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Deirdre Imus | Widow of the Late Don Imus Finally Debuts on Sid & Friends · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: I was very happy a couple of months ago to
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Speaker 1: reestablish relationships with Deirdre Imus, who I loved through the years,
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Speaker 1: and Wyatt. Wyatt's been on the show a bunch of times.
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Speaker 1: He's terrific. Kids get married in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: And Deirdre's got a lot of really good stuff going on.
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Speaker 1: She's got this art show in New York City. She's
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Speaker 1: been doing it for years, and she does well. She
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Speaker 1: sells paintings. She's the anti-Hunter Biden, I guess. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: So Deirdre's got a big show coming up here in
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Speaker 1: New York City, plus some other exciting things going on.
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Speaker 1: So I said, why not now? This is a great
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Speaker 1: time to bring Deirdre on. We've been trying to get
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Speaker 1: her on for years, but Rob Bartlett keeps saying bad
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Speaker 1: things about us. I'm kidding. So here she is, the
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Speaker 1: great Deirdre Imus, back on WABC. Deirdre, sweetheart, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Are you going to ask me what I'm wearing, or
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Speaker 2: are my peaches fuzzy?
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Speaker 1: I swear to God I was going to do that.
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Speaker 1: I really was, but I figured... I really was. Is that,
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Speaker 1: you know, if I asked you, it's a hard question
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Speaker 1: because there's probably a lot of answers to this. But
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Speaker 1: if I asked you what you miss the most about
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Speaker 1: your husband, Don, is it possible to answer that?
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Speaker 2: It is. It's a lot though. I mean, it was
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Speaker 2: everything about him. Mainly though, his angle of his mind,
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Speaker 2: his angle at which he came at life was so
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Speaker 2: original that so unique. I mean, to this day, there's
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Speaker 2: nobody that I say, oh, they're kind of like Imus
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Speaker 2: or they come in at a point of view or
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Speaker 2: an observation. And then he did it with humor always.
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Speaker 2: That was his thing. He did always want to make
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Speaker 2: people laugh or just see the funny in everything. And
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Speaker 2: of course, you cross those red lines when you do
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Speaker 2: that because you walk a tightrope, which he did. I
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Speaker 2: feel like his whole life, just knowing his whole life.
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Speaker 2: And then the 27 years that I was with him
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Speaker 2: and 25 years married. Um, but yeah, he, he was just,
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Speaker 2: and I, so I missed that and I missed that, um,
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Speaker 2: rapport back and forth that repartee that I had daily
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Speaker 2: where I was always laughing. I mean, even in the
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Speaker 2: darkest of times, there was always laughter. I mean, his
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Speaker 2: light was shining the brightest. I thought when he was
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Speaker 2: always at the ranch with these kids that were, you know,
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Speaker 2: with cancer when we did the ranch. And he, I'll
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Speaker 2: never forget it. Cause then when he was diagnosed with
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Speaker 2: cancer too, and it, it was never about him and
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Speaker 2: it never took him down. And I remember he would, these,
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Speaker 2: some of these kids that were even terminal that were
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Speaker 2: at the ranch and, you know, had all these horrible
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Speaker 2: life stories on top of getting their diagnosis. And somehow they,
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Speaker 2: even with the cancer and bringing that up in these
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Speaker 2: stories that he would tell the kids and inspire them,
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Speaker 2: he could get them to laugh. Always. They could laugh
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Speaker 2: through their pain and they could laugh, you know, even
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Speaker 2: about their diagnosis. And it was genuine. I mean, that's him.
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Speaker 2: You can't pretend to be that, you know, which he
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Speaker 2: definitely wasn't. He was pretty raw.
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Speaker 1: He was. I'm not going to compare myself to him
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Speaker 1: because he was a legend, but I have my fair
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Speaker 1: share of detractors. A lot of people actually hate me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, hate me. They want me dead. And what
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Speaker 1: they do is they go after you with the stuff
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Speaker 1: that you do the best. So, for example, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the ranch. OK, I know for a fact you guys
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Speaker 1: have done and still do, even with Don gone, still
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Speaker 1: do amazing work. Yet people like Howard Stern, that scumbag
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Speaker 1: and others, oh, they got a day camp. They're making money.
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Speaker 1: When you heard those types of things and your husband,
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Speaker 1: he was alive. Did that bother you? We just kind
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Speaker 1: of brush it off.
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Speaker 2: It never bothered me or Don because we knew what
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Speaker 2: we were doing. We knew the work we were doing.
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Speaker 2: We knew that, you know, I mean, my husband solely
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Speaker 2: was the fundraiser for the ranch. I mean, he raised
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Speaker 2: an hour's $ 40 million back in 1998, which was unheard
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Speaker 2: of on the air. you know, and he used his
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Speaker 2: show all those years. I mean, he was on the
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Speaker 2: air for 50 years, but he used the, all those
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Speaker 2: years I was with him too, any chance he could
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Speaker 2: get to get someone on to help them to raise money,
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Speaker 2: especially when it came to kids, anything to do with
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Speaker 2: kids with cancer, autism, anything to help children or the military.
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Speaker 2: Those were, those were big veterans. Those were big priorities
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Speaker 2: for him. And, you know, you look back on his career,
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Speaker 2: even the, People that were unheard of and people didn't
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Speaker 2: even know that he knew he could help and give
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Speaker 2: them a voice and a platform, he did. And he
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Speaker 2: extended himself. I mean, basically he killed himself basically being
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Speaker 2: at that ranch because he couldn't breathe, you know, and
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Speaker 2: people didn't know all that, you know. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: he cut some years off his life by, you know,
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Speaker 2: us doing that. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Um, so is it fair to say then, so with,
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Speaker 1: with all the Marconis and all the praise and all
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Speaker 1: the number ones and all that great stuff that I
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Speaker 1: miss had, I mean, let's face it. They write the book. He's,
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Speaker 1: he's right there at the very top. Would you say
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Speaker 1: that you're most proud of all that work you just
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Speaker 1: talked about?
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Speaker 2: Oh, by far, I have to say to this day,
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Speaker 2: the ranch, you know, and I find it, you know,
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Speaker 2: we founded the ranch together, um, I was pregnant with
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Speaker 2: Wyatt when six months pregnant with Wyatt, when we were
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Speaker 2: both already venturing out West and we were already supporting
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Speaker 2: some of these organizations on the Indian reservations. And we
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Speaker 2: were seeing, you know, all these children that needed help
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Speaker 2: in poor areas, but kids with cancer, you know, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people weren't talking about it. And there wasn't
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Speaker 2: a lot that was happening to, to help a lot
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Speaker 2: of these children. So he, by being raised on a
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Speaker 2: cattle ranch, And he came up with the idea one
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Speaker 2: day when he was writing an interview for Paul Newman.
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Speaker 2: I remember he was having Paul Newman on and I
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Speaker 2: was actually on the treadmill. I mean, I'm like this
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Speaker 2: fitness person, you know, exercise, gym princess, whatever. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I was doing that and we were trying to figure
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Speaker 2: out what we could do that. And I had already
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Speaker 2: been working with Hackensack University Medical Center in the hospitals,
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Speaker 2: the Tomorrow's Children Fund, you know, with David, my dear friend,
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Speaker 2: my bestie, David Jurist. And we were trying to figure out,
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Speaker 2: because I had seen a need where, yes, doctors have
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Speaker 2: their roles, parents, of course, they're doing everything they can.
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Speaker 2: But I saw that there was, when children get diagnosed,
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Speaker 2: they lose their self-esteem, they lose their confidence, they lose
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Speaker 2: a sense of direction, a sense of purpose. And those
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Speaker 2: are things we all need in life, regardless of what
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Speaker 2: happens to us, right? So that's when Don and I
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Speaker 2: were talking like, He said, I know what we're going
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Speaker 2: to do. We're going to do a ranch for kids
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Speaker 2: with cancer, a working cattle ranch. From growing up, that
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Speaker 2: whole work ethic, getting up, feeding the animals before you
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Speaker 2: go to school, and that sense of responsibility and that
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Speaker 2: strong work ethic and that strong sense of purpose, you gain... your,
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Speaker 2: your confidence and your self-esteem and you do it by
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Speaker 2: the doing of having a strong work ethic, frankly, it
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Speaker 2: starts there with all of us. And that's the foundation
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Speaker 2: that Don came up with and he lived it his
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Speaker 2: whole life. That's who he was. I mean, his work
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Speaker 2: ethic was incredible. So that's what we did when we
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Speaker 2: built this ranch and no one had ever done it.
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Speaker 2: No one had, you know, kids working on ranches and
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Speaker 2: getting up at five 30, you know, which we both
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Speaker 2: ran the ranch, uh, We worked the ranch. We moved
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Speaker 2: out there all summer. You know, we never went on
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Speaker 2: vacations or anything. No. That is what we wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. And, you know, you mentioned David Jurist
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Speaker 1: and Joel Hollander, also a terrific guy, Tomorrow's Children's Fund.
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Speaker 1: And SIDS, all three of you guys were great together.
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Speaker 1: But I do have to ask you this. You were
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Speaker 1: with Don for many, many years. So maybe I don't
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Speaker 1: have the dates right, but one day you had to
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Speaker 1: be with Don when he was a regular New York
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Speaker 1: City guy. And then all of a sudden, the next morning,
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Speaker 1: you wake up with a guy who's wearing a cowboy
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Speaker 1: hat and carrying a gun. What was that progression like
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Speaker 1: where you went from a regular New York guy to
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Speaker 1: a cowboy?
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Speaker 2: Who was a regular New York guy?
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Speaker 1: Don, he wasn't walking around with a cowboy hat and
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Speaker 1: a gun his whole career.
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Speaker 2: First of all, Don was never a regular guy in
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Speaker 2: any stretch of the imagination whatsoever. It was he I mean,
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Speaker 2: you could go through the list and check. You couldn't
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Speaker 2: do it. He's right. He didn't he wasn't regular in
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Speaker 2: any way. I mean, he was just.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, but but remember, he was a cowboy. He
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Speaker 2: grew up on, you know, 40, 45000 acre cattle ranch.
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Speaker 2: You know, in California and between Sligman and Kingman, Arizona.
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Speaker 2: He goes back, the legacy of the Imus cattle goes
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Speaker 2: back to 1874. that's how far back this, um, that
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Speaker 2: Wyatt is now holding that and can't carrying that for the,
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Speaker 2: I miss family is why I miss, you know, and he's,
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Speaker 2: like you said, he's getting married. Hey, I wanted to
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Speaker 2: congratulate you though. Um, you're, you're still getting that hall
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Speaker 2: of fame.
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Speaker 1: Deal, right? I haven't taken it away yet. Not yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm going, yes. October 22nd, a week after our Wyatt
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Speaker 1: gets married, actually.
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Speaker 2: Right. And, um, I'm very proud of you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: I'm very proud of you. And I know Dom would
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Speaker 2: be proud. And, uh, He would be. He would be.
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Speaker 2: And so that's a big deal, Sid. You got to
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Speaker 2: work on those Marconis, though, don't you?
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Speaker 1: I have none. Zero. I'll never get one because I'm too...
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Speaker 1: I'm saying this to Don Amos' wife, but I'm too
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Speaker 1: polarizing and I like the wrong people. I like the
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Speaker 1: same people that you like. Donald Trump, Bill White, all
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Speaker 1: those people we like this day and age. That hurts you.
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Speaker 1: Hurts you a lot. I know you know that.
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Speaker 2: Well, just Stick with your truth. Oh, yeah, I don't care.
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Speaker 2: Keep fighting the fight.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to compromise your principles, your morals, your values. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't matter then. To me, I never
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Speaker 2: look at it that way. You know, it's okay to
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Speaker 2: have enemies, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Of course. It's great. What do you mean it's okay?
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Speaker 1: It's actually great.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I enjoy my enemies more than the people that love me.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to my enemies. It's a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Tell me this. Your art has become huge.
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Speaker 1: I know you've been doing these art shows in Soho
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Speaker 1: for a long time. I don't know how many years exactly.
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Speaker 1: But it is huge. People love your work. I see
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Speaker 1: it on Instagram and other social media sites. And at
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Speaker 1: the risk of patronizing you, you're actually really good. Like,
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Speaker 1: really good. Tell me about this latest show coming up.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you. First of all, thank you, Sid. I
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Speaker 2: appreciate that. Don always loved my art too. I never
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Speaker 2: did it as a career. I've been painting my whole life,
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Speaker 2: but it was always a private thing because painting for
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Speaker 2: me is really a confessional when it comes down to it.
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Speaker 2: And so I always thought it wasn't something I'm self-taught.
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Speaker 2: I went to university, but not for art, never took
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Speaker 2: an art class or anything, but I always was painting
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Speaker 2: or drawing or And, you know, for my whole life
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Speaker 2: since I was little. Right now, though, I have 22
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Speaker 2: paintings at Simkai, who's a fashion designer. Simkai, it's a
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Speaker 2: store in Soho. It's 158 Mercer Street in New York
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Speaker 2: City there, Simkai. And he has beautiful, his fashion is beautiful.
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Speaker 2: And Jonathan Simkai is who asked me to have my
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Speaker 2: paintings in his store. So we had the big event
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Speaker 2: opening there. Last week, I was in New York City,
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Speaker 2: and the paintings are going to be there. They're for sale,
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Speaker 2: all of them, for the next month, probably into November here.
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Speaker 2: Very cool. Yeah, so people can come there, and they
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Speaker 2: can inquire or go to the store or call the store,
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Speaker 2: and then they can get a hold of me also
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Speaker 2: through my website, which is deirdreimus.com. you know, so it's
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Speaker 2: easy to get ahold of me too, um, for, for
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Speaker 2: those paintings that are there. But I did do my
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Speaker 2: first solo show, uh, was in New York city last year. Um, 2025, January, 2025, uh,
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Speaker 2: at art Gotham in the lower East side of Manhattan. Um,
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Speaker 2: I had a 44 paintings and I sold a good,
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Speaker 2: I sold a good chunk of them.
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Speaker 1: Um, Look at you, Deidre, selling art all over New
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Speaker 1: York City. Why don't you have an apartment here? I
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Speaker 1: know you live in Texas, some place. I don't even
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Speaker 1: know the name of that city. But why don't you
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Speaker 1: have an apartment here in Lower Manhattan?
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Speaker 2: Well, I did. Well, I formally moved out of New
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Speaker 2: York City two years ago. Finally sold our penthouse and
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Speaker 2: office and everything that.
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Speaker 1: We had there. Central Park, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Central Park West.
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Speaker 1: That hurt you. I know that hurt you, by the way.
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Speaker 1: That hurt you, didn't it? Well, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, John and I started our life there. We
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Speaker 2: bought it when we first married and all of that. So, um,
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Speaker 2: we had the, we, but we had, I mean, it
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Speaker 2: was the best life. So I, um, but I, I'm
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Speaker 2: here on this ranch in Texas and I have this
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Speaker 2: huge art studio. I converted an entire barn and then
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Speaker 2: Wyatt has his whole horse. I miss ranch quarter horses here.
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Speaker 2: I will be in my studio and I could see
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Speaker 2: both horse, um, You know, and all the horses, why
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Speaker 2: it has a big outdoor arena and then the indoor
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Speaker 2: arena and we have horses everywhere. So that's my whole inspiration.
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Speaker 2: A big part of my paintings are these horses. And,
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Speaker 2: but I, um, I, uh, I'm not a realist. I
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Speaker 2: paint more of an emotional, um, view of how I
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Speaker 2: paint my work. And it's large scale. Most of my
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Speaker 2: paintings are large scale. But yeah, I mean, I'll see Deja,
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Speaker 2: Bo's horse and all the horses in their different pastures
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Speaker 2: and Wyatt riding all the horses and roping and all
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Speaker 2: of that. So that's kind of my setting here. We
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Speaker 2: are on this beautiful ranch here and between the horses
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Speaker 2: and painting and You know, it's that's if I'm not
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Speaker 2: traveling because, you know, I try I did a residency,
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Speaker 2: an art residency for the month of August in Tuscany, Italy.
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Speaker 2: So I had just gotten back. Have you? You love it, right?
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Speaker 1: I love I love I love watching all the places
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Speaker 1: you I love Tuscany. But then you go to Belgium
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Speaker 1: to see Bill White. I mean, it seems like every
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Speaker 1: other week is someplace else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because my art's been taking me. London, Paris, I'm
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Speaker 2: doing things there, too, as well as going back to Italy.
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Speaker 2: And Bill White, Ambassador Bill White, His Excellency, right? He's
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Speaker 2: doing phenomenal work there.
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Speaker 1: He's my favorite homosexual on the planet, Bill White. I
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Speaker 1: love him.
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Speaker 2: He's awesome. He and Brian, I just love.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 2: They were so gracious. They hosted me and my sister.
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Speaker 2: I brought my sister with me. We had the time
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Speaker 2: of our lives, but he hosted me there because he
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Speaker 2: has one of my paintings is currently on loan through
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Speaker 2: the U.S. Department of State's Art in Embassies program. And
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Speaker 2: Bill White and Brian picked the painting of mine that
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Speaker 2: they have. in the embassy there, they picked it. They,
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Speaker 2: they went through and they picked that specific painting. It's
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Speaker 2: called mystic of the West. And, um, yeah, so they, he,
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Speaker 2: I got to sleep. I was, they put me in
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Speaker 2: the VIP bedroom. There were Trump's day. They said, president Trump.
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Speaker 1: You love president Trump. I know you do.
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Speaker 2: I do. And, um, you know, he was very gracious.
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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen him in years. And I was in Mar-a-Lago. Um,
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Speaker 2: what was it a year and a half ago? And he, uh,
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Speaker 2: I went over, I was with Bill, Bill White too,
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Speaker 2: and he talked me for a few minutes.
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Speaker 1: But when you first walked over, not to cut you off,
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Speaker 1: but when you first walked over, knowing that at the end,
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Speaker 1: our guy Don would refer to President Trump a lot
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Speaker 1: as blubber titties, and Trump was pissed. He was legitimately pissed.
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Speaker 1: Were you a little nervous when you walked over that
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Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't going to be so nice?
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Speaker 2: No, because you know what? It showed the President's moral
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Speaker 2: character because I've had men do that to me, come
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Speaker 2: up to me, mostly men that my husband had said
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Speaker 2: something and I've had them literally take it out on
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Speaker 2: me and attack me. And I'd say to them, why
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Speaker 2: aren't you saying this to my husband? So it shows cowardice, right?
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Speaker 2: Why are you?
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Speaker 1: He can't say it right now. He's dead.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Deidre, he's dead.
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Speaker 2: I've had... No, this is when Don was alive.
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Speaker 1: Oh, when he was alive. They're cowards.
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Speaker 2: No, when he was alive. Pussies.
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Speaker 1: They're pussies, Deidre.
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Speaker 2: No, this is when he was alive.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And men would come up to me, and I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: in all different ranks, politically and media, et cetera, oh,
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Speaker 2: I don't like that your husband said that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 2: And I'd say to him, take it up with him.
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Speaker 2: He would have you on, even. Or he wouldn't hang
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Speaker 2: up on you. He would take the call if he
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Speaker 2: wanted to have it out with him.
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Speaker 1: He would. He would.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But you know what? President Trump, when he wanted
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Speaker 2: to see me, and I went over to him. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I was there sitting at his place at Mar-a-Lago. But
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Speaker 2: he was so gracious. And the first thing he said
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Speaker 2: is he was giving me his condolences with Don in
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Speaker 2: speaking about Don in the highest regard. And then he
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Speaker 2: said to me, no one is going to be really— he
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Speaker 2: said it's going to be really hard for— Someone to
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Speaker 2: fill Don's shoes. I don't know how you do. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how you do that.
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Speaker 1: That's great. That's great. Danielle gets a lot of the
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Speaker 1: same thing you get to your husband. I like what
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Speaker 1: your husband says. And I don't know. I think she says,
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Speaker 1: go up yourself and drop dead. I don't know. So
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Speaker 1: with you on the way out here, this has been great.
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Speaker 1: Please keep coming back. I love having you on. But you,
17:33
Speaker 1: you know, you're still young and you look great. Um,
17:36
Speaker 1: and Don's gone. I mean, Don's got a couple of
17:39
Speaker 1: years now, but I don't get the feeling Deidre that again,
17:43
Speaker 1: young and great shape look right. That you have any
17:46
Speaker 1: real desire. I could be wrong. You know, you could
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Speaker 1: tell me differently. Do you have any real desire to
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Speaker 1: be with or meet someone else or do you?
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Speaker 2: No. Well, it's this December's seven years since Don passed.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it is seven years.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: December 27th, 2019. He passed. right before COVID hit, you know,
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Speaker 2: for the whole world and all that happened. But he, yeah,
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Speaker 2: so this December's seven years, for the first two years,
18:15
Speaker 2: I did not leave the ranch. I mean, I grieved
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Speaker 2: very deeply, very, it was pretty brutal. And then came
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Speaker 2: out of that by 2022, I had built that art studio.
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Speaker 2: And it was done from him passing my first painting,
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Speaker 2: which I have not shown to anyone. No one has
18:32
Speaker 2: seen it. I'm not selling it. There's several paintings I'm
18:35
Speaker 2: not selling. A lot of paintings I'm not selling. But
18:38
Speaker 2: I did a painting and that was my memoriam to him.
18:41
Speaker 2: So it was a private thing I did, but I
18:43
Speaker 2: did this painting. And from there, I could not stop painting.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, so that was in 2022. And then things
18:50
Speaker 2: just really snowballed. I mean, organically, I didn't even really
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Speaker 2: think I was establishing... an art career, and it happened.
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Speaker 2: It happened because I'd just been 100% fully invested in.
19:03
Speaker 2: It is a passion. I mean, literally, I will paint
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Speaker 2: until my lungs give out. I mean, I do feel
19:07
Speaker 2: that way. Not to be so dramatic, but it's true. Yeah,
19:11
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so... But New York City, I mean, Sid,
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Speaker 2: you're just kicking ass there, and I love it. But
19:19
Speaker 2: it is my favorite city in the world. And I'm forever...
19:23
Speaker 2: I'm a New Yorker. I love New York City. New
19:27
Speaker 2: York has been so good to me. I met Don there.
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Speaker 2: I had Wyatt in the hospital there. And then we
19:34
Speaker 2: did all these things. And New York City has been
19:36
Speaker 2: so good to me. And I just love, I can't
19:40
Speaker 2: say enough about New York City and the people there.
19:42
Speaker 2: And and Bo fighting the good fight too. I mean,
19:45
Speaker 2: you know, you guys are all, um, thank God, all
19:48
Speaker 2: these New Yorkers doing, doing the right thing and, you know,
19:51
Speaker 2: keeping it a great city. It has to be, I mean,
19:53
Speaker 2: it's the greatest city in the world. And I, and
19:55
Speaker 2: I love these other cities. Like I love Rome and
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Speaker 2: Paris and London. I do. They're great cities, but New York,
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Speaker 2: New York is just, it's got my heart put it
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Speaker 2: that way.
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Speaker 1: London and Paris are a mess to be honest. And
20:06
Speaker 1: so was New York, but, We got this awful mayor
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Speaker 1: and a horrible, you know, the whole story. I know
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Speaker 1: you know it very, very well. But it is still
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Speaker 1: a great city. And we still love you here. And
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Speaker 1: we're very, very happy you're having great success with your art.
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Speaker 1: We really are. And we're really thrilled you're back on WABC.
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Speaker 1: And now we just hope you keep coming back. Every
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Speaker 1: time you got a big art show or have something
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Speaker 1: to say, just call in. And then I'll ask you
20:29
Speaker 1: about all that nasty stuff your husband did.
20:31
Speaker 2: Hey, I got to ask you, Tyson Fury or Anthony Joshua?
20:38
Speaker 1: Tyson Fury. What do you think?
20:41
Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I mean, it looks like just from a
20:43
Speaker 2: little lineup, Tyson Fury. I say Tyson Fury, too.
20:46
Speaker 1: Tyson Fury.
20:46
Speaker 2: If they actually have the.
20:47
Speaker 1: Fight, right? Yeah. They have to. At some point, they
20:50
Speaker 1: have to, yes. You like boxing. That's your favorite sport
20:53
Speaker 1: right now?
20:55
Speaker 2: I've always loved boxing.
20:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
20:56
Speaker 2: That was another thing, Don. Yeah, I love boxing. Wyatt
20:59
Speaker 2: loves boxing. Wyatt can tell you everything about boxing.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: We love it. So now Wyatt and I watch all the...
21:05
Speaker 2: the matches. And yeah, I love box. I've always thought box.
21:07
Speaker 1: You know, now that you mentioned why he is getting
21:09
Speaker 1: married on October 15th and he's been on the show
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Speaker 1: twice and he's doing great with the horses. I know
21:13
Speaker 1: he's got, Bo has got a horse. He's got a
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Speaker 1: horse named after me. Empire state said, so on the
21:17
Speaker 1: way out, honestly, do you like his wife to be
21:22
Speaker 1: Jordan or not? Really?
21:23
Speaker 2: Oh my God. I love Jordan.
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Speaker 1: You sure?
21:26
Speaker 2: Jordan is like an, I miss already.
21:29
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
21:30
Speaker 2: Wyatt. We're already together. It's, it's simpatico. There's something there.
21:35
Speaker 2: That is, you know, it's one of those things that
21:37
Speaker 2: you know they're meant to be. It was fated. They're
21:40
Speaker 2: meant to be together. They're meant to have this beautiful life.
21:42
Speaker 2: They're building this beautiful life and career together. And Wyatt's
21:47
Speaker 2: better because of her. She's better because of him. And
21:50
Speaker 2: they're building their house on the ranch here, too. You know,
21:53
Speaker 2: you see the Amish Ranch Quarter Horses business just, you know, booming.
21:57
Speaker 2: And they're both in their stride here together. And I
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Speaker 2: can't wait for this wedding. It's going to be absolutely beautiful. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's October 16th in Texas.
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Speaker 1: Coming up, coming up.
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Speaker 2: It's coming up here in two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks. Wyatt will be a married man, hard to believe. Well, listen,
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Speaker 1: Mazel Tov on everything, the ranch, the art, Wyatt. Everything
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Speaker 1: seems to be going well, and you've rebounded nicely. And
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Speaker 1: like I said, we love you here. Keep coming back, okay, Deirdre?
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Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Get off my phone.
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Speaker 1: That's perfect. Lou, we'll end it right there.
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22:31
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22:34
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22:57
Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?