Speaker 1: Uh sid and friends in the morning entertaining and informative
Speaker 1: on the Red Apple Podcast Networks.
Speaker 2: And now why don't we bring in one of our
Speaker 2: great hosts from the Hispanic community, Fernando Mattel, and talk
Speaker 2: about the Hispanic community and the whole country and New
Speaker 2: York and what the heck is going on, what's good
Speaker 2: and how are they feeling and give us the pouts
Speaker 2: of the situation.
Speaker 3: Fernando, come on in.
Speaker 4: Good morning, John, Good morning Jake. It's a pleasure and
Speaker 4: an honor to be with you guys. And I just
Speaker 4: want to stop by telling you the following. Hispanics leads
Speaker 4: and left their countries, not because they wanted to, not
Speaker 4: because we don't miss being back home, but because there
Speaker 4: were no opportunities or very few opportunities to succeed. The limitations,
Speaker 4: the socialism programs, the high taxes, the government controlling everything
Speaker 4: is what is why people left their countries. They come
Speaker 4: to America and flocks seeking opportunity seeking, you know, freedom
Speaker 4: seeking the American dream that they hear about, because all
Speaker 4: they do is hear about the American dream. And those
Speaker 4: that left come back wealthy. Those that left the country
Speaker 4: come back to their country and build businesses and build
Speaker 4: houses and create what they were never able to create
Speaker 4: in the Dominican Republic, or in El Salvadoran and Honduras
Speaker 4: and in Columbia and in all these countries. You know,
Speaker 4: Hispanics are like a special breed of people. They're hungry,
Speaker 4: they want to earn, they want to become someone, and
Speaker 4: they want to go back home and show them what
Speaker 4: America did for them. They didn't come here for handouts,
Speaker 4: they didn't come here to be poor. They didn't come
Speaker 4: here for socialism. They came for capitalism. You know. They
Speaker 4: understand that nothing is for free, you know.
Speaker 5: But it's like the.
Speaker 4: Same old game, the same old Ponzie scheme. Bonzie schemes
Speaker 4: pop up every day of the year all over the
Speaker 4: world in different places. Why because people have a dream
Speaker 4: being able to become rich overnight. You know, they put
Speaker 4: their money into a esteem that pays them initially, and
Speaker 4: then when the money runs out, they cut it and
Speaker 4: they leave you hanging, you know, pitting up supermarkets where
Speaker 4: people are going to be getting certain items, because it's
Speaker 4: only certain items. I think it's a total of one
Speaker 4: hundred items that the mayor wants for people that don't
Speaker 4: earn over a certain amount of money to be able
Speaker 4: to buy cheaper. So what do you do. You create
Speaker 4: a socialist program. You create something that we ran away from.
Speaker 4: You create something that's going to harm us, that's gonna
Speaker 4: make us look and feel like beggars. We don't want that.
Speaker 4: When you can actually sit down with business people who
Speaker 4: create those same that same program, but multiplied by a
Speaker 4: thousand by two thousand, so that it really becomes effective.
Speaker 5: This is this isn't about you. It's about people.
Speaker 4: Mayor Montdamie, It's not about you.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the people.
Speaker 6: So, mister Mitteo, it's a dominant card of good morning
Speaker 6: on this Memorial Day.
Speaker 3: So you know I've been thinking about that. So let's
Speaker 3: focus on this.
Speaker 6: Never mind the fact that this didn't work with these
Speaker 6: supermarkets I believe in Kansas City, but let's focus on
Speaker 6: East Harlem. It's almost offensive in La Marquetta to open
Speaker 6: these stores when you already have establishing stores Bodega's supermarkets.
Speaker 6: What's gonna happen to those stores around the area while
Speaker 6: this one is opening.
Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you, it's more about the insult,
Speaker 4: insulting the people of La Marchetta of Elvarrio. It's more
Speaker 4: about telling them how blatant the law is. Because the
Speaker 4: mayor isn't speaking about the people of La Marteta. He's
Speaker 4: telling everyone in Manhattan. Hey, Manhattan, we're opening up a
Speaker 4: supermarket for you to come and buy items cheaper. There
Speaker 4: are over two or three million people in Manhattan. How
Speaker 4: the hell is one supermarket gonna make a difference. But
Speaker 4: aside from that, look at the supermarkets in the area.
Speaker 4: There are a few. These people have put their blood,
Speaker 4: sweat and tears into building their supermarkets. Now the government
Speaker 4: is gonna build a thirty million dollar supermarket when you
Speaker 4: can actually build about fifteen or twenty supermarkets with that
Speaker 4: amount of money. Wow, he's and he's gonna place them
Speaker 4: in a place where there are other businesses. Guys, listen,
Speaker 4: it only makes stense to take one hundred million dollars
Speaker 4: a year that the mayor is claiming he's going to
Speaker 4: tax the rich in order to make that money. Okay,
Speaker 4: he's gonna take it from other programs, Okay. And he's
Speaker 4: gonna take one hundred million dollars a year, and he's
Speaker 4: gonna put him into five stores to serve.
Speaker 5: Eight million people.
Speaker 4: How big could New Yorkers be How dumbed does he
Speaker 4: think we are? You know, we are not dumb people.
Speaker 4: We may be poor, we may need affordable items, but
Speaker 4: we're not dumb. Okay, take that one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4: Go to five hundred supermarkets in New York City and
Speaker 4: tell them we're gonna give you one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 4: at a time so that you can create affordable items
Speaker 4: that we will monitor and put them in your stores
Speaker 4: and make sure people can buy them at a discount. Now,
Speaker 4: you're allowing eight million people to do that, not two thousand,
Speaker 4: not a thousand people. Because people are shopping supermarkets usually
Speaker 4: walk within the within this the square block. Okay, how
Speaker 4: many people are you really gonna affect? You're gonna affect
Speaker 4: you know, a drop. It's gonna be like taking five
Speaker 4: drops when you have a thunderstorm, right and putting them
Speaker 4: in a bucket and saying, hey, I have water forever body.
Speaker 4: Now you don't have water for everybody. You have fat
Speaker 4: drops in the bucket, and that's not gonna help anybody. Dominic.
Speaker 4: You know, it's an insult not only to the business
Speaker 4: community and to these men and women that have built
Speaker 4: their business and beat the city live.
Speaker 2: Let's move on. We we've done that today. You half
Speaker 2: your time. You live down in Florida. Give us a
Speaker 2: report from Uh there's a Hispanic population in Florida.
Speaker 3: Uh where? Where?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 3: Tell us that the pulse of the situation.
Speaker 4: Everybody loves Florida.
Speaker 5: People that live in Florida.
Speaker 4: Immigrants that go to Florida will never come up to
Speaker 4: New York. If they've never been here, they don't want
Speaker 4: to come up to New York. And immigrants from New
Speaker 4: York that have led to Florida, like myself, dread wanting
Speaker 4: to come back to New York. Okay, this is.
Speaker 5: A city that I love, It's a city.
Speaker 4: That I grew up in. But guess what, Florida is
Speaker 4: so much better. You know, there's very little crime.
Speaker 6: So wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, Fernando Mateale dreads
Speaker 6: coming back to New York. I thought you, mister New York.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, listen. I was missed New York
Speaker 4: until I saw I saw all these radical changes.
Speaker 5: I see that I can.
Speaker 4: Say probably a million dollars a year by living outside
Speaker 4: of New York City. So why live here when all
Speaker 4: everything that's happening in New York City right now, it's
Speaker 4: about hurting me. It's not about helping me. It's about
Speaker 4: hurting me. It's about hurting my business. It's about hurting
Speaker 4: the entrepreneurs that come here to build something. You got
Speaker 4: to Florida, man, and it's paradise. It's like living in
Speaker 4: the Caribbean Island, living like in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic,
Speaker 4: a southern sunshine country with all of the no very
Speaker 4: little downs, you know, the cost of make money.
Speaker 6: You got the downs, and you got the alligators. And
Speaker 6: an alligator bit the worker at the Central Park Zoo Sunday,
Speaker 6: I mean at the Bronx Zoo Sunday.
Speaker 3: So you got alligators. That's one down, my friend.
Speaker 4: My friend, listen, you're more liable to get You'll be
Speaker 4: robbed twenty times in Central Park before you see an
Speaker 4: alligator in Florida. Okay, at least there are signs warning
Speaker 4: you don't walk in here because there's they're alligators. You
Speaker 4: walk into Central Park. They don't say be careful, you
Speaker 4: may not come out right, you know. So listen, Florida
Speaker 4: Salazard doing down there. He's amazing. She's no, she is not. Okay, John, Okay,
Speaker 4: is when you're struggling. She's doing amazing, She's doing very well.
Speaker 4: Why because she supports capitalism. And when you support capitalism,
Speaker 4: you support the hard working immigrants that come here to work. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know you've got to Florida. You have just about
Speaker 4: every community like you do in New York. You know,
Speaker 4: you have the Jews, you have the Italians, you have
Speaker 4: the Haitians, you have the Dominicans, you have the Puerto Ricans,
Speaker 4: you have the Cubans, you have you name it.
Speaker 3: And give us.
Speaker 2: I'll text them letter. See if he wants to come
Speaker 2: on this morning. The guy that's running as UH for
Speaker 2: governor in UH in Florida, you have.
Speaker 7: A Byron Byron Donald.
Speaker 3: Byron Daniel Done Donald. Yeah, I think it's Byron Donald.
Speaker 4: Yeah. He's a he's a black man that sees opportunity
Speaker 4: not only for the state, but he sees opportunity for
Speaker 4: the people that have moved.
Speaker 2: And was he endorsed when he was he endorsed to
Speaker 2: UH by UH by President Trump.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's been endorsed by President Trump
Speaker 4: or not, but he's endorsed by the people. The people
Speaker 4: like him, the people love him.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, Jake in the news department.
Speaker 4: Just Jake knows everything, guys. That's why I have him
Speaker 4: on my show all the time. You know, he fills
Speaker 4: in the blanks, which is great.
Speaker 5: Jake.
Speaker 4: One day you and I will have our own show
Speaker 4: on w ABC. Don't worry about it. I'm working on
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 7: That's the entrepreneur in you. You know, Fernando. Ten years ago,
Speaker 7: I think it was, I was at Fox and CNBC
Speaker 7: and they laughed at me when I said, listen, the
Speaker 7: Latino vote is not going to be like some of
Speaker 7: the other groups. They're not going to fall all one
Speaker 7: way or the other. That's not going to be big
Speaker 7: Democrat or big reput They're going to be a much
Speaker 7: more of a swing vote, which, by the way, in America,
Speaker 7: you want to be the swing vote.
Speaker 3: That's the good thing. That's a good place to be.
Speaker 7: And when they laughed at me about it, I said, no,
Speaker 7: you can't laugh at me about this because, as you
Speaker 7: just described, Latinos in this country are very entrepreneurial. Small
Speaker 7: business is what they're all about, and small business people
Speaker 7: predominantly vote republic. So, you know, I just think that
Speaker 7: people are getting getting the wrong idea here.
Speaker 4: Well, Jake, let me tell you, we are the swing vote,
Speaker 4: but we are the most disrespected community in politics. Okay,
Speaker 4: because we give it up too quickly.
Speaker 3: I want you to finish that. Are you sure about that?
Speaker 6: Are you sure it's not the Black community that is
Speaker 6: the most disrespected community by the Democrat?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, not at all. Listen, Dora Mandami Doramandami
Speaker 4: are mayor, which by the way, I have nothing against him,
Speaker 4: and I think I'll like him if I ever meet him.
Speaker 4: You know, Zmandami has not gone to the Dominican community.
Speaker 4: He has not gone to the Latino community. He only
Speaker 4: shows up there when he's gonna offer them something for free.
Speaker 4: Because he thinks he sees us as the people that
Speaker 4: have come here to look for freebies. He goes to
Speaker 4: the Bronze all Hispanics to open the supermarket. He goes
Speaker 4: to as Babrio. Okay, all Hispanics to open a supermarket.
Speaker 4: You know, why is he targeting us? Why is he
Speaker 4: targeting the Hispanic community because he thinks we're beggars. What
Speaker 4: not beggars? We are people that have that respect ourselves.
Speaker 4: Of course we want affordable items, but hey work with
Speaker 4: the businesses that have been there to help us get there.
Speaker 4: So the hispan the blacks have a huge leg over
Speaker 4: the Hispanic community. I'm sorry to tell you that, Dominic, Well, in.
Speaker 3: What way, Please tell me in what way?
Speaker 4: Way?
Speaker 5: In what way?
Speaker 4: They understand politics in the United States a lot better.
Speaker 4: They are starting to understand that the Democratic Party has
Speaker 4: only hurt them. Okay, they are they They see English fluently.
Speaker 4: They understand the system. Not better than Hispanic immigrants that
Speaker 4: have just gotten here. Okay, Hispanic immigrants are surrounded by
Speaker 4: angriage people, assembly people, senators, council members that are all Democrats.
Speaker 4: So all they hear is Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrats. Black people,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, have smartened up. They realized that
Speaker 4: Democrats have kept them in poverty these years.
Speaker 3: You gotta point them in trees, you gotta point there.
Speaker 4: No. No, I know my history and I know my
Speaker 4: situation here because I come from the from the hoods.
Speaker 4: I grew up with blacks and Puerto Ricans in the sixties.
Speaker 3: I grew streets Fernando.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'll say something Fromanda, and I'll say this
Speaker 7: with Dominic sitting right in front of me, and he
Speaker 7: can push back. I think that this elimination of race
Speaker 7: as a criteria to make districts for Congress is the
Speaker 7: most potentially economic liberating thing for Blacks in America who
Speaker 7: have been living in a feudal system. I know, I'm
Speaker 7: not going to make plantation slavery comparisons. It's much more
Speaker 7: comparable to feudalism. But ninety percent of Black people live
Speaker 7: in these gerrymandered racial districts where they're economic vitality has
Speaker 7: been sapped from them, mostly by Democrats. This liberation is
Speaker 7: I think tantamount to the either the sixty four Civil
Speaker 7: Rights Act and maybe, and God strike me down, I'm wrong,
Speaker 7: even the Emancipation Proclamation because they have been living in
Speaker 7: a feudal system led by leaders who don't care about
Speaker 7: their economic prosperity.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'd go that far, but what
Speaker 6: is there to push back on these districts and race?
Speaker 6: And I think that's the message, because Fernando Matteo just
Speaker 6: schooled me, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I never looked at the fact.
Speaker 6: I never saw it until I just listened to Fernando
Speaker 6: Matteo about how patronizing it is to put that supermarket,
Speaker 6: that market in La Maquetta in East Hallam and up
Speaker 6: until you make that comment, Fernando, Mateo, I didn't even
Speaker 6: look at it that way.
Speaker 4: You know what, he's ignored the Hispanic community. He knows
Speaker 4: that he's done nothing for the Hispanic community, probably will
Speaker 4: never but he wants the Hispanic community to hold him.
Speaker 4: He wants to fin of the Histanic community to believe
Speaker 4: that he is giving them something for nothing. And that's
Speaker 4: what this is me all.
Speaker 5: That's why I get.
Speaker 4: So energized and so upset because I don't want my people,
Speaker 4: my community, my Latinos that have come here to become
Speaker 4: someone to fall into this freaking you know, free for Nando,
Speaker 4: We're gonna get you for free, for free, for free.
Speaker 2: We got to take a break, but Fernando, thank you
Speaker 2: for everything you do, and thank you for being a
Speaker 2: host on WABC and getting the truth out.
Speaker 3: And we'll talk to you again real soon. Host have
Speaker 3: no excuses here on w.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Roger Stone, I'm gonna call in
Speaker 2: at eight thirty five today and stay tuned and let's
Speaker 2: take that break.
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