Sure.

But, um, but they do spy on us, and they're allowed to spy on us.

They're allowed to spy on our banking transactions all under the Patriot Act, which is ridiculous.

Now, banks, they can't deplatform somebody or debank somebody for their political beliefs, but you have to understand a couple things here.

Number one, the, um, the report, this 47-page report that came out doesn't recommend anything other than they gotta clean up their act with regards to this issue of reputational damage.

So the banks have been getting away with g- getting rid of people based on the reputational damage, which brings up a First Amendment question, r- a, a freedom of association question.

If I'm a private company and I don't wanna bank with, say, Queers for Palestine, do I have to give them a bank account?

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Why not? Sure.

You know what I mean? But, um, but they do spy on us, and they're allowed to spy on us.

They're allowed to spy on our banking transactions all under the Patriot Act, which is ridiculous.

Now, banks- They can't de-platform somebody or de-bank somebody for their political beliefs.

But you have to understand a couple things here.

Number one, the, um, the report, this 47-page report that came out doesn't recommend anything other than they gotta clean up their act with regards to this issue of reputational damage.

So the banks have been getting away with, with getting rid of people based on the reputational damage.

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Yeah.

There's, there's no money there, and the president's not coming to Pennsylvania.

But you don't, you don't know what you don't know in politics, right? So, uh, if you, if you have a big lead like that, you assess can it...

Is it gonna hurt me? Probably not.

What's the downside? It's, it's a chance for me to go up there and, and address the voters, and nobody can accuse me of hiding.

What's the real downside? And you prepare for whatever vulnerabilities you have.

You look around and you say, "Okay, I mean, she could come after us about this or that, so let's work on the answers a- and be able to," you know...

You're gonna be at the Grand Hotel, my friend.

He is, yep.

And, I mean, he's been doing this since he was a kid, and he really is very, very good at, at, at seeing things.

I mean, let's not forget, he was the first mainstream politician to endorse Donald Trump for president, and that put Trump into the lane of everybody having to take him seriously.

And I remember at the time, Christy Whitman and Meg Whitman, Meg Whitman was in California, Christy Whitman was in, obviously former New Jersey governor.

They both wrote an op-ed saying us Republicans were so disappointed in him for normalizing Donald Trump.

But he, he saw that Trump was going to be the nominee, right? What he's thinking is that the Democrats are gonna get the majority, nothing's gonna get done, the Iran war's gonna drag on, people are gonna be very unhappy.

There's gonna be a big split in MAGA, and JD Vance is gonna run, but there's not gonna be the enthusiasm for Vance.

You're gonna be at the Grand Hotel, my friend.

Are they not?

No, that's exactly what it is, and they, they, by, by saying that it's gotta be the government getting into it, they also wanna get around any antitrust laws.

All of a sudden they wanna say, "All right, now we'll be in charge.

Nobody else can do this, 'cause they'll kill you."

The merch people.

But I think that whenever you hear, "We're all gonna die," and then there's a financial motive behind whatever it is, selling Solyndra solar panels, turbines, whatever it is, I mean, you'd be an idiot not to see this.

But apparently people, I guess, don't see this.

They...

More afraid of these people than the technology, Rich.

Yeah, so what happens? They pick the top three firms, OpenAI, Anthropic, and whoever else, right? You know, Meta, whatever.

Those are the three that are allowed to work on AI, and nobody else is.

I mean, that's what they want.

They, they wanna shut the marketplace out, and they're using fear to do that because a lot of people have a tendency whenever they're afraid of something to say, "Government, come save me." You know, whatever it is.

It's terrorism, climate change, whatever, a virus, you know.

"Government, come save me." So now it's AI.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

Became a man's job.

And so to this day, we still don't have more women coaching in college basketball than we do men.

So that same thing, apply that same thing, uh, when two years ago, we lost seven WNBA coaches, right? They got fired because all of a sudden, this money, you know, became more-

Yeah, yeah

"... there'll be nothing left," or, "I'll blow up the bridges," or, "I'll blow up the tarmacs," or the pharmacies or whatever it is.

And then it's like, I, I just imagine the missiles going almost and then just stopping, you know, and then they come right back.

You know what I mean? [laughs]

This is where those men did that, right over our shoulder at Independence Hall.

And if you go inside that building, you just get chills.

Thinking about the debates, the raucous debates they had in Independence Hall and in the taverns around.

This is Old City Philadelphia.

So our radio station, Talk Radio 1210 WPHS, our...

We used to broadcast right from there.

So I would, between breaks, come out and just sit and think about, you know, the challenges our country was facing, and it was amazing to take it all in.

Because our contradictions, our flaws, aren't even a full act in the story of who we are in America, and no one has stood more for freedom for all people, for all people, including the enslavement of African Americans, than the story of the United States of America.

Yeah.

And she's gonna win in November.

I mean, it's a safe blue district.

The Cook Political Report has it as solid Democrat.

So that's where the spirit, and the momentum, and the energy of the party is, I think, but it's always been there.

It's just that the party establishment was able to control it.

Can they still control it? I don't think so.

If Graham Plattner wins the Democratic primary and goes up against Susan Collins, is that more likely to stay Republican?

This is using it as a universal elixir for anything that gives them control and gives them money, and there's enough dopey white people out there that'll continue to spend their rich parents' cash.

Pay up, suckers.

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As stupid as this sounds, we're not wrong.

We're not.

In The Spy Who Shagged Me, I mean, if it was a French spy who just wanted to kill the agent, that's one thing.

It's our moral enemy, China, and you're sleeping with a Chinese spy, and it was also, like, right after COVID or during COVID or the, when this all came out.

You're just gonna get to rub their nose in it and go, "Ha ha, we made you testify." I mean, would that be your prediction, or do you think someone's, someone's going to jail here?

No, I...

Look, look, I'm with you, Jimmy.

No one's going to jail, and the, the trap, the problem is that the Democrats are gonna say when they're back in charge, "Well, we brought Clinton in, now we gotta bring Trump in." So now Trump's gotta come in, and I just, I think that it's a little bit of that kind of a game-

Yeah, that matters

... uh, which is good.

You know, that matters.

That definitely, that definitely helps.

Yeah.

And it's crazy.

And I- I don't think...

I mean, how does the government even keep up with that? I mean, how does Tom Homan and- and- and Tricia McLaughlin and all these other people keep up? They- they try to go on networks and- and explain it, but-

Oh, you kids today.

But the outrage, and you talk about this all the time, and the clicks and everything else, I mean, in real life it's not like that.

We're- we're n- we- we don't talk to each other in that manner in real life.

People get their social media muscles up, uh, but these algorithms are always gonna reward conflict, division, and thrive on that.

That's how we got Mom Donny to be the mayor.

Th- yes.

And the other factor, too, Jimmy, is that there's a, there's a certain element of people who just go, "You know the, I'm just staying out.

Like, politics is too ugly.

It's too toxic.

I want nothing to do with it, and I'm not gonna get involved." And if that happens, too, we also stand a chance of losing.

'Cause I gotta tell you, the left right now is very fired up.

What I mean is, like, ride or die Trump, and what percentage is just ride or die themselves?

Very weird

... hands them binders and says, "The truth is coming out," makes a whole big song and dance about it, and then suddenly it's like, "Oh, oops, uh, these are, uh, maybe it's invisible ink.

I don't know.

There's nothing here." And that just made people furious.

And so for people within MAGA, I guess as we'll use that term, and we're really talking in my opinion about a v- a lot of online influencers, that caused a tremendous blow up.

There's this obviously civil war going on right now, as you know, over Israel, and there's that whole, uh, battle that's taking place there too.

I mean, it's a mess right now.

That's a good question.

Would you agree?

I would agree, absolutely, and I think that's what they should do, head it... address it head-on.

We've never given unlawful orders.

We never will give unlawful orders.

You can't point to a specific unlawful order.

And then go and say, look, ask Congress, "Give me authorization to blow up these drug boats." Put it on the Democrats.

Have the Democrats say no, and look like they're protecting drug dealers.

Mm.

Really?

And there was a story about that that broke that said, you know, most of this is coming out of it.

Look, you, you know better than I do 'cause you, you actually, like, partake in things like fantasy football and other things, but isn't there, Jimmy, a self-fulfilling prophecy at play here with this stuff, where- When you get enough people betting on this stuff, and everybody's talking about it.

Like I had a guy today, he's the head of a local Republican club-

But here is the one thing, okay? We're talking to Ricchioli

If the polls on Mamdani, which show, you know, a head-to-head race being a little bit closer with Sliwa in there, I think we have to caveat that too, because who paid for those polls? You know? I, I...

If there's a poll that says if Sliwa drops out, Cuomo wins, I'm sure if you do two steps of deduction, it's, you know, paid for by somebody with a Cuomo motivation.

In 2021, Jack Ciattarelli, according to the polls, was down 12 points against Phil Murphy.

We beat it again, that whole thing.

Yeah.

And don't you think, I mean, people see right through it now at this point? 'Cause it, it...

They've said it so many times you become inoculated to it, 'cause you hear it over and over and over again.

You're like, "Oh, it's the 2:00 Nazi dropping again."

That's a good-

Who's sitting around the kitchen table worried that Trump's gonna run for a third term? And if he does run for a third term, he may lose, which also then doesn't make him a dict- if, if he was allowed, and I don't think he would be.

I, I think it's against the Constitution.

Right.

But however, Trump did very well in New Jersey, and he wasn't even really campaigning in New Jersey.

The whole focus was Pennsylvania.

He had a Wildwood rally, this time last year, had 110,000 people come out to.

Republicans are outpacing Democrats on registration, and the entire New Jersey Assembly is up for grabs.

There are issues on the ballot that have nothing to do with Trump.

However, every single Republican running in that primary, with the exception of one, is trying to say that they are the closest to Trump.

Mm-hmm.