Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Sid & Friends In The Morning 24 Hours Out From NYSBA Induction

Transcript

Sid & Friends In The Morning 24 Hours Out From NYSBA Induction · Sid & Friends In The Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
• 0:05
  Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Mr. Rosenberg.
• 0:11
  Speaker 4: You deserve this, the New York Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
• 0:15
  Speaker 4: You are a testament to stick-to-itiveness, to versatility.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, think about it.
• 0:20
  Speaker 4: You were breaking down Met Baseball with Imus 30 years ago.
• 0:23
  Speaker 4: And now you're doing politics on morning radio there on
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: a big station in New York.
• 0:27
  Speaker 5: That alone is a sign of greatness. And you're a
• 0:31
  Speaker 5: good guy, down deep. Gotta find it, gotta find it.
• 0:34
  Speaker 5: But down deep, you are a good guy who cares.
• 0:37
  Speaker 5: So I give you all the credit in the world.
• 0:39
  Speaker 5: We're proud of you.
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: A WFAN grad, now in the New York State Broadcasters
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Congrats. Hello, Knick fans. Welcome to Champions Night.
• 0:56
  Speaker 6: Here at your home away from home, Madison Square Garden,
• 0:59
  Speaker 6: the world's most famous arena.
• 1:01
  Speaker 7: This special night was 53 years in the making, and
• 1:08
  Speaker 7: tonight you get to celebrate a moment that will be
• 1:11
  Speaker 7: part of Nick's history and New York's history forever. It
• 1:19
  Speaker 7: was a season filled with epic performances and unwavering love and.
• 1:24
  Speaker 6: Support from the most passionate fans in the world. These
• 1:31
  Speaker 6: Knicks captured the hearts of millions and united a city
• 1:36
  Speaker 6: with unforgettable moments. A journey that started in the preseason
• 1:41
  Speaker 6: in Abu Dhabi and continued in Las Vegas.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: With winning the NBA Cup.
• 1:54
  Speaker 6: And of course it all ended with one of the
• 1:57
  Speaker 6: all-time great playoff runs in NBA history. 16-3 record with
• 2:05
  Speaker 6: a 13-game winning streak. And finally, your Knicks were crowned champions.
• 2:16
  Speaker 8: Tonight.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: will present your Knicks.
• 2:19
  Speaker 6: With their championship rings and raise a banner to commemorate
• 2:22
  Speaker 6: this dream season that will live forever. And now please,
• 2:33
  Speaker 6: special welcome, Knicks former champions and beloved family members, Walt
• 2:38
  Speaker 6: Clyde Frazier.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: Bill Bradley.
• 2:53
  Speaker 6: The son of the late Dave DeBuscher, Peter DeBuscher.
• 3:00
  Speaker 9: Earl the Pearl Monroe.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: And the wife of the captain of the late Willis Reed,
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Gail Reed. What's up, Knicks fans?
• 3:20
  Speaker 6: Most importantly, I want to say thank you to you
• 3:22
  Speaker 6: guys for.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Not leaving game four. We really appreciate it. I mean,
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: this is, as much as we won this, we wouldn't
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: have done this without you guys. I mean, this is unbelievable.
• 3:35
  Speaker 10: This is really a dream come true.
• 3:37
  Speaker 11: I know we're all excited to get this season going.
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: We're ready to turn the page as a team. But
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: one thing I would like to.
• 3:49
  Speaker 11: Say, the joy that this city had this summer, we
• 3:53
  Speaker 11: would love to replicate that again.
• 3:59
  Speaker 8: Thank you guys.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: Let's raise this banner.
• 4:05
  Speaker 9: Politics now two weeks exactly until Election Day. Control of
• 4:09
  Speaker 9: Congress on the line. And you can tell how much
• 4:11
  Speaker 9: this election matters to President Trump's agenda by how much
• 4:14
  Speaker 9: he says he plans to spend on it. More than
• 4:16
  Speaker 9: 400 million dollars. Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes is
• 4:20
  Speaker 9: with the president tonight in North Carolina.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: It's not easy to stand up there for two hours ranting, raving.
• 4:27
  Speaker 12: After crisscrossing the country all month, the campaigner in chief
• 4:31
  Speaker 12: boiled over today while taking questions in the Oval Office.
• 4:36
  Speaker 10: What's wrong with you?
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: Are you a sick person?
• 4:42
  Speaker 12: And then it was back on the road on an
• 4:44
  Speaker 12: electoral rescue mission to North Carolina as early voting numbers
• 4:49
  Speaker 12: here smash midterm records. Do you normally vote early?
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: No, this is my first time.
• 4:56
  Speaker 12: More than 689,000 people here have already voted in person.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: Are you voting here or are you going home?
• 5:02
  Speaker 13: Here.
• 5:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, awesome.
• 5:05
  Speaker 12: That's a 48 percent jump from this point in the
• 5:08
  Speaker 12: last midterm election in 2022.
• 5:10
  Speaker 14: I think people want change.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 5:12
  Speaker 10: And they're concerned not only about health care, but groceries, gas, equality, corruption,
• 5:20
  Speaker 10: you name it.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of issues that are that are very
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: important issues.
• 5:25
  Speaker 11: Illegal immigration is a very big one.
• 5:27
  Speaker 12: North Carolina hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in
• 5:30
  Speaker 12: 18 years. This year, polls show former Governor Roy Cooper
• 5:35
  Speaker 12: with a comfortable lead over former Republican Party Chair Michael Watley.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Make sure you get out and vote this year.
• 5:41
  Speaker 12: Anderson Clayton chairs the state Democratic Party. Why do you
• 5:45
  Speaker 12: think Trump is coming back here to North Carolina when
• 5:49
  Speaker 12: even Republican groups are pulling their funding from this race?
• 5:53
  Speaker 15: I mean, I think that they know that they're underwater,
• 5:55
  Speaker 15: but it's not just about Michael Watley. It's also about
• 5:57
  Speaker 15: the fact that.
• 5:57
  Speaker 16: They've got U.S.
• 5:58
  Speaker 14: House races in North Carolina that are shaping their majority
• 6:00
  Speaker 14: in Congress right now, too.
• 6:04
  Speaker 12: Trump may be hitting the trail daily, but Senate Republican
• 6:08
  Speaker 12: candidates are keeping their distance, at least on TV, where
• 6:13
  Speaker 12: only two percent of their ads last month mentioned Trump
• 6:17
  Speaker 12: by name.
• 6:17
  Speaker 6: Tony.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Very interesting.
• 6:19
  Speaker 9: And Nancy, the situation between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky
• 6:22
  Speaker 9: has had some some low moments this week.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: What's the latest?
• 6:27
  Speaker 12: A little reduction in tension today, Tony, after Zelensky met
• 6:30
  Speaker 12: with U.S.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Officials in Norway.
• 6:32
  Speaker 12: He said after that meeting that the U.S. has started
• 6:36
  Speaker 12: sharing early warnings about incoming Russian missile attacks again. But
• 6:41
  Speaker 12: Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to insist that those
• 6:44
  Speaker 12: gaps in intelligence were not intentional and that they were
• 6:47
  Speaker 12: due to some kind of technical glitch.
• 6:50
  Speaker 14: Gubernatorial candidates are running on a message of affordability, and
• 6:53
  Speaker 14: today they are both highlighting issues that impact New Yorkers' wallets,
• 6:57
  Speaker 14: energy and auto insurance. With rising utility costs, Nassau County
• 7:01
  Speaker 14: Executive Bruce Blakeman has focused his attention on the state's
• 7:04
  Speaker 14: energy policies as one of his main campaign platforms. Residential
• 7:08
  Speaker 14: electricity rates have risen by as much as 50 percent
• 7:12
  Speaker 14: during Hogle's tenure as governor. And Blakeman puts the blame
• 7:15
  Speaker 14: squarely on Hogle's shoulders. He says if elected, he would
• 7:19
  Speaker 14: lift the state's fracking ban and put less of an
• 7:21
  Speaker 14: emphasis on renewable energy initiatives like wind and solar. But
• 7:26
  Speaker 14: changes to energy production like this would take time. Blakeman
• 7:29
  Speaker 14: says if elected, he can cut New Yorkers electric bills
• 7:32
  Speaker 14: in half, but hasn't detailed exactly how he would accomplish this.
• 7:36
  Speaker 14: in a way that would be felt immediately at home.
• 7:39
  Speaker 14: Blakeman was joined today by former Governor George Pataki, who
• 7:42
  Speaker 14: at one time pushed for renewable energy projects.
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: I'm all for, as Bruce Blakeman said, we're all for
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: renewable energy, but it's got to be part of.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: A package that doesn't drive up costs through the roof.
• 7:55
  Speaker 17: People are really suffering. As I walk down the street here,
• 7:59
  Speaker 17: people are telling me wherever I go how expensive their
• 8:02
  Speaker 17: utility bills are. We've got to get back to common sense.
• 8:07
  Speaker 14: Now, Governor Kathy Hochul today touting the state's efforts to
• 8:10
  Speaker 14: crack down on auto insurance fraud and says a joint
• 8:12
  Speaker 14: task force has arrested 16 people who have allegedly attempted
• 8:15
  Speaker 14: to make fraudulent claims. Hochul says this effort will drive
• 8:18
  Speaker 14: down auto insurance costs for New Yorkers, but she was
• 8:21
  Speaker 14: also asked about the state's skyrocketing energy bills. A memo
• 8:25
  Speaker 14: from Hochul's own administration earlier this year projected that goals
• 8:28
  Speaker 14: laid out in the state's climate laws when it comes
• 8:31
  Speaker 14: to cutting emissions could cost New Yorkers more than $ 4, 000
• 8:36
  Speaker 14: a year by 2031. But Hochul claims President Trump and
• 8:40
  Speaker 14: conflicts overseas for rising utility rates. She says long term
• 8:44
  Speaker 14: she supports nuclear energy. But when it comes to short
• 8:46
  Speaker 14: term solutions, she pointed to the controversial energy rebate checks
• 8:50
  Speaker 14: she sent out to New Yorkers just a few weeks ago.
• 8:53
  Speaker 18: I had a school principal come up to me yesterday
• 8:56
  Speaker 18: and thank me for the check that came. But you
• 8:57
  Speaker 18: know what would be a lot better for driving down
• 8:59
  Speaker 18: energy costs in the state of New York? Is stopping
• 9:02
  Speaker 18: the war with Iran. I've yet to hear Bruce Blakeman
• 9:05
  Speaker 18: give any blame to the Trump administration on why our
• 9:08
  Speaker 18: costs have gone. You want to know what the main
• 9:09
  Speaker 18: cost of energy is? It is the war with Iran.
• 9:13
  Speaker 14: Now early voting starts on Saturday.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Bruce Blakeman here.
• 9:16
  Speaker 17: I want to congratulate Sid Rosenberg on his induction into
• 9:19
  Speaker 17: the Hall of Fame. Think of all the greats that
• 9:22
  Speaker 17: are already in there. Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Don Imus,
• 9:28
  Speaker 17: Bob Grant, you name it. There are so many great
• 9:31
  Speaker 17: names in radio and television. And you're one of the
• 9:35
  Speaker 17: all-time greats, Sid. And you're going with two of my friends,
• 9:37
  Speaker 17: Bill Ritter and Rosanna Scotto. So it's like a family event.
• 9:41
  Speaker 17: But congratulations. In my book, you're the best.
• 9:45
  Speaker 10: This January 2027 will mark 11 years since I'm home
• 9:52
  Speaker 10: back on WABC in New York. And as I get
• 9:56
  Speaker 10: set to go into the Hall of Fame tomorrow, coming
• 10:01
  Speaker 10: home was something I wanted to do for a long time.
• 10:04
  Speaker 10: You know, the first book I wrote, which about 10
• 10:07
  Speaker 10: of you read, You're Wrong and You're Ugly. I didn't
• 10:11
  Speaker 10: even write it, to be honest. Paul Schwartz, who covers
• 10:14
  Speaker 10: the New York football giants for the New York Post,
• 10:18
  Speaker 10: he wrote it. So how it worked was, I was
• 10:20
  Speaker 10: in Boca. He was in New York. He would call
• 10:23
  Speaker 10: me every Friday, and we'd spend, this is true now,
• 10:28
  Speaker 10: about an hour on the phone. And he would ask
• 10:30
  Speaker 10: me a million questions about my career. And this is
• 10:34
  Speaker 10: all the way back in 2009, 2010. And I would
• 10:38
  Speaker 10: answer all the questions, and we wrote a book. It
• 10:43
  Speaker 10: was a fun book, too, because that book, which is now,
• 10:46
  Speaker 10: my God, like 16 years old, Paul actually interviewed a
• 10:51
  Speaker 10: whole bunch of very famous people, and they had their
• 10:54
  Speaker 10: own chapters in the book. For example, Mr. Miami Heat,
• 11:00
  Speaker 10: but he was the coach of the New York Knicks,
• 11:02
  Speaker 10: with a lot of Knick talk today. He coached the
• 11:04
  Speaker 10: Knicks to the NBA Finals, albeit a loss to the
• 11:07
  Speaker 10: Houston Rockets. Pat Riley wrote a nice chapter about me
• 11:11
  Speaker 10: in my book. But everybody, Mike Breen, you just heard
• 11:13
  Speaker 10: his voice, and the guys from the Howard Stern Show,
• 11:17
  Speaker 10: and and Jim Nance, and Tiki Barber, and the list
• 11:20
  Speaker 10: goes on and on. New York greats. Bernard McGurk wrote
• 11:25
  Speaker 10: a chapter in the book, My Late Great Partner. This
• 11:28
  Speaker 10: is 2010, and said he looks forward to the day
• 11:32
  Speaker 10: when he and I do a show together. How prescient.
• 11:35
  Speaker 10: Who would have known six years after the book came
• 11:38
  Speaker 10: out that would happen, Bernie and Sid in the morning
• 11:41
  Speaker 10: at ABC. But with all those great chapters in that book,
• 11:46
  Speaker 10: you're wrong. and you're ugly. There was really no way
• 11:50
  Speaker 10: for me to know that it was going to come
• 11:55
  Speaker 10: to fruition, if you know what I'm saying, Noam and Lou.
• 11:59
  Speaker 10: But it did, and I had a chance to come home,
• 12:02
  Speaker 10: and I'm home. 11 years later, the Knickerbockers went home
• 12:07
  Speaker 10: last night. Well, how about that? If they're winning the
• 12:10
  Speaker 10: NBA championship, and you heard from Mike Breen, he was
• 12:13
  Speaker 10: terrific last night. You heard from The captain, Jalen Brunson,
• 12:18
  Speaker 10: as he said, raised the banner. And the season started. Now,
• 12:22
  Speaker 10: the Knicks did lose. The 76ers are a really good team. Look,
• 12:26
  Speaker 10: they're old, and a lot of those guys get hurt.
• 12:29
  Speaker 10: Embiid is always hurt. But if those guys can manage
• 12:34
  Speaker 10: to stay healthy, I know nobody cares one game, and
• 12:38
  Speaker 10: Willie was all about the championship last night. But that's
• 12:40
  Speaker 10: a good team. You know, Embiid and Jalen Brown, who's
• 12:44
  Speaker 10: a legitimate, superstar they got from Boston, LeBron James. He
• 12:48
  Speaker 10: could be 100 years old. He's still good. He is.
• 12:51
  Speaker 10: And Maxie, Maxie may be the most explosive guard in basketball.
• 12:57
  Speaker 10: And I've got Brunson here, and I'm saying that. This kid, Maxie,
• 13:00
  Speaker 10: is like they shove a rocket up his ass. He
• 13:02
  Speaker 10: can shoot. He's the fastest guy I see in the NBA.
• 13:06
  Speaker 10: They got edge call. They got a whole bunch of guys.
• 13:08
  Speaker 10: That is a very good basketball team. They beat the
• 13:11
  Speaker 10: Knicks last night, 106-100. And again, it's one game that
• 13:15
  Speaker 10: doesn't mean a heck of a lot, but I wanted
• 13:18
  Speaker 10: to see this Philly team, and they are good. Next
• 13:20
  Speaker 10: up for the Knicks, they're up until Friday. They're going
• 13:23
  Speaker 10: to play the Celtics. The Celtics started the season yesterday.
• 13:27
  Speaker 10: They played an afternoon game before the Knicks took the court.
• 13:30
  Speaker 10: In Detroit, Boston was up by 27 in the third
• 13:35
  Speaker 10: quarter and lost to the Detroit Pistons. But you know
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: who starts for the Celtics? Mitchell Robinson. And Mitchell... played
• 13:44
  Speaker 10: a very, very big part in our championship here in
• 13:47
  Speaker 10: New York last year, integral part. So when the Knicks
• 13:51
  Speaker 10: go play the Celtics in Boston on Friday, they can
• 13:55
  Speaker 10: give Mitchell Robinson his ring. I mean, those rings last
• 13:59
  Speaker 10: night were the silliest thing I've ever seen. You can't
• 14:01
  Speaker 10: wear that on your finger. You can actually hit a
• 14:04
  Speaker 10: little button on the ring, and a replica of Madison
• 14:07
  Speaker 10: Square Garden pops out of the ring. Every number is
• 14:12
  Speaker 10: on the ring for every player. Just unbelievable what these
• 14:16
  Speaker 10: rings are these days. I got a kick out of
• 14:18
  Speaker 10: it during Super Bowl week when they actually show all
• 14:22
  Speaker 10: 61 rings. Maybe 60, right? This is 61 this year.
• 14:28
  Speaker 10: And you see the very first ring the Green Bay
• 14:30
  Speaker 10: Packers got when they won Super Bowl I compared to
• 14:34
  Speaker 10: the rings that the modern-day guys got. Who won it
• 14:37
  Speaker 10: last year? I forgot already. You know, I forgot who
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: won the Super Bowl last year?
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Seattle.
• 14:41
  Speaker 10: Seattle, that's right. So look at Sam Donald's ring compared
• 14:46
  Speaker 10: to Bart Starr's ring. It's night and day. Those rings
• 14:51
  Speaker 10: last night were unbelievable. Did you see that, Noam?
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I just saw it this morning, actually.
• 14:56
  Speaker 19: But it is, I mean, and again, you can't really
• 14:58
  Speaker 19: wear it anywhere. It just goes into a safe somewhere.
• 15:01
  Speaker 19: You put it on your mantle, I guess, in your house.
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: Maybe, but. I mean, the whole idea of a ring
• 15:06
  Speaker 10: is to wear a ring, right?
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: You would think so, yeah.
• 15:08
  Speaker 10: That's getting silly. It's too much. You know, give them
• 15:11
  Speaker 10: a ring, a championship ring, and then give them maybe
• 15:14
  Speaker 10: something else like the rings they got last night. But regardless,
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: it was a very emotional ceremony. I got to tell you,
• 15:21
  Speaker 10: I went to Harbor Lights, which is a really good
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: restaurant in our neighborhood. Lou and MJ go there quite
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: a bit. Me, Danielle, and the kids always go there.
• 15:30
  Speaker 10: My buddy Sean owns it. He's a terrific guy, great
• 15:32
  Speaker 10: neighborhood guy. And Danielle and Gabriel were in the city.
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: Gabe was getting a new phone. Ava, of course, is
• 15:39
  Speaker 10: in Pennsylvania. So I was alone. And I sat and
• 15:43
  Speaker 10: had dinner in the bar area. And it was perfect
• 15:46
  Speaker 10: timing because by the time I left the gym and
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: got to the restaurant, it was about 6.30. So I
• 15:52
  Speaker 10: get my salad. I get my burger. Next thing you know,
• 15:56
  Speaker 10: they throw up the audio inside the bar, and I'm
• 15:58
  Speaker 10: watching the whole ceremony at the garden. And I got
• 16:02
  Speaker 10: to tell you, I teared up. I really did. So
• 16:05
  Speaker 10: did Mike Breen. If you really paid attention to Mike,
• 16:09
  Speaker 10: he got very emotional when he started that speech about
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: the improbable and unbelievable Nick run that got us a
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: championship last year. And then I really love the part, too,
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: where Mike Breen introduced some of the older Knicks, you know,
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: Earl the Pro Monroe and Walt Frazier, that amazing backcourt
• 16:29
  Speaker 10: in 1973, the last time the Knicks won the championship.
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: Dave DeBuscher's son, Dave, is gone. Peter DeBuscher. Willis Reed's wife,
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: he's gone. I guess her name is Gail Reed. And
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: then throughout the game, you saw other former Knick players,
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: not the all-time greats who won championships, but Latrell Sprewell
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: and Larry Johnson, John Starks. You know, last year throughout
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: the playoffs, you saw plenty of Patrick Ewing, Carmelo Anthony,
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: all those guys. So that always gets me choked up,
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: you know. Did you get emotional at all last night, Norm?
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: I did. You did?
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: No, you didn't.
• 17:07
  Speaker 19: I did, actually, because it meant so much to the
• 17:09
  Speaker 19: city last season, and then to see the banner go.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Into the rafters.
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: You cried like a little bitch?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't cry.
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, I did. I cried.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: But I felt emotional watching it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: How come I cried?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Well, because you cried anything.
• 17:21
  Speaker 20: I know.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: What's the matter with me, Bill? Yeah. Some estrogen thing
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: or thing, I don't know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe it is, yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: And then Brunson came out and spoke, and... He's the captain.
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: He's the superstar of the team, and he's okay with that.
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: He's not great with that. He's okay. So raise the banner,
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: and the place went nuts. And, you know, the reason
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: why we picked that song by Bon Jovi, sometimes you
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: can't go, it made sense for me because I'm back
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: home and about to make the Hall of Fame when
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: they said I'd never get back in the last 11 years.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: For me here in New York, it has been unbelievable.
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: And the Knickerbockers were home last night, too, to celebrate
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: their championship. But if you watch Mike Breen... The whole ceremony,
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: you can see behind him two or three people that
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: were in the frame the whole time. The whole time.
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: And one of those people, Bon Jovi. Did you see that? Yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: I did, yeah. I'm like, Bon Jovi's a big Knicks fan?
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: I used to see Bon Jovi all the time wearing
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: his gray sweatsuit at Giant games. He's a huge New
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: York football Giant fan. He's a Jersey guy. The Giants
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: play their home games in East Rutherford. I didn't know
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: Bon Jovi was a diehard Knicks fan.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: He probably wasn't.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: He wasn't? I don't know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: You know, it was just people wanted to be there
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: last night.
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I know. I mean, you saw the regulars. You
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: saw Spike Lee. He looks like an idiot with his
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: stupid orange outfit and his hat and his white glasses.
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: He looks like a complete idiot, Spike Lee. But they
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: love him. They love him. My buddy Tracy Morgan, who
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: comes on this show, he cried last night. He gets
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: very emotional. He cried on this show when the Knicks
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: won the championship. You saw John Turturro and a lot,
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: and I mean a lot, of Ben Stiller. He was
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: on television just about every TV timeout. Did you see that?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's sitting like dead center.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's right there. A couple of times when the
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: ball went out of bounds, he caught it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 21: And he's making this documentary.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: Yes, he is. They mentioned that last night, too.
• 19:16
  Speaker 21: He's going to have a lot of footage that's going
• 19:19
  Speaker 21: to be.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: That's going to look great. He's sitting right there, yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 21: Last spring.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: That's great. He's still a douchebag, but I'll watch his
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: documentary for sure. The Knicks win. I don't care who
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: you are for a couple of minutes at least. Then
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: it hits me, oh, my God, that's him. I hate
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: that guy. I hate that guy. Who else was there
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: last night? I didn't see too many other celebrities. Did
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: you guys see anybody else that is usually not there,
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: like a really big name or not really, right?
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: What's his name? The commissioner of the NFL was sitting there.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: Roger Goodell? Yeah, he was there. He was. Oh, you
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: know who sat in the front row? I saw his
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: med hat. He looked so silly. He's a nice guy,
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: very nice man. Steve Cohen. Oh, really? And you remember
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: last year during the finals run, Cohen went to a
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: game and the Knicks lost. And everybody was blaming Steve Cohen.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: Then they blamed President Trump. You remember that? Stephen A. Smith.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: That was ridiculous. The only game they lost in the finals.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: But Steve Cohen took a beating during the playoffs last year.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Maybe it was before the finals. I don't know. Well,
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: they won 13 straight. But at one point they did
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: bash Steve Cohen when he was there last night.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Was he front row?
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: Front row. With his little Met hat. He wears that everywhere.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Does he wear that when he's like in some bond
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: meeting or?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Probably not.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: You don't think so?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: No, but when you're out and about and people are
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: going to see you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you've got to wear a mat hat. You own
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: the team, you're Steve Cohen. So the Knickerbockers, it was
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: a glorious night. We'll play audio throughout the morning. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: now it's back to business. Okay, you won the championship
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: last year. I know Joe Benningo said, we're good, we're good.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: I'm not good. It's a new season, and you're out
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: there to win it again. I don't rest my law.
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: You know, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: We waited over 50 years. To me, that's still my
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: favorite championship in my lifetime here in New York. Knickerbockers
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: came close last year, but the Rangers in 94, Mark Messier,
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: that was unbelievable. And they haven't won it since. 32 years.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: I don't want to do that with the Knicks. This
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: is a great basketball team. They've got a shot to
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: win it this year. I wouldn't bet on them. It's
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: just very, very difficult. I don't remember the last time
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: a team repeated.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's got to be at least ten years.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: You know, it's eight different teams in the last eight years.
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: Do you know that, Noah? Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's almost impossible to do it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: Almost impossible.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: But the truth is, unlike you, I'm good for a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: couple seasons if they don't win.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I'm fine.
• 21:49
  Speaker 22: No, no.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Last year was so exciting, that's going to make me sail.
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: Through a couple seasons. That's why I'm a Hall of
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Famer and you're not.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: Because it's what did you do for me today? You've
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: got to be great every day, no matter what you do.
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: It's not, well, I was so great last year, now
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: I'm good.
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: No.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: It doesn't work that way.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not the same team completely, right? We lost
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a player, too. So what?
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: So what? You lost Mitchell Robinson? Yeah, that's big. You
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: got Andre Drummond. No, it's not. Yes, it is. No,
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: it's not. He was huge last season. Andre Drummond, he was.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: He was big. But Andre Drummond is a very good
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: backup center. You've got Brunson. You've got Bridges. You've got Ananobi.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: You've got Tatt. Win the championship. Don't tell me Mitchell
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Robinson is costing the Knicks the championship.
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: No.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: That is beyond ridiculous. Ridiculous. You got Drummond. He's a big,
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: strong guy. Had a double-double in the first quarter last night.
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: Mitchell Robinson could never do that. You know, Mitch had
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: a pretty good NBA finals.
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Not great. But we spent years making fun of the
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: guy because he threw air balls from the free throw line.
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: All of a sudden, now you guys have him like
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: Willis Reed. Calm down. Take it easy. This team is intact.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: It's the same team. Go win a championship. Your stars
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: are still here. Go do it again. Don't give me
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: this I'm good now for a couple of years.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. You may not like it, but too bad.
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: I don't like it at all. It's dumb.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: All right, well, for you it's dumb. I'm fine with that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: Well, that's because.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Because I know they're.
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: Not going to win. That's because you don't spend money
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: on the tickets. But if you're Corey Zelnick and you're
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: sitting out there and spending all this money, you don't
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: want to hear, well, we were great last year, so
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: if we lose it this year, so what? You may
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: feel that way down deep, but the idea is to
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: win it every year.
• 23:26
  Speaker 19: No, of course I'd like to see them win it again,
• 23:27
  Speaker 19: but I know deep down that that's not going to happen.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: Well, how do you know that?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Because I saw the 76ers. They look really good last night.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: They do look good, I know.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And if they gel... That's only game one.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: I know, but Embiid will be out for 50 games.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll get hurt somewhere along the way.
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: Right. So, I mean, he's still their go-to guy. They
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: run the whole offense through him. You notice that. You know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Maxie's great again. LeBron's still great. Listen, they're a big-time team.
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: I've been talking about them for weeks, weeks on this show. So,
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: we're going to see. It should be a very exciting
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Eastern Conference. Celtics are still good. They blew that game
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: with Detroit yesterday. Detroit's good. But the Knickerbockers need to
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: go out there and win it again. I don't want
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: to hear this. I'm okay. I'm good now. No thanks.
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: If they don't win it, okay. Then you go back
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: and go, well, we won it last year. But you
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: approach this thing every day like we want to repeat.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Punch said it last night. He said we want to
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: replicate what we did last summer. And the fans should
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: feel the same way. Enough with this nonsense. We won.
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: We're good now. No one's good. No, I'm not good.
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: Keep winning. Just like we do here every day. Could
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: you imagine, home, if we decided after getting the show
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: of the year we got, Jason Barrett, number one morning
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: show in America, Hall of Fame, we decided, okay, we're good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 19: No, and I wouldn't want to hear the Knicks say
• 24:46
  Speaker 19: that either.
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But I know how it works in the real.
• 24:49
  Speaker 19: World, and chances are they probably won't make it back there.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: They probably won't, you're right. Anything else from the Garden
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: last night?
• 25:00
  Speaker 20: No.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was a fantastic night. It
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: was really a lot of fun to watch. Even though
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they lost.
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: They did lose. What else is happening in the city, Ted,
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: I need to know about?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Well, we had the shooting on the George Washington Bridge.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this last night.
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: No, I didn't see that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 19: Yeah, so this was about 7 o'clock last night, upper level,
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: heading towards New Jersey. A driver opens fire on another driver,
• 25:21
  Speaker 19: apparently had good aim, kills the guy in the other car.
• 25:24
  Speaker 19: And police initially thought they were just responding to an accident,
• 25:27
  Speaker 19: but then they found this guy with a bullet through him.
• 25:31
  Speaker 19: They rushed him to the hospital on the New Jersey side,
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: but he did not make it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He passed away.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
• 25:37
  Speaker 19: And the thought is initially, and this would make sense
• 25:39
  Speaker 19: in the end if it ends up being true, is
• 25:40
  Speaker 19: that they've looked at video overnight, and it looks like
• 25:43
  Speaker 19: there may have been some sort of road rage incident
• 25:45
  Speaker 19: before the driver opened fire.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Now, they haven't found this guy.
• 25:49
  Speaker 19: They haven't found the gunman yet, but I'm sure they
• 25:51
  Speaker 19: have really clear shots at this point of his license
• 25:54
  Speaker 19: plate and his car because the George Washington Bridge is
• 25:57
  Speaker 19: one of the most watched spans of probably.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Anywhere in the world. So it might just be a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: matter of time until they catch up with this guy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 19: But the fact that he opened fire in the middle
• 26:05
  Speaker 19: of the George Washington Bridge yesterday at the end of
• 26:07
  Speaker 19: rush hour is outrageous.
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: It's like a Michael Douglas movie. Yeah. Oh, Corey's selling
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: the checks in. He says Steve Cohen is always there
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: with the Met hat. Bon Jovi, only his third game
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: front runner.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: There you go. All right, what else is going on now?
• 26:22
  Speaker 19: The president, you know, continues to try to drag Republicans
• 26:25
  Speaker 19: across the finish line. Last night he was in North
• 26:27
  Speaker 19: Carolina trying to push– Republican Michael Watley's campaign.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: He's in a tight race.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: No, he's not a tight race. He's getting murdered. He's
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: down like 15 points. Not a tight race. Roy Cooper
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: is killing him.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Well, the president doesn't see it that way, of course.
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: He cares what the president says. I'm telling you, he's
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: getting murdered. It's not even close. Yeah, unfortunately. And all
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: I keep thinking about is, why didn't my friend, the
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: president's daughter-in-law, Miss North Carolina, Lara Trump run for that?
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: I'm telling you, Lara Trump would beat Roy Cooper. Michael
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: Watley is getting murdered. Murdered. All kidding aside, I think
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: he's down 12 points. Yes. He's not winning.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So he was down there in North Carolina.
• 27:07
  Speaker 19: You know, the issue is with some of these candidates
• 27:09
  Speaker 19: is why you have to prop them up. A case
• 27:11
  Speaker 19: like Watley, where he's likely not going to win, is
• 27:14
  Speaker 19: that you don't want Republicans to stay home and then
• 27:16
  Speaker 19: you lose the congressional races down ballot.
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So you have.
• 27:20
  Speaker 19: To continue to campaign for these candidates, even if you
• 27:22
  Speaker 19: know they're going to lose, because you need to give
• 27:24
  Speaker 19: Republicans a reason to come out and vote.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And that's going to be an issue across the country.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're seeing it already, right?
• 27:30
  Speaker 19: Even the races where they are tight. Some people say, OK,
• 27:33
  Speaker 19: I don't think this guy has a chance of winning.
• 27:35
  Speaker 19: I'm just going to sit home.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Like who? Give me an example of somebody with the same.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: I don't think he has a chance of winning. 13
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: days away to be exact.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Some statewide races.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Let me think about New York or just around the country.
• 27:48
  Speaker 19: No, I think, you know, you're seeing apathy on the
• 27:50
  Speaker 19: part of Republican voters across the country. I mean, this
• 27:53
  Speaker 19: early voting is big, actually, in places like Texas, where
• 27:57
  Speaker 19: that race is really close between Tallarico and Paxton. Tallarico's
• 28:02
  Speaker 19: been up in almost every single poll since Labor Day.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But just two or three points.
• 28:07
  Speaker 19: And so Republicans are dumping all kinds of cash into
• 28:10
  Speaker 19: Texas now, thinking that somehow they can change the narrative
• 28:14
  Speaker 19: of this race. And maybe they can. Maybe cash will
• 28:16
  Speaker 19: be able to do that. But so far, Tallarico, like
• 28:18
  Speaker 19: I said, has been in ahead in all these polls.
• 28:21
  Speaker 19: And again, you go down to the fact that If
• 28:23
  Speaker 19: you don't promote the person who's at the top of
• 28:26
  Speaker 19: the ballot, and in this case it's the Senate race
• 28:29
  Speaker 19: in Texas, then you hurt people down below, right? If
• 28:32
  Speaker 19: they don't show up to vote for Paxton, then that
• 28:35
  Speaker 19: means the Republicans lose out on some of those congressional
• 28:37
  Speaker 19: races as well, and some of them are close.
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: I think the president is going back to Texas for
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: a third time.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I imagine he'll be there a number more times before.
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: And then he's going to be in Michigan on Sunday.
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: You talk about big Senate races, El Sayed against Mike Rogers.
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: Those are close. Rogers, El Sayed, close. Tallarico, Paxton, close. Cooper, Whatley,
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: not close.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And in Kansas, right, there's a.
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: Roger Marshall.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a tight race there.
• 29:04
  Speaker 19: You know that the Republicans have not lost a Senate
• 29:07
  Speaker 19: seat in Kansas in like 100 years.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: I know that. Even North Carolina, not 100 years, but
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: it's been 18 years since a Democrat has won a
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: Senate race. So whether it's Kansas, like you mentioned, about
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: 100 years, or North Carolina, some of these states never
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: see Democrats win. And in those races, for what it's worth,
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: the Democrats are winning. What about Roger Marshall? Is he losing?
• 29:32
  Speaker 19: Depends on which poll you look at. It looks essentially even.
• 29:36
  Speaker 19: One or two points separate them.
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: I've got to play this. Talking about Kansas... I've got
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: to play this. This is unbelievable. So NBC News sends
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: out a video and calls Trump basically an anti-Semite. Well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: they said he made an anti-Semitic slur. So I get
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: the video yesterday from a family member who doesn't like Trump.
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: And I'm going, oh, my God, what did Trump say?
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: What did he say? The headline reads, NBC, President Trump
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: with anti-Semitic slur. So I played it, and I think
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: I have it on my sheet here, anti-Semitic slur. Trump
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: congratulates Sid. Maybe I don't have it. Oh, here it is.
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Here it is. This is cut number 19. When I
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: heard this, I couldn't believe that NBC had the nerve
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: to say that. I had no idea, as the toughest
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: Jew in the world, this was even an anti-Semitic slur.
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: Cut number 19. I have to say this. Somebody said, oh,
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: don't say it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 23: Nobody believes it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: But I have to say it because I think it's appropriate.
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: Roger was given a real... I know the guy, he's
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: one of the.
• 30:44
  Speaker 23: He's a tough guy and all, but he's also high
• 30:46
  Speaker 23: quality and he's a fine person. And he was given
• 30:49
  Speaker 23: a bum rap because he was mandated by law to
• 30:53
  Speaker 23: request strongly money owed from patients. You're not allowed not
• 30:57
  Speaker 23: to do it. You have to, by law, go after
• 30:59
  Speaker 23: those people. And they made it like, oh, he was
• 31:01
  Speaker 23: some kind of a Shylock type guy.
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: Shylock, okay? Let me tell you something. You guys, I'm
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: not breaking big news on this show. I've got gambling
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: issues for a thousand years, okay? And when you lose
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: money to a bookie and you can't pay him, Guess
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: who pays for you? A Shylock. I've met about a
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: thousand of them in my lifetime. Yeah, I'm admitting it, okay?
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: And guess what? None of them were Jewish. Every one
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: of them was Italian. Every one of them. Bookie's Italian.
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: The Shylock's Italian. So I don't know how that word started.
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: I guess maybe when it started, it was an anti-Semitic slur.
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: But everybody in New York says go to a Shylock
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: has nothing to do with Jews.
• 31:43
  Speaker 19: No, and they have no idea that it relates. It's
• 31:45
  Speaker 19: back to Shakespeare, right? Shylock was a character in The
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: Merchant of Venice.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He was a Jewish moneylender. And so people... Say that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: over the years that's been used against.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: Never, never.
• 31:56
  Speaker 19: If I were to ask somebody on the street what
• 31:59
  Speaker 19: a Shylock was, they'd have no.
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: Idea it goes back to Shakespeare. Right, but they would
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: know what it is. But right back to Shakespeare. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: NBC is making a big deal yesterday. President Trump, an
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: anti-Semitic slur. This is why NBC and all these networks
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: can't be trusted. I had no idea. And I lived
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: in that world. I lived in that world. And I'm Jewish.
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: That Shylock was an anti-Semitic slur. Did you before yesterday?
• 32:26
  Speaker 19: I've heard it, but I always had the same response.
• 32:30
  Speaker 19: People don't have any idea that it relates back to
• 32:34
  Speaker 19: Shakespeare and a Jewish moneylender.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: In The Merchant of Venice. So it's just stupid.
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: Stupid. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: What else is going on? One more story from the campaign.
• 32:42
  Speaker 19: Did you see this commercial that Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate
• 32:47
  Speaker 19: Vivek Ramaswamy released yesterday?
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: I did not see it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 19: So he's in a tight race, though he's behind in
• 32:53
  Speaker 19: all the polls. But he's in a race in a Democrat,
• 32:56
  Speaker 19: Amy Acton. And he got Amy Acton's mother to come
• 33:00
  Speaker 19: and do a commercial saying, that people in Ohio should
• 33:03
  Speaker 19: not vote for her.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: They should vote for the vague.
• 33:07
  Speaker 19: So here's a little bit of what it sounded like
• 33:09
  Speaker 19: that was released, I think, about 24 hours ago.
• 33:11
  Speaker 22: I love my daughter.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: But when I saw her lying.
• 33:14
  Speaker 22: About her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to
• 33:17
  Speaker 22: say this. But Amy has a serious problem. She is
• 33:22
  Speaker 22: a liar. She lies about her past. She says she
• 33:26
  Speaker 22: grew up living in a tent. None of that is true.
• 33:31
  Speaker 22: She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and
• 33:35
  Speaker 22: she can't help you if she needs help herself.
• 33:38
  Speaker 19: You would think that would be a pretty damning commercial, right?
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: You would.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The candidate's own mother is telling you to vote for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the other candidate. But then if you just dig just
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: a tiny little bit, because I did yesterday after I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: saw this. I said, what's this all about? And I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Google it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 19: And sure enough, it ends up that Amy Acton, the candidate,
• 33:57
  Speaker 19: she was taken from her mother when she was 12
• 34:00
  Speaker 19: years old due to severe abuse and neglect. They grabbed
• 34:04
  Speaker 19: her out of the house. She has not talked to
• 34:06
  Speaker 19: her mother since 1978. So to suggest that their mother
• 34:11
  Speaker 19: knows anything about her in modern day is probably slim
• 34:14
  Speaker 19: to none. There's no communication between the two. In fact,
• 34:18
  Speaker 19: Her brother came out and said that her mother remained
• 34:21
  Speaker 19: married to the person that abused both of them until
• 34:25
  Speaker 19: he died.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: They said that's all you need to know about Amy
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Acton's mom.
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: You know, it's interesting talking about Amy Acton's mom. So
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: I told you guys yesterday that I sent out a
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: tweet where I basically said enough of J.D.
• 34:40
  Speaker 22: Vance.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: OK, I went to the White House at his behest.
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: I love all the people on Twitter, you know. Who
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: cares you went to the White House? Who needs you there? Hey, dummies,
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: he invited me. Okay? Mind you, I saw the president
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: in the Oval Office, and all you people on Twitter
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: will never get that opportunity. Why? Because you're losers. You're losers.
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: That's what you are. Losers. Going on and on. Who
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: cares you went to the White House? Nobody wanted him there. No,
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: they invited me, you morons. So I go there, and I...
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: meet with JD and like I told you guys, very operable, friendly, nice,
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: great conversation. His chief of staff, Nick Luna was there.
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: His go-to guy, Will Martin was there, but we didn't
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: sit there for 30 minutes. I didn't grill him over
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: Tucker Carlson or Israel or BB, none of that. No, no.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: This was supposed to be, let's get to know each other.
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: And then not long after that, we'll start to discuss
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: some serious topics. Well, guess what? How many weeks ago
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: was that visit now, Noam?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It was about three weeks ago.
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: No, no, more than that. It's got to be five
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: or six weeks. Either way, there's been no follow-up conversations.
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: I've reached out two or three times to bring him
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: on the show. I try to help him, bring him
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: on October the 7th. Nothing. They don't even get back
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: to me, his people, most of the time. So I
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: see yesterday our good buddy Jeffrey Lacks, the Kingsborough Community
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: College professor, He reaches out to me and he says, Sid,
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: are you aware, coming off of my tweet yesterday morning,
• 36:19
  Speaker 10: how basically I'm done with J.D., just give me the
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: guy I've always wanted, Marco Rubio. He said, are you
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: aware of the tweet that J.D. Vance's cousin put out?
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: I go, no. So I go back and I see
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: the tweet, and the cousin is killing J.D. She's like,
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: first of all, the family hated the way he described
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: us hillbillies in that movie. We didn't think it was cute.
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: And then she talked about how the family is not anti-Israel,
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: is not anti-Bibi, and they hate J.D. Vance on Israel.
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: So what do I do? I go out and I
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: DM this cousin to find out who this person really is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: And it turns out she gets right back to me. Hey, Sid,
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: I am J.D. Vance's third cousin through his real father,
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: Donald Bowman. And my name is Sherry Baker. And she
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: goes on and says that she's never met her cousin, J.D. Vance, personally.
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: I have met and know very well a great deal
• 37:24
  Speaker 10: of J.D. 's first cousins, his brother, his stepmother, and
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: his late father's uncle. I operate our mutual ancestors family group,
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: Cornelius Bowman SR, on Facebook. I have researched our line
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: for over 27 years. My maiden name is Baker. My
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: great-grandmother was a Bowman from this direct line. My father
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: was born in Owsley County, Kentucky, where J.D. 's paternal
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: line comes from. I know the Bowmans quite well, you
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: might say. So here is this story. Somehow this cousin
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: relationship between this lady who's never met J.D. but knows
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: the rest of his family, all of them, very, very well.
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: And she has spent days just hammering J.D. Vance on Twitter.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: Have you seen that? No, I did.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: What exactly do you think she's looking for?
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: I don't know. I don't know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: She's looking for her own publicity. Maybe she needs a job.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: You can't figure out what's going on.
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: She says, I don't publish the same things on Facebook
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: that I do on X because most of my family
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: is on Facebook. And when you have a famous cousin
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: like the vice president, they all want to know from
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: the authority of our family line what's going on. I
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: keep politics out of family research history. She says, I
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: don't mean to be down on a member of my
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: own family. The truth is the truth. His recklessness in
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: defending Tucker Carlson, for one. He stereotyped our people and
• 38:54
  Speaker 10: our culture, meaning in Kentucky. But the real reason I
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: truly spoke up was his stance on Israel, which I
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: noticed last year, and his inability to answer a straightforward
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: question when it comes to Tucker. She says at heart,
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: Vance is not a Republican at all. In fact, she
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: says he's a socialist. That is what I personally see.
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: He's not calling Tucker out. I see that as disloyal
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: to President Trump. Is he anti-Semitic? No, I don't think so.
• 39:27
  Speaker 10: But I do not think he supports Israel at all.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: all the way Trump does. He is one year younger
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: than my own son is. He's young. Never in a
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: million years did I think that that post would garner
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: as much attention as it did. I've written about J.D.
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: 's affiliation with Tucker before. Out of concern, seems my
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: concerns are warranted. These are the DMs she sent me, though.
• 39:52
  Speaker 19: I mean, it's like Amy Acton in Ohio. You read
• 39:56
  Speaker 19: his book, Hillbilly Elegy, and he really details how screwed
• 39:59
  Speaker 19: up of an upbringing he had.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: And so when you hear from film members, I don't know.
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: You just don't know, but I'm not even sure this
• 40:07
  Speaker 10: lady is a real family member. I'm not going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: delve into it. I just don't care. I like the
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: fact that she agrees with me. That's all I care about, right?
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: But if she turns out to be J.D. 's cousin,
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: that's not great for J.D., but I don't really care.
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: But it's similar to what you're talking about with the
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: lady running against Vivek Ramaswamy saying, my daughter's basically no good, right?
• 40:28
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's so slimy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 19: And I think it's a Hail Mary by Ramaswamy, who's
• 40:32
  Speaker 19: behind in the polls, doesn't do anything to generate some votes.
• 40:35
  Speaker 19: But that one, I think, maybe is a little step
• 40:38
  Speaker 19: too far to go after the mother that she was
• 40:40
  Speaker 19: taken away from like 30 years ago.
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: More than 30 years ago. So also yesterday, I took
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: out the Satmar community again. That becomes weekly for me
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: at this point. Rabbi Teitelbaum is a terrible person. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: maybe the worst person in all of New York is
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: this Rabbi Moshe Indig, who for some reason went to
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: the White House. They duped Marty Marks and President Trump.
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: And these two idiots, these Satmar rabbis, ended up meeting
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: with Trump in the White House. Me and Laura Loomer
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: did our best not to make it happen, but it happened.
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: But they're losers. They're bad people. You know, they, I
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: don't know what kind of money deals they've got. They're
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: endorsing Kathy Hochul over a Republican Jewish candidate. They love Mamdani.
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: They love him. And he comes out indig yesterday, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 10: he's thanking, you can't make this up, he's thanking Hochul
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: and Letitia James for being side-by-side with the Jews. Now,
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: hold on a second. Hold on. Last I checked with
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: Hochul as the governor, and Letitia James as the Attorney General,
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: the hate crimes are up a billion percent. You can
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: talk all you want about murder is down, that's true.
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: Shootings are down, that's true. But hate crimes are at
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: an all-time high. So why is this moron, Indig, from
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: the Satmar community, thanking Hochul and Letitia James? Do you
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: have any idea, Noam?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure there's some list of promises somewhere.
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, money.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: We'll never see money.
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: Right. Disgusting. Some guy goes on Twitter and goes, Sid
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: can't afford to treat every election in New York as
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: a referendum on Israel. Rabbis responsible for tens of thousands
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: of Jewish New Yorkers don't have that luxury. So guess
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: who jumps in next? The great one, Mark Levin.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: What does he say?
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: He goes wrong. This is that Mark Levin show. Hochul
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: is a horrendous governor by virtually every rational standard. And
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: if she and her party were delivering, the people of
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: New York would not be way overtaxed and underserved. That's
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: why the state is depopulating. He goes on to say.
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: Of course, Sid is pro-Israel, but you're wrong to suggest
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: he doesn't see or feel what results from the leftist
• 43:01
  Speaker 10: ideology and agenda. Thank you, Mark Levin, right? Defending me
• 43:06
  Speaker 10: on Twitter. How about that note?
• 43:07
  Speaker 19: Yeah, but they don't care about any of that. The
• 43:09
  Speaker 19: Satmar community is a community onto its own. It has
• 43:11
  Speaker 19: no connection to really anybody else in New York. They
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: do their own thing. They're like their own little colony.
• 43:16
  Speaker 19: So all they care about themselves at the end of
• 43:18
  Speaker 19: the day.
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: I can't stand them. And I get these tweets every
• 43:22
  Speaker 10: now and then from people who go, listen, I'm in
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: the Satmar community. I don't agree with Teitelbaum and Indig.
• 43:28
  Speaker 10: And for the most part, the Satmar community is good people. Now,
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: I'll be honest. I don't know if that's the case.
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: I don't know. I don't hear a lot of good
• 43:37
  Speaker 10: things about that community, and I'm Jewish. I try to
• 43:39
  Speaker 10: defend Jewish people. I don't hear a lot of good
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: things about that community, and I know the guys at
• 43:45
  Speaker 10: the top are scumbags. They enhance every stereotype about the
• 43:51
  Speaker 10: Jewish people. They further it infinity-wise. So I can't tell
• 43:58
  Speaker 10: you that the Satmars are good people outside of Teitelbaum
• 44:02
  Speaker 10: and Indig. Because I don't know that. Do you know?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Like I said, they keep to themselves.
• 44:07
  Speaker 19: Once in a while I'll get an email from somebody
• 44:10
  Speaker 19: in that community.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: But outside of that, they don't have anything to do
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with me.
• 44:14
  Speaker 10: They don't like you either? Anybody.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: They think we're not Jewish enough.
• 44:18
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: So Barrett Media wrote a story. Did you hear this?
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: What did they write about?
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: The industry standard of the great Jason Barrett. And Garrett
• 44:26
  Speaker 10: Seawright is his best writer. And they write stuff. I
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: think they cover this show every week. It's the funniest
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: thing I've ever seen. Every week, Sid and Friends in
• 44:35
  Speaker 10: the morning is in Barrett Media. But I guess Garrett
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: interviewed Chad Lopez. Chad Lopez, the president of operations and
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: my guy, the guy that had the balls. to bring
• 44:49
  Speaker 10: me back to New York. A lot of people talked
• 44:51
  Speaker 10: about it. A lot of people said Sid should be
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: back in New York. He might be the most talented
• 44:55
  Speaker 10: guy in the country, but they didn't have the balls
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: to do it. Chad did it. He went to Mary
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: Berner and I guess all those people at Cumulus, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 10: he got it done. So Garrett Seawright in Barrett Media
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: yesterday goes to Chad Lopez, you've got a powerhouse in
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: Sid Rosenberg in Morning Drive. He's going into the New
• 45:14
  Speaker 10: York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame on Thursday. That's tomorrow.
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: How important is it to have that flamethrower in Morning
• 45:22
  Speaker 10: Drive in New York? Noam Garrett Seawright called me a flamethrower. Wow, right.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: So what did Chad say?
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: Here's Chad's response. Sid is the flamethrower, and he is incredible.
• 45:33
  Speaker 10: I brought Sid back when I was at Cumulus. Everyone
• 45:36
  Speaker 10: knows that story, right? Having him there as a friend
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: is what New York Radio is about. That's what the
• 45:41
  Speaker 10: morning shows in New York were about. I think we've
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: gone away from that as an industry. You have to
• 45:48
  Speaker 10: have that personality who gets up in the morning and
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: is passionate. He goes on to say, Sid is great,
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: just ask him, and he'll tell you how great he is.
• 45:57
  Speaker 10: He tells everybody how great he is. I don't mean
• 45:59
  Speaker 10: that negatively, and he has the right to tell everyone
• 46:02
  Speaker 10: because he gets the big ratings. But it's not just that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 10: He has the confidence, and right now what we need
• 46:09
  Speaker 10: is someone who's not afraid to say what's really going on.
• 46:12
  Speaker 10: Is Sid right 100% of the time? He says no.
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: I say yes, but he says no. Is he wrong
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: 100% of the time?
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: No.
• 46:19
  Speaker 10: But he has a way of saying things that gets
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: people to think and makes them want to engage. I
• 46:24
  Speaker 10: think that's what radio is designed to do. So it
• 46:28
  Speaker 10: goes on with a couple of paragraphs, but nice work
• 46:30
  Speaker 10: out of Chad Lopez, right?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Great answer, yeah.
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: Great answer. And he did have the balls to bring
• 46:35
  Speaker 10: me back, and I'm going to give Chad a little
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: bit of love tomorrow morning, though.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: In what way will you do that?
• 46:41
  Speaker 10: Well, I got to thank a lot of people. I
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: don't know how I'm going to do this thing in
• 46:43
  Speaker 10: like four or five minutes. They're nuts.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: So your speech is how long? You get to talk
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: for how long?
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: Five minutes. There's no way I'm doing five minutes. I'm
• 46:50
  Speaker 10: doing at least ten.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: We just did 54 here.
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: 54 minutes.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: And we've only covered a couple things.
• 46:55
  Speaker 24: Right.
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: Most mornings we go anywhere between 50 and 65 minutes
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: to start the show. Nobody does that. Nobody. These podcasts do,
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: but they're all dreadful. Even Joe Rogan, my God, is
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: he boring. Every now and then he gets a good
• 47:08
  Speaker 10: guest and he makes a lot of noise, right? J.D.
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: Vance and others. But those podcasts are so boring. We
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: are never boring. But yeah, only five minutes. And I
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: got everybody there from my mother to my beautiful wife
• 47:22
  Speaker 10: to my children to you guys. Sweet Lou Rapinoe. Been
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: together now for 26 years. You got John Katsimatidis and
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: Margo and Chad and I don't know how I'm going
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: to do it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 19: Well, here's the problem. So you don't ever really write
• 47:37
  Speaker 19: anything down. You never talk off the top of your
• 47:39
  Speaker 19: head because you're really good.
• 47:40
  Speaker 10: I don't know. Thank you. I don't have one piece
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: of paper in front of me about the show.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Here's the problem. You can't start thanking people then if
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: you do that.
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: No, I got to write it down.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: You have to write that part down because otherwise you'll
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: forget people.
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: Right. I have to do that.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And then someone will be really offended.
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: Well, I got to thank my dad most of all.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: So you start there.
• 47:59
  Speaker 10: He won't be offended. I'll probably end there. Oh, maybe
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: I will start there because the five-minute video that the
• 48:06
  Speaker 10: Hall of Fame is playing ends with me talking about
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: my father. So he won't be offended because he won't
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: be there because he's dead. But he ain't never dead
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: to me. And I think about him every day. Every day.
• 48:21
  Speaker 21: You better end with that.
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: I'm going to end with my father.
• 48:24
  Speaker 21: Because he'll break down.
• 48:25
  Speaker 10: He won't be able to do it. I won't be
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: able to do it. No, you're right. Lou, you're right.
• 48:28
  Speaker 21: Yeah, you don't do anything after your father.
• 48:30
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 10: And a few other, you know, I miss I'll say
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: something nice about Bernard, of course. And you guys.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: So that's like, that's a minute right there.
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: Believe me, I know, man.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Now you're down to four minutes.
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: Usually when these people, Ben Weintraub is calling, Lou. When
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: these people love the phone. When people go to these
• 48:48
  Speaker 10: Hall of Fame things, they have like a table. I've
• 48:51
  Speaker 10: got five tables of people coming. Five. I've nothing to
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: do with it. These are just friends of mine, supporters.
• 48:58
  Speaker 10: They love me. They're good friends, very good friends. They've
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: got five tables. There's a lot of people out there
• 49:04
  Speaker 10: for me tomorrow.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking right now.
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: By the way, even in the open today, we played
• 49:09
  Speaker 10: those great videos from Christopher Mad Dog Russo and Bruce Blakeman.
• 49:13
  Speaker 10: Go ahead, I'm sorry.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to thank those people.
• 49:16
  Speaker 19: But you do have to thank, obviously, John and Margo
• 49:19
  Speaker 19: and Chad.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And Emily.
• 49:21
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, Emily. What are you? Are you high, Emily?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So John, Margo, and Chad.
• 49:26
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: I was just thinking chief counsel. Chief counsel.
• 49:29
  Speaker 10: Oh, God. I'll thank one attorney. Thank you, my wife.
• 49:32
  Speaker 10: That's it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Right, okay. Then you have to.
• 49:34
  Speaker 10: Emily, thank you for watching.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Of course, you have to thank everybody that works around
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: you here at the station.
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, I think right away, Pete Morgan
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: is there.
• 49:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Bo Deedle.
• 49:45
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: You have to thank both of those guys.
• 49:46
  Speaker 10: Joe Takapina is there.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's coming?
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: So Joe's. Get him an authorized dollar. You're sitting at
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: Bo and Pete's table. I don't know.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Do you have to thank them? I don't know if
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you have to thank them.
• 49:55
  Speaker 10: I don't know. They're just there to support you.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: But that's like 10 names right there.
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: No, there's a lot more than that, I know. No,
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: I know it's going to be very difficult.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: And then your family. I didn't even start with your family.
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Your mother's going to be there. You've got to make
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: a big deal out of that.
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: You know, as we speak.
• 50:08
  Speaker 21: Well, there's still got to be the ending.
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: My mother and father. So Gene drops off me and
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: Louis this morning, as he does every morning. Gene picks
• 50:16
  Speaker 10: up Louis about 345 in Rockaway. Then he gets me
• 50:19
  Speaker 10: about 4 o'clock in Bell Harbor. We come in together.
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: So he drops us off here in the city. He
• 50:24
  Speaker 10: goes back to Queens. Not this morning. Right now, as
• 50:28
  Speaker 10: we speak, he just texted me, Gene is outside my
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: mother's house by Monticello, New York. Isn't that unbelievable?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 50:37
  Speaker 10: He went to pick her up, and he's going to
• 50:39
  Speaker 10: take her back to Queens this morning so Naomi can
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: be there tomorrow.
• 50:43
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 50:44
  Speaker 10: He's there right now?
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: He texted me, too.
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: Oh, he did?
• 50:47
  Speaker 21: Yeah, he said, tell the boss I'm here. I said, okay.
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: I told my mom he's there. I haven't seen any
• 50:53
  Speaker 10: messages that she got in the car yet. She said
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: she'd be ready at 5. She doesn't sleep, my mother,
• 50:58
  Speaker 10: you know. She had a pack, and she's going to
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: sleep in Ava's room. It's very, very exciting.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: It's big excitement.
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: Big, big deal. Big deal.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Rainbow room with her son.
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: That's huge. Come on, man. Huge. Yeah. I know there's
• 51:09
  Speaker 10: a National Hall of Fame. I'll get there, too. Trust me.
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: I know the Marconi is like the Academy Award. But
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: I'm a New York guy. I'm a Brooklyn kid. I
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: don't care that I lived in Boca Raton for 15 years.
• 51:21
  Speaker 10: I ooze New York. So to make the New York...
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: Hall of Fame is a big deal for me. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: I'm excited and honored. All right, we've got a lot
• 51:29
  Speaker 10: of great guests stopping by today. I mean, a lot.
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: So we'll take our first break. We want 59 minutes.
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: Excellent job, Noam Layton, as always.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 51:44
  Speaker 10: Do more and more politics on my sports talk show.
• 51:48
  Speaker 10: Much to the chagrin of my program directors and sales
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: managers and Station owners. I said, Sid, you're not going
• 51:56
  Speaker 10: to make it this way. You're here to talk sports.
• 51:59
  Speaker 10: You're not a political guy. I said, shut up. Let
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: me do what I do. You'll reap the benefits. Trust me.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: You'll get the ratings. You'll get revenue. I was right,
• 52:07
  Speaker 10: of course. But one of the guys I turned to early,
• 52:11
  Speaker 10: and I forgot how I was even introduced to this guy,
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: was a guy named Benjamin Weenthall. And he was living
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: in Germany. And he was writing for the Jerusalem Post.
• 52:21
  Speaker 10: He would go back and forth between Germany and Israel.
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: This is when Angela Merkel was in charge in Germany.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: And they were having their issues, like Macron's had in France,
• 52:34
  Speaker 10: with immigration. Long story short, Ben and I became real
• 52:39
  Speaker 10: good friends. He was on my shows in Florida quite
• 52:42
  Speaker 10: a bit. But then we lost touch. And I've been
• 52:45
  Speaker 10: back in New York. for 11 years. I don't think
• 52:48
  Speaker 10: I've had Ben on these shows even once. And we
• 52:51
  Speaker 10: found each other on Twitter a couple of weeks ago.
• 52:55
  Speaker 10: And I reached out to Ben yesterday. I said, you
• 52:57
  Speaker 10: still with the J post? He said, no, now I'm
• 53:00
  Speaker 10: running for Fox news and the New York post. I
• 53:03
  Speaker 10: got a new story out. Beleaguered Macron cites U.S.-Iran war
• 53:08
  Speaker 10: as factor in protests amid Trump bans criticism. I said,
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: this is great. I got to get you on. He said,
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: I'd love to. So here's what we'll do. We'll take
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: a break, come back and speak to an old friend.
• 53:21
  Speaker 10: This guy is brilliant.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: This is Sid on Sports. Sponsored by Fearless Boilers on
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: 77 WABC.
• 53:33
  Speaker 15: Justin Ellick here with a sports update sponsored by Pete
• 53:35
  Speaker 15: Morgan and Peerless Boilers. Go to PeerlessBoilers.com to find a
• 53:38
  Speaker 15: deal under you. Peerless Boilers, the world's best built boilers,
• 53:41
  Speaker 15: will start at the Garden where the Knicks had their
• 53:43
  Speaker 15: championship banner. Night spoiled at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers.
• 53:46
  Speaker 15: The final score 106-100 on the first night of the
• 53:49
  Speaker 15: regular season. Up next for the defending champion Knicks, they'll
• 53:53
  Speaker 15: visit the Boston Celtics. Come Friday night on the ice
• 53:56
  Speaker 15: in Elmont, Andre Pallad, Victor Eklund, and Simon Holmstrom scored
• 53:59
  Speaker 15: first-period goals, and the Islanders beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2
• 54:02
  Speaker 15: for their second straight victory.
• 54:03
  Speaker 10: Up next for the Isles, they'll host the Los Angeles Kings.
• 54:06
  Speaker 15: Tomorrow night in New Jersey, Declan Chisholm scored the go-ahead
• 54:10
  Speaker 15: goal midway through the second period, and Jake Allen made
• 54:13
  Speaker 15: 31 saves as the Devils beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3.
• 54:16
  Speaker 15: Up next for the Devs, they'll host the aforementioned Ducks
• 54:19
  Speaker 15: tomorrow night. That is your sports sponsored by Pete Morgan
• 54:23
  Speaker 15: and Perilous Boilers. Go to PerilousBoilers.com to find a deal
• 54:26
  Speaker 15: under you. Perilous Boilers, the world's best built boilers. I'm
• 54:28
  Speaker 15: Justin Alec on 77 WABC.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: In the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: Ben, I guess it's afternoon for you. Boker Tov here
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: in New York City. Where exactly do you live in
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: Israel these days?
• 54:46
  Speaker 20: I'm in Jerusalem, capital of Israel, Sid, and it's great
• 54:49
  Speaker 20: to be back on your show, and congratulations on being
• 54:53
  Speaker 20: inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. You've always been
• 54:56
  Speaker 20: a force of nature on radio and off radio, and
• 55:00
  Speaker 20: it's terrific to hear the news about your induction.
• 55:03
  Speaker 10: Well, thank you, Ben. You were there in the early
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: days when I started to make that transition, which is
• 55:08
  Speaker 10: a weird word these days, I know. I made that
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: transition from sports to politics, and you were integral early on,
• 55:14
  Speaker 10: and I remember... you would call me, first of all,
• 55:17
  Speaker 10: we often talked about Merkel, and you said, Sid, what's
• 55:21
  Speaker 10: going on in Germany with the immigration issues? You know,
• 55:25
  Speaker 10: it's going to look like Pakistan a little bit. I
• 55:27
  Speaker 10: remember all those phone calls, right?
• 55:29
  Speaker 20: Yeah, you were ahead of the curve on that when
• 55:33
  Speaker 20: you were asking me about mass Muslim immigration into Germany,
• 55:37
  Speaker 20: and now we're seeing, you know, Muslim American political candidates
• 55:44
  Speaker 20: in the U.S. who are stoking the same type of
• 55:47
  Speaker 20: anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories that I experienced in Germany.
• 55:52
  Speaker 10: Yup, and you would also call me and tell me, Sid.
• 55:55
  Speaker 10: I have more documents that can prove that Iran is
• 56:01
  Speaker 10: not complying with this Obama-Kerry deal. I mean, I remember
• 56:05
  Speaker 10: at one point you said to me, and this was
• 56:08
  Speaker 10: early on, the deal had just gotten done. You're like, Sid,
• 56:11
  Speaker 10: I have like 55 different documents that prove that Iran
• 56:18
  Speaker 10: is not complying. That's why it's so ridiculous to think
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: even with Trump, who I love dearly, love him dearly,
• 56:24
  Speaker 10: you can never do a deal with these people. You
• 56:27
  Speaker 10: were at the very top of the curve way back
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: when with Obama and Kelly. Weren't those the conversations?
• 56:34
  Speaker 20: I do. I remember reporting for Fox and the Jerusalem
• 56:39
  Speaker 20: Post back then that intelligence reports in Germany and across
• 56:44
  Speaker 20: Europe showed that Iran was zealously working on a nuclear
• 56:48
  Speaker 20: weapons program and wanted to build nuclear missile warheads. The
• 56:54
  Speaker 20: evidence was overwhelming. And now Trump has internalized that and
• 57:00
  Speaker 20: launched two wars against Iran to destroy that illicit nuclear
• 57:05
  Speaker 20: weapons program.
• 57:07
  Speaker 10: What do you think happens with Iran? You know, look,
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: I loved Midnight Hammer. You know, he did an amazing job.
• 57:14
  Speaker 10: He really knocked out any of their real capabilities to
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: build a nuclear weapon. That was even before Operation Epic Fury.
• 57:22
  Speaker 10: But I was good with Epic Fury 2 and wiped
• 57:25
  Speaker 10: out 40 of their leaders, including the Ayatollah. But the
• 57:28
  Speaker 10: truth is... The last couple of months has been up
• 57:31
  Speaker 10: and down. We've been stuck. I know the Arden Trump
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: supporters talk about how we're strangling Iran economically and this
• 57:40
  Speaker 10: is all working in our favor. I don't really see
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: it that way. I've had these conversations with Katie McFarland
• 57:46
  Speaker 10: and John Katzmatidis. I don't see it that way. I
• 57:48
  Speaker 10: think the last couple of months we've said a lot
• 57:51
  Speaker 10: of nice things, but we're kind of stuck in the mud.
• 57:53
  Speaker 10: What are your thoughts on the Iran conflict?
• 57:58
  Speaker 20: Well, that's the 800-pound gorilla question in the room that
• 58:03
  Speaker 20: everyone's struggling with. My sense is the economic warfare campaign
• 58:10
  Speaker 20: that was launched by Treasury and Trump is creating a
• 58:15
  Speaker 20: lot of discontent among Iranians within Iran. At the end
• 58:19
  Speaker 20: of the day.
• 58:21
  Speaker 20: Experts have been telling me, some of whom were born
• 58:24
  Speaker 20: in Iran, that the Iranian population would loathe the regime,
• 58:28
  Speaker 20: their total contempt for this Khamenei regime, the new supreme leader,
• 58:34
  Speaker 20: that that population could launch a new revolt and topple
• 58:39
  Speaker 20: the regime.
• 58:41
  Speaker 10: I mean, I know that sounds great, and
• 58:45
  Speaker 10: you're a much smarter guy than me, Ben, much smarter. No,
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: they can't. The last time they tried to do that 50,000
• 58:52
  Speaker 10: of those people were mowed down in the streets, murdered.
• 58:55
  Speaker 10: Unless the United States or Israel or some Arab country
• 59:00
  Speaker 10: is going to provide Iranian civilians with guns, they can't.
• 59:05
  Speaker 20: Exactly. I agree with you on that point. The U.S.,
• 59:10
  Speaker 20: and we're seeing armed Iranians in the South. I just
• 59:14
  Speaker 20: wrote an article about this for Fox News. You just
• 59:17
  Speaker 20: assassinated a female Iranian commander and other leaders in a
• 59:22
  Speaker 20: southern province. But at the end of the day, you're right.
• 59:25
  Speaker 20: If the West wants to see the regime toppled, they
• 59:29
  Speaker 20: have to, that is the U.S. and other countries have
• 59:32
  Speaker 20: to arm Iranians in Iran.
• 59:36
  Speaker 10: Let's get to Macron, who I think is a pussy.
• 59:39
  Speaker 10: I know that's a rough word, Ben, but you're used
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: to me. You've been dealing with me for 20 years.
• 59:43
  Speaker 10: He's one of the weakest leaders in the world, and
• 59:46
  Speaker 10: it's no surprise that France has basically been taken over.
• 59:50
  Speaker 10: What started as a student issue has nothing to do
• 59:54
  Speaker 10: with students the last couple of days. Nothing. You know,
• 59:57
  Speaker 10: you've got these anarchists, and you've got Antifa, and you've
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 10: got pro-Hamas. You've got Palestinian flags in the streets. You've
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 10: got people looting and robbing. They are not students. You've
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: got an NFL game there on Sunday. I have no
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 10: idea why Roger Goodell is still playing that game between
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 10: the Steelers and the Saints. It's a mess. And in
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 10: your article, you talk about why you think that's the case,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 10: and it does come back to immigration.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 23: Yes?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 20: Yes, that's a big piece of it. I mean, my
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 20: article for Fox News the other day, I wrote, I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 20: reported on how Macron is trying to gaslight Americans and
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 20: the French public by saying Trump's war, the Trump-Israel war
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 20: against the Islamic Republic increased gas prices in France, and
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 20: that's what's fueling discontent. That was part of his argument, which,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 20: according to experts, is just nonsense and stilts. It's largely about,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 20: as Trump said, migration and also a very large French-Iranian
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 20: or Muslim-French population that's really not interested in reforming their
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 20: school system. I mean, look, 24 schools are ransacked, more
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 20: than 2,500 people taken into custody. These so-called French students
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 20: and leftists and pro-Khamas supporters ransacked a synagogue in Paris.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 20: And they also burned Jewish stores in Marseille. And they
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 20: didn't focus on the Muslim stores during these riots because
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 20: they said, no, those are our allies. Let's focus on
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 20: the Jews.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 10: Well, when you say they didn't focus on Muslim stores,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 10: you're being kind. They didn't touch one of them. As
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 10: far as I know, they did not touch one Muslim store.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 10: Is that not correct?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 20: That's my understanding, too.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that tells you all you need to know about
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 10: what's going on there. So how do you think this
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 10: thing ends?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 20: Macron got a 15% approval rate in the lowest, I think,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 20: of any politician in the West. And I remember New
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 20: York when we used to say in the 70s when
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 20: Howard Cosell said the Bronx is burning. And then Koch
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 20: came along and tried to clean it up with new
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 20: housing and then Giuliani imposed order. And right now what
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 20: we're seeing is all of France is really burning.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 10: Right. All of it. It's interesting because you just mentioned
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 10: New York, and you remember Koch and Giuliani. So your history,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 10: you were a New Yorker. You did live in Germany.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 10: Now you're living in Israel. But you were here at
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 10: one point, right?
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 20: Yes, yes, yeah. I grew up in New York. I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 20: went to college in New York. You know, I lived
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 20: in the Bronx and Pelham Bay. Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: Give me the biggest difference, Ben Weenthal, between living, I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 10: forget if you were in Munich, or Frankfurt or Berlin.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 10: Where were you in Germany?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 13: I was in Berlin.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 10: Berlin, that's right. The biggest difference between living in Berlin, well,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: they hate the Jews, trust me. They have a Holocaust
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 10: museum there, I know they do, because my wife ran
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: the marathon there and stopped there one day. They hate them.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: The difference between living in Berlin and now living in Jerusalem?
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 20: Oh, wow, it's night and day. I mean, there's, you know,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 20: there's no.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 20: This anti-Semitic movement that we see in Berlin and across
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 20: Europe is non-existent here because I'm in a Jewish state.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 20: People take terrorism here seriously. They don't allow for, you know,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 20: these types of, they don't have a high tolerance for
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 20: Islamic animated terrorism. Israelis crack down on that, as you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 20: saw in response to October 7th in Gaza. I was
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 20: in Gaza four times as a reporter. I embedded with
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 20: the IDF and I saw what the IDF did to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 20: root out Hamas terrorism. The Europeans allow Hamas operatives, including
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 20: in Germany, to function and raise funds. It's really clinically insane.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 10: So you got a big day coming up on Tuesday.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 10: As you're talking to me, I swear to God, Ben, Dr.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 10: Ophir Falk happens to be the senior policy advisor for
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 10: Bibi Netanyahu. Just WhatsApp me. And it's a story. He
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 10: says there are 800,000 Israelis with voting rights living abroad.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 10: Left-wing NGOs are bringing them in droves. So what are
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 10: we talking about here? You can fly to Israel if
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: you're an Israeli living in New York and vote. But
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: it looks like most of the anti-Bibi folks... By the way,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 10: today happens to be Bibi Netanyahu's birthday. Happy 77th birthday
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 10: to Bibi. But it looks like the left-wingers applying to
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 10: Israel just to vote against him. What do you think
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 10: happens on your big election day coming up on Tuesday?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 20: Yeah, that's what I'm immersed in right now. I'm doing
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 20: some reporting for the New York Post on that.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 10: And.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 20: the polls here are notorious for being unreliable, like in
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 20: the U S right. With Trump, everyone thought Trump in
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 20: the first election and then the second election, um, third,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 20: in any event, um, The election is probably tending to
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 20: another stalemate. Neither bloc, Eisenkot, the opposition bloc, Gadi Eisenkot,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 20: and Netanyahu's bloc are going to secure a majority of
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 20: 61 seats so they can control the Israeli parliament in Knesset.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 20: So we're going to be in a period of stagnation.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 20: That's what everyone here is... you know, the diagnosis right
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 20: now for this election. But it's hard to say because,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 20: as I said, some of the polls are unreliable. As
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 20: you mentioned, Sid, and it's an excellent point, that a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 20: lot of Israelis, some of whom are, you know, many
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 20: of whom, I should say, who live abroad are anti-BGB,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 20: are flying back to Israel to vote. There seems to
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 20: be a lot of energy coming from that sector. Voting
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 20: started today at the military outposts in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 20: And in Gaza, which is quite interesting, the first round
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 20: of voting, diplomats have been voting, too. But there's a
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 20: big question mark over this election, arguably might very well
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 20: be the most important election in Israel's history next Tuesday.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 10: Agreed. Last one. So you gave me credit. You and
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: I having these conversations, Miami Radio, 15 years ago when
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 10: you were living in Berlin, talking about the Muslims. And
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: I don't say radical Islam. I don't say Islam. I
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 10: say Muslims. You know, I said this a hundred times. Hamas,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: they're Palestinians. You know, this nonsense that the Palestinians are innocent. No,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 10: they're not. Hamas, they may be radical, they may be progressive,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: they may be murderous, but they're Palestinians. Same thing with
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: radical Islam. They're Muslims. All the issues, the majority, I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 10: should say, the majority of issues around the world are
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 10: caused by Muslims. Is that not true?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 20: Well, in the Middle East, That's true. And in many
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 20: Western European countries, you're seeing, you know, revolts, terrorism attacks that, yes,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 20: are the result of Muslim terrorists, including in the U.S.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 20: It's a major problem. You have a population of over
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 20: one billion Muslims. I'm not making a sweeping generalization that
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 20: they're all terrorists, but a significant constituency within in Muslim-majority
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 20: countries by Islamist terrorism. And there's been enormous amounts of
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 20: tolerance for these communities in Europe. And I see Italy,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 20: we didn't mention Italy, which is interesting. I see the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 20: prime minister there is cracking down. She deployed 500 troops
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 20: into Italy to stop the rioting among what appears to
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 20: be Muslims in Italy. What Islam needs to undergo as
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 20: we discuss the Reformation, some type of major reform. I
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 20: talked to one scholar here, an expert on Islam who
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 20: speaks Arabic and Israeli. He told me it's going to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 20: take 500 or 1,000 years for this nonsense to go away.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 10: I don't think I'm going to make it. I mean,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 10: I'm in pretty good shape for almost 60, but I
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 10: don't think I've got 500 years left.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 23: I don't know.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 10: We'll see. Ben, it is so great to catch up
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 10: with you again, and I want you to come on
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 10: this show all the time now. No worries. talking again
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 10: because you're so smart and so great. So thank you
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 10: for joining me from Israel today and have yourself a
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 10: great day. In fact, let's talk Tuesday on Election Day.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 10: How does that sound?
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 20: It's always a treat to be on your show and
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 20: I learn a lot too and I love listening to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 20: you in Israel. I can get you on ABC as well.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 10: Thank you. I have a lot of listeners this morning.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 10: They are listening. You're right. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 10: all over. Ben Weenthal, you're one of the all-time greats.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 20: You're a popular guy here in Israel. I can tell
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 20: you that.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 20: I know a lot of folks who know you.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 10: Oh, that's great.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 10: Maybe one day I'll run for prime minister there. If
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 10: Trump knows, or me, one of us who knows. Ben,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 10: we'll talk on Tuesday. I love you, buddy. Thank you
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 10: so much.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 20: All right. Take care.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 10: Bye-bye, kids. Bye-bye. Ben Weenthal right there writes for Fox News,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 10: writes for the New York Post, used to write for
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 10: the Jerusalem Post when he lived in Berlin, Germany. You
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 10: can hear the crackle. That is from the connection because
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 10: he is in Israel this morning. It's kind of far, 7,000
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 10: miles away. What a great conversation and what a brilliant guy,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 10: Ben Weenthal. We'll take a break. So lots more to
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 10: do this morning. We're going to talk to Vicky Palladino.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 10: She's out there fighting for the horse carriage owners. I'm
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 10: on their side. You know that. This is ridiculous that
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 10: we're allowing the mayor and Menin and all these idiots
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 10: to phase out that whole business.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 25: You know, I want to congratulate my good friend, Sid Rosenberg,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 25: on his induction into the New York State Broadcasters Hall
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 25: of Fame. You know, he's pretty great, but he's not
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 25: the best. Nobody is better than your favorite president, Donald J.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 16: Trump, okay? I should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, too. Now, Sid,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 16: it's Mike Lawler. You know I love you.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 25: Congratulations on being inducted into the New York State Broadcasters
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 25: Hall of Fame.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 16: You are one of a kind, a New York original.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 10: We love you.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 16: We're so proud of you. Congratulations.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 10: You think that race is really close?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 15: I just, I mean, I don't know anything, but judging by,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 15: I spent the weekend up on my parents' house up
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 15: in that area, you know, up in that district.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 10: What valley is it? That's not, it is in the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 10: Hudson Valley. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 8: It's good.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 15: The Katona, Salem area.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: Chappaqua?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 15: Yeah, they have Chappaqua. So, you know, I saw, listen,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 15: I'm going off of like the lawn signs that you see.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it means nothing. No, but. You know how many
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 10: lawn signs I saw all over Brooklyn and Queens for Mr. 7%?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 10: You know who that is?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: I understand.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 10: You know who Mr. 7% is? There were Sliwa signs everywhere.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: Nobody voted for him.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 15: But my mom does run a small business there in Chappaqua,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 15: so she talks to a lot of the, you know.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they're all Democrats. Of course. What do you think
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: they're going to say? Of course. Everybody in Chappaqua is
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: going to vote for Conley.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 16: Of course.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 10: That's for sure.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 15: So, you know, his hope is you get up a
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 15: little more, up north a little bit more into that
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: Katona-Salem area, then it gets a little bit more conservative.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 8: I think.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 10: How far are your parents from the Clintons?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 15: Now, they're about 20 minutes. When I was growing up,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 15: they were right down the street, five minutes away.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 10: I was just having this conversation with Ben Weenthal, and
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 10: I talked about the Muslims. He said, Sid, you're at
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 10: the very top of the curve. I was. 15 years ago,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 10: I'm doing sports talk in Miami. Sports talk. I'm starting
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 10: to transition. I'm bringing Ben Weenthal on from Berlin, Germany
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: every week when Merkel was letting in these immigrants by
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 10: the thousands. And I said, the Muslims seem to be
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 10: taking over Europe. He just said it. You heard him
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 10: say it, low-end Justin. He said, you were ahead of
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 10: the curve. You were right. And I keep saying it.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 10: People get mad at me. Don't say Muslims. Tough. They're Muslims.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 10: Radical Islam is Muslim. Islam is Muslim. And we got
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 10: a big problem in Europe and here. A big problem.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 10: I said it. To him 15 years ago about Merkel
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 10: in Germany, he said you were ahead of the curve.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 10: It's even worse today. Mamdani, the mayor, El-Sayed running in Michigan.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 10: What a nightmare. Seriously. I'll take a break when I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 10: get back. I've been very upset about this whole horse
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 10: and carriage thing. You guys know that, okay? This is
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 10: ridiculous that they are completely shutting down this business. They're
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 10: lying to you. They want to make it seem like
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 10: they care about the horses. Horses are fine. They're fine.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 10: One died of a heart attack. A billion people will
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 10: die today from heart attacks, okay? But horses are fine.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 10: There is real estate value here. real estate value in
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 10: that business. That's why they want to do this. They're
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 10: lying to you. Vicki Palladino, our great Queen City Councilwoman,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 10: she's behind this now, and she's got a bunch of
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 10: these horse owners with her, suing and very, very upset.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 10: Vicki Palladino is next.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 10: The show is in San Diego, and Los Angeles. But
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 10: we worked together for about four years, three years down
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 10: in Florida. At one point, we were syndicated by two
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 10: major networks, Joel Hollander and Westwood One, about 75 markets,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 10: Sports Fan Radio Network, about 80 markets. And then we
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 10: came to New York together, 2000. They gave us the
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 10: morning show at 102.7 FM, WNEW. On that station was.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 10: Red Hot, Leslie Gold, the radio chick, Opie and Anthony,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 10: Don and Mike, Ron and Fez. We did the morning show.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 10: We didn't do well. Eventually, they sent Scott out. He
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 10: was replaced by a guy named Craig Carton. Me and
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 10: Craig worked together for a couple of months. And then
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 10: eventually I left and went to WFAN. Craig went to 101.5
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 10: in New Jersey. And Scott, I spent the last 25
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 10: years in California. But I still speak to Scott every week.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 10: I love him. And he will join me coming up
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 10: at 9.30 this morning live in California. And that's going
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 10: to be great. He gave me my first shot. I
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 10: was literally making $ 8 an hour sitting on a customer
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 10: service line trying to sell A website. That's what he got.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 10: I had no communication history. Never took a communications class
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 10: in my life at any school level. Had no radio experience.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 10: He heard me talking a couple of times to potential
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 10: customers about sports. And he said, man, you're good. You
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 10: got that Brooklyn accent. You're smart. Everything about doing radio.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 10: I said, well, I did call Mike and the Mad
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 10: Dog a couple of times. I said, Sid from Brooklyn.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 10: He said, perfect. That's all I needed to hear. You're hired.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 10: And he gave me a job. He was the guy
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 10: that found me nearly 30 years ago. Vicky Palladino, the
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 10: amazing Queen City Councilwoman, joining us this morning. She is fighting.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 10: I love this fight for the horse owners that they're
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 10: screwing in Central Park. Vicky, good morning, sweetheart. How are you?
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 24: Good morning, Sid. How are you? Hi, everybody. Yeah, it's
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 24: a battle we've got. They're going to pass through this legislation,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 24: which basically is unconstitutional. 943A, it's called. And it's about the,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 24: you know, the horse and carriage industry and all of that.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 24: And it started, you know, let me give people a
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 24: little background. It's all about the horse owners, okay? And
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 24: eliminating them. Now, we talk about the drivers. We talk
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 24: about the people who work the stables. We talk about
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 24: all of that. What this bill eliminates is any sort
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 24: of plan for the actual people who own the horses.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 24: This goes back generational, 100 years or more. It's a
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 24: 160-year-old industry. Now, how do you lop off the heads
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 24: of horse owners when they are the ones that brought
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 24: this to the country, and they have been around forever,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 24: and we've got to figure out that they must be
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 24: first and have first priority in the future transition to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 24: the alternative transportation program that they established. You know, they
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 24: meaning the city.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 10: You know what's interesting, Vic, not to cut you off,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: but I keep hearing about the plans that the mayor...
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 10: And your favorite person, Julie Menon, even Janna Lieber at
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 10: the MTA for jobs. But you know what? Until you
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 10: just mentioned it, congratulations. I haven't heard about the actual
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 10: horse owners. What do the horses do now?
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 24: Now, what do they do?
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 13: Correct.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 24: Now, I have several horse owners and medallion owners that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 24: live in my district. They came to me four years ago, Sid.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 24: Four years ago when I first got elected. And they said, Vicki,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 24: we're going to need your help. I said, it's not
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 24: a lot. And I thought this was like, I kind
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 24: of pushed it off in a sense saying, you know, guys, look,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 24: you don't really have to worry about anything. You are
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 24: an institution. You are part of the makeup that makes
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 24: Central Park Central Park. I don't see how they're going
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 24: to be able to do this to you. Well, two
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 24: years later, you know, Bob Holden, my dear, dear friend,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 24: and this is nothing against Bob, But it is about
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 24: the proposal of this bill to do away with the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 24: horse and carriage. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 24: wait a second. And he pleaded with me to get
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 24: off on that bill. And I said, Bob, I can't.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 24: I said, I know too many of the horse owners.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 24: I've had as many as 30 out of the 60
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 24: some odd horse owners and medallion owners that invest hundreds
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 24: of thousands of dollars into just one horse. Okay? So
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 24: I can't go against these people.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 10: Not only should I go against them, but they're lying. Look, look.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 24: That's right.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 10: One horse died. That's terrible. One tourist died. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 10: people dying. in this city every day with the scooters
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 10: and the bikes. One tourist died. It was terrible. One,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 10: they're lying. This is all about that prime real estate.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 10: That's all the city cares about. And Bob Holden knows that.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 24: Well, Bob was strictly about the horses and the care
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 24: of the horses. They're fine. I've been to the stables.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 24: They're beautiful. These people, I'm going to name Frank Riccobono.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 24: He's the guy who lives in my district. He owns
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 24: 12 horses, Sid. Now, here's the caveat. The caveat is
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 24: that the city wants to outlaw these people from operating
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 24: their business, confiscating their horses. That's the confiscation of private
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 24: property to stop them from doing not just... Now, let's remember,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 24: the horse and carriages used to go by St. Pat's
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 24: at holiday time. They were allowed free reign on the street.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 24: They reigned them in. They took them in and told
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 24: them they could only do Central Park. That's a number
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 24: of years ago. So they already cut the legs off
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 24: of them. Now... You did that. Now you come up
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 24: with this whole thing. And let's get to the bottom
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 24: of it because this really pisses me off. When I
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 24: hear about activism and activists and they packed that city
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 24: hall chamber, they waited for the horse owners at the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 24: very end to testify. You're taking food off their tables.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 24: This has been their life investment going back to grandpa
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 24: and the grandpa before them. This employs immigrants everywhere. whether
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 24: you are Hispanic, Italian, Turkish, Muslim, immigrant. This is a
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 24: full-body thing here. And to think that they want to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 24: just tell them that now that they can't have their
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 24: horses take the brides to the wedding or cart a
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 24: horse during Christmas time. They want to do it. What
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 24: right do you have to do that, to strip somebody
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 24: of their livelihoods?
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 10: Well, there's the same right as this. And you told
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 10: me about this this morning. You're right. Our communist mayor
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 10: who's trying to take away people's houses and apartments. Same thought.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 24: Same thought. It falls right into private ownership. These are small.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 24: It's a lack of a better word. Small business people. Now,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 24: Frank owns 12 horses. The last horse he bought was
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 24: last year, the year before that. It cost him $ 350, 000
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 24: for one horse. He's got two children. He treats that
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 24: horse as well as he treats his two kids. And
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 24: to Bo's point the other day on your show, when
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 24: he said, why aren't we going after these cyclists? these
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 24: motor scooters that go 20 and 30 and 40 miles
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 24: an hour, don't get in their way. They'll mow you down.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 24: I can guarantee you. And my heart goes out to the,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 24: the young guy who lost his balance on the cart
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 24: because of a shock, which did not come from the horse.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 24: And so it was particular, the way it was put
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 24: out there was totally wrong in the first place. Now
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 24: you get these animal activists screaming, we hate, you know,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 24: people like you and me, we love animals, okay? We
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 24: love animals. We love horses. We love animals. Don't go
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 24: calling people names and painting them. Did you see Julie's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 24: press conference in front of City Hall with Christopher Marte
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 24: and all of them? They had 100 people standing behind them.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 24: They made This industry sounds like a bunch of murderers.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 10: I heard. It was ridiculous. It was disgusting. Ridiculous. There's
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 10: no proof to any of it. Again, you may as
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 10: well shut down Aqueduct and Belmont and the rest of
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 10: these places because.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: Well, what's coming next?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 10: As far as I know, these horses... Now, look, if
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 10: you want to say when we have these very, very
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 10: hot days during the summer, if we reach 95, 100 degrees,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 10: you don't want the horses outside, I'm sure the owners
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 10: would have no issue with that. They love their horses, too.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 20: They love them.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: Right. What are we shutting it down for? Why? Because
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: there's real estate money. Menon is lying. The mayor is lying. Holden,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 10: he may love horses. So do I. This is complete nonsense.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 24: That's right. And now let's think about Central Park and
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 24: the conservatory. You know, we're putting forward today the purpose
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 24: of today's press conference. And let me make this clear.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 24: It's to put forward. The plan, their proposal, the horse
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 24: owner's proposal for the alternative to using their horses. Like
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 24: they have come to the realization that they will no
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 24: longer be able to use their horses. They put together
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 24: a beautiful proposal. I've been working with them now, losing
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 24: sleep for the last couple of weeks because they are
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 24: so powerful. downtrodden, and they need help. They said, Vicki,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 24: you're the only one that can help us. And what
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 24: am I supposed to say?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 26: No?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: No, no, you got to do it. No, you're great.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 24: I got to do it. It's the right thing.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 10: It's the right thing to do.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 24: And you know what? We've got to look. What about
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 24: the pedicabs? These guys that are all over Times Square.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 24: They don't belong in Central Park with their flashing lights
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 24: and their loud music. Keep that BS in Times Square.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: Agreed.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 24: Central Park has got class. It's got a history. These
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 24: guys put together the most beautiful proposal. And for the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 24: mayor and for Julie to push this through tomorrow. like
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 24: grease lightning, grease lightning to push this through without giving
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 24: these horse owners and their proposal and their plan. They're
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 24: going to have their storyboards out there today. Today, and
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 24: people are going to be able to see, we're going
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 24: to be handing out the proposals to the press. This
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 24: was done at very short notice, though we've been planning
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 24: and thinking about it for two weeks. I wanted to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 24: make sure every eye was dotted Every key was crossed
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 24: before I got before a microphone and stood up. And
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 24: I wanted to fully understand what their exact motive was.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 24: And if it was lined up with mine and mine
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 24: is as theirs is that you must have an alternative plan,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 24: not just for the people who drive the cars, I
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 24: drive the horses or clean up the stables. We got
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 24: to get to the very bottom. Of the ownership of
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 24: these horses and of these medallions. They may not take
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 24: their business away.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 10: I just had a listener say the city will probably
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 10: confiscate the horses and kill them. And this is... You're going.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 24: To come into my house?
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 24: You're going to come into my house? And you're going
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 24: to burn down my house? I don't think so.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 10: I don't think so. I got to ask you one
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 10: more thing. Were you involved... with this city council meeting.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 10: I had Joanne Areola on a couple of weeks ago,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 10: and she talked about it on this show, the ambulance times.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 10: That's becoming a big issue. People are dying in this
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: city because the ambulance times are way too long.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 24: Here we go. I was all over the news yesterday.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 24: I spoke at the emergency management hearing yesterday. Let's keep
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 24: it real simple, folks. This city pays the EMS workers $ 37, 000
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 24: a year. Who can live on that? So if you
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 24: wonder why there's a shortage of EMS workers who, by
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 24: the way, are in charge of driving these ambulances and
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 24: these emergency vehicles, which they have 90, 90 that they
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 24: cannot use because they do not have vehicles. sufficient staff. Yet,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 24: this city passed a budget of $ 126 billion, of which
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 24: EMS saw nothing. We have been fighting for pay parity.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 24: We've tried all through this last budget cycle to make
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 24: sure that these EMS workers would get a decent salary
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 24: so that they could stay on. And then eventually they
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 24: will move into the fire department. But the idea that
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 24: this emergency time has been cut the way it is,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 24: it is so bad that if you are golf a bit,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 24: I'm telling you, Anything happens to me, throw me in
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 24: the backseat of the car and drive me to the hospital.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 10: I would tell you to throw you in the backseat
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 10: of a horse carriage, but they're not going to have
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 10: those anymore.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 24: Here's the bottom line. The city did not allow any money,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 24: any money. Everybody remember this. Where's the money? And why
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 24: has it, this has become a public safety issue. This
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 24: is definitely a public safety issue, and we talked about
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 24: it yesterday. We've talked about it weeks before. The budget's done.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 24: Somebody told me, Vicki, this is collective bargaining. Bull, you
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 24: know what, on the collective bargaining. We could have figured
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 24: out and worked it out in the budget. You know,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 24: they take the simplest things. There's solutions to every problem.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 24: There is no such thing as a problem if there's
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 24: a solution for everyone. And if we were able to
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 24: do what we needed to do with this present legislative
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 24: body and this current mayor, I don't know where we're going.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 24: I cannot predict the next three years. It doesn't look
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 24: pretty good.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 8: No, it's terrible.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 24: It's really scary stuff.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 10: Well, let me ask you this because I got to run.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 10: You know, you talk about the mayor and scary stuff.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 10: And are you ready? to primary a lady who happens
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 10: to be a very good friend of both of us,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 10: Jessica Tisch? Are you ready to primary Tisch and run
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 10: for mayor?
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 23: Not me.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 24: No, I don't think so. I don't think so. No,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 24: I don't. I don't think that's the direction I'll take.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 8: Jessica's awesome.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 24: And I really think that if Jess wants to do
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 24: this job, you know, I also want to see what
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 24: Republicans they put out. Just go.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 10: I don't have any. Me, that's it. I'm the only
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: one you've got.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 24: You know what? Look, you and me, we'll have a
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 24: private conversation about all that.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 24: But right now, I have to think of today. I
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 24: have to think of tomorrow. I have to think that
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 24: right now, being a voice, for those people who feel
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 24: they lost their voice, like you, like you is our
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 24: primary goal right now, because honestly, what the hell do
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 24: we have to lose, Sid? If we don't talk now,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 24: it's speak now or forever hold your peace. And everybody, Blakeman,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 24: I was at a big meeting last night with my
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 24: community board, and they're talking about running power lines from
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 24: 80 miles sunny, 80 miles east into my district. It's
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 24: quite controversial. And I told everybody at that meeting, thoughts Democrats.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 24: I looked at each and every one of them and
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 24: I said, you know what? I want to know how
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 24: you're voting. OK, I want to know how you're voting,
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 24: because I'm going to tell you right now all the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 24: bitching and complaining that's going on here and has been
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 24: going on for months, two years. I said, I've been
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 24: listening to you bitch and complain. Let me make something very,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 24: very clear. If you do not vote for Bruce Blakeman
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 24: come this November, which is only 10, 15 days away now,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 24: don't come to me with your problems because you just
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 24: elected someone who's going to just continue on and make
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 24: this place worse than it's ever been.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 13: You want change.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 24: I understand you're a Democrat. I get all that. Vote
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 24: down the line if you want on your Democratic ticket,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 24: which is ridiculous and stupid to start with. But let
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 24: me tell you this. You better color in that little
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 24: blue dot for Blakeman.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 10: Well, listen, you mentioned Bob Holden earlier, Democrat, and he's
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 10: been publicly endorsing Bruce Blakeman, as has Deborah Messing and
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 10: Bonnie Lautenberg. You are, Vicki, you're a great American. You
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 10: really are. I love you. You know, you're one of
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 10: my all-time favorites.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 24: Thank you.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 10: Thank you for hopping on. Thank you, sweetheart.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 24: And I was going to do a video for you,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 24: but I'll do it now.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 10: All right, do that. I want that. I want it
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 10: from you. Vicky Palladino right there, the amazing Queens. You're welcome, sweetheart.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: She mentioned Bruce Blakeman. I will be at an event
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 10: for Bruce Blakeman tonight. I'm staying in the city all
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: day today. Bruce Blakeman for Governor. Ed Cox will be there.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 10: The lovely A.J. Katsimatidis. We love A.J. She's going to
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 10: be there. Suzanne Miller. You guys know Suzanne, of course,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 10: from her great real estate podcast here. Hersel Torkian. And
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 10: most importantly, me. And it will be at the Solari Rooftop,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 10: which is on West 33rd Street between Broadway and 5th.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 10: And all the action comes your way at 6. 6
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 10: to 8 tonight, Lewis. Then I run home to Queens,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 10: get a good night's sleep. And get ready for the
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 10: big day tomorrow. Thank you, Vicki. That was great. Still
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 10: lots more to do. We'll talk to Claudia Tenney. I
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 10: love that lady. Congresswoman. She's really great. Peter King, the
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 10: former great congressman. And as I mentioned just moments ago,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 10: my very first radio partner ever. Nearly 30 years later,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 10: Scott Kaplan. He made me cry yesterday. We'll talk to
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 10: Scott coming up in the 9 o'clock hour.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 10: Joel Hollanders, the SIDS Foundation, David Jurist, the great David Jurist,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow's Children's Fund, and I'm Mrs. Ranch. And I got
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 10: there early. I was scared to death. I was ready
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 10: to fly back to Miami. I thought I was done
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 10: in New York after WNEW. But Steve Cohen said, no.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 10: Turn off Lee Davis, Connie Fitzpatrick. They all like you.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 10: Johnny said, I'll put you on the midday show when
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 10: Susan Waldman goes to work for Steinbrenner at Yes with
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 10: Jody Mack. But the starters work with Imus. I said, no.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 10: He said, yes. I said, okay. You're going to pay me.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 10: I guess I'll do it. So I went to Rockefeller Center.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 10: I was scared to death. And who was sitting there
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 10: still doing sports for the Ironman at the time? Mike Green.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: And I said to Mike, I said, Mike, you don't
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 10: know me. You're a great announcer for the Knicks. Mike
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 10: is a Hall of Famer now. I said, please, can
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: you give me a little advice? And Breeny looked at me,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 10: and he said one word.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 21: I'm going to guess it. I know it already.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 16: Run.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 20: Run.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he was right.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: He was so right. And Dabreen, of course, has gone
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 10: on to become. He's right there with Marv Albert. When
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 10: you can put an announcer, basketball or hockey, In the
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: same sentence as Marv Albert, you know you're talking about
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 10: a legend. A god. That's Breen. And he's the nicest, classiest.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 10: His wife, Ro, is a sweetheart. I love Mike Breen.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 10: And he was great last night. Jalen Brunson. Heard from him, too.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 10: Raised a banner. And the Knicks... Lost the game. I
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 10: know it doesn't mean much. We just won the championship.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 10: It was a magnificent night. I actually cried during the ceremony.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 10: It was that moving. But we did lose to LeBron
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 10: James and the Philadelphia 76ers. So now all the fun
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 10: stuff is behind us. Sorry, Joe Benningo and Noam Layden.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 10: It's time to win basketball games again. So here we go.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 10: Knickerbockers back in action Friday against the Boston Celtics. We'll
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 10: take a break. Still to come, my very first ever
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 10: radio partner, Scott Kaplan, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, and former Congressman
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 10: Peter King.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 11: Congratulations, Sid, on your induction into the New York State
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 11: Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I completely agree with President Trump.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 11: It's unbelievable it took them so long. Sid, you've not
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 11: only become one of the great voices of New York
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 11: and America, you're one of the greatest voices of truth
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 11: for Israel. And there's a reason you have such an
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 11: enormous audience. You don't blabber woke nonsense. You don't tell
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 11: people what the fashionable crowd thinks they should hear. You
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 11: tell them the truth, the hard truth. And you tell
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 11: it with passion, with humor, and with absolutely no fear. Sid,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 11: I want you to know Israel knows who its friends are.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 11: You have stood with us when it was popular, and
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 11: more importantly, when it wasn't. That means a great deal
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 11: to me. It means a great deal to the people
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 11: of Israel. So thank you, Sid, and congratulations. The Hall
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 11: of Fame just got a lot louder.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 10: A lot better. Let me get to this lady. She's
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 10: an amazing congresswoman. One of my favorites. You know that.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 10: Always great on this show. Fresh off her debate victory
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 10: last night, my friend Claudia Tenney. Good morning, Claudia. How
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 10: are you?
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 26: Good morning. Well, congratulations.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 16: This is exciting.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 26: I can't believe I'm on your show listening to Bibi
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 26: Netanyahu on his birthday. And who can believe he's 77?
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 26: What an amazing guy. He looks fantastic.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 10: He really does. And he is fantastic. And all the
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 10: garbage and You know, all the criticism he takes from
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 10: all these morons around the world, the Jew haters like
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 10: Mamdani and El Sayed and, you know, the... My opponents. Yeah,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 10: your opponent, another one, Elliman and Tucker Carlson, all these people,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 10: they're idiots. And they don't want to know the truth.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 10: They're very comfortable talking about genocide. It doesn't exist there.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 10: It's not true. Talk to Putin about that. But they're
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 10: very comfortable spewing all those lies, including your opponent. So
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 10: tell us about your debate last night against your opponent, Elliman,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 10: in upstate New York.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 26: You know, Sid, it was tough to debate somebody that
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 26: is just so unprepared to be a member of Congress.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 26: She just repeats top line talking points from the Working
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 26: Families Party and then tries to claim, you know, she's
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 26: leaned into this the entire campaign season. And then she
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 26: tried to pretend, oh, I'm.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 8: Not really that.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 26: I don't really believe in that. No one believes in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 26: open borders. I'm like, you're carrying the Working Families Party
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 26: banner everywhere. They believe in open borders and amnesty and
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 26: Medicare for all and free education and free everything. And
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 26: that's exactly what everybody in France has. You know what
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 26: they have now? It's never enough. They're fighting and burning
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 26: everything down. They're trying to destroy Western civilization. That's why
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 26: I really think that Bibi Netanyahu and together with President
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 26: Trump are some of the greatest leaders. We are fighting
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 26: the war to preserve Western civilization. And I don't think
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 26: people realize how that very war that we're seeing in Paris.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 26: I have a friend in Milan who's been sending me
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 26: photos of what's going on there and videos. It's horrific.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 26: But these people are here. They're already here. They're running
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 26: for office here. Some are in Congress. And we have
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 26: people right in New York City that are going to
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 26: be in Congress spewing the same kind of ugliness and
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 26: hatred and this sort of Islamic extremism and communist type
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 26: of rhetoric that you're, it scares me. I've never seen
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 26: it this bad. And I'll tell you what really worries me, Sid.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 26: Back in Nazi Germany in those days, they didn't have
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 26: the 24-7 access to all the media and people that
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 26: they do now through social media platforms and all the
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 26: technology we have. And they have the technology to really
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 26: wreak havoc on our country. I really worry about this
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 26: right now. We are on a critical front. And to
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 26: have people that are strong and have clarity like Netanyahu
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 26: right now, he's vilified because he's standing in the way
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 26: of them destroying our country and our world.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 10: No question about it. Now, look, this Alyssa Ellman, she's
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 10: not beating you. You're a rock star. You're a superstar.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 10: She's not beating you.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 26: She's just, you know, the thing with her is she...
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 26: I really, you know, I love to debate. I'm a lawyer.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 26: I'm very transparent. I don't know if you know, Sid,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 26: you probably do, but I think I'm still the only
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 26: member of Congress that explains every single vote I take.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 10: In the House in detail. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 26: Over a thousand votes we've done just this year alone.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, every year.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 26: I weigh in on everything. I don't wait. You know,
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 26: last night, she, you know, we got asked questions. She's
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 26: totally for the war in Ukraine and let's, like, you know, which,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 26: you know, I think that we need to make sure
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 26: Ukraine wins. I think Putin is an evil dictator. I
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 26: think he's a force for bad in the world and evil,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 26: and he's helping the Iranians. But I also think President
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 26: Trump needs to finish the job in Iran. And she
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 26: just went on and on, spewing the 36 organizations have said,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 26: you know, there's genocide in Gaza. And I just looked,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 26: I said, have you been to Gaza? Have you looked
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 26: at the facts.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 8: Of what's going on?
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 26: Have you ever seen a country that has done so
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 26: much to protect even its enemies in Gaza. Have you
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 26: ever seen a country awash with dictatorships and monarchies where
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 26: they oppress their own people? That is a democracy where
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 26: people who literally wish to kill them are elected into
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 26: office in their own government. There is nothing like it.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 26: And the fact that Israel is able to be a
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 26: shining example of what a democracy can be in a
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 26: sea of authoritarianism and brutality that we're seeing in the
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 26: Middle East, they are giving hope for prosperity. When President
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 26: Trump Sign the Abraham Accords. That, to me, was the
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 26: beginning of what could be a potential for prosperity in
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 26: the Middle East. Iran is still the problem. We have
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 26: to eliminate that problem. I don't know if you know, Sid,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 26: my son is actually a Naval Academy graduate. He decided
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 26: to commission as a Marine.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 10: I did.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 26: He's a major in the Marine Corps. Our Marines were
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 26: slaughtered in 1983 in Lebanon by these Iranian mullahs, and
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 26: they continue to slaughter Americans, American citizens, our allies, and
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 26: chant death to Israel, death to America every single day unapologetically.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 26: How are these people that we're going to defend and
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 26: not make sure we take them.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 10: Out of power?
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 10: Well, you got to be careful, Claudia, because they're going
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 10: to label you what they've already labeled me, Alex Jones,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 10: Michael Flynn, and thousands more on Twitter. They're going to
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 10: call you Israel first, Claudia. Listen, I'm not Israel first.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 10: I'm America first, as Trumpy loves me. But I'm Israel second.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 10: I'm Israel second. And every American should be America first
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 10: and Israel second. I don't care if you're from Greece
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 10: or Italy or Ireland or London. America first, Israel second,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 10: because those two guys, like you said, Trump and Bibi,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 10: are the last hope for Western civilization. And I mentioned
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 10: your competitor, that you're going to beat her easily, but
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 10: like you said, this lady Chevalier, for example, who washes
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 10: her dirty hands with the American flag, who went to
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 10: a October 8th rally, a pro-Palestinian October 8th rally. Do
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 10: people not realize, Claudia, that Hamas, they're Palestinians. They may
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 10: be progressive. They may be murderous. They may be radical.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 10: They're Palestinians. Just like radical Islam, they're Muslims. Why do
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 10: we all bend over backwards to differentiate when the truth
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 10: is these people have become an issue in this country
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 10: and around the world?
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 26: And the thing is, I can't stand listening to people
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 26: say they're democratic socialists. There's nothing democratic about them. I
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 26: call them the Marxist subversives because everything they stand for
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 26: is against everything our Constitution stands for. How is Chevalier
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 26: and these other communists, how does Mondami take an oath
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 26: of office when our country's founding principles are individual rights?
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 26: property ownership. And yet the Working Families Party is about
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 26: the collectivism. It's about taking away your private property rights.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 26: Those are foundational principles to liberty and freedom. And they
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 26: actually advocate for the opposite. I just don't understand how
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 26: these people can even take an oath of office. It's
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 26: really astounding that this, you know, my parents, you know,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 26: came from that generation, you know, the post-depression generation, you know, eating,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 26: you know, spam and, you know, we had a lot of, whatever.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 26: My parents were just, they never got out of it.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 26: You know, they were always worried, you know, their money
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 26: would be gone because of the, you know, the federal
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 26: government with something would collapse and their money and their
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 26: savings accounts would be gone. They're very, you know, very
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 26: careful people, but also extremely, you know, giving to our community,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 26: involved in every charity. And we all went to the
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 26: soup kitchens and we did all the things as kids that,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 26: When you're young, you don't appreciate how much more you
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 26: appreciate when you're older. But if they saw today what
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 26: we're seeing with this rise of that red-green alliance, this
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 26: extreme Islamism and extreme Marxism and communism, I look at
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 26: these old hippies when I see them all in their
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 26: No Kings rally, even in my communities and up in
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 26: rural upstate New York, and I'm like, what are you
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 26: talking about?
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 10: Losers!
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 8: They're losers.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 26: There are a bunch of old hippies that are out
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 26: there dragging out these. They have no idea. They have
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 26: no facts. You go interview them. My opponent yesterday, we're
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 26: talking about nuclear energy.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 26: The only nuclear power plants in the entire state of
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 26: New York are in New York 24 in my district
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 26: along the lake. We've got, you know, Janae, Nine Mile,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 26: and also Fitzpatrick. They are providing up to 28% or
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 26: more of our baseload power for the state of New York.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 26: It's emission-free. My opponent got up there and said she
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 26: doesn't like nuclear power. She leaves a carbon footprint and
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 26: it's dangerous. I was like, if we took down nuclear power,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 26: New York City would actually close because New York City
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 26: is almost I think it's between 95 and 98 percent
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 26: dependent on fossil fuels to run your grid. All those
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 26: New York City members are all saying you can't have
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 26: fossil fuels for me, but not for the city.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 10: Well, I got to tell you, I think that is
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 10: a huge play for my friend, or I'll actually be
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 10: competing with him tonight, Bruce Blakeman, in his state fight
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 10: with Kathy Hochul. You know, the guy before her, Andrew Cuomo,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 10: he shut them all down. Kathy continues not to frack.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 10: She buys energy from Pennsylvania when we've got it right here.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 10: So you talk about energy, Claudia, and that is, I believe,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 10: an easy win for Bruce Blakeman. Absolutely.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 26: And the thing that people need to remember is we
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 26: took back, after eight years of Obama, and four years
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 26: of literally shutting down our ability to produce our own energy.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 26: We don't need foreign countries. We don't need the Middle
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 26: East anymore. We have our own resources. We could be
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 26: doing this right here. Joe Biden went in first day,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 26: shut down the Keystone Pipeline, shut down all the gas
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 26: power plants. They shut everything down in New York State.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 26: And now after four years of that, Trump's trying to
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 26: get us back online with all these different types of
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 26: energy resources we need in all of the above strategy.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 26: We're doing everything we can. It doesn't happen overnight. Our
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 26: refinery capacity is at 110 and 120%. We literally cannot
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 26: maintain what we need to in the future. It's going
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 26: to take a little time. Once we get caught up
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 26: and we get into this and we start recognizing that
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 26: we have to have energy, don't forget when Andrew Cuomo
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 26: shut down Indian Point, We need about, we've put on,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 26: I think, 4.4 gigabytes. That's what we need. We're at 2.9.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 26: I mean, we are below what we need to maintain
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 26: the state. If we want prosperity. And we have Micron
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 26: coming up in our area. They first put in $ 100 billion.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 26: Remember something about Kathy Hochul, what a hypocrite she is.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 26: She has been to every Micron event I've been to.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 26: I worked hard. I got the manufacturing tax credit in
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 26: the big, beautiful bill and a bunch of other things
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 26: to get Micron fighting tooth and nail to make that
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 26: happen in our region because it's so important to bring
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 26: our advanced manufacturing chip supply chain here. You have 100
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 26: billion was put in by Micron. They put in another
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 26: 250 billion. But you know what they needed? They needed
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 26: a pipeline for natural gas because they have to have reliable,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 26: safe pipelines. affordable energy, but they get it. I wish
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 26: the rest of us could have it, but Kathy Hochul
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 26: can't do enough victory laps at Micron and then turns
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 26: around and shuts down the data centers. What is Micron producing?
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 26: Advanced manufacturing chips to go in data centers so we
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 26: can have AI, so we can have life-saving cures, so
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 26: we can help our defense industry, so we can have
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 26: the modern technology to keep up with China and our adversaries.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 26: I mean, It's insane. And she took away local control.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 26: So now you can put a, you know, a Chinese
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 26: solar factory or farm all over the, your upstate New
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 26: York and our beautiful farmland.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 10: I'm sure they already are.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 26: Oh, well, they're everywhere. But guess what the big secret is?
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 8: Most of them aren't even.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 26: Hooked up to the grid.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 10: No, of course. And listen.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 26: But they all got their subsidies.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 26: Millions in subsidies.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, I know.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 26: And yet here we are. And just go have your you.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 26: I do this every day. I go in and look
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 26: at the New York independent service operator run by the
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 26: Democrats in New York state. And they show how much
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 26: energy we use in the state. Every single day, the max,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 26: you'll never see, if you put in wind, solar, and other,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 26: it's never, ever more than 10%. And usually it's 5%
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 26: or less. And solar is negligible. Solar never hits 5%.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 10: It's a waste.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 26: All the money we're spending, it's not providing baseload reliable power.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 26: We have a problem with our grid. It is the
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 26: biggest issue Bruce Lakeman needs to talk about, and he is.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 26: He's doing a great job on the campaign trail. But
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 26: this is a catastrophic issue. We have to have affordable
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 26: energy or we are not going to make it as
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 26: a state. It is that simple.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 10: He brought it up at the debate. He talked about
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 10: data centers. And all she said was, you want them
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 10: because Trump wants them. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 10: She's a moron. She's a moron. One more for you.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 10: You guys need to get this done. Congress, not you guys.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 10: I know you guys are already for it. The Save
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 10: America Act. I know you tweeted about some of the
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 10: issues there. In the great state of California, you said,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 10: we don't need the FBI to get involved, okay? Illegals
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 10: shouldn't be voting. This is why the Save America Act
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 10: needs to get done. Is it, Claudia Tenney, going to
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 10: get done?
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 26: The problem, we've passed it four times in the House.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 26: It's up to the Senate. And right now, you know,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 26: things are looking iffy. We need to have voter ID.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 26: That's the most important element there. The most egregious incidents
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 26: of election integrity fraud are when we don't have voter
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 26: ID and a reliable system. So many states after 2020.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 13: Adopted that.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 26: Florida and others have voter ID and a credible system
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 26: to verify we have one citizen, one vote, not a
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 26: whole pack of illegal immigrants, a whole pack of people
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 26: voting more than once. That is really what's going to
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 26: make the day. If they could just take even that
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 26: part out of the Save America Act and make sure
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 26: that we have one citizen, one vote, and that we
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 26: have voter ID, that will solve most of the election
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 26: integrity problems. But they don't want to solve that, Sid.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 26: They That's what it's all about.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 10: Bottom line.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 26: They can't win elections on policy.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 20: No.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 26: They have to win it on process, and that's what
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 26: this is really down to.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 10: Well, Claudia, listen, you're going to win again because you're great.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 10: You're one of our really valued best Congress people. I
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 10: think you're terrific. I really do. So congratulations on your
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 10: debate performance last night. Congratulations on another great appearance on
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 10: this show this morning. I look forward to seeing you
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 10: and speaking with you again. Thank you so much, Claudia Tenney.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 10: Great job.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 26: Thanks so much, Sid, and happy birthday, B.B.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 10: I'm with you. Happy 77th birthday to B.B. Netanyahu from
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 10: the great Claudia Tenney. Talking about Congress, we'll take a
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 10: break from a great Congresswoman active to a former great congressman.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 10: He's on every Wednesday. Everybody loves him, including me. We'll
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 10: talk to Peter King. He's coming up next.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 10: But Bruce is part of that great Long Island crew,
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 10: Joe Cairo. We love Joe. And the man, Peter King,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 10: Giuliani King, King Giuliani, I don't care. He's one of
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 10: the two greatest politicians in my lifetime here in New York.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 10: And if God is good to me, I'll be 60
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 10: in April. That's saying a lot. Here for his weekly visit,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 10: the great Peter King. Peter, 13 days out. How's your
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 10: guy Bruce Blakeman doing?
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 8: I think Bruce is doing great. It's definitely going his way.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 8: It's going to be tough because, you know, there are
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 8: three million more Democrats in the state. But Bruce is
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 8: cutting into that. Hochul is showing that she's nervous. You're
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 8: calling him in, Dami, to help. I mean, that shows
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 8: how desperate you are. And everywhere you go, what I've
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 8: said at the beginning, I feel more strongly about it
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 8: now than ever. No one is going to come out
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 8: to vote for Kathy Hochul. They may vote Democrat. They
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 8: may vote against Republicans. But nobody's going to vote for
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 8: Kathy Hochul. People are voting for Bruce Blakeman. He has
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 8: really created an emotional bond between him and the people.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 8: And he's raising all the issues that we are on
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 8: the right side of. So I think Bruce, in fact,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 8: I'm confident Bruce is going to do it. But everyone's
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 8: got to get out and vote. They can't just talk
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 8: about it. And they can't complain the day after if
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 8: he loses some close race. They've got to get out
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 8: and get the vote now and talk to all their
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 8: friends and neighbors because Bruce is killing himself. He is
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 8: everywhere and just breaking his back, running around. Also, can
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 8: I say one thing? I heard you at the beginning
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 8: of the show talking about Shylock Snarlow. Listen, I grew
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 8: up with a bunch of guys who use that term
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 8: every day. Usually they call him the Shy and everything else.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 10: Right, Shy. Exactly.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 8: We're talking about ethnic slurs. Patty wagon. That's what they say.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 8: They can get all the Irish or patties. They locked
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 8: them up on Saturday night and throw them in a wagon.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 8: Some people say patty wagon every day. I don't jump
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 8: out and say that that's anti-Irish or it's a slur.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 8: There were words, especially in New York, that become part
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 8: of our dialogue. I guarantee you all those guys I
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 8: knew who had the scratch sheets in their back pocket
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 8: and who were betting, they didn't know anything about Shakespeare.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Thank you for saying that. Every shy that
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 10: I knew and still know is Italian. They're not even Jewish.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 10: It's so stupid. Thank you for saying that. I did
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 10: go off on NBC this morning and even had family
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 10: members say, look what President Trump said about the Jews.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 10: It's so ridiculous. You know, I saw a good story
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 10: about one of your candidates out there, Pete, Mike Lepetri.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 10: I saw that even in Tom Swazi's town where Tom
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 10: Swazi lives, Two-Face Tom, the police unions endorsed Mike Lepetri.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was a surprise. A surprise, not because Mike's
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 8: not a better candidate and the police union should support him,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 8: but usually just out of hometown loyalty or whatever pressure
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 8: you have, you stick with the candidate that's from your
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 8: city or town. And the fact that it really says
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 8: a lot. And also Janine Driscoll, she's been endorsed by
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 8: every police organization in Nassau County. And I think the
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 8: American people, certainly the people in New York, people downstate,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 8: who live in the shadow of Mindami, realize how important
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 8: it is to have strong police, to do what Pat
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 8: Ryder does in Nassau County, what Bruce Blakeman has done,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 8: and that's to let the cops do their job, give
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 8: them strong leadership, let them do their job, and don't
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 8: get in their way.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 10: You mentioned Janine Driscoll, and she's going to be in
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 10: the studio Friday. I know you love her. I love her, too.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 10: And my kids love her son. Believe it or not,
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 10: both Ava and Gabriel are friends with Janine's son, she's
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 10: got a big race against Laura Gillum, the same lady
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 10: that beat our dear friend Anthony D'Esposito last time around.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 10: How does Janine's chances look?
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 8: I think you're very good. I mean, excellent. And again,
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 8: people like her. Her ads, if she gets enough money
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 8: from Washington and I hope they come up with it,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 8: because Joe Carozzo and all he can, she should win big.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, Laura Gillen's all over television. She gets a
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 8: lot of ads. Having said that, to me, it's definitely
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 8: going Janine's way. And I've seen her, not just on
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 8: the TV ads, not just on the big stage. But
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 8: just going door to door, she is naturally at ease
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 8: with people. In fact, if there's any criticism I have
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 8: of Jean, she listens to people too much. I mean,
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 8: she will stay and talk and go back. And she's
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 8: just so friendly and so engaging. And people see that.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 8: She's a family woman. She has a son on the NYPD.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 8: So she's just, again, a dedicated person. She's part of
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 8: a community. And also, she lives in Floral Park, which
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 8: is right next to New York City. So her neighbors
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 8: realize exactly what it's all about. And so and also
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 8: then she has a large Jewish community in the five towns.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 8: And they are also on the edge of New York City.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 8: And they know what an anti-Semite mandami is. So the
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 8: people of this district, it's my district to the fourth district.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 8: There's no reason at all why they should not vote
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 8: for Janine Driscoll.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 10: I was at one of your favorite places in my neighborhood,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 10: Harbor Lights. I know you knew Bernie and Sean, all
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 10: those great people. And I was having dinner, watching Nick game.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 10: Some of the game last night, the whole ceremony. But
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 10: before the Nick stuff came on, they had the news
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 10: on one of the TV, CBS. I think the name
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 10: is Rodriguez. I don't know. But she was saying that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 10: there are no, is this right, Peter King? There are
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 10: no debates for these people. I guess candidates on Long Island,
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 10: they showed, for example, they showed Nick Lolota. But are
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 10: there no debates?
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 8: In Lolota's race, his Democratic partner would not debate him.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 8: And with Laura Gillen, she is not debating Janine Driscoll. Now,
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 8: it's probably a good decision by Laura Gillen. Janine Driscoll
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 8: is a lawyer. She's argued cases before the United States
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 8: Court of Appeals. She knows the issues inside out. She's
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 8: very articulate. And she comes across very well. But no,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 8: I mean, I never turned down a televised debate the
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 8: whole time that I was in Congress. It just wasn't done.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 8: And the fact that Laura Gillen is not doing it,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 8: she's not debating to me, is absolutely beyond me. Laura was,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 8: I mean, she was all ready for the debate. She
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 8: was well prepared. She was looking forward to it. And
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 8: then suddenly Laura Gillen said she wouldn't debate her.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 10: Ridiculous. It's crazy.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 8: It really is. Especially, you know, Gitwin's only been in
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 8: office two years.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 13: Right. Right.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 10: Who the hell is she?
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 8: I mean, you want to be out there defending yourself. Right.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 8: You should be anyway. And you're one of the voters.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 8: You know, you can't. If you're around maybe 10 or
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 8: 20 years.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 10: OK.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 8: People know me. They know what it's about. I mean,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 8: I still went out and debated. But having said that,
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 8: maybe you could use that as an excuse. But in
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 8: this case, no. She's only in for two terms, one term,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 8: two years. And she won by a couple of points.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 8: And so to me, she owed it to the voters.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 8: And so to me, that is a big plus for
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 8: Janine Driscoll. And it shows really the confidence that she
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 8: has in herself, the voters have, and the lack of
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 8: confidence in her opponent.
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 10: Pete, who's the Jewish guy running for Senate out there?
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 10: Blumenkantz or Blumenthal? Who is that guy?
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 8: Eric Buhlman Krantz, yeah. He's right now a state assemblyman.
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 8: His father is very active on the police matters. He's, again, very,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 8: very pro-cop, very, very pro. and order. And Eric Blumenkranz,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 8: that's important to see. Jack Martins was our state senator there.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 8: He's done a great job over the years. Jack is
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 8: now running for re-election this year. And Blumenkranz is. It's
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 8: really important we win that. because that's that North Shore
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 8: region up there. It sort of borders Nassau and Queens.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 8: And so, to me, he is, again, one of the stars.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 8: He's a young guy. I guess he's early 30s. But, again,
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 8: very good candidate. It's really important that he win.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 10: I found out about him last time. Mozzie was here,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 10: Scott and Mozzie Pillop, and they love him. How's Mozzie
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 10: Pillop doing?
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 8: Mozzie should do well. I knew they didn't endorse her,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 8: which to me is a tribute. Ha ha ha!
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 10: I mean, they're terrible. They are terrible.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 8: And they've been a proponent of no qualifications at all,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 8: but they voted against, they wouldn't endorse Mazi because she's
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 8: too supportive of Bruta, I guess. Now, Mazi, Mazi, again,
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 8: as you know, she's a star. She is a long way,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 8: a long, great career ahead of her. And she's just
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 8: a great friend. I mean, just being with Mazi, seeing
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 8: her in action. And she is, again, you do it,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 8: you know, the American dream, Ethiopian refugee, Israeli army, African-American,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 8: clearly African-American, comes over here as an immigrant, and she
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 8: wins the first Republican ever to win in that area ever.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 8: I guess well over 100 years. And she's in there,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 8: she's in there solid. Just a great person.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 10: I love her, too. So, a couple days ago, you
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 10: sent me something. Trump was all over Zelensky, and you said,
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 10: I don't get it. And I don't get it, either.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 10: You know I've never been a huge fan of Zelensky.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 10: I think there are times he comes off as clownish
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 10: to me. But I understand why you like him. He's been,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 10: you know, very, very loyal and His people are fighting
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 10: a very courageous war. But even though I've been down
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 10: on him at times, I'm with you. I don't know
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 10: why Trump is so hard on him a couple of
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 10: days ago. Now, he did soften up yesterday. He did.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 10: But what is the issue, you think? Is it Trump
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 10: just trying to be nicer to Putin because he likes
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 10: staying closer to the real enemy? What do you think
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 10: that strategy is?
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 8: It's not so much I like Zelensky. From a distance,
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 8: I admire him. But, I mean, I wouldn't care who
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 8: it is. They're fighting Putin. Putin, to me, is really evil.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 8: He's dangerous. And he's trying to reestablish his certain goals
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 8: he's had all these years. One is to weaken NATO.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 8: It's to increase Russian influence in Russia. And then go such...
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 8: one by one, taking off countries. Invasion of Ukraine is
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 8: one thing. But they can lobby Lithuania, Estonia. He can
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 8: use his influence there. He can make inroads into Poland,
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 8: that type thing, Germany. And by doing that, what he's
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 8: going to do is start to get economic power with him.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 8: He's going to weaken the United States and Europe. And
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 8: he's also allied with China. There's no doubt about that.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 8: And so you have Russia and China really strengthen themselves.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 8: All I can think of with President Trump, and there
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 8: is talk now, he's talking about having a three-way summit.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 10: A summit, yeah, next month.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah. And they're talking about comparing it to the Yalta Conference. Well,
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 8: the Yalta Conference is what sold out Eastern Europe when
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 8: Roosevelt sat down with Stalin and thought they could divide
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 8: things up. You can have anything on paper. And to me,
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 8: I think that President Trump sees It's a big power world.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 8: In many ways, it looks like it's a real estate deal.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 8: You have the three biggest real estate companies dividing up Manhattan. Well,
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 8: in this case, you figure three major powers can divide
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 8: the world, set it up, and establish some kind of
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 8: stability going forward. But we're not dealing with the Brits.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 8: We're not dealing with other countries that share our values.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 8: We're talking about two dictators, China and Russia, and they
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 8: can't be trusted at all. Like, for instance, I see
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 8: Zelensky said today, that he would settle for an agreement
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 8: right now, and we wouldn't stay in place where they are.
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 8: But to do that, you have to have some kind
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 8: of security guarantees. Otherwise, once things calm down, Russia will
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 8: come in again, and you have to have those guarantees.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 8: President Trump says there were so many people in Russia
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 8: There's no way Ukraine can match that. Well, that's true
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 8: of almost any country in Europe. Certainly, you know, the
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 8: Baltic states, they could be outnumbered by Russia. Poland will
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 8: be outnumbered by Russia.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 8: Certainly any portion. So to me, that's why we set
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 8: up these alliances. And NATO, whatever faults it has, the
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 8: fact is it's been an alliance which has kept stability
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 8: in Europe for 80 years. And when people say, well,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 8: Ukraine is Europe's war. Well, 9-11 was America's war. But
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 8: those NATO countries came to our aid, countries like Denmark
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 8: and Britain and Canada, Poland, they came to our aid. So,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 8: because we saw it as being a transatlantic alliance that
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 8: we have against dictatorial forces. Russia is right now a
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 8: dictatorial force. And so is China and Asia. They're moving in.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 8: And also they're assisting Iran. That's the other thing. I mean,
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 8: to me, it's not just Israel is fighting. Israel is
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 8: fighting for us in the Middle East. And we're assisting
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 8: Israel But that's to stop Iran from taking over the
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 8: Middle East and threatening the entire world. So it's not
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 8: just one country by itself. So even if you didn't
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 8: support Israel per se, which I do, even if you didn't,
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 8: it serves our purposes to have a strong Israel, a
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 8: democratic Israel standing up to a theocratic Iran and a
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 8: madman with nuclear weapons.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's really that simple. So on the way out, Peter,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 10: I got to tell you that, you know, of course,
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 10: maybe you heard about it once. I'm going into the
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 10: Hall of Fame tomorrow. Congratulations.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 10: Congratulations. Well, thank you. But I want to be serious
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 10: about you for a second because when I was fired
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 10: by WFAN and Imus and all that stuff back in 2005,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 10: a lot of the people who love me in New York,
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 10: and I was becoming a pretty big star back then.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 10: I know you remember I was doing the Midday Show,
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 10: doing the Giants. They left me, man. They left me.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 10: They wanted no part of this guy. I was... on drugs.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 10: I was in Atlantic City Hotel. I got fired. It
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 10: was page three of the New York Post. And they
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 10: left me like I was garbage. And a few guys
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 10: followed me when I went to Florida. Bo Dietl, one
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 10: of those guys, and you. And every time I called
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 10: you when I was down in Florida and said, hey, Pete,
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 10: will you come on? And at the time, you were
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 10: still serving in Congress. Big time guy. You never, ever
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 10: said no to me. So I want you to know,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 10: I'm making it emotional here, Now, when I go in tomorrow,
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 10: you are one of the best and kindest and most
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 10: loyal people I've ever met. And a lot of my
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 10: success is due to you and your relationship with me.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 10: And I want you to know that. I love you
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 10: very much. And thank you so much.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 8: And you are a mensch.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Peter. Thank you. The great Peter King. He
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 10: stuck with me. He never, ever said no. He didn't
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 10: leave me. 90% of the people left me. And Peter
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 10: did not. And so happy to have him back here. Boy,
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 10: he's a great Wednesday guest. We'll take a break. We
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 10: still have about 45 minutes to go. My very first
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 10: ever radio partner. I mean, really, his name was Josh Grants.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 10: But it was a midday internet show. He's out in
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 10: Las Vegas making millions of dollars. But my first real
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 10: partner who showed confidence in me, gave me my first opportunity,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 10: Scott Kaplan. He'll be here this hour.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 17: Hey, it's Bruce Blakeman here. I want to congratulate Sid
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 17: Rosenberg on his induction into the Hall of Fame. Think
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 17: of all the greats that are already in there. Walter Cronkite,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 17: Barbara Walters, Don Imus, Bob Grant. you name it, there
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 17: are so many great names in radio and television, and
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 17: you're one of the all-time greats, Sid, and you're going
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 17: with two of my friends, Bill Ritter and Rosanna Scotto,
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 17: so it's like a family event, but congratulations.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 10: In my book, you're the best. Bruce Blakeman, if God
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 10: is good to us, will be the next governor here
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 10: in New York. My next guest, who I love dearly,
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 10: I can't say enough nice things about Scott Kaplan. I
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 10: already have this morning a bunch of times, and many
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 10: other times in the history of this show. He's got
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 10: a horrible governor, too, there, Gavin Newsom, who's also on
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 10: his way out, though. Hochul can stick around with a win.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 10: Newsom is going to leave, and it looks like the
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 10: Democrat Becerra, who's garbage, is going to beat my guy
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 10: Steve Hilton. But more importantly, Scott Kaplan was the guy
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 10: that gave me my first opportunity in radio, believe it
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 10: or not, almost 30 years ago. Next year will be
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 10: 30 years that he gave me that shot on Internet radio.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 10: We had a couple of ups and downs many years ago,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 10: just like many people in this business. But we are
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 10: closer than brothers. And I love this guy so much.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 10: And he's so smart. And he had all the answers
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 10: he really did 25 years ago. He's a big star
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 10: out in California, San Diego, Los Angeles, all over the state.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 10: My first partner and brother, Scott Kaplan. Scotty, good morning, buddy.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 10: How are you?
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 8: Hello, Sidney.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 10: Hello. All very good from the great movie Scream. Hello, Sidney.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 10: How are you this morning out there in California?
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 13: Oh, I'm doing great, man. I'm so excited for you.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 13: I honestly have been thinking to myself, though, how the
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 13: hell did this happen? You know, like, how did you
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 13: become a Hall of Famer? And then I thought another thing.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 13: which is like when a football player or a baseball
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 13: player goes into a Hall of Fame and they've played
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 13: on multiple teams and you say to them, you say, hey,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 13: who are you going in as? And I thought to myself, Sid,
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 13: there's been many different iterations of Sid Rosenberg in New
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 13: York radio. And I thought, which Sid Rosenberg is going in?
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 13: What hat are you wearing when you're going in?
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 26: I'm so excited for you.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 10: You know, Scotty, it's not.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 26: I'm more excited for you than you.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 10: I know, but it's not just New York. I mean,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 10: don't forget, I had that 11-year stint where I was
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 10: at 790 The Ticket, 560 WQIN. and the last one,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 10: which really enabled me to get back to New York,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 10: 640 sports, and it all started in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 10: with you. So my career is really kind of split
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 10: between Florida and New Some big stations here, WFAN, WNEW
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 10: with you, 10-10 wins, and now WABC. But there's plenty
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 10: of Florida love to go around tomorrow as well. You
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 10: know that.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 8: Oh, I do.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 13: Listen, Sid, in the late 90s when you and I
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 13: first started, I mean, the fact of the matter is
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 13: none of us knew what we were doing. We were
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 13: little kids in the business, right?
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 10: I don't know. You were pretty smart. I'll give you
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 10: the credit, man. Say you don't know what you were doing.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 10: You were pretty smart, Scott.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 26: Well, thank you.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 13: But I mean, all I was doing was I was
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 13: doing the things that I'd heard other people do. You know, I,
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 13: I'd heard, I hear just as we were rejoining, I
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 13: heard that, and I know exactly where that comes from.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 13: And I listened to Neil Rogers as a kid, you know,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 13: down in Miami. And, and I, you know, I was,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 13: I loved Howard Stern and I, you know, I just,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 13: I was a young kid who just desperately wanted that microphone.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 13: And then when I was given that opportunity, cause I
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 13: really talked my way into it, no big surprise. Um,
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 13: I just didn't have around me what I needed because
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 13: I was not really like us. I didn't know everything.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 13: I didn't know every player. I didn't know every team.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 13: I didn't know every coach. I didn't know all the details.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 13: I just had a lot of strong opinions, but you,
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 13: you knew all the details back then. I'm sure you
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 13: still do, but you literally would walk around the office
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 13: like the mayor of the place. And your shirt was
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 13: wide open and you showed off your pants and you're
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 13: walking around to everybody.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 8: Not, Hey, how you doing?
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 13: Hey, good to see you.
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 8: I'm like, who the hell is this kid?
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 13: And, and you know, when, when you and I started
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 13: to talk, I realized I know some stuff. He knows
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 13: a lot of stuff. So if I could just spout
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 13: about the stuff I want to apply it about, Sid's
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 13: going to fill in every last detail. And that's where
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 13: in the earliest of days, Sydney, that's where our partnership began.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was great. It was a great partnership. It
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 10: was great right the whole way through to New York.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 10: And you're right. We complimented each other very, very nicely.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 10: You know, you were a really good talker. You knew
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 10: the business. And I knew the players and the numbers.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 10: And we could sit down, for example, like we did
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 10: every year on Radio Row at the Super Bowl. And
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 10: you can schmooze the guy. And then I can say, hey.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 10: I remember when you played Green Bay and you had
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 10: six catches for 133 off the field. And the guy goes,
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 10: how do you know that? I go, I know all that.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 10: And it was just perfect. I mean, we, you know, we,
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 10: I remember was talking about this this week and God,
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 10: I felt badly bringing it up, but I have to,
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 10: because this is such a moment to stay tomorrow. But
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 10: there was a guy in Florida who you were friendly
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 10: with and he was a big time program director and
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 10: his name got rested. So he got a very young
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 10: man was Andrew Ashwood. And when Andrew Ashwood found out
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 10: that you were going to, embark on your career with me.
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 10: He went to you and he said, because we're about
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 10: to be syndicated about 75 markets across Wisconsin.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 8: I know exactly where you're going.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 10: Scott, you got to get rid of this guy. This
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 10: guy's got to, Thick Brooklyn accent. It ain't going to
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 10: work in lacrosse. It ain't going to work in Clarksville.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 10: And God rest his soul, he could not have been
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 10: more wrong. We would get off the plane. It was
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 10: like the Beatles. And these people loved us. And they
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 10: loved me with the accent. And by the way, at
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 10: no point during my career, and I am in New York, right,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 10: so it's kind of easy. But at no point in
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 10: my career did any of that stuff come back and
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 10: bite me in the ass.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 13: No, no. And I'll tell you something, Sydney, you know,
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 13: Andrew Ashwood, as you said, God rest his soul. He
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 13: was a great program director.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 8: He really was.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 13: He got he got a lot of things right. In
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 13: this case, he got one thing really, really wrong. And
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 13: what he what he didn't understand was is, you know, listen,
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 13: America loved America. Seinfeld. They love Jerry Seinfeld. They love
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 13: this show. And outside of New York, people were like, boy,
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 13: that Jerry Seinfeld sure is an interesting character. And in
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 13: New York, in New York, everybody's like, yeah, that's like
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 13: my neighbor, Jerry, you know, everybody knew him. And so,
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 13: and so the people that weren't in New York found
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 13: him interesting. And the people that were in New York
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 13: found him familiar. And, and I kept saying to Andrew,
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 13: I don't think so. I think in other parts of
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 13: the country, they're going to find Sid's accent interesting and funny.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 13: They're not going to be offended and turned off like, oh,
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 13: the whole world revolves around New York. So he was
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 13: wrong on that. But you, you were right about something
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 13: you just said. We were so young and we got
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 13: syndicated into all these markets through Westwood One. And we
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 13: would go on these tours because we were trying to
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 13: drum up business because at the time, you know, for
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 13: everybody who's listening at the time, Jim Rome was the
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 13: biggest thing going in sports. And Jim Rome, he had
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 13: this thing called, he was going on these tours and
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 13: he would almost like sell out arenas and he would
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 13: show up in a certain town and all the star
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 13: athletes of the town would come because it was like
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 13: a celebration of your community that somebody big time like
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 13: him was going.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 8: To show up.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 13: You and me, when we show up in these small towns,
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 13: cause we were trying to, again, we were trying to
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 13: grow and, When we show up in these little towns,
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 13: people freaking went crazy.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 10: They were nuts.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 13: Because they felt special. They felt special that we were
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 13: leaving South Florida and they were listening to us every day.
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 13: And we actually would show up at their little town
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 13: and broadcast to them. And we would pack these places.
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 13: And we were on our way. And for you, I
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 13: just remember this so vividly, that after we went to
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 13: our first Super Bowl, this was in Atlanta.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 8: Do I have that right?
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 26: It was our first Super Bowl in Atlanta?
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 10: No, our first Super Bowl together, you and I, was
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 10: San Diego. It was the Packers and the Broncos. You
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 10: had gone the year before to New Orleans with Allison
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 10: and the crew for Parcells and the Packers. But me
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 10: and you did Brett Favre versus John Elway. Right.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 13: But then the next year, the next year was Atlanta,
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 13: as I recall.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 10: No, the next year, no, the next year Atlanta played
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 10: in the Super Bowl, Dan Reeves' team, but they got
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 10: walloped by that same Bronco team, but the game was
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 10: in Miami. See, here we go. I still got the details, Scotty.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 10: You see?
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 8: Dude, amazing.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 26: Amazing memory.
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 8: Where were we when we.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 13: This is how cheesy.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 26: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 10: It was.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 10: No, you're right. 1999, Atlanta. We were there for the
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 10: Rams and Titans. Remember when they tackled Dyson inside the one,
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 10: Mike A. Jones? You're right. It was Atlanta, Super Bowl, Rams,
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 10: and Titans.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 8: We got back.
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 13: That Super Bowl ended.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 20: We had.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 8: This is so funny.
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 24: We had.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 13: nowadays you go to these super bowls, these radio rows,
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 13: everybody's got produced like sets and they've got signage and
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 13: everything's very professional looking back then. It was nothing. We
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 13: had a guy draw a caricature of the two of
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 13: us on a piece of poster board. And everybody that
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 13: would come by who would guess with us would sign
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 13: the poster board. You and me are sitting there one
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 13: day and Joe Namath, who we both knew at this
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 13: point because of our relationship with Joe down in, in, uh,
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 13: in South Florida, uh, um, through the company sports line
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 13: that we worked for, Joe comes over to sit with
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 13: us and Sydney, I don't know if you remember this,
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 13: I'm getting goosebumps talking about all of a sudden, a
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 13: crowd of people came around. It's you, it's me, it's
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 13: Joe name. It's one of the biggest stars in the
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 13: history of the NFL. And again, this is the late nineties.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 13: And there must've been hundreds of people standing around just
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 13: listening to us.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 26: And in that moment, I could just.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 13: See from you that how much you loved it. And
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 13: then when we got back, I just remember thinking to myself, Sydney,
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 13: calm down, man. Like, we're going to get there. And
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 13: you were like, no, I want it now. And that
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 13: attitude of I want it now in 1999 is why
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 13: you are a Hall of Famer today. because you wanted
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 13: it so badly. But then after all the years and
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 13: different iterations and moving from sports into news talk slash
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 13: now political talk, it takes so much courage and guts
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 13: and balls to say the stuff you say with conviction,
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 13: by the way, and to put yourself out there when
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 13: your opinions may or may not be the most popular.
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 13: It just takes courage, man. So when you combine where
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 13: you were, which was, I want it now. I actually
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 13: wanted it yesterday versus where you are today, which is,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 13: I'll say what I want to say. I'll say what
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 13: I think needs to be said. Those are the bookends
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 13: of what makes you now a freaking Hall of Famer.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Scott. I remember using the word star too
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 10: back then when Tommy and Allison said, this guy, he's
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 10: been in this thing for 15 minutes. What do you
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 10: mean he's going to be a star? I remember all
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 10: those conversations I do. And listen, They worked for me,
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 10: you know, and your career has been every bit as
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 10: good as mine. You're a tremendous success in California. And
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 10: you went about things a little differently. But you said
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 10: to me way back when you were about 90 seconds
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 10: to go, you said, you know, if you ever lose
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 10: this job and everybody knows my history with drugs and
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 10: drinking and gambling and all my issues, you said you're
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 10: going to miss the microphone more than you miss the drugs.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 10: And in the many times that I've been fired very
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 10: publicly over the years, you son of a bitch, you
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 10: are right again. You are right again. Man, did I
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 10: miss that microphone. I never want to be there again.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 10: You know, Scott, I'm going on 11 years here at WABC,
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 10: 11 years. I ain't never leaving this microphone again until
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 10: they drag me out of here, if you know what
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 10: I mean.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's the way you got to do it, man.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 13: I mean, really, like, I literally look at Howard, and
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 13: I look at Don before Howard, and I go, why
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 13: would these guys continue to do this? Why wake up
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 13: so early? Why continue to prepare? Why do they do this?
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 13: And it is like a football coach that can't give
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 13: up a coaching football that's right it's just it's just
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 13: something that you are it's something that is normal for
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 13: you every day and rather than give it up and
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 13: go live the good life like you could and i'm
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 13: saying you know if you have all the money in
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 13: the world it's just it's just part of what you
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 13: do i don't know what you do i don't have
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 13: that Well, hey, listen, if I had Howard's money, believe
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 13: me when I tell you, I wouldn't.
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 10: Be doing this anymore. And he's not even good anymore,
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 10: which is horrible to say because he is the greatest
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 10: of all time. I'm with you, but he's not even
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 10: good anymore. Let me just say this. I would not
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 10: rewrite my career any differently. And I really believe in
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 10: my heart of hearts. I'm not patronizing you, Scotty, that
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 10: I am where I am today because I started with you.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 10: You were just so smart, so prescient. You knew this business.
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 10: when you didn't even know the business. That's what I
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 10: say about Scott. You knew the business when you didn't
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 10: even know the business. And you've turned out to be
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 10: right about just about everything. You are a wonderful partner.
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 10: You are a great friend and a brother to me.
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 10: And I love you so much. So thank you so much,
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 10: Scott Kaplan.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 13: Sidney, I love you, man. I'm so proud of you,
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 13: like I said. And you deserve this honor. And you
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 13: know what, though? This is not the end. Just because
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 13: you're going into the Hall of Fame doesn't mean it's over.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 13: This is just another chapter in the book of Sidney
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 13: Arthur Rosenberg.
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 10: And in that book, you are in the biggest chapter
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 10: of all. Scott Kaplan, I love you. Thank you so much.
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 10: What a great appearance today. Thank you for the video, too.
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 10: Have a great day out there in California today. And
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 10: tell George Satano he sucks, okay?
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 13: I won't do that.
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 8: That's my brother, too.
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 10: No, I love him, too. Good to talk to you, Scotty.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Great job. Great job. That is my first
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 10: partner of one of the most decent and good people
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 10: you'll ever meet, my friend Scott Kaplan. Are we done
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 10: for today? Is that it, Lewis? Scotty's such a great guy. Lewis, you, too.
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow's our day, Louie.
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 27: Thanks for listening to Sid and Friends in the Morning.
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 27: You can hear Sid and Friends in the Morning weekday
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 27: mornings at 6. If you like the podcast, share it
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 27: with your friends and listen anytime at wabcradio.com and download
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 27: the WABC Radio app. Hit that subscribe button on all
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 27: major podcast platforms. Plus, follow WABC on social, on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 27: and X.
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 3: See you next time for a new episode so you
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 3: never have to wonder.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 16: What the heck is going on here?