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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, will did you pick up on it all the the little thread about the fireworks company that Trump used for this event? Oh, yeah, yeah, Gucci Gucci. |
0:10.4 | Gucci main fireworks. |
0:12.4 | Yeah, so Gucci and the idea was that so they got the free fireworks from Gucci and this other guy who are |
0:20.0 | secretly in the administration for some areas like skating. So they but if they couldn't they filled out a contract with the regular fireworks people. |
0:28.3 | They said, okay, I'm gonna like the fireworks twice as long. But then because of the weather and it was just like the air wasn't moving or just like really sitting on the city as a result. |
0:36.9 | And you know, you couldn't see the fireworks at all. And then the smoke just sat around you see, I mean, I have to go inside. It was like, it's |
0:46.0 | a little smell it. And then, you know, I mean, it's at the DC air quality, plummeting. It was the worst in the country. So, you know, you have this big fireworks display. No one can see it. |
0:54.2 | It's like the city. |
0:56.2 | Well, I mean, the other thing is like it wouldn't be anything to do with Donald Trump and contracting without, you know, ludicrous New York area corruption and incompetence. |
1:08.6 | The Gucci fireworks mainly famous for an explosion at their fireworks plant in Long Island that killed to injure 24 and set a neighborhood on fire in the 1980s. |
1:20.3 | That's what we call a talian excellence. |
1:22.8 | But yeah, and speaking of which Matt, they are also allegedly deeply mobbed up as you guys would you imagine? |
1:29.4 | Would you be shocked to find out that the Gucci fireworks company of Long Island reportedly has ties to the business center industry? |
1:37.8 | That is that is my favorite Trump thing that until about 2012 about every time he was interviewed, he would brag that he knew the mafia. |
1:47.2 | Well, is this like when he first started doing the apprentice? |
1:51.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, you know, and I was reluctant to have cameras in here because I do deals with the mafia all the time. |
2:02.2 | And he's just like never even had to like talk to a cop about that. It's so awesome. |
2:08.2 | Well, I mean, at this point, like this is one of my most controversial political opinions, but I think the government should stop going after the mafia. |
2:15.2 | Because it's like they've had a rough past few decades. Let them rebuild. Let them put a roster back together. |
2:22.2 | It's like the mafia. Okay, the mafia gave New Yorkers activities to do that didn't force them to drink. |
2:29.2 | It gave them a sense of community or some shit. |
2:32.8 | It did amazing things for the McMansion economy. |
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