: we finish. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the why I want to close on is like

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Speaker 1: before he goes under, like all of his staffers are

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Speaker 1: getting visited by the FBI, and hey, you could tell

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Speaker 1: all cops and are dumb ast shit because they all

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Speaker 1: they all agreed to talk to the FBI and like

782
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Speaker 1: lied to this, and then we're trying to like coordinate

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Speaker 1: destroying the messages which the FBI got all the data from.

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Speaker 1: On October sixth, twenty twenty three, FBI agents executed a

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Speaker 1: search warrant for the electronic devices used by Eric Adams,

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Speaker 1: a defendants. So Adams was carrying several electronic devices, including

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Speaker 1: two cell phones, he was not carrying his personal cell phone,

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Speaker 1: which is a device he used to communicate about the

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Speaker 1: conduct described in this indictment. When Adams produced his personal

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00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: cell phone the next day in response to a subpoena,

791
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Speaker 1: it was locked, such as the device required a password

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Speaker 1: to open. Adams claimed that after he learned the investigation

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Speaker 1: into his contact he learned about the investigation, he changed

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Speaker 1: the passwords the day before and increased the complexity of

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Speaker 1: his password from four to six digits. Adams had done this,

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Speaker 1: he claimed to prevent members of his staff from inrittently

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Speaker 1: or intentionally deleting the contents of his phone. According to Adams,

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Speaker 1: he wished to preserve the context of its phone due

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Speaker 1: to the investigation. But Adams further claimed he'd forgotten the password.

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Speaker 1: He just said, was unable to provide the NBA with

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Speaker 1: the password that can unlock.

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Speaker 2: The phone if they tried his birthday.

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Speaker 4: It's the funniest argument. Yeah yeah, they like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: I changed. I changed the password so that the information

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Speaker 4: was safe and wouldn't be deleted. Also, I forgot the password.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so like presumably this is encrypted, right, but like

807
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: I cannot, Like, what the fuck is the FBI doing that.

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00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: They can't just break into this phone, like, I mean,

809
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Speaker 1: some phones are hard to break into, like it it is,

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Speaker 1: it is true.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, have struggled with iPhones for what Yes, but this

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Speaker 5: is but this is Eric Adams. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah,

813
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 5: it might be zero zero zero zero, like they ought

814
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Speaker 5: to give it the elk on.

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Speaker 2: It's dry to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like they've got to have some fucking like spook

817
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: from the NSA that they can illegally send his phone

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Speaker 1: over to.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm sure they've tried Celebright. I'm sure they've tried

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Speaker 4: a whole bunch of stuff. It just doesn't always work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't know, it makes you feel wildly

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Speaker 1: better about phone security. Oh the way, this is a

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Speaker 1: message about this public safety announcement. If you use a

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Speaker 1: face print or a fingerprint to lock your phone, the

825
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: cops can just use your face or your fingerprint to

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Speaker 1: a block it, or they can get it with a warrant.

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Speaker 1: But if it's like an actual number, like they can't

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Speaker 1: put a gun to your head and say open it,

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Speaker 1: which is the way that this would normally sort of work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, basic security thing. So in all, Adams is

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Speaker 1: being charged with simultaneously conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal

832
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Speaker 1: program bribery, and to receive camphree and contributions by foreign national.

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Speaker 2: There's a kind of wire fraud.

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Speaker 1: There's another count of solicitation of a contribution by foreign national.

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Speaker 1: There's subsequently, the fourth count is the same as a

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Speaker 1: third count. It's it's solicitation of a contribution by four

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Speaker 1: national and the fifth count is bribery. So he's like

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Speaker 1: probably going down, going down.

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Speaker 2: He sounds pretty fucked.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it has been interesting how much the federal

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Speaker 4: government has been her cracking down on foreign influence before

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Speaker 4: the selection, both with like tenant media, like a Russian

843
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Speaker 4: foreign influence stuff like this. There's been like some of

844
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Speaker 4: like Jimmy Dore or like orbiters that have I know,

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Speaker 4: have have been getting looked into by the FEDS for

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Speaker 4: like Russian foreign influence.

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Speaker 2: Dude.

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Speaker 4: And this is not a show where we regularly praise

849
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Speaker 4: the actions of the fedral government. But it's always funny

850
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Speaker 4: to see my enemies having a hard time. And I'm pray,

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Speaker 4: I'm praying for that. Jackson Hinkle one which is yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: because it's so it's so obvious, You're so obvious that

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Speaker 4: he's he's absolutely getting paid by some by some forty government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder which one this one is air to

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Speaker 1: one versus the FBI, which I'm just like just chomping

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Speaker 1: down popcorn and clapping like a seal watching rifles.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, destroy each other no matter what happens. I'm

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Speaker 4: okay with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow.

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Speaker 5: I will repeat my position here at the end of

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Speaker 5: the show that I am prepared to vote for Joe

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Speaker 5: Biden on the condition that he immediately begins trading Eric

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Speaker 5: Adams for Abdul Julan, who does not belong to jail

864
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Speaker 5: Unlike Eric Adams. It'sohulan week this week, and so yeah,

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Speaker 5: he shouldn't be in prison.

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Speaker 2: Let him out. How do you feel about your mayor, Joey?

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Speaker 3: You know, it sounds like he's he's working on some ship.

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Speaker 3: He's got to figure out if he really wants you know.

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Speaker 3: I see. This is the thing too, is it's like,

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Speaker 3: do I want to be like, Wow, congrats to the

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Speaker 3: FBI on this investigation. No. That being said, it is

872
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Speaker 3: really funny to see this all go down. I think

873
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Speaker 3: also just the amount of bullshit that he has done

874
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Speaker 3: while he's in office. But both legally and over the

875
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Speaker 3: table and under the table, and it's kind of funny

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Speaker 3: to see like this meet the thing that takes him

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Speaker 3: down yet other one of my favorite tweets about all

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Speaker 3: this with somebody who was like, I'm sure Eric Adams

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's going to be uh really

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Speaker 3: pro a prison reform all of a sudden, but I

881
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Speaker 3: I hope so, you know, that would be a crazy It's.

882
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Speaker 2: Like an abolitionist.

883
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 3: I'm getting flashbacks person abolition arts. I'm getting flashbacks when

884
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: a when a oh god, that's the same to Blasio.

885
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 3: Uh the governor, the governor, Oh my god, former governor,

886
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: like what he was having all of this shit come

887
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 3: out and like the last thing he did in office

888
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 3: was the legalized weed, and it was like such a

889
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 3: like last ditch, Like fine, here, you guys go like

890
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 3: like are we going to get something like that? Are

891
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 3: we gonna get? Well? I guess he tried with the

892
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 3: trash cans and people rejected that. But it's been an experience.

893
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 3: I hope for the sake of the city that uh,

894
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,479
Speaker 3: you know, he faces consequences for this and it's never

895
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 3: back in New York politics. But I guess we'll see

896
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 3: what happens.

897
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 4: No, I'm not going to cheer on the FBI, but

898
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 4: but I am pro cop on cop of violence.

899
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Speaker 2: That's true, and that's true, and that's all this is.

900
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: That's that's all this is. So that's fine.

901
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 3: I'm pro irony. I'm pro like like you're getting got

902
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 3: by the same like people you're bros.

903
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 4: I am interested in what the next New York mayoral

904
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 4: election will look like.

905
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 3: We're bringing in Laurie Lightfoot, let's go on hat.

906
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 4: And the small possibility that, depending on how this next

907
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 4: election goes, we could have a Trump versus Clinton mayoral

908
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 4: race in New York. I would love to watch.

909
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 5: Maybe Hillary Clinton will finally make her film about the

910
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 5: Syrian democratic forces she's been promising to make for years.

911
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Speaker 1: I want to close on a kind of slightly more

912
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: serious struggles are connected note, because the thing about Eric

913
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: Adams is that he was the guy who was brought

914
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: in black cop like very specifically brought in and his

915
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: thing was basically to contain the twenty twenty uprising, right.

916
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: He was a guy whose thing was we're bringing in

917
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,479
Speaker 1: the kind of revolution, We're stomping all of this stuff out,

918
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: like all of the sort of like gains of anti

919
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: police stuff that you'd made, all of the sort of

920
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: ideological games been made. We're going to wipe all that out.

921
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Speaker 1: And I think it is really significant that the government

922
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Speaker 1: who is funding him is a Turkish government because if

923
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: you look at the last cycle, right when so Eric

924
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Speaker 1: Adams is starting to do this in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen,

925
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Speaker 1: what's what's happening in Turkey in that time is that

926
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Speaker 1: Turkey have been one of the big sites of huge uprisings.

927
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Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen they have one of the biggest, like

928
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: of that cycle of protests. So twenty thirteen is the

929
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: second of the of the waves from like the Occupy

930
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,959
Speaker 1: twenty eleven waves, Right, there's a big wave in twenty eleven,

931
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 1: and then twenty thirteen to second one, one of the

932
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: biggest one is in Turkey. And Turkey's eventual solution to

933
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: this is basically just the wholesale slaughter of the Curtish

934
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Speaker 1: revolution that was happening. And you know, literally in twenty

935
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Speaker 1: fourteen at the same time twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, at

936
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: the same time as the Michael Brown uprising is going on,

937
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: and then Baltimore goes up right at the same time

938
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Speaker 1: that's happening. There's like these are just Kurdish uprisings in Turkey,

939
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: That's where all the fire bombing happens, right, These these

940
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: these things are very, very intimately connected. There's a reason

941
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: why other than just sort of cartriganous corruption stuff that

942
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: these that these forces are aligned with each other because

943
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: the same people behind the American prison state are also

944
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: the same people who are fucking backing this Turkish extermination

945
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: as we've been against the Kurds, and we're going to

946
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: either win our freedom together or we're going to have

947
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: a thousand more fucking grek.

948
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Speaker 3: Adams is exactly yeah. And I mean I think, like

949
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 3: going back to what I was saying before, like the

950
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 3: craziest thing about all this and like this is definitely

951
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 3: something that I've kind of had to like step back

952
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 3: and be like, all right, Like I obviously am existing

953
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 3: within like a specific community, Like New York is a

954
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 3: huge city. It's the lowerest city in the US, and

955
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: there's lots of different smaller communities, and I was like,

956
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 3: I feel like everybody that I know and everybody I

957
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 3: interact with hates Eric Adams has like their own list

958
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 3: of reasons why like he has done X Y Z

959
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 3: thing and they're like whether it's like my friends that

960
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 3: are teachers or like work for or just use public

961
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 3: libraries that he has like really decided to attack and

962
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 3: like defund for various reasons, or like friends that have

963
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 3: had to deal with like the prison system or whatever.

964
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 3: Or last year, I'd been working on an investigative show

965
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 3: that was looking into a lot of the the situation

966
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 3: at Rikers, and you know, Rikers is supposed to be

967
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: closed in twenty twenty seven at a RK. Adams has

968
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 3: really tried to push back against that, despite the fact

969
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 3: that it's like there's a federal invested investigation into the

970
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 3: situation there and it's not like the conditions are not good.

971
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: It is an unpopular solution, you know, like most New

972
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 3: Yorkers agree that there needs to be some other alternative

973
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 3: than Rikers and just sending people to like literally an island.

974
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 3: That being said, like he won the election. He won

975
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 3: his mayoral election it which sort of like surprising. He

976
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 3: was kind of the underdog. There were other candidates that

977
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 3: I think people had kind of been expecting to win,

978
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 3: and yeah, he was the law and order guy. He

979
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: was coming in is supposed to be this like alternative

980
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 3: to like the twenty twenty uprising to what was seen

981
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 3: as this like chaos, And again, yeah, it's the irony

982
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 3: of him getting got by its own system, getting got

983
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 3: by the fact that like he just keeps doing crimes.

984
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 3: He loves doing crimes, his favorite thing. And then at

985
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 3: the same time, it's like he's caused all this damage

986
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 3: to like individual like specific programs in the city, specific

987
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 3: systems that were really helping people. He has spread like

988
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 3: misinformation about migrants that have been in New York. He

989
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 3: has been like there's just a laundry list of things

990
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 3: that he has done that has been like insanely harmful

991
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 3: for like various reasons. And you know what, if this

992
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 3: is going to be the thing that's going to go

993
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 3: down at the end of the day, this is Sabrina

994
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 3: Carpenter apparently that also those of you who don't know,

995
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 3: the Sabrina Carpenter Feather music video apparently was a big

996
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 3: part of the Eric Adams indictment from kind of the

997
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 3: more local side involving the church that she was filming

998
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 3: at and the I'm not sure what his official position is,

999
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 3: but like the priest who had kind of allowed her

1000
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 3: to come in and film, and then it ended up

1001
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 3: that he was demoted because if you've listened to a

1002
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 3: Sabrina Carpenter song, you can see why the Catholic Church

1003
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 3: might not be super excited about that.

1004
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: And then he.

1005
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 3: Decided to cooperate with the investigation since the church wasn't

1006
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: super happy with him. This whole thing is just there's something.

1007
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 3: It's like, there's so many aspects of this that are

1008
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 3: so crazy. If this is gonna be gonna get them. Yeah.

1009
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, So someone's gonna do like a thirty part podcast

1010
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: series about this something I'm gonna listen to every single

1011
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: and there's.

1012
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 3: Gonna be so much more stuff that's gonna come out.

1013
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 2: That's yeah.

1014
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 4: Speaking of podcasts, Joey, do you want to plug your

1015
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 4: work for sure?

1016
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1017
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 3: So I'm right now producing a show called but We Loved,

1018
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 3: which is on Iheart's Network. It's part of our Unspoken Network,

1019
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 3: which is our LGBTQ plus kind of focus shows, and

1020
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 3: you can find that on Spotify, Apple Music, iHeartMedia, app whatever,

1021
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 3: all the places. I also previously had worked on a

1022
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Speaker 3: show called Afterlives. If you are interested in learning more

1023
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: about wrikers and particularly some of the policy that you know,

1024
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 3: Eric Adams himself has worked to either stop from being

1025
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 3: effective or stop from making the reforms it's supposed to

1026
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 3: be happening. Regards to the whole Wriker situation, you should

1027
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Speaker 3: check out that show. Yeah, that's That's where I'm at.

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Speaker 3: You can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram at

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00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 3: pat not Pratt. That's p A T T n O

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Speaker 3: T p R A T T. People get my last.

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Speaker 2: Name wrong a lot, we'll put them in the description. Yeah, yeah, Joey,

1032
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Speaker 2: thank you for coming on.

1033
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Speaker 1: And fuck I hope, I hope, I hope we all

1034
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Speaker 1: get rid of our fucking Beyers because Jesus Christ, oh God.

1035
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Speaker 3: Yah Future the Democratic Party, Lory Light put Eric Adams

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Let's go get me.

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Speaker 6: It Could Happen Here is a production of cool Zone Media.

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Speaker 6: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website

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00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 6: cool Zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the

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Speaker 6: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.

1042
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 3: You listen to podcasts.

1043
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Speaker 6: You can now find sources for It Could Happen Here

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Speaker 6: listed directly in episode descriptions.

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