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Arthur Aidala | Criminal Defense Attorney Dissects the Law on S&FIM · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I saw this great video late Sunday night right after
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  Speaker 1: my Giants beat Dallas of my friend number 56. He
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  Speaker 1: never calls me anymore. The great Lawrence Taylor walking on
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  Speaker 1: the field before the game. He's a black guy, bald,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Then I noticed a white bald guy right
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  Speaker 1: behind him. looking very nice in a short-sleeved shirt and
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  Speaker 1: a pair of pants. And that guy happened to be
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  Speaker 1: LT's attorney and friend, and my friend, Arthur Aydala, walking
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  Speaker 1: on the field before the Giants beat the Cowboys. So
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  Speaker 1: last week for you, it's a big deal, Artie, you
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  Speaker 1: were ranked in some focaccia list. as one of the
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  Speaker 1: top 100 New Yorkers, which I didn't make, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: but you and John did, and you got to walk
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  Speaker 1: the field at Giant Stadium with Lawrence Taylor, and you
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  Speaker 1: saw the creepy mayor down at the Memorial on 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: You really are a big-time New Yorker. Congrats.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm closing out the Sid show. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all you Jewish kids from Poly Prep, you always, like,
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  Speaker 2: really admire the Italians. And look at your show today.
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  Speaker 2: Bo Dietl, Charlie Gasparino, Arthur Aydala. I mean, you know, just...
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  Speaker 2: You could be Sicilian, Sid. It's very close to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: You could be Sicilian. I got your back. Those guys
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  Speaker 2: were both great. I mean, Miranda was great, too. But
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  Speaker 2: what you said about Gasparino, about learning from him, that
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  Speaker 2: is the honest truth. Because guys like you and I
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  Speaker 2: could use a little help in being spoken to as
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  Speaker 2: a fifth grader. You know, he knows how to dumb
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  Speaker 2: it down.
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  Speaker 1: He does. He does.
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  Speaker 2: It's important. It's true.
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  Speaker 1: And look, my friends at Poly weren't Ed Gerstenfeld or
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Nadel or Adam Levy. I was friends with Lyle Wilpon,
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  Speaker 1: whose uncle, of course, Fred owned the Mets. But all
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  Speaker 1: my friends had vowels at the end of their names.
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  Speaker 1: Danny Padriano, Joe Tacopino.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Del Corso. I played golf at that dinner with
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  Speaker 2: Pagliano on Thursday, September 10th, at the Joe Hasson Golf Outing,
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  Speaker 2: and we were talking about you. Me, John Barron, Rob Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a little Sid love fest. And you
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  Speaker 2: talk about LT and Texas T. I'm not joking. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the parking lot, and he gets all this VIP crap, right?
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  Speaker 2: So he's in the special VIP lot, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: find it. But I'm on foot in the lot, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a New York State, a Jersey State trooper there. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, those guys are always intimidating at those boots
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  Speaker 2: and the high hat and all that stuff. So I
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  Speaker 2: go over to him. I go, excuse me, sir. I go,
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  Speaker 2: could you tell me where lot A is? I go,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find Lawrence Taylor. And he looks at
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  Speaker 2: me kind of like a wise guy. He goes, why'd
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  Speaker 2: you ask Sid?
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  Speaker 1: Come on. You didn't say that.
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  Speaker 2: He threw it. He threw me off for a second.
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  Speaker 2: And then I, then I laughed. I go, Hey, he goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're walking in the right direction. You said hello. And
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  Speaker 2: then I've been walking on the field with LT. There's
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  Speaker 2: people there like, Hey, how could we not with shit today?
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  Speaker 2: Some other dude just screamed that out.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: But it is cool. It is cool. Walking around there
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  Speaker 2: with him. And it is, look, Sid, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the last time you went to a giants game, but
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  Speaker 2: if you look around the field, If there's 90,000, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, 80,000 people who are there, and if 40,000
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  Speaker 2: of them are wearing jerseys, I'm not exaggerating that more
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  Speaker 2: than half are wearing Lawrence Taylor jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, still, I know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little Strahan. There's a little Manning.
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  Speaker 1: A little Simms.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right, right. I saw two Simms. I saw one
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  Speaker 2: Harry Carson. But, I mean, Lawrence hasn't been in 35 years.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Still 56. He's in there. He looks at me,
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  Speaker 2: he goes, man, a lot of these mother effers got
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  Speaker 2: my number on. I go, yeah, yes, Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be honest, I only have one giant
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  Speaker 1: jersey at home right now. It's 56. You know, Sims,
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  Speaker 1: of course, number 11. Eli Manning, number 10.
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  Speaker 2: Tiki, 21.
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  Speaker 1: Harry, 53. I know all the numbers, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a great win on Sunday night, and I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: were there with your buddy LT to experience it, and
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  Speaker 1: it could be a very special season for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to make too much of one game. The
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  Speaker 1: Ram game will be tough on Monday night. We'll wait
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  Speaker 1: and see. Let me get to Lindsey Clancy. I asked
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  Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz a question. I want your opinion, too. You're
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  Speaker 1: right there with Alan as a great attorney in the
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  Speaker 1: world today. You and Alan and Joe Tagopina. The, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Lindsay Clancy trial, is this woman just a evil
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  Speaker 1: murderess or did she go crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Sid, I, I obviously know your children well,
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  Speaker 2: especially your daughter who was with me all for a year.
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  Speaker 2: I've been texting with her major. She's okay down there.
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  Speaker 2: One of the greatest law schools on the planet. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Secondary degree on top of her JD degree that she
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  Speaker 2: got in London. Um, uh, I mean, Sid, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: have to really be crazy to harm one hair on
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  Speaker 2: Ava's head? Yes. And one hair on Gabriel's hair. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you have to? I mean, the way you and
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  Speaker 2: I are wired, the way I like to say all parents,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not all, but many, most parents, you got
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  Speaker 2: to have lost your mind to do that. And then
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  Speaker 2: dive out the window. I mean, you gotta be nuts.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I said this on Megyn Kelly's show, this
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  Speaker 2: was a trial all about housing. She's either gonna be
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  Speaker 2: housed in one prison for the rest of her life,
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  Speaker 2: like a real prison, but because she's in a wheelchair,
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  Speaker 2: she's not gonna be in a regular general population. She's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be in a hospital setting, even if she got
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  Speaker 2: convicted of the murder. They can't just throw her in
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  Speaker 2: general population. She's going to be put in a hospital ward.
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  Speaker 2: So she's either going to be in a hospital ward
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  Speaker 2: in one place, or if they find they're not guilty
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  Speaker 2: by reason of mental disease or defect, she's going to
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  Speaker 2: be in a hospital ward in another place. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I know everyone got caught up
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  Speaker 2: on it, the salacious part of it, the tragic part
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  Speaker 2: of it. But the truth is, it wasn't like, is
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  Speaker 2: she going to get the death penalty or is she
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  Speaker 2: going to walk free? It was really what hospital is
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  Speaker 2: she going to be in this one or that one?
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  Speaker 2: So and it looks like based on the jury's verdict,
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  Speaker 2: 11 to one, that she was whacked, that she's out
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  Speaker 2: of her mind. That if I'm the prosecutor, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to sit down and say, all right. I mean, my
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  Speaker 2: understanding is in the state of Massachusetts, if she gets
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  Speaker 2: found guilty by not guilty by reason of insanity, she
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  Speaker 2: then could only be released if three doctors agree that
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  Speaker 2: she's not going to be a harm to herself or others.
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  Speaker 2: And then a judge has to approve it. And Sid.
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  Speaker 2: When you kill three kids, they're not doing that any time.
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  Speaker 2: Where's John Hinckley right now? Forty-some odd years. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: 50 years later. He's still sitting in a hospital. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he gets to get out, I think, on a Saturday
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  Speaker 2: or something to go see his mom. But, you know, otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: that's where he is. So before I let you go,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to tell you about what I said to
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  Speaker 2: Mom Don.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I was actually going to bring that up
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  Speaker 1: to you. This is what I'm going to say because
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  Speaker 1: I know already you told me yesterday. Someone already told
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  Speaker 1: me that he had a... A kind of a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: face-to-face with Mamdani on Friday. I got upset. Just like
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  Speaker 1: I got upset with Rudy for shaking his hand. And
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  Speaker 1: I love Rudy. I still love Rudy. But Artie went
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  Speaker 1: on to tell me what happened. And I love Artie again.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, so my tradition real quick is I
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  Speaker 2: stay home and I watch the ceremony from home until
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  Speaker 2: they announce Joe Hassan's name, which is towards, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the third of the beginning. I then have a little
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  Speaker 2: drink on his behalf because that's what he would be doing.
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  Speaker 2: And then I go down to ground zero. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you watch it on TV in the beginning, everyone's there, right?
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  Speaker 2: All the presidents, the first ladies, the governors and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But by the time I get down there,
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  Speaker 2: they're like on the L's or the M's. There were
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  Speaker 2: three main people there. Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Giuliani, and Mayor
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, and your girlfriend AOC. But all the presidents
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  Speaker 2: are gone. All the governors are gone. The past governors,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all the muckety mucks are gone. So those
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  Speaker 2: are the only three people who were there. I first
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  Speaker 2: went over to Bloomberg and I thanked him. And I said, Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: I said, you're the reason I made this happen. You
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  Speaker 2: decided to do this. And he was very humble about this.
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  Speaker 2: He said, your first year in And I said, I
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  Speaker 2: hope you don't take this the wrong way. I said,
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  Speaker 2: but the 20 years of you and Mayor Giuliani was
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  Speaker 2: the golden era of New York. I said, the way
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  Speaker 2: I look at it is Rudy Giuliani cleaned the canvas
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  Speaker 2: so that you could paint a beautiful picture this city
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  Speaker 2: on it and Sid I didn't know how he was
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  Speaker 2: going to take it he lit up he lit up
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  Speaker 2: he goes I think that's a good way to put
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  Speaker 2: it when Rudy came in the crack wars the people
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  Speaker 2: stealing your radio you know you couldn't worry about a
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  Speaker 2: million trees and green cabs in Brooklyn I was like
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  Speaker 2: but you know he gave you the ability to do
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  Speaker 2: that and he was great then I was BSing with
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  Speaker 2: Rudy who he was spectacular. I mean, I spoke to
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  Speaker 2: him like 20 minutes and Von Essen was there. And
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  Speaker 2: I said to Rudy, I go, Rudy, you know, I'm Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: We got two minutes, but go ahead, go.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're on the essence. Like it's almost over. And
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  Speaker 2: he goes, and Rudy said, it's cool that he stayed
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  Speaker 2: here this long. And then I went over to Mom
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  Speaker 2: Donnie and I put, you know, I'm wearing Joe Hassan's picture.
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  Speaker 2: So he's got to be nice to me because I'm
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  Speaker 2: a friend of a deceased. And I said, Mr. Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very cool that you stayed here this long.
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  Speaker 2: I said, this is, this ceremony is very cathartic for
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  Speaker 2: many of us. I said, but you know, I went
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  Speaker 2: to all public schools. I said, I worked my tail
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  Speaker 2: off and I've gotten a little bit of wealth in
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  Speaker 2: my life. I go, that doesn't make me the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: I go, I love this city. I go, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you and your administration make people who are successful and
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  Speaker 2: financially successful like the bad guys. I go, we love
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  Speaker 2: this city. And AOC is right there. I go, and
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  Speaker 2: you know what? We're not Democrats and we're not Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: We're Americans. And we should all be working together to
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  Speaker 2: make this place the best it could be. And he
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  Speaker 2: gave me that smile of his. Right. And he said
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  Speaker 2: something like, I know, I get it, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, and I walked away.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, what about the point you told me yesterday? You
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  Speaker 1: punched him across the face.
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  Speaker 2: No, I said, Sid Rosenberg thinks you're a piece of garbage. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot to tell him.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you would have actually said that. That would
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  Speaker 1: have been great. Just so you know, Frank Jackson, Hinkley's out.
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  Speaker 1: He's been out. He's actually, he's in a band. He's
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  Speaker 1: selling autographs. Hinkley's out.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, is that the councilman, Frank?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and he's right because I actually saw Hinkley on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday morning show that he was playing at some
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  Speaker 1: place in the city, wouldn't allow him to play. Because
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  Speaker 1: he tried to kill somebody and he was like suing him.
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  Speaker 1: He got upset.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sorry. He was in 40 years. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I'm sorry. God bless Murano, man.
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  Speaker 1: He knows, you know, so I want you to come
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  Speaker 1: with us. I got to run here. I'm very late,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to come with us. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: John Barron's. Robert Anderson, Danny Pagliano, all those guys. I
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  Speaker 1: want to do one really big feast lunch at my
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  Speaker 1: buddy Tommy Leonard's place, you know, Will Cortile. I want
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  Speaker 1: to bring back all the Polly guys, you, Tack, all
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  Speaker 1: of us, and do one day at the feast, the
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  Speaker 1: Polly feast on Mulberry Street. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think if you put it together, if you
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  Speaker 2: build it, they will come. I am shocked. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to do it. Those guys would love to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Set it up, and we'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to set it up. Me, Danny Pagliano, and
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  Speaker 1: Greg Scaglione. Anyway, Arthur Aydala, I love you. You're always great.
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  Speaker 1: You're always great. Thank you so much. We'll do it
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  Speaker 1: again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: All right, buddy boy, be well. Kisses to the family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you too. That's a great author. I dollar and
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  Speaker 1: we're done for today. What a great way to end
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  Speaker 1: the show with him. He's so high energy and so
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  Speaker 1: smart and so good.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?