New Day in New York: Uptown Voices Election Night Live — Darializa Avila Chevalier Defeats Adriano Espaillat in NY-13

This is a live broadcast recorded on the night of the June 23, 2026 New York City primary election. Led Black and Octavio Blanco went live on Instagram at approximately 8:11pm — with 49 minutes left before polls closed — and kept the stream going for over two hours, watching and calling the results of the NY-13 congressional primary in real time alongside their live audience.

The race: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a first-time congressional candidate and community organizer, against Adriano Espaillat, a 30-year incumbent who had represented upper Manhattan at the state and federal level since the 1990s. NBC called the race for Darializa at approximately 2:13am with 94% of votes counted: 49.3% to 45.9%, a margin of approximately 2,300 votes.

What began as anxious election night commentary evolved into one of the most candid, politically substantive, and emotionally real episodes in Uptown Voices history — a two-hour document of a community wrestling with its identity, its politics, and its future.

Chapters:
00:00  Cold Open — Led on the La Mega Interview & the Attacks on Darializa  —  Led reacts to the harassment of Darializa on La Mega and the clown behavior of Pacha

00:56  Welcome: Election Night Live Begins  —  Led and Octavio open the broadcast at 8:11pm — polls close in 49 minutes, anxiety is real

01:58  The Voting Experience  —  Octavio votes at noon; polls are quiet; the humid, rainy day keeping wallflowers home

02:09  IG Shoutouts — Curly T, Uptown Soccer, Dela Cruisin  —  The live audience weighs in: 'My anxiety is through the roof'

02:33  What's at Stake Tonight  —  Led on why this is more than one race — APAC, the old Democratic Party, the beginning of a new era

04:29  The Espaillat Campaign's Dirty Playbook  —  Octavio on thirty years in power and choosing smear campaigns over a record; the video of Espaillat, Torres, and Hakeem Jeffries

05:18  Anti-Haitianism and the Dominican Reckoning  —  Led on how quickly the anti-Haitian dog whistle was pulled — and why Dominicans need a serious conversation about who we are

07:08  Errol Lewis on NY1 and the Mainstream Media Blind Spot  —  Octavio on how NY1 framed Espaillat as a progressive — and missed the pulse of uptown entirely

09:45  The Purity Test vs. Real Change  —  What Team Darializa and Team Mamdani are actually asking for from the Democratic Party

10:15  The La Mega Interview Breakdown  —  Both hosts on the barking, the lack of decorum, and how Uptown Voices handled its own Espaillat interview differently

12:09  The Ruskin Pimentel Racist Statement  —  City and State's reporting on Espaillat's senior advisor calling Darializa a tool for replacing Dominicans with Muslims and Haitians

14:46  Not Both Sides — The Coordination Difference  —  Led on why the harassment is not equal: one side was coordinated from the top

16:00  Led Runs into a Brother the Night Before — 'He's Finished Either Way'  —  A candid off-the-record conversation at the mayor's event with Donna Elisa and Locksmith

17:10  Oscar Romero and the Vote-Splitting Danger  —  Led on why a vote for Oscar is a vote for Espaillat — and the social media influencer problem

20:00  Shoutout to Maria Lizzardo / NMIC  —  Octavio plugs one of the community's great under-the-radar leaders as the live audience grows

40:00  The Dominican Population Crisis  —  Led cites the CUNY Graduate Center: Dominican population in NYC down 13% from 2021 to 2024 — under Espaillat's watch

43:20  The Mamdani-Darializa Displacement Myth  —  Octavio on the racist trope that Mamdani and Darializa want to replace Dominicans — already happening under Espaillat

45:06  OnPoint, de Blasio, and the Midnight Approval  —  How the supervised injection facility was approved at midnight on the last day of de Blasio's term with zero community input

46:27  Espaillat's #2 Donor: Real Estate  —  Led connects the dots — gentrification, real estate money, Dominican displacement

47:43  Waiting for Results — Board of Elections Deep Dive  —  Led and Octavio navigate the NYCBOE website, City and State, NBC News, and NY1 simultaneously

50:06  La Casa del Mofongo: No Food at Espaillat's Party  —  City and State reporter tweets there's no food at Espaillat's election night event. Where the Mofongo at?

51:10  Darializa's Party at Sofrito  —  A majestic view. Doors not yet open to the public. Staff taking in the backdrop

51:43  Led's Dream Slate  —  Led also pulling for Brad Lander, Raj Goyle, and clean sweeps across the board

53:49  FIRST RESULTS IN — She's Ahead  —  9,264 to 9,188 with 12.9% in. Led: 'Let's f***ing go.' Octavio: 'Don't get too excited.'

55:03  The Oscar Romero Math  —  With 748 Romero votes and a sub-100 vote gap — Led asks: are you a fool or a tool?

56:38  Black and Blanco from Guantanamo  —  A brief detour into absurdist political humor as the results trickle in

1:04:43  39% In — She Extends the Lead  —  15,201 to 15,044. Octavio: 'You're gonna have a heart attack.' Led: 'This is Game 4.'

1:05:51  Real Knicks Energy  —  Octavio compares the tension to the Knicks' fourth quarter comeback mentality

1:06:37  Jalen Brunson's Seven Trophies  —  A brief, joyful Knicks interlude while waiting for votes — Brunson: NBA Cup, EC MVP, Finals, Finals MVP

1:07:48  Nayma Silver-Matos Result — District 31  —  Jackson 71.97%, Nayma 27.5% — Led and Octavio give her flowers for running a brave grassroots campaign

1:09:38  65% In — She's Pulling Away  —  22,590 to 21,938. Octavio: 'She's more than a nose ahead now.'

1:13:08  The Death of Literacy and the Discernment Crisis  —  Led on why people outsource their political opinions to influencers — and why that's dangerous

1:15:24  86% In — Darializa 30,533 to Espaillat 28,570  —  The gap is widening. Octavio: 'This is starting to pull away.'

1:35:52  86.56% In — The Lead Holds  —  Led nervously refreshing. The math is looking good. The community chat is electric

1:36:30  The Smear Campaign Failed  —  Led: the anti-Haitian attacks didn't work. They turned more people off than they attracted

1:37:51  Espaillat Was Resting on His Laurels  —  Octavio on the widespread sense that Espaillat had been coasting — and when the ugliness came, it sealed the deal

1:39:00  The Mamdani Effect  —  Led on how Mamdani campaigned hard for Darializa's slate and what that says about his popularity as mayor

2:11:00  Kim Merrill Joins the Live  —  Shoutout to Kim Merrill — supporter of Mamdani and the culture — for being there for the final moments

2:13:18  NBC Calls It: Darializa Avila Chevalier Wins NY-13  —  49.3% to 45.9% with 94% of votes in. Led: 'It's a big day. Let's f***ing go.'

2:15:12  One More Loss: Richie Torres Survives  —  Led acknowledges you can't win them all — but the video of Torres, Espaillat, and Hakeem Jeffries is still clown behavior

2:15:37  Final Reflection — A Night to Remember  —  Octavio: 'I'm never gonna forget this. This is gonna be a memory I carry for my whole life.'

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Led Black (00:00)
what bothers me is they're making a scene I like, you know, the comments on on inst on socials, like, she's weak, you know, and that's bullshit, right? Like, first of all, they all were barking on her, right? They were all just just accusing her, going at her, no grace whatsoever, right? And then fucking Pacha, the the clown ass Pacha, right, starts fucking attacking her, screaming at her is the way he does. And it's funny because it's the same motherfucker that was shucking and jibing with Adams in a club uptown on Dykman

Yeah, what up, what up, what up, everyone is left black.

And my brother Octavio Blanco for another episode of Black and Blanco, straight from the lab, a special election edition. ⁓ just want to welcome everyone to to this important night. I'm I'm anxious, you know, see what the results are are we is it gonna be a new day in New York, or we're gonna stay in this APAC morass of, you know, unconditional support for Israel. I think it's a big night and I'm hoping for a win for n for tonight, man. Octavio what my brother, how you doing?

Octavio Blanco (00:56)
What's up?

I'm good. I'm good. I went to vote today. I didn't do early voting. I went today. and you know, the polls were were pretty when I went today must have been around noon. It was pretty quiet, but I understood that I understand that there was like a ⁓ sort of like a pickup in in traffic afterwards. And I'm thinking that right about now ish, everybody is ⁓ getting home from work or got home from work. It's eight eleven.

So the poles are only open for another fifty minutes. You don't have that much time to ⁓ get out there. But yeah, it was it was a rainy day. It was hot and sticky day, it was humid, and I lot of wall f I know a lot of wallflowers out there.

Led Black (01:58)
Yeah. Octavio, I just I

Octavio I just wanna tell you real quick. ⁓ Curly Teach on IG just said, My anxiety is through the roof, Nixon Five. You know, I I feel that. I I feel that. I really, I really feel that. Like I'm I'm really anxious. You know, I ⁓ and so how was your voting experience? It was a lot of people, you got to vote in and out.

Octavio Blanco (02:09)
Next five, I love it. I feel that too.

I got to vote in and out. I took a little time on the second page. ⁓ I gotta say that those like that long list of like I don't even know what do you know what those what those people are? I mean it's like it's

Led Black (02:33)
Yeah, we supposed we're

supposed to pretend, man. Yeah, of course I know. Yeah, yeah, of course.

Octavio Blanco (02:37)
Yeah,

yeah. I I'm always confused by that second page. So I tried to pick out some names that I recognized and then, you know, I c I kinda kinda winged it. That's I think that's my ⁓ next election resolution is to really understand what the hell that second page of people is all about. And 'cause you know what? I have a feeling that like they're they're actually in there doing stuff that we need to know about, but nobody watches.

Led Black (02:42)
Yeah.

Same yeah.

Yeah, for sure. No man, this is ⁓ I'm super anxious with the selection, man. Like I I really do feel it's it's an important day. And again, like I I think we really need new things, new new new leadership is is necessary. I think that, you know, the Mamdani movement is real. I feel that like if if if we could get all these wins, right, it it may it makes it more than just one person, you know, it it it becomes a more of a and you and also and it's also

like a the death now of the old Democratic Party. Right. And I think and and that needs to have that needs to happen. They need to be decapitated. And I hope, I hope, I hope that this this is the beginning of it. You know, any any any one of this party that's that's taking APAC money, they gotta go.

Octavio Blanco (03:35)
Yeah, yeah.

I wanna just say I just

Yeah, that that APAC ⁓ situation is getting more and more serious. whether or not you you know, if you can't even call what's going out there ⁓ a genocide, it's it's it's really terrible. But for me, I just want to take a take a minute and just say what's up to Uptown Soccer. They just joined the the conversation. Delacruisin, two four seven. All right. Tony Legwin ⁓ also joined, you know, please ⁓

Led Black (04:06)
That's my brother in law. That's my brother in law.

Octavio Blanco (04:14)
Make sure, you know, if you wanna be a part of the conversation, on IG, you know, please be be ⁓ commenting, let us know what's going on. Everybody Dela Cruz is saying we all anxious here. So that's your brother in law saying we're all anxious here. It's true. It's we're we're trying to figure out what's what's what. ⁓ you know, we're talking a you were talking APAC and we were you know, that's very important, but the the last few days have just been

Led Black (04:29)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (04:44)
I mean in a way almost soul crushing as somebody w hearing ⁓ you know, a person who whether or not I agree with him on everything is is beside the point, but the campaign turned so dirty, so dastardly, so ugly, you know, and I and I it's just I I I've I've ⁓ I've really had it with that. And I and I think for somebody with with thirty or so years as as a as ⁓ as somebody in the halls of power here.

Led Black (05:06)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (05:14)
You know, he's got a k a record to run on, and he ran on just like filthy nastiness.

Led Black (05:18)
Nonsense. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, and that and that's so true, Octavio. And then then think how much that is magnified when you're Dominican, right? When you're a Dominican American, right? You know, trying to process this whole thing. And then it becomes these like anti-Haitian fucking nonsense.

Right, where where you're using Haitian as a slur, where where it just becomes disgusting. And and again, I said this before, it's poisoning the well. Like this is this is causing problems just so he could he could win, right? Like you you don't you it the if it's a it's a wind that's not gonna help anybody, right? Because you're you're you you have just just made this such a disgusting sl I feel gross.

Like the last few days I've got like people like, yo, I'm depressed. You like, you know, Ma, we're talking about like this is really sad. Like to see that, you know, a person wraps around themselves around the flag and uses n nasty rhetoric and and and uses and spends money, right? To to put on Dominican social media in DR and push. And you have and there's flights to here, 'cause a lot of those people from DR are showing up here. They're on Dykman, they're on the in the Bronx and they're talking to people, right? So they're spending money.

Right. And and and again, you spend all that money for what? For a disgusting, slimy just campaign. You know, that's not about hope. It's not about tomorrow. It's just about my personal power. And you know, again, that's this is the this is and you seeing all the money that's rushing in from APAC from the Democrat. You I don't know if you saw this. There was a fucking video, okay, of Spayat, fucking Hakeem Jeffries, aka Tupac, you know, Apache Shakur.

And fucking Richie Torres, like the three motherfuckers like playing like they, it's all good. Like, what is happening? You know what I mean? Like, this is just gross. And again, this i I really hope for victory, because I think a lot of people don't really understand what's at stake. And you know, again, let's see where we go to what what happens tonight.

Octavio Blanco (07:08)
You know, one of the things that's interesting is ⁓ I heard Errol Lewis on New York One talking today, and he was saying how it's it surprised him what a what a what a close race this is. He thought Espaillat was gonna just like run away with it. And he started saying some some stuff about Espaillat and saying how, you know, Espaillat is a progressive, Espaillat is a Democrat, Espaillat, you know, all this stuff. And you know, in

Then he was talking about supporters of Darialisa saying how Darialisa supporters, like, you know, Espaillat isn't passing the purity test. What does this mean, you know, for a progressive Democrat? Blah, blah, blah. And from when I was hearing that, it just started to I just was reminded at how much sway the the traditional Democratic Party continues to have on what I would call mainstream media.

And including New York One, which is, you know, local media. But but to me, it sounds like, you know, an Errol Lewis of all people. I think he unless I'm misinterpreting what he was saying, ⁓ it surprised me that he didn't have his his finger on the pulse of what was gonna happen in uptown. And it also surprised me that he was lumping Espaillat into this like progressive group in in in Congress when

You know, he's not been that progressive, right? He's not really done, you know, the progressive things that that people like Darialisa and their supporters want the Democratic Party to be. And they're looking at this election here as like the litmus test of the future of the Democratic Party. Because if a quote unquote, you know, progressive Democrat

can't win against ⁓ up and comer like Darialisa, you know, what does that mean for the rest of the Democratic Party? Which is something that you've been saying all along, and a lot of people have saying is it's just the Democratic Party just hasn't been like doing what it needs to be doing.

Look, can you hear me?

Led Black (09:22)
Yeah, I can hear you. I'm gonna go ahead, continue.

Octavio Blanco (09:24)
No, that yeah. And so it's it to me it's just like I wanted just to to hear like your thought about your thoughts about ⁓ the the the sort of st ⁓ I would call them the baseline Democratic Party and what is it that that people who are ⁓ you know on ⁓ Team Darialisa are looking for and Team Mamdani for you know

Led Black (09:45)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (09:53)
And and a lot of the the the farther out to the left ⁓ folks.

Led Black (09:59)
Listen, man, I also want to just roach what someone in IG said. And he and they said, ⁓ did y'all see that that, you know, the the interview that happened on on Lamega? You know what I'm saying? So I I think we have to address that 'cause it's it's in the IG. Yeah, and I saw, you know, I don't know if did you did you see it, Octavio? And and again, what was interesting. Go ahead.

Octavio Blanco (10:15)
Yeah. I did, I did, I did. I I

no, I'm just saying, you know, I saw it, they were freaking yelling at her. Like, you know, they were they were it was there was no there was no no decorum. It was just like I mean, let's say, you know, we did it we interviewed Adriano Espallat on our show, right? We had him, we we we rented a studio because that made him feel more comfortable.

Led Black (10:26)
Yeah, it was it was it was they were barking her.

Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (10:43)
We we we we met him there ⁓ in midtown. We spent our own money to to to to make sure that that interview was as as fair as possible. If I had started yelling at him in that in that studio at that moment, if you had started yelling at him in that studio at that moment, the way that they were yelling at Darialisa, you think he would have stuck around?

Led Black (11:08)
Yeah, no, I agree. And and and what bothers me is they're making a scene I like, you know, the comments on on inst on socials, like, she's weak, you know, and that's bullshit, right? Like, first of all, they all were barking on her, right? They were all just just accusing her, going at her, no grace whatsoever, right? And then fucking Pacha, the the clown ass Pacha, right, starts fucking attacking her, screaming at her is the way he does. And it's funny because it's the same motherfucker that was shucking and jibing with Adams in a club uptown on Dykman when when he was here.

So Eric Adams is good and and now you you going at this woman. Like again, the attacks need to stop. The the anti-Haitianism needs to stop. Like, yo, the Dominic, like, I don't know if people know how bad we're we look as a fucking people when we're acting like this. Like, this is not Dominican Republic. We're here, right? We can't be talking about Haitians in that way. That's just not fucking cool. And again, to do you gotta see some of the comments on her put like it's just so fucking gross.

And there's plenty of videos where you see that this kind of harassment in the streets by the canvasers. Like, this shit is not fucking cool. It is not fucking cool whatsoever. And again, it's like, so what is fucking Pacha? Like, who's Pacha? Like, what is this? Like, we we can't that that's serious discussion from Pacha? Like, this is a fucking clown. Like, again, like, I think no matter who wins, I think Dominicans need to have real deep conversations with ourselves about a lot of things, about who we are as a people.

Octavio Blanco (12:09)
Yeah.

Led Black (12:28)
What does it mean to be a Dominican? Like it can't just be like anti-Hatianism forever, right? Like we need to find a way forward. And and this shit, I think this this election is putting a a spotlight on that. You know, and it and it and it it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good.

Octavio Blanco (12:41)
Yeah.

I want to say what's up to M's immaculate who's joined on the on the IG. You know, she says it's disgusting display of Dominican machismo. It was not a discourse, it was one-sided. And that there was no tweet about the Dominican frag flag like they claimed on the radio show. I mean, that whole thing, that whole thing has been like was misinformation. it was misquoting. It was really like out there. So it's just it's just

I s I say sad, but it's not that's not harsh enough. Like it's disgusting that somebody of the tenure and of the you know who's done so many great things, so many great things. Like I'm not gonna take that away from Adriano Espalad. He overcame a lot to get to where he was. But for him to rely on racism and smear campaigns and only on the election day.

sort of back away from all that. It's just wrong. Meanwhile, as he was saying, because Espaillat said, she is Dominican, she is Dominican. And ⁓ and then meanwhile, all of the messaging is this dog whistle of like, no, she's actually Haitian. I got a tweet from from from or not a tweet, but a a text message with an Espaillat campaign video where it's just Espaillat

And the Dominican flag in front of them, and every advertisement that he that he says, it's like yo conozco a mi gente. Give me a break. And and you know, like I think the harassment on both sides, because it's happened on both sides. I I've heard it from both sides, is is is not that has to stop. There is no room for that. And I saw the video from 187th Street today. That was vile. That was just vile.

In ⁓ the against Darialisa. It's just it's just that has no place in in American politics where you're actually like getting in people's faces like that. I mean it's dangerous out there. We've had

Led Black (14:46)
Yeah,

and but you know, again, like I agree with you that that I kind of agree with you that it's that it's happening on both sides, but it's it's not the same. You know what I mean? There's no equation between both sides in that sense. And again, like tw city and state did a great article where it says Espaillat's senior advisor made racist and Islamophobic comments about congressional challenger, right? So the congress the congress member condemned the comments from Ruskin Pimentel.

Right, who said Daddy Leva wants to replace Dominican New Yorkers with Muslims and Haitians, right? So this is he's on leave from that campaign, right? This is what I'm saying. This is this is coordinated and it's gross and it comes from the very top. And that's what makes it different, right? And again, it it it's dangerous, right? Because this this is this kind of d otherizing that's super dangerous. And and again, like we keep saying.

This should not be happening. You have a record to run on. Tell us about what you're doing for us, right? Instead of going, you know, being being scared that you're going to lose and you're fighting for power in this way. This is this is not it.

Octavio Blanco (15:43)
Yeah, because ⁓ one of the big complaints that I've heard is that, you know, people don't see him enough ⁓ during like the actual time that he's like working. He only comes out, you know, during election season. That's one of the main complaints that I was hearing from people. so it's just like when when he did start to show, you know, and become active in the campaign.

And he was talking about like his his successes, it just wasn't enough, right? Because it's just not enough for this community. This community needs a lot more. And unfortunately, what he demonstrated was that when his back is up against the wall, he's gonna go dirty. And ⁓ I just wanna say, ⁓ chime in with ⁓ something from from the IG, the people's professor. ⁓

You know, he says if Espaillat wins tonight, this will be the beginning of the end of his relationship with Harlem's black American community. We will remember. And I gotta say, I don't know, you know, if you remember this, ⁓ Professor or or Led, but you know, when when Espaillat and Wrangle were going head to head, that was an ugly campaign too. That was an ugly, racially charged campaign as well. So he he went back to that playbook, I guess.

Led Black (17:10)
Yeah, I I I talked to 'cause yesterday I got to leave to see the the mayor and and and Donna Elisa Locksmith.

Last night, which is really cool, you know. And I ran to one of my brothers, you know, who I respect, but I'm not gonna say his name, you know. But he said, like, yo, even if he wins, he's finished in a lot of ways. You know what I'm saying? Because this this was such a scorch-earth campaign that it's hard, it's hard to come out of this i you know, fully intact, right? And and it's also again, it's also it's also caused ruptures amongst us, amongst Dominicans, amongst Dominican Americans, right? You know, people that like just disgusted with that. And then also look, we're looking at

Other people are scant, right? And I and I say that because I've seen people, you know, saying, vote for Oscar, right? And I want to reiterate this. I think Oscar Romero is an excellent candidate. And I think he can make an excellent excellent congressman, but he has no, he has no chance in hell to do that.

So when you what what a vote for Oscar is is a vote or taken away from Darialisa and a vote for Espaya. And I know how to underscore that more, right? And I seen, you know, and and I think this also points to to to how s how dangerous social media could be, right? In a sense because people outsource their opinions to people they think are cool.

Right. So this person, I fuck with them. So what they say on this issue, I'm gonna just repeat it and I'm gonna make it my own. And I seen people do that. And again, I see the reason they say something about to vote for Oscar. And then you and I'm like, it's crazy because then you see other people repeat it. And that shit just can't it really, that's another thing we need to look at. Like, not everyone has your best interests at heart.

And I think what's what you see with social media and and influencers is that people putting themselves first, putting their their their own profit or their own expansion before everything else. You know, and I find that, you know, really gross. And and again that's that's where we're at with it right now.

Octavio Blanco (19:02)
I agree. I agree. And ⁓ I think also just for forgive me, but some of the influencers that were that were brought from I don't know where to come and ⁓ and shill for ⁓ for Adriano like like made me just chuckle because it's like who are you again? Like what

How I mean like can you name one thing that you think is important in this in this campaign? Like it was just like very, very funny to me, some of those ⁓ some of those influencers. And then the influencers who are like supposed like media personalities from from Dominican Republic, that was interesting that so many of them like flew over here, set up on the street, set up on the street.

Led Black (19:53)
Right. You've never seen that before.

You've never seen that before. You've never seen that before. And again, it's like I and some of them I really respect, man. Like Somo Pueblo, they're like I really used to fuck with them, right? Like I like their content, but but they're bringing like a lens that they don't want they're coming here, they don't understand what they don't understand the the situation on the ground here. So they're just opining on something they have no clue about.

Octavio Blanco (19:56)
I have never seen that. I have never seen that.

Led Black (20:17)
And again, it's like, you know, he they're talking, they they're anti the government there, knowing that Espaya is done with that government. So what are you talking about? Make it make fucking sense. Right? And again, it's like I saw I saw a clip today where it's one of those people and they were just, hey, who you voted for? Espaya, because she's the he's Dominican. He's Dominican. She's not, she's Haitian. Like that shit just makes us look bad as a fucking people again. Like we need to evolve. Like we need to really like, I don't know what what needs to happen, but we need to really like have a hard talk amongst ourselves about who we are.

Because this this race is is really ugly.

Octavio Blanco (20:51)
You know, that's a great I don't know, like I would I'll be down to doing something like in person with the community to talk about Dominicanism, but it's it's still super, super contentious. People get really, really angry. I mean, it's like this this thing that it's there all the time, but nobody wants to address it. I remember years back there's a documentary called The Price of Sugar.

And it's a fascinate it's a fascinating documentary. Fascinating documentary. But because of the topic that it deals with, the the family that controls most of the sugar in Dominican Republic, which by the way, one of the biggest contributors to the Adriano's campaign is the sugar industry. it will it you can't really show it.

Led Black (21:21)
I love that movie. It's a great movie. Yeah, I saw it.

The bicinies, yeah.

Octavio Blanco (21:48)
It's like locked up in like endless endless ⁓ court battles. So it's really hard to actually get it, a copy of it, so you can screen it. So if anybody out there has a copy of it and and we could screen it, I think that would be a great way to to to start talking about what's all this about and where where do we go from here? Because we can

I think it's justifiable to admit that there's a problem and that we need to figure it out. Like how to how to make it how to make it how to fix it.

Led Black (22:27)
Octavio, hold on real quick. Someone is saying, I have an honest question. For who am I supposed to vote? I only got 30 minutes. Vote for Darialisa. Run. Go ahead, Octavio. My apologies.

Octavio Blanco (22:39)
No, no, no, that's that's important. Yeah. I think at this point of in the in the ⁓ my my I I've I've tried, man. Led, I've tried to stay like as down the middle as I can. I mean, I've done the I went on the street, I made interviews, and when people were spewing out their racist stuff, like I had to just be like, okay, well, why do you feel that way? Right. Like I'm trying to be ⁓ but at this point, like I think that the smear campaign.

Led Black (23:01)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (23:07)
And all that is a disqualification. I'm sorry, ⁓ Adriano, you know, I respect your struggle, I respect your journey, but this was the moment for you to step up in a real way and show real leaders leadership. And you just showed that you just you just showed that that's not what you're about. You're about division.

Led Black (23:24)
Right, right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, no, you're you're 100% right, man. A hundred percent right. Like, you know, this is this is his race to lose, right? Because at the end of the day, you've been in Congress for already 10 years. You've you've been a public servant forever, right? But but it but let's go back, you know, to what leadership is. Leadership means telling the truth, right? Right. And if you can't tell the truth, you can't lead. And and I think we had when when when Pix 11 asked him,

You know, if was a genocide, he he does the the word salad, right? He doesn't even call he doesn't ever say Palestinians either. Like he never says the words, like and he says, we'll find out who who perpetrated this. Like we know who perpetrated Israel, right? So again, it goes back to like if if that you his first his first ⁓ biggest control donor is APAC, his second is the real estate lobby. Right? If if if that if you're telling me tweets and Dominican flags are more important than that.

Then I there's nothing I could tell you. There's nothing I could tell you. You know, unfortunately, you just don't get it, right? And and that's where we're at. So this is gonna be like, this is gonna be an I think one of those elections that goes down like really, really, really down the middle because we have a lot of people that that that that'll cling to to nonsense than actually looking at this the situation analytically, you know what I mean?

Octavio Blanco (24:51)
Absolutely. I want to do a couple shout-outs over here for some of the people that are on IG. ⁓ we got, let's see who we got here. We got art where are we at? Where are we at? Art for Strangers, Carolyn IG, New York Rivers, M's Immaculate, of course, Wonder Woman 24. ⁓ The People's Professor, what's up? Hudson Heights Art Studio.

⁓ is here. ⁓ you know all all of you, you know, I'm so thankful that you guys are with us tonight and participating in this conversation. It's an important conversation. We've been on this since day one, even before day one. We've been talking about this. Nobody should be surprised at what's happening here. We've been, we've been, we've been on it, let is

Led, I gotta give you your props, man, from day one. You have, you know, I've I I was honestly, honestly on the fence for a little while there. I'm not gonna lie. I was honestly on the fence for a little while there. and then and then when I started hearing Oscar Romero speak, I was also on the fence because I really like Oscar Romero's ideas. I do. I

Led Black (26:02)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (26:18)
I kind of love Oscar Romero. However, Oscar Romero, you've got great ideas, but your campaign, it just wasn't there to be a contender. I'm sorry. I have to be brutally honest with you on this one. You have great ideas. And I hope that you will run. I hope that you will run again in two years, you know, and get that campaign.

Led Black (26:30)
Yeah.

Ye yeah, man yeah.

Octavio Blanco (26:46)
Really revved up, get some money behind you, make yourself, you know, be a f freaking actual contender. Your ideas were great, but let's let's get some of that. I know that politics is is I can feel that for Oscar, politics is a little bit like I don't want to dive into the politics, but in a way, you have to dive into the politics because if you don't, it opens up the door for people to say and criticize you to say.

Led Black (26:56)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (27:15)
Hey, Oscar, why are you even in this? Are you just trying to be somebody who's gonna split up the vote? And I know you say we're not a cake and we don't we don't get cut into into slices, but we are a cake. When it comes down to it, we got the electorate and there's a percentage, and whoever gets the most of that percentage wins. So unfortunately, as much as it sounds nice.

we have to have some real politic there where you recognize that you we are a cake. You have to win over the majority if you're gonna win. Otherwise you're just treading water and making some good good ⁓ ideas, but you know, I hate to say it, you're taking up space.

Led Black (27:56)
Yeah.

Yeah, man, you listen, Adriano Spayat's campaign is flush with campaign money from APAC and APAC money that's not labeled as APAC. I'm getting texts. Every fucking commercial on YouTube. Today both of us got that little text. It was like a little gif. No, it was like a little video where a spayat wrapped around the Dominican flag with Fernandito putting Dominicano Soy. Like, what are we doing? Like what?

Octavio Blanco (28:25)
Yeah.

Led Black (28:30)
Like again, it's ra he's literally wrapping himself in the flag with Fernandito playing in the back. Right? That is just cheap fucking patriotism, right? Like, don't tell him, don't tell tell me what you're gonna do for Dominicans. Don't play, don't play on my on my on the bullshit, right? And that's that's what well again rankles. And and that shit really annoying. And and again, I think Oscar is fucking amazing.

Octavio Blanco (28:51)
Yeah.

Led Black (28:54)
Like he has he he's a very smart guy, right? But what what we need to do right now is defeat the machine, right? And and it starts with Espaya, but it goes bigger. It goes to Schumer, it goes to ⁓ a Apache Corps, it goes every you know, we really need to clean house, Corey Hooker, all them motherfuckers need to go, all of them. And we need to start cleaning house here.

Octavio Blanco (29:16)
Let me tell you something. Let

me tell you something. What would have been a good look for Adriano to do? In my opinion, go after Schumer. Go for that seat. Try to be a senator. Get be ambitious, brother. Be ambitious and go for the Senate, right? You've done your job here. Like you're good. But he didn't have that ambition. That's that leadership.

That I think is lacking. Like if he had leadership and he had, you know, you know, more guts, I think he would have he should have gone after Schumer's seat. What would that have done? It would have allowed his the rest of, you know, some of the gr great people in the in in the uptown political community to maybe also jump into this race. People who who have been really invested in the community and who you know are kind of

Led Black (29:52)
Well you know what what what

Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (30:13)
Sitting this one out. looking at you, Carmen de la Rosa. I mean, you you are brilliant. And for me, it's a shame that you weren't the one who was running for for this in this in this election. You know, it to me that's that's that that's sad. But again, like I said, let's see what happens in you know, I don't know who's gonna win, but these elections are every two years. Don't forget that, people. Espayette's been there for nine years, ten years in Congress.

But these elections are every two years. We just aren't used to that cycle because we haven't really been invested in that cycle. So whatever happens, good or bad, in two years, we get to do it all over again. So, you know, hold on to your seats. And let's try next time to be better about how we do this. Cause because this year it was it was it just disgusting. Just disgusting.

Led Black (31:07)
Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. And and again, you it this is this is the we really need a a like I keep saying this, but I can't stress this enough. We need to clean house.

Right, if you're taking money from APAC, if you can't speak clearly about something like a genocide, we lost the Democratic presidential election because of this, because of our failure to stand up to Israel. If we don't stand up to Israel, we will lose and we continue to lose. And that's the problem with with Espaillat. You know, and and and again, like I think, and I and you know, when we had our second interview with him, you know, the next day, he gave me a call, right? And he was like ⁓ he had left his Knicks hat.

And he's like, yo, lad, you left my nicknhat. I really am trying to get you to be a, you know, to vote for me, whatever. And I tell him, I said, listen, what I think you need to do is you need to disown APAC and say, I don't fuck with them and give that money back. Right. And he he says, maybe after the election, which I don't believe. But the problem is that's the problem right there. If he had done that, this might be race might be over. Right? If he says, you what, I don't want APAC money. It's it's anti-democ democratic because it is. It cares more about Israel than America because it does.

Right. And that's the truth. And this, like, this thing is destroying our planet. We're and we're in in mesh in the war that there's not really a ceasefire. Shig could go back to a hot war any minute because of Israel. Right. And and and and both parties, politicians of both parties are beholden to Israel. And Espaillat is beholden to Israel. Right. And and that's why we need to stop it. That's why we need a new thing, a new way of, a new way forward, because this is there's no future in this.

Octavio Blanco (32:46)
Yeah, there's no future in this. And again, I'm gonna come back to to you know having having the guts to to to run a real campaign. If you ask me, that APAC money is easy money. It's easy money. He doesn't have to do much and he gets a lot of money flown into his campaign, right? He he doesn't have to do the small dollar donations. He gets the hundreds and thousands of dollars from APAC. And all he has to do, all he has to do.

Is say that like, you know, Israel is just defending itself. it's not a it's not a genocide, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, y you know, and and and that is infecting a lot of people who are who should know better. People who say, you know, ⁓ I don't know if if I interviewed a guy named Chris up in Bennett Park, nice guy. ⁓ and he had critiqued Espaillat for sounding like too much of a politician.

But I will say that when I asked this guy Chris about whether or not what was happening in Palestine was a genocide, he started sounding very much like a politician himself. And he's just a regular guy. So that thought process is infecting our minds. And I I don't I don't like it. If you see it, call it what it is. It just it's it's it's just ⁓ you know, it's unfortunate that we can't

that we can't call it what it what it is. And and I do blame Netanyahu and his government for doing it, but I also think that, you know, Israeli society, you know, they have shown, I mean, that the same things that are happening here in our neighborhood with the othering and the horrible like nationalism and all that is happening there too. It's happening in Dominican Republic. It's happening in Colombia.

It's happening in Argentina. It's happening in Europe. This is all the I don't believe in trickle-down economics, but I seem to be ⁓ you know, believing that there is trickle-down fascism and it comes from ⁓ Donald Trump.

Led Black (34:57)
But

yeah, yeah, no, you're a hundred percent right.

But it's it's not trickled down. It's it's orchestrated, right? And and and the countries, the Latin Latin American countries are once again, you know, becoming banana republics. That are they're gonna be the bastions of America and Israel to do whatever they want. There's a war on the left in Latin America. ⁓ so right now we have a new president in Colombia, and the new president was elected who who bragged about killing cats, about ⁓ putting ⁓ like, you know, like firecrackers on cats to see if they could fly.

Right. These are the sadists that that we're we're putting in power once again all over Latin America. You know, but not through sheer coincidences through through sheer American power. Right. And that's what we're headed to. And again, I I said this before, you know, ⁓

I I thought of something today. I came up with a dope concept. Well, cause my wife made a great meal. She made this like shrimp pasta, like vodka sauce with garlic bread, right? And then, you know, we always do this as a family. We sit down at the table and we discuss politics, right? And I thought of some brilliant shit. So this is the first time the world hears of it. So I think I think DR is headed for Trujillo 2.0.

Right. I think I think we're headed to another Trujillo. And then in my opinion, might be Alofuque. Right. For those that know don't know, Alofuque is like the Diddy of DR. But he's already talking about running in 28. And there's a there's a chance you'll run with the Reformita party, which was the party that Balaget started. So the Trujillo 2.0, that's my concept. I'm working on it. So you heard it here first, don't try to bite. I I'm writing that and I'm writing that shit right now. I'm working on that thinking that through. But you know, I all jokes aside, like we Latin America.

Octavio Blanco (36:27)
Ha ha ha.

Led Black (36:36)
Is heading right fast. And my beloved DR that I love so much, Kisqueya La Bella, is headed there as well. And again, it's like because we fought for the Okie doke. What's interesting, I told you last week, I don't fucking showed up to a diplomatic event with the American ambassador. Right? Then I saw an interview with an interview with the American ambassador, and she's just loving.

Octavio Blanco (36:39)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I saw

Led Black (36:59)
I know fuck it. And

Octavio Blanco (36:59)
that, yeah, I saw that.

Led Black (37:00)
he's he loves Trump and he's also very good friends with Marco Rubio. Right? He's also very good friends with Ruskin Pimatel, who's on leave from the Espaillat campaign, which is I I guess is a coincidence. But

Octavio Blanco (37:05)
Yeah.

Led Black (37:13)
Those are all true. I ha there's a vide there's a video, there's a video, and I I'm not judging, but there's a video of him and Ruskin and and and I'll fucking hugging, having a great time in DR somewhere. And and in ⁓ yeah, so so the right wing in DR is is is is gonna bear fruit soon. So remember you heard it here first, Trujillo 2.0, coined by Leb Black.

Octavio Blanco (37:13)
⁓ yeah. yeah.

Trujillo two point

⁓ I heard that what is it, Trujillo's grandson is running on a far right campaign in Dominican Republic. Have you heard that?

Led Black (37:41)
Yeah, he's always

ca this I think it's Ramfees or some shit like the grandson, but I don't you know, he's not he has no chance. Alofucker has Alofucker's gonna win if he if he runs, right? Because you know, the the thing is that I I I I and I don't like Alofucker, but he has mass appeal in the Dominican Republic. And again, I think people he knows what what buttons to press to get people to to do what he wants. And I think one of them is Haiti, right? That's that's that's what the Dominican League had always used to divide people.

Octavio Blanco (37:51)
Mm-hmm.

Led Black (38:09)
So I think those those are those are are are very potent but buttons to press.

Octavio Blanco (38:15)
Yeah, I want to ⁓ address a comment ⁓ from Judith Moroney. ⁓ thank you for commenting. Power and Congress. So if you get back to Congress, your goal should be to stay there as long as possible. My goals was there over 20 years. He has seniority. Seniority is the goal. So I just want to ask Judith: like, is seniority the goal or is doing something when you're in Congress the goal? Like

Espaillat does a lot of talking about having a seat at the table, but I haven't heard much about what he's doing with his seat at the table. It's not until people get really up in arms that he actually starts to, you know, do any flexing from his from his ⁓ seat at the table, as far as I can tell. So, you know, I don't think seniority is the goal. I think seniority is w a byproduct.

And it's actually, I think seniority ultimately, you know, is what ⁓ creates the swamp, right? If you're there too long, then you're not then you're not really incentivized to do much because you have a career as a politician. That's your career is I'm a politician.

Led Black (39:20)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, you know

It's funny you say that. So someone on IG that who I usually don't agree with, his name is Image by Oscar. I never agree with this guy at all. But he says something, term limits need to be enforced, and I can fuck with that. I really can. Because it it this does need to get out of hand. You can't be like 90 fucking dying in the seat. You know what I'm saying? You don't have no clue what's going on. Like I think overall, like, you know, nothing says like the you know, the end of democracy when you have a fucking Trump president presidency followed by a Biden presidency, followed by a Trump presidency. This is

Like, this is ridiculous. What are we doing? Like, this is this is this is disgusting. So, again, we go back to this. Everyone needs you if you like, you can't be past 70. Like, it's you you need to just move on. Like, this is not the way we do it. Like, we have old people who have they are completely out of touch with with things that are that that that affect us and people younger. It needs to change. Like, term limits need to be enforced. We need a whole overhaul democracy. Like, just unlimited spending shouldn't be there. Should we gotta be all types of campaign reform? Like, like again, like look where the fuck we're at. Like,

Trump is fucking president. The shit is falling apart. Like we're like close, like from a d economic depression. Like let's take this democracy serious. Like let's get real serious. And if you yeah.

Octavio Blanco (40:41)
But no let yeah, let's get serious. Let's

get serious. The reflecting pool must be fixed. What the he I'm sorry. Sorry, Lyd.

Led Black (40:52)
No, it's true that we're fucking like again, you know so funny that I never thought, right, because I consider myself somewhat of a radical, right? I never thought I had attachment to these images, like these things of power. But like this fucking guy has destroyed, he has destroyed the East Wing to put and then you saw you had a fucking

what do you call that? The the the the the the fighting shit the whatever you call that shit MMA the UFC shit and and like what is happening like like this is like the wildest shit happening and no one gets upset about it. Like this is it's it's like we're living in an an alternate universe, man. And it's it's just infuriating. It's infuriating how stupid people are.

Octavio Blanco (41:16)
the UFC, the UFC.

Nine minutes, people. If you haven't voted yet, you have nine minutes to get out there and vote. It's 8:51, and the polls close at nine. So if you haven't gotten out to vote, get your ass out of your apartment. Run to your closest polling polling center. Get in line. I think if you're in line, you get to vote. So they close at nine, but that's when they stop.

Led Black (41:58)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (42:01)
letting people get in line. So as long as you're in line at nine, you can vote. So get out of your house. I don't care if you're in your chanclas, in your PJs, or onto your nearest polling center and vote.

Led Black (42:14)
Unless you voted first, but yeah, no, I'm just joking. Just joking. Just just joking. Go vote. Go vote. Go vote. Go vote. It'll be your fault if he wins, but go vote. Go do that. Nah, you know, again, like I've talked to so many people, like, it really does bother that this is the state.

Octavio Blanco (42:16)
⁓ Yeah, no go vote whoever the hell you're voting for, but you know, whatever.

Led Black (42:33)
of of of of politics, right? Where where it becomes between these two two Dominicans, right? That like this is this is this what I get like it's two Dominican people running against each other. And we can't even have fundamental respect. That's what I'm saying. Like for Espaillat to go so hard at the Dominicanness just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. You know what I mean? Like

I'm Dominican, love being Dominican. There's a flag behind me. You know, I go to DR, I'm investing in the Dominican Republic. I go as much as I can. You know what I'm saying? But but to to to bring that that vitriol here and to mix it in the politics here, is it's something that that again is gonna have reverberations through time. And that's why I think I don't think that people understand that when you go.

Scorch earth, you scorch the earth. You know what I mean? And and and and it's hard to recover after that. And again, we shouldn't have to do that. And again, especially as Dominicans, like, you know, that's one thing that bothers me. Like, you know, I w we were we like one in eight people

Octavio Blanco (43:20)
Yeah.

Led Black (43:31)
In New York City is Dominican. We just got beat off being the biggest minority group in New York City by the Chinese, right? And and the reason is because Dominicans are leaving to go elsewhere, right? Because we can't live here, uptown in the Bronx where we want to live. You know see what I'm saying? So it's a it's a ripple effect. And again, I think I think if if we could cohere and we could use our numbers and strength, we could, we could, we could really kill shit. But right now, we we we just we destroying ourselves with this bullshit.

Octavio Blanco (43:59)
Yeah, you know, and that narrative that came up about how Mamdani and Darialisa ⁓ want to displace the Dominicans from uptown, again, another disgusting racial trope and like replace them with like a Muslim Arab. I don't know what what that was all about. But besides it being a disgusting racial trope.

It's also something that's already happening under the Adriano, you know, tenure. It's not like it's just started now. People, like you say, have been moving out of the neighborhood in droves. And you know, Led, you have some very strong opinions about why that's happening. And not only is it because the rents are going up, but also on point, it's been just like it was like.

Allowed to ⁓ open up on the last day of ⁓ what's his face is Mayor de Blasio's campaign. It was a midn at midnight on the last day of the camp of his of his ⁓ tenure when yeah, well his term, that's when that was approved. No come no no checking with the community unto whether or not we wanted it, nothing. Just like opened it up. And then that will I I'm

Led Black (45:06)
The Blasio, yeah.

Second year term, yeah, yeah.

Octavio Blanco (45:27)
I feel for addicts, I really do. ⁓ and and I think that they deserve, you know, to be helped. But why does it have to be ⁓ on on our backs in this community all the time? And frankly, like the addicts that use these services, they're not if you want to talk about outsiders, they're not from here. What ends up happening often is that there are little small towns in upstate New York or Pennsylvania or

Led Black (45:37)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (45:55)
Or New Jersey or Connecticut. They don't want them there. This happens. They buy them bus tickets to New York so that they can get the benefits of what New York is offering. So a lot of the people that come here are not from here in the there, but they come here because the drugs are here and they get some services here. And their small little town and like wherever the hell it is doesn't want to deal with them and says, here's a bus ticket, go to New York, go to Philadelphia.

Led Black (46:09)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (46:25)
Go to wherever the hell it is.

Led Black (46:27)
And and to go back to the earlier point, you know, about, you know, like the gentrification that, you know, Ruskin Pimentel was saying that's what Darylisa wants. Like you said, this has been happening. And the España's been in power for nine years. So the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, right, reports that from 2021 to 2024, the Dominican population in New York City has fallen by 13%.

Those are actual numbers. That's actual data. So the gentrification that people are are gonna are talking about will happen in Daddy Elisa is already happening under Espaillat. That is why his second biggest donors is the real estate industry. There's a correlation there. And everyone getting focused on the Dominican flag in the tweets is missing the point.

And that's that's what I'm hoping that we come out of this today with a win so we could we could push forward through the bullshit and deal with the bullshit. Cause because again, if we lose this race, I know you said before we got another two years, this this is gonna be you know, more more of the same, more, more shucking and jiving for for for for APAC and Israel in Congress. We don't need that shit no more. We really don't. We really, really don't.

Octavio Blanco (47:43)
Yep, that's for sure. ⁓ you know, I don't know. I I I you know, this is a close election, so who knows when we're gonna start getting results. I've got ⁓ I've got New York one going next to me because I'm actually unsure of what's the most ⁓ you know appropriate place for me to be monitoring for election results. what's the ⁓

What's the authority there? If you if you guys know, I'll I'll I'll put that on. is it the depart the Department of Elections or is it ⁓ somewhere else? ⁓ anybody who knows that, you know, ⁓ throw it into the ⁓ into the chat because you know, I'm gonna wait on New York one to to get those those results. But I really would like to have the ⁓ I really would like to have the the original source on that.

Led Black (48:39)
Yeah, man. I I I really wish we did because I w I am I'm really kinda nervous right now.

And I I don't think so I'm looking at there's not really that there's no like I'm looked at NBC News, but they have no information. It's just no votes counted yet.

Octavio Blanco (48:53)
I'm going to the New York Board of Elections ⁓ page and I'm gonna do a little ⁓ a little sleuthing over here to see what ⁓ what it tells me.

Led Black (49:04)
Someone said N Y C B O E has a link to unofficial election results.

Octavio Blanco (49:08)
N Y C B O E. Let's see.

Let's see, I got ⁓ too many laptops going here.

here we go. Certified election results. Boom.

So nothing yet. No, though the polls are still open. So you know, we'll we'll we'll have to wait and see for that. ⁓ let me see what else we got here. Cause I know City and State has a which is a great ⁓ a great place to for all you ⁓ all you nerds like me. It's a good place. They they do a lot of great coverage on ⁓ on politics in New York.

Led Black (49:17)
There's no percentages yet though.

Octavio Blanco (49:44)
New York State and New York City as the ⁓ as the ⁓ as the page says. But

Let's see what they have to say here, if there's if they're getting anything.

Led Black (49:54)
Yeah, shout out to David Friend Gets Loud for the the s the the URL for the the B O E. Thank you for that.

Yeah, so it's gonna take a minute, I think. But ⁓ you know, it's it's it's gonna be a long night, man.

Octavio Blanco (50:06)
All right. So one of the w the one of the tweets that I'm seeing on ⁓ city and state ⁓ from a reporter, Rebecca C. Lewis, she says the setup at La Casa del Mofongo in Inwood for Representative Adriano Espaillat polls close in fifteen minutes. The food situation is sadly non-existent. Unless you order from a server at a table.

Led Black (50:31)
huh.

Octavio Blanco (50:34)
So they didn't they didn't even want to shell out for the money th for the for the food. They were like, you can be here but ⁓ your people are gonna have to buy food.

Led Black (50:45)
They know they can't, they spend

all their budget with smear campaigns. So you know what I mean, you don't have time for food.

Octavio Blanco (50:51)
Come on now. At least you could have like spent a little bit on how much does some tostones cost you? Some you know, please.

Led Black (50:58)
It's called La Casa de Mofongo, where the Mofongo at? Like bring the little Mofongitos out for real.

Octavio Blanco (51:01)
Yeah, where's the Mofongo? Exactly.

At least a couple of Mofon mini more fungos.

Led Black (51:05)
Yeah, for real. But yeah, man, ⁓ yeah, yeah.

Octavio Blanco (51:10)
Hmm, getting a report also that there's not much happening at Darelisa Avila Chevalier's election night party at Sofrito. Sofrito is at ⁓ yeah, it's at Sofrito. Doors haven't yet opened to the general public yet, but there is a very majestic view and campaign staff are taking advantage of it as a backdrop. So yeah, we're waiting. We're just vamping here, waiting for ⁓ waiting for some of the results to come in.

Led Black (51:20)
esa sofrito. I know that's that.

Octavio Blanco (51:40)
⁓ you know, hopefully we'll get some stuff. I'm I'm looking at the

Led Black (51:43)
I also want Brad

Lander to win. I run I want ⁓ Raj Goyle to win. You know, I again I want I want I want I want that that dream slate. We we need change. We really do. We need to get rid of those bums, the Democratic, you know, elite that don't do shit and got us in this hole in the first place. We need new leadership, man, across the boards.

Octavio Blanco (52:06)
I wanna I wanna send a shout out to the Empanada Shack NYC. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for your commentary. You know, I think, you know, to your point about ⁓ the comments, yeah, you know, their comments were taken out of were like messed with. Like the what they're asking her to apologize for isn't actually what she said. So

For her to apologize would be like apologizing for something that she never said. It's been misconstrued, unfortunately. And, you know, I don't know. Like, I don't know if I would have stayed ⁓ if I was being just berated the whole time, not listened to as I was trying to communicate. You know, if if all they're gonna do is take the opportunity to just jump on my back and yell at me, that's not where, you know, you're that's n that's not a place where you need to be.

It's just not it's just not, you know. And like I said before, we've had both of them on the on our show. And both of them, and all three of them, you know, Oscar, Darialisa, and Adriano Espaillat. And we gave them the respect that they deserved, the the decorum that was required. The we asked them we asked them hard questions. They could answer it or not answer it. We but we respected them, right?

And so if you're not willing to ⁓ show somebody some respect on your show, that just shows like where you're at and it shows and you don't need to be there if you're gonna be, you know, yelled at and insulted on the show. It's just it's just ⁓ you know, not right. I mean, what would she have done? Just started yelling back at them?

Led Black (53:49)
Ho ho ho

ho ho ho hold on. So I'm seeing some of the votes are coming in. It's not not a lot, not a lot. But right now, it looks she's in the lead right now. She's she got nine nine thousand two hundred and sixty-four votes, and España got nine thousand one hundred and eighty-eight votes so far. ⁓ that's really interesting. That's really interesting. Oscar got 748. I'm seeing this on the BEO E site. So

Octavio Blanco (53:53)
What's up?

Get out of here.

Where are you seeing where are you seeing this?

⁓

Led Black (54:16)
Yeah, that that my brother on on IG put me on to. So percentage of scanners report is twelve point nine zero. So we got a long way to go, but we got some results so far. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Say, let's fucking go.

Octavio Blanco (54:29)
Ha ha ha. ⁓

Led Black (54:33)
Let's fucking

go. No, this is this is really close. You know what I mean? And and you look, you look at this, right? The difference right now, right now, it's maybe it's it's 9264 minus 9188. I'm not really good at math, but whatever that is, that's that's less than a hundred votes, right? Oscar Romero got seven forty eight, right? So those people saying vote for Oscar Romero, right? Are you like I always say either you're a fool or you're a tool.

Octavio Blanco (54:53)
Yeah.

Led Black (55:03)
And I gotta ask those people, which one are you? Right? Are you that dumb to think that Asuka could actually win? Or are you somehow getting some coins on the back end to say that so you could Espera win? Because that right there is super duper close. It's a little suspicious for me. I don't know. But yeah, we got we got some results coming in.

Octavio Blanco (55:23)
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Led Black (55:25)
Things will never be the same again. Either way.

Octavio Blanco (55:30)
Yeah, these unofficial re results are starting to

Led Black (55:32)
he he he

he's already he already went up by two votes already, so yeah.

Octavio Blanco (55:37)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's ⁓ it's gonna be like that. It's gonna be like that all night. Unless unless there was like a ⁓ s a flood of Esbyat votes, which there might have been, you know, that's one thing that's been so im you know that's impressive is that he he he he can really mobilize people, he can really get get people out. That's when

One of his superpowers that he's had is the ability to mobilize folks.

Led Black (56:11)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (56:13)
Hold on a second, I gotta take care of something here. I'm gonna put myself on mute. So it's ⁓ you you're just gonna have to vamp a little bit, okay?

Led Black (56:18)
Alright. You

d you d when you come back you don't even c I'm gonna say the wildest shit. We're gonna be canceled by everybody at fire and brimstone. So you come back, don't worry about it. We might not have a show anymore. So leave

Octavio Blanco (56:24)
Yeah.

⁓ let's see. Well yeah,

we we've been so we've been talking about how we're probably gonna be, you know, sent over to Guantanamo at some point for everything that we're talking about on on the show. Black and Blanco from Guantanamo. The weather is nice.

Led Black (56:38)
Yeah, w yeah, live from Guantanamo, Black and Blanco.

Yeah, so

yeah. So right now, yeah, you could you could go. So right now we're at fifteen point thirty three percent in and you know, ⁓ I think I was in the lead, slightly, ninety-three sixty-three, ninety-three thirty-seven. But again, like I shout out to David, David friend gets loud on IG saying, you know, that things need to come in, they'll take their time. But again, this is this is gonna be a ⁓ a close one. It's gonna be squeaky, squeaky squeak.

Octavio Blanco (57:10)
I'm back. What did you do?

What did you do?

Led Black (57:13)
man, you don't you have no idea. Don't tell them anybody. Don't tell them on IG in the c comments. We keep

that to ourselves. Nah go and go talking about the the results, you know, so far. ⁓ it's it's it's interesting. It is very, very interesting.

Octavio Blanco (57:27)
We are seeing.

Led Black (57:28)
On the the the NYC B O E site.

Octavio Blanco (57:31)
I see unofficial election night results and then it takes me to like

Led Black (57:35)
shit. ⁓ you know who's who's in who's up who's uptown? Has Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker's uptown w with Daddy Alisa. That's fucking so dope.

Octavio Blanco (57:38)
⁓

⁓ get up really it's

Led Black (57:47)
Then that's what I fucking mean, right? Like why's the Democratic Party running away from Hassan Piker? That's who you should be with. We need new voices in this fucking party. All these old fucks need to go. Decapitation needs to happen.

Octavio Blanco (57:59)
⁓

looks like Brad Lander ⁓ won. That's from Carolyn on our on who I who I trust implicitly. Carolyn, ⁓ Lander is the winner. ⁓ that's that that's good news. That's good news. And I see it on New York One also. Lander is is the Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Led Black (58:14)
No, that's a good news. That's great. So it's official. Brad Lander won. I like I

fuck with Brad Lander. You know when I started fucking with Brad Lander when he got arrested, when he was escorting somebody into immigration court, and he got arrested, I was like, I'll fuck with that guy. And then, you know, I like him a lot, man. He's good. He's good for New York.

Octavio Blanco (58:30)
Yeah.

He

he's good for New York. And he ran a really strong campaign against a very, very well-funded billionaire. ⁓ so he really pulled it out. Brad Lander, way to go, man. That was ⁓ that was a that was a tough fight. Dan Goldman had tons and tons of money. ⁓ Sim, you know, and and and Brad Lander, I think, I think because of things like that, Brad Lander has been on it, you know, like he

He wasn't afraid to get to get into the mix, you know what I mean? So I I'm ⁓ it's ⁓ it's good. And ⁓ I'm seeing that Thomas Dinapoli ⁓ is leading, so ⁓ so we'll see.

Led Black (59:18)
Fuck Thomas DeNapoli too. Middle finger. Fuck him. I hope he loses.

He needs

to go. He needs to go to. Dumbass.

Octavio Blanco (59:30)
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Dunapoli, like enough already. What are you doing? And he's he's he's got our money tied up. He's got our money tied up in all these, you know, ⁓ AI companies that are that are working for ICE contractors. He's got he's got like he's very, very, very not not good. And he's got our our money tied up in like oil and gas and kind of you know, all these all these like really disgusting ⁓

Things that I yeah, I I I I don't think that we should be funding with our with our money that we should be investing in. Frank de las Mercedes joined. What's up?

Led Black (1:00:09)
That's

my brother. What up, Frank? Frank. What up, brother? Yeah, man. I'm hoping I'm hoping we we we pull this out today, man. For real.

Octavio Blanco (1:00:18)
Yeah. Yeah, well it's

Led Black (1:00:19)
But Brand Landers, that's

a good start. That's a great start. That's a great start. You know, again, like what you start realizing is that basically in both parties, you know, the powers that be, the money, the money classes, they just put people in power. They put clowns to do their bidding. You know what I'm saying? So you have it, yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:00:36)
Lad I got I I

got bad news for you. It's not it's not like a done deal, but I see that Richie Torres is leading in the Bronx.

Led Black (1:00:44)
⁓

Richie Torres, the Bronx. Like, what are that? How is that even possible? How is the the the fucking Bronx, which is cool ass borough, have Richie ass Torres? Ugh. I don't I really seriously, I said that before. I know, like I really do feel he was made like in like one of those printers, man. Like I don't really believe he's a real person, man. His his hairstyle is matte corny. He looks, he don't have a shape up. Like that dude's a cornball. Like I don't understand.

Octavio Blanco (1:00:53)
It's not o it's not over. It's not over. It's not over. I know.

Ha

ha ha.

Led Black (1:01:11)
How he's

from the Bronx. I just really, I just don't understand. I cannot compute. I am confusing. How is that? Do you no? But seriously, like you a person from the Bronx from uptown, if you're really from there, you're gonna have a sense of of of of grooming, right? You're not gonna come out here looking crazy. And I don't know if you seen Richie Torres, but Richie Torres be looking crazy. His hair look crazy, his getup look crazy, the way he talks. Like I think he's a robot. Like, you know that ro the next robot that was dancing?

Octavio Blanco (1:01:14)
Do you have a shape up?

Led Black (1:01:40)
I think he's one of those AI robots made in Israel. Like that's top IBF technology right there, man. For real.

He's creating a lab, yo. Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:01:46)
It's created in a lab. You're funny. You're funny. You're

funny. You're funny. I'm I just have my eyes open here for what what I see on the on the lower on the lower, lower third of people coming of of of of polls coming in. ⁓ so we'll see. I haven't seen anything lately on what's going on here in the in the N thirteen. Wha what are you seeing, Led? Do you see any updates?

Led Black (1:02:10)
So no, he's

up. She he's up now. 24% are in. It's 11691 to 11607. It's super duper close. And again, Oscar is up by 919 votes. The difference. The difference. Brought to you by those very intelligent people that told you to vote for Oscar, because they told you that to do it. And then you repeated the reason they told you it made sense. So I heard someone say, don't vote for her, she's not ready.

Octavio Blanco (1:02:19)
Yeah.

Led Black (1:02:37)
And then everyone repeats it. How the fuck is she not ready? Like, what does that mean? Of course, like, it's crazy. Like, it's it's wild to me. Then we we might be in this predicament because because of of smear tactics and then on the other side, people running mad game. It's just it's disgusting and gross to me.

Octavio Blanco (1:02:55)
Yeah, that that that debate where ⁓ Espaillat was a no-show that th for me, not that the organizers had anything to do with it, but it was ⁓ it was a chess move by Espaillat to not be there. He was like, Yes, yes, I'll be there, I'll be there. And then not there. ⁓ just just let these two

⁓ fight it out, split the vote, and we're seeing how close this election is gonna be and why every single vote counts and why I'm sorry to say, like if if you you have to admit, you know, when you're when what's working is working and what's working isn't working. And when it isn't working and you're still in there, I'm sorry to say it's

Led Black (1:03:50)
But to be honest, you

know what? Like to be honest, I'm not even, I'm not mad at Oscar for that. Right? I I think, you know, everyone wants to believe in that they they may be the candidate. I'm kind of more mad at the people, the so-called influencers, you know, telling people to vote for him like it makes fucking sense. Right? Like this makes sense. Like again, right right now, as it stands, if this this continues, she's gonna lose by the little votes that Oscar got.

Right. This this is this is a a colossal misunderstanding of the situation. Like the the the the the problem at hand is APAC control of our democracy. That's the problem at hand, and that's the that's the solution that we need to f that's the thing we need to find a solution for. And that at least that was it. And and it would lead to more things. You know, I'm glad I got I'm glad Brad Lander won. And I'm still hoping, I'm still hoping that that we could pull this off. Let's see.

Octavio Blanco (1:04:43)
Let's see what we got here.

Yeah, I see this. I'm looking at what you're looking at now. Yeah, Oscar Romero, nine nineteen. Theo Bruce Chino Tavares, two hundred and fourteen. ⁓ my god, if if we lose by two hundred and if if if ⁓

Led Black (1:05:02)
wait a minute, she just went up. She just went up. So

so we're at 39%. She's at 15201 and he's at 15044. So 15,201 to 15,044. So let's see. Let's see. my God. Please. Please. Yo, for real, man. Yeah, man.

Octavio Blanco (1:05:11)
⁓ shit, okay.

You're gonna have a heart attack.

So yeah, she's got f

she's got forty-seven point seven percent right now, and Adriano has forty-seven point two percent. Oscar has almost four percent of the vote. So it is it is a horse race. It is really, really, really close. Really, really close. And a hundred and thirty-five rider. Yeah.

Led Black (1:05:47)
Yeah, man, I feel like this is a game four. This is a game four right now. Let's

go.

Octavio Blanco (1:05:51)
Yeah, this has got real Knicks energy. Like we're in what what what quarter are we in? Because the the Knicks always try to make you think, give you a heart attack, like you're about to lose, like you're gonna lose the game, and then come fourth quarter they they turn it on. So this has got some some real Knicks energy. Let's see what's up. But this this is so close. This is so close.

Led Black (1:05:54)
This has real next a

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy. So my my brother-in-law said, Wow, this is really close. Curly T said I can't take this. So let's just step away for a second. I saw something on IG. Let's just take a little bit of a break while we get more numbers. I saw something on IG that was crazy. I saw ⁓ Jalen Brunson won seven trophies this year. Which is crazy, right? So he won he won the NBA Cup, right? He won he won the NBA Cup MVP.

Octavio Blanco (1:06:37)
Yeah.

Led Black (1:06:40)
Right. He won the Eastern Conference. The Eastern Conference MVP. He won the finals and he won the finals MVP. I think I'm missing one, but he won seven trophies this year. So, you know, and again, I'm still in that Knicks mode. Like every time I see some Knicks, you know, ⁓ content on IG, I watch it. I'm still in love with it. I still a tear might drop out of my eye. You know what I mean? So

Octavio Blanco (1:06:51)
Damn

You know what, whenever

whenever I feel bad, I just put on the OG tap in video and I just watch that a couple of times and I start to feel better.

Led Black (1:07:13)
I've seen that at every fucking angle from

behind. It's like that shit's amazing. Like that again, like when you think about that game. So I record that game, thankfully, right? And they were like down like really deep, right? And and and then even coming back, if OG misses that, it's over. You know what I mean? If if De'Aaron Fox makes a shot, it's over. Right? If if if Carnity Thomas doesn't block that last that last entry pass, it's over.

Octavio Blanco (1:07:19)
Yeah.

Led Black (1:07:38)
So, you know, that's that's a type like we gotta keep this energy, man. Mandani, Nick's, Dere Alisa, that's where we need to go. Like, for real, man. For real.

Octavio Blanco (1:07:48)
⁓ n Nisad Nisadani is reporting ⁓ in that yeah, look at this. Robert Jackson 71.97 percent over ⁓ n Naima Silver Matos, who did a respectable 27.5 percent, considering what a grassroots campaign that was. ⁓ but it does look like Robert Jackson's gonna walk away with this.

with this race, but I do feel like Naima did a good job ⁓ in in her race. You know, that's a decent showing. Yeah.

Led Black (1:08:19)
That's a good showing, yeah. Shout out to Naema, you know, shout out to Naema. I've

known her for a while, you know, and you have to give respect to people that run because they believe in democracy. So shout out to her. There's no shame in losing, right? That that's beautiful that you ran, that you put yourself forward, you know. And again, like I think sometimes people don't realize, like, you know, for for public service, real public service, they're not getting tons of money from APAC or from from other

Octavio Blanco (1:08:31)
Yeah, for real.

Led Black (1:08:43)
From other lobbies, you know, this is a labor of love and you do it 'cause you care for community. So so you know, good good man love to her. You know what I'm saying? Keep trying, keep doing your thing, sis, for real.

Octavio Blanco (1:08:53)
Yeah. Smart she's smart. She's young. She's

she obviously cares about about the community. You know, I think ⁓ she's got a great future. Keep an eye on on Naima. She's gonna she's gonna make things happen. just checking in, looking at Thomas Di Napoli is he's got a big lead. he's got sixty one point ⁓ nine three percent. Drew Warshaw, who I had never really heard of, frankly.

had 22 point four percent and roj goyle who ⁓ seemed like a good a good option ⁓ he's only got fifteen percent so i'm really I'm really thinking Thomas D. Napoli is gonna is gonna win this one. ⁓ so that that you know it's it's ⁓ can't win them all. Let's see if they've updated our our thirteenth congressional district number

Led Black (1:09:38)
Too bad. Too bad. Can't win them all. We gotta get his ass next.

No, I'm I'm looking, I'm looking.

I'm I'm like nervously like like twitching like a fiend right now.

Octavio Blanco (1:09:53)
Are you are

are you are you refreshing that screen like like crazy? Like you were like you're trying to get tickets. Remember when you were did you ever do this when you were a kid when they when the radio gave ⁓

Led Black (1:09:57)
Like crazy.

wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. We got wait a minute, wait

a minute. 54.74 in 19,013 to 18,520. So she's she's ahead. She's she she's ahead right now. She's fucking ahead right now. Let's fucking go right now. ⁓ man. man. ⁓

Octavio Blanco (1:10:20)
Yeah.

Nineteen thousand nineteen thousand

thirteen to eighteen thousand five twenty. It's ⁓ she's got forty eight point one percent and Adriano has forty six point eight percent. So not you know, don't get too excited, folks. I mean it's still it is still a a it is still a close race. yeah, yeah.

Led Black (1:10:50)
It's a fun close race. It's a close race for

sure.

Octavio Blanco (1:10:53)
Yeah. Yeah. Juan Juan DR forty seven. What's up? Darelisa up two hundred voice votes per New York Times. Yeah, we got we got that here from the ⁓ from the source, the Board of Elections of the City of New York. ⁓ Darialisa so far unofficial count is nineteen thousand and thirteen. Nineteen thousand and thirteen and Espaillat has eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty.

So that's ⁓ you know, a little bit a little bit ⁓ a lot more than ⁓

Led Black (1:11:27)
Yeah, and it's and it

and it's and it's updating constantly. The the website is en-r dot boenyc.gov. Check that out. You know, we're following it together. Man, this is this is exciting. It's like the Knicks games. Knicks game five.

Octavio Blanco (1:11:44)
It does have like Nick's energy, like, who's gonna win? It's the last four minutes and wow my god. I still can't rem I still I still like I was at my at my wife's ⁓ dad's house for the final game with the whole family. Just everybody was there. All the all the TTs, all the teals, ⁓ my father in law, my mother in law, everybody was in there and ⁓

I remember when when we won that, like our whole the whole living room was was just pandemonium. My my son Dante, who knows every stat for every sport known to man, like he was jumping up and down. We were all hugging. It was it was amazing. So this definitely has that like same kind of energy that that that we get from from sports, but unfortunately this is not as this is not just like a fun thing. This this has so much

Led Black (1:12:26)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:12:38)
ramifications for our lives. And so that's why I think it's, you know, we gotta make sure that everybody, if you're, if you're on this, on this, ⁓ on this live, you know, let's all get involved, whatever it is that your that your beliefs are, get involved. But do it in a respectful way, man. No more of this like getting in people's face the way this was. I it's just that's that's unacceptable. And it's dangerous. You can get hurt.

Led Black (1:13:03)
Yeah. You

Octavio Blanco (1:13:06)
You don't know w w who's out there. Like we don't know. You just don't know.

Led Black (1:13:08)
Yeah. You know, and this thing I saw this thing on social like a few weeks ago and it was this person was talking about the like the death of literacy, right? And you know, she was not talking about being able to read, that's not what we're talking about. But but she was talking about like people don't have discernment, right? People

People just process things, but they don't even they really can't think it through, right? And and so it leads to like really people just listening to whoever they fuck with and then taking their opinions as their own. And I think one thing we need is more discernment. We need to like really look at things for what they are, right? Not not allow ourselves to get moved so fast, right? And that's one of the things that like I was really like kind of amazed by like when when Espaya went to the Haitian thing, how quickly for some Dominicans, not all, for some Dominicans, how quickly it

Triggered such nonsense and such vile. And like we need to reassess that. Why is the why does that do that? Why does that that button push you and make you not be rational, right? There's a lot of things that we need to really look at, right? Because everybody got to be scrutinized from this point forward. Like your favorite influencer, like why are they saying do this or do that? Right? Because they don't, a lot of times they don't have your best ⁓ interests at heart. You know what I mean? And and again, like when you think about how much money was spent by one side of the campaign.

It's really kind of astonishing. And for it to be so close right now is wild too. Right. Like we're, you know, the we could be on the cusp.

of of you know real change and and that's that's that's exciting and it's also scary because I don't want to go back to the old days. You know, I don't want to go back to the times where politicians that care more about Israel than this country determine my future. You know, right now like I said we're we're still at war, right? With with Iran. Like that ceasefire could take place or could not take place.

And and and Trump got rolled into this by Nanyahoo. And we need to be we can't go back to those dark days where you couldn't say nothing. You were gonna be labeled that word that I never like to use, right? That that so I'm I'm we're we're in a place where we I just don't want to go back to the old days. Okay, look at this, look at this, hold on, hold on, hold on. We are six sixty-five percent in.

Octavio Blanco (1:15:18)
I I wanna say what's Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Led Black (1:15:24)
that Elisa has twenty two thousand five hundred and ninety and Adriano has twenty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight. So that's forty-eight point two six percent over forty six point eight seven percent, and we're at sixty-five point ninety-four percent in. So, so this is this is this is this is serious right here.

Octavio Blanco (1:15:42)
This is serious. Yeah. He she there seems to be a bit of a of a of pulling away, but it's still very, very close. Darialisa, I'll repeat that. She's got 48.26% to Adriano's forty-six point eight percent. ⁓ like I said, this is still early. These are unofficial numbers. It's not by any means, this is not over yet. This is not even close.

to being over yet. ⁓ Richie, thank you for those numbers.

Led Black (1:16:15)
Can you put this?

Can you put this on the screen, Octavio? Is there any way we can put this on the screen? The BOE numbers?

Octavio Blanco (1:16:20)
Yeah, let me see if I could do

let me see if I could do this. ⁓ I gotta bring it over here. But I should say that Richie, Art for Strangers, is putting the numbers in the chat. Those are correct. Let me see if I can do this real quick.

Led Black (1:16:32)
Shout to Art for Stranger. That's my that's my brother. I know him for a long time. Shout out to my brother. Art for Stranger, which I think is probably the coolest name ever. Art for Strangers is, I've always thought it's the fucking coolest moniker ever. After Let Black, of course. You know what I'm saying?

Octavio Blanco (1:16:47)
Yeah, man. R for Strangers, he's the man. ⁓ we go way back. I'm so glad to see him here. I hear that he's gonna be, you know, making his way back to New York City from being out in the boonies for a little while. You do what you do, you gotta do what you gotta do. ⁓ but you're you're coming back. Welcome back to New York City. So glad to have you here. let me just ⁓ four or nine.

Zero H T that's it boom. All right, yes, I got this. Let me see if I can bring it up on the screen for y'all. Share. There we go. Boom. Can you see that? Is that is damn okay.

Led Black (1:17:34)
That shit is tiny. ⁓

That's fine, but we'll keep up to date. We tried.

Octavio Blanco (1:17:43)
It's ⁓

Yeah, we tried. That's as big as I can get it. I knew you were gonna do that. You're the worst. ⁓ you have to do the pause too. Pause. Take a take a beat. Take a beat. Led, I'm actually have I'm having fun even though I mean I'm also, you know, nervous as hell.

Led Black (1:17:50)
Pause. That's what she said.

Ha ha ha.

⁓ pause. That's what she said.

man, this is crazy.

Hold on. You keep going, keep going.

Octavio Blanco (1:18:16)
Yeah, yeah, I I got this going. I want to say this has been fun so far. We're gonna keep at it. ⁓ I'm so glad everybody's here with us. You know, I'm so glad to see new friends, old friends, all these all these people out here who are who are who are making ⁓ making their voices heard. ⁓ you know, that's what Uptown Voices is all about. Like I just wanna say a little plug for Uptown Voices. You know, we're you know we're we're we're here to to lift up the community, right?

This is what we what we want to do. ⁓ And so, ⁓ you know, we're not all about politics. So, you know, we like to bring people on who are making things better in the community. Go into the archives if you want to know some of the people in this community that are making it better. I want to say ⁓ Maria Lizzardo is she joined. And I want to say send a shout out to Maria who runs Nimic.

she was one of our guests. We had her s her story. She's an incredible woman in the community, making things happen. You know, so if you want to learn about people and what the people in this community, not the politicians, we don't really try to get with the politicians to give except to give us updates on what's going on in in our community and what are they doing with with the issues in our community. What we mainly want to do is talk to other people in the community, people who are artists.

People who are community workers, people who are, you know, ⁓ just the people behind the scenes that you don't see that are making our neighborhood from Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, East to West, and the South Bronx making this community better. And I will say, if you know people that we should be talking to, if you're thinking like, hey, I know this great organization or I know this very interesting person or this wonderful artist, hit us up. You know, send us a DM, send us a

⁓ an email.

Led Black (1:20:10)
Uh-oh, hold

on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. 75.43% in. Dalisa has 25,527 votes to Adriano's 24,638. 48.42% to 46.73%. This is a close one, but she's still in the lead, y'all. We could be in the cusp of major change.

Octavio Blanco (1:20:29)
Yeah, it's

it's less than two points, but it's it's it's definitely a close one. Like we're saying, it's got real Nix energy, you know, like I don't w I wonder what's gonna happen. I I also wanna give a shout out to Yanit Guyen, who is my home girl from NAH Day N A H J National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

For for those who who don't know, a couple a few years ago, gosh, what that must have been like ten years ago now. ⁓ I was the chapter president here in New York City. ⁓ Yannith is down in DC and she makes NAHJ work. So welcome to the welcome to the show. ⁓ and ⁓ welcome to be here. Nisadani doubts that it's gonna be called tonight. You know, I it's so close that I think that, you know, you may you may be right. It's

Led Black (1:21:17)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:21:25)
It's gonna be it's something that is ⁓ you know, you just two points. It's like less than two points really.

Led Black (1:21:31)
Yeah, you know, ⁓

so so Sydney writes here on IG support the closest the closeness itself sends a message. That's really true, man. That's that's a real real sentiment right there. Like it really shouldn't be this close. If you was on your fucking job doing what you need to do, then you wouldn't be here right now. But you you got caught lacking, caught you know, supporting APAC.

And again, this shit is not is not is not it's not gonna happen anymore. Like the the American population has turned. Both sides. The not maybe not the elites of these parties, but regul the regular base is is changed. And it'll never go back to the to what it was.

Octavio Blanco (1:22:15)
Richie, Art for Strangers, thank you for the URL. I've got it now up on the screen. Led, how does this look? This is NBC News projections. It's not the it's not the official numbers from BoE, but it's a little bit bigger. And you see there how close it is. Can you get can you see this, Led? Are you able are you able? it's a it's it's you can see how close it is. ⁓ you can see how close it is.

Led Black (1:22:35)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see it. I can see it. Yeah, yeah.

Mm.

Octavio Blanco (1:22:44)
⁓ forty-eight point four for Darelisa right now and forty-six point seven for Adriano. extremely close race that we are all very much ⁓ following closely. and there's ⁓ some other numbers here. ⁓ are you s are you able to see my screen as I'm scrolling around here?

Led Black (1:23:11)
Yeah, but I really can't tell what it we know what I'm looking at. So just just tell me what I'm seeing.

Octavio Blanco (1:23:14)
All right. So

if you're looking at so you can see here there's the ⁓ the map of ⁓ of of the tri-state, and I'm gonna be hovering over this blue area, which is the New York 13. So with ⁓ 69.6 percent, they've got ⁓ Darialisa at 50 point eight percent.

And Espaillat at forty four point seven percent. So these numbers are showing Darialisa ⁓ even bigger than ⁓ what we were looking at previous. So I was if you s I'm gonna show you again, ⁓ if you can see that. we got ⁓ we got Darialisa according to NBC News, ⁓

With with higher numbers here. So

Led Black (1:24:05)
my fucking God, man. I can't believe it, dude.

I like again if if if that leaves a win, this this is such a blow to APAC. All that fucking money you put in to take away our democracy, fuck you. Ugh.

Octavio Blanco (1:24:22)
Yeah,

yeah, it's not just a blow to Apex. It's a it's a real it's a real message to Democrats who are too cozy and too comfortable that that the people are looking for action. The people are fed up with what's going on, and the people want some some people that are gonna be, you know, making sure that their interests are actually being

⁓ taken care of. What's up bilingual Broadway Co. he's on he's on our sh he he just joined live onto the ⁓ onto the IG. Welcome, welcome, welcome. ⁓ Carinho, amori respeto. ⁓ hold on.

Led Black (1:25:06)
wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We're in 83.94%.

She has 28,306 votes. He has 200, 27,000 and one vote, 48, 69 on the 46, 45. Like I said, it's 83.94 votes in percentage of scanners reported. Wow. Wow.

Octavio Blanco (1:25:26)
Eighty three

eighty three percent in and Darialisa still is holding on to a ⁓ two point more than two point lead, just ⁓ just just a little bit more than two points, so close though, still so close.

Led Black (1:25:41)
Yeah.

I on I on IG Sydney right here, well, this is also quite a high number vo of voters turning out for a primary. Yes, low count considering how many people live in district thirteen, but still a significant percentage came out for a primary. That's straight fact right there. You know what I'm saying? This is you know, again, you had this is a lot of voters coming for like this is a big deal. It's a big deal.

Octavio Blanco (1:26:04)
I see. There was an explanation on on the ⁓ on the chat. So I'll just I'm just gonna show you again the reason why ⁓ the the when I hovered over the blue, that number was big because we've got you know basically we've got two districts here or three really. So in this Manhattan part.

Is why Darialisa is winning by a lot in Manhattan, 51.3% in Manhattan. This light blue, which is basically Marble Hill and and the Bronx over there, Espaillat is willing is winning up there by a lot, 60.5%. And if you go down here, that's the same one. The dark blue. So it's basically two dark blue and light blue. So we see that the Bronx is

Led Black (1:26:36)
Mm. Mm.

Wow.

Octavio Blanco (1:27:03)
Is is for espaillot, ⁓ whereas ⁓ Manhattan is for Chevalier, which makes sense. Espaillat in the Bronx, the Bronx has ⁓ in this area of the Bronx Marble Hill and Riverdale is heavily, heavily Jewish. And of course, I think that it's clear that you know he's gonna have a strong base of support there. But what's interesting is that in Manhattan, he doesn't.

seem to be doing ⁓ as well as he would have liked, ⁓ because he's ⁓ he's losing by quite a bit in in Manhattan. When you look at these numbers

Led Black (1:27:41)
And

and you look and New York New York Times has her at forty nine percent and him at forty six percent, which is kinda interesting.

Octavio Blanco (1:27:48)
Yeah, it's ⁓ like I said, these are unofficial, so you know everybody takes take a breath just take a breath and ⁓ and ⁓ Carinho Amori Respeto, that's my brother in law Ruben. What's up? Send me some of those contacts from the South Bronx. The BX. I wanna hear I wanna know who you know. I wanna I wanna know who we should be putting up from the South Bronx.

Led Black (1:28:17)
Not Richie Torres, not Richie Tel Aviv Torres. Fucking hate that guy. My God. The worst.

Richie Taurus.

Octavio Blanco (1:28:24)
What's up, everybody? What else can we say for you guys? What else can we tell you? I was telling them, I was telling them ⁓ about what we do, Led, and how important it is that we're not just about politics here. I don't want everybody to get it twisted that we're like a political show. We're not just about politics. We're mainly about uplifting the voices in the community and and showing who is making things happen in this community. It's not

Like we are not like a political show, but we do deal with the issues of our community. We're very, very much in interested in making sure that our issues are also being discussed. And so right now it's an important time. It's a political season and we're it's an important election. And so we went all in on this. You know, we're tr doing our best to to bring you guys you know, this kind of coverage. So ⁓

It's important.

Led Black (1:29:21)
Yo, wait a minute. Claire

Valdez won. Claire Valdez won. Wow. Wow. That's a big one right there. That's huge. That is fucking huge, man. So it's not just Brad Lander. So let's, let's, let's, okay. Hold on. That's Claire Valdez, a state lawmaker who was also endorsed by Ron Dani. Won another closely watched Democratic House. This is a big deal, brother. This is big, man. This is this is the Mam Dani effect.

Octavio Blanco (1:29:28)
That's huge. That's huge.

Led Black (1:29:48)
The mom Donnie effect. you fucking haters wanna hate. We got the best man in the country. And he's fucking changing everything around. That's what we need. Brad Lander, if my God. Let's go. Let's fucking go.

Octavio Blanco (1:29:49)
Mm-hmm.

You're led. Should I should I should I put up our QR?

Led Black (1:30:03)
Yes, sir.

Yeah, why not, man? Go for it.

Octavio Blanco (1:30:07)
Yeah, why not, right?

Look, we are trying to do this, right? We're trying to do this and stay doing this.

If you can, you have it. Doesn't matter if it's five bucks, 10 bucks, 100 bucks, a thousand bucks, a million bucks, scan this QR code. We are a ⁓ fiscally sponsored project by the Masles Documentary Center in Harlem. That means that we can take tax deductible contributions. So if you have it in you and you wanna and you wanna contribute to to help us continue doing what we're doing here.

Please scan that QR code. I'm gonna put it back up one more time. Scan this QR code and show some love. ⁓ one dollar, it can be one dollar, you know, although, you know, it does go through PayPal, so that'll be like 75 cents, but it's all right. One dollar, it it can, you know, it doesn't matter, but ⁓ it would go a long way. We would be so appreciative. You don't even understand how much it would it would help us because, you know, this is important work and and

Led Black (1:31:12)
Yeah, for

Octavio Blanco (1:31:14)
Nobody ⁓ in the community seems to be doing it. And we need to have an informed community. And this is the, you know, the fourth estate journalism. Journalism needs to exist and and jo journalism needs to to to show you the truth. I'm not even saying that journalism needs to be totally unbiased, but at least it can be transparent about its biases. Something that I think that

we've been doing effectively here. Led has been vocal about who he supports the whole time. I've been a little bit more cagey because I actually didn't really have my my I hadn't made a decision until very late in the game. But but you know it's so so important that we can continue doing the work that we're doing. So yeah I implore you if you have it in you I'm gonna put it in one more time scan this QR code it'll send you to a PayPal

That is run by the Mazels Documentary Center. We are a fiscally sponsored project. Mazels is helping us and so through this, through this ⁓ QR code, you can make a contribution to help us continue to do this work. You know, it's just me and Led, essentially, and and and our intern from Manhattan College in the Bronx, ⁓ Jason, you know, like.

Let's get more people working on this with us. Let's get more folks out on the street. Let's get more let's get more reporters to to be out there and and capture some of these voices. Let's not let it be just, you know, me and lead. Let's help us to to grow. Help us to expand. You know what I'm saying?

Led Black (1:32:56)
Yeah,

man. Yeah, and if you can't donate, just you know, share with a friend, like the channel, right? Let's let's get the subscribers up. You know, tell your people about it. Cause again, like what we're doing is special. No one's doing, you know, what we're doing for Uptime in this manner, right? And again, I I'm I'm, you know, I don't I don't not gonna argue with about because it's it's not this this podcast is not political, but I think everything is political.

Octavio Blanco (1:33:00)
Yeah.

Led Black (1:33:18)
I'm a super political person, right? But but this podcast is not just about politics. It's about arts, culture. And we talk to the people in the front lines. We've had so many people on the show. It's over a year now. So show us love. Go through the vault. Let's see what we're talking about, right? Because again, you know, especially with this particular race right now that we're watching so closely, you know, we brought you Oscar Romero.

Very the first person we interviewed was Oscar Romero. We put Oscar Romero on a lot of people's, you know, radar. And then we had that Elisa and we had that. We've had everybody at least once. We actually had everyone twice now at this point. So we did that out of our own pocket when we had to pay for a studio. We paid that our own pocket. So show us some love if you can't. If you can't put some money in that tip jar, give us some show us some love. Tell your people about it. Subscribe to the channel. You know what I mean? Facts.

Octavio Blanco (1:34:05)
Yeah, and and you

know, j just that's facts. And it's also just to say, like, of course, Led had his opinions, I have my own opinions, but that doesn't mean that we were unfair to any of the candidates. All the candidates got the same questions, all the candidates got the same opportunities. They were all treated fairly on this show. And that's why when we talk about ⁓ hot ninety seven or or digo la mega la mega, I'm sorry, it was La Mega, when when Darylisa went on there, they showed her no respect.

You know, at the very least, at the very least, they needed to have some some decorum and it it's it's you know, it's it's ⁓ if you can't do that, then you just have no no business having having people like that on your show because what are you trying to do then? You're just gonna be yelling at people in their faces? It's just it's just not right. Check out the interviews that we did with all three candidates. You'll see.

Led Black (1:34:34)
No respect.

⁓ Yeah.

Yeah. And again, it's like for people don't so you know, since we have time, we're talking about this race, you know, this podcast is one podcast, but it's two podcasts in one in the sense. So we have Uptime Voices where Octavio and I talk to the movers and shakers in our community. And then we have these black and blancos where it's just him and I, you know, talking and conversing, right? So so that that's you know, we we constantly hitting you in the head with with good content.

So, you know, show that love. You know, show that love. Keep showing us. Keep keep. ⁓ my God. Kim Merrill is on the IG. What up, Kim Merrill? Yo, my brother. It looking close. We might do this. We might do this. Shout out to Kim Merrill, man, who was who's who supported Zorround early, who's been there supporting the culture, man. Like, I give it to that brother, man. He's not just, you know, doing it with with music and culture. He's also doing it with politics. So shout out to Kim Merrill. Kelly, my brother. Kell okay.

Octavio Blanco (1:35:49)
Yeah.

Definitely, definitely.

Led Black (1:35:52)
Yeah, man. hold hold on, hold

on, hold on, hold on. We are 86.56% in. Darialisa has thirty thousand five hundred and thirty-three. And Adriano has twenty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy. This is close. This is close, y'all.

Octavio Blanco (1:36:07)
Yeah, but it

it's close, but I gotta say she's ⁓ she's pulling off a little bit. She's pulling away a bit. You know, if this is a horse race and we're in the in the final in the final stretch, she's she's more than a a nose ahead, I think. You know, it's not really as neck and neck as it has been. This is starting to this is starting to pull away.

Led Black (1:36:30)
You know, yeah, you know, and

and what what the redeeming thing about this for me, right, as a Dominican, right, is that those nasty there's n you know, we haven't won yet. I know that. But I'm saying, you know, what I'm saying is that that that the smear campaigns, right? Well regardless of what happens at this point, the smear campaigns, the anti-Hassianism, that is not a vehicle for winning. And I think it turned off more people than than it attracted to your side.

Octavio Blanco (1:36:40)
Well let's

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Led Black (1:36:59)
So so we we're not the

Octavio Blanco (1:36:59)
I agree with that. I think

you know what I think ⁓ a lot of the non-Dominican people in the in the district, my this is me just out of my head. This I don't really have much evidence except for the few people that I spoke with. I think that rubbed people the wrong way. I think people see through that and they're like, I think there was already a bit of ⁓ feeling of

Of like, well, what has he really done? I feel like a lot of people who I've spoken to ⁓ felt that Espaillat had been resting on his laurels for a little bit too too long already, right? They already felt that he had been resting on his laurels. And then if they see this ugliness, that's not gonna be who they're gonna go for. It's just not.

Led Black (1:37:51)
Yeah, you know, and again it goes back to leadership, right? It goes back to the Mam Dani effect, right? Like Mam Dani w campaign hard for for the Aliza for his candidates, you know what I mean? And he he rolled out he rolled out that campaign. And I think it shows that that, you know, he's ⁓ our mayor is much more popular than we would like to believe, and not just in New York City. This hulk

I want mom Donnie for president if it was possible, right? Like this is where we're at with it. And like the nastiness, the divisiveness, like that shit, like I think people have grown like another kind of like like they're less tolerant of the bullshit. You know what I'm saying? And if you take your money from APAC, that shit is dead. That shit is dead. He my man had Kathy Hokel up here. Like, who gives a fuck about Kathy Hokel? Like, what are we doing? Like, let's be you what I'm saying? Like Kim Merrill said, the smear campaign stuff.

Octavio Blanco (1:38:16)
Yeah.

Led Black (1:38:40)
was OD foul. It really was. It was just really fucking gross. And it and it was cringe inducing. And then you're like, where are we? Like what are we talking about? Fucking anti-Haitian. How is Haitian a slur? Like what the fuck are we doing? That's crazy.

Octavio Blanco (1:38:48)
Yeah.

And how

is it okay in this country, in this city, to talk about your neighbors that way? Like as if there are no Haitians living uptown. You know what I'm saying? Like, how is that okay? How is it okay to to spew anti-Haitianism ⁓ in in our city where we have so many Haitians who live here? I love my Haitian people. You know what I'm saying? Like it's

Led Black (1:39:14)
Yeah, it's

just ridiculous. It's just so fucking weird and strange to do. And and again, we're we're not at the finish line. But but but this shows that didn't really work. We didn't really work.

Octavio Blanco (1:39:24)
So far,

so far, I stopped sharing that, but you see that Darialisa, ⁓ her her lead is is growing, is growing. So I'm gonna refresh that page. 89.5% now. And we got Darialisa up. She's got 49.2

Led Black (1:39:43)
⁓ yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:39:50)
3.7. So let's call it 49% of the vote. ⁓ with 89.5% of the vote reported. She's got 49.3% of the vote. And let's tell say that the Dadriano has 46%. He's actually got 45.8%. I'm even gonna round it up for him to 46%. she's got forty-nine point three percent. So in this race,

⁓ so far, ⁓ with the polls having been closed for almost an hour ⁓ and the results coming in, Darialisa's lead is starting to grow.

Led Black (1:40:32)
Yeah, it really is. Wait a minute, I just saw someone that it was called. I don't know if that's true, but it's a it's a private chat group signal, so I don't know what that means.

Octavio Blanco (1:40:32)
Amazing.

Yeah, I would be careful with that. I haven't seen other people calling it. ⁓ I don't wanna Yeah I I no no no no no. Don't don't go there. Let's not let's not do that. Let's not pull ⁓ although

Led Black (1:40:45)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got some inside information but like but we can't we can't li can't we can't. Yeah, hold on man, hold on. Yeah, no but this is

No, this is this

is inside information. But yeah, yeah, I hear I hear you.

Octavio Blanco (1:41:01)
But she is she is pulling away for sure. She is ⁓ she is pulling ⁓ away. It is she her lead is growing. Her lead is growing ⁓ right now. ⁓ I don't know what you know it all depends on where the polls are reporting. So I don't know if there's like ⁓ you know, some district in the district that's gonna report in that's gonna have ⁓

you know, a surprise for us, but ⁓ for the time being, it's still unofficial, still early, ⁓ it's still close, still close, but

Led Black (1:41:41)
fucking God.

Keep ro keep rocking.

I'm I'm I'm exchanging some stuff right now.

Octavio Blanco (1:41:48)
Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm gonna read some of the some of the some of the chats here. ⁓ Richie R for strangers, thank you. She's more than two thousand one hundred and eighty-nine. She keeps leading more and more. ⁓

Miss Adani, the one I heard the most was, he took my parent to the poll. how nice. Make sure he got his vote to the poll. Well, you know, the fact is, like, that's important. Like he he he he did that, you know, and that's why what we're talking about, like he could have said that, and that goes a lot further than hate. He could have said, like, look, I am so invested in being your guy that I've I've

Led Black (1:42:16)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (1:42:30)
dri driven my my people to the pole. Led, you've talked about he drove your mom to the pole. You know what I'm saying? Like and instead of that, and instead of leaning into, you know, things that are positive, things that are like nice, like

Led Black (1:42:36)
Yeah, yeah.

⁓

so so so I just I keep getting from inside sources that it's been called, so it's not official, but I'm getting sources telling me that from within the Lalisa camp. So I'm just saying that, and it's fucking freaking me out right now. ⁓ but yeah, you're right, you're 100% right. You're 100% Kiff Kim Merrow said the youth movement is real. People are tired of the same old shit, and it's fucking true. We're tired of the fucking bullshit. Like

Octavio Blanco (1:43:06)
Yes, yes.

Led Black (1:43:08)
You telling me, that money from Egg Pac means nothing, but then I can't say the word genocide. I can't even say the word Palestinian. Like and you say it to my faith, What it's horr it's horrific. Like that shit is over. It's over now. Like we need we we got Brad Lando, we got homegirl, we need to win this one.

hold on

Octavio Blanco (1:43:26)
Well we'll see we'll s we'll see what's

up.

Led Black (1:43:28)
So someone, Grace Panetta. I don't know Grace Panetta. She says Darley has d has defeated Espaya, New York 13. Decision desk headquarters projects. Decision desk hoarder projects. Headquarters.

Octavio Blanco (1:43:36)
Yeah, but who's g

Decision desk. What's that? ⁓

Who's who well who's that? CNN decision desk or what decision desk?

Led Black (1:43:46)
No, de decisiones desk

HQ. That's I don't know who that is. But it's yeah. if you look, they have her as the winner, project the winner. Let's see.

Octavio Blanco (1:43:50)
Yeah, who is that? I don't know. I don't know. But who is that? Who is that? I've never heard

I've never heard of decision desk HQ. So, you know, ⁓ don't don't fall for the don't don't fall

Led Black (1:44:00)
I don't know either I don't know either, but but I'm also no, but it's not I'm

getting no, hold on, hold on. I never would do that. But I'm getting also inside information from the c the campaign itself. So

Octavio Blanco (1:44:09)
Yeah.

All right. All right. All right. Okay

Led Black (1:44:13)
Sure.

Octavio Blanco (1:44:16)
Man, what an incredible what an incredible

Led Black (1:44:17)
What a fucking close race. But remember you who you rocking

with. You rocking with with black and blanco uptown voices with this. Don't forget where you saw this.

Octavio Blanco (1:44:22)
That's right. Black and Blanco.

And that and yo, black and blanco is not like a made up thing. We didn't do like, you'll be black and I'll be blanco. Lead black is lead black. Octavio Blanco is Octavio Blanco. This is just like written in the stars, right? Black and Blanco. That was just like a no brainer.

Led Black (1:44:40)
Yeah, for sure. For sure.

Oof. This is really stressful.

Octavio Blanco (1:44:46)
I mean, I think you could breathe a little a little easier now. She's got with ⁓ 90% of the vote in, she's got forty-nine point four of the vote, and he's got forty-five point eight of the vote. So with it's it's so frito, it's so frito, that's where she's at. ⁓

Led Black (1:45:01)
Y'all, wherever the watch party has, I'm headed to there. A right after this. Let me know I'm there. I'm going into Freak though. Now don't don't say that allowed, you're gonna show up there. ⁓ man.

Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:45:14)
Wa what link? Let's see, let's see.

Led Black (1:45:16)
Shout

to hold Kim Merrow said y'all doing the work, my brother. Salute. Salute to you, Kim Merrow, as well, for doing your part, brother. For real. For using, like again. Yeah. Yeah. And it's also an honor to have him every morning on high 97 doing his thing, keeping people informed. Shout out, because I was also part of Matt Bills to pay. You also helped with that movie. So shout out to that. By the way, Matt Bills to pay is now on demand, so you can watch it any way you want.

Octavio Blanco (1:45:20)
Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you. It's so it's an honor it's it's an honor to have you on, my fan.

Led Black (1:45:40)
So shout out to Kim Barrel forever. And tell I tell this, this feels good. This feels like we're doing something big right now. Let's see. ⁓ man. Yeah, man.

Octavio Blanco (1:45:46)
Yeah, yeah. I'm so glad we got on the live. I'm

so glad we got on the live. With

Led Black (1:45:54)
I wish the New York Towns

had more information. This is kind of annoying, man.

Octavio Blanco (1:45:58)
Yeah, well, the New York Times is not a s is not the New York newspaper anymore. New York Times is something else. New York Times is not really like where you go to for news about New York. it's it's a great paper. I don't have anything against it. It's just not it's just not yeah, it's not just it's not what it was, and it's not where you're gonna get your New York news, really. It's just not.

Led Black (1:46:04)
Yeah, I agree.

It's not what it was.

Octavio Blanco (1:46:26)
⁓ they are a global paper, you know, and they would they you'll get your global news, you get your national news, but that's the problem. Where do we go to get our local news? Where where do we go to know about what's going on in uptown? You know, that's the problem.

Led Black (1:46:45)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:46:46)
What are you watching? What are you watching? What's that?

Led Black (1:46:48)
No, no, so so my so my brother Christopher Espinoza, he's just he's there. So I'm getting C1 from different sources, man. I don't know. I don't know.

Octavio Blanco (1:46:58)
Yeah, well I haven't seen it cold. I haven't seen it cold. I'm I'm I don't know. ⁓ I think Art for Strangers was saying that he saw it some ⁓ NBC calls it for Chevalier. NBC appar

Led Black (1:47:09)
WHA-

Woo!

Woo! We fucking did it! Fuck you, APAC! Fuck you! Yo, we going after Schumann X and fuck you, Jeffries, and fucking Cory Hooker, all you motherfuckers is doing. It's a new day in New York. Fuck yes! We fucking did it! Woo!

Octavio Blanco (1:47:33)
Yeah, there you go. Projected winner, Darialisa. Let me go back to that page. So projected winner. New York NBC has called it for Darialisa Avila Chevalier. Wow. History.

Led Black (1:47:38)
Let's fucking go. Let's fucking go.

Let's fucking go. I'm right again. Fuck all you haters. All you people

that were telling haters. My wife is saying in the back, all you people was telling people to vote for Oscar. I wonder what was that behind. But no matter what, all the tricks, all the scheming, all the smears did not work. APAC is on the back foot. The people are taking this shit back from both Republicans and both Democrats. Fuck all of y'all that die APAC.

Is your your next if you support APAC if you support Israel over America? You're fucking next. It's a new day in New York, motherfucker. Mandani, Nick's, Darialisa, Brad Lander. ⁓ my god, what a fucking victory. Let's fucking go.

Octavio Blanco (1:48:30)
Wow, wow, wow. This is like Knicks energy. ⁓ man, 2026. What a year. This year for New York. Mamdani, the Knicks, Darialisa, Brad Lander. man, who am I missing, Lud? Help me out here. My brain isn't as nimble as it as it used to be. Claire Valdez. That's three. That's three for three.

Led Black (1:48:52)
Claire Valdez, that's three for three. That's three for three right there for Mam Dani.

Octavio Blanco (1:48:56)
And that's the Mamdani effect, but that's gonna have a huge impact nationally. What we've done here in District 13 is something that people are gonna be taking note of nationally. Nationally. This is gonna change a lot of the language, a lot of the way that we are ⁓ being treated, number one by

By ⁓ Democrats and by Republicans. ⁓ this is a historic moment for this city and a historic moment for the United States. It's a historic moment for democratic socialists. Let's start. You know, it's important to educate people of about what that means, right? Doesn't mean that you're, you know, for you know, the Kremlin and that and and all that communism shit. This is about

Helping each other out. You know, this is about making sure that your neighbors are good. You know what I'm saying? Like this is what this is all about. So I think

Led Black (1:49:58)
So someone

said España's gonna go January sixth on Dykman.

that's too fucking funny. That shit is too funny. But no, seriously, this is a fucking political earthquake. The ground has shook. The ground has shook. And the Democratic elite need to be shook if because we're coming for them next. There's a new day in New York. I wish Richie Torres would have been another one. Like the only thing that makes better is this better if Trump dies tomorrow. If Trump dies, that'll be the creme de la creme, the chef's kiss. But seriously, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez.

Octavio Blanco (1:50:14)
Yes. Yes, the ground has shook.

Shook it.

Ha ha ha.

Led Black (1:50:35)
Daddy Alisa, like this is a big fucking deal for New York. You know what I mean? This is a big deal.

Octavio Blanco (1:50:40)
Yeah.

And I just want to also say, like, New York won, Errol Lewis, you know, he's supposed to have his finger on the pulse of of of politics in this city. You know, I love Errol Lewis. I love what you do, but it's you know, you're stretched thin. You're stretched thin. We need more people like Uptown Voices and Uptown Collective that are here. We're invested, we're interested.

And we're not just like sitting in our in our houses, even though we are sitting in our houses. We're out there. We're we're talking to people. We know what's going on, you know? Like, come on.

Led Black (1:51:19)
You know, you know how I felt though, seriously. I ain't gonna lie. I felt like, you know, when Josh Hart missed that layup, you know, at the end of the game? Cause I was like, yo, I went so hard for that Elisa that if she were to lose, I was like, ⁓ man, I was gonna get, you know, a lot of hate. You know, again, I don't think people realize because I said that shit like last week.

Octavio Blanco (1:51:21)
Ha ha.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Led Black (1:51:37)
The hate I got from people. You know what's funny? I got a lot of love. A lot of people on the low said, yo, I I couldn't say what you said, but thank you for saying it. But I did get some hate. You know what I'm saying? But I think I've been vindicated. I was right. Once again, once fucking again, you know what I'm saying? Listen to the boy. Don't listen to these people. That's why I, you know, I always tell you, I don't like the term influencer.

So much, I don't try to use that for myself because I feel like sometimes, not all the time, influencer could be like ⁓ like not no gravitas, you know, just kind of like weak sauce. And that's not what I'm at. That's not what I do, you know what I'm saying? So I be I believe like I I I lead, you know what I'm saying? So right now, I've been saying this is where we need to go and this is where we're headed, and it's a new day in New York, man. And like I'm really, really, really happy. Really fucking happy.

Octavio Blanco (1:51:59)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right.

Led Black (1:52:23)
This is a victory for people. This is a victory for the regular citizen. This is a regular for the working class. Like, think about when Mam Dani has allies working with him. If he could do so much in these in these five months, imagine where he gets the real people that are here to fight, not just to take money from AIPAC, not just to take money from the real estate lobby. We're changing this whole city. New York is the like, you how Trump, that stupid Bob also likes to say,

Octavio Blanco (1:52:24)
That's

Led Black (1:52:47)
America's so hot. We're the hottest country. New York City's so fucking hot. New York City's the hottest city in the world because we're doing shit differently on many levels. It's not just basketball. It's cultural. It's it's it's it's also political. We are changing the game. Get used to it. America, you're next.

Octavio Blanco (1:53:04)
Yeah, you know, I was talking to a local business who's doing a lot of great stuff in the community. And ⁓ they were talking about how, you know, they want to, you know, expand their messaging. They want to be, they want to have a global, a more global message, but you know, they're they're they're a local business. And I was telling them, like, yo, being a local business in uptown Manhattan is global because look at the culture, look at our culture.

Our culture is global, whether it be hip hop, whether it be bachata, ⁓ our ⁓ movies, television, what happens here is global. So, you know, anybody who's doing anything in Uptown, you're already on the global scene, whether you know it or not. So don't ever forget that. Don't count yourself out, don't sell yourself short.

What you're doing in uptown Manhattan is important. Very, very important. The culture is watching you. The world is watching you. Not only are they watching you, they're kind of rooting for us too. You know, some of them. Some of them. But the but but when you look at the culture, look at every television that's got that's every television show, every, every is is is hip hop, every advertisement is hip hop. Look at Bad Bunny. He's not from uptown, but he's

Led Black (1:54:17)
Mm-hmm.

Octavio Blanco (1:54:32)
But but he's the diaspora or we are the his diaspora. Look at what's going on there. You know, that's our brethren. That's our uptown adjacent. You know what I'm saying? They're taking over the world. We're taking over the world in the culture. And if we make our voices heard, if we make our opinions matter, if we get out and vote like we did tonight.

Led Black (1:54:54)
Yeah, yeah. And you you know, again, again, it's a new day, like I keep saying, because APAC expended

Octavio Blanco (1:54:55)
We can go much further.

Led Black (1:55:03)
millions on this race. This was an important race. They lost this race. And again, I'm ashamed to say it, right? Like Espaya sold out. You know, and and I grew up I grew up in the in the heights, right? So I'm I'm super street in a lot of ways, but I came from really old school Dominican parents where you he you show deference. And I've showed deference to Espaya for a long time. You know what I'm saying? But now when when this started coming out with all the money from APAC I could no longer do that. You know what I mean? Because it it just it's is this is not going to be allowed anymore.

We we can't we have to set the citizenry has to put a a a set like a line in the sand. You go past this line, we don't fuck with you, it's over. Democrat, Republic, it don't matter. It don't matter anymore. Like if you beholden to a to to an to to Israel.

You're not gonna be we're not people have developed like a critical thinking, right? They didn't let the slime campaigns to to dissuade them. They didn't let nothing stop them from going voting. And and as again, there must have been millions of dollars spent just on bringing these people over from the R, all this shit. There was all the all the people like again. If you're on Dominican social, you saw how much it was it was deafening, how much hatred and vitriol was coming.

And that was paid for. Again, people came from the art. They never come from the art here to talk about a much the fucking election. Everyone was fucking here. Everything was here. Now now see what what happened. It didn't work. And now my man is gone. Right? History has judged you. You're done.

Octavio Blanco (1:56:28)
Actually, the future has judged you. The future has judged you. History, history is history, but the youth, the future of this community has judged you. I want to say what's up to Jackie Aleman, president of the Washington Heights Chamber of Commerce. She's on the show. What's up, Jackie? Yes, it's been called. I have it on the screen right now. Darialisa, NBC is calling it. She is the projected winner of this.

Led Black (1:56:31)
Mm-hmm.

No.

Octavio Blanco (1:56:57)
of this race with 49.3 ⁓ percent of the vote. So ⁓ it's a historic night. it's ⁓ it's an incredible night. It's it's i ⁓ it's embarrassing for a man with the with the tenure that he's had for you know nine years in congress to to to lose like this the especially

Led Black (1:57:14)
Ha

Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (1:57:27)
Especially with the disgusting campaign that has been run ⁓ this in the last couple of weeks. Like, like I could I could be let me just finish this one fet last one last thing. I was I could be like understandable, understanding when people were like, no, I think Adriano's done a lot of good. But when I see the the hate and when I see him just like letting it letting it slide and then wrapping himself up in that flag.

Led Black (1:57:32)
Y s so so

Octavio Blanco (1:57:56)
It's i I find that's disqualifying. And it's not just me. My community also seems to feel the same.

Led Black (1:58:02)
Yeah.

So so my my brother Lizzy from the legendary The Mighty Machine put A pack it up, buddy, buddy, se fouet. You know what I mean? That's real. And someone said, Plata no con salami one seventy said, you know he was in trouble when he got David Ortiz to endorse him. You know what I mean? Like he had David Ortiz, he had Yaileen La Ma La Mas Viral, he had Asehoba Algas, who's you know again

Again, it was basically he's Dominican, support him, but she's Dominican too. She's Dominican too. But that that again, like again, a lot of people played themselves. And I say a big middle finger to all of y'all that played yourselves, right? We've been I've been vindicated. I feel good. I feel great. And I I feel like we are we are onto something. This is a new day in New York.

Octavio Blanco (1:58:49)
I wanna say what's up to Damaso Reyes. Welcome to the show. Swane, my ⁓ Swani Betancourt, welcome to the show. ⁓ Serena Prabasi, welcome to the show. ⁓ we're fans. ⁓ you know, ⁓ it's an incredible, incredible moment, a historic moment in Uptown. ⁓ Darialisa Avi La Chevalier. ⁓ it's been called by NBC. I haven't seen others.

Led Black (1:59:02)
What up, Serena?

Octavio Blanco (1:59:18)
I haven't seen ⁓ New York One yet ⁓ make a big deal out of it, but NBC ⁓ certainly has called it for Darialisa. ⁓ they've got it with ⁓ they've got her with forty-nine point three percent of the vote ⁓ and espaiat forty-six percent of the vote.

Led Black (1:59:38)
Yeah, you know,

this is what happens when you become complacent, right?

When you when you let APAC fill your coffers and you don't do nothing for the people. Sydney right here, right here, put old school politics is not catering to community needs and only focusing in special interests is out the door and expired. We want to see our tax dollars at work. You know, and then for a long time, I thought that the politicians, their whole thing was just naming streets after Dominicans, even though at some point there won't be Dominicans left. So I'm glad that we have a new, a new, you know, a change here. You know what I mean? This is really, really important. People want to see the tax dollars at work.

Octavio Blanco (2:00:12)
Let let I'm gonna text you a link. so it's gonna come into your phone. ⁓ I don't know if we're gonna be able to get ⁓ Darialisa to come on, but send that to to to whoever you have in the campaign, so that she can come on the show if she wants to. What do you think?

Led Black (2:00:33)
I mean it's kinda we could try.

Octavio Blanco (2:00:35)
Yeah, let's try. I don't know. Tonight today is the day of ⁓ of trying.

Led Black (2:00:41)
Yeah, but I mean it's kinda it's kind of an

ask. Hey, you wanna be on the show right now?

Octavio Blanco (2:00:45)
Yeah, it's an ask. We should ask it. So hold on. Let me see what I can do here.

We should ask. We should ask. So I'm texting it to you. That's the link. Send that to your people who you got talking to you. You know, they're talking to you. So why don't you ask them to have see if Daria Elisa wants to come on for a couple for a minute or two, talk about this and see what happens. Not saying it's not gonna s not saying it's gonna happen, but you know, let's see if it happens.

Led Black (2:01:12)
Let's see what happens.

Octavio Blanco (2:01:19)
I mean, we've been there from day one. You know, we have been there from day one with all of them. Not saying with Darylisa, but we took everybody seriously. We take everybody seriously, and people need to take us seriously too. You know, we're we're the real deal. You know, we're the real deal. We're not just, you know, just doing this just for shits and giggles. TBO Harlem, what's up, my brother? Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Led Black (2:01:47)
that's

my brother Tony. That's my brother Tony. Shout out to my man Tony from TOBO Harlem. One of my f other favorite IG pages. You know, like Tony from TBO Harlem, that's my brother, right? Because I was in DR ⁓ like two weeks ago, you know, and we had a conversation about this race. And, you know, we we had a really good discussion.

Octavio Blanco (2:01:48)
Yeah.

Led Black (2:02:07)
And I value that brother's opinion highly. And you know, again, shout out to him for all the work he does, for, for, for doing the heavy lifting. We need to have him on the podcast, ASAP. You know what I'm saying? I love his work. He's a great photographer, great videographer, and a great ⁓ a great proponent of Harlem and Uptown. So shout out to my brother, Tony. Yes.

Octavio Blanco (2:02:16)
Yes, ASAP.

Also Heights

Chronicles, you know, they've showed us love from day one. Heights Chronicles, thank you for joining. Thank you for being in being being on the show.

Led Black (2:02:36)
Heights, let me let me

hold on. Hold on. Heights Chronicle, that's my brother P from my childhood. Like, P grew up, I grew up at 382 Wadsworth. He grew up down the block from me. So I've been known P my whole life. Like my whole life. Chuchito, who's his close friend, was my co-friend. Like, so shout out to P. I've been on the Heights Chronicle show. That's my brother for real, like long time childhood.

friend, you know what I'm saying? Like we we see that's my brother. Shout out to him. Shout out to the hold on. Shout out to my brother Domingo Estevis 2 on IG. You know, I I really respect his opinion and he told me some shit yesterday. And you know, I I think ⁓ you know there's I don't want to say I don't want to say what he told me. Let's just keep it at that. Let's let's keep it at that.

Octavio Blanco (2:03:17)
No worries, no worries. Carla Francesca, I just met you the other day at the event. Welcome to the show, Carla. Thank you for joining us. So glad that you're here. Him, aka Batman. Welcome to the show. That's my son. What's up? ⁓

Led Black (2:03:22)
Shout to Carlo, yeah.

So so you know,

d Domingo says it's the end of an era and it really is. It's the end of an era.

Octavio Blanco (2:03:41)
It really is the end of an era. And I you know, I gotta say again, and I keep I'm gonna keep coming to this. What what history is gonna remember is the way that this that this ended for Adriano Espaillat unfortunately. You know, they're not gonna remember any of the good things that he's done for this community. History is gonna judge him by how this ended for him in ⁓ in ⁓ just an embarrassment of

Led Black (2:03:41)
Yeah.

Octavio Blanco (2:04:11)
Of disgusting MAGA like politics. That's how you're gonna end it. That's how you're gonna do? That's how you're gonna like make this happen? A shame. Shame on you, man. Shame on you.

Led Black (2:04:26)
Yeah, yeah, and it can it proved like that shit doesn't work here.

You know what I mean? Like again, not anymore. The old Okie doke doesn't work anymore. This is again, I always say there's the there's the step the separation for people just watch TV and people on their phones. And and the people on their phones, man, they they see what's happening. They're not gonna fall for the bullshit. They're not gonna be bamboozled so easily. And again, this this this is a earthquake. And three for three for Mamdani Like the everyone should really start taking note. Like, you need to change your ways. We're going after all you fucking dems that are

not about it. We you're next.

Octavio Blanco (2:05:02)
For sure. For sure. ⁓ this is gonna yeah, this is the this is the earthquake that is gonna shake up politics in America for the next at least ten years. It's it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a decade of ⁓ of of of change that's gonna be coming all that's gonna be going all across America, every state, every city, every town. this is a big deal. This is a big deal.

⁓ this is n

Led Black (2:05:31)
Yeah, you know, the my

my brother Domingo said again, he says the the climate that he pushed, you know, pushed people to the climate he set pushed people to vote for the challenger. I I really do feel that. You know, I think I think, you know, some people saw through the bullshit. You know, some people said, like what? You haven't done shit for us for all this time and now we're gonna go just cause you're Dominican? Like, really, is that enough? Just just DR, just the flag. And anti Haitianism. Nah.

Octavio Blanco (2:05:54)
Yeah, like

yeah. Again, that anti-Hatianism, we're in New York City. That's basically sh crapping on your neighbor. That's not what we're about. We're about spreading love, right? Led, what's the mantra? It's ⁓ That's right. That's right. That's the mantra, bro. You know, you can't be it's not spread hate is the uptown way. No, spread love is the uptown way and love

Led Black (2:06:06)
Mm-hmm.

Spread love is the uptown way, you heard?

Octavio Blanco (2:06:23)
one out over hate tonight. That's a big deal.

Led Black (2:06:26)
Yeah, it did.

You know, and again, one one of the things, you know, again, I don't wanna I don't wanna, you know, shit on anybody, but I g I think people really try to make a name for themselves in this election. And you know, they they try to say that Elisa wasn't ready, which was fucking horrible to say.

You know, and and again, it proved that like a lot of shit that people believe it makes you electable is not true. And and and I have to give give it to Donna Lisa because she's not a pro professional politician. She's a community organizer. And that's a big leap to make. Right. And then all of a sudden, imagine all your social media posts became front page news. You know, then you and you and you go to a show and you just get an attack on bullshit, you know, to to to deal with that.

It's not easy. And she did it and she was able to go through it. Now she pulled off something tremendous, right? And and again, this is a victory for Dominicans. This is a victory for people of color. This is a victory for regular Americans. You know, the less power the APAC has in our country, the better. And I I think this is this is a special night. New this is a been a a special year, you know, for New York at least. And I think we're gonna keep being that beacon for the rest of this country. And we're gonna show you how the fuck it's done.

New York City, baby. We back better than ever. Fuck all the haters. Fuck all the bush and you was talking. Where we at now? Where the fuck we at now? The

Octavio Blanco (2:07:40)
Yeah.

I want to say what's up

to Senor Salcedo. Welcome to the show. ⁓ JP Infante, welcome to the show. ⁓ this uptown guy, ⁓ you made a you have a good point there. Socialist is a label that is less of a slur than it used to be. But what this is about is inequity and massive income disparity. And you you also said that that was an ambush on Basilon. Absolutely, it was. So

Led Black (2:08:13)
huh.

It was an ambush

for real. For real. It was an ambush. Fuck Pacha too. Fuck Pacha, that fucking dick. Fuck Pacha. Fucking hate. Like I'm saying, he was shucking and jiving with a at fucking Adams and a club, making a song about him, looking like a fucking clown. And now you want to tell me how to vote? Get the fuck out of here. Fuck Pacha. Fuck Pacha for life. Fuck him. And shout out to my brother Tesh 391, who's another part of my old school crew. Tesh lived in I so 391 is like a little crew. It's one nine third backwards.

Octavio Blanco (2:08:21)
And so that means

Led Black (2:08:47)
And I grew up at 382 Wadsworth, and Tesh grew up at 390. Shout out to Tesh. And shout out to Wallace Flores, who was an early Uptown Collective photographer who has a tremendous eye. Shout out to them.

My brother Lizzy was like, yo, bro. He said, bro, I hate Pacha. I hate Pacha too. He's just a fucking loudmouth. He's a fucking asshole. And again, he the the way he he was just so disgusting with her. Like, again, like I don't know how how many people don't understand how they played themselves throughout the shit. Like I was so mad with so many people. I'm so happy that I could talk all this shit down because I'm really fucking pissed off at so many motherfuckers. So many motherfuckers for real. But we won, so we're good.

Octavio Blanco (2:09:24)
Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I wanna say hey to Annette Fernandez who just joined. ⁓ and BX Blanco. I don't know you, but we we maybe we're related. ⁓ And he agrees, bro. Pacha pissed me off today. That's BX Blanco chiming in on the IG. Yeah, man, that was that was fucked up. I'm sorry. I you know, I know I don't like to curse as much as you do, Let, but I'm gonna go ahead and

Led Black (2:09:35)
Might be related.

I've never cursed

before in my life, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Octavio Blanco (2:09:57)
You should you need to you if if if you were, you know, ten years old you'd be living with a with a bar of soap in your mouth.

Led Black (2:10:05)
No man, ⁓ again, this is it's beautiful to see, you know, like if you don't do for the people, the people dispose you. This is this is a beautiful day for democracy, man. Like, like the shit isn't there yet. The shit isn't dead yet. Like Trump isn't there yet.

Octavio Blanco (2:10:17)
Yeah. JP Infante. JP

Infante, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And I think you're talking about that ⁓ that smear campaign that he ended his career on. ⁓ and you know, when you I know I think you're in DR right now, but when you get back to the States, we're gonna bring you back on the show. you know, we were supposed to have you on. I had to bump you for for some political shit. But we're gonna get you on when you come back. Wanna hear all about your story, JP.

Led Black (2:10:46)
Yeah man. This is this is amazing.

Octavio Blanco (2:10:49)
I'm gonna put the ⁓ I'm gonna put the NBC back on the screen just so people can see what we're talking about. This is ⁓ this is the deal, folks. This is the deal. ⁓

Led Black (2:11:02)
We did it, Joe. You remember Kamala? She's like, we did it, Joe. We did it, Joe. And you know what's so funny? Now we can say it, right? Because I didn't want to like touch base on some of these things because I didn't want to make shit worse. So I kept my mouth signed. I was a good little boy, right? But you know what I'm saying? Like, ⁓ it's just, it's just again, like, so much, so much shit was was was done.

Octavio Blanco (2:11:20)
Ha ha.

Led Black (2:11:30)
And so much underhanded shit was done that like it it just proves, man, like that that's not the way to win, man. Positivity, you know, good messaging. Like we we're going through as a people, as a country, as a nation. We don't need no more no more division, no more just nastiness for the sake of nastiness, right? Like.

Like I said, this is this is a beautiful thing, man. And I'm I'm still trying to process just like that Knicks win, right? Like it's it's hard to think, like fifty-three years in the wilderness, you know, to make it back to to that to the holy land, right? And no pun intended, you know. I mean, and and this is the f I feel here, this is a big deal. Sending a message to to the political class, like, yo, we're we're not we're not playing anymore. You either give us what we want or we'll we'll vote you out.

Octavio Blanco (2:11:54)
Yeah.

And hate and hate will never win. You know? I mean, I think we saw like with Trump, he ran on hate, he won, but but are we winning as a country? No.

Led Black (2:12:24)
Yeah, yeah. This is what

I want to say, right? So, you know, they they like one thing that's funny, right, is that they were going at her tweets, right? And and it was stupid because there's a lot of sentences we all felt. Like she said, fuck Kamala Harris. I feel like that every day. I say that every day in the morning when I brush my teeth, fuck Kamala Harris. Fuck Biden too. Fuck fuck Obama too. Like again, like

I I'm done with idolatry. You know, I was one of these people I loved Obama made me believe in America again. Right? I was I was I was one of these people that you know I I grew up on Malcolm, you know what I mean? So I I I believed that America was irredeemable. And then Barack made me believe, you know what I'm saying? But then I realized Barack was a mirage too. He was just another capitalist too. You know what I'm saying? So it's like this is this is a new day. Let if you're not doing for the people, we don't got no time for you, man. All of them gotta go. So fuck Kamala, fuck Biden, fuck people that are not down with us, man. We

We are the people. It is our power that's important. The politicians do our bidding. That's it.

Octavio Blanco (2:13:22)
I'm loving I'm loving BX Blanco's ⁓ chats in the in in my in the I in the in here. It's ⁓ he says ⁓ he's ready for a new perspective. He said he's gonna sleep good tonight. He's gonna sleep like a baby tonight. younger candidates know how to leverage social media and big data to get numbers. ⁓ the young, I think there are young enough to engage a younger generation, also hopefully reignite civic engagement. Super important.

Super important. and ⁓ Angela for Annette, I'm sorry, Annette Anna Annette Fernandez, you know, it was so ugly and terrible. Hate never wins. ⁓ and I I I appreciate this and I agree with you. Now let's get an agenda together as a community to guide what we need from our new representative. And that's right. We need to get together and and I mean she needs hopefully I think that you know she's gonna be

I hope Telishi's gonna be connecting with everybody in the community in a substanti substantive way to make sure that the agenda is good moving forward.

Led Black (2:14:28)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. So fucking happy.

Octavio Blanco (2:14:32)
We got ⁓ we need her to support

tenant takeovers and community land trusts. I think community land trusts are the future, actually. I think that is a great idea that hasn't really taken off as much as it should. Community land trusts are the way to go. If you look around the neighborhood, there's plenty of ⁓ of of of property that is just sitting there doing nothing. It needs to be ⁓ it needs to be put into a community land trust and made available for housing or for

resources, you know, whatever those those are, whether they be new schools, health centers, you know, whatever it may be. We need more of that.

Led Black (2:15:12)
Yeah, man. I guess the only thing that makes it better if Richie Torres would have lost too, but you know, you can't have it all. You know, but again, I don't know if you've seen that video of Richie Torres Espaya and and and Apex Shakur, fucking Hakeem Jeff. It was such clown shit. Such clown shit. ⁓ Clown behavior.

Octavio Blanco (2:15:28)
Yeah. Absolute.

Total clown behavior. Total clown behavior. Worker owned businesses. Equity.

Led Black (2:15:37)
But we had a good crowd, though. We had a good crowd on our on

the live today. We had a really good crowd on the live. You know, I think it was something that we experienced together, you know, and I think that was really, really beautiful. Because we we were we wasn't sure when we started this live, you know, and we got we got the beautiful results. We had Kim Merrill on, we had the people on, opining. This was this is beautiful, man.

Octavio Blanco (2:15:55)
Yeah.

Yo, Led, I'm never gonna forget this. This is gonna be this is gonna be a memory that I'm gonna carry for my whole life. so I thank you, Led, for for being on this journey with me, bro. I'm glad we're doing this, man. Let's keep doing it. Let's keep doing it. You know, like it was ⁓ all right. So maybe we should just call it. We should let him if you got him, exactly.

Led Black (2:16:00)
Yeah, this is beautiful.

Yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, yeah. I I wanna I wanna go smoke a celebrity celebratory spliff right now.

Light it up. Light up you got him. Light up you got ⁓

Octavio Blanco (2:16:27)
So yo,

Led Black (2:16:27)
man.

Octavio Blanco (2:16:28)
I think I think we're probably gonna call it a night then. you know, I I I I I want to

Led Black (2:16:35)
Hold on, hold I'm

getting I'm getting something from from the the Daniel Lisa campaign. Just hold on one second, just in case. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We still we still on this. Let's see. So I'm not sure what she was, but she was kind of cryptic. So I'm you know what? We could call it for the night. But everyone, thank you for joining us. You know, Lizzy, you're welcome, my brother. Thank you for joining as well. This has been a special night. I'm glad we got to do this together.

Octavio Blanco (2:16:39)
⁓ whoa hold up, hold up, time out. Don't go anywhere, people.

Led Black (2:17:00)
You know, I was really scared, like I said, I I wasn't sure, you know, I felt good about this race, but so we're really happy.

Octavio Blanco (2:17:03)
Well, hold up. Just

I just want to say this. New York One, even though this is where it gets messed up, even though NBC has it has it Chevalier as the projected winner, ⁓ New York One was saying is saying that ⁓ race between Espa and Chevalier is too close to call.

Led Black (2:17:29)
No, I don't say that.

Octavio Blanco (2:17:30)
That's what a New York one is saying. That's what New York One is saying.

Led Black (2:17:32)
Barker NBC call

it.

Octavio Blanco (2:17:34)
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. but ⁓ NBC has called it as ⁓ Chevalier. but apparently New York One has got it as ⁓ too close to call. So we're going with what we see on NBC. and I don't know what's going on with New York One, why they're ⁓ making it

Led Black (2:17:34)
That's crazy.

Octavio Blanco (2:18:01)
why they're saying it's too close to call. you know, I'll just put up the NBC page ⁓ one more time before we go so that folks can ⁓ can see what we're talking about. And ⁓

I'm going to also go to the to the ⁓ unofficial election night results. It's ⁓ they're calling they they show Chevalier 49.3, Adriano Espaillat 45.9. but yeah, New York won that last 14% outstanding votes is what this uptown guy is ⁓

is is saying is the reason why New York One saying it's too close to call. So don't quite know why ⁓ NBC went ahead and and called it, but ⁓ New York One is is not calling it yet. So ⁓ I don't want to rain on anybody's parade. I I do trust NBC to be correct. If if they weren't correct, that's gonna be ⁓ big egg on their face. ⁓ New York One though

⁓ is still is still ⁓ you know not calling it. So yeah, eighty seven ⁓ we've got ninety-four point one percent of the votes in according to the unofficial board of elections ⁓ numbers. Ninety four percent of the votes are in and with ninety four percent of the votes in, it's showing ⁓

that ⁓ Darialisa is leading by forty nine point three percent of the vote.

Led Black (2:19:52)
Yeah. You know, it it's interesting, right? One thing is like it shows you the importance of voting, right? You know, like it right now, she has thirty two thousand votes, two hundred and three, he has twenty nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine. Those every single vote is a person, right? That that came out the house, you know, that went and said, you know what, this is important to me, and I'm gonna go have my voice heard, right? That that this is this is what we need to cherish, right? Like I think when you don't cherish your democracy, you lose it. And we're really close to losing with the fucking Baboso in power that we have in Trump. So, you know, this d I think mom done.

has put put more belief in everyone. And I think we, you know, this is a big, big night for this community, a big night for New York, a big night for Americans, a big night for democracy, man. Let's fucking go. My brother, thank you so much, man.

Octavio Blanco (2:20:33)
Yeah, I want to say what's up. Josh, before

we go, I just want to say what's up to Josh, Josh Chapdelin, a new friend, being very helpful. ⁓ appreciate you joining. but yeah, let's I think we're gonna call it a night. NBC has called it for ⁓ Darialisa Avila Chevalier. That's NBC. And apparently New York One ⁓ is still saying it's too close to call.

But NBC has called it for ⁓ Darialisa had that on the sh on the page. So Led, I'll give you the final word.

Led Black (2:21:12)
No, spread love is the Uptown Way. It's a big day. Continue to support us. We support y'all. Fuck with us. Thank you.

Octavio Blanco (2:21:18)
That's right. All right. Good night, everybody.

Led Black (2:21:21)
Good night, y'all.