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Sid & Friends In The Morning Previews Tonight's Only Blakeman vs. Hochul Gubernatorial Debate · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning. Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 2: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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  Speaker 3: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: he didn't make it years ago. Today, Sid forever joins
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  Speaker 3: a roll call of some of the greatest legends in
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  Speaker 3: the history of New York broadcasting and talk radio. The
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  Speaker 3: best in the business, and he's the best in the business.
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  Speaker 3: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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  Speaker 3: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
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  Speaker 3: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
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  Speaker 3: to be one of those people in the audience. And
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  Speaker 3: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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  Speaker 4: As we mentioned, the mayor did not march in the parade,
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  Speaker 4: opening himself up to the same criticism he received after
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  Speaker 4: skipping the salute to Israel.
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  Speaker 5: But since this is an election year, there were plenty
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  Speaker 5: of other politicians there to take up the slack. Political
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  Speaker 5: reporter Marcia Kramer back again to explain.
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  Speaker 6: Marcia.
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  Speaker 7: Or Jess and KJ. For some reason, politics is always
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  Speaker 7: on parade at the Columbus Day Parade festivities. Bill de
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  Speaker 7: Blasio marched but was frequently booed because of the controversy
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  Speaker 7: over the Christopher Columbus statue. This year, there was no
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  Speaker 7: mayoral booing because there was no mayor to boo, but
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  Speaker 7: he chose a special and, shall I say, an ideologically
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  Speaker 7: pure way to remember the contributions of Italian Americans.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a disgrace he's not here.
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  Speaker 4: It's indicative of him being the most divisive mayor we've
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  Speaker 4: ever had.
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  Speaker 8: I want to be a governor that unifies people, not
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  Speaker 8: tears them apart.
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  Speaker 7: Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman not only marched in the
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  Speaker 7: Columbus Day Parade, he changed his name to Bruno for
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  Speaker 7: the day. And while there was no Mayor Momdani, there
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  Speaker 7: were plenty of other politicians on hand, like Comptroller Tom
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  Speaker 7: DiNapoli and Congressman Tom Suozzi.
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  Speaker 9: Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York.
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  Speaker 7: Mayor Mamdani chose to avoid the controversy, or whether to
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  Speaker 7: celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day, by issuing a
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  Speaker 7: video for Italian Heritage Month and celebrating the work of
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  Speaker 7: someone he could identify with, Vito Marcantonio, a left-of-center progressive
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  Speaker 7: politician who served seven terms in Congress from 1935 to 1951,
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  Speaker 7: mostly as a member of the American Labor Party.
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  Speaker 9: Proof that a different form of politics was not only possible,
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  Speaker 9: but popular. Vito Marcantonio's politics were based around the idea,
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  Speaker 9: radical at the time, that the working class had the
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  Speaker 9: same material interests regardless of their race, religion, or ethnic background.
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  Speaker 9: That the fight for a life of dignity was shared.
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  Speaker 9: just as the struggle was.
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  Speaker 7: And while Bruce Blakeman came to the parade determined to
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  Speaker 7: attack Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to talk about Kathy Hochul's record of failure and.
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  Speaker 11: Misery, making people.
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  Speaker 1: Miserable, high taxes, high utility bills, unsafe communities.
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  Speaker 7: The governor's people wouldn't let reporters near her to answer
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  Speaker 7: Blakeman's comments, left the issues he'll bring up when they
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  Speaker 7: debate they use ropes to keep the press at bay. Now,
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  Speaker 7: the governor has preferred to do press conferences highlighting her
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  Speaker 7: record instead of engaging in any direct confrontation with Blakeman. Now,
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  Speaker 7: we reach out to the governor's office. A campaign spokesman
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  Speaker 7: tells us, quote, 100 percent MAGA Blakeman has stood by
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  Speaker 7: Trump every time he's raised costs and attacked New York families.
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  Speaker 7: Your family is Governor Hochul's fight. Bruce Blakeman only fights
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  Speaker 7: for Trump. Now, Hochul and Blakeman will meet face to
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  Speaker 7: face for the first and only debate. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 7: you're going to hear more of the same.
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  Speaker 12: Mayor is ordering the first top to bottom look at
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  Speaker 12: how the NYPD uses force in a decade. And it
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  Speaker 12: comes after the death of Wynne Rosario. Rosario was 19
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  Speaker 12: years old in March of 2024 when NYPD officers shot
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  Speaker 12: and killed him as he was experiencing a mental health crisis. Recently,
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  Speaker 12: one of the officers retired with a disability pension before
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  Speaker 12: ever facing a disciplinary trial. Mayor Mamdani says the NYPD's
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  Speaker 12: review will take place over the coming months with community input.
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  Speaker 12: He also announced reforms to strengthen police accountability. The NYPD
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  Speaker 12: will formalize how it shares information after critical incidents, including
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  Speaker 12: handing final investigation reports to families who ask for them.
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  Speaker 12: The city is also increasing funding for the Office of
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  Speaker 12: the Inspector General by $ 2. 6 million, tripling that office's staff. Finally,
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  Speaker 12: the NYPD will submit personnel information when an officer retires
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  Speaker 12: with pending disciplinary charges. This will help prevent officers from
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  Speaker 12: being rehired by another law enforcement agency in the state.
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  Speaker 12: The president of the Police Benevolent Association just blasted the
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  Speaker 12: mayor's announcement, writing in a statement, quote, the mayor's radical
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  Speaker 12: base wants a wholesale dismantling of the NYPD. And it's
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  Speaker 12: clear this announcement is an attempt to appease them. It
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  Speaker 12: won't work and it won't make New Yorkers any safer.
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  Speaker 5: Authorities arrested two suspects in Massachusetts who were wanted in
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  Speaker 5: the stabbing and robbery of an off-duty NYPD detective last week.
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  Speaker 5: The Department of Homeland Security says they entered the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: illegally during the Biden administration and both have multiple prior arrests.
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  Speaker 5: CB Cotton will get us caught up on the details.
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  Speaker 13: Hi, CB.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Dana. Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: The NYPD says the two suspects were hiding in the
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  Speaker 4: basement of a house in Lynn, Massachusetts, about four hours
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  Speaker 4: away from the crime scene when they were taken into
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  Speaker 4: custody overnight. The arrests come after a days-long manhunt following
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  Speaker 4: the attack of an off-duty NYPD officer last Friday in
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  Speaker 4: the Bronx. Investigators say D'Angelo Caraballo and Snyder Mejia-Baltista rode
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  Speaker 4: up on an e-bike, repeatedly stabbed off-duty detective Jose Mercedes
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  Speaker 4: and took the chain from his neck. The two suspects
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  Speaker 4: sped down the sidewalk away from the scene. DHS says
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  Speaker 4: both men are Dominican nationals who illegally crossed the border
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  Speaker 4: in Arizona within the past four years. Bautista racked up
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  Speaker 4: three arrests in New York City, including one on a
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  Speaker 4: weapons charge. ICE even secured a detainer for his arrest,
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  Speaker 4: but it was denied by local authorities. Caraballo was arrested
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  Speaker 4: five times, including a drug charge and weapons charges. But
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  Speaker 4: DHS says no ICE detainers were filed today. because he
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  Speaker 4: was released from custody so quickly each time. Detective Mercedes
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  Speaker 4: survived and was released from the hospital. The NYPD says
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  Speaker 4: he managed to chase off his attackers despite serious injuries.
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  Speaker 4: But the detectives union says he never should have had to.
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  Speaker 1: He took an oath.
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  Speaker 14: To protect people in New York City, and he does
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  Speaker 14: that every day.
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  Speaker 1: And now he's protecting.
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  Speaker 14: Himself on his day off, out by his car, retrieving
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  Speaker 14: something from his car.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad that this is the climate that we're living
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  Speaker 1: in right now.
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  Speaker 4: Sources tell Fox both suspects will be extradited to New
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  Speaker 4: York City to face multiple charges, including attempted murder and robbery. Dana,
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  Speaker 4: we've just learned ICE has filed a detainer for both men,
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  Speaker 4: meaning they'll likely face deportation proceedings at some point.
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  Speaker 15: OK, now it's time for lefties losing it. And first up,
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  Speaker 15: let's check in with Harry Styles, who's wearing some very
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  Speaker 15: unstylish shorts, giving his crowd a lecture about those mean
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  Speaker 15: and nasty ICE agents.
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  Speaker 16: I just want us to take a moment to think
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  Speaker 16: about Russell Bell-Gall tonight. And I want us to just
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  Speaker 16: think and remember.
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  Speaker 11: To just look after each other.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just look after each other.
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  Speaker 15: Now, you may be wondering, who is this Oscar Delgal
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  Speaker 15: he's talking about? Who are we supposed to be having
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  Speaker 15: thoughts and prayers for? Oh, it's this guy, Oscar Delgal,
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  Speaker 15: who was, turns out, shot by ICE agents in New
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  Speaker 15: York who were trying to arrest him and kick him
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  Speaker 15: out of the country because he's got a long rap
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  Speaker 15: sheet and ties to a terrifying street gang.
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  Speaker 1: Harry Styles right here. I do like that song. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good album. his self-titled Harry Styles album, and that one,
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  Speaker 1: Sign of the Times. Watermelon Sugar is not on that album.
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  Speaker 1: But it looks like we've got to ban this idiot
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  Speaker 1: now because you heard the very last story in the
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  Speaker 1: open put together by Justin Ehrlich. Great job by Justin.
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  Speaker 1: And that is that Styles, performing that song, Sign of
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  Speaker 1: the Times, at Madison Square Garden, decided to dedicate that
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  Speaker 1: song You can't make this up. To a violent, convicted felon. Folks, folks, folks.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that Democrats don't listen to this show
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  Speaker 1: in big numbers. Only rational people listen to me. Most
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  Speaker 1: morons don't. But this is the same thing we did
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  Speaker 1: with George Floyd. Now, George Floyd didn't deserve to die.
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  Speaker 1: And Oscar Belgal maybe, maybe shouldn't have been shot. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't like the fact there was a
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  Speaker 1: five-year-old in the car. I'll admit that. But if he
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  Speaker 1: was resisting arrest, then he put both of them at risk.
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  Speaker 1: But we did the same thing with George Floyd. How
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  Speaker 1: do I say this nicely? George Floyd was a scumbag.
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  Speaker 1: Is that nice, Noam?
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  Speaker 11: That's probably a nicer way to put it.
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  Speaker 1: A lowlife? That's better. He was arrested nine times, George Floyd.
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  Speaker 1: He put a gun in a pregnant woman's stomach. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know there's been a pretty good debate over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years whether he was murdered or not.
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  Speaker 1: The real MAGA folks, they're like, no, no, no, he
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  Speaker 1: died of a drug overdose.
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  Speaker 6: No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He did fentanyl and heroin a lot in his life.
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  Speaker 1: He never died. Maybe this was a rougher bunch. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he did more of it. But the truth is, if
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  Speaker 1: that cop in Minnesota is in physical with George, whether
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  Speaker 1: his knee was on his neck, I don't care. If
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  Speaker 1: that cop in Minnesota was not physical with Floyd, he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have died, okay? But he died. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that you take a guy who's a convicted criminal time
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  Speaker 1: and time again and again put a gun in a
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  Speaker 1: pregnant woman's stomach and you turn the country upside down
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  Speaker 1: for this guy. You've got statues in Brooklyn for George Floyd.
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  Speaker 1: Murals all over the country for George Floyd. politicians, Democrat politicians,
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  Speaker 1: who cry. They literally cry on the day that he
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  Speaker 1: was murdered for George Floyd. Always killed. However you want
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  Speaker 1: to put it out there, I don't care. Point is,
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  Speaker 1: whether you think he was murdered or not, he was garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with Oscar Belgal. He's garbage. Don't say that, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: He's a human being. Okay. Well, maybe that's what explains
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  Speaker 1: why New York has about 16,000. That's a big number, no?
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  Speaker 1: Not 16, not 1,600, 16,000 criminals that they have not
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  Speaker 1: turned over to ICE. You see how much easier it
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  Speaker 1: would be if they just turned over the bad guys,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul, James, all these horrible people, just turn them over.
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  Speaker 1: Do that and Oscar Belgal doesn't get shot. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you protecting all these criminals? 53,000 crimes, murder, rape, pedophilia, kidnapping,
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  Speaker 1: all these by the hundreds, by the thousands. are being
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  Speaker 1: kept safe, harbored by New York politicians and lawmakers. And
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  Speaker 1: Harry Styles, who is a huge star, he's not small,
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  Speaker 1: he's huge. This audience listening right now probably doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: him or like him. Doesn't matter. You don't represent the majority.
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  Speaker 1: You're the smartest people, and I love you all. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not the majority. He is beloved, Harry Styles. Beloved.
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  Speaker 1: He's got little girls and boys, too. that stands outside
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden for days trying to get tickets, and
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  Speaker 1: this moron is out there at the garden dedicating a
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  Speaker 1: song to a violent, convicted felon. And then you want
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  Speaker 1: to know, Noam, why our city, why our state... why
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  Speaker 1: our country has been turned completely upside down.
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  Speaker 10: Which violent felon did he dedicate a song to?
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Belga.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, he did to Oscar.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Okay. Come on, no. This guy is
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  Speaker 1: an alleged gang member of a vicious gang that deals
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  Speaker 1: drugs and murders people. He's been arrested for grand larceny,
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  Speaker 1: I guess assault, battery. He's a bad guy. He's a
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  Speaker 1: bad guy. George Floyd, bad guy. These aren't good people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, George Floyd wasn't dragged out of his home.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy, Belgal, wasn't in church. He wasn't taking
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  Speaker 1: his little kid there, that five-year-old kid, into the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: He was resisting arrest. He's illegal. Why do you people,
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  Speaker 1: not my audience, but why are people okay with people
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  Speaker 1: who are here illegally, which, by the way, means they've
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  Speaker 1: already broken the law. They've already broken the law. You
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  Speaker 1: don't care about that because you don't care about laws.
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  Speaker 1: But then they commit violent acts, and you're Harry Styles,
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  Speaker 1: and you dedicate a song to that guy? What am
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  Speaker 1: I missing, Noam?
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  Speaker 10: Which song was it that Harry Styles— The one I played. Oh,
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  Speaker 10: it was that one right there.
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  Speaker 1: Sign of the Times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Norm. What are you on, drugs?
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  Speaker 11: No, I just, you know, you played the song. I
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  Speaker 11: assumed it was that.
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  Speaker 1: That was just a sign of the times. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good song. He's great. He's fine.
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  Speaker 11: No, no, he's really good.
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  Speaker 1: He's banned, damn it. I don't care how good he is.
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  Speaker 11: That's too bad, because he's good.
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  Speaker 1: So was Bruce Springsteen good? You think Harry Styles is
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  Speaker 1: better than Bruce?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, Bruce is banned. Eric Clapton is banned on
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  Speaker 1: this show.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we had a long list.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these people, some are no names we
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  Speaker 1: don't care about. For example, what was that band my
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  Speaker 1: son loved when he was little? I forgot the name
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  Speaker 1: of them. Oh, well, Imagine Dragons.
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  Speaker 17: Green Day.
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  Speaker 1: Green Day. When you start talking about Eric Clapton and
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen, now you're talking about some big-time artists. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Harry Styles is now on the banned list.
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  Speaker 17: In case someone catches it and heard it yesterday... Yes,
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  Speaker 17: he slipped through yesterday because we played cream.
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  Speaker 1: We did. Eric Clapton, yeah. No one said anything. Usually
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  Speaker 1: I get like a million messages.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, just in case they come for you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because it was the Italian thing for Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 18: So I said it and I went, well, remember Clapton
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  Speaker 18: and cream.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, okay. I did. Talking about Columbus Day,
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  Speaker 1: what an unbelievable parade yesterday. You know, the mayor wasn't
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  Speaker 1: there and I was so happy about it. I was
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  Speaker 1: interviewed by my good buddy Johnny Tobacco, Wise Guys Newsmax,
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  Speaker 1: and I said... Outside the fact that there's like 40,000
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  Speaker 1: people here today and WABC did a great job. John Katsimatidis,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Kelly, Angelo Vivalo, Dominic Carter. I think Cohen was there.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the beautiful Margot. It was great. We did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. And some of my favorite politicians were
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  Speaker 1: there and some politicians I absolutely hate were there. But
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  Speaker 1: nobody got the attention that I got, Louie. You know
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say that, didn't you? You knew it.
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  Speaker 1: Just admit you knew it.
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  Speaker 18: You didn't have to tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you knew that. In my beautiful salmon jacket. The
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  Speaker 1: Cadillac provided to me by my dear friends at La
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  Speaker 1: Familia Cadillac Club. I think they're on Long Island, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe in Brooklyn. La Familia Cadillac Club. Sixth consecutive year
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  Speaker 1: that Jew boy Sid Rosenberg was placed in a convertible car.
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  Speaker 1: To be part of the procession for the Columbus Day Parade.
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  Speaker 1: My amazing driver, Frankie D'Amour and his wife. And it
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  Speaker 1: was just great. It really was. Jen D'Alonso was there,
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  Speaker 1: our dear friend, the Botox girl. We love Jenny. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Tobacco, Vicky Palladino. She was in one of the cars.
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  Speaker 1: You had Mike Crispino. He was, of course, a New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey senator. He was out there. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the parade, you can see the pictures. I did an
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  Speaker 1: interview for TV with both Joe Piscopo and our very
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  Speaker 1: own Vinnie Madunio. How about that, Noam?
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  Speaker 11: That's big.
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  Speaker 1: You can see all the pictures on my Instagram, at Rosenberg.Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: That's at Rosenberg.Sydney. Sid Rosenberg on Facebook and at SidRosenberg19
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter. But one of the questions I was asked
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  Speaker 1: the most... After the parade yesterday was, Sid, did you
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  Speaker 1: bump into Curtis Sleeper?
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  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I saw he was there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he was there, all right. He was standing on
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  Speaker 1: the corner of 47th and 5th with his People's Mayor
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  Speaker 1: jacket on.
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  Speaker 18: Oh, no, he wasn't wearing that.
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  Speaker 1: Still wears that. Still wears it. Doesn't matter. He got, what,
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  Speaker 1: 17% against Eric Adams, 7% against Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 18: I mean, that's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: You know, at one point there was a fan... Right
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  Speaker 1: before he got to Trump Tower, around 55th Street, who
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  Speaker 1: gave me a thumbs down. Now, my car, like the
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  Speaker 1: other cars, were moving very, very slowly. Very slowly. There
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of people in that parade. And at times,
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  Speaker 1: we actually went a complete stop. It took over three
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  Speaker 1: hours for my car to go from 45th and 5th
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  Speaker 1: to the finish line at 72nd and 5th. That's how
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  Speaker 1: many people were involved and how slow the process was.
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  Speaker 1: So you got one jerk off. He's by the Trump Tower.
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  Speaker 1: And he gives me the thumbs down because I got
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  Speaker 1: so much love, so much. Sid, I'm begging you, run
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  Speaker 1: for mayor. You're the real mayor. Look at you. You
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  Speaker 1: look great. You got the Cadillac. You got the great
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  Speaker 1: sport jacket, the great tan. You want New York, run
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  Speaker 1: for mayor. So this one moron gives me the thumbs down.
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  Speaker 1: My car has stopped. So I'm yelling out of the car,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: what's your problem?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: No.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Swear to God.
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: So you engage this guy.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I engage him. He goes, you're a backstabber. You backstab
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Curtis Sleva. So I go, listen, I'm going to jump
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: out of this car. I swear to God. And I'm
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: going to drag you the rest of this parade route.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm going to beat the shizzle out of you. Shut
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: your stupid mouth. The only backstabber in this city is Curtis,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you moron. He's the guy doing videos at the Inner
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Circle with Mamdani. He's the guy yucking it up, doing
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: flu shot commercials with Mom Donnie. I'm not the backstabber,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you stupid lowlife. And I'm yelling at the top of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: my lungs, and my driver's like, calm down, calm down.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: A cop actually walked over. I was literally considering jumping
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: out of the car and beating this guy up. I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: swear to you. And the guy was not moving anywhere
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: near me. He's a coward. But I had seen Curtis
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: about eight blocks before, and I can't tell you exactly
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: what I said. I got to clean it up. What?
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: So you saw him, like, how close were you when.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: You saw him?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, very close. Look, I am to you now. Because
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: my car was basically stopped. We had to wait for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the floats to come off the 47th Street corner. So
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: he's standing on 47th and 5th. I'm on 5th Avenue
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: approaching 47th Street. Pretty close. You can hear me, no problem.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And I look over at Curtis. and he looks right
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: at me, and I said, Hey, Curtis, how does Mom
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Donnie's bleep taste? Just like that. And I was referring
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to his penis. And Curtis laughed. He did. Good sense
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of humor. And then he said something back to me,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: which I couldn't make out. But I noticed some of
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the spectators were, like, putting their hands over their mouths, like, oh,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: my God. That was the one moment, the one Sid
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Curtis moment, 47th and 5th. Hey, Curtis, how does Mamdani's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: bleep taste?
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: Pretty good, right, no?
• 20:28
  Speaker 18: Happy Columbus Day.
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: So, you know, you must have had a thought that
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: you were going to run into him at the parade.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: But that was the first time you've seen him since
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: he left the radio station.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I saw him. I saw St. Patrick's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Day this year. It shows up in my neighborhood. I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: told you this. I'm standing up on a Harbor Lights,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: very popular restaurant. In fact, we had a plane crash
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: right across the street years ago after 9-11. You guys
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: remember that. And I'm standing there with Bruce Blakeman, Joanne Areola,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you know, all the important people. And about a block
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: away is Curtis, and no one's paying attention to Curtis.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Him and his, like, four of his, what do you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: call those people?
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: Guardian angels.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Nobody's paying attention. And people are mobbing me right down
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the block. So I've seen him once or twice at
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: other events. And it's kind of sad, really, because no
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: one cares. You got a couple of morons that are
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: still loyal to Curtis. And they are the traitors. They're
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the backstabbers. You know, they're at the Columbus Day Parade yesterday,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you morons. And the mayor, who Curtis is buddy-buddy with,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: says bad things about Columbus. And you, if you're Italian.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: So those people, are they just stupid or... They don't
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: know what's going on. How can you be pro-Curtis when
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he's friends with the mayor and the mayor hates you,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the parade, everything Italian, and everything American? How could that
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: possibly be, Noam?
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: Well, you should ask that guy that gave you the
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: thumbs down yesterday.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: No, I was in the car. Again, he was behind,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you know, the barricades. Close enough we could hear each other,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: but not close enough where I could actually run out
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of the car, which I did do that. I got
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: out of the car on occasion. and took pictures with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: people who were Sid fans. And yes, Louis, you don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: want to hear this, but as soon as we hit
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the red carpet at the very end of the parade
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: route where ABC television was, Joe Piscopo, there was a woman,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and she went nuts. I actually exited my car. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: did not get back in the car. That was it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And you're not going to like to hear this, Lou.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: She was... Shaking and practically in tears. It happened again.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: It happened again. And there was a lot of people
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that saw it. A lot. And I was like, nice
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to meet you too.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Name one.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think Vinny Maduno saw it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Well, he's going to have to. Well, wake him up.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Somebody call Vinny. Somebody call him. And she was young.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: She wasn't even like, you know, a lot of old ladies,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: old people that listen to this station. This girl was
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: relatively young. And she went nuts. And that was the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: end of that. So it was a great parade. and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the mayor wasn't there, and I think everybody was happy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul was there for the most part. She got booed.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Letitia James was there for the most part. She got booed.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Saritha was there, the girl we like for Attorney General.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I shook her hand, said hello to her. Bruce Blakeman,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of course, was there, and he can't join me today.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He's going to be on Fox News. But he said, Sid,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I would much rather recap tonight's debate tomorrow So we'll
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: get Blakeman on the show tomorrow. But he was there,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and most people were happy to see him. There's Chris
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Boyle on television. There were other people, other politicians, Tom Suozzi,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Two-Face Tom out there on Long Island running against Mike Lopetri.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Mike. He was out there. This Marsha Clark,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I can't stand her.
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: Marsha Clark from the OJ?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, no, not her. I can't stand her either.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: She was so busy banging Chris Doyle.
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: You mean Marsha Kramer?
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's very nice when I see her. She
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: comes here once in a while when John has a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: press conference and Todd Shapiro, and she comes, and she's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: very nice, but I just can't stand the way she
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: covers these stories. I can't stand it. She was actually
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: almost saying what Mamdani did yesterday by recognizing some Italian
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: politician that no one has ever heard of, nobody from
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: 60 years ago, was kind of a nice... ideological twist.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: But it didn't show up at the parade. I mean,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: did you get that from Marcia Kramer?
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: I didn't see Marcia Kramer's report, but she was talking
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: to the Social Security guy, the guy that was involved.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah. I don't know who the guy's name is.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't remember either. Like, she doesn't
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: kill him, you know? And certainly Melissa Russo doesn't. She
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: probably provides oral for the guy. It's gross. Morgan Mackay's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a little better, but all these ladies that cover the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: mayor locally are a waste of time. They're a waste
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of time. They never, ever, ever get tough with this guy.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: This guy, the last couple of days, again, between defending
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a convicted violent felon, Oscar Belgao, he wants to completely
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: reform police, and thank God for PBA President Patrick Hendry.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I used to love Pat Lynch, too. But Hendry comes
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: out and says, don't kid yourself. All he wants to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: do is dismantle the police. He's been getting pressure from
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: his DSA counterparts. and his people there to fire Jessica Tisch, right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: He does not come to the Columbus Day parade yesterday.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: First thing in the morning, what does he do? Same
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: thing that Governor Mikey Sherrill did. Mikey Muhammad Sherrill out
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of New Jersey. She is also garbage. Garbage. What do
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the two of them do first thing in the morning?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Happy Indigenous People Day on Twitter. Some of them Never
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: even got to Columbus Day. Some hours later said, oh, yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it's Columbus Day, too. But they couldn't wait to get
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: up and tweet, happy Indigenous People Day. And I'm pretty
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: sure by a tweet that I saw from Joanne Areola
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: last night that Julie Menon and the city council never
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: tweeted yesterday, happy Columbus Day. Is that possible? No.
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: I'd have to go look.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: That was Areola's tweet at about 10 o'clock last night.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Where is the city council's Happy Columbus Day tweet?
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: Well, my guess is she's right. If she's saying that,
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: she must have looked.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Being I spent most of the morning with Vicky Palladino,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: she was in a convertible like me, not mine behind me,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: but a great council lady out of Queens, Italian. She
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: was there. Frank Morano, Italian, part of the Italian caucus.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Joanne Areola, great Italian. Howard Beach, Italian. That can't be true.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But if it is, shame on Julie Menon and the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: city council. Happy Indigenous People Day. No, no, we don't
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: recognize that here. God bless those people. They deserve their day.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: But don't take it from the Italians, which is exactly
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what you people are doing. Exactly. And Mamdani, Mamdani who
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: hates Jews, hates Italians, hates the Irish, hates the Germans,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: hates them all. He's at the very head of the parade.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Not literally, because he wasn't there yesterday. And you know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for people that are getting all geared up for this
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: big debate tonight, New York 1, 7 o'clock, Blakeman versus Hochul,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I believe, Norm, it's the only one so far, right?
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: It is the only one on the schedule, yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: So, he's a killer. But every time that Kathy Hochul
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: tries to tie... Blakeman to President Trump, just like the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: waste Letitia James did last week with Saritha, because she's
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: got nothing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's failed in every step, Letitia James. She's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: got no good policies. Same thing with Hochul. So if
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Blakeman is smart, and he is, every time Hochul tries
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to tie Blakeman to Trump, I would tie Hochul to Mamdani. Well,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: how about that?
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: No.
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: Well, of course, that's a good strategy.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I'm going to call Bruce at
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the break in time. He probably knows that already.
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: I think, yeah, my guess is he's rehearsed that a
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: number of times already.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Well, just in case he hasn't, I'm still going to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: tell him. And then I'll take the credit, okay? Are
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you okay with that?
• 28:20
  Speaker 13: Sure.
• 28:21
  Speaker 17: In case he's not breaking down right now, listen to
• 28:24
  Speaker 17: your voice.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: He must be. I'm sure Chris Boyle's listening. They all listen.
• 28:28
  Speaker 18: That's amazing advice from my friend.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Fenton McCormack right now is calling Bruce. Got to listen
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to Sid, Bruce. He's got some good ideas for you tonight.
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: Well, that's not good. If he's just getting that idea now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: we're in trouble tonight.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you another good idea. He should start off
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: by calling Kathy Hochul a repulsive hag. How about that?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That's my idea.
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: That won't fly.
• 28:48
  Speaker 18: That'll start off on a good note.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: It'd be great, but it's not going to happen.
• 28:52
  Speaker 19: Why?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I don't understand. When she says, hey, Bruce, you go,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you are a repulsive hag. Or even better, let me
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: get the great quote from Will Ferrell. from one of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the greatest movies of all time, when he played Anchorman,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: this is what Bruce should say to Kathy Hochul.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: What?
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: Yeah, he'll have every Democrat vote now.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Did he write that for tonight? Is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that right? Why don't you go back to your home
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: on Whore Island? Anyway, how about those Mets?
• 29:29
  Speaker 18: Now let me address the economy.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right now, 16,000 bad guys that
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: New York refuses to deliver to ICE. Over 53,000 crimes,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the worst crimes, murder, rape, pedophilia, that New York refuses
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to acknowledge. I mean, right there, the debate is over.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Is it not? Forget about energy. Where Kathy Hochul buys
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: energy from Pennsylvania costs us, the taxpayers, money when we've
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: got it. We've got it right here in New York. Right?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Forget about the taxes. If you don't think she's going
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to raise taxes when she wins because Mamdani's going to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: tell her to, you're somewhere between naive and stupid and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: closer to the latter. I mean, there's a million things,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: but the law and order issue, is a big one,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and Bruce kills her on that. What else you got
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: for tonight, Noam?
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: Outside that debate?
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: There is.
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: Did you see this?
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: Have you been following the Selma Blair story?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I don't care that much about her. I mean, she's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a celebrity, and she went nuts on an airplane, but... Like,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: do people even know... Does my audience even know who
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Selma Blair is?
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: They may know her from... What was her big movie?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You can't even remember it. I mean,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: she's cute, and she's been around. You know the name, but.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Legally Blonde was the one.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: That's right. But that was really Reese Witherspoon's movie.
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: No, absolutely. She was the star of that movie.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Right, right. All right, well, I can move on. But
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: what did she do anyway?
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, she just had this complete freakout. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: it was a flight from LAX to New York. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: at some point, some people on board said she tried
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: to open the exit door to the plane.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You can't do that when I'm on
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the plane. I don't care who you are. I'm going
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to punch you across the face.
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: And then she fought with two.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Sit down and shut up.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: And then she allegedly fought with two flight attendants, may
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: have bitten one of them.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: And then when the plane landed and they came to
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: take her off the plane, she fought with, allegedly, with
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: a Port Authority police officer and a nurse.
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: Who was trying to help her. They took her to
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: a hospital.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Was she on drugs or drinking?
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: Well, we don't know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Well, she's got, I believe I saw.
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: She has MS, yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's got MS, but that doesn't make her crazy,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: does it?
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: No, by the way, this is the second time she's
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: done that. Back in 2016, she did the same thing
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: on another flight.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: You can't put this woman on a plane. I cannot
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: fly with people who, first of all, don't listen. If
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the pilot tells you, don't get up until I turn
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: off the fasten the seatbelt sign, Why do so many morons,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: they've flown before, get right up?
• 32:03
  Speaker 18: You just answered your own question.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Because they're morons. Just sit there and shut up.
• 32:07
  Speaker 18: No, they just want to get off the plane.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I know, but they can't.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: They want to beat you, too.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But they can't.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Some of them are sitting in row 35, you morons.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It's going to take you an hour to exit the plane.
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: Just listen.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I get so mad. I swear to God. You know me.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I get so mad. I'm like, sit down. Shut up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Just listen to the pilot. Don't get up if you're
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: not supposed to. If he says to you, we're starting
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: our initial landing, don't get up at that point and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. He just told you to sit down.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: So this Selma Blair, she's not allowed to fly anymore,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I would hope.
• 32:39
  Speaker 11: We don't know what's going to happen in the end.
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: She was in night court, and her lawyer didn't really
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: have an explanation about what had taken place, but said
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: more details would come out. And then she was released
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: on bail, so she's back out on the street. And
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: she'll have to return to her court a future date
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: to face a bunch of charges.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: What a psycho. What else you got?
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: Did you see a rider flew off a roller coaster yesterday?
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: Six flags over Georgia. He was aboard the Goliath roller coaster.
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: The accident happened middle of the afternoon. A lot of
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: people were in the park because it was Columbus Day
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: and they had the day off. And apparently, you know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: normally when you take some of these rides in amusement
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: parks across the country, they have a moment where they'll
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: take a photo of you and then you can buy
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: it after the ride's over.
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 11: Well, that's when this guy came flying off the roller coaster. Oh,
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: my God. He died, this guy? Yeah, yeah, he was killed. Yeah,
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: I mean, you're high in the air. Of course. The
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: thing's going 100 miles an hour.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: Here's what these people who were aboard had to say.
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: We were coming towards the end of Goliath, and a
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: young black male was ejected from the vehicle.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: The vehicle hit him, and he flew back. How old
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: was this person?
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: Not a keepsake.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Don't know.
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: Don't know how old the person was.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Well, did he get up when he wasn't supposed to?
• 33:59
  Speaker 19: What did he do?
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: We don't know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: I mean, they're going to do a full investigation. I mean,
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: it's not usual that this kind of thing happens. But this,
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: by the way, is the seventh death at this Georgia park.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: So I guess it is usual. I guess it is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: business as usual. Well, God rest his soul, this poor guy,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: whoever he is. You know, the moral of the story is,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to what I do, I don't go on roller coasters.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: God, no way.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to be crazy.
• 34:40
  Speaker 18: Some of these things now that they have.
• 34:41
  Speaker 19: Nuts.
• 34:42
  Speaker 17: What are you kidding me? The astronauts don't prepare to
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: go into space.
• 34:45
  Speaker 18: By getting on those things.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Right, right. You know, I take my family, really, every
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: couple of years to Coney Island. We still live close
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to Brooklyn, not far from Coney Island. And, you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: they go, I'm not even sure if it's still open,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but what is the big roller coaster there again, the famous?
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Cyclone?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: The Cyclone, right. Brooklyn Cyclones, I should know that. So
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: they go on it occasionally. They got this other ride.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It's not far from the Brooklyn Cyclone Stadium. It's orange.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And the thing goes loops and upside down. And my wife,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: my daughter, my son, they're like, look how cool this is.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, I'm like, I want to go home.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I just want to go home. I don't even want
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to watch people go on it. That's how scared I get.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: My fingers get all tingly. I get all, like I
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: start sweating. I can't stand those rides. I don't get
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the attraction. But my family does do it. Ava loves
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that stuff. She got me once to go on in Disney.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: We went to Disney like every month. We lived in Florida.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: We had the state pass, you know, the great reduction
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: in price. So she got me once to go on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: this one big roller coaster. It's in Asia, that continent
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: in Epcot. It's a big deal. And I did it,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't awful. It wasn't great, okay? I did
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Space Mountain.
• 36:00
  Speaker 18: Yeah, that's kind of tame by today's.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. It's completely dark there.
• 36:04
  Speaker 18: It's dark.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Don't forget.
• 36:05
  Speaker 18: I've done it twice.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Right, so people actually stand up and they get decapitated,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: these morons. It's dark. Don't get up. So I've done them,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't get the attraction. Do you like those, Noam?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: No surprise.
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: Wow, okay.
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: My younger kid loves to go on.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: No, who's that?
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: Jeremy.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Jeremy, yeah. Yeah, Ava does too, so. I don't get it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: What else you got?
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: And if it's miserable, you know, it's over in 90 seconds.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like what your wife says on a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Saturday night. That was an easy one. It's miserable, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it's over in 90 seconds. I mean, why did you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: softball me that one?
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I did.
• 36:48
  Speaker 18: What, do you want to take the ride?
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: She's like, honey, I'll take the road.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'll take the ride. You can die on that ride.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I'll take it. What else you got, bro?
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: You know, among the dopey stuff that's happening locally in
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: Jersey City, they have this huge budget gap and they're
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: trying to figure out any way to save money. So
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: the latest idea, I think this is a genius one,
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: is they're trying to make trash collection easier. So they're
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: taking trash cans, those public trash cans, a lot of
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: them off the streets. So there's fewer trash spots for
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: these sanitation workers to stop at, hoping that that'll save
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: them time.
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: They can do more routes.
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: And guess what's happening as they started to do this
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: initial program is people where there are spots where they
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: normally trash cans, there's not anymore.
• 37:33
  Speaker 11: And so people are just chucking the trash onto the street.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 37:36
  Speaker 11: So this is a pilot program. And my guess is
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: that they'll probably likely yank this pilot program.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Don't you live there? I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: This is after, by the way, the new mayor that
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: was just elected back in last year and took over
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: in January, he has raised property taxes 15%.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: And he's the guy that beat the gay governor, right?
• 37:57
  Speaker 11: He did.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Jim McGreevy.
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: He beat Jim McGreevy among some other candidates.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, homophobic people in Jersey City as well.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think a lot of people are now wishing
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: they had voted for Jim McGreevy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 11: Bring back the gay guy.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: One more. I've got to get through while Brian kills me.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: There's a fishing trip off of Morich's Inlet over the weekend,
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: this weekend. Family telling a tale of running into a whale.
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: So they see this whale that's right near them in
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: Mauritius Inlet, and they do what you're supposed to do.
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: They cut the engine, and they kind of just float
• 38:27
  Speaker 10: there and wait for the whale to go away. And
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: they figure, okay, it looks like it's about to, you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: swim away. And all of a sudden, it smacks into
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: the boat full on.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Did they pull off the boat like dogs?
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: No.
• 38:40
  Speaker 10: The amazing part was the boat did not tip over.
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: The propeller was not on, so they don't think the
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: whale was hurt. But, of course, they have a tale
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: to tell of having an incredibly close encounter with this whale,
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: which put half of a fin onto their boat. smacked
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: it around for a second, and then swam away.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: That is awesome. Thank you, Norm. Great job this morning,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: as always. We got a huge guest list. Norm will
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: be back. Lou, Justin, the whole crew. Brian Kilmeade gets
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: us going. Our WABC colleague, big star on Fox News.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And today's a big day for Brian. His new book
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: comes out today. That's right. Uniting the States. Six Crucial
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Moments That Forged the American Miracle. Six Bounders Who Shaped
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: America's Revolutionary Democracy. His new book, and he's authored many,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: is coming out today. Brian Kameed will join us. Peter King. Oh,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I got you, folks. You think I mean the great
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: congressman who's on this show every Wednesday. I said to Justin,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it's Tuesday. What do you mean, Peter King? I forgot
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I booked him. The Sports Illustrated, NBC, amazing football writer.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: He's got a new book out, too. It's called The Game.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Peter King, live in studio in the 7 o'clock hour.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, right, Lou?
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: Awesome.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: Awesome. Great.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Bo Dietl, he's amazing every Tuesday. Maybe Governor Pataki. Maybe
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: John McLaughlin. Maybe a quick hit from Bruce Blakeman. And
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: another great author. His book is out. And I'm fascinated
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: by this stuff. He's been on the show once before.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: His name is Aaron Seery. He works very, very closely
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: with Robert Kennedy Jr., Dr. Oz, Mike Tyson, all those guys.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: His new book is Vaccines, Amen, the Religion of Vaccines,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Religious Exemption, becoming a very, very big story. And now
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the target is on the Amish. The Amish in New
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: York are being targeted. There's a Supreme Court case that
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: backs this up. Folks, trust me, you're going to find
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: it fascinating. Aaron Seery will join me again coming up.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: We went to see the Doobie Brothers and Santana, but
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Paul Simon actually performed the night before. We went on
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a Saturday night. And the night before that Friday night
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: in Bethel Woods, Simon performed. Most of my family and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: friends went. He's a huge name. And, of course, he
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: was 84 at the time. And they all said the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: same thing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: It's over.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: No voice. Nothing. Now, listen. Paul McCartney also. You see
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: McCartney in concert now. Now, I would do it because
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I've never seen him. And I want to see him. Like,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I saw Sinatra at the very end of his career.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Very end. Westbury. He was half-drunk. He forgot the words
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to my way. It was a mess. Trust me, it
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: was a mess. But I can say I saw Frank,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and Frank is my all-time favorite crooner. Same thing with McCartney.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I still want to see him, even though it's over.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see Paul Simon. Not a huge
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: fan of Simon and Garfunkel. I like the boxer.
• 41:55
  Speaker 18: I've seen him already, too, way long ago.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Not a big fan. I like the other one, too.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Me and Julio down by the schoolyard. But otherwise, I'm
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: not a huge fan. But 85 years old, so happy
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: birthday to Paul. Plus, I think he's like a real
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: dickhead liberal.
• 42:09
  Speaker 18: Well, he's a very difficult person in general to work with.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I've heard.
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: Yeah, he's difficult.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: He's Van Morrison-like. Van Morrison may be the worst, no?
• 42:18
  Speaker 18: He's up there.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: He's up there.
• 42:20
  Speaker 18: They're irascible.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Irascible. And this comes from a guy that worked with
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Don Imus. Think about that for a second. Think about that.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I will take a break when we get back again,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: one of our five or six guests today. He's our
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: colleague at ABC, big star on Fox News. It's a
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: big day for Brian Kilmeade. His new book is out.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: He's already authored a bunch of very, very successful books,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: and his new one is out today. So instead of
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: a Thursday or a Friday, Brian Kilmeade joins me early
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: in the week, the man who follows me each and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: every weekday morning here on ABC.
• 42:54
  Speaker 11: This is Sid on Sports. Oh, my goodness! Sponsored by
• 43:01
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• 43:04
  Speaker 20: Justin, I like to hear about your sports updates. Sponsored
• 43:06
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• 43:11
  Speaker 20: built boilers. We'll start with your recap from Monday Night Football.
• 43:15
  Speaker 20: Final in overtime from Los Angeles. The Bills beat the
• 43:19
  Speaker 20: Rams 37-34. Bills move to 4-1, first in the AFC East.
• 43:25
  Speaker 20: Rams fall to 2-3, third in that strong NFC West.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Out in Milwaukee.
• 43:31
  Speaker 20: Brewers beat the Dodgers again 7-4 in Game 2 of
• 43:34
  Speaker 20: the NLCS, jumping out to a 2-0 series lead. Game
• 43:37
  Speaker 20: 3 scheduled for Wednesday night, tomorrow night from Los Angeles.
• 43:41
  Speaker 20: Final from Tampa Bay saw the Guardians beat the Rays
• 43:43
  Speaker 20: 7-3 to open up the ALCS, Cleveland leading that Series
• 43:47
  Speaker 20: 1 game to nothing. Game 2 scheduled for tonight from Tampa.
• 43:51
  Speaker 20: On the ice in Newark, the Devils lost 4-1 to
• 43:52
  Speaker 20: the Ottawa Senators. Arseny Gritsyuk scored the lone goal for
• 43:56
  Speaker 20: New Jersey and routed to the Devs, falling to 2-3-0
• 43:58
  Speaker 20: while struggling to incorporate a handful of new faces.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Into the lineup.
• 44:01
  Speaker 20: Up next for New Jersey, the Red Wings in Detroit
• 44:04
  Speaker 20: tonight at 6 p.m. Your Rangers and Islanders back in
• 44:08
  Speaker 20: action tonight as well. Tripleheader on the ice to look
• 44:11
  Speaker 20: forward to. Rangers will welcome in the Lightning at 7.15,
• 44:14
  Speaker 20: and the Islanders will host the Vancouver Canucks at 7.45.
• 44:17
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• 44:19
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• 44:22
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• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: There's something even bigger. I know it sounds crazy. You
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: can't imagine something bigger than Blakeman and Hochul, but I've
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: got it. Uniting the states, six crucial moments that forged
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the American miracle. Six founders who shaped America's revolutionary democracy.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: My dear friend, Brian Kilmeade, who follows me each and
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: every morning at 10 a.m. here on 77 WABC. Fox
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and Friends every morning on Fox News and his own
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: amazing show, 10 p.m. Sunday nights, One Nation. Now, usually
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Kilmeade is on Thursday, Friday, because we get close to
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a Sunday night TV show. But I bring him on
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: today because I just read you the title of his
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: brand new book. He's a great author. This one he's
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: taking to the stage today. And he's very excited about it.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: So happy Tuesday Book Day, Brian Kilmeade.
• 45:24
  Speaker 14: Thanks so much, Sid. And I haven't done one in
• 45:27
  Speaker 14: two and a half years now. And I've been working
• 45:29
  Speaker 14: on this. I want to do some for 250. And
• 45:31
  Speaker 14: I just, you know, I did all these What Made
• 45:33
  Speaker 14: America Great on Fox Nation and 45-minute documentaries, different places
• 45:37
  Speaker 14: in America's past, people, you know, from everything from Thomas
• 45:41
  Speaker 14: Edison to the Alamo. And all my Rolodex, if there
• 45:45
  Speaker 14: was one today, is now, instead of sports guys like
• 45:48
  Speaker 14: you and I have, it's really full of historians. News people,
• 45:51
  Speaker 14: of course, but historians, too. They're the greatest people. They
• 45:53
  Speaker 14: do this every day, just studying the past. And I
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: just thought, what have I knocked down to the six
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: moments that are unthinkable, that came together just at the
• 46:00
  Speaker 14: right time to make our country what it was? And
• 46:03
  Speaker 14: in the back of my mind, it's people that haven't
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: really dived into history. They haven't really taken it since
• 46:08
  Speaker 14: maybe college or 11th grade American history in school. And
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: just to fully appreciate what our country has been through
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: and the things that broke our direction and the resiliency
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: we've shown in the past to be the country we
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: are today. And for different reasons. You know, I got
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: the Boston Massacre. Everyone's like, well, that rallied for the revolution. No,
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: it's about law and order. George Washington changes tactics very
• 46:29
  Speaker 14: much like a Bill Belichick. He says, okay, I can't
• 46:34
  Speaker 14: square off with these guys anymore. So by not losing,
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: I'm going to win. And he comes up with a
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: brand new way of fighting that and says, I'm going
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: to lengthen this war, and I'm never going to square
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: off with them again. I'm going to pick my spots.
• 46:46
  Speaker 14: He ends up winning the Battle of Yorktown. How Shays'
• 46:49
  Speaker 14: Rebellion led to the Constitution, maybe the greatest document ever
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: written in modern times. How we almost lost it all
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: when Washington burned, and we were able to go in
• 46:58
  Speaker 14: the White House and see the burn marks when Washington
• 47:01
  Speaker 14: literally burned to the ground, and our militias were overrun
• 47:05
  Speaker 14: by the British. The Louisiana Purchase, triple the size of
• 47:09
  Speaker 14: our country without firing a shot. And everyone thinks of
• 47:12
  Speaker 14: Lincoln when you think of getting rid of slavery. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 14: say John Quincy Adams taught him everything he knew. He
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: sat behind him in Congress. And when he stood up
• 47:20
  Speaker 14: and fought the South as a former president, what goes
• 47:23
  Speaker 14: into Congress and what he did so eloquently really fueled
• 47:26
  Speaker 14: this nation finally being freedom for all. So I just
• 47:29
  Speaker 14: thought if I put them concisely, try to make it compelling,
• 47:33
  Speaker 14: that people would understand how special this country is.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Boy, that sounds awesome. I'm not just patronizing you, Brian, because,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm like you, the sports guy. I do
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: have Peter King on today. Not the Peter King from
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Long Island, but the football writer from Sports Illustrated. So
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I still delve into all that stuff. What you're talking
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: about here this morning. This sounds fantastic. And I would
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: ask you to tell me something that you can never
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: find the answer for, but I want your opinion. John
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Quincy Adams, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Washington. You've written books
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: about just about everybody. What do you think, Brian Kilmeade,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: those guys would say today about President Trump?
• 48:14
  Speaker 14: I think they'd like a lot of elements about what
• 48:17
  Speaker 14: he's doing. Because, you know, the first thing, first and foremost...
• 48:21
  Speaker 14: It's great to have a guy who loves the country. And,
• 48:24
  Speaker 14: you know, Washington, everyone brings up Washington says Washington says
• 48:27
  Speaker 14: don't get us involved in foreign wars. Well, I don't
• 48:29
  Speaker 14: think he could have anticipated how intermingled our world would
• 48:32
  Speaker 14: be these days. We can't pretend to exist on our own.
• 48:35
  Speaker 14: It just can't happen. You know, we the parts, the
• 48:38
  Speaker 14: material that we need. But what I think that I
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: think our founding fathers would be stunned to where our
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: country is. But not surprised.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Here's why.
• 48:46
  Speaker 14: I mean, we literally are the number one economy for
• 48:49
  Speaker 14: the last 80 years. We literally are the number one
• 48:52
  Speaker 14: military for the last 80 years. I mean, in the
• 48:56
  Speaker 14: turn of the 20th century, we had about like 5,000
• 48:58
  Speaker 14: guys in our military. We were just getting into the
• 49:01
  Speaker 14: industrial age. And we saw potential there. But, you know,
• 49:04
  Speaker 14: there was no labor laws. There was no social safety
• 49:08
  Speaker 14: net at all. And, you know, we're teetering on the
• 49:11
  Speaker 14: ports from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression. up
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: and down, people looking at our country it's this democracy
• 49:17
  Speaker 14: thing's kind of uneasy think about how far we've come
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: now you know yeah we got a 40 trillion dollar
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: debt we got to handle it but guess who can
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: grow ourselves out of it us guess who's leading the
• 49:26
  Speaker 14: way in technology us guess who's got the number one
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: most innovative military us and guess who's going to be
• 49:31
  Speaker 14: able to mass produce weapons because guess what of the
• 49:34
  Speaker 14: ai community uh us joe lonsdale along with me yesterday
• 49:38
  Speaker 14: the big The big companies aren't doing it. We're making
• 49:40
  Speaker 14: an adjustment. That's what's built into our early days. We
• 49:43
  Speaker 14: have this thing in America, individually and collectively, where we
• 49:48
  Speaker 14: are resilient and resourceful. Yes, things go bad. And yes,
• 49:52
  Speaker 14: we get angry. But we find a way to figure
• 49:55
  Speaker 14: it out. War of 1812 is an unbelievable example. You know,
• 50:01
  Speaker 14: half the country doesn't want to fight the war. The British,
• 50:03
  Speaker 14: we have the wrong tactics for the war. Our army
• 50:05
  Speaker 14: isn't ready for the war. But in the middle of
• 50:06
  Speaker 14: the war, we say we're in it. Let's go win it.
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: And it ends with beating the number one fighting force
• 50:12
  Speaker 14: in the world in under two hours. The army that
• 50:16
  Speaker 14: beat Napoleon falls to Andrew Jackson in New Orleans. And
• 50:20
  Speaker 14: this got the world's attention. We never would be invaded again.
• 50:24
  Speaker 14: So looking at Trump, he'd be unorthodox. He'd be boisterous.
• 50:30
  Speaker 14: People like Alexander Hamilton wanted a strong president. In the South,
• 50:34
  Speaker 14: they didn't. So there would be different ideas of what
• 50:38
  Speaker 14: the president should be, much like today. The other thing,
• 50:41
  Speaker 14: I got news for you, America. We've always been arguing.
• 50:44
  Speaker 14: Do you know Alexander Hamilton was against the Louisiana Purchase?
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:47
  Speaker 14: He said, why do I want to do that? It's
• 50:50
  Speaker 14: going to cheapen. My property is no longer worth as
• 50:53
  Speaker 14: much because you just bought twice as much. Now, that's
• 50:55
  Speaker 14: the guy with the vision. So we've always been arguing
• 50:58
  Speaker 14: about stuff. But that's what the whole system is meant
• 51:01
  Speaker 14: to be. Because in the end, we're supposed to compromise
• 51:05
  Speaker 14: and try to get the best we can as quick
• 51:10
  Speaker 14: as we can. But we stopped compromising. I think that'd
• 51:13
  Speaker 14: be the biggest disappointment. So, Sid, you and I argue.
• 51:15
  Speaker 14: In the end, we're going to get something done, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 14: then we go, okay, what can we get done? Now
• 51:19
  Speaker 14: we argue, and we just say, I'm going to wait
• 51:21
  Speaker 14: for the next election.
• 51:22
  Speaker 13: Really?
• 51:23
  Speaker 14: So we don't do deals anymore. So we go, okay,
• 51:25
  Speaker 14: I'm just going to do it in 50 votes.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: We don't do deals.
• 51:28
  Speaker 14: So very few Democrats ever come to Republicans, almost zero
• 51:32
  Speaker 14: except Fetterman, and very few Republicans ever join Democrats. That's
• 51:36
  Speaker 14: the one difference back then. They were angry, but they
• 51:39
  Speaker 14: would do deals.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: True. Uniting the States is the name of the book.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle. Brian Kilmeade,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: go out and buy that book today. Today we'll get
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to the theater part of it at the end of
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: this conversation. But you talk about Republicans and Democrats. Let's
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: face it. There's a couple of people here. Mike Lawler,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Rockland County. He doesn't win there. He's going to win again.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: He's going to beat Kate Conley. He doesn't win there
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: without some Democrats and independents voting for him. Same thing
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: with Bruce Blakeman. You know you live in Nassau County.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: He's got plenty of Democrats and independents voting for him.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: So tonight's the big debate. I was at the parade yesterday.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: The governor, Kathy Hochul, for the most part, was booed.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: She was not cheered. Walking down Fifth Avenue with that
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: disgusting Letitia James. My God, was that grotesque. But tonight's
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: a big debate. What do you expect to hear? I mean, look,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: you got one piece here where Bruce Blakeman can really
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: hammer her. You know the story. 16,000 criminals that were
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: not handed over to ICE by New York, responsible for
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: about 53,000 crimes. If I'm Bruce Blakeman, I hammer that home.
• 52:48
  Speaker 14: Bruce is capable of doing this.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: We all know it.
• 52:49
  Speaker 14: He's going to be joining us today on Fox & Friends.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: So.
• 52:54
  Speaker 14: I think Bruce has got to score, though. A tie
• 52:57
  Speaker 14: doesn't do it. A slight win doesn't do it. He's
• 52:59
  Speaker 14: got to score. And it's possible because she's not good.
• 53:03
  Speaker 14: I mean, they're like Cuomo. Whatever you want to say
• 53:05
  Speaker 14: about Cuomo, he's good on his feet. So he's not
• 53:08
  Speaker 14: going to ever be dumbfounded where his jaw is on
• 53:09
  Speaker 14: the ground. You know, there's Bill Clinton and Donald Trump
• 53:12
  Speaker 14: and Hillary Clinton, those people.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: She's not good.
• 53:16
  Speaker 14: So you hit her with facts because her track record
• 53:18
  Speaker 14: is so terrible.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: You let them know.
• 53:20
  Speaker 14: And what I want Bruce Blakeman to do is don't
• 53:23
  Speaker 14: have to imagine what he would do if he was governor.
• 53:26
  Speaker 14: Look at Nassau County. Nassau County is not red. Nassau
• 53:30
  Speaker 14: County is purple. Believe me, Massapeak was red where I'm from.
• 53:34
  Speaker 14: Most part, not everybody. But he's got to win people
• 53:38
  Speaker 14: over that didn't vote for him. And first thing he
• 53:40
  Speaker 14: said is law and order. And that's what he wants
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: to get the quality of life up.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Look out for the people. Fine.
• 53:47
  Speaker 14: He goes to every event and listens to people and responds.
• 53:51
  Speaker 14: I never hear him go, oh, do you vote for me? Oh,
• 53:53
  Speaker 14: are you a Democrat? Are you a Republican? So he
• 53:55
  Speaker 14: knows how to do it. I would make Nassau County.
• 53:59
  Speaker 14: I would make say examine Nassau County. Look at my
• 54:01
  Speaker 14: record against hers, because as they say, NASA is as
• 54:04
  Speaker 14: dense as more dense in 15 states with a higher population.
• 54:09
  Speaker 14: You really could say that he's running a small state
• 54:11
  Speaker 14: in America. So I would do that. But he's got
• 54:14
  Speaker 14: to go on the offense and make her defend Mondami's
• 54:17
  Speaker 14: record because she has adhered herself to him. And if
• 54:20
  Speaker 14: she and if he is going to and if she's
• 54:22
  Speaker 14: going to survive, she's got to criticize him. Make it
• 54:26
  Speaker 14: Mondami's record. Unless, until further notice, unless he wants to,
• 54:31
  Speaker 14: unless she wants to say, I don't agree with him here,
• 54:34
  Speaker 14: I don't agree with him there. Because that's where he's
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: got to inform people. Don't bring up Republican. Just say,
• 54:41
  Speaker 14: I'm looking to govern the state. Don't even bring up
• 54:44
  Speaker 14: the party. Don't even worry about what party I'm at.
• 54:46
  Speaker 14: I'm just going to try to help Syracuse. And I'm
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: going to try to help Selden. And I'm going to
• 54:50
  Speaker 14: try to help Manhattan. And what I'm going to try
• 54:52
  Speaker 14: to do is make your lives easier. And I'm going
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: to make your lives more secure. So that's what I'm
• 54:57
  Speaker 14: looking to do. I'm not looking to get famous. I'm
• 55:00
  Speaker 14: not looking to get rich. I'm looking to be effective.
• 55:02
  Speaker 14: And if you want to see effective, all I ask
• 55:05
  Speaker 14: you to do is examine Nassau County and why I
• 55:09
  Speaker 14: won again in a purple area.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Answer this for me, Brian, quickly before you wrap this
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: up is Elon Omar. in serious trouble. The DOJ raided
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: her Washington, D.C. residence yesterday. I'm sure you already saw
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Mamdani defending, defending Ilhan Omar, calling it a terrible raid
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: on Twitter yesterday. He's such a piece of trash, this mayor.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Just complete garbage. I was so happy he never came
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: to the Columbus Day Parade yesterday because I was not
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: going to go if he was there. But is Ilhan
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Omar in serious trouble? I think she is.
• 55:45
  Speaker 14: I don't think they would ever have done this raid
• 55:47
  Speaker 14: and got the warrant from a judge in Washington, D.C.
• 55:53
  Speaker 11: In D.C.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: To go in there.
• 55:56
  Speaker 14: That means there's a reasonable cause to go in and
• 55:59
  Speaker 14: raid her apartment. Now, a lot of people said, wow,
• 56:02
  Speaker 14: when they went into John Bolton's house, man, the president's
• 56:04
  Speaker 14: being petty. He's so angry at him for being his
• 56:07
  Speaker 14: former advisor and turning on him. And it turns out
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: he had documents to the point where I think he's
• 56:11
  Speaker 14: going to serve jail time. And all I can tell
• 56:14
  Speaker 14: you is, There's certain things where Trump says things and
• 56:17
  Speaker 14: you go, oh, that's a little careless or he's kind
• 56:18
  Speaker 14: of winging it. But when it comes to this stuff,
• 56:22
  Speaker 14: the law enforcement's pretty buttoned up. The Department of Justice
• 56:24
  Speaker 14: knows it's their report card. It's not Trump's. So if
• 56:27
  Speaker 14: there isn't a lot here, it's not going to be
• 56:29
  Speaker 14: on Trump. It's going to be on the Department of Justice.
• 56:32
  Speaker 14: It's going to be on the FBI. So I thoroughly
• 56:34
  Speaker 14: believe it. And I got a heads up that it's
• 56:36
  Speaker 14: not just immigration. It's the fraud. And keep your eye
• 56:41
  Speaker 14: on the fraud. And I just, you know, looking at
• 56:43
  Speaker 14: all the fraud and all the arrests, you forget how
• 56:45
  Speaker 14: many people around her were arrested and were caught with
• 56:50
  Speaker 14: millions of dollars. And they're still trying to track it
• 56:53
  Speaker 14: back to Somalia. And they're looking at the dad and
• 56:56
  Speaker 14: who we fought for and how old she was when
• 56:58
  Speaker 14: she got here. And she's under 17. She can become
• 57:01
  Speaker 14: an immigrant when her dad becomes naturalized. But if she's
• 57:04
  Speaker 14: over 18, she has to do her own immigration path,
• 57:07
  Speaker 14: which if she didn't, That means she's here illegally, which
• 57:11
  Speaker 14: means you can't serve in Congress.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Pretty big deal. I would say so. Okay, so on
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: the way out, Brian, very exciting stuff again. Go buy
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade's book today. It's out today, Uniting the States,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle, Six Founders
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy. We are taking this, you are,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: but I'm a part of it. I'm very excited about it.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: We are taking this to Westbury to a theater. Tell
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: my listeners all about that.
• 57:37
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm going to open up with Joe Piscopo. I
• 57:40
  Speaker 14: talked to him over the weekend. He's going to join
• 57:42
  Speaker 14: me on Red Bank, New Jersey on Friday night. So
• 57:44
  Speaker 14: you go to Brian kill me.com. You can order tickets.
• 57:46
  Speaker 14: I'm going to bring history to life streamed on Fox nation.
• 57:49
  Speaker 14: And I look at these six stories. I also talk
• 57:51
  Speaker 14: about my sports background, bring it into kind of pretty
• 57:54
  Speaker 14: much a very unique show. If you look at the reviews,
• 57:57
  Speaker 14: if you go on ticket master and you look at
• 57:59
  Speaker 14: the reviews, I'm very confident you'll be pleased with what
• 58:02
  Speaker 14: you read. And now just know I totally revamped it
• 58:05
  Speaker 14: over the summer. And now in Westbury music fair, we're
• 58:08
  Speaker 14: getting close to selling it out. So go to the
• 58:11
  Speaker 14: theater in the round and, Go to BrianKilme.com. Flag start
• 58:15
  Speaker 14: over on Westbury. So just straight up to 135.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: And Sid, I'm.
• 58:19
  Speaker 14: Going to bring you on stage. I'm bringing Joe Piscopo
• 58:22
  Speaker 14: on stage. He's going to sing You Will Not. And
• 58:25
  Speaker 14: we're going to talk about what's going on in New York,
• 58:27
  Speaker 14: what's going on with these midterms, your career to get
• 58:31
  Speaker 14: it started. And then we're going to bring history to
• 58:32
  Speaker 14: life in various skits while sticking to the story in
• 58:35
  Speaker 14: an entertaining way. It's a show like no other. So
• 58:38
  Speaker 14: just go to BrianKilme.com.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Can't wait. By the way, those midterms are coming up.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: three weeks from today. Congratulations, Brian Kilmeade. Another amazing book
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: and a big night coming up. I couldn't be happier,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: my friend. You're awesome. Have a great day. Enjoy the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: book sales. Go get them.
• 58:54
  Speaker 14: Thanks so much, Sid. Appreciate your support.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: You got it, buddy. Brian Kilmeade right there follows me
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: each and every weekday morning at 10 right here on
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: 77 WABC. And of course, part of that great trio,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Fox and Friends, every weekday morning on Fox News and
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: his own terrific show, It's My favorite 10 p.m. Sunday
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: nights One Nation just getting started lots more to do
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: today we'll talk NFL with Peter King not the congressman
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Peter King but Sports Illustrated Peter King Sid and Friends in.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: The Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I don't care if you don't love the president, but
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: when you're that nasty, at that point, I have no
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: use for you. So Bruce is a moron. He's banned.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Eric Clapton's been banned.
• 59:38
  Speaker 20: Bruce.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Countless, countless bans have been banned because of their anti-Israel stuff. Countless.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: And it turns out this morning, we added one more
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: to the ban list, and that's Harry Styles. Harry Styles
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, performing a song that I really like.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I like his song, Sign of the Times. I love it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: But he dedicated that song to a guy who was
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: a convicted, felon, illegal, violent gang member. Yes, he was
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: shot by ice last week. That's on ice. But when
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: you have the mayor that putts that jihad... Radical Islam
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: terrorist mayor out there defending the bad guy, much like
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: George Floyd. We have an issue. Oscar Belgal, that guy
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: is a bad guy and illegal with a long rap
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: sheet and violent. And you get morons like Harry Styles
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden dedicating his music to him. What
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: am I missing? You want to be critical of ICE?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: It's stupid. You can count on two hands, the Alex Pretties,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Rene Goods, and no one should die. I get it.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: even if one person dies, but when you compare the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: seven or eight unfortunate incidents to the thousands and thousands
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands of murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: that ISIS has taken off the streets and returned to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: their countries, The numbers bode very well for ICE, but
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Kathy Hochul doesn't care whether you're safe
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: or not. Montani doesn't care. Democrats don't care. Well, congratulations,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Harry Stile. You're now a putz like everybody else. You
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: think he's happy today, Lou?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I think he's ecstatic.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: You do? I just don't.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 18: He's not that educated.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: No, he's a moron. Please.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 18: It's trendy.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's all. That's what they're doing. That's all. Macklemore.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Macklemore is anti-Israel. Harry Styles is anti-America, anti-law and order.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Feel bad for the criminal illegals. That's Harry Styles. Shame, too,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: because I do like watermelon sugar.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Still to come, we're going to talk to Bo Dietl.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: He's great every Tuesday. 8 o'clock hour, we may get
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 18: Well, you didn't make your Metallica points.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, make my Metallica points. You're right. So the reason
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: why we played Metallica there was you're going to make
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the point, Lewis, because you know this story better than me.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 17: I saw it maybe a day or two ago or yesterday.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 17: They were at the Sphere.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, in Vegas?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Where my beautiful wife, Danielle, and my son, Gabriel, saw
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the Eagles.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 18: That's what I just found out. I didn't know where
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 18: they were for a second.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 17: And so James Hetfield, the singer, bassist, He made a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 17: point to stop in the middle of the songs and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 17: just said, Metallica is always going to be about the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 17: hard rock and the energy and this. We're not going
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 17: to be like other, and he stopped and kind of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 17: said it, like entertainers who, and he didn't mention anybody's names.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 17: We're not going to be like that who try to
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 17: influence you with their BS.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Right, political BS.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: He's talking about Bruce.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Amongst others.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 18: And Macklemore.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Macklemore. All these idiots.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 18: We are here to get away from all of that BS.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 18: We're here to get away and to just enjoy music.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 18: And that was it. And they got a good applause.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Love him. Love him. Metallica is the greatest band ever.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 17: Of course, there is a lot of pushback by other people.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 18: Like, oh, they're sellouts.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: They don't know.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: No, they're not.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 18: Their songs are still about They fought against Napster. That's
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 18: when it hits their pocketbooks.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 18: That's when they get mad.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Whatever. That's when they. What's the guy's name again?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 18: James Hetfield.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: James Hetfield. Way to go. You are the anti-Harry Styles.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Man in my studio right now, the esteemed Peter King.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: His new book is out. The name of the book
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: is The Game. 40 years in the making tells the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: story of how football, in a virtual dead heat in
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: popularity with baseball in the mid-' 80s, came to dominate the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: American landscape. And no one can argue that. Look, baseball's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a regional sport, okay? No one's watching the Brewers and
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in Brooklyn, please, unless you're gambling on it.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: No one's watching the Guardians and Rays anywhere, okay? But
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: if you're a Giant fan or a Jet fan, come
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: 4 o'clock, you're invested in the Raiders and the Chargers. Now,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: there's a reason for that. If we have an honest conversation,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: and it's one word, one, gambling. I don't care if
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: it's fantasy sports or if you've got 5,000 on the game.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Gambling has taken football to a brand new stratosphere that baseball, basketball,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: hockey can never touch. And they know what the NFL,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: that's why they publish injury reports. It's kind of weird, right?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Why does Irving and Brooklyn need to know who's injured
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: on the Patriots on a Wednesday? Because they know it.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: But whatever the reason is, it is what it is.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Football is America's game. no longer baseball. And I know
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the great, great writer and so many great years on NBC,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, my dear friend Peter King, I know you'd
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: have to agree, right? I mean, gambling has made football
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: this dynasty.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 21: Well, gambling gives people a reason to watch a game
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 21: they don't care about in any way and never would
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 21: have any interest in. And that's great for the NFL.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 21: I'm not so sure it's good for the young people
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 21: of America who in high school and college are getting
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 21: addicted to gambling. And it's so easy to gamble now.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 21: You know, that would be my biggest fear for this. And, hey, Sid,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 21: 10 years ago, the NFL looked at gambling like it
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 21: was the plague. They looked at Vegas like, just keep
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 21: away from us. And obviously now things have changed mightily.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: Dramatically.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a time where you can do drugs.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: You can hit your wife, right? You can smack her
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: in the face. You can play football. But God forbid
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: they found out you bet on a game, right? Paul
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Horning and all those guys.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: Alex Karras.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Alex Karras. At that point, you committed basically something deserving
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: of capital punishment. Now, that's still the case. You still
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: can't gamble if you're a player. But you're right. The
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: way they look at it is completely different. It's money.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Let's face it. It's money. Roger Goodell. who is not
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: liked by most of the people that like me because
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not a woke guy. Okay. But I admit he
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: does a good job. His job is to make the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: owner's money and say what you want about the woke NFL.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell makes the owner's money because football really, Peter
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: is all about money. It is.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 21: And Sid, listen, you know, you talked about the total
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 21: explosion of football. The first year I covered the NFL
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 21: was 1984. In 1984, the National Football League on Monday
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 21: Night Football, that was the 25th rated show.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 21: Behind, by the way, Scarecrow and Mrs.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 8: King.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 21: And it was a 25th rated show. And so you
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 21: know what the NFL did? They said, we are going
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 21: to have a hot stove league like baseball. They got
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 21: free agency. It was forced down their throat in 93.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 21: Rupert Murdoch comes in. He makes it a far better show.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 21: television product, Rupert Murdoch and David Hill. I wrote a
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 21: chapter about David Hill in my book. I mean, these
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 21: are people who changed the landscape of pro football. Paul
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 21: Tagliabue takes it from being a five-month sport, six-month sport.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 21: He starts expanding it. Roger Goodell has gone crazy with it,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 21: mostly in a good way. But now, Sid, instead of
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 21: being in a dead heat with baseball, the last Gallup
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 21: poll 2025, football, asked about your favorite sport in America, football, 41%, baseball, 10%.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 21: Not even close. And so that is what has happened
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 21: by the NFL making it a year-round sport, embracing gambling,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 21: embracing streaming, and all the different ways of watching. And
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 21: everybody else is in the rearview mirror.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: No, I lived in South Florida for many years. You
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: know that Peter King, I did radio down there. All
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: they care about is football. You know, he can win
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: championships and the Marlins could be good. The Panthers won
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: two Stanley Cups under Vinny Viola. They don't care. They
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: want the Hurricanes. They want the Dolphins. You got guys
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: down there that would call my radio station and complain
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: to my program director that I wasn't covering the combine.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I said, these men or these boys. are wearing shorts
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: and they're jumping over. I don't know what, what do
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: you mean? Obstacle courses. You want me to cover that?
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: And they actually sit there by the millions and watch it.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Peter King by the millions.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 21: I get a chapter in my book that explained the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 21: phenomenon of the combine, but the greatest thing in there,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 21: Mike Mayock, who was one of the people who made
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 21: the combine so big, Mike Mayock said that the first
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 21: year they did it, he called his dad, who's a
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 21: high school football coach. And he said, dad, what'd you,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 21: what'd you think of our coverage of the combine? And
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 21: he goes, nobody's ever going to watch that stuff.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 21: Who wants to watch people running around and practicing football?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 21: Nobody's going to watch that. And then, you know, now
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 21: it's just one of those tent pole events. Sid, The
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 21: NFL has invented things and shoved them down America's throats.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: And you know what?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 21: America says, more, please.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: You're 100% right. So if you want to take one person,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: this is very difficult. I know that. You've got Steve Sable,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine over the years who did
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: all those great NFL films. You've got Paul Tagliabue. You
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: talked about the great... Police commissioner, the great NFL commissioner,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Howard Cosell. Let's go back to Monday Night Football, right? Yeah.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, they had a huge impact on the popularity,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: even though back then it wasn't nearly as popular as
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: it is today. Who would be the person that you
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: would say was really the one that started this craze?
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 21: Well, the person who started and who's the most significant
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 21: person in pro football history is George Hallis. He was
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 21: one of the 10 people who invented the league. He
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 21: played well. For the Bears, he coached the Bears. He
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 21: did everything with the Bears, scouted, drafted. And Sidney lasted
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 21: 60 years. He was one of the guys who founded
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 21: the league, and then he drafted Jim McMahon. That's how
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 21: long George Halas was in it. So he's huge. But
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 21: as far as people who've changed it today and who've
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 21: made it incredible today, I have to say it's Roger Goodell.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 21: Because he basically said, give me an example, 2014, we're
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 21: going to take the draft out of New York. I said,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 21: huge mistake. Every player wants to come and walk on
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 21: the red carpet at Radio City Music Hall. They feel
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 21: like big stars. And then, I mean, four years later.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 21: They're in Nashville with 600,000 people.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: I remember.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 21: In downtown Nashville watching the draft. It has become, they
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 21: closed schools in Pittsburgh for two days this year because
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 21: the draft overwhelmed the city. And so he realized everything
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 21: that it could be a 24-7, 365 sport and business.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: So I think.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 21: He's the guy right now in a modern sense who's
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 21: done the most.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: You know, we have these arguments on Sports Talk Radio
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: all the time. It's one of the reasons why I quit.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand it anymore. It actually got silly after
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: a while. He's Carmelo Anthony, a great player, a good player,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: a fantastic player, a Hall of Fame player. Who's elite?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 16: Right, right.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Is Joe Flacco elite? Right, is Eli Manning, should he
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: have made the Hall of Fame on the first time?
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: Truth is, no. I'm a Giant fan.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 8: You know that.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: I covered the Giants. I did their pregame show for years.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: I love Eli. I will forever love Eli. He won
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: me two Super Bowls. But at no point in his career,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: outside of those two amazing runs, did I think he
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: was a great quarterback. His brother, totally different story. So
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: we argue all the time. But I think of all
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: the sports, when guys go like Chris Russo does. Hard
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: to talk about. It's a different era. And I think
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: you're right. You know, football, you had 14 games, and
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: you had 16 games. Now you have 17 games. Football,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: we saw those bruising running backs over the years. Jim Brown, O.J. Simpson,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: they ran the football mostly, did not throw the football much,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: and they still won Super Bowls. Now every quarterback is,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: he starts off on first down. He's already in a
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: transformation on first down. So of all the games, I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: think the one is, that has changed most dramatically, I think,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: is the NFL, yes?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I think so, because look, even though, for instance,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 21: baseball now has the ABS challenge, you know, and everybody
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 21: has replay now, football has fundamentally changed because, in my opinion,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 21: first 50 years of the NFL, 1920 to 1970, absolutely
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 21: no question that you can't say that a quarterback was
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 21: the best player, most important player in the game. It
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 21: was Jim Brown, okay? But the last 50 years, the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 21: most important players are almost all quarterbacks, probably LT as well.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: So glad you said that.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 21: Well, because Lawrence Taylor became– can I tell you a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 21: great story from my book? You're going to love this story.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 21: In 1986, the Giants were emerging from slumber. Parcells had
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 21: them fired up, and they were playing great. And Parcells,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 21: really good friends with Bob Knight. And so one day,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 21: Bob Knight is walking through the locker room before a
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 21: game against the Philadelphia Eagles. And Lawrence Taylor yells out, hey,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 21: there's the chair thrower. And Bob Knight stops, turns at him.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 21: And for those who don't know, don't remember, Bobby Knight
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 21: got in huge trouble as the coach at Indiana University
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 21: for once taking the chair he sat on on the
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 21: sidelines at Assembly Hall and Bloomington, Indiana, throwing the chair
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 21: across the floor. Iconic video, iconic picture. So Taylor goes, hey,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 21: there's a chair thrower. And Bobby Knight stops everybody in
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 21: the locker room saying, uh-oh. And Bob Knight turns to
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 21: him and he says, hey, you better forget that chair
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 21: throwing bleep. You better go get the quarterback today. Taylor said, okay.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 21: Taylor goes out that day. He sacks the Eagles quarterbacks,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 21: two of them, four times. And Taylor was so happy
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 21: with himself that day.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Now did Taylor go back afterwards and see Bob Knight
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: and put up the number four? Yeah, four.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 21: I don't know whether he did or not, but he
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 21: should have because that's who LT was. LT responded to
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 21: challenges better than anybody.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: God, I love you. Peter King's coming back every day.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Long time. It saved my life. It's actually a very,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: very well-known story that when I was in the midst
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: of my drug and drinking days and And I was dying.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: I was in bad shape. I had just gone to Cleveland.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: And I needed to get into a rehab right away
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. I called my agent who represents LT2,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Mark Lepselter. And Lep said, call Lawrence. I go, I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: don't really know Lawrence well enough to call him. Come on.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: He goes, call Lawrence. And I called LT. And he said,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: my man Sid. I never seen a white guy get
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: in so much trouble back then. That was true. And
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: I said, listen, LT on a serious note. I never
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: called him LT. I only called him Lawrence. Never called
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: him LT. I said, Lawrence, I need help. And I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: know you went to Sunrise in New Jersey. I just
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: called on the ride of beds. Would you make a
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: call for me? And I figured he was going to say,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: come on, man. He did. And he called me back.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Lawrence did. 10 minutes later and said, get there in
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: three hours. That was how long the ride was. And
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: I drove there and I got into a bed. And
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: that was kind of the beginning, the beginning of a
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: long process to get sober and better. But Lawrence Taylor
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: made that call and actually saved my life. Bob Raisman
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: wrote a big story about that years ago.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: So he's actually a guy that's been in the news
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: for doing some, I guess, questionable stuff. Down deep, he's
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: actually a pretty decent guy, Lawrence.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 21: You know what I always liked about covering Lawrence Taylor?
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 21: He would not know me if we passed. I covered
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 21: him for four years. He would not know me.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: He didn't. He was not.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 21: Into this to be in the media. Not at all.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 8: At all.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 21: He just didn't care, which is fine with me. All
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 21: he wanted to do was be a player. A lot
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 21: of that I admire.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: Even now, he's been offered so much money to sit
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: on those panels on those silly pregame shows. He just
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: wants to play golf. That's all he wants to do
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: is play golf. That's it. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 21: But here's the thing about LT that I really love.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 21: Do you remember, do you happen to remember the time
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 21: in the strike year, 1987, Lawrence Taylor crosses the picket
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 21: line he's losing $ 60, 000 a week he said enough of
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 21: this so he crosses it and goes and plays a
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 21: game in Buffalo Giants lose the game but he plays
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 21: this game And in the game, he is being blocked
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 21: by a truck driver from Illinois who crossed the picket
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 21: line and who got seven penalties called on him for
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 21: fouls on LT. But after the game, LT goes after him,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 21: and he goes, hey, sucker. And the guy, like, balls
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 21: up his fist.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: He's ready.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 21: He thought Taylor was going to fight him. And he goes,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 21: great game.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: Because Taylor loved it. It was like a WWE match.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: He did that too, by the way. Yes, he did.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: He did. He thought, I should know this. Ah, come on.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: It'll come to me before he wraps.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: His car up.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Chief J. Strongbow.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 8: And it wasn't. Ha, ha, ha.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Bruno Sammartino. No, it wasn't them. It'll come to me.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Peter King is my amazing guest in studio. What a
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: great conversation. His book is out the game. So when
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: you look at the modern era, guys, okay, and a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: couple years ago, it was all about Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: It looked like the Chiefs were going to be in
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl every year, win the Super Bowl every year.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: They took a beating at the hands of the Eagles
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: two years ago. So do we have a team right
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: now that you would put together in that category of
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: all-time greats, maybe dating back to Otto Graham and Dante
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Lovelli and Brown and those Browns of the 50s?
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 21: Well, the Chiefs are not dead. They are going to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 21: be heard from in the next two or three years,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 21: because to me, Patrick Mahomes is the heir to Tom Brady.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Still is. Still is. By the way, to your point,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: there's only three teams still unbeaten in the National football league.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 21: One of them is Kansas City.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: That's right. Minnesota, San Francisco, and Bam Bam Bigelow was
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: the guy I was trying to think about. Okay. All right.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 21: But I don't think there is a team. And that's
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 21: one of the reasons. I mean, I didn't stay up
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 21: for the game last night. But another ridiculous, crazy six
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 21: lead changes in the second half and Just a totally
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 21: crazy game.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 14: But let's be honest.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 21: Those games happen every weekend in the NFL, and that's
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 21: why people love the game.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: It's true. So Tom Brady, you know, I've had people
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: say to me, I know he won Super Bowls, but,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to put Peyton Manning in that mix.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: You got to put the old-timer, say, Johnny Unitas. Some
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: say that the best quarterback ever to play is... Even
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: though he never won a Super Bowl, he was 0-1
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: and that got blown out by the 49ers. Dan Marino.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: Dan Marino. So you want the stage at the seven
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl wins where it's Brady and that's it? Best
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: player ever?
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 21: Well, I happen to think Jim Brown... Because, listen, I
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 21: honor history. And I tell people, don't forget Don Hudson.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 21: Don't forget Otto Graham. And most people have never heard
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 21: of those guys. But Jim Brown... In the first 50
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 21: years of this game, was the best player. And I
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 21: don't think there's a great argument to be had otherwise. Now,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 21: then it becomes a quarterback game totally. And I would
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 21: say right now, if you're ranking the greatest of all time,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 21: I would put Brady number one.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 21: I would put him number one because the quarterback position
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 21: is about winning. And he won more than anybody. He
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 21: sacrificed his family for it. He sacrificed his family for it.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 21: And that's just who he was and the way he is.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 21: And I think all of the other guys, I rank
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 21: Namath higher than most people do just because of the
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 21: meaning of Super Bowl III. and how important it was
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 21: to the future of football.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Well, that's true, but he did throw more picks than touchdowns.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 21: He threw more picks than touchdowns. You're right about that.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 21: But I look at players as not only what their
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 21: individual stats were, but what they meant to the history
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 21: of the game. Sid, I mean, look, we would remember this.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 21: You'd remember it less than I would, but as the
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 21: 1970s dawned, The three biggest people, three biggest men in America,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 21: Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Joe Namath.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 21: And I don't even know in what order.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: No, it's true. Okay? And I got to tell you,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Lamar Hunt is in that mix, too.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 21: Well, Lamar Hunt, to me, he's one of the all-time greats.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 21: I have him ahead of Al Davis on my Mount
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 21: Rushmore of people important in football history.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Me, too. Two more. We got to run quickly here.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, greatest coach ever? No.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 12: No.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: Don Shula.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Paul Brown.
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  Speaker 21: I would say I would put Paul Brown number one
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 21: just because he invented so... I mean, he founded a franchise,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 21: coached it, won four consecutive championships, forced the NFL to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 21: take the Cleveland Browns in 1950, and then in the
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 21: first five years of the league won three more NFL championships.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 21: And then he had so many innovations, so I would
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 21: say he's number one.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: He's number one. Shula, of course, is the all-time leader
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: in victories. Last one, I was talking to Dr. Oz
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: about this a couple of weeks ago. Less and less
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: kids are playing football these days. Parents are very, very
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: nervous because of the head injuries, because of ballplayers like
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Junior Seau that actually killed himself. All these brain injuries
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: that result in all kinds of crazy psychoses and suicide
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: attempts and Suicide success. What are your thoughts on the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: safety of playing football moving forward?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 21: I'm a little bit conflicted by it, but Sid, I've
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 21: reached this conclusion. I've thought about this day after day
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 21: after day. America needs football.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 21: America needs football. America needs its young people to have
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 21: something really hard to do and to work as a team,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 21: to work as a unit, and to accomplish something Get
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 21: kids out of the house. Get kids away from the
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 21: video games. Get them off screens. Get kids outside to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 21: do something hard. And that's why I think football, even
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 21: though you have to invest much money in helmet technology
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 21: and in making the game as safe as possible, Three,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 21: four years ago, I was in Dallas covering a game
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 21: Sunday morning, opened the Dallas Morning News, and it's a
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 21: broadsheet newspaper, two pages, facing pages, and they were filled,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 21: the entire two pages. was high school football scores from
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 21: Friday night in the state of Texas.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 8: They love it.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 21: You're not going to walk into Waco, Texas, ever, and say,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 21: football's unsafe.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: We're not playing it anymore. Florida's the same thing. Never.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: I lived in Boca Raton for 15 years, 16 years.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 21: You're not, and I don't think you should kill the game.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 21: But you need to make it safe. You need to
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 21: have trainers who are smart. You need to have people
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 21: who recognize the effects of concussions.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: Agreed.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 21: But, You can't kill this game.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: No, you can't.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 21: It's too important to this country.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: Me?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, every Sunday. I love college football, too. Final
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: 30 seconds. Should my friend President Trump make the Monday
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl a national holiday?
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 19: Ha!
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 21: I don't think so. Aren't there too many days that
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 21: are already holidays because of football?
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: But nobody goes to work that Monday morning. If they do,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: they're all hungover. All of them. All of America.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 14: Okay, all right.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 21: Then listen, Sid, why don't you put the Super Bowl
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 21: on Saturday night instead of Sunday night?
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 21: Why don't you do that? And you know why the
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 21: NFL won't do it? Because TV ratings are traditionally higher
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 21: on Sunday night. People do other things on Saturday night.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 21: But if you move the Super Bowl to Saturday night,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 21: people's habits would change. They'd watch football.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: You're a genius. I love you. What a great guy
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: and a great writer. The book is Peter King's The Game.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: You've got to buy this, folks. You have to. If
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: you love the National Football League, he goes all the
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: way back from, you know, obviously the early days of
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: the league and Bill Walsh and Peyton Manning and Bill
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: Belichick and Steve Sable and Mahomes and all that great stuff.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 21: You're going to love my chapter on Steve Sable.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: You're going to love it. I love him.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 21: You want to know why? He choreographed his own death
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 21: in memorial service. Choreographed it. And wait until you read
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 21: about where his ashes are spread.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know any of this. Oh, yeah. And I
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: love Steve. He's on my show every week for years.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 21: Steve is the greatest.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 19: He is.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: He is the greatest. What was the name of the guy? Facenda.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 8: John Facenda.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 21: John Facenda with his voice. But how about this? I
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 21: make an argument that the reason why Vince Lombardi is
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 21: so famous and such an iconic figure is to a
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 21: large degree because of Steve Sable. You are going to
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 21: love the chapter on Steve Sable.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: I agree with that statement, and I can't wait to
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: read the chapter, and it's great to see you. Thank you, Sid.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: You look great, you sound great, you're an amazing guy.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 21: Thank you so much, Sid.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 8: You're welcome.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 21: Great to be on with you.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: You too. Peter King, the game is getting a round
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: of applause behind the glass from Lou Rapinoe. We'll take
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: a break, come back with another great guy, the greatest
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: cop ever, Uncle Bo, his Tuesday appearance.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: And, of course, he's Mr.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 8: New York.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: I love Uncle Bo. I sat with Bo and his
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: beautiful wife, Margo, at the DEA event in Howard Beach.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: Russo's on the Bay on Thursday. I had so much fun.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: I just love him. Bo Dietl, you know, Patrick Hendry,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: very upset today. He feels like the mayor wants to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: redesign the police. He's actually talking about police enforcement. It's
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: too much. Somebody got shot. Once again, Mamdani critical of
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: the police and not the bad guys on the streets.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: Good time for you to be on. Good morning, Bo.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 19: Thank you.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much. All I can say, Sid, is
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: thank you for the airwaves. I think we're losing this battle.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 6: But I just woke up with a little buzz on
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: me when I read the paper that they had a
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: search warrant on that Elam Omar. How great is that?
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 6: They should throw her out of the country along with
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 6: all her Somalian thieves over there in Minnesota. We found
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: out they're robbing tens of millions of dollars with Medicare
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: for it. What are we waiting for? Let's take her
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: She loves Somalia so great. Get back over there. Get
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 6: out of here. Now, let's go to the thing at
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: hand right now. This piece of garbage. You got this
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 6: Oscar Bigala, right? All of a sudden, the candidate for.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 19: The socialist candidate.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 8: What's her name?
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: Teresa Avili Chevrolet.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: Chevrolet.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Chevrolet. Whatever the hell her name is. Real piece
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 6: of garbage. She was talking to her best friend, Einstein,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: the scumbag piker, the other day. And she goes... Oh,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: Oscar is a good father. I mean, where the hell
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 6: are we? What are we doing? What about the innocent
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: people who are the victims in the Bronx, the both
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 6: killing borough of New York City, most crime victims of murder,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: shootings and all that? Everybody's worried about this piece of garbage.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 6: And we know, I'm going to go into a little
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 6: bit about his record. But Mondami is there. He ain't
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 6: smiling anymore, if you notice. The smile's coming down a
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: little bit because he didn't realize what's going on. You
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 6: got to remember, you got Vanessa Gibson, the other piece
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: of garbage in the Bronx, the borough president. All the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: gang shootouts, they're killing innocent people. They have the highest
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: crime rate in the Bronx. Drug trafficking, pushing fentanyl, cocaine,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 6: all these killing our kids. And all of a sudden,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: we die. to worry about this little punk that should
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: have been in jail. And now all of a sudden,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 6: they want to get rid of the gang database. I'll
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 6: give you some names of some of the gangs. DDP,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: the mannequins don't play, Trinidadians, BB7, A-Town Sets, Shooting Boys, Rush,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: Chris Lattins, Young Bronx Money Getters. These are the gangs
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: that they want to get rid of the gang. If
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: you get rid of these gang scumbags, the majority, I
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: would say 90% are illegal in this country. If we
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: get rid of them, you'll see crime and murders go down.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: It's It's common sense, like we always talk about. And
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, Mondami considers now, all of a sudden,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: a true New Yorker. He says, Oscar, the Dominican illegal,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: was a true. He robbed someone in Gunpoint, up there
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 6: in Fordham Heights. A year later, he sold drugs within months.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: Bengal was on bail, whatever his name is. Shelly Fenton,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: eight times, heroin, cocaine. Oh, he's a nice father.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Listen, it's very similar. He survived the shooting. We know that.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: George Floyd died. But they're the same guy. They're both scumbags.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: They're both criminals. Now, George Floyd was legal. But the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: truth is, why we have decided, like people like Mamdani,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: to honor scumbags. George Floyd, low life. Oscar Belgal, low life. Okay?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: Don't deserve to die, either one of them. But why
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: we decide to honor these people is part of the
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: reason why the country... is going into the toilet.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 19: He is a gang member.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 6: What we forget about these Trinidadian gang members, remember that
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 6: young 15-year-old kid there, Junior Guzman? They stabbed him to death.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 6: A child killed, 12 years old. It goes on and on,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 6: these Trinidadis, whatever the hell they're called. These are the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 6: gangs that are killing people. Shoot, where is the safety
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: for my friends in the Bronx? Why are you supporting
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: what's going on? And on top of this thing, you've
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 6: got the news media, NBC, unconscionable ice pages. ABC, five
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 6: and seven rounds, CBS. All it is is the news
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 6: on the TV. Why don't you talk about the little
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 6: children that are being shot and killed and robbed and
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 6: then threatened? They can't come out of the house. They
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 6: can't walk home from school. Otherwise, they'll get beat up
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 6: or shot. And then all of a sudden, the DSA,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 6: his friends among dummy, they accused the NYPD of aiding ICE.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 6: And they want Kish fired now. They want, they want,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 6: they want garbage. You know what they want? They want
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: what's going on in Europe. And we can't forget what's
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 6: going on in France. It's a combination of the socialists
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 6: along with the radical Muslims now have joined forces. And
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 6: you know what it's all about? It's about causing riots
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 6: and disturbance so they could take down the country. And
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 6: that's what they're doing now, i.e. in the United States
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 6: of America. And all of a sudden... They want Tish fired.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 6: Why do you want Tish fired? Now they want to
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 6: put some new laws in there. They want to reevaluate, reevaluate.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 6: You got the stupid headlock law that kid got locked
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 6: up for. You got the diaphragm law. You're putting handcuffs
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 6: on the cops, not on the criminals, you punks. And
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: this is where we're going. And on top of it, Sid,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 6: on top of that, we have all these elected officials.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 6: Neha Zahar Mandami. Oh, Aishipi Balas. Kathy Snaggletooth. New Yorkers
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 6: are outraged. How about they rob you and shoot you, Snaggletooth?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: And then the Attorney General, big butt over there. New
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: Yorkers grappling with horror. Why don't you go after these
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 6: gang members? Letitia James. Instead of worrying about Trump. And
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: then Senator Plughead Schumer. Oh, my God, it's disturbing. How
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: about you get busted in your face? How disturbing. Oh,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 6: your friend there, your friend there, Brad Langer, that little punk.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 6: He's got a big nose. That nose should be removed.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 13: That's all I get.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 6: And Jumaane, Jumaane Williams shaking base. Doesn't even know where
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 6: he is. He just shakes up and down. Oh, yeah,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 6: let's go. I'll stand there. He shakes. Stop shaking, my friend.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 6: That's all. And now, all of a sudden, tonight, the
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 6: big debate. Hochul's going to blame Blakeman and Trump and
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. But what we should do
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 6: is we should congratulate New York. We should congratulate Snaggleton,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: Hochul tonight. Number one highest taxes. Number one worst business climate.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 6: Number one highest homeless population. Number one highest outward migration.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 6: She should be complimented. And Blakeman has to hit with
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 6: these no big, there's a $ 637 million no big COVID deal.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 6: What happened, Snaggletooth? You and your family there made money
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: on that one. And then we have that beautiful lady,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 6: that Republican AG candidate. Man, she is.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: Sarita, she was great. I saw her at the Columbus
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: Day Parade yesterday. Sarita, she's great.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: Please say her name properly. Please say her name properly.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 19: I can't say her name.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: Sarita.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Comitore. Comitore.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 6: She used to stop bail reform, anti-Semitism, the Cornell case.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 6: We got some good people running. But people have to realize,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 6: are you going to give up your safety and security
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 6: to jump on board of this nonsense? And then, all
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: of a sudden, Mondami takes these fake... I challenge him,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: and I challenge the NYPD. He's plastered all these numbers
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 6: about murder, robbery, felony assault. But you know what they're
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 6: comparing it to?
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 13: 2019.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 6: All of a sudden, felony assault's now assured 46%. Robbery's
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 6: up almost 6%. 33,000 from January to September. They love
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 6: to play with these numbers. You tell the people who
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 6: are being shot at and robbed in the Bronx, the
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 6: numbers are down. And then all of a sudden. This
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 6: is a good one. Mandami's wife there, the grocery stores,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 6: $ 1 million and all that. Now his wife has a
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 6: Terrace olive oil. Mandami's wife designed the brand. Rama, whatever
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 6: her name is, she made the artworks for a Palestinian microwave.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 6: This woman is another psychopath. We should get her out. Okay,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 6: one more, one more, one more. I wish people would
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: look at one thing. You have a great guest all
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 6: the time, every week, a guy named Bill O'Reilly, who
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 6: I know forever. And there's an hour-long news station special,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 6: The Siege of London. It examines the immigration impact, what's
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 6: going on in America right now, and how it changed Britain.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: All of a sudden, it's a warning to us here.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 6: What we're seeing right now at the election booths, are
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 6: the surge of these communist socialists that are taking over
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 6: all these state senators, assembly, and all these positions, Congress
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 6: and all that. And what it's about is about taking out. Shira, Shira, Shira,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: what the hell is the name of that crap?
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: Surreal law. Surreal law.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. He claims there's 60 Islamic religion tribunals. What
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 6: they want to do, let me talk in English now,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 6: because I'm stuttering because I'm so upset, because I see
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 6: it coming. And people, people, just imagine what I just said.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 6: All the crime is in the Bronx. Children being shot.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 6: No outrage. All their outrage are about illegal criminals. And
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 6: we got to remember what these illegal criminals are doing, raping,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 6: murdering people. And you care so much about them. How
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 6: about the people with their children that just want to
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: have a good life? and have their kids go to
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 6: school without getting shot, without getting beat up by these
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: gang members. And now you want to get rid of
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 6: the gang, Taffer? You're a moron, mon dummy. And you
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 6: want to know something? Right now we're on the verge
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 6: of destruction because if these people get elected, if we
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 6: don't vote for Blakeman, and Blakeman's got to go after
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 6: Snaggletooth and say, you know what? Bail reform. They got
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 6: cop killers. Now they want to let out the cop
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 6: killer that killed Eddie Byrne.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 19: She's up.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 6: Right. And on top of that, you know what, Sid?
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 6: It's just something that people, do you have a brain?
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 6: You're worrying about this. And the poor cops don't do
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: anything now because they are told don't get involved. Yesterday,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: I was by the parade. I had to go by
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: the parade. My office is over there. I didn't march
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 6: in the parade, but I went by my office. And
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 6: there were two midget cops there, about four foot tall. Oh,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 6: you can't park your car here. You can't park your car.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: I said, excuse me. And I said, you know, I'm
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 6: retired and all that. Oh, you got to move your car.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 6: I said, you know what? What day you'll be retired?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: And I hope officers treat you the same way. I said,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: I'm the biggest supporter of you detectives and everybody in
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: the job. Because without the defense of the cops and
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: the detectives, these great guys and gals that we have
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: as detectives, we're not going to be able to investigate
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: murders and all these violent crimes. All they want to
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 6: do is put the handcuffs on cops, take them off
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 6: the criminals, and this is where we're going. We are
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 6: on the eve of destruction. People, vote for Bruce Blakeman.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 6: This way we can take this smiling piece of crap
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 6: out and take Snaggletooth Huckle out.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: There you go. Bo Dietl once again on fire on
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday morning, and Bruce Blakeman was just on Fox
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: News while Bo was talking to me, talking about his
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: big debate tonight. In fact, we are going to talk
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: in about 20 minutes to the last Republican governor we
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: had in this state. The great Governor George Pataki. We
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: haven't had one since. And we've had some real creeps. Cuomo, Hochul,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: just to name a few. So Pataki will join me
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: coming up later on this hour. But Bo is right, folks.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: Do the right thing. Vote Republican in every possible race.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning. on the Red Apple
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman will join me tomorrow to recap it. But
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: I've got two amazing guests in a row coming up.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Many people, and I may be one of them, feel
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: my next guest is the greatest city council member ever.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: But he's a Democrat. And he actually has hopped on
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: the Bruce Blakeman train. Bob Holden. Then we'll talk to
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: the last Republican governor, another great guy, George Pataki. Holden
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: and Pataki.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: I miss the days when you had common sense Democrats
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: like Bob Holden. And even though Holden and I got
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: a little tiff during the Curtis Sliwa days... I have
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of respect for Bob Holden. I love
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: the guy. And when he jumped on the Bruce Blakeman
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: train a couple of weeks ago, I went to hug
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: him and kiss him. So here he is, the former
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: great congressman, Bob Holden. Bob, good morning, buddy.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 8: How are you? You made me a congressman now. I did.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's better than council. That's better. The great councilman,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: Bob Holden. Good morning, Bob.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 8: How are you? Good morning. Good morning, Sid. Great to
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 8: be on again.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: Great to have you, too. You know, I was just thinking,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: the first time I met you, I think, and there's
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: a reason I'm talking about this, because I'm going to
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: put on a big event, me and his brother, Michael Sullivan,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: at the Bell Harbor Yacht Club in a couple of weeks.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: I think it was at Michael Sullivan's living room. for
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: a fundraiser for his brother Thomas, who's running for assembly again.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, just ancient history. But yeah,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 8: it might have been that time.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: I think it was. So are you going to be,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: are you all in for Thomas Sullivan this time again?
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 8: Of course. Of course. That's a no-brainer.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 8: You always vote common sense. You vote for the person,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 8: not the party. And that's the problem with the Democratic Party.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 8: They stick with them. They stick with socialists, communists. This
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 8: has got to end. Democrats out there have to vote
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 8: for common sense, the person. Who's going to bring public
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 8: safety back to New York City and New York State?
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 8: Who's going to do the right thing? for the citizens
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 8: of this city and state. So the Democratic Party has
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 8: gone way off the rails. And that's why I've been
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 8: voting the person. I vote for some Democrats. But again,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 8: if you look at the past few years, it's all
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 8: Republicans because they make the most sense. There's a lot
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 8: of Democrats in this city who have to start to
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 8: think about you know, voting Republican. And that's how far
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 8: the Democratic Party has gone off the rails. When you
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: start having a communist mayor, I mean, that's when you
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 8: got to just kind of bail, you know, parachute out
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 8: of the party, really.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: That is a huge statement coming from you, Bob. So
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: I would ask you, when you jump on Bruce Blateman's train,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: and you're one of three very high-profile Democrats who did
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, Bonnie Lautenberg, the lovely widow
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: of the great Frank Lautenberg, the very popular actress Deborah Messing,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: and you, three very high-profile Democrats with Bruce Blakeman. Would
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: you say it's more that you're pro-Bruce or anti-Kathy?
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 8: I think it's both. Kathy Hochul has been miserable. She's
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 8: gone again. When you start backing a communist mayor for
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 8: New York City and endorsing him and you start doing
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 8: the things that she's done, she's gone way, way, way
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 8: to the socialist left. Most of them have. Tell me
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 8: one Democrat in office now that hasn't. By the way,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 8: Phil Wong, who took over for me, it worked for me.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 8: He's a common sense Democrat. He's on the Common Sense Caucus.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 8: So I would mention him. I would have him on
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 8: if you could ever get him on. But he is
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 8: he's good. He's he's one of the few. I like
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 8: him to sense Democrats. And Calvin Yeager, when I served,
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 8: was great. He's in from Brooklyn. He's now an assemblyman.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 8: He's a common sense Democrat. So there's a few of
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 8: us out there. Not many. But we have to have more.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 8: And there's a lot more that will vote for Bruce
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 8: because they're probably in the closet still. But they won't
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 8: say it, but they'll vote for Bruce Blake. Yeah, that's
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 8: what we're hoping for.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing. They wouldn't admit it, but they voted
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: for Trump. What are some of the policies that Kathy
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: is married to Bob Holden that scare you to death?
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 8: Well, the sanctuary cities. That's that's a huge problem. Why
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 8: would you protect criminals, criminal aliens? I mean, why would
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 8: you ever want them in this state? Why wouldn't you
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 8: turn them over to ICE? Would you say this morning 16,000
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 8: detainers that weren't honored? I mean, that's unbelievable. 16,000 criminals.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 8: You can't. You can't make this up. Again, the world
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 8: we're in the bizarro world right now. You know, good
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 8: is evil. Evil is good. This is what we're seeing
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 8: in the Democratic Party. And Kathy Hochul is a leader
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 8: of that party in the state. So why would anybody
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 8: in his right mind vote for somebody like that?
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: Good question. So if you were on the debate stage
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: tonight and you were Bruce Blake, now let's attack you
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: the same thing. What would you attack her on? Obviously,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: you just mentioned it, the law and order, the chaos,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: criminals running the show. You got taxes, too. But what
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: would you hammer home if you were Bruce tonight?
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 8: Well, how many people have left the state? I think we,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 8: you know, we're the highest taxed state in the union.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 8: That's one. That's the first thing you should say. And
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 8: that's a fact. And how many people have just gone
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 8: to Florida or South Carolina? How many people? There's again,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 8: that's the record. You have that on record. And the
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 8: people that have come in are people who were welcome
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 8: and are given all the benefits undocumented. So this is
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 8: why the state is upside down. She's mismanaged this state
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 8: to no end. And it's clear the choice is Bruce Blakeman.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 8: I mean, there's only one choice here. And if you're
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 8: thinking about voting for Hochul, you're going to destroy, you're
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 8: going to continue to destroy this state.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: Bob, in your long stay here in New York and
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: all those amazing decades in the city council, again, some
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: say I'm not going to argue, you're the best ever.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a politician more dangerous than Mayor Mamdani?
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: Well, de Blasio comes to mind, too, because he was, again,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 8: a closet communist, even though, you know, he would. Didn't
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 8: he celebrate his wedding in Cuba?
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: Don't we all do that? It's a good call.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: He was rough. He was rough, too. And he was
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: a Boston Red Sox fan. As a mayor of New York,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: you can't have that.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 8: He was awful.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: Terrible. Terrible. Yeah. I mean, Eric Adams was not great either,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: but compared to these two guys, he's like Rudy Giuliani.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 8: You know, and listen, I had it out with Bloomberg
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 8: at the end, but he was like, but Giuliani was
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 8: the greatest mayor by far. And George Pataki, the greatest
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 8: governor we've had. And that's why, you know, again, George
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 8: Pataki endorsed me when I ran. He crossed party lines,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 8: but he endorsed me. So, you know, you just have
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 8: to go with the best person. And look at George
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 8: Pataki's resume. It's unbelievable what he did in his 12
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 8: years as governor.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: He's coming up next. What a great transition from Holden
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: to Pataki. I've got two more on the city council
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: for you. What are your thoughts on the current? Speaker.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: One day I love her. I do. The next day
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: I can't stand her. Julie Menon. I want to like her.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: I do. But she'll back up the mayor on something
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: or she'll call out Bibi. She'll say, hey, Bibi, you
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: need to calm down the rhetoric. Wait a second. He's
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: the guy that's being threatened to get arrested every day
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: by the mayor. So I kind of go back and
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: forth with Menon as a former city council. Great. What
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: do you think about her?
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 8: I served with her. I like Julie. But she's walking
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: a tightrope, and I get it. She's got to just
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 8: keep the far, far left at bay and not get
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 8: them too excited. She needs their support here and there
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 8: on bills. But in the end, I think she'll make
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 8: the right decision. Compared to Adrian Adams, who I served with,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 8: and she's now running for lieutenant governor, she was a
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 8: nightmare to no end. And if she becomes lieutenant governor,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 8: we're really screwed.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: We had two bad Adams back then, Eric and Adrian.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: We had two bad Adams.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 8: No, Adrian Adams was much worse.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: Much worse.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 8: I agree. Eric, you could reason with. Adrian, you could not.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: Totally agree.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 8: He was horrible.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: Totally agree.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: One more. Do you realize this? I get a message
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: last night that Joanne Areola, who, of course, is my
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: city councilwoman out of Queens, she tweeted last night, about
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock last night, that the city council... at that point,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: had not, and maybe they never did, tweet Happy Columbus Day.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: They went to Happy Indigenous People Day, like the mayor did,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: and both governors of New York and New Jersey did.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: But the city council, as of I think 10 o'clock
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: last night, never tweeted Happy Columbus Day. Is that possible?
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but I experienced that. You know, de Blasio is
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 8: the one who created that in New York City. Columbus
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 8: Day is a national holiday. Christopher Columbus was an explorer. Again,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 8: you're going back to the 15th century. I mean, come on.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 8: It's insane that you're going to erase history because you
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 8: don't like it or you have some rumors about an explorer.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 8: You've got to put yourself in the position of this
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 8: is this is the different time. These were different times.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 8: This is to eliminate Columbus is an insult. And the
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 8: city council not doing that. Again, my experience with the
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 8: city council. You know, I have a very, very bad experience,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 8: you know, in my eight years. But Adrian Adams was
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 8: responsible for the last four, which were worse than, you know, again,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 8: we have a good speaker now compared to Adrian Adams. And,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 8: you know, Julie is doing a good job. I'm really
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 8: happy at least now. with most of the things she's
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 8: working on. You're right about criticizing Israel or anything else
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 8: like that. You should stay out of that.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: Stay out of it. Last one, then. You've jumped on
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: the Blakeman bandwagon. You made a very good argument why
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: during this great conversation, Bob Holden. Do you think, honestly,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: he's going to win?
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 8: I think he's going to win because people are fed up.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 8: And they're not going to say it maybe on a
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 8: poll or they're not going to answer it, but Does
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 8: anybody really like if you like the way things are
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 8: going in New York City, New York State, then something
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 8: you're you're delusional because you really have to pay attention.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 8: You have to pay attention to what's happening, your taxes,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 8: what you're paying, what you're getting in the bank for
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 8: the buck. And it's all because of Kathy Hochul.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: Bottom line, that's it. Right. So he's going to win.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: Bob Holden, it's great catching up with you. You're a
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: great man. You're a great city council member. And You
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: really are New York, man. You really are. So thank
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: you so much for hopping on, buddy. Thanks, Sid. God
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: bless you. Bob Holden right there, the former great city
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: council member. Love talking to that guy. That guy's a very,
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: very smart guy. He really is. We'll take a break.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: When we get back, he mentioned him. Best governor in
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: a long time. Long, long time.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: Governor, the great governor, the best governor, George Pataki and
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: his wife. I pretty much put the whole thing together,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: and he joins me again here on Sid and Friends
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: in the morning. It's a pleasure to have him.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Governor, welcome back. How are you, my friend?
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 13: Good morning, Sid.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 19: It's great to be on with you again.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: It's so nice to have you back here, and seeing
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: you and your beautiful wife a couple of weeks ago
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: was great, too. Let me start with this, because it
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: was made very, very public that you may have come
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: down with something, being down by the towers on 9-11.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: You weren't feeling very well, so how are you feeling?
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 19: I'm feeling pretty good. You know, I have lung issues
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 19: from ground zero and 99 percent of the time they
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 19: don't bother me at all at all. But in the fall,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 19: you know, when the climate changes, they get a little
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 19: messed up. But hey, when you consider what others have
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 19: gone through down there, this is nothing. So I I'm
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 19: really just lucky to be as healthy as I am
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 19: and lucky to be a New Yorker and an American.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: God bless you. Let me rewind the clock to last month, 9-11.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about it on this show every
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: day for months. I did the best I could to
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: keep the mayor away from that site that day. I'm
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: sorry I couldn't get it done, Mr. Governor. But at
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: any rate, you were there. When you're standing there and
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: you're looking at the Freedom Tower and you're hearing the
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: names of all these beautiful New Yorkers that perished that day,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: did you go, wait a second, 25 years? This still
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: feels like yesterday.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 8: You know, absolutely, Sid.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 19: You know, it just does feel like yesterday. And I
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 19: think for all of us who were there that day,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 19: that'll be that way, you know, not just 25 years later,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 19: 55 years later, we're going to feel that way. You know,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 19: it was just such a horrific event. And you just
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 19: had such... a sense of pain for those who lost
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 19: their loved ones. I'd seen the family members there, and
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 19: most of them have been there 25 straight years. And
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 19: for them, that sense of loss will never go away.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 19: You don't forget your son or.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 8: Your daughter, your mother, your father.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 19: It's just something that will live with you forever. And so, yeah,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 19: it's 25 years later, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: One of the great love stories, I think, in the
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: history of politics is you and Rudy. I'm not breaking
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: any secrets here. You guys don't like each other very much, okay?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: You were adults. And after 9-11, you knew that for
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: New York to come back, the governor and the mayor
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: had to get along. I wish de Blasio and Adams
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: and Cuomo and de Blasio, all these other people, I
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: should say, Cuomo and de Blasio, they did the same
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: thing during COVID. They didn't, okay? But you guys did.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: You guys did. And now you guys love each other.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: I see you there with Rudy on 9-11. It's a
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: great love story, no?
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 19: Well, absolutely. You know, and what you said, I think
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 19: is so critical. You know, it doesn't matter what your
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 19: personal feelings are or what your politics are. When you're
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 19: in the midst of a crisis, you just put everything
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 19: aside and focus on dealing with whoever you have to
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 19: to get that crisis behind you. And that's what Rudy
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 19: and I did. And I think I don't think anyone
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 19: could have put together a better response in those horrible
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 19: times than we did. And New Yorkers uh should be
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 19: proud and i think americans should be proud too and
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 19: you know you mentioned de brazio and cuomo and i
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 19: was watching the covid disaster and they just wouldn't even
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 19: talk to each other they'd say the opposite thing an
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 19: hour apart one would say up the other one would
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 19: say down and in a crisis you just don't do
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 19: that you know you don't have to like each other
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 19: but you're leaders and a leader has to understand the
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 19: responsibilities to solve the problem not to hold a grudge
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 19: and uh Sadly, with COVID, we didn't see that. But
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 19: with Rudy and I and with President Bush at the time,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 19: it was all just we're going to do what we.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 8: Have to do.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 19: And that's the way government should function literally every day.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 8: But sadly, it doesn't.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. So there's a new documentary coming out.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: And thank you for the invite. Danielle and I are
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: very happy that you did. It's called Out of the Darkness.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: And tell folks all about that and what they can
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: expect to see when they see that.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 19: Well, I'll tell you, it's the story of how Ground
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 19: Zero got rebuilt. And you mentioned, you know, standing there
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 19: September 11th and looking around and seeing the Freedom Tower. And,
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 19: you know, people take for granted that, oh, you know,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 19: this is what was going to get built after September 11th.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 8: It didn't work that way.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 19: It was obviously the most emotional sight in the world.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 19: And millions of people not just had an opinion, they
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 19: had a very strong opinion. There were a lot of
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 19: just competing ideals. And, you know, So this tells the
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 19: story of how we ended up doing what we did,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 19: particularly the Leviskin Master Site Plan, which has the park,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 19: the mall, the voids, the Freedom Tower, the rising buildings,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 19: the museum, all those elements that were there. a critical
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 19: part of Libeskind's master site plan. And it's an interesting
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 19: story because the group that I had created to decide
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 19: what was going to be built down there were picking
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 19: a different plan. And it would have been a catastrophe.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 19: They had two giant skeletons where the towers had stood.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 19: And I just went down that morning and said, hey,
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 19: you can't do this. You know, this is a disaster.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 19: And to their credit, even though I'd given them the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 19: authority to decide, they just set aside their own views
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 19: and said, OK, we're going to go with your idea.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 19: And that's what we have at Ground Zero. And this
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 19: is what that documentary tells the story of.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: That is unbelievable. And wasn't there a time? When they
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: were going to build a big mosque down there? Now, listen,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not going after the Muslim people.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. But they knocked down the buildings.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 19: Don't feel bad, Sid. I think he was a radical
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 19: Islamist who wanted to build a mosque right across the street.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 19: And actually, Mayor Bloomberg wasn't against it, but I just
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 19: thought it was nuts and said so out loud that
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 19: this is ridiculous. And ultimately, the whole idea fell apart.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 8: And we don't have a mosque, but.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 19: We have St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which had been
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 19: there and had been destroyed on September 11th. And it's
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 19: been rebuilt. And it's just a wonderful place. And it's
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 19: open to people of all faiths or no faith to
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 19: just go in and reflect on on that day and
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 19: on the beauty of the world we live in. So
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 19: it turned out the right way. It wasn't always going
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 19: to be that, but it turned out the right way.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: One more on 9-11, Mr. Governor George Pataki. What a
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: wonderful man this guy is. You know, if I would
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: have told you 25 years ago that Mamdani would be
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: the mayor, not because he's Muslim, necessarily, necessarily, but certainly
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: because he's radical Islam, okay? And he's got friends who
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: were co-conspirators, alleged co-conspirators in the 93 World Trade Center bombing.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: He's buddies with Hassan Piker, who did say America deserved 9-11.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: I don't care that he apologized since. It means nothing
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: to me. He said what he meant a couple of
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: years ago. I can run down the whole list. Chevalier,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: who he endorsed, she hates America. All these people. If
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: I would have said to you 25 years ago, Mamdani
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: was going to be the mayor— I hate the guy's guts.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: You said don't feel bad, Sid, moments ago. I don't
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: feel bad about that. I hate the guy's guts. He's
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: the last person in the world that should be our mayor.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: Do you feel any differently?
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 19: No, I really don't. And forget his religion. It's his politics,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 19: his belief. First, I think he's anti-Semitic. And I think
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 19: he doesn't go out of his way to hide that.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 19: And that is just outrageous when we see anti-Semitism spreading
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 19: across not just New York, but the country and the world.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 19: So that's strike number one. Two, his view, his friends
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 19: hate America. It's not like they want to change America.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 19: They want America to be fundamentally changed from the freedom-loving
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 19: country that we grew up in and that people died
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 19: to protect to a country where they tell us how
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 19: to live our lives and live us in a neo-Marxist
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 19: communist way. And so I think it's just very sad
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 19: for New York. And I just hope that enough people
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 19: stand up to him in government, not just those of
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 19: us who are outside government, and say, look, this is
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 19: too much. We can't do this. And You know, now
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 19: there's a controversy about Police Commissioner Tisch.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 19: She is the one thing standing between us and chaos
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 19: on the streets.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: Of New York, in my view. Me too.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 8: Me too.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 19: And thank God she is there.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: I agree. I love her. And the DSA want him
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: to fire her because, you know, she's not going out
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: there and trying to keep ice. Out of every building.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you got performers like this kid,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: Harry Styles, at Madison Square Garden, dedicating one of his
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: most popular songs to Oscar Belgal. Now, I know I
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: shot him, okay? And I don't know what happened before
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: that that led to that. And there was a kid
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: in the car. I don't love that. But the truth is,
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: how about the fact that this guy is an illegal,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: with a long rap sheet, part of a violent gang.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: Why would you dedicate a song to that creep?
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 19: You know, I think it's just anti-Americanism. And really what
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 19: it is is that, you know.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 8: We have.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 19: Almost a generation of young people who went to college
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 19: where they were taught by their professors what a horrible
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 19: country this is. And you just saw it the other
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 19: day with Columbus Day. You know, I mean, Columbus changed
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 19: the world by opening up the Western Hemisphere to European influences.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 19: And look what was created from that. Yet all of
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 19: a sudden, you know, hey, you can't even mention his name,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 19: let alone have a statue. And this is just, part
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 19: of a sad trend where, for a generation, we've had
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 19: universities brainwashing Americans that this is a horrible country.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 13: It's not.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 19: This is a great country. There's never been a country
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 19: that has achieved what we have, the freedoms we have,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 19: the diversity we have, the economic growth we have, and
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 19: yet they just see everything bad about America.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 8: And the.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 19: Point man for this whole thing, in my view, is Mondami,
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 19: who thinks.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 8: and.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 19: Wants others to believe that this is a terrible country.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 19: It's not. We have our problems, but this is the
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 19: greatest country this world has ever seen.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 20: Agreed.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, too. He is the point, man.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: So the last time we had a great governor in
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: our state was you. I mean, I'm not patronizing you
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: because you're on the phone right now. You know, I
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: love you. And I don't think it's a coincidence, George Pataki,
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: that you were Republican. We haven't had a Republican governor since,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: and it's been one disaster after another. Lately, Cuomo and Hochul,
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, really, two huge disasters. So I say to people,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: Bruce Flakeman can win. Look, I just spoke to Bob Holden, Democrat,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: city council, voting for Bruce. Bonnie Lautenberg, Frank Lautenberg, famous
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Democrat politician, she's voting for Bruce. The actress, Deborah Messing,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: hates Trump. She's voting for Bruce. So maybe, just maybe,
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: even Democrats who vote for Bruce in big numbers, George,
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: in Nassau County, maybe they're starting to figure out this
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: Democrat leadership is not getting it done. What do you think?
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 19: I totally agree. You just made what to me is
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 19: the critical point for Bruce's campaign, and that is Democrats.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 19: And there's the debate tonight. And if I'm Bruce, I
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 19: make a blatant appeal to Democratic voters. You can't win
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 19: in New York with Republican voters alone. You have to
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 19: get over a million Democrats to say, hey, I'm willing
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 19: to give a Republican a chance. And Bruce has the
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 19: record as Nassau County executive. He's not just some legislator
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 19: who says things. He's an executive who's done things. And
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 19: done a tremendous job. Nassau County is the safest county
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 19: in America, I believe. And it's doing very well. And
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 19: he hasn't allowed him to raise taxes. So tonight, if
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 19: I were Bruce, I'd just blatantly appeal to Democrats and say, hey, look,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 19: you're a Democrat. You're inclined to vote Democrat. But look
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 19: what has happened.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 8: In this state.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 19: Our taxes are too high. Our energy bills, our utility
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 19: bills that you get every month are through the roof.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 19: You know, we have mentally ill homeless out on the street,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 19: you know, with horrible consequences to people who just want
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 19: to go about living their lives. And we have to
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 19: change and we're not going to change unless you give
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 19: me a chance. So hopefully the voters and particularly Democrats
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 19: will take a look and say, let's give them a chance.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: And he's got that success already. Nassau County, mostly Democrat.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: He wins easily. Mike Lawler, mostly Democrat, as you know.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: Governor Pataki, he won a couple times in a row
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: in Rockland County. When you last ran and won, I
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: would imagine you were kind of in the same boat, yes?
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 19: Well, sure. I had to get way over a million
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 19: Democrats to vote for me just to win by one vote.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you then, how did you do that?
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 19: Yeah, just what I'm saying that Bruce should be doing,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 19: and that's to appeal to Democrats on the issues, not
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 19: by changing your policies, not by changing your philosophy. You know,
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 19: who wants higher taxes?
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 6: Nobody. Democrats or Republicans.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 19: Bruce is going to lower taxes. Who cannot take a
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 19: look at their electric bill every month and say, this
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 19: is ridiculous?
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: And it is.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 19: And Bruce has said he's going to lower the electric bill.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 19: You see these horrible incidents where in the middle of
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 19: the day, a young woman who has a child and
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 19: a career gets stabbed to death in Times Square. We
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 19: need to get the mentally ill homeless off the streets.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 19: These are not Republican or Democratic issues. These are common
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 19: sense issues. And you focus on those and get enough
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 19: Democrats to say, you know, he's right. And just one
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 19: last thing. You know who runs the Democratic Party in
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 19: New York State? It's not the state party chairman. It's
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 19: not Governor Hochul. It's Mondami. He is the– I mean,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 19: he's not going to claim that title, but if Albany
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 19: is the same come November– he's going to come out
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 19: of his hiding and demand all sorts of radical changes
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 19: that will hurt this state. You know, he's not doing
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 19: it before the election because he's smart enough to know
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 19: that the people don't want higher taxes, don't want to
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 19: drive more people out of this state. But come November,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 19: if things don't change, Mondemi's going to be up there
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 19: making demands. And the Democratic legislators just don't have the
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 19: strength to stand up. And they're going to give him
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 19: what he wants if we don't get to change things
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 19: in November.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. So just to build on that,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: then we'll call it quits here. You've been amazing as always, George.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: When you run against any Democrat in this, for example,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: Michael Petri, he's running against Tom Suozzi. Well, he's running
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: against Suozzi and Mamdani, even though it's Long Islander. You know,
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman is running against Hochul and Mamdani. But what
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: Bruce is going to find out tonight is, is that
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: all Governor Hochul cares about is Trump. Every time she
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: can't win an argument, because I just saw Letitia James
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: do this against Siritha a couple nights ago. Any time
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: she can't win an argument, she's going to bring up
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: President Trump. I'm sure Bruce Blakeman is ready for that.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: What do you think?
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 19: Yeah, you're absolutely right. All across the country, you see
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 19: these horrible Democratic candidates who have nothing to run on.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 19: And all they do is say, you're Trump. And what
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 19: I would say is, Bruce, this isn't about Donald Trump.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 19: This is about New York State. And you're using this
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 19: to try to hide behind the fact that, look at
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 19: the record of what's happened over the last four years,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 19: and look at your vision for the next four years.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 19: What have you outlined you're going to do for New
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 19: York over the next four years? Think about it for
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 19: a minute.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: No, nothing.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 19: And so this isn't about, it's not about Donald Trump.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 19: It's about New York state. And that's the message that
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 19: if I were Bruce, I would respond to those attacks.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: But Nick, you will do that. Absolutely. Listen, you're a
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: great man. And we love Libby too. And it's great
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: seeing you a couple of weeks ago and a great
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: job on this program today. Please keep coming back. George Pataki,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: you are the best. God bless you.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 8: Thanks so much, Sid. Thanks for having me on.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: Come on. It's an honor. It's an honor. What a
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: great man that is right there, folks. That's a governor.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: That's a governor right there. George Pataki here on Sid
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: and Friends in the morning. More to do, including the
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: brilliant attorney. His book is out. It's doing very, very well. Vaccines,
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: our man Aaron Seery. He's out there with Bobby Kennedy Jr., Dr. Oz,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: and a bunch of folks trying to save the world today,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: specifically the Amish. All that still to come.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, they're going to have a memorial service. I know
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: October 7th was a week ago already, but tomorrow at
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: the State Department, they're having a memorial service for the
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: 46 Americans that were killed there in Gaza. So, of course,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: they invited me, and Danilo and I were planning on going,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: but I don't think we can now. We've got something
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: else popped up. It's none of your business. So I
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: had to text Marco Rubio moments ago to say thank
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: you for the invite, but we'll do something in a
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I can't do this tomorrow, so we'll
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: be here. But I do want to thank Marco and
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: Lutnik and all those special people with the Trump administration
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: for once again thinking about us. And it's going to
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: be a beautiful service tomorrow and an important service for that.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: You know, all these Americans that are tired of hearing
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: about Israel. Well, this is about Americans. Okay. These are
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the Americans murdered, not the poor Israelis. Screw those 1,200.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: Shut up already. Israel first. So there should be no
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: issue with what's going on tomorrow at the State Department,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure a lot of you will still complain,
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: like Alex Jones, that asshole, or General Michael Flynn, or
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of you love him out there.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 8: You're stupid.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: What can I tell you? He goes to every Republican club,
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: and all he does is backstab everybody. I'm tired of
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: the backstabbers. Curtis Slee was one of them, but I'm
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: not going to lie to you. I did see Curtis yesterday.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: We exchanged smiles, and that was, of course, after I
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: said to him and screamed with a very big audience there,
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: 47th Street and Fifth Avenue. Hey, Curtis, how does Mom
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: Donnie's bleep taste?
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 8: Nice.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: He laughed and he said something back to me which
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: I couldn't make out. I don't know what he said.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: I don't even care. I got that line in and
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: the people standing there on the street went, did Sid
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: just say that to Curtis? Yes, I did.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 18: I hope it was more than moolah schmoolah.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think he said moolah schmoolah. I don't know.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny? Somebody at your party on Saturday
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: walked up to me. I guess MJ's cousin's.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: Very nice girl. She actually called her brother at one
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: point and put her brother on the phone with me.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about? Her brother's a big fan.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: She put him on the phone with me. I think
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: she's one of MJ's cousins. Okay. She said, I actually
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: miss you and Curtis. She said, I know Curtis turned
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: out to be a bad guy. Very bad guy. She
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: knows that. Doesn't like him.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to hear him. But she did
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: say that she thought that when Curtis was on with me,
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: He was particularly good. Not that good by himself.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 18: Could have been Ingra.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe Ingra, yeah.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: I think it was. She's got the brother.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 18: Oh, yeah. She liked Curtis a lot.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: She doesn't like him anymore.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 19: No.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: But she said she enjoyed Curtis when he was on
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: this show with me because I make everybody great. That's
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: the bottom line.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 18: I'm sure she said that. He can't be wearing that
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 18: jacket anymore.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: He wore it yesterday. The people's mayor.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 18: That is.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: 17% against Eric Adams, 7% against Mom Donnie, both all-time lows,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: but he's the people's mayor. What people? Eight people in
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: Middle Village?
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 18: That's juvenile.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: I know, it's stupid.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 6: That's just.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 18: You might as well have a costume and go to Comic-Con.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: He may as well.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 17: The People's Mayor.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: The People's Mayor. No.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 18: You screwed it all up.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: So badly. And he got romped in the election twice. Twice.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: And then acted like a complete idiot afterwards.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 18: I'm going to have a shirt. I'm going to walk
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 18: through the Bronx. I'm the People's Jeter.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: There you go. You're the new Derek Jeter. That's right.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: The book is Vaccines Amen, The Religion of Vaccines. This
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: guy's great. He's been on the show once before. His
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: name is Aaron Seery. And the Amish community in New
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: York now has a bullseye on their backs. You know,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: there's something called religious exemption. It's supposed to honor that.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: They're not doing it with the Amish. And they haven't
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: done it with other people for a lot of years.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to the great attorney, Aaron Seery.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: Aaron, welcome back. How are you, my friend?
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 8: Great, great to talk again, Sid.
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: You too. I've delved into this. You know, I told
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: you before that between Bobby Kennedy and, you know, Dr.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: Oz and all these other folks with, you know, the
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: health part of this administration and Even other friends like
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: Victoria Capish, who is a huge fan of yours, I've
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: decided now to dive in headfirst because I think these
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: are very, very important issues. And I had a gentleman
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: on last week. His name is John Coyle. He's an
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: attorney in Essex County in New Jersey. And he just
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: won a case, Aaron, for a man named Thibodeau, a
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: groundskeeper in New Jersey, who refused to take the vaccine
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: during COVID because he's a Christian. He didn't want to
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: take it, okay? So he got fired. He took all
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: of his money away. Turns out that on this religious exemption...
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: He won. John Coyle won. And Thibodeau will be getting
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of that money back. Maybe not all of it,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: but a substantial amount. So we just saw a big
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: victory for religious exemption in Essex County in New Jersey.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: But it looks like the target right now, Aaron, is
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: on the backs of the Amish community here in New York.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: Come on! What happened to religious exemption?
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 13: If you can't protect the religious freedom of the Amish...
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 13: then the First Amendment right to religious freedom is meaningless.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: Agreed. It's really that simple, right?
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 13: It really is that simple. It really is that simple.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 13: I mean, the Amish community has been in New York
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 13: for almost 200 years.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 8: They live in peace.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 13: They live apart. They just want to be left alone.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 13: They are, in many ways, the litmus.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 8: Test for what.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 13: Extent in what protection the First Amendment and the first
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 13: freedom under the First Amendment, religious freedom has in our country. Truly,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 13: if we can't respect their right to live alone in peace,
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 13: then that right is meaningless. And right now, New York State,
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 13: the current governor, the current Department of Health is basically
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 13: telling the Amish, You need to do what we want
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 13: you to do with your children's bodies or get out
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 13: of New York. That is the current juncture, the current
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 13: crossroad that the Amish community face. Are they going to
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 13: need to load up their wagons and flee New York
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 13: or is the United States Supreme Court going to protect
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 13: them in a case that we now have that's actually
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 13: going back to the Supreme Court for a second time?
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 13: The first time about a year ago when the Supreme
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 13: Court told the Second Circuit and lower courts, hey, no, no, no, no,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 13: you can't kick them out. Why don't you try this again?
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 13: The Second Circuit, that's the appellate court that sits above
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 13: New York, looked at it again and said, you know what? Nah,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 13: pack your wagons, Amish. Get out of New York or
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 13: do what we say. So we're going back to the
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 13: Supreme Court and we surely hope that the Supreme Court
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 13: will protect the Amish.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: Miller versus McDonald is the name of that case. Is
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: that right, Aaron?
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. And then, you know, God forbid this governor.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: I can't stand the governor. You have to understand. I'm very,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: very close friends with Bruce Blakeman. He's running on the
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: Republican ticket. In fact, tonight is the one and only
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: debate here in New York airing between Blakeman and Hochul
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: for governor. But Kathy Hochul has had all kinds of
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: opportunities to respect religious exemptions and the Amish. And she's
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: fallen short.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 13: She's had a lot of opportunities to respect religious liberty, period,
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 13: in all domains of life, and she's fallen short. Unfortunately,
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 13: your current governor believes that she knows what's best, period,
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 13: irrespective of what your beliefs are, not only in.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 8: The domain of religion, but in all domains, frankly.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 13: She knows what's best for you, how to live your life,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 13: and she's going to impose her will on you. She
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 13: is the antithesis. of what our founding fathers in this
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 13: country had envisioned freedom should be, which is individual and
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 13: civil rights, that we all have the ability to choose
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 13: what religion and how we're going to practice it, who
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 13: we associate with, have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 13: These are fundamental issues, and she doesn't respect them unless
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 13: they fall within the way she views the world. And
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 13: I could go through many examples, but I don't think
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 13: we have any time.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you got one about her emergency order on measles.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: How about that one?
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 13: Pretty convenient on the heels of our case up to
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 13: the Supreme Court, I would say, isn't it?
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 8: Right? Here we go.
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 13: We're going back to the Supreme Court to just ask them,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 13: please let the Amish just stay in New York.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 8: Let's leave them alone.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 13: And she wants, as she always does, She doesn't want
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 13: decision-making based on reason, on rational process, on thinking about facts.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 13: She wants it out of motion, how she feels things
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 13: should be. And that's really part of what her declaration
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 13: is about. You're confronting so many issues in New York
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 13: that have widespread harm. How about the chronic disease epidemic
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 13: amongst children? Where's her order on that? Where's her order
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 13: on the fact that 40% of kids in New York
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 13: have a chronic disease right now that is serious? No,
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 13: a hundred cases of measles that have hurt nobody that
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 13: is not even a, is 0.0001% of the state population
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 13: of New York. That's the emergency. No, that has nothing
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 13: to do with public health facts, reality. That's because she
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 13: has an ideology in her brain that, And she proceeds
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 13: in that matter, not based on what's rational.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: Got to buy the book, folks. Vaccines are men. He's
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: so smart. He's so good. My man, Aaron Seery, the
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: religion of vaccines. Something tells me, Aaron, we did not
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: discuss this before. We did not have a, you know,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: a warm-up conversation that you probably have just as many
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: criticisms for the CDC director, Erica Schwartz, yes?
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 13: Not as many as Michael, but they're pretty bad, too.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 13: But though I will say this much, I will say
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 13: this much. I am hopeful that those around her, you know,
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 13: in particular, Secretary Kennedy can influence her to start thinking
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 13: and stop feeling, stop using her beliefs and her assumptions
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 13: about these products and start really looking at the primary
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 13: sources and the evidence. I hold some hope that that's
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 13: a possibility. She claims she'll do that. So far, I
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 13: haven't seen it in what's coming out of the CDC,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 13: but let's, you know, we can give it a minute,
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 13: but you know, I like that her guidance on COVID-19 vaccines.
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 13: It just came out the other day for pregnant women,
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 13: jab them up, she says. But if you look at
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 13: the underlying evidence, where is it? It's, it is troubling.
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 13: So I'll leave it at that.
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, what about, I'll be transparent here. I've
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: been friends with Nicole, Nicole Sapphire for years. We were, um,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: Much more friendly in the past. I don't talk to
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: him much anymore, but I'm not going to lie to you.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: I even sent a text one day to President Trump.
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: and suggested he take a good look at her for
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: Surgeon General. She's got it now. I'm not saying I
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: got it before. I'm not saying that. But what are
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on her in that very important role?
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 13: Let's put it this way. We have had surgeon generals
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 13: and we have had CDC directors for decades who've espoused
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 13: views that only promote certain products, right, that promote vaccines
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 13: and other products and have never addressed in any serious
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 13: manner the other side of the coin, the harms. Leave
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 13: it to the companies that make billions for these products
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 13: to promote them. Or at least be neutral about it.
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 13: Equally address the harms it can cause as well as
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 13: the benefits. These two folks, the current Surgeon General, the
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 13: current CDC Director, if you look at their history, their
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 13: history is not one in which you've seen balance with
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 13: regards to those two things. Balance would reflect to me
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 13: that they just view them as products, not as items
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 13: of worship like your current governor does, right? That's willing
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 13: to kick the Amish out of New York over them. And,
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 13: you know, my... Again, I will say that their history
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 13: does not bode well for what they will do when
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 13: they're in there. But again, I'm hopeful that Secretary Kennedy
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 13: can maybe get them to read some books. Sid, maybe
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 13: get them to look at some of the primary sources
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 13: and actually, you know, start developing, you know, looking at
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 13: their products again and acting like regulators as the government
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 13: should over them, not as pom-pom cheerleaders for them.
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: Well, you must have been happy a couple of weeks
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: ago when President Trump came out and said that he's
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: going to reduce the number of vaccines and suggested that
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: it goes back to parents, right? Parents, we want more
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: parents involved than city, state and federal government. You must
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: have been happy about that.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 8: I'm very happy.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 13: I think it's a wonderful thing for our country. Anytime
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 13: the president of the United States issues an executive order
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 13: that goes in the direction of protecting our most fundamental
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 13: rights in this instance, as you just pointed out, I
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 13: think The right to be able to live your convictions,
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 13: if an individual says, hey, look, my convictions are not
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 13: to inject X product into my or my child's body, yes,
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 13: the government should respect it. Now, that was an executive
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 13: order signed by the president, which means it sets the
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 13: policy for the whole federal government. Will his departments abide
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 13: by it? And I'll give you one quick example, okay?
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 13: The Department of Justice now should abide by this directive,
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 13: this new policy. And I'll give you the simplest thing
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 13: they could do, the simplest thing they could do in
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 13: the real world to take that executive order from just
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 13: a piece of paper and make it real. They could
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 13: do that by intervening in the Amish case, and they
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 13: could do that at any time, filing an amicus brief
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 13: and saying, hey, government, excuse me, hey, government of New York,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 13: you should be respecting the Amish's right, and they do
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 13: have a First Amendment right under the Constitution to religious freedom.
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 13: The Department of Justice, the Trump administration hasn't done that yet,
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 13: but let's see if they do it. If they do,
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 13: we will see some life breathed into that piece of
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 13: paper that President Trump signed. If they don't do that
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 13: most minimal thing– and, man, that's the most minimal thing
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 13: I can think of to make that thing, that piece
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 13: of paper worthwhile. I'm not– it's only as good as
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 13: the conduct in the real world that results from it.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 8: I'll leave it at that.
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: Fair statement. Once again, folks, you got to buy the book, Vaccines,
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: Our Man, The Religion of Vaccines. There's nobody smarter. He's
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: a great guy too, but he's so smart. My buddy,
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: Aaron Seary. Aaron, another amazing appearance. Thank you so much
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: for doing this. We'll do it again very, very soon, buddy.
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 8: Always my pleasure.
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 13: Thank you.
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: God bless you. And I got all 10 books. Just
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: so you know, Aaron, I got 10 books. Thank you
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: very much. My pleasure.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 13: You guys need a lot of help in New York
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 13: in this department.
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: We really do. We really do. All right, I'm going
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: to hand the books out to people who want to
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: learn more, which they should. Aaron Seery, thank you so much.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: Take care. Lou, I think we're done for today.
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 8: Is that it?
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: That's it. Aaron Seery, great way to end today's program.
• 2:22:05
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• 2:22:08
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