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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney | 06-08-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: A whole bunch of people are chomming in on Stephen A.
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  Speaker 2: Smith and they're killing them obviously because it's my phone
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  Speaker 2: on Stephen Asmith's phone. They're going, yeah, you're right, my phone,
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  Speaker 2: they're killing him. Joe Tapina texted me twice during the conversation,
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  Speaker 2: We'll do tack twice this week today and body because
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  Speaker 2: he missed him last week. That's how good he is.
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  Speaker 2: Takapina at one point said Steve's right. Then he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: now you're right, So which one was it? Taca Pina?
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  Speaker 2: Was Steve righter?
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  Speaker 3: Was I right? Steve's right about the whole chaos that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna occur tonight because President Trump's coming. I mean that
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  Speaker 3: he's right about that. Look that's a fact, right, And look.
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  Speaker 2: Then that would be chaos without him anyway. But okay, fine,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be it'll be.
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  Speaker 3: Did I traveled with him? Different type of chaos? That's
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  Speaker 3: all he was saying, And I agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not all he was saying. He said the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks lose, it's Trump's fault.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy talk, right, That's just an insanity Okay, so
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  Speaker 3: forget that. But I'm just saying, Look, people who have
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  Speaker 3: suffered through the bad years, bought tickets when the Knicks
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  Speaker 3: were awful, kept the garden alive for decades, right, and
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  Speaker 3: are now being completely locked out of these.
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  Speaker 2: Games, locked out during the regular season anyway. And those
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  Speaker 2: are not the people I see standing outside at these
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  Speaker 2: watch parties.
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  Speaker 3: Agree with you on that that. I agree with you
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  Speaker 3: on those idiots out there who are making, you know,
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  Speaker 3: mockeries of the you know having you know, these parties.
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  Speaker 3: They are all drunk and they're they're acting like clowns,
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  Speaker 3: and but they don't They couldn't tell you three players
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  Speaker 3: on the Knicks, right, And I agree with you. Those
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  Speaker 3: are the guys who just do it just to be
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  Speaker 3: there because it's the scenes the party. When I drive
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  Speaker 3: around to look, I have a Knicks hat, right. I
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  Speaker 3: would never wear my Knicks hat now because I'm not
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  Speaker 3: the biggest Knicks fan in the world. I like the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks ones, I love New York. I'm a more of
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  Speaker 3: a Ranger fan. Obviously, I'm not a big NBA fan say,
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  Speaker 3: for a lot of the reasons we've discussed in the past,
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  Speaker 3: Prima Donna issues, they're all like, you know, they think
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  Speaker 3: they're politically so important, like hockey players just play different
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  Speaker 3: story NBA. But that being said, the Knicks are New York.
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  Speaker 3: I'm New York. City is in my blood. I love
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  Speaker 3: New York like you love New York. We are New York,
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  Speaker 3: and honestly, this is so important. We haven't won since
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three, God's sakes, so this is so important
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  Speaker 3: to the city. So I want the Knicks went badly,
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  Speaker 3: but I won't wear my nick hat in net this week.
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  Speaker 3: So if I looked like one of was idiots who
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  Speaker 3: just bought a nick Cat, and you see when I'm
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  Speaker 3: driving down the.
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  Speaker 2: City, wait wait wait, wait wait. But if you walk
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  Speaker 2: into if you've got like a really I'm serious about this.
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  Speaker 2: If you and you never lose cases anyway, you are
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  Speaker 2: the Sandy Koppacks of lawyers, you like one hundred and two.
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  Speaker 2: But if you walk into a courtroom and it's a
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  Speaker 2: huge case this week and you're wearing a Knick Cat,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna tell me the judge is not going to
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  Speaker 2: side with you right away, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but it looks like I'm playing to the
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  Speaker 3: to the sort of right, to the passions, right, And
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  Speaker 3: that's what you don't everyone do as a communicator, as
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  Speaker 3: a trilord, that's the last thing you want to do.
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  Speaker 3: So honestly, I just think that it's looks the people
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  Speaker 3: who sat through these seventeen win seasons. They're the ones
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  Speaker 3: who should be celebrated right now, Okay, not not the
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  Speaker 3: people who you see when they have the hat, they
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  Speaker 3: sell the sticker on the hat like they just bought
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  Speaker 3: it last you know, live last week. Sometimes I'll I'll
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  Speaker 3: be in like six they am now, roll my window
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  Speaker 3: down and go, hey, nice hat, you just get a
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  Speaker 3: last week. Yeah, I'm like, I lose my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Well I got a listener. His name is Ralph the Politano,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a chiropractor. But him and his brother, Tony Joseph,
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  Speaker 2: they own and Tony's a nice little Tian restaurant on
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  Speaker 2: Author Rovenu and the Bronx. And he said that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these kids they smoke a joint, they have
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  Speaker 2: a drink, they beat up a Jewish kid, steal their jersey,
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  Speaker 2: and then show up at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I mean, you know, it's ridiculous, and I just
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  Speaker 3: hate like everyone has to be part of whatever is
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  Speaker 3: in that right, and that's those are the phonies. Like, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy the Nicks are there for them New York,
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  Speaker 3: New York. I'm not gonna pretend today all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the greatest Knicks fan of all time. I used
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  Speaker 3: to go to the Garden when Walt Fraser played and
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  Speaker 3: Dave de Busher. My dad used to take me. It
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  Speaker 3: was great. I loved it. But I'm not the biggest
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  Speaker 3: Knicks fan the world. I want the Knicks to win,
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  Speaker 3: but you know it's one's cool back. The thing about
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  Speaker 3: I love about this Knicks team is the guys like
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  Speaker 3: Brunson and Towns and and Josh Hart, Like Jameen Brunson
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  Speaker 3: left millions and millions of dollars on the tablet's stay
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  Speaker 3: with the Knicks. Give me one other player in the
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  Speaker 3: NBA who does that today, zero zero. And Josh Hart
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  Speaker 3: understands something about the you know, he was the one
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  Speaker 3: who made some comments about the ticket pricing and and
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  Speaker 3: you know how it's sort of forcing the real Knicks
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  Speaker 3: fans away from this and he felt bad about that.
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  Speaker 3: And it's true. Look, nobody, if somebody's willing to pay
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  Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars or even one hundred thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 3: a seat, that's what the ticket's worth. I guess right.
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  Speaker 3: The period ends of story. But that heart and this
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  Speaker 3: is what makes him a great Knick and makes it
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  Speaker 3: this Knicks team special. John Hart understands something the market
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  Speaker 3: doesn't value of a Knicks fan isn't measure by what
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  Speaker 3: he can pay for a ticket, right, And that's all
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  Speaker 3: he was saying. And I agree with John Hart's come no, no,
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  Speaker 3: Josh is.
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  Speaker 2: Right about that. You're right. But the truth is that
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  Speaker 2: it's not exclusive to NBA games. I'm sorry. People can't
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  Speaker 2: apport to go to a super Bowl. They can't. And
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  Speaker 2: they're big time fans. You know, they're sitting out there
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  Speaker 2: and you know, in Green Bay when it's thirty below
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  Speaker 2: zero in December, but they're not going to Miami. Bottom line. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that's the way sports is. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: This may be the most expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, this is it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is it? Right, this is it.
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  Speaker 3: I got invited tonight, said to sit court side. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I get invited by my clients. Who's one of those
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  Speaker 3: celebrity guys Fat Joe you know Fat Joe? Yes, I great,
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  Speaker 3: great guy. Yea great guy. True, like he's like a
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  Speaker 3: Spike Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Type, he said all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, yep, yep, right owens there. Look, he invited me
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  Speaker 3: to go to the next him to sit court side.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, I said no, thank you, And
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  Speaker 3: I said no thank you because I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be there. Of course I want to be there. That'd
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  Speaker 3: be a cool thing, but I would feel like such
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  Speaker 3: a loser, such an idiot, such a hypocrite by going tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been doing the same all year. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: go tonight, sit courtside with with with that show not
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  Speaker 3: good for you? Good there, yeah, and be there and
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  Speaker 3: be like look at me, look at me. I know
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  Speaker 3: I'm not that kind of a Knicks fan. I don't
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  Speaker 3: deserve that. Let somebody else who really wants to be
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  Speaker 3: there should be there. I'll go next year like me
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  Speaker 3: when they're playing I don't know with the some of
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  Speaker 3: the Dan team, the next californ.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you give back Joe my number. I deserve
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  Speaker 2: to be there. I want to be there and Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and Trump has in Trump has not answered one of
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  Speaker 2: my texts. I've texted him five times. He's said to
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  Speaker 2: be sitting there with Bruce Blakeman and Lee Zeldon, who
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  Speaker 2: knows who else in that Dolan box. Aren't your friends
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  Speaker 2: with Jim Dolan?
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  Speaker 3: Anyone deserves to be there with him? It's you, I know,
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  Speaker 3: he's not. I know it's you, right you.
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  Speaker 2: He's not even returning my text to President. I'm so angry.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't your friends with Dolan? O?
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  Speaker 3: Wol So? Yes, right, I know I know Dolan. I
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  Speaker 3: would say I'm friends with Dolan. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like this drop names like that, but I know, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know Jim. Yes, yeah, okay, and look,
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  Speaker 3: congratulations to him too, because he's been taking a beating
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  Speaker 3: him decade.
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  Speaker 2: No, he has. But but you know what it seems like,
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  Speaker 2: can we get both teams good at the same time?
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  Speaker 2: Besides ninety four? I mean, whether Nicks lost in the play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, right now, the Knicks are great, but we
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  Speaker 2: got a guy named this clown, Chris Drury, who's running
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  Speaker 2: the Rangers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. I mean, we went from the best
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  Speaker 3: team in hockey two seasons to go to the worst
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  Speaker 3: team in hockey, and it's just unreal how that could happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost impossible. And now we have a team full
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  Speaker 3: of like you know, care less veterans. We have to
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  Speaker 3: the one good thing we have. This is the this
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  Speaker 3: is the off season because we have such salary cap
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  Speaker 3: space here as Rangers, to have such salary cap space
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  Speaker 3: that they can do something magnificent. You know, there's some
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  Speaker 3: great Raiders out there. We need to go get a
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  Speaker 3: Brady Kachuck. We need to McDavis in play.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to Connor. Really is he in play?
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  Speaker 3: He's play? Brother, that would be game. Oh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: he belongs on this Day's the greatest hockey player, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's like, that's like MESSI another Edmonton order would be
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  Speaker 2: the same type of thing. One more I only got
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  Speaker 2: three minutes ago. When you coming back on Friday. He
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  Speaker 2: was in Rockland County Saturday night. It was a lovely night,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lawler's big Lincoln ball evant and I spoke, I
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  Speaker 2: tore the place down. Lawler spoke, and Lee Seldon spoke, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Saturday was June sixth, and Lee Selden brought up
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  Speaker 2: Normandy and d Day and you as an Army ambassador
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  Speaker 2: and a big time army guy now spending time with
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  Speaker 2: folks from Germany to the Pentagon. You know a lot
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  Speaker 2: about this stuff and what these what these soldiers went through,
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  Speaker 2: arriving on a binch on a beach in horrible weather,
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  Speaker 2: many of them throwing up in the water because they
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  Speaker 2: were seasick, and then getting shot because they really had
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  Speaker 2: no idea what to expect once they got to the
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  Speaker 2: chores of Normandy. Tell me your thoughts. Saturday was just
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  Speaker 2: D Day.
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  Speaker 3: I was, you know, I was supposed to be there.
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  Speaker 3: We had Matt's wedding in Italy and we had a
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  Speaker 3: celebration that followed. So I missed it this year. I
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  Speaker 3: will be there next year. But it was something that
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  Speaker 3: normally isn't just a military anniversary. Okay, some people think
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  Speaker 3: it's just a D Day's anniversary. It's a reminder that
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  Speaker 3: freedom is never freestid and that ordinary young Americans once
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  Speaker 3: did extraordinary things when history called, and still to this
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  Speaker 3: day remains the largest amphibious invasion in military history. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So when you think about that, the thousands that were
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  Speaker 3: killed and wounded and went missing on that very first day,
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  Speaker 3: that's why we go there every year, Okay, to honor them,
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  Speaker 3: not really to celebrate that D Day thing, but to
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  Speaker 3: honor these people. That's why they're still called to this day.
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  Speaker 3: In our military, that generation is still called the greatest
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  Speaker 3: generation of war fighters for a reason. Okay, they weren't superheroes.
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  Speaker 3: These were citizens. A lot of them were just kids,
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  Speaker 3: like literally eighteen years old, who came from all different
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  Speaker 3: walks of life. They didn't ask whether the mission would
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  Speaker 3: be difficult, they didn't ask it if they would be killed.
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  Speaker 3: They just asked where they were needed and they went.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what's so great about our military and the
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  Speaker 3: leaders that we have in there, like like General Doniue
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  Speaker 3: and General Landers and General pat Work. These are our
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  Speaker 3: real General Norry. These are the most incredible generational town
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  Speaker 3: of warfighters we have. So when you see this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: it's really something that is special. As a former military guide,
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  Speaker 3: that's something that really it means so much to me.
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  Speaker 3: So Normandy really reminds us that America is capable of
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  Speaker 3: greatness when united around a common purpose. So remember these
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  Speaker 3: young Americans who died there, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 3: about Normandy. They didn't just land on Omahar Beach. Because
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  Speaker 3: success was guaranteed. Because it was not. They landed because
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  Speaker 3: freedom was worth fighting for. And eighty plus years later,
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  Speaker 3: that lesson remains as important as ever. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: we can all disagree on politics, said, all right for
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  Speaker 3: a minute, we got to put that down. We can
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  Speaker 3: all disagree on the woe the left, the socialists, the right,
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  Speaker 3: the maga. Normandy reminds us that moments like this are
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  Speaker 3: bigger than politics. Yeah, the men who stormed those beaches
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  Speaker 3: came from every background imaginable. Yet they stood soldered the
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  Speaker 3: soldiers as Americans. And that's a lesson worth remembering today.
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  Speaker 2: Said that, as beautifully said, that's why this lowlife that's
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  Speaker 2: running in Maine. Who's a veteran himself. And I'm very
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  Speaker 2: very nice to veterans. I respect them like you do.
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  Speaker 2: I very rarely criticize them. But this lowlife, Graham Platner
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  Speaker 2: who said that veterans deserve to die in some of
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  Speaker 2: these attempts, in some of these wars, that is so disgusting, because,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, Joseph, you gotta love all these kids
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  Speaker 2: every time they go away. Every time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, brother, I mean what they do and my
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  Speaker 3: son's gonna be one of them in a matter of months.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's you know, it's you really have to
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  Speaker 3: respect that. So when someone I don't care if you
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  Speaker 3: are a former veteran. You could be a veteran and
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  Speaker 3: and be an idiot or a moron more despicable. Like
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  Speaker 3: in all walks of life, we have good apples and
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  Speaker 3: bad apples, right, So when you say something that that
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  Speaker 3: that guy said and I read it and I was disgusted,
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, every veteran who serves, who's
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  Speaker 3: put their lives on the line, is also disgusted by that.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't care if you were. He's not a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually rooting for Susan Collins. For me, i'd be
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  Speaker 2: like rooting for mom Donnie. It's not bad. Uh. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: you are magnificent today. We you were so good. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it again on Friday, Joseph, So have yourself
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  Speaker 2: a good day, enjoy the game tonight. We'll tell later
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  Speaker 2: on the weekend. Once again, congratulations to you, Titian met Okay, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Okay bro, love you, pal.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Tacopina right there, the best defense attorney in the
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  Speaker 2: world today and the dip end of mine for forty
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  Speaker 2: eight years.
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