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Hey, on today's podcast, really good.

James Altscher is on with us.

We got the bar owner in Staten Island who was just arrested for keeping his bar open.

He's on today's podcast.

We have the Harvard medical school professor who, I don't know if we can trust him.

He says this mask thing isn't working.

And,

you know, maybe we should go a different route.

He's crazy.

Also, the update on the election what's happening with texas a really important lawsuit coming out of texas all this and so much more on today's podcast

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Texas is now filing, we'll tell you about it coming up in a little while, but Texas is filing a lawsuit

against four other states saying,

you know, we played by the rules.

You broke the rules of the Constitution.

And we have standing in this.

I don't understand how Donald Trump doesn't have standing or how we, the American people, don't have standing in this election.

It's our country.

What more do you need?

That's how they just dismissed the supposed Kraken lawsuits.

No standing.

Wait, they're American citizens.

They don't have standing in this election for it to be free and fair?

Come on.

I really want to know.

And by the way, if any of this goes to the Supreme Court, do you see Ted Cruz said he'll argue the case?

I saw that.

Yeah, that's good.

And has he,

it's my understanding, he's never lost before the Supreme Court.

Right?

He's had nine cases, I think, before he's got to go to one of them.

He's got to get there.

Yeah, he does.

He's got to get there.

Okay, I want to welcome to Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleash, the podcast you can get and listen to every day.

Very funny.

He does it right before this broadcast.

Not to mention, profound.

Funny and profound.

That's what people are saying.

Those are the two words that come up the most: funny and profound.

Well,

I think it's all the deep, deep science work that you have done.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

That's why I wanted to ask you about the Israeli space program, the former head of the space program, for almost 30 years.

For 30 years.

Now, I didn't know that Israel had a space program.

But I love that they do.

Yeah, but he told newspapers yesterday that aliens have been secretly interacting with the U.S.

and Israeli government for years.

He said at one point, Trump wanted to expose their existence, but the UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here.

Because humanity isn't ready yet.

Well, I'm glad he just did it anyway.

Trump, he says, was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens of the Galactic Federation are saying, wait, let people calm down first.

They don't want to start mass hysteria.

Yeah.

They want to make sure that

we're sane and that we understand.

Well, that's not going to happen ever.

I don't think ever, ever.

Ever will we be sane?

So,

I mean, my first thought is

he's 87.

He's got a little Joe Biden Biden going on in him.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

However,

however,

hasn't it been odd how since Donald Trump has been president, all of these things have come?

It seems like the alien network is the only one that understood, hey, he's a big distraction.

Let's just dump all this information out there.

And then,

you know, in four years when they're like, wait, the Pentagon said that they had an extraterrestrial device and a plane.

And now they're reverse engineering it.

Right.

Then you can say, yeah, that's old news.

That came out a long time ago.

That is the way to do it.

It is.

Yeah.

Just pop it out there.

Wait for like, you know, there'll be some other big story.

Like, you know, the McRib is back in stores this week.

Wait till that comes out and then just leak out the alien information.

No one pays attention.

Because the McRib.

People are like, oh my God, where's the McRib?

Which store do I go to?

Wait, isn't that meat pressed to look like rib?

Right.

Like, it looks like it's bone, but it's made of meat.

And it's just pressed into a rib shape.

And that.

Yeah, it's not.

You look at it, and it looks like it has bones in it, but it does not have bone.

There's absolutely no bone in it.

No.

It's like boneless chicken wings without any meat.

Right.

So he goes on.

And he goes on to say there's an agreement between the U.S.

government and the aliens.

They signed a contract with us to do experiments here.

Well, you know, I understand that because there's nobody that loves experiments, you know, more than the Israeli people.

What?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

They too are researching, trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe, and they want us as helpers.

It's really cool because there's also a secret underground base on Mars.

The depths of Mars.

Where there are American and alien representatives.

So that's going to be helpful

if we ever get to Mars with the airline bus thing.

They're going to be.

Worry about it.

Come on down.

Come on down.

We're set.

We're set.

He said, if I would have come up with what I'm saying five years ago, I would have been hospitalized.

Wherever I've gone in this with academia, they've said the man has lost his mind.

Today, they're already talking differently.

I have nothing to lose.

I've received my degrees, my rewards.

I'm respected in universities abroad where there's a trend also changing.

So

is he saying people are ready to accept this?

Is this what he's saying?

Seems like.

I think so.

And with the Pentagon report, he might be right.

I mean, there is some legitimacy to this stuff now.

Did you see last week what the Pentagon released?

With a giant triangle-shaped ship that came out of the water?

No.

Oh, my gosh.

What?

Yeah, I don't know why this isn't going everywhere.

This is huge.

So the Pentagon, the Pentagon released video.

It had already been smuggled out of the Pentagon.

This shows, you know, that they're hiding information.

It had already been smuggled out.

I think it happened in 2017, I think.

And they confirmed and re-released the video and said, yes, this was taken by our

jets and also tracked by our warships.

And it was this gigantic triangle-shaped ship that came out from underneath the ocean.

That was an episode of Sequest.

I know.

And they tracked it going 300 knots underwater.

No.

Yes.

Look it up.

Look it up.

Oh, that is unbelievable.

I mean, what the hell?

How did you not hear about that?

I know.

The Pentagon released that?

The Pentagon released it last week.

Didn't we talk about this?

I don't think so.

Not while I was here.

Maybe we didn't.

There's so many things going on.

It kind of is like, you know, maybe they should readjust our priorities.

And they had footage of it.

Yeah, they have footage of it.

And they tracked it.

And it stops.

It goes up in the air and then it stops.

That is.

And then it kind of spins around.

And you hear the pilots going, look at that.

Look at that.

It just stops and then just flips around.

Yeah, that's

literally.

there is a sequest.

Like, do you remember the show Sequest?

There

is a show where a giant UFO comes out of the sea, and it had been there for like, I don't know, a million years or something, and they reawoken it, and it just came up out of the ocean and flew back off into space.

Well, this time they released that there is, they are,

they didn't use the word targeting,

they said something along the lines of there is

some special concern with these ships that they are observing our navy uh our air force and our nuclear weapon sites why i mean don't know the the technology to get here from somewhere else where there's life would have to be such that you don't need to spy on us one of the guys technology one of the guys who are safe than sorry though pat yeah you know i think i think you uh you plan for the worst but It'd be like us spying on ants to see what they're doing in their anthill.

How do they build those?

That's what it would be like.

Have you ever tried to kill them?

Well, if they're actually studying us, they would.

Have you ever tried to kill ants in Texas?

They are among the five most difficult things in the world to do.

So they always come back and they always eat your children.

Always.

That's how it ends every time.

I had 10 kids.

I only have two now.

Wow.

Is this talk about ants or aliens?

I'm not sure.

Alien ants.

I I think the ants are the aliens.

I think they've been here the whole time looking underground.

So let me ask you, if they came down and they were big octopus people and they were like, yes, we look just like on the Simpsons.

Don't you guys know that guy is a genius and a soothsayer?

And he came down and they were like, yes, and we're here.

We come and peek.

First of all,

do you think that there's a chance we just don't try to blow them up anyway?

Just don't try to?

No, I think we try to.

Yeah, we try to blow them up.

So that's a bad thing for them and most likely

for us.

Yeah, because we're not going to win.

No,

we're just going to wind up trying to blow them up.

They're going to, any hope they had of a good relationship is going to go up in flames.

So does this, does this at all, would this shake your faith at all?

Because nowhere in the scriptures does it say, and in those days,

aliens show up.

I mean,

you know, that would be kind of a big

weird.

Unless that's like the heavens open up.

Yeah, and aliens spill out.

So

instead of angels, aliens are spilling out in charge of the game.

Well, maybe they're the angels.

Maybe they're the angels.

I don't know.

If they didn't look like us, I think that would

I would be confused by that because I would assume they would look like us.

White?

Came from the

score.

So white they have to be.

They have to be white.

If they're green or something,

we're just going to reject them.

No, you can't be on our planet.

Sorry, nope.

Of course.

Of course, we're going to nuke them if they're a different color.

Unless their bodies are shaped exactly as ours are.

Okay.

All right.

Last question.

Green Lives Matter.

Last question.

And I mean this sincerely.

Odds that we

see an alien announcement with maybe the aliens standing next to or in our sky or something like that

in the next in our lifetime in our lifetime.

Oh, well, what is this?

What is this?

No, I mean like an actual like an announcement.

Like the president steps up and like, I want you to, I want you to meet Goreb over here.

That's his name?

Yeah, Goreb.

What planet is he from?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm not limiting it.

I just want Goreb as far as I'm willing to go out on.

So someone who lives on another planet is announced in a press conference

in the United States.

And it's credible.

It's not like me holding the press conference going, hey, this is Gore.

Right.

He comes out and he slithers to stage.

Whatever.

Whatever.

He could walk.

He might look like us.

He may not look like us.

He may want to destroy us.

He may be dressed as Gandhi or Jesus.

But a major U.S.

official making this announcement.

Yeah, or the world official, you know, the way it always happens.

Before 2020, 2020, I definitely would have said 0%.

But I mean, now 85, 90%.

I don't know.

No, seriously,

I would have said maybe 5%,

maybe

in my lifetime five years ago.

But with everything that has come out in the last four or five years, it's pretty hard to

dismiss because it's no longer kooks.

It's the Pentagon.

Maybe they're all kooks.

That's possible.

It's likely.

I'm still going to say zero.

Zero.

I don't think there's any chance of that.

I'm up to a solid 1%, I think, now.

Really?

I've gone from zero to one.

Have you really?

Well, because I mean, my guess is this is probably some military craft or something.

I mean, we're pretty amazing, and we've come up with a lot of really crazy things that we would not be able to explain five or 10 years earlier than discovering them.

So I don't think.

I got to tell you, after 2020,

I say 2021, after just this election,

vampire space bunnies in a week.

Absolutely possible.

I'm surprised 90, 85, 90%.

85, 90% vampire space bunnies take occupation and they kill us all.

But we don't know it because they're cute little bunnies.

Right.

We're like, oh, little cute little bunny.

And they drink our blood.

Wait, what's the last part?

By February.

This is actually the major U.S.

official making the announcement.

It's Glenn.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

James Altachure is an entrepreneur, pretty good at that.

Angel investor, pretty good at that.

A chess master.

Yeah, he's kind of iffy.

And

a great writer.

Hello, James.

How are you?

Glenn, so good to be here.

I'm doing really good.

How are you doing?

That's great.

It's always good to have you on.

How are you doing with the demise of New York?

I know you are a lifelong New Yorker who reluctantly said, I think it's over.

Then Jerry Seinfeld, for some reason, attacks you for it.

And it looks like you're right.

Yeah, you know, and the thing is jerry and i are are technically on the same side of this which is that no one wants new york to die correct i presented some facts that i was seeing that were undeniable and everybody wanted to shoot the messenger but then i i called people ranging from mayoral candidates to congressmen to even the federal reserve looking for solutions Everybody seems to be in denial.

I wrote that article three months ago.

New York City is in worse shape now.

And there's articles.

You just quoted de Blasio.

I think he needs a course on law and order.

You can't close down businesses without due process.

90% of restaurants in New York City are going to go out of business.

Cuomo's going to ban indoor dining next week in New York City.

Businesses are collapsing.

Employees are going unemployed.

City workers are getting fired.

Trash collectors, EMT workers, teachers, police, healthcare.

How are you going to do it?

James, how how are you?

I mean, I love New York City.

I think it's one of the greatest.

It doesn't like me, but I think it's one of the greatest cities in the world.

And I don't see it ever coming back to the way it used to be.

I can't even figure out how it doesn't become escape from New York soon.

You know, Glenn, I agree.

And again, I talked to a lot of smart people about it who should be on tap with solutions.

It's very difficult.

Money is leaving new york and people say good reddits the rich are leaving but it's not the rich are leaving it's it's 80 000 small restaurants it's mom and pop landowners it's the people who are 10 months behind on their rent who are never going to pay you know there's two billion one in four new yorkers have not paid rent since since march they're not going to suddenly pay on january 1st they're just going to leave Half a million people have already left New York.

It's the largest flight out of New York City ever.

So when people say you can't say this time is different, this time is very, very different.

The economy's been shut down.

People have left.

You know,

I saw that number about how many people left.

They say it is bigger than the exodus right after 9-11.

But 9-11, you still had things going for you.

You just needed courage.

And you also had Rudy Giuliani, who was good for business.

He was doing the opposite.

Stay here, stay here, continue to build.

Where now it's just the complete opposite.

Shut it down, shut it down, stop doing everything.

I mean, I was in the World Trade Center on 9-11.

I lived three blocks away.

It was rough, and you know, but the entire world rallied behind New York City, helped New York City rebuild.

There was love for New York.

New Yorkers loved New York, wanted to rebuild.

The same thing is not happening now.

There is, you know, there is so much, there is so much kind of fighting.

The violence is up 150% 150% year over year.

Murders are up.

And again, it's not just like a few businesses downtown are closed for a little while.

It's probably going to be about 100,000 businesses closed in New York.

Just the other day, there was news, 70 financial firms, including Goldman Sachs Asset Management Business, have moved from New York to Palm Beach, Florida.

So there's an exodus.

And how do you pay for it?

New York's probably, in my back-of-the-envelope math, New York is probably about about a hundred billion dollars in the hole how are you going to pay for that with no taxes collected because everybody who pays taxes is leaving and the people that are the worst off the people like this bar owner that's just trying to keep their restaurant and their bar open

that they can't move to west palm they're not moving they they're stuck there

I know and that's that's the sad thing you it's it's in the Constitution people need due process before property is taken taken away.

This guy's business, this livelihood, was taken away.

And it's not just him.

It's every restaurant owner.

All around,

I'm standing in New York City right now.

All around me, restaurants that have been staples for decades are out of business.

The people who work there, out of business, moved out.

The employees moved back to wherever they're from.

This is not just something that affects, quote-unquote, the rich, nor is this, a lot of people are saying, oh, well, this will go back to the 70s, which was this artistic utopia where the rents were low.

No, I was there in the 70s.

It was disgusting.

And it's not, it's actually even going to be worse than the 70s because at least in the 70s, businesses were open.

Let me switch gears slightly.

You're right about the Constitution, and you're also right about there has to be compensation.

If the government...

takes away something of yours or destroys it.

They have to have fair compensation for that.

I've been saying from the very beginning when they said we're going to close down businesses for more than two weeks, I've said this is a huge lawsuit just waiting to happen on behalf of all of the people who have lost business because they weren't allowed to open it up.

But that brings me to,

well, we'll just print more money.

I mean, the value of the dollar is...

You know, did you know that the Federal Reserve has printed more money?

In fact, they've printed three quarters of all of the money they have printed in 107 years.

They've printed three quarters of that amount recently.

Yes, and you know, I even, look, I even called people at the Federal Reserve to talk about New York City just for my own benefit, so I could see that someone's thinking of solutions.

All of their thinking is, hey, you know, their demand for the dollar is strong, which gives us an opportunity to print, but it means that our children are going to be paying back money to the children of the wealthy Chinese people who are lending us the money.

And now the Federal Reserve is lending it.

We're not even borrowing it from the Chinese.

Nobody will buy

our debt anymore.

It's now 100% financed by the Federal Reserve.

I mean, did you know

since March, money supply,

more than $11 trillion has been added to the money supply.

That's not a trivial amount.

And now they're talking about, oh, let's just give $50,000 to everybody who took on student loans.

What are they talking about?

You're only benefiting the top one-third of society when you do that, so it's not a progressive action at all.

And what about these guys like this Staten Island bar owner who's worked for 40 years building up his bar, helping his community, serving his city, and now being told that he's not above law and order when he just wants to feed his family.

It's sad and it's disgusting.

So let me ask you, because there's not been any talk on, or very little talk on this, especially compared to last time.

Bitcoin is almost, I mean, it has broken its all-time high, I believe, or it was within a couple of hundred dollars of breaking the all-time high, but that only lasted a few days.

Bitcoin is now up around $18,000 to $20,000 and has been for

a few weeks, maybe a couple of weeks now.

And there's no hype on it.

What's happening with that?

Is that a reaction to people with money saying, I'm getting out of the dollar and I'm putting it into something that might be stable?

Yeah, I think it's several things.

I think one is even since March, everybody

breathed a huge sigh of relief.

that Bitcoin existed.

Because what other currency would you trust?

The dollar is the most trusted currency in the world.

And like I just said, they're printing

maybe another $10 trillion for all we know.

Like the Bitcoin, the supply cannot change.

You can't print Bitcoin.

The supply is permanently fixed at twenty one million Bitcoins.

So and it's not reliant on the financial system.

Every dollar transaction goes through banks and central banks and Federal Reserve banks.

It's all tied to a system that could collapse.

Bitcoin is outside the system, which is why companies like MicroStrategy is putting all of its cash reserves into Bitcoin.

That didn't happen in 2018, the last time Bitcoin reached a high.

The last time Bitcoin reached a high, it was speculators, people wanting to day trade Bitcoin.

Now it's people who are parking hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in Bitcoin for safety because they don't trust the dollar.

And you can't find any more Bitcoin.

So if supply is fixed, but demand is going up, then what does that mean?

Price goes up.

There's $150 trillion of fiat currency around the world, but only $300 billion worth of Bitcoin.

So, if you think there's a reasonable chance that some percentage of currency will switch over to Bitcoin, which seems kind of obvious now, then Bitcoin is a very safe place to put money.

Not go crazy with it, but put some money there for safety.

So, James,

what does it look like?

Because

I think it was Goldman Sachs, it may have been Citibank, that came out and said they're expecting a 30% drop in the value of the US dollar in the next year to 18 months.

If they're printing $11 trillion, it's going to be more than that.

What does that mean?

Can you help explain to the average person?

What that means to them?

I don't mean people with lots of money.

I mean people who are living on the edge the average person i mean

look at what look at what happened in january and february of this year before the lockdowns china locked down and guess what happened we suddenly realized that all manufacturing 100 of manufacturing happened within 200 miles of the wuhan province surprise we didn't know that like people were saying well didn't we do something in india or vietnam no it was all everything from your the drugs that you take to the dresses and clothes you wear to

your iPhone to all electronics, it was all coming from China, and all the factories shut down.

So suddenly we couldn't even get toilet paper.

We couldn't get anything.

And so what's going to happen is when all your goods are made overseas, but we're paying in dollars where the value of the dollar is going down, everything's going to get more expensive.

So a thousand dollar iPhone might be $2,000.

A drug that costs $100 might cost $300.

All of these prices start to go up.

But there's a little bit of a battle happening short term, which is that right now the Federal Reserve wants inflation.

They're fighting deflation because everyone's been sitting at home not buying anything, not traveling, not doing anything.

Businesses are going out of business.

There's a danger also.

The dollar could deflate in the short term, but then inflate in the long term.

So basically, everybody goes broke, and then everything gets more expensive.

So that's the scary part.

And so the Federal Reserve actually wants to print more money because they want to inflate as fast as possible.

The benefit to them of inflating is that they borrow now, they weaken the dollar, so we're paying money back in weaker dollars.

It's easier to pay back the debt.

That's no good, though, for people at home.

You can't get dividends.

All your products are going to be more expensive.

So the people at home are in trouble.

The government gets away with it, and a new generation has to pay back the children of all the people in the rest of the world.

So, you know, we have 5% of New York office space being used right now.

Is that a true number?

5%?

Yeah, and it's going to be less next week if more lockdowns go in place.

But, I mean, that's just it, is that right now, everybody's going remote.

Bandwidth, people say, oh, you know, just like the financial crisis, Miracle bounce back.

No, it's different because in 2008, 2009, bandwidth was one-tenth the speed of bandwidth now.

Now you can actually work remote and be more productive.

And that's what companies are realizing.

And

they could save on costs.

They could stop leasing office space.

So I tell you, James, I've talked about this.

Stu was pointing this out this morning.

I talked about this

because of a digital revolution that was coming.

I've been talking about it for five or six years and describing what it would look like

if the transition was sudden and describing New York City.

We knew it was going to happen.

What it's also taken out, though, is

the entrepreneurial

spirit in some ways.

It's just being crushed.

How do you talk?

What do you say that entrepreneurs should be looking at in the future?

Where does it go from here?

Well, you know, it's an important question because there's 128 million workers in the U.S., but fifty-five million of them filed for unemployment insurance at some point in the past eight months.

That's a sad statistic.

It shows there's no loyalty in corporations.

So entrepreneurship has to be on the mind of many people, particularly young people.

Start looking towards who benefits from everybody working remote or everybody moving from the first-tier cities to the second-tier cities.

So obviously, online learning is going to benefit.

social media management for companies, helping companies pivot from offline to online, working on online newsletters, online courses,

anything relating to remote, relating to

media being created remotely, all of these things are going to boom.

App development,

again,

helping companies with their social media management.

This is a great time for young people who have been using social media since birth to now step up their skills, start off the way I did, creating an online agency and building a business to the many people of the older generation who need the help moving remote.

This is a perfect time to be young and be an entrepreneur.

James, it is always good to talk to you.

Thank you so much for dropping by today.

James Altru.

Thank you, Glenn.

You bet.

Entrepreneur and podcast host and writer of several really great books.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

So, I don't know if you've been following Max Public House in Grant City, Staten Island,

but two guys own this bar and they have been shut down.

They've tried to do everything they can.

They're going to lose their bar if they have to shut again.

So

they decided that they weren't going to shut down.

We're not closing it.

Well, then the liquor license was revoked.

And so they said, you know what?

We're declaring ourselves an autonomous free zone.

We worked in Seattle.

Why not here?

And we're not going to charge for alcohol or food.

Well,

it was against the law to serve alcohol if you don't have a license, blah, blah, blah.

So I think it was last night or the night before last,

the cops were waiting for the owners, and Danny Presti walks out.

He's one of the owners.

He walks out.

Cops are there.

He runs from the cops, gets into his car.

One of the cops, you know, like Beretta, jumps on the hood of his car

and goes for a couple of blocks before they stop him and they do arrest him.

He's out on bail, or he's out of jail without bail, and he's with his an attorney here, and we're going to talk to him in just a second.

First, I want to play what de Blasio said about Danny.

Here it is.

When the state of New York says your bar needs to be closed, your bar needs to be closed to protect people's health and safety.

No excuses.

And when you violate the law, there will be consequences.

And then if you take an action against a law enforcement officer, there will be even more consequences.

So this guy is a hypocrite, and he's about to pay the price for his hypocrisy.

Boy, talk about a hypocrite.

Bill de Blasio, now standing up for the cops and against an autonomous free zone, which is weird.

And let's take him at his word.

Let's remember what this is all about.

Somebody's business.

which involves a hamburger and beer.

Let's go now to Danny Priesty, or is it Presti,

the co-owner of Max Public House and

Louis

Jelaramino.

Hello, Louie, how are you?

I'm good.

Thanks for having us, Glenn.

Always love your show.

Thank you.

The first thing I want to address is that they were not cops.

They were not NYPD police officers.

They were sheriff deputies.

And in New York City,

it's probably different than down where you guys are throughout the country.

In New York City, sheriff's sheriff's deputies play a different role than NYPD.

They're civil enforcement officers.

My partner and I have been criminal defense attorneys for over 40 years.

We have never dealt with the Sheriff's Department in a criminal matter.

So we want to make it perfectly clear: the NYPD, northern New York State Troopers, wanted anything to do with this.

That's why they sent

de Blasio's personal political hit force to handle this.

Well, I tell you, in Texas, sheriffs are the good guys, not the bad guys.

So

tell me what is happening because I think there's a lot of people that feel, Danny, exactly like you did, where you guys are trying to keep your business open and you keep being told no, no, no, and you don't have a choice other than to go to the poorhouse.

Am I right?

Yeah,

that's why this whole thing started in the beginning was because we were left without any options and it was to bring attention to what's going on to the businesses and how dire it is and in the beginning we just tried to bring attention to say hey let's try to bring as much noise as we can to try to get the mayor and the governor and you know not just here but in across the country to understand that small businesses need assistance.

All these big

chain places are still thriving and you're killing the small mom and pop places and we either need assistance if we have to shut down or you have to help us open in a safe manner.

But just the shutdowns and ignoring us and pushing us to the side and killing our livelihoods just wasn't acceptable to us.

This is what's happening in California as well.

And people are starting to go rogue because they've got nothing left.

You have nothing left and nobody is offering any help.

Did you expect this to get to this point?

Did you expect to be seeing the inside of a jail?

I didn't know what to expect when we did it.

Again, we just knew that something had to happen.

So when Keith and I sat down, we decided to do something about it.

Did I think that

getting arrested two times in one week was going to happen at some point?

No.

So, Lou, what is the,

what's the plan from here?

How are you going to fight this?

And

what do you think it means?

Well, obviously, on a legal level, we have two issues.

We have the criminal case where we're representing Danny, but we also have the civil cases where the sheriffs gave over $50,000 in fines to Max Public House.

I can assure you, we'll take care of Danny's criminal cases.

But as far as the civil cases go, that we're going to have to battle those.

This is certainly something that was unexpected.

But I want to assure your viewers,

what happened in California is interesting.

They had a judge rule that they have to show their signs before they shut businesses down.

Now,

we started with lawsuits, Glenn.

We brought, my partners and I brought four different lawsuits to open the restaurants, and we've been shut down by judges in New York City.

on each time because obviously they're appointed by de Blasio and Cuomo.

We would love to have a ruling like happened that happened in California.

Unfortunately, it seems like going the legal route hasn't been working either.

We will continue to do that in the appeal process, but sadly, the small business owners on Staten Island through the rest of the country can't open and still can't open, and they still can't put food on their table.

So it's a sad situation.

And I applaud Danny and his partner, Keith, for leading the charge and staying open.

Unfortunately, it's ended up in this ridiculous, these ridiculous criminal charges.

So I know you guys are doing a GoFundMe.

It's

max fights for small businesses.

You are trying to raise $500,000.

You're currently at about $100,000.

And you say that anything that you're not using,

you're going to apply that to fight for other small businesses.

Is there some sort of an association or is there any group of small businesses that are starting to band together and say, we've got to fight this as one because we're all too small?

Well, we started the small business on Staten Island started a business association a while ago.

That's who we brought the lawsuits on behalf of.

We will continue to bring those lawsuits on their behalf.

And I believe there are a lot of people throughout the country starting to

form these coalitions so they can have a strong voice into these ridiculous orders by the governors and mayors of these liberal cities.

You know, Glenn, it's sad.

The virus...

doesn't know the difference between a red state and a blue state, but it seems that the blue states can't stay open.

Their small businesses are shut down.

Yet the red states are able to stay open and keep their businesses open.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

And it's sad that even the COVID virus has become a political animal.

So I have to ask you this because

I'm strong with law enforcement that stands with the Constitution.

And usually that is the sheriffs, et cetera, et cetera.

And I preach against the people like

You know, all the people that de Blasio has supported and all people like him that go out in the streets and they commit all kinds of crimes.

Black Lives Matter has been responsible now for 6,000 injuries with police.

So

I just have to ask about the sheriff that was on the roof or on the hood of your car.

He did break his collarbone or he broke one bone.

Not true?

Absolutely not true.

We have 100% confirmation.

That was the sheriff's department trying to change the narrative so the support support would leave daddy where i have a hundred percent confirmation that that same sheriff's deputy that they claim was injured was in the sheriff's office for over four hours prosecut processing the arrest he did not go to the hospital till after five hours after the incident claiming claiming some injuries he did not break his legs he did not break his collarbone he broke absolutely nothing we have a hundred percent confirmation on that unbelievable

All right.

Thank you, guys.

Best of luck to you.

Yeah, go ahead, Lou.

If I may say something, and I speak on behalf of Danny on this and all the people involved with Maxis Public House and my partners, we completely stand with law enforcement, the NYPD, the state troopers.

I have many friends and family.

My two best friends that I'm around every single day are NYPD detectives.

We love those guys.

They've been nothing great and supportive from the beginning.

The sheriff's deputies play a lot different role in New York City than they do

in Texas and the rest of the country.

And even through all this, we still wouldn't want to be disrespectful for them, even though they've acted like thugs for the mayor de Blasio.

We still haven't been disrespectful to them.

We've been cooperative

and respectful the whole entire time.

Danny had no idea.

If you look at the video, Danny had no idea.

There were sheriff's deputies.

They were dressed in complete black outfits.

They came up from behind them and yelled Presty and started chasing them from 50 yards away.

And any reasonable person would act in the way that Danny reacted.

Thank you so much.

We'll keep track of your

fight and your plight.

We wish you the best.

If you would like to donate and help out, this is becoming more and more of a problem.

And

we, as small businesses, and I say that as an owner of a small business, a couple of small businesses, we have to stand together and help each other out.

You can go to GoFundMe.

It's Max Fights for Small Businesses.

You'll find that at GoFundMe.

Thank you very much, guys.

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