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Frank Morano | Member of New York City Council | 07-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Believe the NYPD when they put forward their numbers, what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing are some of the lowest numbers that New
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  Speaker 1: York City has seen in recorded history, especially when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to murders and shootings. He's the lowest we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And what I think is important to know is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the increase in rape also comes from an
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  Speaker 1: expanded definition of what counts as rape, as well as
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  Speaker 1: survivors coming forward for acts that took place years prior.
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  Speaker 2: Rape is up exponentially, and the mayor says, well, it
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  Speaker 2: really depends on how you define rape.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he should ask his wife. She seems to enjoy
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  Speaker 3: it when Israeli girls get raped, maybe five at a time,
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  Speaker 3: gangbang by whole bunch of terrorists and Hamas guys. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: he should ask his wife what constitutes rape.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He is the most disgusting person God
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  Speaker 2: ever created. I don't know how any of these media
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  Speaker 2: members get angry with me, but over this a million times,
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  Speaker 2: Earl Lewis, Katie Honan, even some of the real Mainstays
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  Speaker 2: people I respect, the Marshall Framers, the Morgan McKay's. They
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  Speaker 2: never asked this guy a real question. Melissa Russo maybe
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  Speaker 2: every now and then, not often. You know, Michael Rappaport
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  Speaker 2: was very funny on this show yesterday. Let me go
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  Speaker 2: down there. I want to go down there. I want
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  Speaker 2: one of these stations to employ Sid Rosenberg for one day,
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  Speaker 2: one day. Let that communist run New York one Spectrum
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  Speaker 2: instead of Errol Lewis, that fat, stupid black racist sitting
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  Speaker 2: there with Mom Donnie every Thursday. Let me do it once.
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  Speaker 2: Your business is all about ratings. You do realize that, right,
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  Speaker 2: your dumb bastards. Don't you think that Sid Rosenberg and
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie would generate bigger ratings than Lewis and Mom Donnie. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I would even do it, because I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure I could sit in the same room with
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  Speaker 2: that guy without beating him to a pulp. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: that was just a physical, violent statement. I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I can do it. I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Morano is one of our five Republican City Council members,
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  Speaker 2: you know the story, one of the two, along with
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  Speaker 2: the great David Carr out of Staten Island and a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous radio guy as well. A former colleague, he joins
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  Speaker 2: us this morning. He's outraged about the mayor trying to
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  Speaker 2: redefine rape as well. So what do set rank does
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  Speaker 2: take it away? Mam Donnie's latest.
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  Speaker 4: Personal said, I watched that answer three times because I
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  Speaker 4: genuinely couldn't believe that that was the answer the mayor
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  Speaker 4: of New York City chose to give, not on a
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  Speaker 4: subject like city feps or welfare reform or something that
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  Speaker 4: maybe requires a little nuance or some depth. It was
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  Speaker 4: a pretty cut and dry issue of rape in a
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  Speaker 4: post me Too era. And he's ostensibly the leader of
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  Speaker 4: a political movement that is very down with being woke
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  Speaker 4: and women's rights and everything like that, not a movement
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  Speaker 4: that necessarily sees a lot of gray area when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to rape. I mean, this was excusing. If this
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  Speaker 4: was a Republican mayor or a politician of any type
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  Speaker 4: that gave this answer, forget about it. If that was
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  Speaker 4: Rudy Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg, they would have fulleyed him.
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  Speaker 2: This was about a politician. I gotta tell you buy
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  Speaker 2: one on the air and said that I'd be in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've said a lot less severe things and gotten
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  Speaker 4: fullayd for that. But I'll tell you, if more survivors
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  Speaker 4: are coming forward, that's a good thing, But the card
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  Speaker 4: that happened to them is not a good thing. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what the mayor totally failed to highlight. You don't
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  Speaker 4: spin rape statistics, you don't misoten them, you don't look
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  Speaker 4: for the sunny side. A survivor coming forward years later
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean the rape didn't happen. It means we learned
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  Speaker 4: about it later. The proper answer is, and this is
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  Speaker 4: not an answer that puts him in a bad light
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  Speaker 4: at all. If he would have given it is I'm
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  Speaker 4: deeply concerned. We're examining the numbers. We're going to protect
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  Speaker 4: women and bring predators to justice. Period's done, end of story. Instead,
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  Speaker 4: we got a sociology seminar this administration, and I think
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  Speaker 4: you know me said, and I said this even before
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  Speaker 4: he was elected. I'm not looking to beat the guy up.
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  Speaker 4: Just to beat the guy up, right. I have no
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  Speaker 4: problem working with someone that I disagree with ninety nine
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  Speaker 4: percent of the time on the one issue that maybe
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  Speaker 4: we agree on. But this administration has this strange instinct.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever New Yorkers identify disorder or crime, the first response
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  Speaker 4: is to explain why we're interpreting it incorrectly.
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  Speaker 2: We really the first response really is to beat their
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  Speaker 2: chest and give out a couple of really favorable numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Which also I can go into those numbers like he
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  Speaker 2: did with the rape me and do the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: but I choose not to. When it comes to shootings
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  Speaker 2: and murderers, that's their first response.
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  Speaker 4: Right to take a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great.
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  Speaker 4: Except transit crime.
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  Speaker 2: Right, except when somebody gets punched in the face on
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  Speaker 2: the subway, Except when a Jewish person gets punched across
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  Speaker 2: the face, except when a young girl gets raped in
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  Speaker 2: a stairwell. Otherwise we're doing great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The reporter there asked a very simple, very fair question,
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  Speaker 4: and the mayor gave what can only be described as
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  Speaker 4: a bizarre answer. So I don't need the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: I think bizarre is a wrong word. I would go
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  Speaker 2: I would even say insensitive and downright grotesque.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't need a mayor or any politician to
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  Speaker 4: find the silver lining in rape statistics. I need him
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  Speaker 4: to find the rapist night. This is crazy, is an
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  Speaker 4: absolutely crazy situation, and I was glad the speaker called
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  Speaker 4: called him out on her. You could tell that you
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  Speaker 4: know she is getting she is getting his goat to
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  Speaker 4: some extent.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's no question about it. You know, when when
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  Speaker 2: Hora and I had all difficulties, she was really and
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  Speaker 2: i'll say this depending over backwards to appease him. She
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  Speaker 2: has not been doing that as of late, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was me Vicky, she has not been doing that as
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  Speaker 2: of late. I mean, it seems like and you too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you guys are kind of instantly from the
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  Speaker 2: budget to the lack of cops, no cops on the budget,
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  Speaker 2: no fifth by a fighter, to this thing with the
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  Speaker 2: rape to the horses. It seems like almost every day
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  Speaker 2: now Julie Mennon has an issue with the mayor. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't play Harry response, but he can give me
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  Speaker 2: the monarch note version. What exactly did she say in
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  Speaker 2: response to that awful, awful description of rape by the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, that question came about and Dan
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  Speaker 4: Mannerino from Picks asked it because she was making such
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  Speaker 4: a big deal over the uptick in rape crimes as
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  Speaker 4: a reason we need more cops. And then he asked
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  Speaker 4: the question. She gave that a bizarre response. Not only
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  Speaker 4: did she and by the way, not just her, but
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  Speaker 4: many of our colleagues. You have I know you you
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  Speaker 4: and not without reason, have said there's really not much,
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  Speaker 4: not no such thing as a conservative Democrat these days.
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  Speaker 4: One at least is one in the city. Phil Wong,
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  Speaker 4: who represents Bob Holden's old district, he certainly is a conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Democrat, and Bob Holden, but Bob Holden who I talked
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  Speaker 2: to when I watched his tweets every day, because I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a brilliant guy. We had our issues during
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  Speaker 2: the Purtise run, but I really loved the guy. Bob
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  Speaker 2: Holden was that guy. So it looks like Bill Wong
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  Speaker 2: has continued Holden's legacy is the mantle.
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  Speaker 4: But he decried the mayor's response, and so did more
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  Speaker 4: conventional establishment Democrats like Lynn Shulman and even some of
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  Speaker 4: the Liberal Democrats. There is nobody standing up for what
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  Speaker 4: the mayor said. But basically, Julie said that in words
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  Speaker 4: or substance, in not quoting here, but that it defies
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  Speaker 4: any reasonable logic that the mayor would choose to characterize
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  Speaker 4: Rapes that way, and like you could almost give him
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  Speaker 4: a gimme if he was handling every other aspect of
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  Speaker 4: his job well, but honestly, everything that he is handling
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  Speaker 4: in this city is turning to pot And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I heard you, and maybe it was with Joe Bignigno
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  Speaker 4: the other day, or maybe it was one of your monologues,
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  Speaker 4: talk about how it takes time for the city to
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  Speaker 4: turn around in both directions, on a positive level and
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  Speaker 4: in a negative direction. We are setting this city up
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  Speaker 4: for failure in so many different areas. I heard, you know,
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  Speaker 4: your terrific interview with Vicky yesterday and they talked about
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  Speaker 4: the you guys talked about the Little Litaly debacle. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's just one, one minor example, which ultimately doesn't affect
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  Speaker 4: many people's lives, but it says a lot about the
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  Speaker 4: mayor's character. He doesn't view himself as a cheerleader for
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  Speaker 4: New York City. He doesn't view himself as a mayor
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  Speaker 4: that represents all New Yorkers. And if you look at
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  Speaker 4: how he's handling homelessness, the way that he's handling homelessness,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Staten Island, that has
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to set us back to the pre Giuliani era.
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  Speaker 4: More than almost anything any mayor's ever done. Take a
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  Speaker 4: look at what's going on at the Intrepid. If you
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  Speaker 4: walk outside of the Intrepid, there's this homeless encampment. The
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  Speaker 4: Post has been covering it. It stretches twelve blocks.
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  Speaker 2: On the west side, twelve blocks.
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  Speaker 4: There's tense, this open drugs.
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  Speaker 2: That's like Los Angeles. That's Los Angeles, Frank, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And police at to intervene yesterday over an illegal electricity
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  Speaker 4: hook up. The homeless are setting up tamps and with electricity.
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  Speaker 4: And this is what happens when Compassion gets divorced from common.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. Enough with the Compassion, I'm sorry, not on this show.
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  Speaker 2: Save it for other shows on this station. They talk
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  Speaker 2: about that I put my son on a subway. We
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  Speaker 2: had just moved back from Boca Raton, Florida, and New
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  Speaker 2: York is scary enough, and we had to take Gabriel
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  Speaker 2: to school one day on the subway. He was about
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  Speaker 2: seven years old, and some guy pushed him, tried to
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  Speaker 2: physically harm him. Some other guy was naked, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't get he didn't. There wasn't a crime committed necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: but it scored that kid for life. And when you
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  Speaker 2: walk past some crazy homeless guy in New York City
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  Speaker 2: and he starts yelling and screaming or cursing, and he
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  Speaker 2: smells and looks terrible. That is not just some you know,
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  Speaker 2: some innocent guy. I know some of them were for
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  Speaker 2: service people Vietnam and all that stuff. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But it has gotten to the point where these people
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  Speaker 2: on the streets of New York City absolutely play a
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  Speaker 2: role in lessening the quality of life. It's enough with
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  Speaker 2: compassion getting with people up the goddamn streets.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and you know what, it's also for that former
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  Speaker 4: serviceman that's now homeless because he's dealing with drug issues
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  Speaker 4: or mental illness. It's not compassionate to the homeless person
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  Speaker 4: living in a tent surrounded by drugs and filth. It's
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  Speaker 4: also to your point about quality of life for everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: It's not compassionate to the bus driver who's got to
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  Speaker 4: work there, or the family taking their kids to the Intrepid.
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  Speaker 4: And it's especially absurd to the taxpayers who are spending billions,
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  Speaker 4: billions with a b of dollars on a shelter and
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  Speaker 4: social servicesm only to be told that a twelve block
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  Speaker 4: encampment is somehow inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But that's Manhattan. So that's the twelve block in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: I know you listen to the very beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: show because you love that. You said that all these
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  Speaker 2: and all the big lady, thank you, thank you. So
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  Speaker 2: I did play the video of Ino Vernacol out of
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn and hook Car talking about what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: Sheep said Bay in this company, I guess that's behind
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  Speaker 2: this potential shelter. They're being investigated and mamdannie still gave
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  Speaker 2: a couple one hundred million dollars. Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, more or less? Yeah, I mean, In is totally right.
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  Speaker 4: And this story ought to terrify every neighborhood in New
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  Speaker 4: York City because the issue isn't whether homeless people deserve help.
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  Speaker 4: Of course they do right where combation of the city,
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  Speaker 4: even if even if we won't be when you're mayor.
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  Speaker 4: But the issue is whether city hall can fundamentally transform
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  Speaker 4: a residential neighborhood, which is what Sheep said, Bay is
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  Speaker 4: with virtually no meaningful community input. They're taking out families
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  Speaker 4: and bringing in one hundred and ten single adult men.
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  Speaker 4: The city says it's not even conducting criminal background vetting
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  Speaker 4: across the street from where that shelter is going to be,
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  Speaker 4: where the gold Star in or the yeah, the gold
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  Speaker 4: Star in the city. Across the street is a park
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  Speaker 4: that's used by children. How does a government look parents
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  Speaker 4: in the eye and say, don't worry, we deliberately chose
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  Speaker 4: not to find out who we're placing here. Vetting isn't
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  Speaker 4: demonizing the homeless or anybody. Vetting is just basic competence.
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  Speaker 4: And I keep saying this because in our district, in
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  Speaker 4: Staten Island, they're doing the same thing. We're living version
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  Speaker 4: of it on arthur Kill Road. Communities learn about these
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  Speaker 4: decisions after this bureaucracy has already decided what it's going
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I would do. I would not only
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  Speaker 2: not close Rikers Island, I'd build new housing on Rikers Island.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd put three groups of people on Rikers Island.
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  Speaker 2: I mean this Obviously, the criminals they need to be there, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: not in my neighborhood. Secondly, I would put illegals somewhere
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  Speaker 2: else on Rikers Island, and the homeless. You got acres
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  Speaker 2: and acres and acres and acres of land. Take all
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  Speaker 2: three of those groups. The criminals, the illegals, and the homeless,
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  Speaker 2: and build more housing and put them on Rykers Island.
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  Speaker 2: Keep all those people away from law abiding citizens like us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get to the minorities. This battle over specialty
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  Speaker 2: programs in schools. Both of my kids went through the
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  Speaker 2: public school system in New York, and it nearly ruined
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  Speaker 2: both of them, thank God, even Gabriel, the smart kids.
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  Speaker 2: I've got great parents, but it really did nearly ruin
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  Speaker 2: both of them. Here's another issue with this mayor education.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with that brank.
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  Speaker 4: Well, So yesterday and numbers came out. So New York
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  Speaker 4: City has a few of the very best public schools,
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  Speaker 4: not just in the country, but the world. Stuyvesant Bronxigh
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  Speaker 4: School of Science, Brooklyn Tech, Rights for the World, right,
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think John Katz Matids went to Brooklyn Tech.
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  Speaker 4: So my dad said to my brother, great school, Totipeter King.
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  Speaker 4: I think no, I think he went to Fordham Prepp.
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  Speaker 4: Sure he didn't make it to Brooklyn Tech. I mean, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so now you have to take a test to get
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  Speaker 4: in there. And the numbers came out yesterday that there's
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  Speaker 4: a very small portion of black New Yorkers that were
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  Speaker 4: admitted right, and instead of saying, all right, how do
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  Speaker 4: we get more black and Hispanic students to get to
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  Speaker 4: a point where they can pass the test? Now Mom
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  Speaker 4: Donnie and all of the social justice advocates are talking
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  Speaker 4: about how can we again dismantle this test? So this
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  Speaker 4: is crazy. The most interesting person in the time story
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  Speaker 4: on this today wasn't Mom Donnie, but it was a
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  Speaker 4: retired black math and engineering teacher from Brooklyn Tech named
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  Speaker 4: sam Atawomi. He went to Brooklyn Tech himself in the eighties.
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  Speaker 4: He grew up in the South Bronx, and he said
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  Speaker 4: his middle school teachers told him about the specialized high schools.
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  Speaker 4: They prepared him for the test, and three other kids
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  Speaker 4: from his eighth grade class went to Brooklyn Tech with him.
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  Speaker 4: His explanation today in the papers is that middle schools
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  Speaker 4: don't make that a priority anymore because many of them
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  Speaker 4: are struggling just to get kids to pass the state test.
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  Speaker 4: That's the whole debate. So the New York City school
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  Speaker 4: system is failing to prepare black and Hispanic kids for
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  Speaker 4: a rigorous exam, and the solution is to get rid
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  Speaker 4: of the exam. That's what the mayor in these advocates
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  Speaker 4: want the sahsat, which is what they call that test,
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  Speaker 4: the specialized high school you know exam. They may be
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  Speaker 4: revealing inequality, but that doesn't mean the test created the inequality.
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  Speaker 4: Mary says, one test doesn't measure apptitude. Okay, I agree,
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  Speaker 4: but no test measures the totality of a human being.
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  Speaker 4: The question is whether this test measures the academic skills
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  Speaker 4: necessary to succeed in some of the most rigorous high
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  Speaker 4: schools in America. These schools are able to take one
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  Speaker 4: generation of immigrants who come here impoverished and turn them
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  Speaker 4: into wealthy lawyers, doctors, generals, radio station owners like John
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  Speaker 4: Katzimatide's health insurance executives like my dad. These were people
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  Speaker 4: that who a poor, working class and because of the
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  Speaker 4: education that they got at these specialized high schools, they're
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  Speaker 4: able to be really successful people. And to the mayor
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  Speaker 4: to say, we want to destroy these schools by destroying
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  Speaker 4: the test, why because too many Chinese people get in. Sorry,
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  Speaker 4: help help these kids, help these blacknesspanic kids pass the past.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about competing with the Asian kids who are
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  Speaker 2: home doing math and science while our kids are doing
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  Speaker 2: half naked dances on TikTok is that the Asians fault.
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  Speaker 2: Let's dump down all of our tests. We're going make
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  Speaker 2: sure that all moronic kids can compete. M Donnie's an asshole.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. I can't say it any better
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  Speaker 2: than that. But you, I'm going to say to you
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  Speaker 2: the same thing I said to Vicki Patadino yesterday. You
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  Speaker 2: are too smart and too good. You've already you've already
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  Speaker 2: outlived the city council. I need you to runt with
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  Speaker 2: something bigger. I what do you mean that, Frank, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think you're brilliant. I think you're brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: I really do hun Staten Island. We're very blessed to
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of very good elected officials queens. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Vicky would be a much more, a greater improvement over
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  Speaker 4: John lou the state senator there, and obviously she and
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  Speaker 4: the borough president of term limited there. She'd be great there.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, we're very lucky to have a great
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  Speaker 4: congress person and Nicole Mayotaka is a great senator, and
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  Speaker 4: Andy Lanza. But honestly, if you could see the crazy
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  Speaker 4: bills that some of my colleagues in the city council,
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  Speaker 4: you know, bring up on a regular basis, and some
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  Speaker 4: of the things that the Mayor's office is doing we
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  Speaker 4: didn't even get into. Maybe we do it next time.
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  Speaker 4: The Department of Education contracting scandal where this school's chancellor,
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  Speaker 4: Kamar Samuel Samuel's he may turn out to be the
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  Speaker 4: shortest tenured schools chancellor since Mike Bloomberg hit Kathy Black
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  Speaker 4: because the amount of stone walling and lack of transparency
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  Speaker 4: about how these contracts are given out. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: saw the story, but maybe you already might have missed it.
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  Speaker 4: They had a vendor that they had in schools that
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  Speaker 4: basically they encouraged the vendor to break the rules or
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  Speaker 4: at least bend the rules about how they were billing
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  Speaker 4: the city so that they could get paid. And on
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  Speaker 4: top of that, they found that a school that was
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  Speaker 4: a teacher that was dismissed for doing all sorts of
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  Speaker 4: wacky things with students was back in a school through
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  Speaker 4: the vendor, no vetting and anything at all. And we've
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  Speaker 4: asked Julie Mennon and the council have asked repeatedly about
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  Speaker 4: how these contracts are awarded, how the procurement process, has
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  Speaker 4: been given out and we've gotten no answers at all,
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  Speaker 4: And only yesterday when the mayor was threatened with a
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  Speaker 4: subpoena did he say that they're going to be looking
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  Speaker 4: into it. So there's a lot going wrong with the city.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it may sound silly to people that
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  Speaker 4: think that the city Council is just, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: silly place to be, but there's a lot of need
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  Speaker 4: for oversight and there's a lot of need for fighting
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  Speaker 4: the good fight on the city council. You know, you're
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  Speaker 4: kind enough to mention my radio career, and I missed
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  Speaker 4: being on the radio very much, and that's why I'm
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: so grateful when you give me these opportunities. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a very difficult decision to walk away from
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  Speaker 4: a show that I really enjoyed doing. Number One was
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: really growing in the ratings and affiliates and revenue and
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  Speaker 4: all the ways that we measure radio success. And I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't be doing this and working eighteen hours a day,
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  Speaker 4: literally maybe more if I didn't think that I could
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  Speaker 4: move the needle forward and move the ball forward in
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  Speaker 4: a positive way. And we're trying to deliver for veterans.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing that as the chair of the Veterans Committee,
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  Speaker 4: and try to do a lot of other good things.
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  Speaker 4: So I appreciate the endorsement for a future office, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm very content to stay here and battle the battle
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  Speaker 4: the crazies as best as we can.
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  Speaker 2: Well, God bless you, and no disrespect anybody on the
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  Speaker 2: air now or prior, but we've never really replaced you.
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  Speaker 4: That.
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  Speaker 2: No one can. We You know, they're all nice people,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't come close to what you accomplished here.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that true true love.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, don't listen. I tell the truth, and you know
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  Speaker 2: John can't yell at me if I tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: I tell the truth. We've tried, and we have some
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: nice people. As a guy here now, he's very nice,
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  Speaker 2: but he ain't you, So listen. Continued success, keep up
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  Speaker 2: the fight. Frank Morano, You're great and this is a
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: great appearance. As always, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me said congratulations again. On the
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: interview with Benjamin Netton, Yahoo and some of the people
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  Speaker 4: took issue with the clip that you played this morning
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  Speaker 4: and yesterday about me saying that you're maybe the most
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: influential New York radio host since Bob Grant, I stand
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  Speaker 4: by that. I don't know that there's another local radio
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  Speaker 4: show that to talk about the biggest story in the country,
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  Speaker 4: the Lindsey Graham situation, could get the second most newsworthy
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: person on the planet, which is Benjamin Netton Yahoo, to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: come on that show and talk about it and do
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  Speaker 4: so with a level of candor that I haven't really
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: heard him express anywhere else. You know, this is the
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: only show where on any given day you could hear
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: the President or Erdawan or Joe Benigno or you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: or like Darryl Strawberry. Like, there's just no tell us
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: what will happen on this show any given mid day.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: And it's one of the reasons that I think people
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: are afraid to to out.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Buddy, Strawberry will be on this show, Potty
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  Speaker 2: just see you know, thank you. Yeah, Earl one is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a tough one, but we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: we can do. Fank, great job, Bildy, terrific. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. Paut I love you, thank.
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  Speaker 4: You, thank you, I love you. Thanks for the support
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  Speaker 4: and allowing me and I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: Ate Frank Morano right there, City council member.
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