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Todd Shapiro | Updates Listeners on the Hamptons Weekend That Was · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Todd Shapiro, one of the most well-known
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  Speaker 1: PR guys in the world. Well, it happened ever since
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  Speaker 1: he became Mayor Adams' PR guy. And reporting in from
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  Speaker 1: the great island of Long Island, a great segment, the Hamptons. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Todd Shapiro, what the heck is going on? It was
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  Speaker 1: some weekend. You wore me out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? It was a great weekend. As
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  Speaker 2: you always say, the sun is shining. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: it was probably the biggest Greek weekend of all. Are
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  Speaker 2: you kidding?
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  Speaker 1: Stop with the Greeks. I mean, it was Greek. Baklava
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  Speaker 1: for all. Half the room in the gala on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night was Jews.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jews love baklava, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, Greece just signed a three billion
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  Speaker 4: euro deal with Israel for a defense. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: make the whole show about Greece and Israel making a
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  Speaker 4: defense deal. But go ahead, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Well, John, I mean, John and Father Alex, they started
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  Speaker 2: a thing called Blue Dream. And I guess it started
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  Speaker 2: as a dream. But, you know, as John says, it
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  Speaker 2: has a lot of check appeal. It was just probably
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  Speaker 2: the richest people in the world were in Southampton this
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  Speaker 2: weekend going to Blue Dream. And they had an artist
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  Speaker 2: who's like, you know, the Frank Sinatra today of Greece.
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  Speaker 2: And people were going crazy over it. And it was
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  Speaker 2: just it was an amazing time. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody came out for this.
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  Speaker 1: And Letitia James came.
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  Speaker 2: It was like strange bedfellows at the table. You had
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  Speaker 2: Tish James, you had the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, and
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  Speaker 2: the Suffolk County Sheriff, which all have nothing in common.
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  Speaker 4: But they're suing each other.
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  Speaker 2: Law and order.
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  Speaker 4: They're suing each other. I mean, aren't the Suffolk County
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff part of the people suing Letitia James and Governor
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  Speaker 4: Hochul over the no ICE cooperation law? Listen, you're a
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  Speaker 4: miracle worker.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. It was, but you know what, the guy who,
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  Speaker 2: the guy who had the table, you know, wrote checks
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. So, you know, they all came to, to,
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  Speaker 2: to pay homage to him, but it was, um, it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was an amazing event. John, the weekend was really
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  Speaker 2: an incredible weekend for politics. I mean, John, it started
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  Speaker 2: off on Saturday morning. John hosts, you know, this, this
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  Speaker 2: breakfast every Saturday where it's a bit sad, the Hampton
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  Speaker 2: business breakfast and that Congressman Liotta that, um, The congressman
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  Speaker 2: from Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Bill Arrakis. Congressman Lillota from the Hamptons. But usually,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have. We had Governor Hochul the week before.
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  Speaker 1: And we had Bruce Blakeman the week before that.
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  Speaker 3: And Michael Cohen the week before that.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael Cohen the week before that. Michael Cohen. As
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  Speaker 1: a fill-in. You were the fill-in because somebody didn't show up.
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  Speaker 3: That was the governor.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Something happened, right?
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  Speaker 1: Something happened.
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  Speaker 3: Where there was a shooting.
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  Speaker 1: So I woke up. Oh, Commissioner Tisch, who ended up
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  Speaker 1: coming up on the weekend after. And Michael Cohen, I
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  Speaker 1: woke him up. It was six o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Michael, are you out here? I need you.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, John asks, you run.
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  Speaker 4: I never get that call at 6 a.m. on Saturday
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  Speaker 4: because that's when I'm wrapping up my show, my live
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  Speaker 4: show here. Can I talk to you at 5 a.m.? Yeah, yeah. No,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I get the texts and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite is when I'm just about to do a
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  Speaker 4: story that John has texted me to do. And I
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  Speaker 4: know I've all got it ready. So that's always a
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  Speaker 4: good convergence.
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  Speaker 1: But Todd, Well, Todd has to tell us, too, about
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  Speaker 1: the big event yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. Yeah, go ahead, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: What happened yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: So you had that, and then you had the milking conference.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Milken does this not-for-profit. We had Howard Ludnick come
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  Speaker 2: and speak at that. She had him speaking. Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: did a fundraiser out in Watermill, raised hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of dollars. And I got to tell you something. This
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  Speaker 2: race for governor is getting closer and closer. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason being is last year at this time, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: four years ago this time, Zeldin was 20 points behind. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if they're telling you 10 points, it's probably closer to
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  Speaker 2: five points. And what happens is, and what's happened a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and Eric Adams said it really well, years ago, the
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  Speaker 2: only people that voted were on Social Security. Today, the
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  Speaker 2: people that vote today are on social media. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a different drive of people. And it's changing in such
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  Speaker 2: a different way between people on, you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: go on local weeklies, nobody reads the paper anymore. They're
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook. They're on, you know, Instagram. They're on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: And it's three different generations that's driving people to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So they're watching videos, and videos are changing the way.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at Bruce Blakeman's videos, they're really good,
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  Speaker 2: and they're really, you know, and that's what, you know,
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  Speaker 2: led Mayor Zolan to... to basically get elected. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's changing a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Todd Shapiro, you know, we got a
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  Speaker 4: difference of opinion here in the studio about Bruce Blakeman's campaigning.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's doing a pretty good job. I think
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  Speaker 4: that you don't want to go too hard on a
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  Speaker 4: statewide election in America, especially in a non-presidential election year.
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  Speaker 4: until september i think bruce bachman is doing pretty well
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  Speaker 4: actually and we'll see what he does this coming month
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  Speaker 4: michael cohen would like to see him do a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Better no i'd like to see him do a lot
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  Speaker 3: more i think that kathy hokal is a disaster for
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  Speaker 3: the state of new york and i don't think that
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  Speaker 3: it's i don't think there's enough out there about how
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  Speaker 3: much of a disaster that she has uh made of
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  Speaker 3: new york.
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  Speaker 4: Well, speaking of her, go ahead, Tom.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at, you know, Bruce Blakeman's running
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  Speaker 2: mate is the mayor of New York City. No, it's
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  Speaker 2: the mayor of New York City.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, good point.
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  Speaker 2: When he goes to every place, when he travels to Syracuse,
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  Speaker 2: when he travels to Buffalo, when he goes there and
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  Speaker 2: talks about people are scared about a socialist mayor coming
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  Speaker 2: around and being part of that culture where it's come
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  Speaker 2: with a state it's starting to endorse, they're afraid that's
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  Speaker 2: going to come closer to home. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: resonating all over the place between what you guys talked
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  Speaker 2: about before with bail reform. I do work for the
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  Speaker 2: Suffolk County DA. And I got to tell you, you
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  Speaker 2: know how many people, judges are letting people go because
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  Speaker 2: of the bail reform and the laws that are affected.
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  Speaker 2: It's changed a lot. People could go out. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look at John with supermarkets. People go into supermarkets. They
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  Speaker 2: could steal. And you know what happens to them? You know,
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  Speaker 2: as John says, they've got nothing. Nothing happens to people.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the whole thing, they're afraid of the
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  Speaker 2: socialist mayor happening to their cities. I think Bruce is
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  Speaker 2: resonating a lot of ways. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no one really could tell years ago you'd give out
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  Speaker 2: a sponge and you knock on doors. The only people
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  Speaker 2: voting were senior citizens. Today, it's all on social media.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a whole new crowd that's coming out.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Bruce really does have a chance and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot closer than it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, you know, I think Kathy Hogle is
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  Speaker 2: a really nice person. But I think you need a
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  Speaker 2: strong governor. I think that's going to be an important thing.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for keeping us updated on that incredible convergence
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  Speaker 4: of social world and political world in the Hamptons. It
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  Speaker 4: really is a gauge for a lot of American politics.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here?