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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator | 05-04-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: A lot of people sick and dying. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: start right there with John Katz and Matitis mister a.
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  Speaker 1: Apple Media hosts not one, but two great shows at
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  Speaker 1: this station, My buddy five pm every weekday afternoon with
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  Speaker 1: we to Cosby the Great Cats, and Cosby show his
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  Speaker 1: masterpiece eight am every Sunday morning, The Cats Round Cable.
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  Speaker 1: And found out yesterday that Rudy actually Saturday that Rudy
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  Speaker 1: was in the hospital critical condition, long embolism, pneumonia. He
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  Speaker 1: has turned the corner. I believe that's what I'm hearing
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  Speaker 1: it speaking to Angel a couple of times since late
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  Speaker 1: last night. But still a scary situation, John, especially for
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  Speaker 1: you being you've been friends with with you Giuliani for
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  Speaker 1: the better part of four decades.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're friends a long time and like friends always
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  Speaker 2: do we always you know, we argued once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day we were still friends.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope I'm not talking in the past. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's one tough guy and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: make it through this, and Mony at any age is tough.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's a former something with his lungs,
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  Speaker 2: something with pneumonia. But he's one tough guy. He's gonna
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  Speaker 2: make it throw.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting you texted me this morning because you're a
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  Speaker 1: sensitive guy. You're a sweet guy, John. You know I
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  Speaker 1: mean that right. You know I love you. And you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about all these people that have passed away. Aar
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  Speaker 1: Bernard's mother and last week you you know, he spoke
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  Speaker 1: for Captain Ed Mormett and Chuck Sullivan and over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of months Earnie A. Nastis and al Thornton,
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  Speaker 1: Dick Silverman. And now we find out this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: broke it right here moments ago that the legendary voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Yankees, who hosted a show on this station
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  Speaker 1: last baseball season, John Sterling, just passed away this morning.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of good people dying as of late John.
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  Speaker 2: Too many, too many. And it just bothers me and said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we all have to take better care of ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: And you know we have doctor Peter me Hello sign
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  Speaker 2: on every Sunday telling us how to take better care
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves. And I'm pushing a campaign now at Cristiitis
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  Speaker 2: and Dagostino that if you eat the right foods, then
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  Speaker 2: you will take care of better care of yourselves. We
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  Speaker 2: find out that if you eat beets, that that guess.
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  Speaker 2: And I hated beats. I hated beats for a long times.
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  Speaker 2: If I used to take two blood pressure pills a day,
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  Speaker 2: if you if I have beets, I only have to
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  Speaker 2: take one. Uh Kiwi. We brought in kiwi from New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand in those stores and that's a very very healthy
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  Speaker 2: uh thing. Hey. And you know, our creator who created us,
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  Speaker 2: gave us the food to eat. So you know, if
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  Speaker 2: we don't eat the right the food. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian people, the Persian people always ate pistachios. Pistachios are
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  Speaker 2: very good for you, very.
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  Speaker 1: Are very good for Most nuts are very good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Most nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so we all have to take better care
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves. And that's what bottom line is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some of these people look, John stolen God
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  Speaker 1: rest his soul. He was eighty seven and not that that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's old. But you know we said eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven is pretty that I'll sign for that right now.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I was thinking about you this morning too,
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  Speaker 1: because for folks that don't know, John katsumatitis, not only
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  Speaker 1: does he own the supermarkets and the oil companies and
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  Speaker 1: ABC and the baseball team. He was a pilot. So
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  Speaker 1: when I saw this story that Liz Warren helped make happen,
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  Speaker 1: but she's a horrible person. Paulka hunts making sure that
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines will never fly again. I know Trump is
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  Speaker 1: considering buying it. I said, what about John, Let's get
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  Speaker 1: back into the airplane business. John, how about Spirit Airlines
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  Speaker 1: and we change it to WABC Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been in the aviation business for forty years,
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  Speaker 2: and you know how you The old joke was, you
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  Speaker 2: know how to make one hundred million dollars in aviation business,
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  Speaker 2: you start with a billion.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny and true, right it was true.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Democrats really screwed up in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four when they shot down the merger between you know,
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  Speaker 2: was it Blue and in Spirit because a few executives
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  Speaker 2: might have lost some jobs overhead, but right now everybody
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  Speaker 2: in Spirit lost their shops and they should They should
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  Speaker 2: have made that merger. And the other mistake I have
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  Speaker 2: to comment on management team of Spirit Airlines. When when
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  Speaker 2: the price of gasoline goes up to the price of
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  Speaker 2: chat Fueld goes up, you have to raise the price.
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  Speaker 2: You can't. You can't be America's a hero every day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have to deal with the problems that
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  Speaker 2: happened every day. If the price of chocolate milk goes up,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna raise the price of chocolate milk. Do I
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  Speaker 2: have a choice? No, no choice. And what's the unfair
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  Speaker 2: thing going on in America right now is the price
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  Speaker 2: of WTI oil is going up because there's no shortages
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  Speaker 2: in America, zero shortages between Canada and in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And drill baby, drill, there's no shortages and the price
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  Speaker 2: should not be up to where it is right now. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the people that make that do the drilling
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  Speaker 2: that I guess what, they're making a zillion dollars right now.
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  Speaker 2: And look, it's gonna be over. And I would say
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  Speaker 2: in about well we said thirty days, originally we said
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  Speaker 2: forty five days. But it will be over.
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  Speaker 1: It needs to be over. Like you said, for the
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  Speaker 1: price of energy with the mid terms looming, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we saw Wash last week up on Capitol Hill. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the replacement obviously for the Fed for Powell.
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  Speaker 1: But interest rates are also still way too high. Not
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  Speaker 1: just energy.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the midterm elections. We need cheap gasoline prices,
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  Speaker 2: cheap energy prices. We need we need lower interest rates.
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  Speaker 2: And Powell, Powell has been doing a horrible job, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he announces that even though he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be the governor, the Fed governor, in
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  Speaker 2: the fet chairman in by May fifteenth, he wants to
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  Speaker 2: stay on. Now nobody stays on. He wants to stay
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  Speaker 2: on to break chops.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only reason why.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, right, that's it. That's it. And so what
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  Speaker 2: we need in in November is lower interest rates so
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  Speaker 2: everybody can buy a home again. Two and a half
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  Speaker 2: I got it. I got him a price two and
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  Speaker 2: a half percent interest rates on my Long Island home.
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  Speaker 2: I mean two and a half percent. It's it's great.
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  Speaker 2: But you can't pay four or five six percent normal
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  Speaker 2: people unless people are want buying homes. That's not fair.
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  Speaker 2: And President Trump is trying to get both done. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm me and you are both betting on President Trump
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  Speaker 2: because I think you will get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Me too, now me too, I'm you and I are
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, we're friendly with the president. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: like him as a person. He likes us. But there's
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  Speaker 1: somebody in the.
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  Speaker 2: Thing said the other thing with these airlines. Yeah, to
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  Speaker 2: satisfy the Biden administration, they hired a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: that weren't qualified to fly those airplanes.
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  Speaker 1: The EI yep, DEI highers. I mean you live in that, Don, John,
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  Speaker 1: all the time, all the night. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind having a porter that that with de I, right,
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  Speaker 2: But but not you have flying my airplane?
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  Speaker 1: Oh god no. I mean, look all the times you
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  Speaker 1: flew an airplane, John, I'm gonna bet money right now
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  Speaker 1: that you never hit a truck or a light pole
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  Speaker 1: tried to land your plane, right, am I gonna win?
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  Speaker 2: Never? Never? And I always flew with qualifying co pilots
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  Speaker 2: and and yeah, you have to listen flying your airplanes,
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  Speaker 2: flying jets. It's a critical thing. You can't make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You can make a mistake maybe driving, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: make a mistake flying. And you want to go DEI,
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  Speaker 2: you know, restricted to certain industries.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more So. I want to put a nice
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  Speaker 1: little bowl on this great conversation, great job as always
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  Speaker 1: today John, and kind of wrap it up where we started.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to comment on two personalities in particular.
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  Speaker 1: I did see your tweet about Rudy. You start off
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  Speaker 1: the conversation and talking about Rudy, but let's kind of
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  Speaker 1: end it right there too, John, with Rudy in the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on your friend for a long time, Roody Giuliani.
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  Speaker 2: He's one tough guy. He was the best mayor that
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  Speaker 2: New York ever had. We were down in the sewer
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  Speaker 2: in New York. I mean so far down the sewer
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  Speaker 2: when we looked up. We're still looking down, and they
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  Speaker 2: said nobody could bring this city back. Rudy Giuliani brought
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  Speaker 2: the city back. And I would say to everybody, never forget,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how bad the city gets, the right mayor,
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  Speaker 2: the right governor will always bring this city in the
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  Speaker 2: state back.
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  Speaker 1: True. That's why Bruce blake Man has to win. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're a big Yankee guy and very very
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  Speaker 1: friendly with Randy Levine. You're his buddy. I'll be out
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  Speaker 1: there tonight with Randy and you.
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  Speaker 2: Actually we're partners with the Yankees in the Ferryhooks.
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  Speaker 1: Right the Sun Island Burry Hawks. John has partnered up
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  Speaker 1: with Randy and the Yankees for that great baseball team
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  Speaker 1: and the beautiful stadium. And last year, John, you employed
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  Speaker 1: John Sterling. You gave him a job here. You gave
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  Speaker 1: John John Sterling only wanted to do a talk show
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  Speaker 1: one more time. Folks don't know this. I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell him right now because I got Bob those conversations.
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  Speaker 1: John Sterling only wanted to do a sports talk show
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  Speaker 1: one more time. And last summer, John katzmatids you made
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  Speaker 1: it happen for him. He died this morning at the
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  Speaker 1: age of eighty seven, but you made it happen for him.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing you wanted to do at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his career you made happen. You gotta feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about that. What are your thoughts about John Sterling.
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  Speaker 2: He was a great guy and his voice was recognized
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  Speaker 2: by millions and millions of people. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: like Mickey Mantle, he wanted to play center field one
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  Speaker 2: more time. Well, John Sterling wanted to be on the
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  Speaker 2: air one more time, so we put him on WABC,
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  Speaker 2: the most powerful radio station in America.
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  Speaker 1: That's great stuff. You really did, John. That was a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing. So thank you for a great job. As always,
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  Speaker 1: this morning, we'll all be listening at five o'clock. Terrific job,
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  Speaker 1: John Katsumatidis. I love you, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, I have a great day you too.
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  Speaker 1: That's mister Red Apple Media. And it's true. He's been
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  Speaker 1: friends with Rudy Giuliani for a better part of four decades.
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  Speaker 1: You guys out there that love to stir up stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even Bray Boy that don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happens every day. I know you like to make people
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  Speaker 1: look really bad. You don't know all the specifics I do.
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  Speaker 1: He loves Rudy. I love Rudy Wood. He loves me.
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  Speaker 1: Never had one issue with Rudy Giuliani. Never. And Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: his son, and I are about as close as you
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  Speaker 1: can get. In fact, I spoken Dandrew three times since
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  Speaker 1: one forty eight this morning. So we're all hoping and
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  Speaker 1: praying for Rudy Giuliani and certainly John Sterling. You know,
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  Speaker 1: John and I over the years close close w a
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  Speaker 1: n and he was on my show was quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit and he he came to me last year and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'd love to do a sports talk show
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  Speaker 1: one more time. He said, I'm talking to Chad and John.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? I said, do it. I said,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever it's worth. I don't know the station. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the president like Chad, but they do respect how
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  Speaker 1: I feel, both John and Chad, and I said, I'll
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  Speaker 1: suggest it's a good idea, and I did it. I
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  Speaker 1: suggested it was a good idea, and John hired him,
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  Speaker 1: and he put on a real good show last summer,
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  Speaker 1: and as entertaining as it got when it came to
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  Speaker 1: doing baseball games. As far as I'm concerned, nobody better.
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  Speaker 1: So rest in peace, our dear friend, John Sterling, you
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  Speaker 1: were great. Like Cardy Simon says right here, nobody did
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