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Civil War: The Original Heated Rivalry | The Tim Dillon Show #481

From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.
We started this podcast nine years ago because a white woman in Minnesota
served a chicken
quesadilla to a man and was immediately accused of cultural appropriation.
That man's name was George Floyd.
When J.K. Rowling had the audacity to suggest that penises and vaginas were
different, we
did a 72-part series on the fallout from her comments, including interviewing
many of
her slaves.
After I was asked to leave the New York Times because I was too much of a rogue
and a truth
teller, I started the Free Press because I really wanted to encourage and
foster open
discussion and debate between people in New York, Miami, Tel Aviv.
I am a huge supporter of freedom of speech.
It's one of the things that I find most important.
When David Ellison called me and said, would you like to run CBS News, I had to
think about
it because I really enjoyed my blog, my 17 listeners, and this podcast.
But I ultimately decided that $150 million was enough money to come into CBS
News and turn
it around.
The scenes unfolding out of Minneapolis are incredibly disturbing.
People are looking at their televisions and they're not recognizing this as
America.
So we thought it most important right now to speak to Greg Bovino, who is the
commander-at-large
of ICE, who's now been demoted, and he's now the maitre d' of an Italian
restaurant in
Paramus, New Jersey.
Without further ado, Greg Bovino.
Greg, how does it feel to have gone through such a whirlwind in the last two
weeks?
Now, you're working at a restaurant, an Italian restaurant?
Some people say that ICE actions in Minnesota equate to fascism.
What would you say to them?
I wear the bow tie every day.
I work, I do the bow tie.
I got the apron.
I got the bow tie, the jacket nice, the fill-out.
Hey, baby, you want a little bit?
Do you have anything to say to the families of the victims in Minnesota?
Everybody love it when I cook.
Ah, che bello, amore.
I take my cucchiata.
Ah, la, la, la, la.
Café, espresso, espresso, espresso.
Brew a little espresso.
I give everybody a little espresso.
I got a nice big connecello.
Che bello connecello.
Connecello for everybody that wishing me bed.
I give it.
Ah, ah, ah.
That's beautiful.
Well, Greg Bovino, thank you so much for coming on and joining us here on
Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
What a week.
Lot to discuss here.
Lot to break down.
Lot to react to.
Reaction.
It's what the internet wants.
They want a reaction video.
React to it.
React.
And there's a lot going on, you know.
There's a ton.
There's a ton happening.
A ton.
Over there in Minnesota.
Some of it quite violent.
Some of it quite violent.
Some of it actually regrettable, which is not a strong enough word.
There's no words that are strong enough, you know, when someone gets shot, who
I don't think,
should have been shot.
And you say it's regrettable people are going to get angry with you.
And you said it was regrettable.
Well, it's terrible.
It's horrible.
You know, we got to take a chill pill.
That's what my aunt used to say.
She goes, why don't you take a chill pill?
You know, when the kids are going, you know, when the kids are going, you know,
the kids are kind of climbing the walls.
And then your mother or your aunt or, you know, a woman from the neighborhood.
I don't want to gender it, but that's not something dads said.
It was a mom expression.
Hey, take a chill pill.
If your father said that he was gay.
And there's nothing wrong with that, by the way.
I know a lot of gay people who are actually great parents.
I'm not one of them.
But if your father said, take a chill pill, he was gay.
It's something that the woman said, you know, like, take a chill pill.
And that's what we have to do across the board.
You know, you've all been over somebody's home when their kids were losing it.
And they had to turn around to their children and go, why don't you take a few
minutes
and get yourself together?
And that's what we have to do.
We want to zoom out for a minute and look at how we got here.
I think it's important.
I think a lot of people are very emotional and understandably so, justifiably
so.
And this isn't breaking down politically necessarily the way people think it
would.
There's a lot of right-wing people that are concerned about the government
cracking down on protest
and putting the boot on the neck of citizens.
There's a lot of right-wing people that believe that.
So it's not necessarily something, you know, broadly speaking, are Republicans
more supportive of ICE than Democrats?
Absolutely.
However, when you go deeper and you look at these shootings, a lot of
Republicans, conservatives,
and some of the most prominent ones, are dismayed over how these events played
out, how they were handled.
And, you know, being skeptical of government in any of its manifestations,
which is something a lot of right-wing people share,
it's understandable why they would look at these events where people got shot
needlessly.
There were many ways to subdue a Renee Good or an Alex Preddy, whatever,
without using lethal force.
A lot of right-wing people are going, wait a minute.
So how we got here, we got to back up.
And I think it is, it's important to do.
Because most of what we talk about now is completely ripped from context.
Meaning there is no backstory.
Nobody understands why things are happening.
You're shown a fragment of an event on your phone, and then you have a reaction
to it.
Immigration is the biggest issue in the world.
It's not a uniquely American issue.
It is not even a uniquely, you know, Western issue, although it has driven
political instability in Western countries.
Things like Brexit in the UK, but you could also look at France and Italy,
Europe, the UK, the Netherlands.
All of these areas have experienced some form of migration that has intensified
over the last decade,
but really over the last five to seven years.
And the difficulty with absorbing those waves of immigrants
and assimilating them into a culture that's existed for hundreds, thousands,
whatever, of years.
And the difficulty assimilating them into an economic system
that is rapidly changing and in a lot of countries deteriorating.
That difficulty has proven to be the catalyst for a lot of political movements
and candidates in those countries
that are trying to deal with that issue in a myriad of ways.
Some people are proposing, some people are proposing a freeze of government
benefits,
some people are proposing changes to existing law
that allows refugees in large numbers to come into the country to claim
political asylum.
It's not a uniquely American issue and it's not an issue that has any easy
solution.
There's none.
There's not, there's no,
this has never happened before in history where this amount of people
migrated to another part of the world this quickly.
Usually this was done through war.
This was done over a long period of time.
So it's been difficult for a lot of these societies,
small, relatively homogenous societies,
not only racially, but culturally.
Societies have cultures.
If you go to Spain,
you're going to notice it's a lot different than Louisiana.
If you go to Louisiana,
you're going to notice it's a lot different than New York.
And New York is going to be different from Kansas.
We're just talking about states within one country.
Different countries have vastly different cultures.
So if somebody comes into a country
that has a culture that's existed for
who knows,
but a very long time
and that culture has established
norms
and then people come in from a radically different culture
that's also existed for a very long time
that has its own set of values,
that's hard.
I don't know anyone who thinks that's easy.
I know dumb people that don't care.
And it's your absolute right
to be dumb
and to not care
or to be so rich
you're unaffected
or that your political ideology
is some version of be nice.
that everyone should kind of be nice
and things tend to work out
if everybody is just nice.
That's a faction of our society
that just believes that the words be nice
will heal the divides.
And that's okay.
You're entitled to have that.
I know a lot of people with that.
They're wealthy.
Their privileged globalization
has been a boon to them.
They're okay.
They're doing good.
And thinking about any of these issues
doesn't interest them.
They just don't want to do it.
They don't care.
They're unaffected.
Their family is unaffected.
And so none of these things
tend to interest them.
They tend to ignore all these issues
because they're hard to talk about.
They're sticky issues.
They're not dinner party issues.
Really, they're not.
They're things people talk about in private.
They talk about in their home
with close friends.
These are not issues
that you tend to talk about
like on a job interview, per se.
You know?
You don't open with...
There's a lot of immigrants.
It's not your opener on a job interview.
It's interesting.
A lot of immigrants here now.
Interesting.
Some of them are cool.
It's just interesting.
Like, that's not an opener.
Good job, but you can't do it.
Nor should you.
I'm not advising that.
But these are real issues.
You can tell.
They're not...
These things aren't being made up.
Now, you might just...
You might go,
well, they shouldn't be issues.
Well, good for you
that you feel that way.
It doesn't matter.
They're hugely impactful issues.
Trump was elected twice
on this issue.
A lot of the European leaders right now
look at Nigel Farage in the UK.
Any of the, you know,
candidates where the wind is at their back,
meaning that they're going up in the polls,
most of them have hard-line positions on immigration.
They want less immigration.
Most people in countries,
when they are polled,
including America,
want less immigration.
That's bipartisan.
Now, yes,
do Republicans want,
you know, whatever.
You know,
you could politically assign,
but on the whole,
most people want less immigration
across the board
when they are polled.
There are very few people
that want more immigration.
They do exist.
They do exist.
Many of them are billionaires.
Many of them
are incredibly wealthy people.
Many of them
are radical libertarians.
Many of them
don't believe in a state.
Some of them are far to the left
where they also don't believe in a state.
And they're anarcho-communists,
whatever.
But the vast majority of people
when they are polled
want less immigration.
Now,
I don't think
that the people
that want less immigration
want what's happening now.
I don't think
that people
who look at
what's happening now,
the ICE raids,
how random they are,
that they're taking people
who've lived in the country
20, 30 years,
they've raised their children here,
their children are citizens,
some of their children
served in the United States military.
They're, you know,
productive members of society.
They are not criminals.
And they are being torn away
from their families
at a high school graduation.
They're being, you know,
abducted by guys
in masks
who are roaming
American cities,
grabbing people
out of their houses
and deporting them,
some of them,
to an El Salvadoran prison.
Nobody,
very few people,
I'm not going to say nobody,
because there will be,
there will be people
that want that.
And they are pretty vocal
about that they do want that.
Specifically that.
But I don't think
the vast majority of people,
even that want less immigration,
I'm, I'm, I'm,
because we,
obviously the people
that want more immigration
or whatever,
of course they wouldn't want that.
But let's just talk
about the people,
and again,
it's a majority
that,
that every poll
that want less immigration,
I don't think want this.
Because
it's,
it's fundamentally
cruel
and inhumane
and it doesn't take into account
any
specific
considerations
for
people that have been here
a long time,
people
whose
children of,
you know,
are citizens
and have been here a long time.
So when you do these random raids,
they provoke a