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The Rich Zeoli Show

Freedom Speech, The First Amendment, & 1,791 Free Cheesesteaks!

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Nico Perrino—the Executive Vice President of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss FIRE’s recently announced $3 million free speech advertising campaign in Philadelphia. “To honor the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791—and to celebrate the campaign’s launch—FIRE will hold a ‘Free Cheesesteaks for Free Speech’ event, giving away 1,791 free cheesesteaks at Pat’s King of Steaks and Geno’s Steaks on Wednesday, April 5 starting at 11 am.” Learn more about tomorrow’s event here: https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-launches-3m-free-speech-advertising-campaign-philadelphia

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The zioli show on your schedule from talk radio 1210 wphd in the free Odyssey app

0:07.6

All right, if you want to find me tomorrow

0:11.2

I'll be

0:13.7

Somewhere between pets and genos maybe both maybe going back and forth through all why not that I love free food

0:19.6

I love free cheese sticks and I love freedom of speech. Welcome back to the show 8 5 5 8 3 9 12 10 on Twitter at rich

0:27.6

zioli

0:28.6

Niko Perino is vice president of fire a great organization headquartered right here in

0:36.6

Philadelphia Niko. Thank you for joining me today. I appreciate it

0:40.6

Rich it's good to be back on the show. Thanks for having me has been a couple years and you need to come back on more regularly

0:45.8

By the way, is there a lot of free speech issues it fires fighting for?

0:50.4

Yeah, I mean we've grown from an organization of what

0:54.0

12 people when I first started 10 years ago. It's an hour 105

0:57.9

So we've got a lot of different colleagues working on many different free speech issues across the country

1:02.6

So I try and give them some

1:04.6

sub-media

1:06.6

And you guys expanded the name too, right? I mean used to be free freedom for individual rights and education

1:12.8

But you've expanded that right?

1:15.4

Yeah, so last June we changed our name from the foundation for individual rights in education to the foundation for

1:22.4

Individual rights and expression we couldn't get rid of that that fire acronym

1:26.8

So we figured out a way to work within it

1:28.7

But yeah, I mean for 23 years our focus was just on individual rights

1:33.9

In higher education

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