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Bo Dietl Dishes on Rao's Most Famous Reservation & His Legendary Crime-Fighting Career · Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel

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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So today, my guest is one of the most highly
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  Speaker 1: decorated detectives in the history of the New York Police Department,
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  Speaker 1: with over 1,400 arrests to his credit, along with being
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  Speaker 1: awarded 62 medals for his efforts in creating a safer city.
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  Speaker 1: He's an author, an actor, a podcast host, an advocate,
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  Speaker 1: and a private investigator.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, Bo Dietl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. I'm very honored to be
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  Speaker 2: here with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm honored to have you.
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  Speaker 2: You might be my new lady.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited. We'll have to see after the podcast
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  Speaker 1: if that pans out. So I have a question. In
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  Speaker 1: doing my research on you, I saw that your first
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  Speaker 1: name is not Beau. It's Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you get Beau from?
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  Speaker 2: Twelve years old in high school, going into my freshman year.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't remember people's names. Very bad with names. Faces
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget. And I used to say, hey, Beau.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of saying, hey, you, call me Beau back. And
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  Speaker 2: then as the years went on, I adopted it as
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  Speaker 2: a name. Then when I ran for United States Congress
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  Speaker 2: back in 1986, a guy did a full page on
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  Speaker 2: me in Newsday and had B.O., had me with a
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  Speaker 2: guinea T-shirt on, and the other one with a suit on.
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  Speaker 2: One was B.O. and one was B.E.A.U. What's in the name?
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  Speaker 2: And I explained, my company's B.E.A.U. Dietl Associates. And then
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  Speaker 2: I liked the name Bo, B.O. And that's– facts. And
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  Speaker 2: that's it. Amazing. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So does anybody call you by your first name?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my ex-wife called me Richard and then my mother
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  Speaker 2: used to call me Richard. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I assumed.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing I noticed when doing some research on
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  Speaker 1: you is you cannot go, like you have to get
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  Speaker 1: eight pages in to get anything on you because all
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  Speaker 1: the latest news is you and the Real Housewives of
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Louie, Teresa, Andy Cohen. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that? Because you've done so much and then this
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  Speaker 1: is what people are talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I had a very illustrious police career.
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  Speaker 2: And then when Nick Pelleggi put me on a cover
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  Speaker 2: of New York Magazine, that was the advent of me
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  Speaker 2: being different than every other retired homicide detective. Nick tracked
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  Speaker 2: me down. Nick is the author of Goodfellas Casino. And
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  Speaker 2: he's one of my very, very dearest friends. And when
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  Speaker 2: I retired... He put me as a feature story in
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  Speaker 2: New York Magazine. And I thought it was all about
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  Speaker 2: everybody wanted to get to know this famous detective. In
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  Speaker 2: the article, he put down about this table that I
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  Speaker 2: got back in 1977, the place that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go to tonight. It's Rayo's Restaurant. I really believe that
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  Speaker 2: was the catalyst. I talk about myself in three legs.
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  Speaker 2: One is the leg of having a great police career.
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  Speaker 2: The other is a foundation for a good private investigation company.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one is that table at Rao's because
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  Speaker 2: the table at Rao's was one of the most sought-after
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  Speaker 2: tables to go to dinner with. Because once the article
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  Speaker 2: came out in 1986, everybody was calling me, Ron Perlman, hey, Bo,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted you to take over my security. Then I
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  Speaker 2: met with Jack Welch, some of the Redstone and on
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  Speaker 2: and on. And I thought it was about me. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what it was about? Having freaking dinner at
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  Speaker 2: this table you're coming to tonight. And I've used it.
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  Speaker 2: And we've done movies there. We've done so much. But
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  Speaker 2: the reality of my life is the Nick Pelleggi article.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the legs. I can't miss that. Then
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  Speaker 2: I said the Rails Restaurant and my career. And that's
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  Speaker 2: my life. Now, you've got to remember, I retired from
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  Speaker 2: the police department 38 years ago. And at that time,
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  Speaker 2: when I was pushed into business, everyone called me. So
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  Speaker 2: we started a business. We've handled triple murders. We've handled
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  Speaker 2: big pharma investigations worldwide. All these major investigations. We took
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  Speaker 2: over the Carpenters Union in New York from two mafia families.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the reality is we're a real professional investigative company.
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  Speaker 2: We're not the Housewives of New Jersey type thing. And
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  Speaker 2: it was just funny. I met Louie and his lovely wife.
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  Speaker 2: And the first time that I was with them, they
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  Speaker 2: invited us to a housewarming, I thought. I went there
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  Speaker 2: with Margo, and the next thing it was, 15 cameras
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  Speaker 2: were there. They were filming Housewives of New Jersey. I said,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell is this shit? I really didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be into that. But I like Louis very much,
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  Speaker 2: and I love his wife, too. I really do, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that we got kind of taken off track here.
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  Speaker 2: Because the reality was, again, no one believes me. I
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  Speaker 2: read it today. Oh, Bo's lying. Why would I lie?
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  Speaker 2: I never did any work for him. on this housewife background.
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  Speaker 2: I told that little guy, Joe and Melissa, you guys
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  Speaker 2: must be seeing ghosts or something. But in reality, I
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  Speaker 2: never did. And it just hurt me a little bit
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  Speaker 2: when people throw my names around like that. And it
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  Speaker 2: just doesn't happen from low. A lot of people, I
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  Speaker 2: find out, well, if you keep messing with me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to call Bo Dietl. What am I, Luca Brazzi?
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  Speaker 2: The reality is I have a very professional investigative firm.
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  Speaker 2: We do security investigations. We get hired by the best.
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  Speaker 2: and we do investigations worldwide. And to me, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say it cheapened me a little bit with
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  Speaker 2: the Housewives of New Jersey, but again, I'm a professional.
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  Speaker 2: We wouldn't be in business 38 years if we were
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  Speaker 2: doing anything that was not proper and not correct. Right. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that answer. We don't really cover housewives stuff
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  Speaker 1: or reality stuff because that's not really my type of show.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say I did have that girl Vanessa
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  Speaker 1: Reiser on to talk about narcissistic relationships and toxic relationships.
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  Speaker 1: And the hatred I got afterwards on the comments was
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  Speaker 1: not even about the show. It was about how could
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  Speaker 1: I give her a platform and this whole thing where
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  Speaker 1: she has a restraining order against Louis. And so people
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  Speaker 1: really take this stuff, you know, to a whole new
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  Speaker 1: level because they're so obsessed. I actually think Bravo is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit dangerous in the way they create people
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  Speaker 1: that become so obsessed with feeling like they're part of
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  Speaker 1: the show when they don't even.
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  Speaker 2: Know these people. I'm really not interested to be part
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  Speaker 2: of this show, to be very honest with you. Again,
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  Speaker 2: this is something where I'm a professional. Yeah. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't use me like Luca Brazzi. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: call Bo Deedle. And that bothered me. I like Lou.
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  Speaker 2: He's my friend still, his wife, I hope, still my friend.
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  Speaker 2: But in reality, it was a bit... I got a
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  Speaker 2: million hits on the ticky-tocky thing or whatever the hell
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  Speaker 2: it's called.
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  Speaker 1: You got so much press. So at least you're relevant
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  Speaker 1: again if you ever weren't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the clients I really want.
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  Speaker 2: I really want the clients that I have, my corporate
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  Speaker 2: clients I've had for many, many years. And we do
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  Speaker 2: active investigation. There was this triple homicide in Kentucky, three
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  Speaker 2: years old. And we got involved with it. We locked
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  Speaker 2: up the guy that killed the three people. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we do best. We take cases. And
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  Speaker 2: we investigate. I have some of the best investigators, some
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  Speaker 2: of the best investigators from the New York City Police Department,
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  Speaker 2: homicide detectives. And this is important to me. Also security,
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  Speaker 2: South Street Seaport, UBS, Javits Center. We've done the MEs,
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  Speaker 2: every type of investigation and security we've been involved with
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  Speaker 2: for many, many years. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, all right, before we get into the details of
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  Speaker 1: all that, though, I want to know, like, where you
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  Speaker 1: came from. Did you want to be in this kind
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  Speaker 1: of line of work when you were a kid?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: What did you want to do?
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  Speaker 2: I grew up with a mother that was from Catania, Sicily,
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  Speaker 2: and a father from Germany, a first-generation American here. And
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  Speaker 2: I had a very tough father. who today they would
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  Speaker 2: call child abuse, but I was a tough guy. And
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  Speaker 2: I needed the beatings with a strap that he used
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  Speaker 2: to give me. Today I realized it. Even when I retired,
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  Speaker 2: when I wrote my book, One Tough Cop, I just
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  Speaker 2: signed it to my father, who I thanked him for.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I only got to know after I became
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  Speaker 2: a man. Because you've got to understand, I grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Ozone Park. What Ozone Park is, in the early 60s,
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  Speaker 2: we had a rash of heroin addicts. And they weren't
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  Speaker 2: black and Hispanic. They were Italian sons of mob guys.
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  Speaker 2: I knew off the top of my head, 10 of
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  Speaker 2: them that overdosed on heroin back then. It was our
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  Speaker 2: dirty little city.
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  Speaker 2: You've written the neighbourhood. And one of the sons of
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  Speaker 2: one of the very big organized crime guys wanted him
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  Speaker 2: to hang around with me because I was very physically
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  Speaker 2: in very great shape from being in high school. We
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  Speaker 2: were part of the John F. Kennedy Marine Corps Physical
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  Speaker 2: Fitness Team, five guys. All we did four hours a
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  Speaker 2: day was pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, squat thrusts, and run four
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  Speaker 2: hours a day, including on Christmas morning, Thanksgiving morning. And
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  Speaker 2: so I developed this abnormal strength. So when the father
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  Speaker 2: used to see me, Ralph Scopo Sr., he kind of
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  Speaker 2: pushed his son to me to hang out with him.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have, on Thursday nights, broccoli rabe and
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  Speaker 2: veal cutlets on 106th Street Atlantic Avenue. So I was
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  Speaker 2: always around the father. He became like a second father
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  Speaker 2: to me. So when I graduated high school in 1968, 1968. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm giving up my age here at 68. So
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  Speaker 2: obviously I didn't know what I was doing. Ralphie Scobo
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  Speaker 2: gave me the keys to his new Cadillac. And he goes,
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  Speaker 2: after your prom, we had the prom at the Hilton Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: And Lou Rawls was performing. Then Ralphie said to me,
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  Speaker 2: I have it all set up. Go see Tony the
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  Speaker 2: Lip at the Copacabana. And there's a guy named Bobby
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  Speaker 2: Darin that's performing. You got a front row seat table.
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  Speaker 2: So I go there and I got treated so nicely. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, I had to pick the prettiest girl in
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  Speaker 2: the school. I didn't get the first base. I had
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  Speaker 2: a nice Jewish girl, Holly Blyberg. She was really hot.
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  Speaker 2: We had really great sexual activities with each other. But
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  Speaker 2: I picked the prettiest girl in the school, and I
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  Speaker 2: went home with the Daily News and the Mirror. Because
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  Speaker 2: then after the prom, you used to go on the
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island Ferry, and then you go to the beach.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't end up at the beach. So now I'm working,
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  Speaker 2: and Ralph Scupper said, what are you going to do
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  Speaker 2: after you– Finish the high school. I said, well, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to become a gym teacher. I was on the
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  Speaker 2: high bar, parallel bars, city champion on the high bar.
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  Speaker 2: And I was very physical. Academically, so I said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I wanted to go to college. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have no money for college. We didn't have any kind
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  Speaker 2: of assistant. The only assistant was me working since I
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  Speaker 2: was eight years old, delivering newspapers, working on weekends, sweeping
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  Speaker 2: factories out. So Ralphie says to me, senior, go see
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  Speaker 2: Sammy the Weasel. on 33rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Tell
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  Speaker 2: them I sent you. You're going to become a concrete laborer.
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  Speaker 2: What that was was the guys that build the pyramids,
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  Speaker 2: similar to that, very hard work. So then I started
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  Speaker 2: working there. I bought a brand-new car from Bay Chevrolet.
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  Speaker 2: It's a British green Corvette. And then I started giving
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  Speaker 2: my mom money. And I loved that. I worked all
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  Speaker 2: the overtime, and I had money in my pockets. And
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  Speaker 2: it was for the first time I liked to work
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  Speaker 2: hard to make money. Then he tells me about this
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  Speaker 2: World Trade Center they're going to build. He goes, I
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  Speaker 2: could get you on the World Trade Center as an
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  Speaker 2: iron worker. And I didn't even know what an iron
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  Speaker 2: worker did, but go meet Black Mike. I go meet
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  Speaker 2: Black Mike, and he wasn't black. He was Italian, but
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  Speaker 2: dark skin. I become an iron worker. Now, I took
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  Speaker 2: the COPS test when I was 16 years old. It
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  Speaker 2: was a walk-in. It was a moron test. They showed
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  Speaker 2: you a clock, and they asked you what time it was.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I got a 99. So I took
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  Speaker 2: it when I was 16. So they started to call
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  Speaker 2: me to come in as a trainee. But I was
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  Speaker 2: making so much money. They wanted me to make $ 4, 000
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  Speaker 2: a year in starting pay. And I wasn't too good.
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  Speaker 2: So I kept putting it off. They called me the
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  Speaker 2: first time, second time. Now, the third time they called me,
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  Speaker 2: they said, if I don't accept it, I'm off the list.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing that happens is I said, let me try
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  Speaker 2: this cop shit. Now, the only thing I had interaction
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  Speaker 2: with cops was I was sitting in a park at
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  Speaker 2: night when I was 13 years old and a cop
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  Speaker 2: smashed my shins with a nightstick. I limped home. My
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  Speaker 2: father said, what happened to you? And he beat me
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  Speaker 2: for the next hour when I said a cop hit me.
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  Speaker 2: So I really didn't want to be a cop ever.
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  Speaker 2: So when I went in the academy, and these are
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  Speaker 2: long stories, we'd be here for 10 hours, but I
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  Speaker 2: became a cop. And Ralph Scopo says, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can't come to the club anymore, Ralph Scopo. But prior
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  Speaker 2: to that, I used to drive him up to East Harlem,
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  Speaker 2: meet with Fat Tony Salerno. So I met all the
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  Speaker 2: gangsters in the world, and I was always both a cop.
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  Speaker 2: So once I became a police officer, became a decoy,
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  Speaker 2: and I was mugged 500 times. I was shot at, stabbed,
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  Speaker 2: hospitalized 30 times. I had a great career. We broke
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  Speaker 2: some of the big cases. But I always worked hard.
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  Speaker 2: That was my work ethics all the time. And my
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  Speaker 2: police career speaks for itself. And then I end up
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  Speaker 2: being the arresting officer in the Palm Sunday Massacre. Ten dead,
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  Speaker 2: including eight children under the age of 12 shot in
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  Speaker 2: the head. I was part of a great task force.
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  Speaker 2: I was named as the arresting officer. We go to
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  Speaker 2: the Helmsley Palace. I was supposed to get promoted. And
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  Speaker 2: the next thing is my Arab princes are in town.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have a bodyguard company. And I was
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  Speaker 2: on the front page of every paper, on the newsreel.
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  Speaker 2: And the prince says to me, Bo, you're so famous.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow we go to La Jolla. And I called my lieutenant.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I want to take a few days off.
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  Speaker 2: We go to La Jolla. And I can say it
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  Speaker 2: because this is factual. Alex, the madam of Beverly Hills,
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  Speaker 2: he calls up and he asked for 20 off-duty, off-duty actresses. Now,
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  Speaker 2: these were not hookers. They were paid $ 2, 500 to come
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  Speaker 2: to a party. Whatever they did was their own business
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  Speaker 2: and all that. So when they got to the house,
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  Speaker 2: I had them all in my little house. I said,
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  Speaker 2: here's where it goes. You get your $ 2, 500 tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care what you do. I don't want to know it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to know it. But one thing, you
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  Speaker 2: steal something, I'm going to lock your asses up. Everything
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  Speaker 2: ran smoothly. Now I'm drinking my vodka. Next thing, the
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  Speaker 2: prince goes, boo, you're so brave. You ever jump out
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  Speaker 2: of a plane? Let's cut to the chase. I go
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  Speaker 2: to Paris, California, P-E-R-R-I-S. In the desert, I jump out
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  Speaker 2: of a plane. I really shouldn't have jumped because I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what the hell I was doing. I broke
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  Speaker 2: this leg in half.
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  Speaker 1: How? The way you were landing or the way you jumped?
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  Speaker 2: It was a thing called landing. I didn't know about landing. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh. And that was the best break of my life, really.
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  Speaker 2: I was in the hospital about a month. Then he
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  Speaker 2: had me in his house for another month, came back,
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  Speaker 2: and he says, oh, you're going to be put on
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  Speaker 2: light duty. I panicked. I put my papers in. Nick
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  Speaker 2: Pelleggi wrote the article. And the next thing is history.
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  Speaker 2: And I say it again, the strength, the Nick Pelleggi
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: article and rails. That's the three legs of the stool. Okay.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: So obviously you have a million stories from your time
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: as a homicide detective.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And after that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And after that. But what in your career, not the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: current career, but like what back then really stands out
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: to you?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Which career?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Well, sorry, the homicide detective part. So what out of
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: that stood out as something that either was meaningful or
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: something very upsetting, something that really stands out to you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Well, and I will cut right to the chase. It
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: was a rape of a Catholic nun in a convent
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: in 1981 on 116th Street in Pleasant Avenue. And these
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: two animals came through the roof. They beat her mercifully,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: and they raped and sodomized her. They put a broom
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: into her vagina, and they carved 27 crosses, urinated on her,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and they left her for dead. We weren't involved with it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: It happened on a Saturday afternoon and never made the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: papers until Wednesday. Front pages of every paper across this country.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And my partner Tommy at that time, Tommy Collin, God
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: rest his soul, he's not with us, He was really
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: down because he had a lot of parking tickets. He
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: was drinking heavily. And part of the reason that I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: got involved with this case was I said to myself,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: if we ever broke this case, they would never take
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: his detective shield away from him. And that's one of
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the reasons because I cared and loved Tommy so much.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So now I asked my captain. They had a task
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: force of 200 top detectives in New York. We were
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: anti-crime guys. We were street detectives. But we knew the streets.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: We locked up all the gang members. And I would
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: only work in minority neighborhoods. They asked me to work
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: in organized crime. And I said, no. I know every
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: organized crime figure. What, am I going to have dinner
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: with fat Tony Salerno and say, hey, Tony, sorry, turn around,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I got to put handcuffs on you? No. I want
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to catch the guys who are robbing and murdering the
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: minority community people. So I was a servant to the
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: minority community when I was a New York City cop
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and detective. So now we start working on it. The
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: first 90 pages of my book, One Tough Cop, describes
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: one of the most unbelievable investigations that anybody could even
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: read about. And I tell everybody, read those 90 pages.
• 18:55
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• 18:58
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  Speaker 2: Chicago 1 in New York And we were able to
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: lock them up. And you know what our reward was?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I laughed because the politics come into play. The Irish
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: controlled the police department. A little guy named Jimmy Sullivan,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he had a little Napoleonic complex. And I'm not six
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: foot two, but this guy was smaller than me. me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: The height requirement used to be five foot eight. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: don't know how he got on. And make a long
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: story short, he couldn't go on TV and go, for
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: intensive investigation, we solved this case. No, and who solved
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the case? Tom Collin and Bo Dietl. So you know
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: what our reward was? He shipped me to one end
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of Brooklyn. We were in Manhattan. And he shipped Tommy
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to the other end of Brooklyn. We had every award
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: from the governor on down. This was our reward. Just
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: shows you the politics. And then all of a sudden
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I was going to quit. And I got really pissed off.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Then Commissioner McGuire said, Bo's getting promoted tomorrow. They had
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: 50 detectives being promoted. I was 51. And I made
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: sure I shook every one of the chief's hands, including
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the head of internal affairs. Jim, his name was John Guido.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And I says, thank you, Mr. Guido. He goes, Bo,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I'll put handcuffs on you one day. I said, maybe
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you'll fire me for some bullshit, but you'll never. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: then the chief of detectives, I went, I'm sorry, chief
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of detectives, you didn't break this case, my partner. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I look right, and they hated me. But then they
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: dumped me to the killing fields. And that's where the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Palm Sunday Massacre was. And I started to do murder investigations.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And I worked hard day and night. And that's what
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: my work ethics have been since then.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's Stephen Baldwin.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I had Mark Wahlberg was with me for six months.
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  Speaker 2: He was supposed to play me, Mark. And then Marty Bregman,
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  Speaker 2: ends up firing in the last minute. I had to
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  Speaker 2: choose between it. When I retired, I went to California,
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  Speaker 2: Bel Air Hotel, the white pink swans. They flew me
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: in there, and I met with Stallone. I met with Pacino.
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  Speaker 2: I met with everybody. But my biggest meeting was at
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the place called on Cannon Drive, Le Familiar. So I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: arrived there. I was supposed to meet Tony Scott, one
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of the famous directors. Okay. At 6 o'clock, I got
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: there at 5.30. I'm talking to the bartender. He was
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: from New York. I said, you know, I'm a retired
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: homicide detective. I turn around at the end of the room. Now,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I knew Frank Sinatra. I've had dinner with Frank Sinatra
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: many times through my friend Rocco DeDeef and Louis Dome
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and all my friends. But I always wanted to meet Mr.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Dean Martin. And I go, is that who I– I says,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: you think he would mind if I could say hello
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to him? He goes, you know what, Bo? I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: you'd like him. This is right after he lost his son, Dino.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and an aircraft crashed into the mountain. So I walked by,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: and I said, Mr. Martin, excuse me. I said, my
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: name's Bo Dito. I'm a retired homicide detective. I'm out
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: here on some bullshit movie business, but you're the person
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I've always wanted to meet in my life. He said,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: sit the F down. He had this glass that was
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: this big. It was a martini glass. He yells at
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the bartender, get Bo when I'm drinking. And I never
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: drank like that. Now we started to drink. Tony Scott's
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: at the bar. The bartender goes over. Mr. Scott's waiting.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I said, do me a favor. You tell Mr. Scott.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: He was one of the biggest directors. If you don't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: want to wait for me, I'm with Mr. Martin. Either
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: he waits or he can leave. I really don't care
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: because I'm with Mr. Dean Martin. But that just shows
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you where I come from. I'm a very loyal guy,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm a very respectful guy. Every time I went
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: back to California, I made sure I went to La Famiglia.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And I made sure I said, we never ate anything.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: All we did was drink ourselves to an oblivion. And
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that was it. And that was one of my thrills.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, the movie didn't get
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: made right away. They came out with a script and
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: not so good. Some guy from Raw Hyde. Next thing
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: is Martin Bregman gets me. He said, we got the script.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: We got Psycho Abel Ferrara, the director.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I used to work for Abel.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: He's a nut job. Remember Marla Hanson? That guy, yeah.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I know. Bo knows everything. So now all of a
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: sudden with this nut, I'm trying to deal with him
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and the complete psychopath. And the next thing is we
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: bring in Mark Wahlberg, who I love. And to this day,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Mark thought I was involved because I was the executive producer.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Marty Bregman got rid of him. I would have given
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: my– any fee I had, I would have given it
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: up for Mark Wahlberg. To play you. I loved Mark Wahlberg,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: and I still love Mark Wahlberg. And he's my friend.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: He was just on Long Island. I just sent him
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a text saying, hey, you come in my neighborhood, you
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: don't call me. And so also Leonardo DiCaprio comes into
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: my neighborhood, they don't call me. Yeah. I get very
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: offended with that kind of stuff. So then he fires
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Mark Wahlberg six months into it. And the next thing is,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: he said, well, you got to pick between Matt Dillon
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and Stephen Baldwin. So I'm at the Four Seasons. We
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: used to have a table at 5 o'clock, cigars we
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: used to drink. So who's sitting over there? Sly. He
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: comes in, Stallone. Hey, Sly. You know, boy, I still
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: want to play you. I said, Sly, you're too old now.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: But here, I got a question. Who would you pick?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon or this kid Stephen Baldwin to play me?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: He goes, well, you know, Matt Dillon is like a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: broad that's been around, you know. But I would pick
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the Virgin. And that's Stephen Ball and that's why we
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: got him. Now, basically, Abel gets fired and we bring
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: in Bruno Beretta.
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  Speaker 2: To Amy Irving, Spielberg's first wife. I think 80 million.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: She got a nice little hit there. Yeah, that sounds nice.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: And then the first day of filming, we were filming
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: in New York. And I'm the executive producer at Toronto.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I love Toronto. Our Canadian people are beautiful people. And
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I had a deal with Chris Penn, the being drunk
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: all the time, God rest his soul. And we go
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  Speaker 2: up there, and the next thing is I go over,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I tap Bruno Barreto. We're doing a scene in a
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Wiseguy club. I want to talk to him. It's about
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: my life, and I'm the executive producer. No. He turns around,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: he yells at me. I says, I got a question.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: He yells at me. He goes, can't you see? I'm
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: directing a movie. I said, you're fucking talking to me
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: like that again. I'll punch you right through this window.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: You don't talk to me. I quit. He runs out.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Marty Bregman's sitting there laughing. And he goes, well, we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: don't have a director. I said, fuck you. You did so...
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: You did Scarface. You did everything. You directed this. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: had to apologize. We brought him back. That's the way
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I am. I tell it like it is. Right, right.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You've also done some Scorsese.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've done five, six Scorsese movies from good fellas.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And that's what leads us into Rayos. So basically, I've
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: had the first table ever given out by Frankie Pellegrino,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the owner, was a Thursday night. It's the hottest table.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: It's first class. It's the only table that you could
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: put 10 people on. First class, the rest is steerage.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: In the back is steerage, I say. You know what
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: steerage is.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course I know what it is.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So I bring Marty Scorsese up there with Nick Pelleggi.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And now I meet Nick when he puts me in
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the feature article in New York Magazine back in 1986.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: He tells me about this book he's writing called Wiseguy.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: And he goes, Paul, you know Paul Vario? You know
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Henry Hill? I said, that scumbag, I knew him. And
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Burke, I said, I locked Jimmy up on two murders.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I used to drink beer in his bar. I knew
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: everybody in Goodfellas. So I got involved with it. And
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: even towards the end of my police career, I had
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: to pick up Jimmy Burke at the Allenwood and bring
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: him back on two murders that Henry Hill gave him
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: up on. So now all of a sudden he's writing
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the story and he goes, he's got the script written.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: He goes, we're going to do the movie. First, it
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: was going to be a low budget in Canada. Then
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: when Mr. Scorsese, notice how I say Mr. Scorsese, greatest
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: director ever, ever. And when Marty gets involved with it,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: he now brings in Pesci and De Niro and the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: rest is history. So now Nicky says to me, do
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you think we could bring Marty up to Rao's and
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: we could have dinner there? He brings Ellen Lewis, top
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: casting director, Lorraine Bracco, my friend that we lost, what's
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: his name, that we just lost, the star of Goodfellas,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Ray Liotta. And the casting director and all the people
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for them, Nick Pelleggi and Mr. Scorsese. Now he's looking
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: around the bar. We used to have a bar scene there.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: You had Petey Neck. His neck was stuck. Johnny Roast
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Beef owned the deli. You had Mikey Black. And Scorsese,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the excellent director, as he looks around, he goes, Bo,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: can we come back next Thursday? And anybody who wants
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: to be in Goodfellas, tell them, come on, we'll cast
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it right for you. I said, that's an easy one. Wow.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: So the following week, we casted. We casted Frankie. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: guess we casted me, too. And we casted Tony Lip,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: that was at the Copacabana, did Breen Book. Johnny Ross Peete,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Mikey Black, Petey Neck, Petey Nosed. We casted everybody. My
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: friend was the captain at the Copacabana. Everybody, including Frankie.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And we put them all in the movie. And that's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: what Rails was all about. And you can see the
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: boss scene in Goodfellas. That's what Mr. Martin Scorsese is
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: all about, seeing the environment and putting real people in there.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Next thing that happens is, that's a great one. I
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: get a call from Marty Scorsese again. We did Vinyl.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It's another great thing with Bobby Cannavale. And we did Irish.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: We did a lot there. But the other one that
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: comes to mind is, all of a sudden, Marty calls me.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He says, you know, I'm reading this book, Wolf of
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Wall Street. And you're in throughout this book one and two.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: He goes, you know, we're going to do a movie
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: on it. And who do you want to get to play?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I said, fuck you, Marty. I'm playing myself. Quote, unquote.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Fuck you, Marty. I'm playing myself. And I played Bo Dietl.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And then he said, you think we could film in rails?
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: And thank God for Frankie Pellegrino. We arranged it. Leo
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and I actually filmed there. Now, back up. I used
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: to bring out a little creep. I called him the
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: rat of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort. He wasn't the wolf
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of Wall Street. He wore a wire. He turned in
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: 10 of his own people. I don't like rats. You
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: know what a rat is? I do. I don't like rats.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: And even when the Wall Street Journal interviewed me after
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the movie, I said, this punk, first of all, stole
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: about $ 220 million, mostly money. from all Jewish people from
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the North Shore of Long Island. I said he killed
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: more Jews than Hitler because of the fact these are
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: people's 25,000, 30,000 life savings. And he pumped and dumped
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: them and wiped them out. I don't like that bullshit.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: And he was a cheap bastard because he never gave
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: money to the Jews. to charities, and then he set
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: his own people up that he put in business. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I grabbed a U.S. attorney not too long ago. I said,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: how come he paid back $ 12 million? Why is he
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: able to make money without paying restitution to these families?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: That money was their life savings. So I don't have,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: you know, he, he wants to be my friend. I'm
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: not his friend. I don't like him. He stole that money,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: went away for 15 months and he bragged about playing tennis.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: He's a criminal. What about the little old lady, the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: little old Jewish, maybe, maybe even a survivor of Auschwitz
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: who had her life savings and gave it to this
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: little creep and he pissed it away and he never
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: paid that money back. How was he able to do that? See,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I like, things that turn out right. But then again,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: one of my wise guy friends, one guy had $ 40
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: million in real estate. They took every dime away from him.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: But this guy got away and I don't like him.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: And if he was here right now, I'd tell him
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: right through his face, I don't like you. His wife, Nadine,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: is a doctor, a psychologist. I love Nadine.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: She's going to be on the show.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: And Nadine was more prettier than than Margot Robbie. When
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: she was her aide, when she was Jordan's wife, I
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: love Nadine. Nadine, I'm single.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Not for long.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: But, you know, it's just funny. And in that place, again,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Sumner Redstone, Bill Gates, every major people, every major person
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: in the world, and then Roger Ailes. I went through
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: the whole Fox thing. Now you've got Lachlan Murdoch. I
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: call him the lucky sperm. I'm having a battle. I'm
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: suing the New York Post. for liable and slander. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: don't mess around. Everybody said, how could you take on
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: the New York Post? Well, you want to know something?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I'll take on the New York Post. When you lie
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and you slander me, be careful because I'm coming. And
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: he has a problem. He's a lucky sperm. That's all
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: he is. Roger Ailes called him a lucky sperm. That's
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: where I got it from. Roger Ailes made Fox News
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and made a lot of people there before all this nonsense.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And they were settling claims. Have you worked there? All
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: you had to do is say, Roger said you had
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: nice legs. They would have given you $ 5 million right away.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: They just signed checks, signed checks. It was crazy what
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: was going on. And then when Roger, everyone knew Roger
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Ailes was my friend. Now we're going to go back
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to the Louis thing. Everyone knew that I liked Roger.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I knew Roger from when we did CNBC years ago.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, when this whole thing broke, everyone
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: said Bo Dietl was his private investigator. Bo Dietl did
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: all the black ops on the 17th floor. Bo Dietl
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: met with him in his house. I never had any
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: work done for Roger Ailes ever, ever, other than my
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: firm being hired by law firms to investigate these sexual
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: harassment complaints, which you get a law firm, they hire
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: a renowned investigative group, which we do. And now when
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I was running for mayor at the same time, 2017,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and then lucky sperm Lachlan didn't like me. And he
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: would not put me in the post when I was
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: running for mayor. And now it's time for the rooster
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to come home. Right now, Fox News Corp is facing.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: They just settled for a billion dollars with some. Now
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: they got some cement cement tech coming up. They had Dominion.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: There's the voting machine. $ 2. 5 billion. Another one coming. But
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: they can't fire him because the Murdochs could control the
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: board of directors. You've got to have another lawsuit. Another
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: lawsuit's coming from me. Liable and slandered. You can't do that.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I'm the little guy. I don't care because all it
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: is was his daddy's money because he couldn't run a
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: frigging Frank for the stand outside. And you'll never, ever
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: be my guest at Rayos Punk until you can meet
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: with me. You can have 10 of your security guys,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: 18 lawyers. You want to know the truth?
• 37:39
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• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I never did anything for Roger Ailes. Now, something came out.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: My company was hired by somebody to follow his ex-wife, Murdoch,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Lucy Ding Dong, or whatever her name was. Lucy Dong
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Dong Ding Dong. Whatever her name was, right?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Sounds good.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: So I'm running for mayor. I don't know. We have
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: 100 cases going on. So they hired us to do
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: a surveillance on it. Not Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes never
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: hired my firm. Mm-hmm. Who was hired? He's dead now.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Some of the Redstone, that maniac. I knew him very well.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: He hired my firm to follow Lucy DingDock. He hated
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Reuben Murdoch. Now he could come out. I could open
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: up about it because he's dead now. So that dies
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: with the story. But I was accused again. I got
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Bo Dietl. You never had Bo Dietl. And Bo Dietl never,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: ever worked for Roger Ailes doing any kind of stuff
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: against anybody other than being hired by a outside law
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: firm to do the defense investigation for some of their talent.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: So you mentioned before something where you had some political aspirations.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: You were running for mayor. Do you think that that's
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: going to be in your future again? Do you want
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to get involved in politics?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't run for frigging dog collector. And that's a
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: whole other story.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: What happened the first round when I ran for United
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: States Congress, when I sat with– and everyone could Google
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Bo Dietl and Ronald Reagan. I sat in the Oval
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Office for 15 minutes with Ronald Reagan Vice President became
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: President George Bush. And I lost an election by 2,500
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: votes in an area with seven to one Democrat. When
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: the Reverend Floyd Flake all of a sudden ran against me, mysteriously,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: an Irish guy pops in at the end for third candidate.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: And he pulls 4,000 votes from the Rockies. He's all white.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: And I lose by 2,500. And then even Alphonse D'Amato
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: turned on me. I start to see the politics. Now
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I'm running. I sit down with Steve, the guy who
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: owns the Mets, Steve Cohen, Zach Cabot. Love him. Love
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: his wife. Alex, real sweethearts. I've been with them all
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: over the place with them. And then all of a
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: sudden he says to me, Bo, if you run for mayor,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: you've got to run as a Democrat. I said, I
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: don't care if I'm a Democrat, Republican. I know what
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: this city needs, and I'll fight, and I'm a fighter.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden I meet with Ken Langone,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: my dear friend from Home Depot. He says the same thing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So now I change my party, but I also check independently.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know you can't check two boxes, but it's
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: happened all the time. And I run, and then David
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Goodman from the New York Times calls me and said, Bo,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: you're not on any line. So I look. I call
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: up the head of the Board of Elections, who was
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Big Bird de Blasio's guy. Next thing he goes, well,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: we're sending you an affidavit. Get it in all rights.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: We'll put you right on the thing. I do everything.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Two months, three months go by. I call him back up.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: He was brought in by Big Bird de Blasio. Mm-hmm.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: He goes, well, we had a meeting. Mr. Dietl, you're
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: not going to be a Democrat, nor you're a Republican.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You won't have any lying in this mayor race. You
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: know what, that fella? So I sued $ 40, 000 to the
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: frigging lawyer, and he tells me, don't worry, boy, I've
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: handled these many times. First stop, Supreme Court. Who's there?
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: de Blasio's general counsel with two lawyers in my courtroom.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: And they talk to the judge. Judge goes, we don't
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: need a hearing. I've made my decision, Mr. Dietl. This
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: mayor run, you don't have a party line. Then I
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: went to appellate court, same thing. And the court of appeals,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking about, the little guys. And we
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: can see it happening right now. And I'm not a
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Trump sucker. I know Trump 40 years. If he shut
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: his frigging mouth, he would have gotten reelected. His personality,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: his attitude is the reason why he wasn't reelected. And
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: he did great things. But the point is, when you
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: have somebody with a big mouth like that, nobody wants
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: to vote for him. And he did good, good things.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: But in reality, in reality, like de Blasio, he destroyed
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: the city. They robbed money. There was bribery for the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: two guys in Brooklyn. They got convicted. Bribery has two
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: points to it. The bribery and the bribe receiver. That
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: was Bill de Blasio. And they never arrested him for him.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Then a billion and a half dollars, him and his
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: lovely wife with Operation Thrive. What would you do with
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the billion and a half dollars?
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Nobody's investigating. And look what's going on. It's coming out
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: right now. And again, I'm not a Trump sucker. But
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: what's coming out, what the FBI did against him, you
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: or I. should not be politically enforced by the FBI
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: or the Department of Justice. And it's Merrick Garland, this
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: piece of garbage, who stops me from doing things that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I can save people on the streets tomorrow if they
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: would prosecute people carrying guns who are convicted. and federally
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: charge them with the gun laws, they'll go away for
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: 10 to 15 years, and we should start in New
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: York City, and it could go across the country. 21,000
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: people were killed in 2022. Majority of 80% were black-on-black
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: with small guns, not machine guns, not AR-15s. Nobody wants
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: to deal with the facts. And then when you have
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter that rioted, beat people up, did everything awesome,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: and were never prosecuted, And they take the heart and
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: soul against our police officers the way where they're not
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: doing their jobs because they don't want to lose their job.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: There's so many things. I'm still here. I'm still fighting.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You know what? One day on the streets of New York,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: I'll probably meet my demise because I am not going
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: to get robbed. And I tell you right now, if
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: somebody thinks they're going to rob me or kill me,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: he'll know that they're going to be in a battle.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: That's all I'll tell you.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to see be the next mayor?
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Or who do you think would do a good job?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm still praying for Eric Adams. I was with
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Eric Adams from the beginning when he became a state senator.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed, but I'm not giving up on him.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I texted him today. I text him every day. I'm
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: still not giving up. I just got to grab him.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I grabbed him at my friend's house. We were over
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: at the Trump International. My friend has a penthouse up there,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: a billionaire guy. So we were out drinking. I was
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: with the mayor. And we're looking, overlooking the city, all
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the lights. And I grabbed him. by his shoulder. I said, look, Mr. Mayor,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: this is your city. If you straighten this out, you
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: could be the president. I playfully slapped him in the face.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I said, look it. I did. But I didn't mean
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: to hurt him. And I didn't hurt him. But that's
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the way kind of guy. He knew it was a
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: playful slap. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: So I want to ask you about your thoughts on
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: crime and safety in New York City. What are your thoughts?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: on what's going on. Let's talk about the subways.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: For example. Crime is really, really bad. Everybody says, how
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: do you know? I went through the 70s and 80s.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I know crime. The only difference was we were able
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: to lock up these gangbangs. And they said, oh, the
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: murder rate's down. Yeah, the murder rate's down because half
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: of them killed off each other. And that's why the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: murder rate is down. But the real facts are people
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: are not even reporting it. And when they get a
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: 70% of people That were, what's that thing in Jersey,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: that famous college, Siena College. Siena? Siena College. It was
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: probably 70%, including my sons, my daughter, my grandson, who
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: lives in this city. are so fearful about crime. Fear,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: and you know what? You can use all the statistics.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: They downgrade the crimes. A robbery, they make it to
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a loss. They downgrade all these. These statistics mean bullshit.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: What a person is feeling. When I talk to people,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: when I talk to people who are scared, I'm scared
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: for them. I'm not scared for them. I'm not scared
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: of nothing. But I'm scared for you. I'm scared for
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: my grandson, my daughters, my sons. And all the people
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: that work for me and the people in New York City,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: that's fear. And please, Mr. Mayor, you've got to deal
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: with this. And I do have answers. And I don't
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: want to be deputy mayor, deputy commissioner. I don't want
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: to be none of that. I run a big business.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of security guards that we do
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: major events, major things. I have an investigative division. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: want to be a consultant, but I also want the
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: permission to have some sort of a title where I
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: could go to the U.S. attorney that controls the Southern
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: and Eastern District of New York City and sit down
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: with the attorney general. These are the AUSA. But the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: problem is Garland, this fool, Garland, this fool, don't want
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: them to prosecute these gun cases. Why? Why? Because they're
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: black and it's going to be a racial thing. No, no, no, no.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: If he's Chinese, if he's Jewish, if he's white, he's Italian.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: You carry a gun and you're a convicted felon. Bye-bye, dickhead.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: You go away for 10 or 15 years. If we
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: start to do that, you'll see the shootings will stop.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: The shootings will stop and it'll go across the city.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Look at even my friend, 50 Cent, who was a
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: drug dealer from Brooklyn. I know him as another name.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I like 50 Cent a lot. And the next time
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: you see him, I'm going to go hug and kiss him.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: He came out and said what they did in Los
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Angeles with the bail reform, Los Angeles is going to
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: be destroyed. Now, this is from a gangbanger. And he
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: has come to the conclusion when 50 Cent says it,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: I think there's something there.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: What do you think about Yousef Salam, one of the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: five teenagers convicted and sentenced to prison in the Central
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Park jogger case?
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: That was the Central Park five. Yeah. I know it
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: very well.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you do.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Linda Fairstein was the sex crime DA that handled the
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: case with those two scumbags that raped my nun. She
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: handled it. One of the best. And a guy named
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Mike Sheen did the investigation, which I spoke to many
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: times about the case. They were in the park. They
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: were wiling. They were beating people up. They were robbing people.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: But when they beat up that young girl, they left it.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: They didn't rape her. Probably one of them couldn't get
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: a heart on whatever it was. And then little Julio Gonzalez,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: whatever his name was, walked along and then he had
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: a consummation and he raped her and they found the DNA.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: And then they give these guys $ 50 billion. The guy's
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: going to be a councilman. I mean, it's so ridiculous.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: So ridiculous. They were not little altar boys in Central
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Park having fun that night. Got it. And that pisses
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: me off. We just give money away. And the biggest problem,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: we're up to 100,000 in New York City, 100,000 illegals,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: $ 400 a night. The budget was supposed to be, I think,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: $ 105 billion with federal money statement. It's going to be
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: $ 115 million. We're going to have 100,000 free food. They
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: don't like the food. Then they come here, they get this,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: they get free medical. And my poor homeless people have
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: been on the street for 50, I mean, every year.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: We did nothing for them. America first. The people were here.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: And my veterans. My veterans. I am a major veteran proponent.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: We talked about crime.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: That was one more thing I told Trump to his face.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: You got some big mouth when you talk against Senator McCain.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: You're a draft dodger. You never went in service. McCain
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: was locked up for seven years. How dare you call
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: him a loser? He was a veteran. He got mad
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: at me when I went at him. But you know what?
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I stand by that. Every veteran out there, I respect.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: I respect cops and especially veterans. Yeah.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: As I was going to say, we were talking about
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: crime within the city. But what are your thoughts about
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: terrorist attacks on New York. Obviously, we experienced something with 9-11.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I was there.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Tell me where you were doing 9-11.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: I was in my office. I wore a suit every day.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I was an iron worker on the World Trade Center.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: When it happened, we saw the buildings then implode, and
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: they weren't built to implode. They didn't have any good
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: structural steel in the center. That's a whole other story
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: that I know about. And I also was accused then
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: because I had a relationship with Saudi Arabia. I used
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: to do some bodyguard, and I was accused of being in,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: I owned a piece of the World War building. I
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: was accused of firing rockets. Again, another accuser was Bo Deedle,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: because they knew I knew the Saudis. I was firing
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: rockets from the World War building that I owned into
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: the World Trade Center. I mean, this is all I go.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: My whole life is being accused of things that I
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: don't do. So basically, they came. Now we don't know
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: what's coming through our southern borders. And if you think
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: it's not going to happen, they got rid of John Miller.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest intelligence guys for the New York
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: City police. I'm scared shit about another terrorist attack. We're wide,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: wide open. Anybody tells you any other thing, I'm full
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: of crap. It's only a matter of time. And I
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: was there on 9-11, and we talk about never forgetting,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: and I'll never forget. But the problem here is that
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: we're so vulnerable now. And now you have police officers
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: that are not getting involved because they don't want to
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: lose their job. And they give them a big pay
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: raise to $ 55, 000. You know what a man or a
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: woman who have three children try to live on for $ 55, 000,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: they're eligible for food stamps. And then they want these cops.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: Now they want more things. They want them, if you
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: give somebody directions, they want you to make a report out.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, they beat my cops up so much with
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: this defund. The budget of the New York City Police Department,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I think, is $ 5. 9 billion dollars. They want to take
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: a billion dollars out of it. We were at 40,000
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: police officers. We're down to close to 30. And now
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: they lowered, you don't even need a high school diploma.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: And you have a record. Here's the newest. Here's the
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: one that's going to knock you off your seat. The
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: newest proposal is that they will expunge your record and
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: you can't report it. So when you file something and say,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: have you ever been arrested? No. If you have a
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: misdemeanor in three years, seven years of it's a felony.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: That means you got people committing robberies and all, and
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: their records are going to be a sponge with these
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: fools in the New York State Senate and the New
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: York State Assembly. And Governor Hochul, I call her snaggletooth.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: She's a little overbite. And I say snaggletooth. You're the governor.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: She blames Cuomo. Everybody's blaming everybody. But the bail reform
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: was the worst thing that ever happened across the country.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Everybody's there. And the George Floyd effect, that was no
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: altar boy either. He had eight arrests. He beat this
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: woman up who was pregnant. And you want to know something?
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to see him die. But that should not
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: have been an excuse to honor him like he was
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Pope John or something. Right, right.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: So we have to wrap this up because we have
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: reservations at Rao's. And I'm so honored to have been
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: invited by you. So I want to say thank you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: ahead of time.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: You're very pretty. Oh, thank you.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: But I do want to ask you– In all the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: years since you've had this table, who has been your
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: most favorite guest at Rayos?
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Hands down. I produced a movie called The Bone Collective.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I love that movie.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: And it was with Angeline Gillette and the greatest actor
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: that I feel and greatest human being in the universe,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Denzel Washington. Great father, husband. I spent the week with
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: him in Turks and Caicos with the prime minister at
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: his house. I don't like Denzel Washington. I fucking love him.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: As a human being, charitable, one of the greatest men,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: he is the example of what a man is all about.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Not black, not white, a man. And Denzel, and probably
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: he came up there half a dozen times with Angeline.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: That was great. Then a great one was with Radarhead there,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. I mean, all the capitalists,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Jack Welch. Ken Langone. I mean, I've had them all
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: up there. Every actor. I had, what do you call it,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: when she was ready to pop?
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Demi.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Demi was ready to pop, number one. And Bruce and
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Demi were up there with me. And it just goes on.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Of course, Leo. Leo's the best. But when he comes there,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: all the women attack. I love Leo. And he better
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: call me soon because I'm getting a little pissed off.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Because I'm not a fine-footed friend. I am a friend
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: when you're up or when you're down. And that's why
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I don't like to be used, you know? Right.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Is there one person that is on your bucket list
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to come there or to invite that you haven't gotten
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: there yet?
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Who? I like to have that little freaking creep
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: over there from Russia over there. Oh. Putin. I'd like
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Putin to be there with me.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: To have a nice little conversation?
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, he understands English, too. I think him
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: and I would really get on. When I wrote my book,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: one of my Russian friends sent it to him, and
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: he wrote something. about he would like to meet me
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: one day. And I'd like to sit down with him
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: and talk to him like guy to guy. Look, you
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: love young girls? I like young girls. You like power?
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: I like power. But why would we want to destroy?
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Why don't we be together and make our two countries
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: great together and help each other and help all the
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: families of all the Russian people and the American people
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: work together? Bring us together rather than divide us.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Amazing. I love that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Who'd you think I was going to say? Me. Me. Oh, well,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: you're coming.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on my show. It's
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: been such an honor to get to know you.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Well, it's really nice. And we're going to have a
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: good dinner tonight. And we're going to have some fun.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: And we got David. And then we're going to have
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun tonight. All right.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you very much. Bye.
• 55:14
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• 55:46
  Speaker 4: They think you're done for the day, but they don't
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: know about the drawer. The drawer. Just the one square
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: before bed. Or two, you know. Nobody's watching. You deserve
• 56:01
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• 56:07
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