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John Ondrasik (Five For Fighting) | 05-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan, huge fan, and I'm glad he's here.
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  Speaker 2: Big pro Trump, guiye pro Israel and a tremendous talent. John.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on sitting friends in the morning
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  Speaker 2: here in New York. Buddy, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, said, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's great to have you, and I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: be a summer tour like Edward McCain. Also like him
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  Speaker 2: a lot, So that's quite a toy. You guys are
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  Speaker 2: going on, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's gonna be a blast. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: still fun to get back in the bus with the
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  Speaker 3: boys and you know, go to an adult rockstar summer
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  Speaker 3: camp and be a blessed Ah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was looking too at some of the
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  Speaker 2: members of your band. I mean, you got guys like
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  Speaker 2: Randy cook To performed with Mick Jagger ringo starr, Dave Stewart,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hurley with John Mayer ringo starr, Alanis Morrissette, Peter
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  Speaker 2: Thorne with Chris Connell. Yes, there was actually the nine
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  Speaker 2: year out a rosary of Chris his death unfortunately, Melissa
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  Speaker 2: Etheridge and Don Henley. So it's quite a very accomplished
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  Speaker 2: list of musicians that follow you around the country.
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  Speaker 3: John, you know, they are all stars, no doubt about it,
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  Speaker 3: but they're equally wonderful people and I'm so blessed to
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  Speaker 3: play with them. Also, No, I do string quartet tours
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  Speaker 3: during the fall, and I have just amazing Broadway players
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  Speaker 3: with me, you know, all kind of world class string players.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the nice things about these permutations that
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  Speaker 3: far for fighting is I truly get to play with
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  Speaker 3: some of the best musicians in the world and as
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  Speaker 3: I said, just wonderful people.
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  Speaker 2: Who also toured with post Malone a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: right when he was right.
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  Speaker 3: Hot a little bit. Yeah, we've done a few shows there,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I've been blessed to, you know, play with
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  Speaker 3: some of the greats. Ever, and of course the highlight
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  Speaker 3: of my life. Most significant thing was the concert for
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  Speaker 3: New York after nine to eleven, and I was sharing
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  Speaker 3: the stage with the true icons of the world. And
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  Speaker 3: that's certainly a moment I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 2: John, Could you believe now that you brought that up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very sore spot for me. I was on
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  Speaker 2: the air that morning. So I'm a big New York
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  Speaker 2: Giants football fan. And the Giants had gone to the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl the year before and we got killed by
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  Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens. We've only lost one super Bowl well
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  Speaker 2: four and one, Eli Manning two, and oh Bill Simms won,
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  Speaker 2: and oh Jeff Hosteler one, and oh but Kerry Collins
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  Speaker 2: got blown out by Baltimore. But the league rewarded the
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  Speaker 2: Giants with the opening Monday night game the next season.
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  Speaker 2: So Monday night, September tenth, two thousand and one, the
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  Speaker 2: Giants went to Denver. They got blown out by Brian
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  Speaker 2: Greasy and the Broncos. And they're coming back the next morning.
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  Speaker 2: And their laid head coach was a very close friend
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  Speaker 2: of mine. Jim Fossil said to me that when the
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  Speaker 2: taxied and they're playing pulled up to Newark Airport only
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning that the flight that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: was making their way towards the runway. How chilling is that? Wow?
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  Speaker 3: You know, still twenty five years later gives me chills
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  Speaker 3: to think about that. And wow, yeah, you know again,
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  Speaker 3: I think for many of us, nine to eleven almost
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  Speaker 3: seems like yesterday. I actually wrote a song called Tuesday
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  Speaker 3: Note eleven occurred on a Tuesdays you just mentioned, kind
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  Speaker 3: of talking about not forgetting the lessons of nine to
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  Speaker 3: eleven years ago. Unfortunately, I think in many ways we have.
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  Speaker 3: But thinking back to those heroes, and I might be
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  Speaker 3: doing something this July fourth for America two fifty to
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  Speaker 3: recognize some of those firefighters who ran into those buildings. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: which we should think about every day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god? Absolutely? Would you be doing something in
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  Speaker 2: because there's you know, there's two venues that day. There's
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  Speaker 2: something here in New York by the Hudson, and then
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  Speaker 2: Trump's putting on something big in DC. He made have
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  Speaker 2: it both. I don't know, but which spot you see
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  Speaker 2: yourself in New York or DC.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't been confirmed yet, but if it happens, it
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  Speaker 3: will be in New York and it will be something
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  Speaker 3: very special, and I know we're going to talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Alona Well, who I played Superman with not too long ago,
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  Speaker 3: maybe joining me for that, Sid and boy huge, wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: that be amazing? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Huge?
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I actually played your rendition of your great song Superman
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  Speaker 2: with alone yesterday and Lewis loved it too. My guy,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a music genius. He thought it was fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: So that would be They'll be amazing. You know you
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  Speaker 2: said that we seem to forget here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe not. No, we did, and I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: the one indication. And I know there was a tragedy
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  Speaker 2: in San Diego yesterday and we are we are actually
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  Speaker 2: morning today, no question about it, for those innocent Muslim
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  Speaker 2: people that were murdered in San Diego yesterday. But one
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  Speaker 2: thing has nothing to do with the other. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that this city voted in Mom Donnie, as our men
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  Speaker 2: says John, and for sick we've forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's as simple as that. No, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes facts are facts, and it breaks my heart. I
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  Speaker 3: certainly love New York. I love New Yorkers, I love
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  Speaker 3: all of you, and I have a lot of history
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  Speaker 3: there and my daughter went to NYU and to see
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  Speaker 3: someone like Montdami twenty five years later, after the Towers
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  Speaker 3: came down elected whose wife loves to like posts about
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  Speaker 3: the atrocities of October seven. You never would have believed it.
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  Speaker 3: You never would have believed it. But you know what,
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  Speaker 3: here we are and we still have to fight the
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  Speaker 3: good fight. I believe New York will come back and
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  Speaker 3: turn around. Just we're seeing some signs in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe even you know, we who've lost our mind in
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  Speaker 3: California might be having some common sense. But you got
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  Speaker 3: to fight the good fight. And I know you do
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  Speaker 3: that every day, and I'm grateful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I know you do too when your music
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  Speaker 2: rome and like you said, I do it here. So
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  Speaker 2: you're an LA guy. I've been, you know, or only
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care about what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in another city, another state. But obviously California huge, just
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  Speaker 2: like New York. And you got a DSA candidate running
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  Speaker 2: from mayor, very similar to mom Donnie. I think she's
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  Speaker 2: probably in third right now, behind the incumbent Karen Bash
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  Speaker 2: and the guy that I love, Spencer Pratt. You got
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  Speaker 2: that big governor race I'm all about Steve Hilton. You
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  Speaker 2: guys got to win those elections. Look, we got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that Bruce Blakeman beats Katy hcal governor in
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  Speaker 2: this state, John and hopefully somebody that can win in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine beats Mom Donnie. But right now, your
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  Speaker 2: state's opportunity is right now they got to vote in
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton or kiss California goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: It breaks my heart again for m California and my
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  Speaker 3: home state and to see you know, see how it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of crashed and burned, and you know, we have
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  Speaker 3: a family business out there, and again it's most my
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  Speaker 3: friends have left. You see people just leaving, deserting, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles, you know, similar to New York in many respects.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, Spencer is doing an amazing job. Has a tough,
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  Speaker 3: uh tough hill to overcome. You know, it's four to
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  Speaker 3: one Democrats. But I do think we're seeing signs across
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  Speaker 3: the country. You even see in deep blue Oregon you
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  Speaker 3: have a candidate for governor that that's kind of neck
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  Speaker 3: and neck and and uh so again I think some
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  Speaker 3: of these states, uh even Democrats are coming to the census.
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  Speaker 3: And I think just having the fire yesterday in uh
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  Speaker 3: in California, in near my house, actually a thousand oaks, uh,
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  Speaker 3: reminding people of the catastrophe that Karen Bass has been
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  Speaker 3: for Los Angeles. So again, is it enough to have
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  Speaker 3: democrats kind of again, you know, find their senses? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, but you see the trends moving in the
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  Speaker 3: right direction. And and I believe New York also will
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  Speaker 3: come to its senses. And and but again you're right.
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  Speaker 3: If you would have told me, you know, five years ago,
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  Speaker 3: you know, somebody who basically spouts river to the sea
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  Speaker 3: and uh will become the mayor of New York. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have believed it. But here we are, and
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  Speaker 3: UH like anything, you know, as Americans, we we fight
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  Speaker 3: for freedom and humanity. And you're right, we are. Our
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  Speaker 3: hearts break for for the innocents who lost their lives
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  Speaker 3: yesterday in San Diego, and because we we can, we're
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  Speaker 3: happy to say that. Unfortunately, when Jews are massacred or
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  Speaker 3: murdered across the country, you hear very little from the left,
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  Speaker 3: uh up and they still blame Israel for that. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the world we live in. We're fighting for civilization.
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  Speaker 3: This is the fight for civilization, and you know all
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  Speaker 3: continue to do that. You'll continue to do that, and
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  Speaker 3: we will win because right is on our side. Thank you. Right?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, John, you we mentioned the the Elon
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  Speaker 2: version of Superman. You guys, did I remember Bono and
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  Speaker 2: you two? They changed the lyrics for one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite songs of all time, Pride. I think they were
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  Speaker 2: performing in Vegas, may have been in the in the
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  Speaker 2: sphere and he, you know, changed because Pride in the
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  Speaker 2: Name of Love that songs about the Martin Luther King assassination.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know that, Yeah, but he changed the words
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  Speaker 2: the to the to the October seventh instead of the
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  Speaker 2: April assassination. And you did that with a Superman with
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  Speaker 2: Alan again, we played it yesterday. Where does this love
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  Speaker 2: for Israel? This which is beautiful? And I'm right with you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going back to Isuel and back in three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Where does all this come from?
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  Speaker 3: For you?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not Jewish, you know if you by
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  Speaker 4: the way, That's why I asked you that, because to
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  Speaker 4: be honest, John Well, I appreciate my Jewish brethren, my
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  Speaker 4: brothers and sisters. I appreciate you more every time I
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  Speaker 4: hear a Christian was somebody who's not Jewish say I'm
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  Speaker 4: not Jewish, but I love Israel.
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  Speaker 2: It gives me hope.
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  Speaker 3: Well again, to me, this has nothing to do with religion.
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  Speaker 3: If a moss is not evil, nothing is. Again, this
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  Speaker 3: is the fire for civilization, and that Israel as a democracy.
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  Speaker 3: It's this little speck in the Middle East, you know,
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  Speaker 3: surrounded by enemies who want to destroy them. And why
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't you support or Israel who's literally this front of
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  Speaker 3: the tip of the spear to fight against this kind
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  Speaker 3: of leftist Marxist worldview that is indoctrinating our children, taking
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  Speaker 3: over our universities, flooding the media, existing in Congress. So
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  Speaker 3: why wouldn't you stand with Israel? That's to me, it's
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  Speaker 3: clear there's no moral kind of relativity here if it's
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  Speaker 3: either good or evil. And you know, frankly said, I
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  Speaker 3: choose the good in Israel the good, and it has
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with religion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh bless you. You know you have a cool story
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  Speaker 2: about one of these songs. I remember Bono going back
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  Speaker 2: to you two for a second saying that I think
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  Speaker 2: he was in a restaurant or a diner when he
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  Speaker 2: wrote Angel of Harlem, and he wrote on a napkin,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and even Lee Greenwood wrote that great song
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  Speaker 2: like in the back of a Truck or something. You'd
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  Speaker 2: be surprised some of the songs that are the favorites
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  Speaker 2: of all time where they were actually penned and where
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  Speaker 2: the artist was. So I don't care if it's The
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  Speaker 2: Riddle or one hundred Years of World or Easy Tonight
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  Speaker 2: or A Man with Chances. You have a cool story
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  Speaker 2: about where you pen one of these songs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Superman was a gift. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: wrote it kind of from beginning to end in forty
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  Speaker 3: five minutes. You know. The joke is I've been looking
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  Speaker 3: for that forty five minutes ever since. But that's another story.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you know I was sitting there just writing
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  Speaker 3: song after song, and I couldn't write Superman. Today, I've
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  Speaker 3: learned that. You know, it's relatively been pretty easy to
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  Speaker 3: be me in my life and for most of us.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, as a kid, you know, struggling against
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  Speaker 3: the music business, wanting to be heard, you know, sitting
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  Speaker 3: down and writing that song, and when I wrote it,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, you know, I'm a rocker. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I listened to Zeppelin, you know, a z DC, you
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  Speaker 3: know Queen, and this is this little ballad. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this is not for me. I'll give it to James
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  Speaker 3: Taylor or something like that. And my my producer, Greg Wattenberg,
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  Speaker 3: a great New Yorker, said, dude, you got to put
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  Speaker 3: that little song on your record. We even called it
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  Speaker 3: a little song. And and here we are twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years later, and Superman is now has a new life
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  Speaker 3: as a song for the hostages and for a loan,
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  Speaker 3: and to sit down with a loan after you know,
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  Speaker 3: he spent seven hundred days and the gods a tunnel
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  Speaker 3: and sit with him and play and sing that song
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  Speaker 3: was truly a spiritual moment. I kept finding myself touching
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  Speaker 3: him to make sure he was real. And again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that experience, I think is a victory for all of us,
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  Speaker 3: all of us who've stood for the hostages, all of
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  Speaker 3: us who stood for Israel and America and freedom and
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  Speaker 3: everything we're talking about. There's been so much vitriol and
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  Speaker 3: lies thrown against Israel to the free Palestine con job.
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  Speaker 3: That moment, I think gave so much of us, including me,
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  Speaker 3: strength to know we're on the right side and alone
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  Speaker 3: will continue, you know, to kind of be a shining
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  Speaker 3: life for all of us. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: did we have to recognize the hostages and the families
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  Speaker 3: whose loved ones did not come home, the Goldbergs, the
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  Speaker 3: be Boss family, so our hearts are certainly with them
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, the be Boss family was abducted
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  Speaker 2: by Palestinians, not Hamas. As we continued to hear what
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  Speaker 2: great people they are, that nonsense, that nonsense, Well, killing
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  Speaker 2: all the Palestinians, well, maybe Hamash shouldn't set up in
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  Speaker 2: hospitals and nursery schools and all the places where Palacinis
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  Speaker 2: are gonna die. They're killing them, not us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned the song with the line I gotta say
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  Speaker 2: this too. It's a great story obviously that he was
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  Speaker 2: a hostage, and what you did was beautiful quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: John and jisick. But above and beyond that, he's good,
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  Speaker 2: Like he's really good in the song.
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  Speaker 3: He's better than me, much better piano player than I'll
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  Speaker 3: ever be. The kid's a wizard, you know. And actually
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  Speaker 3: when he was hostage, you know, he said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was alone most of the time, which he actually
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  Speaker 3: liked because he got more food, but to kind of
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  Speaker 3: keep himself, saying he would kind of play the piano
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  Speaker 3: like on his body and play songs on himself. And
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  Speaker 3: when he got home, I think the piano, sitting at
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  Speaker 3: the piano again was a great healing tool for him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just remind us how music could be so healing,
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  Speaker 3: just like Frankly after nine to eleven. So he is
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  Speaker 3: an incredibly strong guy. You know. He said what I
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  Speaker 3: said to him, what's the thing you missed the most?
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  Speaker 3: He said, you know, a chocolate shape with Bailey's. And
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  Speaker 3: I ran down to the bartender and I said, if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have a chocolate shake with Bailey's, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: come back there and make one right now. And so
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  Speaker 3: we got him one and to watch him drink that
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  Speaker 3: with his girlfriend again and his mom sitting there. You know, God,
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  Speaker 3: it's good. Buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you you are something else man, a
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  Speaker 2: brilliant musician. Your music is great, and I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: I've been playing it for years and years on this show.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't brand new because we just started talking. But
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  Speaker 2: the work that you do, the song with the allowing
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  Speaker 2: a line to perform on Superman on Twitter. You know,
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  Speaker 2: out there every day defending our country, defending President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: defending Israel, and you're noted you John and Sick. I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't love anymore than I do right now, Pal, you
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  Speaker 2: really are terrific. I enjoyed this immensely. I only ask
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  Speaker 2: that you keep coming back, and I'm sure I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you at some of these events coming up this summer.
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  Speaker 2: You're a great American, my friend, Thank you so much, said.
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  Speaker 3: You're the man, keep leading the fight, and hey, go
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  Speaker 3: Nixt go next.
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  Speaker 2: Every part of this conversation was great. This guy, John
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  Speaker 2: and Sick, is amazing. Go Nicks in America nine to
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  Speaker 2: eleven the hostages. What a beautiful guy. And his music,
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  Speaker 2: his music is really outstanding.