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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney Joins S&FIM for Weekly Friday Morning Hit · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: See, I have a lot of three-way text conversations. I
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  Speaker 1: have five on one of them. Siggy Flicker and Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Terrace and Stella Escobedo, Yehuda Kaploon, Laura Loomer. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a three with Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. But this
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  Speaker 1: three happens to be me, Joseph Takapina, and the man
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  Speaker 1: sitting to my left, Pete Morgan. And although Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: Peter are both very smart, they're brothers to me, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: and they're both smartest guys I know. They're right there.
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  Speaker 1: They're never really smart conversations. It's about the Rangers, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And they're usually dumb. It's like, you know, what's the
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  Speaker 1: kid's name again? That was, he cost us a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago because the coach didn't play him. Rempe, that
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  Speaker 1: moronic conversation. Or Sir Sturgeon's the best goalie ever, even
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  Speaker 1: though he hasn't won a damn thing in his career.
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  Speaker 1: And that type of dumb stuff. And I guess the
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  Speaker 1: bad news is that we're like moments away from starting
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  Speaker 1: it up again, aren't we, Pete?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You and Joseph, who are just rabid Ranger fans, which
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  Speaker 1: I love that about you guys. So am I. but
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  Speaker 1: live in a world that just doesn't really exist.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You want to fire the coach again this year, Mike Sullivan?
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  Speaker 1: You want a couple cups with the Penguins, but you
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  Speaker 1: want to just fire him too, like LaViolette and everybody else?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: So when are you guys going to come to the
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  Speaker 1: realization maybe it's the GM who's put together bad teams?
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  Speaker 1: And even when they had good players during the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys have proven to be non-champs. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's Kreider, Panara, any of them. Joe has
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  Speaker 1: been on that. since day one. Yes, he has. He
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  Speaker 1: has been. He's right about that. Man, is he right
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  Speaker 1: about that. So here he is, the third part of
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  Speaker 1: our threesome, which sounds really gay, Joe Takapina.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. By the way, way to get my
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  Speaker 2: blood pressure nice and high.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not stupid. I know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Sullivan is not the problem. Chris Drury, like we
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  Speaker 2: just said, is the problem. We've been saying that. I
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  Speaker 2: meet basically between periods in the Madison Club every game
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  Speaker 2: and be like, Troy sucks. We've got to get him out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same thing every– I mean, it's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, Pete, if we did anything so
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  Speaker 2: substantial this offseason to improve one of the worst teams
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  Speaker 2: in the league from last year. And, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter because I'm still going to be there every
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  Speaker 2: game that I can be at and still root like
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  Speaker 2: crazy for them because I love them. That's what you do.
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  Speaker 2: That's what loyalty is. But, Jesus, I don't know. We
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  Speaker 2: could be back in the same– Same boat again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, you're right. I still root for the Rangers,
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  Speaker 1: and I still love them, but loyalty doesn't include spending
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hundred thousand dollars on good tickets to
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  Speaker 1: watch a lousy hockey team. That's not loyal. That's dumb.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's, you know, look, if you have the wherewithal
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  Speaker 2: to do something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if you've got it, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: And if you love it. Like, there's nothing, I really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of great things in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, except the mayor. A lot of great things, right? And, and, and,
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  Speaker 2: You know, me going to a Ranger game is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most beautiful things in my life. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: a hockey guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're a hockey guy. For folks that don't know about Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph went to Skidmore College, which is a really good school,
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  Speaker 1: and he played hockey, and he was really good. We
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  Speaker 1: joke about this, but to this day, he owns a
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  Speaker 1: record that will never be broken, like Cal Ripken's record.
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  Speaker 1: He owns the most penalty minutes in one season in
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  Speaker 1: college hockey history, and now that they've outlawed fighting in
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  Speaker 1: college hockey, Joseph Takapina will own that record. But on
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  Speaker 1: a serious note, We were little kids going to poly. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, his dad would take him, Joseph, to Abe Stark,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd skate in Coney Island. Like, you're a real
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  Speaker 1: hockey guy. So your love for the Rangers, to me,
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  Speaker 1: I find it great because that's who you are. You're
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  Speaker 1: a hockey guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my sport. I mean, look, I love baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I love football. But hockey is my sport. It's the
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  Speaker 2: one I love the most. I love playing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I played since I was four years old and played
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  Speaker 2: in college and had a cup of coffee after with
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  Speaker 2: some semi-pro things.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you did? Oh, yeah. I didn't even know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still play now at all?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I played up until a few years ago
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  Speaker 2: when the schedule just became just overwhelming. And it just
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  Speaker 2: became to the point where hockey's not softball. It's not
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  Speaker 2: one of those sports, if you play ice hockey, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about, where you could just go out there once
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  Speaker 2: every couple months and just get into a game or
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  Speaker 2: once every three weeks. You need to be in skating conditions.
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  Speaker 2: Skating condition, even in a men's league, is very different
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  Speaker 2: than any other type of condition. It is, right.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. Well, just so you know. Just so
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I can't play like that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But another popular talk show host in this city, who
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  Speaker 1: happens to go up against me every morning, he actually
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  Speaker 1: plays a little bit, too, I guess. He's a big
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  Speaker 1: Ranger fan. Boomer Esiason, he called you a pussy, just
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  Speaker 1: so you know.
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  Speaker 2: Who called me a pussy? I don't know who called
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  Speaker 2: who a pussy.
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  Speaker 1: Boomer Esiason called you a pussy because you don't play anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Really? No. Well, if Boomer wants to invite me to
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  Speaker 2: one of his little men's league games, I can get
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  Speaker 2: in shape in one second. And maybe we'll get into
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  Speaker 2: a scuffle by accident. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm only kidding. Now, Boomer loves you. Boomer's a
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  Speaker 1: good guy.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say Boomer loves you. He invited
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  Speaker 2: you to his charity baseball thing.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, he's a good guy. Boomer's a good guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Carton guy first before Boomer, but Boomer's a
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  Speaker 1: good guy.
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  Speaker 2: I like Carton, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Boomer and Carton thing, and there was
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  Speaker 2: that charity softball game, or baseball, not softball.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I heard all about it. You pitched that day.
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  Speaker 1: It's urban legend. I know. Exactly. I know.
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  Speaker 2: John Franco was like, damn, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Carton still talks about you pitching to this day.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get ready for the Rangers. I'm looking across
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  Speaker 1: the glass at my guy Lou, my brother Lou Rapinoe.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big Islander fan, so he can't wait, and
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  Speaker 1: they suck too. And I like John Ledecky. He's a
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  Speaker 1: terrific guy, but they're not going anywhere either. But, look,
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  Speaker 1: let's move away from this for one second. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about what I saw yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: was invited.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. Hold on. Before what you saw yesterday, unless
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  Speaker 2: you're going to tell me about your first row seat,
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  Speaker 2: which is insane. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Insane.
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  Speaker 2: You sat first row? I did.
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  Speaker 1: Well, up in the gallery because you can't sit downstairs.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Right. But you're sitting front row in the gallery.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. VIP as you get. I mean, you should
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  Speaker 2: really consider replacing him as prime minister. After you fix
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  Speaker 2: New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. This week, I've already been asked to
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  Speaker 1: run for mayor, president, and prime minister now. But what
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  Speaker 1: I saw was, I was outside for about 40 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and clearly you heard the whole conversation because you just
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  Speaker 1: repeated some of it. And I got into a war
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  Speaker 1: of words a couple of times. The cops had to
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  Speaker 1: calm me down with these filthy, stinking, lying, low-life, pro-Palestinian,
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  Speaker 1: Susan Sarandon, fat, stupid morons who just lie every day
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  Speaker 1: about what Israel is doing. They just lie and they
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  Speaker 1: just don't care because it seems to be the chic
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  Speaker 1: thing to do when they bottle these podcasters. There's no data.
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  Speaker 1: There's no proof. There's nobody with a half a brain
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  Speaker 1: who's out there that can actually say, hey, you know
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  Speaker 1: what Mamdani is saying is right. You know, Israelis are
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  Speaker 1: just killing innocent Palestinians. That doesn't exist. Doesn't matter. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so they arrest a whole bunch of these morons yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But there's nothing there to keep or might. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be you go there, you get
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  Speaker 1: the right job, you go right home, basically.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. I mean, that's what it is. It's a
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  Speaker 2: DAT or it's a quick boom and you're gone. Look,
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing about that. Everyone has a right to protest.
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  Speaker 2: Protest Netanyahu. Protest anyone they want. What you don't have
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  Speaker 2: a right to do is commandeer First Avenue. Expect the
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  Speaker 2: police to treat your celebrity, especially this woman. has been
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  Speaker 2: celebrities or elected officials as a hall pass. So the
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  Speaker 2: same rule applies for everyone. Protect free speech, keep the
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  Speaker 2: streets open, enforce the law evenly. So an arrest at
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  Speaker 2: a sit-in is not proof that someone– I'm reading articles now, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they were arrested for their opinion. What? You moron. They
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  Speaker 2: were not arrested for their opinion. That's not what they're–
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  Speaker 2: they're arrested for violating the laws of the state.
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  Speaker 1: And listen to me for a second. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: They don't listen. I was out there for 45 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The cops would say, just stand there. You can do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. You can hold your sign calling BB.
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  Speaker 1: They don't listen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And, you know, free speech turns into some
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  Speaker 2: martyrdom story, and it should never. Look, your First Amendment
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  Speaker 2: rights don't come with a deed to First Avenue, you idiots. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So do stand aside. Let traffic flow. We have enough
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  Speaker 2: stuff of this crazy U.N. I hate the U.N. week
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  Speaker 2: in New York. I hate the U.N. week in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It took me an hour to get from my office
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  Speaker 2: to the West Side Highway. I'm on Madison Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just insanity.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just insanity.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: No, they don't need it. It's nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: And it's useless.
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  Speaker 1: It is useless. And Trump was great Tuesday, and Bibi
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  Speaker 1: was great Thursday, but I could do without that, too.
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  Speaker 1: So then tell me about talking about Trump, this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's kicking out CNN and MSNOW and Politico. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's right. 92% of the stories that those networks air.
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  Speaker 1: or negative about the president. I don't care how much
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  Speaker 1: you dislike the president. If you really believe that 92%
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  Speaker 1: of his work is bad, you're a moron, okay? You
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  Speaker 1: just are. So clearly, there's a bias, a prejudice from
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  Speaker 1: these networks. We know it is. It's existed forever. But, but, but,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the First Amendment... You know, President Trump can't
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  Speaker 1: just throw them out. But also, I was told that
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  Speaker 1: they also don't have this entitlement, this right to be
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  Speaker 1: inside some of these spaces in the White House. So
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  Speaker 1: now the judge comes back and goes, no, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. And I know yesterday was a big meeting
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  Speaker 1: with the China president. I don't know who showed up
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  Speaker 1: and who didn't. In the end, I think Trump loses this,
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  Speaker 1: even though I think he's right. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right, Sid. Look, this is not the one. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you fight a bad story with facts, you know, access
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  Speaker 2: and tough questions. You don't give the press a layup
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  Speaker 2: easy victory. I think this was a mistake. I really do,
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  Speaker 2: because this was an easy victory, okay? And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got Fox News even sort of joined in on
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  Speaker 2: the condemnation of that conduct, right, when they pulled the
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  Speaker 2: pool cameras. So I just think, look, I have plenty.
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  Speaker 2: of criticism for those outlets. I really do. They're unfair.
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  Speaker 2: And they're so biased. It's obvious, right? And Trump doesn't
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  Speaker 2: call out their coverage every day of the week. But
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  Speaker 2: when the government takes away press passes because it dislikes coverage,
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  Speaker 2: it really hands critics a very strong First Amendment case
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  Speaker 2: and First Amendment victory. So as I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: You have a right. He has a right to say
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  Speaker 2: what he wants to say about them. He has a
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  Speaker 2: right to fight their coverage. But government credentials cannot be
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  Speaker 2: seen as a reward for favorable coverage. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: the story is turning into. And that's not a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Kniff, who's a great attorney, who you guys are
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  Speaker 1: very good friends. He did an amazing job with Daniel Penny.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that Thomas Kniff is a Dirty Islander fan?
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  Speaker 1: But I mean like a real rabid Islander fan. Like
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  Speaker 1: he sent me a text that he was with Cash
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  Speaker 1: Patel at the FBI yesterday. I know they had a
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  Speaker 1: big meeting there. Todd Blanchard, my friend Jen Harrison was
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  Speaker 1: there too. And he said that Cash Patel said, do
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  Speaker 1: me a favor. Tell Sid at some point tomorrow to scream,
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  Speaker 1: let's go Islanders.
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  Speaker 2: Cash Patel said, scream, let's go Islanders.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is Tom Kniff saying this. You like Tom, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's a big time attorney. Daniel Penny, come on.
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  Speaker 2: No, I did like Tom.
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  Speaker 1: You did? Is that a past comment? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's an Islander fan. I do not like Islander fans.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you know, they're the most fickle fans
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  Speaker 2: in the world. You go out to that place sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: there's like 12 people in that arena when they suck,
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  Speaker 2: which is most of the time. It is the most
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  Speaker 2: beautiful arena, except for the garden. It is really like
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  Speaker 2: the most stunning thing. But you'll never get a real
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  Speaker 2: Islander fan. Islander fans, if they make the playoffs, then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden everyone on Long Island is an
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  Speaker 2: Islander fan. Yeah. I miss the bagel barn. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: The bagel. I do. That was great. Yeah, no, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great place. It sits, you know, it's still there.
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  Speaker 1: It just sits there and they have like these... silly
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  Speaker 1: fashion shows. And, you know, it's funny, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: made a comment a little while ago and I was
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  Speaker 1: being half serious of being, I was half kidding too.
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  Speaker 1: And I was touting myself as the best radio talent
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  Speaker 1: in the world. I, what do you do believe that?
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  Speaker 1: And I do another radio host, uh, take it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say that's just it being said. He is great. And
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  Speaker 1: other radio hosts actually get angry. But what I've noticed
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  Speaker 1: talking about Tom Kniff and I dollar and you and
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  Speaker 1: all you guys is there is kind of this sibling rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: Like I just mentioned, uh, In your profession as well,
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  Speaker 1: like all of you think, and I have already dubbed
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  Speaker 1: you this so you win, but all of you think
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  Speaker 1: you're the best attorney on the planet, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: You know, probably yes. And you have to. Doing what
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  Speaker 2: we do, swimming upstream every day, you have to think
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  Speaker 2: you're the best. You really do. Because if you start...
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  Speaker 2: lacking confidence in your own abilities, you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: serve the client well. As far as an objective review,
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  Speaker 2: all I say is look at the numbers. Just look
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  Speaker 2: at the numbers. You know, that's all you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Hall of Fame argument.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Sandy Koufax's numbers and compare it to Ed Whitson,
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  Speaker 2: for example.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Whitson. But New York, it's kind of stacked here. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Jose Baez down in Miami, like, that's an easy win, right?
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  Speaker 1: But here you've got you, you've got Artie, you've got Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming up next. I love him, too. You've got Kniff.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a lot of big-time attorneys up here in
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  Speaker 1: New York. It's a little more like radio. The competition,
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  Speaker 1: like everything else, is much stiffer up here, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't even know what the competition is. There's
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  Speaker 2: so many things. There's plenty of clients to be going around.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not an issue. I don't see it as
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  Speaker 2: a competition. When Arthur does well, I'm happy that Arthur
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  Speaker 2: does well. First of all, he's the godfather of my kids,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a friend since high school.
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  Speaker 1: No, you love Arthur, but you have said in the
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  Speaker 1: past that most of Arthur's clients, and don't worry, he's
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  Speaker 1: in Cambodia right now. He's not listening. Most of Arthur,
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  Speaker 1: I swear to God, he went on a trip with
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  Speaker 1: some of the Bali guys like Cambodia. Most of Arthur's
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  Speaker 1: clients are his because... You said no initially. He's not correct.
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  Speaker 2: I never said that.
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  Speaker 1: You said that a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: I never said that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no? Wait a second. Who did Harvey Weinstein call first?
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  Speaker 2: Me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Who did Ghislaine Maxwell call first?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she reached out to me, yes, but I won't
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  Speaker 2: take that case. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, that sounds to me like they
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  Speaker 1: called you.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say that. It was put that way.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Morgan said it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Pete could say it because Pete's a truth teller.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. It's just the win-loss record. It's
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: the fact that's all you need to look at, brother.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: And there's nothing more I have to say.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: No, you do win all the time. You've gotten people
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: off that, and you knew they were guilty. I mean,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: you've got to go home and laugh. I mean, you
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: knew they were guilty. I mean, they should have gotten
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: a death penalty. No, I didn't do anything all that bad, but,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, literally. All right, so now what do you
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: do this weekend, Joseph? What's on the Takapina schedule?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I'm heading down to Southcom in Doral, Florida, for the Army.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: I have some meetings there. Yeah, yeah, and then I'm
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: heading tomorrow night. I'm going to take one of the generals,
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: I think, to– The Hurricanes game.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Is he going to Michigan? Oh, they're home for Central Michigan, right?
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: They're home for Central Michigan, yeah. It's whatever.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: So you're actually taking a general from the Army to
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: that game tomorrow night?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Who's like a brother to me.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: That is awesome. I'm still waiting for this kid, Mensah,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: to throw an incomplete pass.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: He has three more sets of touchdowns. Three more touchdowns.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Three times more touchdowns.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Than he does. Right, than incomplete passes. I mean, right
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: now he's winning the Heisman race by 80 miles.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Him and Malachi Toney also, he's the reason I think
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: he's doing that, but Malachi Toney's a different type of talent.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: If we could ever get him on Art, you're Giants,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: my Raiders, whatever, we could ever get him. He'd be great.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Game changer. And I gotta tell you.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: No, but he's also got the kid Fletcher, he runs
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the ball well. I know the Brown injury hurts him
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: at running back, but He's got other pieces.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Josh Moore's out now for the year also. The number
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: two receiver who's a five-star kid. We're missing our two
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: starting quarterbacks pretty much the whole season after game one,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: by the way. But Mario Cristobal's a machine. He has
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: locked and loaded refills, and he's ready to go. I mean,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: we have to win by 75 points this weekend. No,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: and I feel bad for Central Michigan, but that's what
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: we have to do because we won at Wake Forest
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: last week. Wake Forest was a nine-win team. We went
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: at Wake Forest by 13 points away at Wake Forest.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: They're a good team, by the way. They're going to
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: do some damage to people.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice quarterback. Gio Lopez is pretty good.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Nice quarterback. And that receiver, Hernandez.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Very good. Hernandez is great. Yep.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: So look at this. We went away, an ACC battle,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: away from a nine-win team that was 2-0 going into
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: the game. We actually dropped in.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: The rankings by one. I know.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, on the other hand, basically at home, beats
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Michigan State, a one-on-one team, by the same score. And
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: they stay where they are.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: There's a bias.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Miami bias.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: No, there's Miami bias. There's no question. But, but, but,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you beat Florida A & M by 72
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. You're favored by 40 tomorrow. We are, I
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: should say. I went to that school.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Let's go out there and beat them by 45 or 50.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: We have to. We have to. We just have to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: keep plowing it on. And it's not Mario style. He
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: likes to basically put the third stringers in the high
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: school kids and just run the ball. But we get
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: punished for that. And I go, okay, sorry, Central Michigan.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Now you're going to get embarrassed.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I love it. Listen, it sounds like a great weekend,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and as always, you're a lot of fun on this show.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: You're brilliant. We discuss serious topics, but you're fun, too,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and I love you so much. And so does Pete.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Joe.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: See you next week, brother.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: See you Thursday night. All right. Is that the home opener? Yes, sir.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: So Tuesday, they're in Boston. Who's home Thursday? Tampa, right?
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Tampa?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go, too. I'll call you later, okay, Joe?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, brother.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: All right, baby. Have fun. Joe Tacopino right there, the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: best defense attorney and the greatest friend. 48 years I'm
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: buddies with that guy, and the three of us, me, Joseph,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and Pete, have a good time together throughout the whole
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: hockey season.
• 17:51
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• 18:20
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