Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Michael Rapaport | Actor/Comedian | 06-09-26
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- 0:41Speaker 3: Michael Rapaport is a genius. By the way, Captain Mateitis
- 0:46Speaker 3: did a great job. I gotta say that right in
- 0:48Speaker 3: Mardi Supreme. He did a great job. But Michael has
- 0:51Speaker 3: made a career of this one of the real great actors,
- 0:54Speaker 3: and he's hysterical as a stand up comic, and he
- 0:58Speaker 3: makes a great documentary. And later on tonight I'm gonna
- 1:02Speaker 3: be at the Rebecca Film Festival, which I never go
- 1:04Speaker 3: to because it's Denny rowing all these liberal retards. But
- 1:09Speaker 3: Michael's made a doc. I can't wait to see it.
- 1:12Speaker 3: So I'm gonna see Michael tonight. He's also a diehard.
- 1:15Speaker 3: Nick Mannon looks like he really is gonna run for mayor.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Here he is, Mike when Mike Rappoport, Michael, good morning, buddy.
- 1:21Speaker 3: How are you.
- 1:23Speaker 4: I'm feeling good, sid. I am not disappointed by the
- 1:28Speaker 4: loss last night. I wanted the Knicks to win. But
- 1:31Speaker 4: it's a championship, you know, I don't know. You know,
- 1:35Speaker 4: we all got crazy sweep them, blow them, beat him,
- 1:40Speaker 4: stuff them back to San Antonio. But these are champions
- 1:42Speaker 4: and the other games were close, and you know, now
- 1:45Speaker 4: we got more games and either they're gonna have to
- 1:48Speaker 4: earn it, or we're gonna have to earn it, and
- 1:50Speaker 4: we're gonna have to do it the New York way.
- 1:51Speaker 4: Nothing comes easy for New York, even when you think
- 1:53Speaker 4: it's gonna come easy, and never comes easy.
- 1:56Speaker 3: I like what you're saying, and I agree with you.
- 1:59Speaker 3: I didn't feel all that barely about the loss last night.
- 2:02Speaker 3: I wasn't embarrassed by the loss. But as I've said
- 2:06Speaker 3: all morning long, I know you've been listening. I was
- 2:08Speaker 3: embarrassed by my New York brethren, these punky kids and
- 2:12Speaker 3: some adults too, that are taking to these watch parties
- 2:15Speaker 3: into the streets and jumping on cars and hanging off
- 2:18Speaker 3: light poles and even worse, beating up people, beating up cops,
- 2:22Speaker 3: throwing stuff at cops. I said this, I said, please
- 2:26Speaker 3: don't let New York turn into Los Angeles or Detroit.
- 2:29Speaker 3: And we're there and this idiot mayor, this moron Mayor
- 2:33Speaker 3: Smiley based jerk office inside the garden, having the time
- 2:36Speaker 3: of his life while the city's on fire, and he
- 2:39Speaker 3: couldn't care less. That's what bothered me again last night.
- 2:43Speaker 4: And he set the president, the president this winter when
- 2:47Speaker 4: probably the same kids were throwing snowballs at police officers,
- 2:52Speaker 4: which is just unacceptable and completely disrespectful. And he said,
- 2:57Speaker 4: it's just kids being kids. It's a snowball fight. It
- 2:59Speaker 4: ain't snowball fight. And when you enable that, this is
- 3:03Speaker 4: what's next. And these are not Knicks fans, these are
- 3:05Speaker 4: not basketball fans. Now there's no watch parties. And you
- 3:08Speaker 4: can't blame Trump, you can't blame Ben Stiller. You're blame yourself.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Now there's no more watch parties. If you really care
- 3:14Speaker 4: about the Knicks, you really are basketball fans, go at
- 3:16Speaker 4: home and watch the game, attack your TV, attack yourself, Okay,
- 3:21Speaker 4: because we're not gonna have the city burned down. If
- 3:24Speaker 4: there's Spurs here, they shouldn't get jumped beaten up. And
- 3:27Speaker 4: the sad thing about it said is young people are
- 3:30Speaker 4: gonna make decisions at these watch parties that are going
- 3:33Speaker 4: to change the course of the rest of their life.
- 3:35Speaker 4: And that's a sad, pathetic thing. So now there's no
- 3:37Speaker 4: more watch party.
- 3:38Speaker 3: What do you mean there's wait wait wait wait wait
- 3:39Speaker 3: wait wait wait wait wait. I've said there should be
- 3:41Speaker 3: no more, but they have an announced on have they?
- 3:44Speaker 4: I'm saying it when I'm the mayor of New York City.
- 3:47Speaker 4: This is what I say. I don't want to see
- 3:49Speaker 4: young people hurt. I do not want to see police
- 3:52Speaker 4: officers attacked. I don't want to see New Yorker's attack.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I don't want to see people are in Spurs Jersey's attack.
- 3:58Speaker 4: Now there's no more watch parties. There's a few bad
- 4:02Speaker 4: stupid apples always ruins the bunch, and that's what happens.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Yeah, but the problem is, I like what you're saying
- 4:07Speaker 3: but you're not the mayor yet, so as far as
- 4:09Speaker 3: I know, with this idiot in charge, I'm not I know,
- 4:12Speaker 3: I know, I know. But as not only will the
- 4:16Speaker 3: watch parties continue because you are not the mayor, and
- 4:19Speaker 3: believe me, I wish you were, Michael, I wish you were.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Not only will they continue, but now this moron has
- 4:25Speaker 3: announced that July nineteenth, for the World Cup soccer final,
- 4:30Speaker 3: he's gonna put fifty thousand of these fans inside Central Park,
- 4:35Speaker 3: so he's actually adding bigger and crazier watch parties. He
- 4:40Speaker 3: clearly does not care about what you care about, or
- 4:43Speaker 3: I care about the safety of our citizens, how our
- 4:46Speaker 3: city looks, around the country and around the world. He
- 4:49Speaker 3: just doesn't care.
- 4:51Speaker 4: He doesn't care, and he set the president. He doesn't care,
- 4:55Speaker 4: and it's unacceptable. And let's see if we get to
- 4:58Speaker 4: July nineteenth. Let's because if there is more watch party,
- 5:02Speaker 4: it's only gonna get worse. And then the next thing's
- 5:04Speaker 4: gonna happen is there's gonna be a watch Party's gonna
- 5:06Speaker 4: be right, they're gonna send it in. The National Guard
- 5:07Speaker 4: was the National Guard in our streets because you didn't
- 5:11Speaker 4: shut it down when you had a chance to shut
- 5:12Speaker 4: it down, Smiley face dumb dumb. That's why so base
- 5:17Speaker 4: dumb them. That's why the National Guard has come in.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Because New York is on fire because you didn't shut
- 5:21Speaker 4: it down when you could shut it down. Smiley such thing.
- 5:25Speaker 3: I like that, Smiley based dumb dum. So you said,
- 5:27Speaker 3: now during this conversation, you're campaigning, and I pointed out
- 5:30Speaker 3: on this radio show.
- 5:31Speaker 4: Twice now campaign right now?
- 5:34Speaker 3: You are so because I saw you on Twitter this morning,
- 5:37Speaker 3: say mayor twenty twenty nine, so or kidning aside because
- 5:41Speaker 3: everybody's angry. Every New Yorker who loves this city like
- 5:44Speaker 3: you wants to be mayor. Are you one thousand percent
- 5:48Speaker 3: one thousand percent Michael Rappaport going to one for mayor?
- 5:52Speaker 3: Announce it right now? If you are, are you going
- 5:54Speaker 3: to do it?
- 5:54Speaker 4: It's sick? Do you have short term memory loss? What
- 5:57Speaker 4: did I tell you when I officially make my campaign?
- 6:00Speaker 4: What did I say I was gonna do? Please repeat?
- 6:02Speaker 3: You said you would do it right here on this show.
- 6:05Speaker 4: In person while you and me stuff are face with
- 6:08Speaker 4: Big Mac. I said in person, you did say that, Yes, yes,
- 6:11Speaker 4: there's no I'm not doing it on the I'm walking
- 6:13Speaker 4: in Central Park. I'm schmitzen. Okay, I'm getting myself ready
- 6:17Speaker 4: for a big day. I gotta shake off this loss.
- 6:19Speaker 4: I don't do nothing on the.
- 6:20Speaker 3: Phone, right, You're right? You know how I know that, Mike,
- 6:23Speaker 3: you try me up.
- 6:26Speaker 4: I'm a politician in training. You think you're gonna do
- 6:29Speaker 4: the okie doke on your friend? What are you trying
- 6:31Speaker 4: to do here? Man?
- 6:33Speaker 3: You know how? I know you love to do stuff
- 6:34Speaker 3: in person, because now that we've gotten really, really close,
- 6:37Speaker 3: and I love this about you. When Michael calls me,
- 6:40Speaker 3: just see you, folks know this is really inside baseball.
- 6:43Speaker 3: He very rarely calls me, but he does. He's the
- 6:46Speaker 3: only person in my life to do this, the only one.
- 6:49Speaker 3: He face times me.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Why don't you pick the phone up? Sick because I'm naked,
- 6:53Speaker 4: because you're naked.
- 6:55Speaker 3: I'm naked, Mike, I'm at home naked.
- 6:57Speaker 4: You think I'm close, brother, I don't have I don't.
- 7:01Speaker 4: I mean I have. I have on pants or shorts,
- 7:03Speaker 4: but I don't. I know you're always out in the sun,
- 7:06Speaker 4: your sonning Who cares? I look at you like a brother.
- 7:09Speaker 4: I FaceTime you, who cares? If I didn't feel comfortable
- 7:12Speaker 4: with you feel like I'm in a shoot and tie
- 7:14Speaker 4: to face time. My calf did Rosenbergh. What do you
- 7:17Speaker 4: gotta get dressed up? I gotta put on.
- 7:23Speaker 3: You are the best. I swear to God, You're the best.
- 7:25Speaker 3: So you're walking through Central Park to shake off this, Nicklaus,
- 7:28Speaker 3: you got a big day today, and your big day
- 7:31Speaker 3: today is really all about why I'm going to be
- 7:33Speaker 3: at the Tribeca Film Festival later on tonight.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Yes, I'm the screening of my film Am I Canceled Yet,
- 7:41Speaker 4: which I'm very, very proud of, which really follows my
- 7:45Speaker 4: journey and you know, my wife's journey, and you know
- 7:49Speaker 4: post October seventh and everything I learned, everything I discovered
- 7:54Speaker 4: about myself, everything I discovered about anti Semitism in this
- 8:00Speaker 4: and in the world. And it's funny. Somehow, someway we
- 8:05Speaker 4: made it funny. It's very, very, very emotional, and I
- 8:09Speaker 4: think it's very inspiring, and I think a lot of
- 8:11Speaker 4: people Jew or non Jews will relate to it because
- 8:16Speaker 4: it's a sort of a time capsule for some of
- 8:19Speaker 4: the things that have smacked us across the face in
- 8:22Speaker 4: the last two and a half years. I'm very proud
- 8:24Speaker 4: of it. It's very personal, it's very honest, and like
- 8:26Speaker 4: I said, there's a few good laughs in there. So
- 8:28Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to you seeing it. And then obviously
- 8:31Speaker 4: I'll also come in there, but I'm not gonna have
- 8:34Speaker 4: a big mac. I'll maybe have a blueberry muffin to
- 8:36Speaker 4: announce when everybody could see it a worldwide and beyond.
- 8:40Speaker 3: I think you're really shaw all kidding suckers. I talk
- 8:42Speaker 3: about it, but the truth is, the truth is I'm
- 8:44Speaker 3: not gonna do it, but I need somebody like you
- 8:46Speaker 3: to do it. I mean, here you are. You could
- 8:48Speaker 3: live anywhere in the world. You lived in Los Angeles
- 8:50Speaker 3: for many years, but he came back here because you
- 8:52Speaker 3: love this city. You're walking in Central Park this morning.
- 8:55Speaker 3: People tell me all the time they can walk on
- 8:57Speaker 3: the Upper east Side, they see rap out there having
- 8:59Speaker 3: a a Starbucks coffee. You're nice to them, you talk
- 9:02Speaker 3: to them, and you don't want Anti Semitism is such
- 9:05Speaker 3: a huge issue when you really care. That's why this
- 9:08Speaker 3: doc is gonna be so good.
- 9:09Speaker 4: Time.
- 9:09Speaker 3: Have you thought about, seriously, Mike, have you start to
- 9:12Speaker 3: think about some things you would do if you were
- 9:15Speaker 3: the mayor of this city to help some of these
- 9:18Speaker 3: issues absolutely.
- 9:21Speaker 4: Well. First of all, the first thing that I'm gonna do,
- 9:23Speaker 4: I'm gonna force it one way or another in regards
- 9:26Speaker 4: to that because I'm not a one you know, I'm
- 9:29Speaker 4: not running and gonna become mayor just on anti semitizy.
- 9:33Speaker 3: And you're not a one issue guy. You're not a
- 9:34Speaker 3: one issue guy.
- 9:35Speaker 4: You can the city's the city's for everybody, and that
- 9:38Speaker 4: that is what it has inspired me, because he's not
- 9:41Speaker 4: zor On. The moron is not for everybody. He's pretending
- 9:45Speaker 4: he's for everybody, but he's for the majority of people
- 9:48Speaker 4: that he thinks gonna keep him in there for eight years.
- 9:50Speaker 4: We're gonna shut that down. But I want people to
- 9:52Speaker 4: feel safe. Number one. I want people to be proud
- 9:56Speaker 4: of the city. I want the city to be clean.
- 9:57Speaker 4: I want the schools to be good. I don't want
- 9:59Speaker 4: thirty four students in a class. There's no way you're
- 10:03Speaker 4: gonna learn with thirty four students in class. I want
- 10:06Speaker 4: the FDR drive finally to be a smooth ride uptownty downtown.
- 10:10Speaker 4: When was the last time you were on the FDR
- 10:12Speaker 4: drive Sid, I.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Take it every morning to see you know. So my driver,
- 10:16Speaker 3: Gene drives me and Little Wind from Rockaway to the city.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Every day we got a driver at four o'clock in
- 10:21Speaker 3: the morning. The trains aren't operating, get it. And I
- 10:23Speaker 3: gotta tell you. We hop on the FDR off the
- 10:26Speaker 3: Brooklyn Bridge, okay, and we get up an exit nine,
- 10:29Speaker 3: which is forty second Street. And I'm being serious when
- 10:32Speaker 3: I tell you that, at least two or three times
- 10:34Speaker 3: every morning, me and Low in the back seat, our
- 10:37Speaker 3: heads hit the ceiling of the car because of horrible
- 10:41Speaker 3: road conditions. Every day.
- 10:44Speaker 4: It's like you might you don't need to go to
- 10:45Speaker 4: great events. You don't need to go to your local
- 10:48Speaker 4: roller coaster. Go up and down the FDR drive. If
- 10:51Speaker 4: you want to thrill, you want to get scared, go
- 10:54Speaker 4: up and down the FDR drive. I don't care if
- 10:55Speaker 4: you're going fast, I don't care if there's traffic. That
- 10:57Speaker 4: place is a is unacceptable. It's been for thirty years.
- 11:02Speaker 4: So like you know, listen, I'm gonna be realistic. I'm
- 11:04Speaker 4: gonna make mistakes, I'm gonna learn, I'm going to acknowledge
- 11:07Speaker 4: when I can't get things done. But I am going
- 11:09Speaker 4: to do every single thing I can to make New
- 11:12Speaker 4: York City the best city in the world, and not
- 11:14Speaker 4: just in a cliche and not just in a quotations.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Is your wife okay with this? Because Danielle's not with me,
- 11:20Speaker 3: your beautiful wife, Is she cool with it?
- 11:22Speaker 4: Absolutely not. No, No, she's not cool with She's not
- 11:29Speaker 4: cool with a lot of these things I do. But
- 11:30Speaker 4: she supports me. She totally understands why I will become mayor.
- 11:36Speaker 4: She totally understands why I want to become mayor. But
- 11:39Speaker 4: you know, my wife is a very very private, simple, lovely,
- 11:42Speaker 4: normal person, relatively speaking. Like if you FaceTime my wife,
- 11:47Speaker 4: unlike me, unlike you, she's gonna be clothed, fully timed
- 11:50Speaker 4: all the time. You know, she's not any more like
- 11:54Speaker 4: you are, like I am, like right, But that's what
- 11:57Speaker 4: we need. We need a balance. If imagine you ever
- 11:58Speaker 4: had a wife that was crazier me, Oh god, no,
- 12:02Speaker 4: you need to have a person that a civilized human
- 12:04Speaker 4: beings bosing you down. And she will be a great,
- 12:07Speaker 4: great first lady of New York City. Heart. She's smart,
- 12:11Speaker 4: she's caring, and you know, New York City should be proud,
- 12:15Speaker 4: and New York City should have a made it that's
- 12:17Speaker 4: actually for all the people.
- 12:19Speaker 3: Agreed, and a first lady who's not a vile, wretched,
- 12:22Speaker 3: disgusting antisemite like this raman, this mayor's wife, who's one
- 12:26Speaker 3: of the worst people God ever created. One last thing.
- 12:29Speaker 3: You know, obviously you're a diehard Nick Ban and you're
- 12:31Speaker 3: watching this series very closely, but you love the Giants
- 12:34Speaker 3: and the Yankees and all that. Like me, I'm not
- 12:36Speaker 3: a big soccer guy, but anytime the United States gets involved,
- 12:41Speaker 3: whether it's I'm a big hockey guy. I love the Rangers,
- 12:43Speaker 3: but whether it's Olympic hockey or soccer, if the United
- 12:46Speaker 3: States are playing, I get very into the event. So
- 12:49Speaker 3: the World Cup for me is gonna matter because I
- 12:51Speaker 3: want to see the United States prevail. Do you care
- 12:54Speaker 3: about this soccer tournament?
- 12:56Speaker 4: I care about it because it's taking place, you know,
- 13:00Speaker 4: in the Tri State area. Obviously the games aren't in
- 13:02Speaker 4: the city. And just like you said, you know, when
- 13:04Speaker 4: the Olympics come around, I care about gymnastics and figure
- 13:08Speaker 4: skating and all that stuff because it's fun and that's
- 13:11Speaker 4: what's great about sports, and it's great with the camaraderie
- 13:16Speaker 4: that the city does have when you know, like the
- 13:19Speaker 4: World Cup, because it is so many people from across
- 13:21Speaker 4: the world. And even though I'm not a huge fan,
- 13:23Speaker 4: I know it means so much to so many other people.
- 13:25Speaker 4: So I'm gonna be watching the games they're rooting for USA, USA, USA.
- 13:29Speaker 3: Love it on the way out here, Mike, I know
- 13:31Speaker 3: you're out there switzing in the park and we lost
- 13:33Speaker 3: last night, but you started the conversation by saying you're
- 13:35Speaker 3: still okay, So you are still very very confident that
- 13:39Speaker 3: we're gonna break the fifty three year drought and win
- 13:41Speaker 3: the championship.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I feel very good that we're gonna win
- 13:45Speaker 4: the championship. I will tell you this, Sid and I
- 13:48Speaker 4: hate to admit this publicly, and I'm sure all the
- 13:50Speaker 4: Knicks fans of a certain age and I mean like
- 13:52Speaker 4: over thirty started to have some weird thoughts when that
- 13:56Speaker 4: game went away from us last night. And I'm talking
- 13:58Speaker 4: about weird thoughts about Bernard King tearing his knee. I'm
- 14:01Speaker 4: talking about weird thoughts about Charles Smith getting a shot
- 14:04Speaker 4: blocked forty two times. I'm talking about finger rolls. I'm
- 14:08Speaker 4: talking about Mike sweet Lee and all this kind of things.
- 14:11Speaker 4: I had a couple of flashes, but it's one game,
- 14:14Speaker 4: and listen, it's the NBA Championship. You know, like these
- 14:18Speaker 4: guys didn't get here because you know, okay, see bowed
- 14:21Speaker 4: down them. They earned it, just like the Nick's earned it.
- 14:23Speaker 4: So you know we gotta keep fighting him. They're gonna
- 14:26Speaker 4: keep fighting, and that's you'll make it more gratifying when
- 14:29Speaker 4: we hold up that trophy.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Totally agree. Enjoy your walk. I can't wait to see
- 14:34Speaker 3: you tonight. I really can't wait to see this documentary.
- 14:36Speaker 3: You actually make very good documentaries. You want awards. You've
- 14:39Speaker 3: won awards for past documentary, so this one I'm sure
- 14:43Speaker 3: is going to be amazing. All Right, mister Mayor, I'll
- 14:46Speaker 3: see you, and tried Becka later on tonight.
- 14:48Speaker 4: I'll see you tonight.
- 14:49Speaker 3: My friends love you. Mike Rappaport right there, the amazing actor,
- 14:52Speaker 3: amazing comedian, and he is gonna run for mayor. So
- 14:56Speaker 3: that was not his official statement yet, although he did
- 15:00Speaker 3: again on Twitter today Mayor twenty twenty nine. He'll be
- 15:03Speaker 3: in studio, my guess is next week. That would be
- 15:06Speaker 3: my guest, Michael B in studio next week, Rapaport to
- 15:09Speaker 3: announce he's officially running for mayor. The only two people
- 15:13Speaker 3: I know that have said they're officially running. One's a joke,
- 15:17Speaker 3: that's Curtis, I mean, just a complete joke, and the
- 15:20Speaker 3: other is Jon Shell. So Michael Rapaport looks like it'll
- 15:24Speaker 3: be next week in the studios, holthough, as you heard
- 15:27Speaker 3: him during this conversation, he's already thinking about how to
- 15:32Speaker 3: improve our once great city.
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