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This podcast is brought to you by Balance 7. Stop procrastinating and get your energy back. New customers can save 20% and get free shipping at balance7.com with Code Howie. Better strap yourself in. It's time for the Howie Car Show. Well obviously on many levels I'm I'm really sad. Joe Biden is a patriot. Bush. Biden relented, putting his country before his own ambition. This notion that the media is trying to peddle that he's like George Washington refusing power for the good of the country. He had no choice. They were knifing him in the back. It's too brutal. Live from the Matthews Brothers Studio. Why was President Trump not kept off the stage? I don't know. Why was crooks allowed to get off A-shots? We don't know the answer to that. These are just racist dog whistles. Whenever you hear DEI I want you to think about the N-word. I want you to think about racial slurs. That's what they actually mean. To me the values of adversity, equality, inclusion are literally and that's not kidding. The core strengths of America. It starts at the top of the vice president. Well this is very awkward. Rump swabs, hacks and moon bats beware. It's... Howie Carr. Welcome to the Howie Carr Show 844-542. You know Jared, several people have texted in. They want to know where that Biden sound cut about DEI came from. Where when was that? That was a few months ago. Actually that was the May 29th Joe Biden campaign rally in Philadelphia. It's available on YouTube. It's about 26 minutes in. Can we tweet that out? I think people would like to have that for their own. For their own edification and amusement. Have picked up on it too, so yeah we'll make sure it's out there. Okay we'll put it out there so you can show it to your liberal friends when they accuse you of being a racist, misogynist for bringing up DEI. I believe Kim Cheetl would be considered melanin impaired. And you know she's a DEI hire though you know she was at the Secret Service. Now she's going back to the setting up security parameters for Cheetos and Doritos. Cool ranch chips. Time now for the Trump line. Mayor Manito what did you think about the recent conviction of Senator Menendez? My god. What did you think of him prior to the conviction? He was a man of great great statues. How did you think he got all that money? Low-income low-cost loans. How do you think they busted him? Well our intelligence you're working with the state federal officials. If someone sees an elected official taking gold bar bribes what should they do? If there is something suspicious out there call 9-1-1. Thank you Mayor Manito. Thank you. It's good to have Mayor Manino back on the scene. I wonder what he thinks about what's going on down at the federal courthouse with the Grand Jury and the Keystone Cops from Kenton. Ironically with the delivery of maggots the protesters have proven yet again that birds of a feather flock together. Yeah you know it's not enough to spray them with water hoses. You got to put some, first you got to dump some soap on them. All these demonstrators in DC. That'll scatter them if they ever thought of getting a bath. An unwanted bath because for them there's no such thing as a wanted bath. Today's Chumpline is brought to you by Eastern Security Safe. New England's largest safe source. Eastern Security Safe has gun safes by Fort Knox Safe and Browning Gun safes. Offering an economically priced safe that still offers quality not found in the so called big box stores. Mention Howie for 5% off. Visit their site at easternsecuritysafe.com that's easternsecuritysafe.com. Hey Howie, I think Cackle and Comma has two options for VP. Either Hunter Biden or Willie Brown. I thought Willie Brown when she was running for vice president was saying he was going to leave the country and his column he has a column and it did have a column in the San Francisco Chronicle and he said he was going to leave the country but now he seems to have reconciled with his former side piece and he he called the press together and said that Biden should resign to let her take over. Is he looking for a pardon? It's kind of old to be getting jammed up you know he's 90 now. The FBI director declared they will leave no stones unturned except for those little white powdery stones that doesn't block bag with Biden's name on it on top of a laptop with Biden's name on it on top of a stack of classified documents with Biden's name on it on top of well go you know the thing. Exactly exactly and you know what I always say too in addition to they leave no stone unturned except the one that the perp is hiding under I always say if you want to hide something real good just stick it in one of Christopher Ray's law books. Howie yes, where do you get crickets? Just ask Kamala to say something intelligent. I see one hey I hear him I hear him they're out there. Howie try to make sense of this for me. You have people that are anti-Semites that call Trump Hitler. If he was Hitler wouldn't he be their hero? Yes and as BB said too Gaze for Gaza is like chickens for KFC a really a really funny line. I've seen it before on the internet but it's it's somehow more impactful when it's delivered before a joint session of Congress. That's amazing absolutely amazing some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming Gaze for Gaza they might as well hold up signs saying chickens for KFC. See you deliver a substantive address you got to have a few punch lines in there too and he he just did a masterful job. The left is now invested all of its hope in Kamala Harris a cackling toll. Now they face the task of trying to mask the fact that she'll lead them down a slippery slope. I just don't want to leading the entire United States of America you and me included limerick guy down into that slippery slope. If a democrat falls out of a coconut tree and no one is there to witness it do they still make a sound. As they say that's above my pay grade. And now another excerpt from Paper Boy my life and media as read by the author. I still remember where I was when I heard President Johnson wasn't running for a new term. It was spring into your field and we just hit the showers with Hindu after a strenuous bridge team practice. I didn't have a problem with President Johnson deep in a good senator and like me he had loyalty south of the mason dixon line. Of course us writers at the deep real scroll predicted exactly what would happen without President Johnson running anymore. A landslide victory for Ulysses S. Grant. I do remember where I was that's the only part of it that's true. I was in the dorm it was a Sunday night it was a Sunday night and it was just expected it was going to be another one of these we must stave a course in Vietnam and then he said my fellow Americans it is with a heavy heart and then that's when he announced it. I believe I was in McAllister McAllister 2 that was my dorm at the time junior year. That was my dorm in my senior year too as a matter of fact. Joe Biden said the only the lord almighty could get him to step down because the mentions worse than we shot now he thinks Nancy Pelosi is the lord almighty. Yeah did you notice cheetah also mentioned divine providence she said she was going to move heaven and earth to find out what was going on. I God God I've been told does not like to be mocked. Even though come along to be the leader of the free world as prosecutor in chief she's going to put y'all junkies back in jane she liked to prosecute people with marijuana convictions which was kind of a reach considering she bragged about smoking weed in college. 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knock safe and browning gun safes offering an economically priced safe that still offers quality not found in the big box stores mention howie for five percent off visit their site at eastern security safe dot com that's eastern security safe dot com the fbi director declared they will leave no stones unturned except for those little white pattery stones that's a block bag with biden's name on it on top of the laptop with biden's name on it on top of a stack of quest by documents with biden's name on it on top of well go you know the thing hunter biden said did somebody say something about a stone i'm how we car if you missed any part of the show we've got you covered you know what there this could be a podcast subscribe to the howie car radio network on your preferred podcast platform and start listening to previous shows an exclusive podcast only features huh it's actually not a bad idea albie car is back i'm directing my team not figuratively but literally move heaven and earth to get done as soon as humanly possible no there's so many uh... take you know uh... tells in what he says you know my word is a biden not a joke literally is another one again adverbs generally i'm using them one right now generally speaking should be used sparingly to use another adverb but literally figuratively arguably that's bs y'all was absolutely profoundly absolutely as globally as absolutely viscerally today's poll question is brought to you by eden rafferty attorneys at law if you need advice on family law check out my meet the experts podcast with attorney joe roach wherever you get your howie car show podcast jared what's the poll question what are the results thus far today's poll question which you can vote in it howie car show dot com is should president trump stop having outdoor rallies as recommended by the secret service i say yes up to twenty eight percent now who say yes no it's still 70s 72 percent president trump is having an indoor rally tonight in uh charlotte north carolina and uh they they they've already gone to a couple of live shots on the uh the news the cable news channels eight four four five hundred forty two forty two do you remember when i'm sold i can remember when kamala harris was the borders are of the united states of america that's i know it was a long time ago so now now the same people who told you that uh joe biden was sharp as a tack and fit as a fiddle and lied to you a million other times they're telling you that kamala harris was never the borders are pay no attention to those headlines that you can see on the internet saying that she's the borders are but the the the publication or the the media outlet from this state-run media that's uh most embarrassed here today is axios dot com harris border confusion haunts her new campaign and there's they they uh they announced that it was all bs that she was uh that she was the border that she was the borders are she never said that this morning axios reporter steff kite for that is indeed her name k-i-g-h-d i assume it's pronounced kite bizarrely claimed that kamala quote never actually had the title of borders are again that was steff kite who wrote that story for axios never actually had the title of borders are let's get into the way back machine and go journey to march of 2021 here's a story in axios max axios website biden puts harris in charge of border crisis you know wrote that story steff kite they had to add an editor's note at the bottom of the story and italic so you know it's serious this article has been updated and clarified to note that axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled harris a quote borders are in 2021 oh boy this is another axios in 2021 harris appointed by biden as borders are later on biden puts harris in charge of border crisis and these were stories were all written by steff kite eight four four five hundred forty two forty two she's she's really a uh she's very very uh distinguished states states woman aj you're next with howie car go ahead aj hey howie how are you i know you're familiar with uh south county road in marlotte yes you know they closed the road there at the rotary really can't go past yeah they did it on saturday i was kicking my car over there and you can't they you cannot go by marlago at all from the rotary all around his place it's completely shut down well how do you how do you get what what are you gonna do how do you get uh down to uh down to ken griffin where he's uh building his new mansions and all the uh billionaires road down there past uh bath and tennis so you have to go on the other bridge and the people down here are up and on i'm surprised you didn't hear about this and you if you're coming from the south on county road yeah if you get to the rotary you have to go over the southern bridge and anyone that comes from the southern bridge can only go to the south it's completely closed off they did it and from what i what they've published here in the palm beach post and whatnot this was done by the secret service as a result of the assassination attempt so here's my other point you're familiar with the area right yes of course my wife used to live in those condos on the other side of the inner coastal right there's 12 stories high right now if you wanted a high site to go up there right let's say i don't think they have the tightest security in those condos and and take that place completely out with rpgs where would you do it the feds haven't focused on the other side of the inner coastal at all they're focusing on the road i don't understand this if this whole thing but there aren't any there aren't any high rises directly across from uh across lake warth are there from uh from marlago yeah portafune look it up in the google maps just three or four of them uh my wife lived in one and you literally could look right across the inner coastal when he was president you know they used to have the coast guard vessels out there all the time right somebody could go up there take the whole place out in a matter of 10 minutes i don't i don't get this like i don't know i mean they they have to have thought that through i mean i i remember when he was president uh you know when he when he would be in at marlago all the jets from uh west pom beach airport would go over over my uh my where i live which is two miles north because they would they would be redirected because you couldn't you couldn't fly the jets over over marlago because he was there but that's that's changed since he's no longer president that's that's a good point i don't know i don't know the answer to that question aj i'll check i'll check that out in the uh in the shiny sheet in the pom beach post i'm out week art live from the matthews brother studios eight four four five hundred forty two forty two last night uh the the news broke that uh three more members of the mass chucit state police people on uh the detail uh of uh meatball morsey the district attorney of norfic county had been uh have been placed on an under investigation by the internal affairs unit of the mass state police couple hours later they announced that lieutenant john fannie had been investigated but was no longer under investigation because they couldn't turn up any evidence that he'd done anything wrong so i'm sure he's very appreciative of that correction but uh there's still two of them uh to the two top guys in the unit uh uh sergeant uh bu quenik and uh and lieutenant tully are are under investigation lu uh struper proctor has already been suspended uh without pay so we wanted to talk to uh aden carney turtle boy about this because he's he's following the case very closely and also the fact that he's been all the people that have been investigating him and arresting him are now under investigation themselves rather ironic isn't it turtle boy i mean i'd say it's uh vindicating more than anything it's like thank god when i saw three troopers were suspended i'm like oh it's like christmas like please be these three please be these three and i saw the names and it was just like music to my ears like about time about time howie why do you think they put fanning in there and then and then uh issued this correction i told chan mcdonald earlier today they don't make this kind of mistake with drug dealers or wise guys and they did it with a superior officer they said he was under investigation and he was he was under investigation you know one point and you know he was hardly cleared i mean it said that they couldn't prove or disprove the allegations so he didn't get like the exonerated one he got the who knows they could not enough to prove you know beyond reason without i guess you know but uh you know uh fanning all three of those guys fanning's a lot more involved than people think like he's he works out of the norfolk barracks he's a lieutenant he was on a text thread with uh with uh proctor where he's talking about you know looking for nudes and david yanny's special needs client's phone or whatever uh and uh you know so he's he's shady you know he's he's really more involved in the birch more things than anything uh but you know he testified at at my grand jury all three of these guys did you know two of one of them's a victim of mine allegedly and then the other guy's the lead investigator so like the lead investigator who came up with all these charges brand tully you know designed to put me in jail and and keep me on bail and keep me on edge he himself is under investigation for the very same things that i accused him of being involved in and that right there is very satisfying and uh bu quenik now bu quenik i i can't i can't imagine that this guy is under investigation himself and he's going around hassling women all all across eastern massachusetts country who have sent out social media messages i mean this is the only crime in massachusetts when you know he's got a posse chasing him and he's running after people who didn't do anything he's got bigger concerns you want to know where some random woman woman read it on on the internet do you read on the internet or what did you read that you know that he wants to know where you read things that that's really i mean i i would be worried about other things if i was in personally i would kind of stop doing these things what are you doing right now because it's stuff like this that's putting them under investigation in the first place i mean these guys it's said that fanny was uh not under investigation because any text messages or anything like that he was under investigation for his role as a supervisor and he is a supervisor of michael proctor that's where all three of these guys have in common so i was very relieved to see that this isn't about the text because you know quite frankly i think the texts are a bit of a distraction like it just shows that he's kind of a scumbag but i'm more concerned with the plant in taillight i'm more concerned with the fact that he's lying about what time he's towing carter each car and he's lying to grand juries about how much he knows the mcalbert and uh so that's what the because all of these guys signed off on michael proctors you know investigative reports in this thing and what did they all know and that's i don't know uh it just smells like feds i hate to say it i hate to get all excited about it but it just just came out of nowhere and just smells like feds what what about the other three people that were on the uh the other three troopers that were on that uh that the text message chat group more kutkowski and uh dechico what about them what are they i mean they didn't say anything aren't you know are if you see something say something that's what they tell us civilians right aren't they supposed to uh observe the same uh the same rules you know yeah well they they i mean dechico is just as bad as proctor in those messages he tells it when when he when he broke the news that he said that all she was down there blaming the alberts for the taillight and what did he say he goes f that b or something like that and what is kutkowski asking he goes is she hot is she hot no as no no as fall river accent but you know i mean it's just i mean those two guys are incredibly unprofessional but the fact that they are not the ones apparently under ia investigation again tells me this isn't about the text messages this is about something much more serious than those text messages so what about i asked i asked this of shawn uh and texter just wanted us to know what you think it do you think proctors flipped that's the rumor going around on social media no i mean he should have flipped a long time ago if he was smart but uh you know uh if i were the other ones i would flip on him i would just uh i don't know this guy told i mean he told me he wasn't friends with them he told me this was legit i don't know i trust my guy that's what i would do but i mean how could he flip on that i guess i guess in theory he could tell them that like oh yeah these guys all knew about it and and they allowed it to continue and they first i wanted to come clean and face on you you trade up it's like it's like it's like mafia stuff you trade up yeah you know you there's the trooper trades up the sergeant who trades up the lieutenant who trades up the captain right that's the way it works i think once they realize that the walls are closing in because they haven't reached that point yet where they think that like you know what they they got us like until they realize that like the walls are closing in and they got you dead to right you're going to jail if you don't you know come clean and say something about this you don't cooperate with the government then they have no reason to but uh eventually they will eventually none of these guys wants to go to jail like none of these none of them proctor is going to be destitute soon he's he's unemployable how is he going to get a job lizzy is going to be paying all the bills by herself uh no more pension anymore it would take a heart of stone not to laugh turtle boy about the proctor's delight what's he doing all day sitting around the house trading stocks or something what's he doing all day he lost a lot of money today if he was trading stocks i'll tell you he's probably listening to us right now you want to say anything to him directly yeah turn yourself in right now and come clean no wait no that's what the definition of that i can't tell people tell the truth anymore alley it's a crime it's a crime now apparently come out with your hands up yeah i mean that's what i would do i would be like save yourself and uh tell us everything that happened and you know why did you do it that that's the one thing i'd like to know like was it worth it michael proctor like was it was being cool to brian albert in entrusting them like that's what it's all about right it's just you know you you want to do your buddy a favor like the cool guy in town you know he's a little bit older than you ever he knows who he is and you get a call from maybe uh you know your sister and it's like chris's brother is really in trouble and you need to help him out okay i got this this michael proctor's big moment to shine he's going to cover this one up was it worth it that's what i want to know now that you're sitting at home on the couch and you're underpants all day right you can't make any money you're unemployable you got nowhere to go was it worth it because brian albert's just fine brian albert's sitting on his big step pension doing nothing and sitting there staring down jurors and getting verdicts that he wants right but you're not michael proctor so i hope it was worth it reminds me of uh frank catalact frank salimmy talking about one of those guys who went to the can for 35 years he said he was a gopher and he said but uh you know what it's the proverbial street life and that's what it applies to uh it's the proverbial street life in kenton this guy uh took a fall you know he just wasn't paying attention and he got caught it's uh it's it's quite a mess he uh so when is it when does this put your case uh you know i mean all the all the people who arrested you and has sold you and continue to uh try to uh vex you in one way or another they're all jammed up all of them yeah all of them it's great and by the way we brought a new attorney on board mark better oh uh he's out of queens actually we're doing in pro hoc v4 we're bringing him on the team too and so we're we're gonna have an aggressive we're going right for the motions to dismiss soon one after another getting them all because again i mean tully is at the top of everything he's the guy that created the charges against me if he goes down everything goes down i mean you do the math i mean two of two of my alleged victims are basically under investigation uh the investigator himself is under investigation and the other ones are confronting me in front of chris albert's pizza shop telling me they're going to smash my face up and that in the sidewalk i mean that's the totality of the salt like this is what so i was i'm excited for mine i can't wait to get this bill of particulars that's going on on his first we'll see if they actually pass it in this time doing a week and i want to see an explanation for how my actions were illegal like spelled this out for me because i i'm sure whatever they come up with i could find a whole bunch of other people that do the same exact thing and and they're not in here we're gonna want to know why and uh have you had any more luck getting the uh Falmouth police report on uh Jill Daniels and their elderly boyfriend and the uh barroom brawl they got into it the shipwrecked on saturday night and Falmouth no they told me to call back in a week like they said well we we have five to seven days we're a little busy right now filed a report again in a week i said no it's i'm filing it right now you can get it the clocks running the clocks running they got ten days you know what if you're busy again next week i mean they basically said like this one doesn't count you have to do it again next week like what no i'm doing it right now this is this is the uh this is the request right now right now please you got the 911 call though that was good where did you did that uh did that come from somebody who was just monitoring the police band you scanner got it for me somebody on twitter i mean twitter is an amazing place it's amazing it's like just appeared out of nowhere like like the uh you know just like the the crime scene spoke to Joseph Paul this stuff just appeared out of nowhere but the 911 tape spoke to me and uh as you heard on there it was uh over the carren reading situation they said on there and it's like these people they want to go like they're they don't understand how famous they are for all the wrong reasons like and i and i said this a year ago and i got indicted for it but like life is normal is over like that's not neat that's not a threat that's just a statement of fact like you're famous for all the wrong reasons yet you insist on going out in public like everything's fine but like you're everybody knows you're the crazy lady from the CF McCarthy's incident that's what you'll forever be known as and so when you go out in public people are going to be like there's the crazy lady and what do you think is going to happen you know the the uh the police report that you got last night and and tweeted it out it had a happy ending though when we found out that uh Jill Daniels and her elderly boyfriend left on foot uh dead yes and they got and the other party had a pink shirt on too and you know i i don't know if i told you this the other day but i ran into you netty on uh saturday night in the north end at vinoteca demodica uh monica and it's yeah it was a we uh we we had uh we exchanged pleasantries and said hello and you know what we didn't do aden we didn't get into a barroom brawl now you did out because you weren't in canton or foulment you guys didn't yeah you guys didn't square up and no we didn't spell out onto richmond street and you know duking it out and you know making fools out of ourselves and uh no there was nothing like that it was it's amazing how in most places other than canton and wherever people from canton congregate they behave themselves have you noticed that yeah this is like normal adult stuff too you know you don't have to explain videos of you playing grab ass or anything like that you know go moving cars around at two in the morning you know well drunk and then have sex with your wife and answer the phone with with your butt apparently 508 says the quote from uh juvenile uh the uh latin poet who will guard the guards themselves that's the that's the that's the ultimate question here it's the same question from uh to to millennia ago you know who will guard the guards themselves they in norfa county we don't know we don't know the answer to that question do we no we don't but you know the ia investigation and the fact that they want to take the angles to kind of have this information and get it out there that's interesting because these people like to not talk about you know what's going on beat them and they don't have to share that information they chose to share that with Ted they want that information out there they want to let us know like like we know that these guys are shady too we know it's not just proctor and again proctor suspended without pay but it began with an internal affairs investigation so um i i didn't like standing was not that involved in this case but uh you know volcanic and uh tully's fingerprints are all over it so uh i i can't wait to see what comes from this because proctor could not have done this alone he could not have done this alone like he needed he has bosses that should have there's a system in place to prevent this from happening and the systems failed all right aden karnie always a pleasure and uh talk to you soon and uh we'll be following you on a dr turtle boy at uh on x and uh you have your web channel and everything else and uh tbdailynews.com thank you turtle boy you've spoken and our friends at my pillow heard you introducing my pillow's most requested offer yet get the queen size premium my pillow for just 1998 crafted with a patented adjustable fill my pillow conforms to your position needs uh it it not only aligns your neck from optimal comfort but also retains its shape throughout the night ensuring you enjoy the most restful sleep imaginable but wait there's more dive into their six-piece kitchen or bath towel sets for only 25 bucks explore the brand new mattress topper starting at just 69.98 indulgent there renowned my pillow bed sheets priced as low as 25 dollars and discover a plethora of other fantastic deals go to my pillow.com or call 800-658-4965 and use promo code howie to unlock huge 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said uh let me let me play the cut here this is again he's talking to a bishop uh the kind the republican from north carolina dan bishop cut 13 do you have any reason to do you have any other target of your criminal investigation other than crooks who's dead we are investigating the shooter both to determine his motive and his preparations and activities before the shooting but also to make sure whether or not there are any co-conspirators accomplices at this point have you developed any evidence to so suggest that there are any accomplices or co-operators or sisters not at this time but again investigations ongoing have you heard that one before nick the investigation is ongoing so i guess the case is closed and forever in a day people will say there's a lot of circumstances that could lead to other accomplices here but by the way to get accomplices how do i know he wasn't taken out intentionally for not the reasons we think by a secret service shooter in other words get them out of the way well you're you're you're getting into ten foil territory but you know i mean uh there there have been assassinations like this i'm thinking of joe columbo the mafia boss in new york they sent a black guy out and as soon as he was uh as soon as he shot joe columbo in the head he uh he was immediately taken out himself and uh does the name lee harvey auswald ringa bell nick i saw that live holly yes right when when he was out and nailed by uh ruby right yeah yeah i and again i i keep going back to the only words i ever remember lee harvey auswald speaking to reporters as he was brought into the air out of the jail right before you got shot or the day before i'm just a patsey i'm just a patsey thomas crooks was unable to be reached for comment i'm howie car