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Michael Rapaport | Actor/Comedian | 06-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: You're running from mayor of New York City together with
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  Speaker 2: Sid Roseberg or he's going to be on the opposite side.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have Vican primary. No no, no, Me
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  Speaker 3: and Sid would never be on the opposite side of anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's in discussion. I'm taking it very seriously. And
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  Speaker 3: because I'm taking it seriously, I won't I won't announce
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  Speaker 3: it until we have every single thing lined up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to win.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not doing it for any ego driven reasons. The
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  Speaker 4: only way that I'm gonna officially go through it is
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  Speaker 4: if I really really really believe and I have the
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  Speaker 4: team and the backing to win. Other than otherwise, I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't waste anybody's time, energy or money.
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  Speaker 5: When are you thinking about putting this into motion?
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  Speaker 3: And then you know by November. By November early twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven, we still have time a lot of time
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  Speaker 3: for show.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even want to talk about this mayor stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but unfortunately I get approached every day. You know that
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  Speaker 5: Lou lose with me. He sees that he hears it,
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  Speaker 5: and not just by people on the street. I mean
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  Speaker 5: legitimate politicians, big time, rite little big time and money people.
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  Speaker 3: It's non stop, NonStop, nontop.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't want to talk about it because truth
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  Speaker 5: be told, it's not gonna happen. Danielle's gonna kill me,
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  Speaker 5: and well, I don't want to talk about it, but
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  Speaker 5: it's you know, I keep trying to put it to
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  Speaker 5: bed and they're like, no, I'd rather see Mike win.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I'm gonna I will hop on it. When
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  Speaker 5: I decide to make an official that I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to run, I'm gonna hop on with Rappaport, give him
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  Speaker 5: all my resources and give him a real good shot
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  Speaker 5: at winning, because he has got a good shot anyway.
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  Speaker 5: But I can't I can't say no judge yet because
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  Speaker 5: as Lou just pointed out, it's every single day I
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  Speaker 5: got people walking off to us at the restaurant's side
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  Speaker 5: and not going hello, mister Mayor.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, silliness.
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  Speaker 5: But Mike is also a diehard New York Nick fan.
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  Speaker 5: He's as big as I know, right there Withingo, great comedian,
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  Speaker 5: great doctor, and what a documentary he's got out Now.
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  Speaker 3: I love this.
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  Speaker 5: I love this documentary so much. And his wife Keeby
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  Speaker 5: Manche spectacular. This thing made me, lamp made me cry.
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  Speaker 5: Am I canceled yet so last week in Rebecca So
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  Speaker 5: I got about ten minutes before Wally Backman's Gonna stop
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  Speaker 5: by Tracy Morgan and Scott Monroe. Here he is the
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  Speaker 5: great Michael rappoport rap. How about those.
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  Speaker 3: Nicks, Sid We did it. We finally did it. After
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  Speaker 3: all the pain, all the heartbreak, all the disappointment, after
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  Speaker 3: our great point guard from the eighties, Scugar Ray Richardson
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  Speaker 3: tract got the better of him.
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  Speaker 6: He's not Lawrence Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Relate great Sugar Ray Bill part right, Bernard King breaking
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  Speaker 3: his knees, all the disappointment with our loved Patrick Ewing,
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  Speaker 3: the Michael Jordan's, the Reggie Miller, the Tray Youngs. This
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  Speaker 3: that the third the excuses, the poor zingis the Larry
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  Speaker 3: Brown that every single thing that could possibly go wrong.
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  Speaker 3: We finally did it, and we did it in the
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  Speaker 3: most New York way, with an understated game that plays together,
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  Speaker 3: that loves and understands what it means to play and
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  Speaker 3: perform in the greatest city in the world. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, you know. We spoke over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So many people of our age, they're like, they can't
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  Speaker 3: believe it. And I was trying to think why so
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  Speaker 3: many people were saying, I can't believe it. I can't
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  Speaker 3: believe it because I feel like I could just speak
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  Speaker 3: to myself. For so many years, we got to the
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  Speaker 3: point where we're like, it's never gonna happen. So when
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  Speaker 3: it happened, it's like, I can't believe it. And I
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  Speaker 3: regret that so many of us, specifically myself, we raised
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  Speaker 3: our kids and we we perpetuated that onto our kids.
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  Speaker 3: It's never gonna happen. It's never gonna happen. He's got
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  Speaker 3: these twenty year old kids, these thirty year old kids
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  Speaker 3: who have crazy parents like you and me, and we've
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  Speaker 3: been crying and screaming and complaining, and they started to
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  Speaker 3: believe it too. Well.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, but I got lucky because my son,
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  Speaker 5: who loves you, he loves you so much. He texted
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  Speaker 5: you last week, could look on your documentary. He loves you,
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  Speaker 5: love him. Yeah, thank you. Gabriel actually said the Knicks
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  Speaker 5: were gonna win, So you're right, he's right, Yeah, he
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  Speaker 5: was right.
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  Speaker 3: He's gotta have the spars those kids. He's still a young,
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  Speaker 3: a young, bright eyed, bushytail nick fan.
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  Speaker 5: Right, and you know what, good.
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  Speaker 6: We shouldn't be raising kids.
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  Speaker 3: That feel ashamed of our basketball team. We shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: raising kids that are embarrassed that can't win a debate,
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  Speaker 3: because every single time you argue and debate about the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks up until Saturday night, it was what have you
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  Speaker 3: actually won? Yes, it's for back, it's got a great team,
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  Speaker 3: a likable team, yep, and it's we deserve it.
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  Speaker 5: No, we do deserve it. By the way, that clip
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  Speaker 5: you heard when I introduced Michael about Michael Wanning familiar,
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  Speaker 5: I was of a good friend. Zev Brenner does a
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  Speaker 5: terrific show Late after Shop Is on Saturday nights. I've
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  Speaker 5: been a guest many many times. So Michael goes on
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  Speaker 5: with zeb Brenner this weekend. The lee he goes up.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it reminds me when when Steve Young took
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  Speaker 5: over for Joe Montana with the Niners. Montana basically won
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowls every year except when the Giants beat him up.
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  Speaker 5: When Jim Burt hit him on let it, Marshall hit him.
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  Speaker 5: But otherwise he kept winning super Bowls and here comes
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  Speaker 5: Steve Young, and you know, it was like he's never
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  Speaker 5: gonna win Montana. And then Young won that Super Bowl
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  Speaker 5: and he beat the San Diego Chargers. He beat him,
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  Speaker 5: he killed him, actually Stan Humphrey's team. And the first
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  Speaker 5: thing Steve Young said was I got the monkey off
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  Speaker 5: my back because he felt this undue amount of pressure.
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  Speaker 5: But watching this Nick Tea Mike, I never felt like
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  Speaker 5: they felt the pressure. I felt like they were just
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  Speaker 5: going out there playing basketball, having a good time. They
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  Speaker 5: wanted to win for this city, no doubt about it,
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  Speaker 5: especially Jalen, But they just seemed ready focused, not like
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  Speaker 5: they were trying to take the monkey up there back,
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  Speaker 5: just ready to win.
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  Speaker 3: I totally agree they were focused. And obviously it's from
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  Speaker 3: the top down, you know, Jalen, we you know, we
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  Speaker 3: couldn't ask for a classier basketball player to represent New
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  Speaker 3: York City. And the fact that he's the point guard,
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  Speaker 3: that he runs a team, that he's undersized, that he's understated.
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  Speaker 3: You know, no one's gonna be like Michael Jordan, no
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  Speaker 3: one's gonna be like Lebron James, You're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be like Victor Wembinyama. But everybody could go to the
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  Speaker 3: park and try.
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  Speaker 6: To do the things that Jalen Brunson does, perfecting your craft.
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  Speaker 3: The footwork, short mid range jump shots, left hand, right hand, and.
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  Speaker 6: Just the way he handled himself on.
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  Speaker 3: The court through all the pressure. And you're right, all
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  Speaker 3: of them, the whole team, from Alvarado stepping up to
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  Speaker 3: Shannon when he was stepping up, yeah, to of course Og.
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  Speaker 3: They were steady, they were focused, They never got at himself,
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  Speaker 3: they never got cocky, and they came.
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  Speaker 5: Back every single game, every game, well except for one,
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  Speaker 5: except for Game three, of course, because I was Trump's
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  Speaker 5: fault according to even a Smith. But the other four
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  Speaker 5: games they came back from double digit deficits. They won
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  Speaker 5: all four series. This is unbelievable, folks. Listen, They won
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  Speaker 5: all four series on the road. All four deciding games
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  Speaker 5: were on the road. And I did place the call yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: Michael to Jay Wright. Jay and I were really good
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  Speaker 5: friends that he was coaching at Hobstra before he went
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  Speaker 5: to Villanova, and he had Jayalen at Villanova on the
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  Speaker 5: same team as Josh Hart, who was a huge part
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  Speaker 5: of this championship. Bridges huge part of this championship. Evincenzo
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  Speaker 5: was also there. He of course got traded in the
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  Speaker 5: cot deal. But I placed to call it Jay Wright
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  Speaker 5: because heck there they won. They won a championship at Villanova,
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  Speaker 5: and he got those guys ready because now they've won
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  Speaker 5: a championship at the NBA level. So Jay Wright's got
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  Speaker 5: to get some credit.
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  Speaker 3: Totally.
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  Speaker 7: They're his kids. He's normose guys since they're in high school,
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  Speaker 7: probably at least juniors in high school. And to see
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  Speaker 7: uh them win the NBA championship after two championships in college,
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  Speaker 7: they're winners, and it's incredible, man Like, it's just so
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  Speaker 7: incredible and something.
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  Speaker 3: To be proud of. And you know, whether kids play
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  Speaker 3: basketball or or they're pickleball courts or they're running around
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  Speaker 3: the fabric of.
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  Speaker 6: New York, the architecture of.
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  Speaker 3: New York, there's basketball courts everywhere the Five boroughs and
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, we've, like they said, we've been
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  Speaker 3: through the suffering. And I feel like we got to
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  Speaker 3: stop talking about.
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  Speaker 6: The suffering because so much a part of our conversation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you actually, sid we need to go to
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  Speaker 6: therapy the fans like you and me, we need to
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  Speaker 6: move on, like the trauma's over.
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  Speaker 5: No, I moved on. No, I moved on. The trauma's over.
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  Speaker 3: I moved on.
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  Speaker 5: I went to all those debacles you talked about. Joe
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  Speaker 5: Boningo was on about forty minutes ago. He reminded me
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  Speaker 5: too that the Knickerbockers had a chance to get doctor J.
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  Speaker 5: Julius and they didn't do it because of four million dollars,
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  Speaker 5: and that turned out to be a disaster. Even way
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  Speaker 5: before Frederick Weiss, you or or you know, these bad
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  Speaker 5: trades and these coaches and Brown and Jackson and Isaiah
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  Speaker 5: way before that they could have had Doctor J. And
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  Speaker 5: they didn't get it done.
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  Speaker 6: But it's over up.
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  Speaker 5: But here's what you you.
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  Speaker 6: I thought you were.
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  Speaker 5: A better basketball player, you, Michael Rappaport in real life.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't realize until I saw your amazing documentary A
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  Speaker 5: might canceled yet where you got this video. It's amazing
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  Speaker 5: real footage of you in Brooklyn with all your boys
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  Speaker 5: playing basketball, where you said you were just kind of
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  Speaker 5: an average player. I thought you were like really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I literally had to I was an average
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  Speaker 3: player for someone that wanted to play. But I literally
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  Speaker 3: my whole lifely and I was twelve to nineteen until
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  Speaker 3: I discovered acting like I structured, scheduled and planned everything
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  Speaker 3: around practice and playing basketball to be in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: So that that was good for a you know, slow,
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  Speaker 3: flat footed, tall lefty. But you know, when I started
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  Speaker 3: to see Kenny Anderson Malik Sea League. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: grew up playing bowl with Kennie Anderson. He literally was
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  Speaker 3: NBA ready at twelve years old, yep, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: when I started to compete, you know, at a higher level,
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  Speaker 3: then it separates really quick. When you're fifteen and people
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  Speaker 3: are going through puberty, young men, it changes immediately. And
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  Speaker 3: I knew there was no way I was going to
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  Speaker 3: do it. But I had so much fun playing basketball.
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  Speaker 3: I had so much friendship playing basketball. I had so much,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And it wasn't even so much the games.
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  Speaker 3: It was riding the trains for the games. It was
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  Speaker 3: coming back from the games and hanging out with your friends.
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  Speaker 3: And I just loved it and it kept me out
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  Speaker 3: of trouble and it kept me focused. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: change this thing. And it was all in New York.
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  Speaker 5: It was all right, all over the city that's so beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: And the final I got about a minute and a
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  Speaker 5: half left. I want to bring you back later this
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  Speaker 5: week before I go to Israel. But I did bring
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  Speaker 5: up the documentary. It was I'm not gonna lie to you.
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  Speaker 5: It was better than I thought it was gonna be.
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  Speaker 5: And you're a great documentary maker. You've won awards. This
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  Speaker 5: one just crushed me. It made me laugh, it made
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  Speaker 5: me cry. I told you that your wife, my God,
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  Speaker 5: God bless her. We've had those same conversations, me and
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  Speaker 5: Danielle Michael. I swear to you a hundred times, especially
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  Speaker 5: right after October the seventh, when I was still on
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  Speaker 5: the subways wearing my New York Loves Israel shirts. My
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  Speaker 5: guys here can tell you my kids were scared to death.
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  Speaker 5: I had Eddie Caban, he was the commissioner, the commission
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  Speaker 5: at the time, get me a police detail just to
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  Speaker 5: come to work. And she would cry and go, I like,
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  Speaker 5: what's going on? But now it's gotten too far. So
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  Speaker 5: watching you and your wife, for me, it was I
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  Speaker 5: reminiscent of what I went through at home the last
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  Speaker 5: couple of years with Danielle. But it was an amazing piece.
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  Speaker 5: You were funny. The hostage stuff was was really heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't want to give away the movie, but
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  Speaker 5: the b boss thing at the end, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 5: it was it was. I can't grin by that right now.
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  Speaker 5: It was just an amazing documentary. I hope you're very
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  Speaker 5: proud of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Sid, And that's why I was. I
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  Speaker 3: was on you to make sure you got there and
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  Speaker 3: you got there.
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  Speaker 6: On time, because you know my story and sort of
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  Speaker 6: your story because you've been out so publicly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, is so many other people's story post October seventh, specifically.
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  Speaker 6: Jewish people and things we've learned, things we've been exposed to,
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  Speaker 6: and and you know, and also you know our loved ones,
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  Speaker 6: our family, our kids and all stuff. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: I can't wait to share.
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  Speaker 3: The film, you know with everybody is you know, passion
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  Speaker 3: project and a letter of love and you know, a
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  Speaker 3: timestamp of a crazy time and in so many people's lives,
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, obviously what you and I went
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  Speaker 3: through with the anti Semitem is nothing to so many
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  Speaker 3: people that went through way worse and lost everything and
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  Speaker 3: family members lost everything. That's why you know, I really
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  Speaker 3: was proud that you were there and excited you were there,
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  Speaker 3: and it was it was the first time we showed it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, like I said, I'll come on the
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  Speaker 3: show the first time when we when we announced where
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  Speaker 3: everybody in the world could see it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: have a fantastic trip this this week. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I keep getting a lot of messages from people that
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  Speaker 5: want to see it. They go, wait, can I see it?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't have an answer it with you.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to share that with you.
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  Speaker 6: And I said, and I'm going to come in studio
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  Speaker 6: while we eat Big Max to announce mayor.
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  Speaker 3: But that's not on the phone.
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  Speaker 6: I'm calling in let's pull transparency, but face to face
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  Speaker 6: for am I canceled it face to face for announcing
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  Speaker 6: the mayor. But when we announced my campaign, we're eating
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  Speaker 6: Big Max.
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  Speaker 5: Done deal. And when you announce your campaign with me
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  Speaker 5: in person, because I love Big Max and you have
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  Speaker 5: to get me your hash bow on two, that's the
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  Speaker 5: day where I will cancel my efforts and just hop
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  Speaker 5: on with you and try to help you win.
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  Speaker 6: How about that? Absolutely shiit.
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  Speaker 3: I'll talk to you later.
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  Speaker 6: I have a fantastic trip.
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  Speaker 5: I love you, bro, Thank you. Excellent job on everything
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  Speaker 5: all Right is a great Michael Rappaport, great actor, great comedian,
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  Speaker 5: great Knicks fan, one of our great guys today.
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