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Michael Rapaport | Actor/Comedian | 05-13-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: My next guest was on Chris Cuomo last night. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that conversation on News Nation. But he's a
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  Speaker 2: die hard Nick fan. My next guest. He's a great
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  Speaker 2: basketball guy. He's on this show a lot. He's a
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  Speaker 2: brilliant stand up comic. I've seen him a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: times at Cayrolines. He's really funny, and he's been a
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  Speaker 2: great actor, and I mean a great actor. God, it's
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  Speaker 2: got to be twenty something years. He's my dear friend.
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  Speaker 2: Michael rappoport rap Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you sid I'm doing good. How you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: I feel so bad because I know you got the
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  Speaker 3: got word that I was on Chris Cuomo last night.
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  Speaker 3: I already told you, and I'm saying this again publicly,
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  Speaker 3: and you can record me. Have your crack staff record
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  Speaker 3: this documented that. When when I officially officially announced that
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  Speaker 3: the campaign for me to become Mayor of New York
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  Speaker 3: City twenty twenty nine happens, I will be in the
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  Speaker 3: studio and I will be bringing us you and men.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need it, but I know you do. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to give your secrets McDonald's. I will get
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  Speaker 3: you an egg McMuffin, okay, and we'll have an early milkshake,
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  Speaker 3: and I will announce in person with you and with
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  Speaker 3: you only. I felt so bad. You're like, did you
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  Speaker 3: announce it? I said, I already told you when I
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  Speaker 3: announced I'm coming in the studio with my main man.
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  Speaker 2: I know that period. I know that. But then Jake
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  Speaker 2: Novak is pulling in Vanoan this morning and he played
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  Speaker 2: a clip.
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  Speaker 3: Ja Jake doesn't know what's going on because you said
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  Speaker 3: official official. I said, what is Jake talking about? It's
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  Speaker 3: Jake saw. It's three thirty in the morning. Jake doesn't
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  Speaker 3: know whether he's coming or going. It's three thirty in
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  Speaker 3: the morning.
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  Speaker 2: But he played a clip of you with Quis last night.
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  Speaker 3: I know, but listen, people want to because you know
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  Speaker 3: what it is, Cuomo, and you know people were obviously
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  Speaker 3: very very already upset, as I was and as you were.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, oh, I didn't call in yesterday because
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  Speaker 3: I was listening to you, because yesterday was when you
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  Speaker 3: had Trump on but I was listening to some of
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  Speaker 3: the people you had. I'm actually you and I were texting,
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  Speaker 3: but I was so deeply offended and hurt and angered
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  Speaker 3: by what I saw yet again outside that synagogue in
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  Speaker 3: mid in Midwood, Brooklyn, and said this is I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist. Inevitably,
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  Speaker 3: what's going to happen. And I we could see the
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  Speaker 3: writing on the wall, Inevitably, what's going to happen in
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  Speaker 3: one of these protests. And I don't know who it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be, and I don't wish this to happen,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just the temperature and the climate and the momentum.
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  Speaker 3: Someone's going to get killed at one of these protests
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  Speaker 3: outside of synagogue in New York City. Because it went
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  Speaker 3: from what happened at Columbia harassing Jews, it went from
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  Speaker 3: Zionist here Zionis there were mamud khalil, and then it
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  Speaker 3: went for like you know these things that you know
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  Speaker 3: girls with their pink hair and the nosings, and they
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  Speaker 3: do have pink hare and nosings. That's not a stereotype
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  Speaker 3: doing it. But when you get men coming up to
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  Speaker 3: other men, something is going to happen, and the writing
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  Speaker 3: is on the wall, and you know that movie do
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  Speaker 3: the right thing after the person got killed. The next morning,
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  Speaker 3: we're all gonna be sitting here going that could it
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  Speaker 3: have been avoided? Should it have been avoided? And one
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  Speaker 3: thing that hasn't been done, Adams didn't do it. Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hulkeel Kathy the hack hopeful, she hasn't done it, and
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  Speaker 3: it's really her job. You want to protest, knock yourself out,
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  Speaker 3: but at very least these dogs, these animals, these s bags,
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  Speaker 3: these gigs, they should be forced to not wear a mask.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that if they're not able to wear
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  Speaker 3: a mask, there'll be normal protesters. I think they'll be
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  Speaker 3: less protesters, and they they won't be as bold and
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  Speaker 3: brave to do what they've been doing. In New York City,
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  Speaker 3: we're going on three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you where, and the proopers in the
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  Speaker 2: puddy killed. You're right, Yes, someone is gonna get killed.
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  Speaker 2: And the poopers in the pudding where I can prove
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  Speaker 2: you're right, Michael Is they did it in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 2: My friend Mazi Pillop and Bruce Blakeman, they tucked the
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  Speaker 2: masks off and They very rarely, if ever, have any
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  Speaker 2: of these because these people are cowards. Some of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're not paid. Their mom and dad may see him,
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  Speaker 2: they'll get into trouble their brother or sister, so they
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  Speaker 2: hide their faces because they want to be part of
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  Speaker 2: this horrible movement. They don't want to be recognized. But
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  Speaker 2: you're right, you got to take them off now. Dove
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  Speaker 2: Hiken was on the show yesterday while you were texting me.
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  Speaker 2: Former assemblymen at a Borough Park, Brooklyn for the better
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  Speaker 2: part of forty years. And I love Dove and he's
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  Speaker 2: gone to jail many times protecting Jews in the street
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  Speaker 2: with his fists. And he said, and I agree, Michael Rappaport,
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  Speaker 2: end up with the stupid you know, the the horns.
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  Speaker 2: You're out there with the bull horn and yelling and
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  Speaker 2: screaming how we're the victims. Dove says, listen, the ad
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  Speaker 2: that's not our grandfather's ADL. The JDL, that's not our
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  Speaker 2: grandfather's JDL. We need to start training Jewish people to physically,
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  Speaker 2: not bullhorns, nonsense or Instagram posts, to physically defend themselves
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  Speaker 2: in the streets of New York City. Is that too
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  Speaker 2: much for you or like me, do you agree?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I agree, I totally agree. But sid I
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  Speaker 3: you know, like it's one thing you know to fistfight,
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  Speaker 3: it's one thing to do get out. But I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you I'm seriously concerned, and I'm not concerned. I just
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  Speaker 3: I just know it because, like I said, someone's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get killed. Someone is. If it's not one person, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be like, you know, some sort of terrible
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  Speaker 3: massacre in our own city, and we're all going to
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  Speaker 3: be saying he could have done this, she should have
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  Speaker 3: done this. But the one thing that I keep going
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  Speaker 3: back to protest, it's the American way.
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  Speaker 2: Do all that.
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  Speaker 3: You want to be a stumbbag outside of a synagogue,
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  Speaker 3: scumbag outside of a cinema, but at least you should
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  Speaker 3: not be able to cover your face because you can
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  Speaker 3: get away with so much more when you cover your face,
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  Speaker 3: You're not Billy's a kid and you know what did.
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  Speaker 3: It's also the thing that I realized about what happened
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  Speaker 3: in Brooklyn the other night. If you could make it here,
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  Speaker 3: you could make it anywhere. If you could do that
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  Speaker 3: in New York City, you could do it anywhere. Because
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  Speaker 3: what I saw the other night in Brooklyn, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: harassing Jewish kids in their own neighbor, grown men sticking
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  Speaker 3: flashlights and kids riding their bike in their own neighbor
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  Speaker 3: with Yama Kazan. This is it's gonna It's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to happen, and it's not okay. But it's like,
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  Speaker 3: like Frank Sinatra said, if you can make it here,
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  Speaker 3: you can make it anywhere. If you could do that
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  Speaker 3: crap in New York City, it's all fair game.
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  Speaker 2: It is until you find a Republican governor like Ron
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis who will bash these people. I'm serious, forget about
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  Speaker 2: brust Amendment rights. His cops will bash these people across
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  Speaker 2: the face. That's why you don't see these types of
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  Speaker 2: events in Boca, in Fort Lauderdale, in Miami. Justin blue
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary cities, blue sanctuary states, these ridiculous anti semi democrats,
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  Speaker 2: that's where you see it. Tell me about this. My
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  Speaker 2: father's birthday. He's gone now, God, he's gone almost six years.
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  Speaker 2: But my dad's birthday is June the ninth, the Great
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Rosenberg, and something big is going on June the
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  Speaker 2: ninth on my dad's birthday is a documentary screening at
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  Speaker 2: Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. I believe the
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  Speaker 2: name of it is am I canceled yet. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know I thing about this?
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  Speaker 3: Mike, Yes, And you know you're the first person I'm
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  Speaker 3: speaking about this publicly, you know, I you know, we
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  Speaker 3: made a beautiful film about my journey sort of going
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  Speaker 3: through what's similar to what you've gone through and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of other people have gone through. Mine has just
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  Speaker 3: been a little bit more public in years. Has obviously
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  Speaker 3: been public because you know, we're public people. October seventh.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a beautiful film. It's an inspiring film. It's
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  Speaker 3: also even darkly funny. But I'm very very excited about
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  Speaker 3: showing it to people. And it's incredibly personal and I
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  Speaker 3: hopefully you know, inspiring, and it's not just for Jews,
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  Speaker 3: It's for it's for everybody. It's it's a it's a beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful film and it's called on My Cancer that it's
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  Speaker 3: a documentary. As you know, I am an award winning
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  Speaker 3: documentary filmmaker. My thirty for thirty about the New York
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  Speaker 3: Knicks when the Garden was Eden. We won the Emmy
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  Speaker 3: for that. Uh So I've made documentaries and and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is a This is definitely definitely very personal, dramatic,
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  Speaker 3: but also very funny because it's told, uh the the
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  Speaker 3: the narrative part of it is is you know, me
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  Speaker 3: doing comedy and then it's walking through the journey of
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  Speaker 3: you know, trips to Israel. You know, we did the
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  Speaker 3: protests in New York and all of it. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's good and really you know, you know, fighting for
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  Speaker 3: your fighting against all the anti seismatism, all the anti Jewishness,
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  Speaker 3: and really essentially fighting for the release of the hostages,
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  Speaker 3: which Baro Kashem we got, although obviously they all didn't
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  Speaker 3: come out alive.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you are you sound like a mayor to me. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I swear to God. You said last night that you'll
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  Speaker 2: run for mayor unless unless you deem somebody of course
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo better, maybe not better. But unless you deem somebody good,
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  Speaker 2: then you'll consider not running. But I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: the case. So Paul Curtis is running again. He's been
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  Speaker 2: a joke twice. He is he?
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  Speaker 3: Is he running again? Is he running? Is he? Someone's
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  Speaker 3: gonna give him? Someone's gonna support this CoA again? Until
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  Speaker 3: Curtis is gonna do it again. Yeah, listen, it's four
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  Speaker 3: years away. This is the only only even idea, the
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  Speaker 3: only even thought. Why you considered. Why I'm considering to
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  Speaker 3: run for mayor is because I love this city. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know politicians. I've never been to DC on a
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  Speaker 3: political I don't know any I have known these people's
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  Speaker 3: phone numbers. I don't want to be governor. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be president. I want our city to be
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  Speaker 3: to be back. I want people of New York to
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  Speaker 3: feel proud. I want people of New York to feel safe.
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  Speaker 3: I want people of New York to feel included. And this,
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  Speaker 3: this bozo zor on the moron is not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, like, and then I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: The only way to beat this guy did You can't
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  Speaker 3: out out cute this guy. You can't out politic this guy.
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  Speaker 3: You can't outsmile this guy. It needs to be treated.
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  Speaker 3: My campaign will be treated with a New York City
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  Speaker 3: street fight mentality. Okay, it needs to be a dogfight,
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  Speaker 3: it needs to be a doodole fling, and it needs
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  Speaker 3: to be must watch TV because he needs to be mocked,
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  Speaker 3: he needs to be shamed, and he needs to be
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  Speaker 3: called out on his bullcrap. He's talking about all these
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  Speaker 3: crisises in New York, he's talking about the crime, he's
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  Speaker 3: talking about the affordability. Then why are you smiling? Why
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  Speaker 3: is it so bad? What's the perpetual smile? And where's
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  Speaker 3: your dad? And what is your wife tweeted? Lately? These
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  Speaker 3: are the questions I want to know.
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  Speaker 2: These are good questions.
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  Speaker 3: Where where where's your dad that's sick? That's sick, professor?
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  Speaker 3: Where is he? What's what's he have to do? And
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  Speaker 3: what's going on with your wife's social media accounts? That's like?
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  Speaker 3: And why are you smiling? If you're saying things are
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  Speaker 3: so bad and people can't afford groceries? Why the smile
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  Speaker 3: all the time?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And then he'll show me some tears.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he should be crying. He's a liar to you know.
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  Speaker 2: He he was so upset about all the money issues here.
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  Speaker 2: The budget was coming up, He's got to raise property taxes,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a taxes checond home and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden yesterday, right, all of a sudden yesterday. Ah, this
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  Speaker 2: is good news. I found a way to close the gap.
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  Speaker 2: Only one hundred and twenty five million out. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: Hoko gave him eight billion dollars. You know you have
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  Speaker 2: to go after this guy. Pal Or though, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: do you know this guy is a WDA, He's got
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  Speaker 2: he's the face behind a lot of these issues, uh
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  Speaker 2: in New York. He's a guy that eventually you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to go after when you become mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say this, the other night, when the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks closed out the seventy six ers, you got about
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  Speaker 2: sixty seconds to go. I was nauseous, nauseous. Michael Rappaport
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  Speaker 2: watching mom Donnie tweet about the Knicks. Give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't tell you who the hell Rory Sparrow is.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochel tweeting about the Knicks. They have no idea
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  Speaker 2: about our team, right exactly? I know this. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know if the Knicks win and your mayor Ray Williams, right, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: Ray Ray Williams right. Yeah, no, no, no, any of those people.
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  Speaker 2: But but you do so when the Knicks win, if
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  Speaker 2: you're mayor, that'll be a real celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean this guy can't make a he
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  Speaker 3: can't make a layup with his left hand of free
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  Speaker 3: at the ople. Listen, we're on Madonnie Kathy the hack hopeful.
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  Speaker 2: She needs to go.
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  Speaker 3: She she's the big she's a big boss, and she
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  Speaker 3: gave him that money so she could get that endorsement.
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  Speaker 3: She needs to go.
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  Speaker 2: That is the bottom line. She gave him that money
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  Speaker 2: so he will endure. So weech he hasn't done yet.
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  Speaker 2: She did it him right away. He still hasn't done it. Okay, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: So on the way out here. You did make a
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  Speaker 2: statement on Chris Como's TV show last night, but you
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  Speaker 2: are not officially running for mayor. And if you decide
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  Speaker 2: to do that, it's gonna happen right here with me
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  Speaker 2: over an egg McMuffin.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm officially saying that when I make my official announcement,
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  Speaker 3: I will officially do it in person with you said,
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  Speaker 3: eating some McDonald early in the morning and giving ourselves
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  Speaker 3: some complication.
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  Speaker 2: I love it all.
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  Speaker 3: We'll never question that again. You're my guy, Sid you
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  Speaker 3: are my guy.
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  Speaker 2: I love you too. Thank you, Michael, You're an amazing guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a fan of yours. It's like so real
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  Speaker 2: for me. You have to understand talking to President Trump
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  Speaker 2: yesterday because I love him so much talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: I love your movies twenty years ago, and to think
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  Speaker 2: now that we're brothers and best friends. And I'm so
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  Speaker 2: proud of all you've done. You know that, my guy,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you you too, you know, and thank you very much,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport that do coming out. This guy has given
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of money, a lot of opportunity, Michael
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  Speaker 2: Rappaport walking the streets of Jerusalem and tell leve sitting
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  Speaker 2: with the hostages parents, doing all that he's done the
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  Speaker 2: last three years. He's taken a beating, he haes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll admit it. But he's lost opportunities, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of opportunities because Hollywood don't like Jews. Hollywood don't
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  Speaker 2: like guys who care about good things. And Michael Rappaport said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, my integrity, my heart is more important
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  Speaker 2: than my next movie role. So Michael Rapperport is a
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  Speaker 2: hero as well. And if he wants to run from
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  Speaker 2: Mayor and I decide not to, I would endorse him
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  Speaker 2: in five seconds. Michael Rappaport, great job, I love you.
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