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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Justin Ehrlich here, executive producer of Sid and Friends in
- 0:09Speaker 2: the Morning, and this is your best of Sid and
- 0:11Speaker 2: Friends in the Morning, local edition. Kicking things off, as always,
- 0:15Speaker 2: John Katsimatidis, Red Apple media owner and operator, joined Sid
- 0:19Speaker 2: to recap last Friday night's annual WABC radio gala, which
- 0:23Speaker 2: was a rousing success once again, before he delves into
- 0:26Speaker 2: America's enemies attacking President Trump.
- 0:28Speaker 3: John Katzmatidis, because he is the big shot. Mr. Red
- 0:33Speaker 3: Apple Media, not one but two.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Great shows on our station.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Five o'clock every weekday afternoon alongside Rita Cosby. I was
- 0:40Speaker 3: on twice last week, the Katz and Cosby show. And
- 0:43Speaker 3: then he does this amazing.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Show Sunday mornings. What a guest list.
- 0:46Speaker 3: It's called the Katz Roundtable, 8 a.m. every Sunday. But
- 0:51Speaker 3: I guess we'll rewind to Friday, John. Another big birthday
- 0:55Speaker 3: party for you and Simone, a bunch of other people,
- 0:58Speaker 3: and another great gala, and an important one this year
- 1:01Speaker 3: on September the 11th, another big night.
- 1:05Speaker 4: It was the biggest gala ever. We had, I guess,
- 1:10Speaker 4: 700 people, maybe more, And the place only fits 600.
- 1:15Speaker 4: So I'm glad the fire department was on our side.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Let's put it this way. I mean, we could have
- 1:23Speaker 4: had 1,100. We had to turn away hundreds and hundreds
- 1:27Speaker 4: of people because we just didn't have room. But those
- 1:30Speaker 4: people made contributions. And we took in a million, I
- 1:35Speaker 4: don't know, 400,000, 500,000. We haven't stopped counting. And that
- 1:39Speaker 4: money is going to the Police Athletic League. It's going
- 1:42Speaker 4: to the Tunnels to Towers. It's going to the Pataki Foundation,
- 1:47Speaker 4: who does wonderful things for the Ukraine and helping people
- 1:52Speaker 4: over there. And it's going to the WABC Foundation, which
- 1:55Speaker 4: we're preparing for the Thanksgiving Day celebration that every year
- 2:02Speaker 4: we used to give away gifts. Tens of a thousand
- 2:07Speaker 4: turkeys to the needy. And we're trying to figure out
- 2:10Speaker 4: how to give more to the people of New York.
- 2:14Speaker 4: And we love the people of New York.
- 2:16Speaker 1: No, no, you do.
- 2:16Speaker 3: And listen, the Thanksgiving thing that we do is great.
- 2:19Speaker 3: We go around with the trolleys. We hand out turkeys.
- 2:21Speaker 3: You do amazing work.
- 2:23Speaker 4: You do.
- 2:23Speaker 5: God bless you.
- 2:24Speaker 3: You've got a great soul, John Katz.
- 2:25Speaker 4: And all the money. All the money goes.
- 2:26Speaker 3: To the charity. But I'm a little upset that we're
- 2:29Speaker 3: talking about Thanksgiving. I'm still enjoying these 72-degree sunny summer days.
- 2:35Speaker 3: And Thanksgiving is usually pretty cold, John. But you're right.
- 2:39Speaker 3: It's right around the corner. Here it comes. And Thanksgiving,
- 2:42Speaker 3: mind you, will be a couple of weeks after the midterms.
- 2:45Speaker 3: And you and I will know at that point, John,
- 2:47Speaker 3: if we stay or go.
- 2:49Speaker 4: President Trump is under attack. And I've been talking about
- 2:54Speaker 4: it with some major figures. Even, you know, and I'm
- 2:58Speaker 4: very— I said— I'm even disappointed in the Canadians, you know,
- 3:04Speaker 4: because Prime Minister Carney is a very smart guy. But
- 3:10Speaker 4: I think whether it's the Canadians, whether it's the Europeans,
- 3:13Speaker 4: whether it's the evil empire— remember, in James Bond movies, we
- 3:18Speaker 4: used to call it— oh, my God.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Again— Yankees, too. People have called the Yankees the evil empire.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Well, you know, the evil empire, we got Russia, we
- 3:30Speaker 4: got North Korea, we got China, Iran. And, well, the
- 3:39Speaker 4: Cubans come to see me all the time. And I
- 3:43Speaker 4: said to them, you have to pledge allegiance to America
- 3:47Speaker 4: and to North America, and you're part of North America
- 3:50Speaker 4: and not part of the evil empire. And what's happening,
- 3:56Speaker 4: what's really happening is everybody is gathering together. They're raising
- 4:01Speaker 4: the price of oil to over $ 100. The interest rates
- 4:05Speaker 4: are going up right now. So this is not normal
- 4:10Speaker 4: course of business. This is an attack on President Trump.
- 4:14Speaker 4: They figure because they figure if they can weaken him
- 4:19Speaker 4: by him losing the midterm elections. And this is what
- 4:22Speaker 4: they're figuring. Every American out there has to realize the truth.
- 4:27Speaker 4: they figure, but you know what he joked about the
- 4:29Speaker 4: other day, president Trump, he says, uh, on November, uh,
- 4:33Speaker 4: November 3rd is the election. November 4th, the price of
- 4:36Speaker 4: oil go down. He said, because that is what they're doing.
- 4:39Speaker 4: It's an attack on president Trump.
- 4:41Speaker 3: But how are they going to raise it? Is that
- 4:43Speaker 3: what we have Washington there not to raise the interest rates?
- 4:45Speaker 4: Well, let's see what he does. I mean, uh, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to raise the, my opinion. Yeah.
- 4:50Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to raise the interest rates.
- 4:51Speaker 6: Okay.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I believe you.
- 4:52Speaker 4: And, uh, But it's an attack on Trump. You know why?
- 4:57Speaker 4: They know they're going to weaken him. And if they
- 5:01Speaker 4: ever get another Democratic administration the way this Democratic administration
- 5:05Speaker 4: is— You know, what are they going to do? They're
- 5:10Speaker 4: going to take advantage of the United States of America.
- 5:13Speaker 5: Of course.
- 5:14Speaker 3: They're going to take advantage. They're going to practice the
- 5:16Speaker 3: cream corn. They're going to make these other states, you know,
- 5:18Speaker 3: these other city-states.
- 5:19Speaker 4: The socialists are running the Democratic Party. It's not the
- 5:23Speaker 4: common sense people.
- 5:24Speaker 7: Oil.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Because I saw Marjorie Taylor Greene, another Trump backstabber, another traitor.
- 5:29Speaker 1: She's a traitor.
- 5:30Speaker 3: She was saying this week, and I have no idea
- 5:31Speaker 3: if she's right.
- 5:32Speaker 1: You do.
- 5:32Speaker 4: I'll tell you.
- 5:33Speaker 3: There's a difference between light crude oil and heavy crude oil.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 5:38Speaker 3: And she says we should be making both in America,
- 5:42Speaker 3: yet we are forced to buy heavy crude oil someplace else.
- 5:47Speaker 3: Why are we doing that?
- 5:48Speaker 4: Well, we're buying because you buy it where it exists.
- 5:52Speaker 4: Wherever it exists. We can't make it here? Can our
- 5:55Speaker 4: refineries make it here? No, no, no, no. That has
- 6:00Speaker 4: nothing to do. This is the stuff that comes out
- 6:02Speaker 4: of the ground. And Canadians have heavy oil. The Venezuelans
- 6:08Speaker 4: have heavy oil. What President Trump has just did in Venezuela,
- 6:12Speaker 4: $ 65 billion. Barrels is the supply for the next 30 years.
- 6:18Speaker 4: It's worth trillions of dollars to the American people.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Trillions!
- 6:23Speaker 4: What other president ever did that? Now, light oil is
- 6:27Speaker 4: available in certain other countries. And the way the refineries work,
- 6:32Speaker 4: they take the heavy oil and the light oil and
- 6:35Speaker 4: you mix it. And you can make different kinds of
- 6:40Speaker 4: jet fuel. Makes sense. And everything. So Marjorie Taylor.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Greene. She says we're not being American first.
- 6:47Speaker 4: She has no clue what she's talking about.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Right.
- 6:51Speaker 4: It's just whatever comes out of the ground, it comes
- 6:54Speaker 4: out of the ground. And, you know, it's not made oil,
- 6:59Speaker 4: crude oil. Not made by the dinosaurs. That was all crap.
- 7:04Speaker 4: It's the planet Earth makes it to take the plaque,
- 7:13Speaker 4: to be able to— what do you call them? The plateaus
- 7:19Speaker 4: underneath the Earth that flow to make it easier for
- 7:23Speaker 4: them to do it. And when you take too much
- 7:26Speaker 4: oil out, like in Oklahoma— You know what you end
- 7:28Speaker 4: up with? If you take too much oil out and
- 7:30Speaker 4: the planet Earth can't make it fast enough?
- 7:33Speaker 3: Earthquakes. Earthquakes. There you go. I want to move over
- 7:36Speaker 3: to Bill Clinton. What a great interview.
- 7:38Speaker 1: You did yesterday on your radio show.
- 7:40Speaker 4: He's been a good friend for 40 years, and he
- 7:46Speaker 4: loves America. and I would say he was the last
- 7:49Speaker 4: great Democratic president.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Oh, I would agree with that. So his second term
- 7:53Speaker 3: was a bit rough, but that's okay.
- 7:54Speaker 1: That wasn't all his fault. Some of it was.
- 7:56Speaker 3: But he talked specifically about Osama bin Laden because people say,
- 8:01Speaker 3: you know... You want to blame Bush. He sat there.
- 8:04Speaker 3: He looked very confused on 9-11. But Clinton had three
- 8:08Speaker 3: opportunities to get to bin Laden. He didn't do it.
- 8:11Speaker 3: But Clinton told you, wait a second, I wanted him.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I wanted to go get him. But the CIA said,
- 8:18Speaker 3: don't do it. Isn't that right?
- 8:20Speaker 4: He did say that. And you got to remember, there's many,
- 8:23Speaker 4: many opportunities. There might have been three opportunities, might be
- 8:28Speaker 4: four opportunities, might be five opportunities. So it depends which
- 8:32Speaker 4: opportunity you're talking about. You know, he lived it day
- 8:36Speaker 4: to day. You know, we live it on what ABC, CBS,
- 8:41Speaker 4: and NBC talks about. Don't forget fake news. Yes. I mean,
- 8:48Speaker 4: the only way you can get fired from WABC— News
- 8:52Speaker 4: is by being fake news.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Well, Trump was furious, too, in Dallas because they were
- 8:58Speaker 3: saying there were empty seats all over the arena. I
- 9:01Speaker 3: was in that arena, John. That place was packed.
- 9:04Speaker 4: I agree with you 110%. And even somebody from our
- 9:07Speaker 4: WorldWise News Network, who I'm going to deal with, said
- 9:12Speaker 4: the same thing. Said what? Said that there were empty seats.
- 9:15Speaker 3: No, there's not empty seats.
- 9:16Speaker 4: At 1 o'clock in the morning, I was listening.
- 9:18Speaker 3: Trump heard it. Did you know that? I heard it. No,
- 9:21Speaker 3: Trump heard it, too.
- 9:22Speaker 4: I heard your interview, too. Okay?
- 9:25Speaker 3: He said, did I just hear that on hold? Sid,
- 9:28Speaker 3: you got to help me here. I was sitting there.
- 9:30Speaker 3: I didn't see that.
- 9:31Speaker 4: We're going to deal with it.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Yeah, that's, we can't.
- 9:33Speaker 4: You want to be woke? Go work someplace else.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Oh, God, I love that.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Whoa, what a morning for you.
- 9:38Speaker 4: Well i feel like you're on fire well i slept
- 9:42Speaker 4: seven hours and 15 minutes last last night so i
- 9:45Speaker 4: feel good.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Were you home this weekend on the half i was
- 9:48Speaker 3: home i.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Was home this weekend we had a great party uh
- 9:51Speaker 4: on uh uh what was it friday night yeah greatest
- 9:55Speaker 4: party ever and you know what we're gonna do every
- 9:58Speaker 4: 9-11 uh from Every 9-11, from now until forever... We're
- 10:02Speaker 4: going to celebrate 9-11, the WABC Gala, and we're going
- 10:06Speaker 4: to do it to help our veterans, to help our
- 10:10Speaker 4: kids in the inner city. And it's all about charity.
- 10:13Speaker 4: It's about helping. And people support that, and people love it.
- 10:16Speaker 1: 100%.
- 10:17Speaker 3: And it was nice seeing your beautiful wife, Margo, out.
- 10:19Speaker 1: There on Friday night.
- 10:21Speaker 4: Well, she was dressed great. And, you know, she's had
- 10:25Speaker 4: problems with her ankle and her knee. But she was
- 10:28Speaker 4: out there, you know— She's a trooper. She's out there
- 10:32Speaker 4: dancing every dance. I mean, on Saturday, she suffered. But
- 10:37Speaker 4: she's a trooper Friday night, and her ulcers are good.
- 10:43Speaker 4: So she's back. She's back.
- 10:46Speaker 3: Thank God. Thank God for that.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Up next, economic journalist Charlie Gasparino made his return to
- 11:03Speaker 2: sit in Friends in the Morning to expand on his
- 11:05Speaker 2: most recent New York Post column saying the White House
- 11:07Speaker 2: may impose limited safeguards on AI to prevent the apocalypse
- 11:12Speaker 2: and mass extinction.
- 11:13Speaker 3: The first question is very simple, Charlie. President Trump says...
- 11:17Speaker 3: Calm down. Don't listen to all these crazy people. The
- 11:21Speaker 3: fact is we need to beat China. Let's move forward.
- 11:25Speaker 3: But then you get people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk.
- 11:27Speaker 3: They go, we got to slow down. We need some
- 11:30Speaker 3: guardrails here. Bill Gates is ready to put in a
- 11:33Speaker 3: billion dollars. So what's the truth? Is AI going to
- 11:36Speaker 3: mean the end of the world? Or in President Trump's case,
- 11:40Speaker 3: does it mean the future of the world?
- 11:42Speaker 4: Which one?
- 11:43Speaker 8: Well, you know, this is kind of like one of
- 11:45Speaker 8: those Catch-22 situations, Sid. I mean, I think if you're
- 11:49Speaker 8: a policymaker like the President of the United States, you
- 11:52Speaker 8: cannot stop the advancement of AI. It's too much of
- 11:55Speaker 8: a valuable technology just for national security reasons. The President's
- 12:01Speaker 8: main job is to protect the national security of America.
- 12:05Speaker 8: If you really think about it, what is at bottom?
- 12:08Speaker 8: Some of that involves protecting the economy as well. At bottom,
- 12:12Speaker 8: it's to keep Americans safe. If we're not the leaders
- 12:17Speaker 8: in AI, China takes over and then God knows what
- 12:21Speaker 8: they will do with this technology because this is a
- 12:24Speaker 8: revolutionary technology. It does– AI does have a mind of itself.
- 12:28Speaker 8: I mean we've already seen it with the recent anthropic
- 12:33Speaker 8: hack that went down where these sort of AI bots
- 12:38Speaker 8: just– If you do a deep dive into that, these
- 12:41Speaker 8: things were actually sentient. They were talking to each other.
- 12:44Speaker 8: They were hanging out. They were, hey, let's do this.
- 12:48Speaker 8: Let's do that. They were thinking like, is what we're
- 12:51Speaker 8: doing legal or ethical? I mean these things had brains
- 12:56Speaker 8: in this weird way. So this is– I mean obviously
- 13:01Speaker 8: there's issues here. But you can't stop it because if
- 13:05Speaker 8: you stop it, that sort of potential apocalyptic outcome could
- 13:13Speaker 8: be harnessed by the Chinese.
- 13:15Speaker 3: We'll use it.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Right.
- 13:17Speaker 3: China– and they'll use it for bad things like Iran
- 13:19Speaker 3: will with a nuclear weapon. But my favorite part of
- 13:22Speaker 3: the movie Philadelphia, which was a great movie, was people
- 13:25Speaker 3: knew very little about AIDS and Tom Hanks played this
- 13:27Speaker 3: attorney and the whole movie. And they were suing, Tom
- 13:31Speaker 3: Hanks was suing his company because they fired him as
- 13:34Speaker 3: an attorney because he had AIDS. And Denzel Washington played
- 13:37Speaker 3: the lawyer. And he said, listen, I don't know much
- 13:39Speaker 3: about AIDS. So talk to me like I'm a first grader.
- 13:44Speaker 3: And I'm admitting ignorance here. So, Charlie, talk to me
- 13:47Speaker 3: like I'm a first grader. If all these critics are
- 13:50Speaker 3: right and AI needs to be slowed down, what is
- 13:54Speaker 3: the worst thing that could happen? If, in fact, we
- 13:56Speaker 3: accelerate AI, the world comes to an end. What's the
- 13:59Speaker 3: worst thing?
- 14:00Speaker 8: You know, if you believe the potential of AI, that
- 14:07Speaker 8: is not a totally theoretical risk.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Wow.
- 14:10Speaker 8: The world comes to an end. taking the risk of
- 14:15Speaker 8: non-development and non-advancement and non-hegemony of the technology because the outcome,
- 14:24Speaker 8: the cure might be worse than the disease, which it
- 14:26Speaker 8: really will be because China will do that. And they
- 14:29Speaker 8: will use it for their own nefarious means, which is
- 14:32Speaker 8: them taking over, controlling the global economy, however they want
- 14:35Speaker 8: to do it. I mean, theoretically, if a bad actor
- 14:38Speaker 8: got the most advanced AI– they could shut down the
- 14:43Speaker 8: electric power grid for the entire country.
- 14:45Speaker 3: But hold on. As far as I know, as far
- 14:48Speaker 3: as I know, and I know a lot of stuff,
- 14:50Speaker 3: China could already do that already. The water systems, the power,
- 14:53Speaker 3: all of that.
- 14:53Speaker 8: Well, it's more difficult now. I mean, you know, and
- 14:56Speaker 8: with AI would be a lot easier and a lot
- 14:58Speaker 8: more instantaneous and a lot more seamless. And, you know,
- 15:02Speaker 8: the fact that when you develop AI, you develop guardrails
- 15:06Speaker 8: against those attacks. That's what people are not considering here.
- 15:10Speaker 8: If we become the leader in AI, we keep going.
- 15:14Speaker 8: And obviously, if these companies respond to the legitimate concerns
- 15:20Speaker 8: that are out there that we don't want them to stop,
- 15:22Speaker 8: but we want them to put safeguards and basically create
- 15:26Speaker 8: AI that maybe helps prevent that, well, that is a
- 15:29Speaker 8: good thing. And that's where we probably should be going.
- 15:31Speaker 8: And I think that's where the Trump administration is going.
- 15:33Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw my piece in The
- 15:34Speaker 8: Post today. It's not like the Trump administration said there's
- 15:39Speaker 8: no problems here. I mean, that's clearly not the case.
- 15:42Speaker 8: They understand there's problems. They would like self-regulation. They also
- 15:45Speaker 8: understand that there's this sort of economic issue here where
- 15:48Speaker 8: these AI companies go into rural communities in particular. They
- 15:52Speaker 8: use all the oil and all the– excuse me, all
- 15:54Speaker 8: the energy, their energy infrastructure, use their water. And the
- 15:58Speaker 8: economic benefits to the community because it's so rural are negligible.
- 16:02Speaker 8: So it doesn't sort of match what they take out.
- 16:05Speaker 8: I mean you could see something along the lines of
- 16:08Speaker 8: the Trump administration and say, hey, if you go– if
- 16:10Speaker 8: you're an AI company, you want to set up the
- 16:12Speaker 8: data center somewhere. You have to essentially create your own
- 16:16Speaker 8: power grid. You have to reuse your water. I mean
- 16:19Speaker 8: that's the sort of stuff I think they'll do. And
- 16:21Speaker 8: I think they'll– we will have a debate about the
- 16:25Speaker 8: sort of downside of AI, but make no mistake about it.
- 16:29Speaker 8: If we don't develop it, they will. If we don't
- 16:32Speaker 8: develop it and we don't develop the safeguards that AI
- 16:36Speaker 8: could provide so you don't have a situation where these
- 16:40Speaker 8: bots sort of break out of their womb, so to speak,
- 16:44Speaker 8: and then just– go and hack into a data center.
- 16:49Speaker 8: Because that's basically what happened with this latest anthropic thing.
- 16:53Speaker 8: I mean, this is, look it up, Hugging Tree, I
- 16:55Speaker 8: think it's called.
- 16:56Speaker 3: I can't remember the name of it.
- 16:58Speaker 8: But if you look at that thing, when I did
- 17:00Speaker 8: a deep dive into that, I was.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Like, whoa. That's why Dario Amadeo came out. He's scared
- 17:06Speaker 3: to death.
- 17:07Speaker 7: I mean, Sam Oldman, too.
- 17:09Speaker 8: Now, here's the other thing here that I'm a little,
- 17:13Speaker 8: let's say, skeptical of him being so scared. These are two,
- 17:16Speaker 8: Dario Amadide and Sam Albin run the two major AI companies,
- 17:21Speaker 8: the one with Elon. SpaceX is a sort of hybrid
- 17:23Speaker 8: AI company, right? So all these companies would love what's
- 17:28Speaker 8: known as regulatory capture. That's when the federal government says, okay,
- 17:33Speaker 8: we're going to set up these barriers. These guys are
- 17:35Speaker 8: already in. They got their financing. They're building up their networks.
- 17:40Speaker 8: That means nobody else comes in. So essentially, they have
- 17:43Speaker 8: a head start on everybody. And they're basically protected because
- 17:49Speaker 8: the regulation is preventing competition.
- 17:52Speaker 7: So remember that.
- 17:53Speaker 8: That's a little bit at play. I can tell you
- 17:54Speaker 8: the Trump administration, and it's pretty apparent that they've actually
- 17:58Speaker 8: said it. And David Sachs said it over the weekend,
- 18:00Speaker 8: who was the AI czar. Now he has the presence
- 18:04Speaker 8: here on this. He's a pretty smart venture capitalist and futurist.
- 18:11Speaker 8: They want their sort of power on this market, too.
- 18:15Speaker 8: He believes I do, too. So I don't really buy
- 18:18Speaker 8: their sort of skepticism totally. But, you know, listen, this
- 18:22Speaker 8: is a worthy debate. That's why you're doing it. You know,
- 18:26Speaker 8: this is a big thing for your audience, for every American.
- 18:29Speaker 8: The benefits of AI are amazing. I could just tell
- 18:32Speaker 8: you on certain aspects. Now, there's downsides. It will commoditize
- 18:35Speaker 8: certain jobs. You don't need certain jobs if you can
- 18:38Speaker 8: just plug it into AI, right?
- 18:40Speaker 3: But why is that a good thing? I'm always nervous
- 18:42Speaker 3: that there's less and less reliance on humans. That makes
- 18:46Speaker 3: me nervous.
- 18:48Speaker 8: Here's the way it should work. That's what they said
- 18:50Speaker 8: when the car was created, less and less reliance on
- 18:53Speaker 8: buggy whip salesmen. The technology, if it follows the trajectory
- 18:59Speaker 8: of other technologies, including the Internet, which said there'll be
- 19:02Speaker 8: no need for malls. By the way, I just read it.
- 19:04Speaker 8: I remember doing these stories back in the 1990s when
- 19:07Speaker 8: I was covering the Internet pool bandits, in fact, on
- 19:10Speaker 8: Wall Street at the Wall Street Journal. I remember saying, well,
- 19:13Speaker 8: this is going to depress real estate prices because malls
- 19:16Speaker 8: are going to go out of business. But after a
- 19:18Speaker 8: little bit of a shakeout, malls are coming back, I
- 19:20Speaker 8: just read in the Wall Street Journal. So remember, the
- 19:22Speaker 8: technology does usually add– it commoditizes certain jobs, and it
- 19:28Speaker 8: creates other jobs because it allows people– to sort of
- 19:33Speaker 8: free up their time to be more productive, and then
- 19:35Speaker 8: other jobs come about because of it. By the way,
- 19:38Speaker 8: I don't see construction workers being taken over by robots.
- 19:41Speaker 3: No, I don't either.
- 19:43Speaker 1: No, that's silly. Sit in Friends in the morning.
- 19:45Speaker 5: Week in Review.
- 19:49Speaker 1: This week.
- 19:56Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, sports radio personality Joe Beningo joined Sid
- 20:00Speaker 2: for his weekly appearance on the morning show to recap
- 20:02Speaker 2: this past weekend's season opening action for our local NFL
- 20:05Speaker 2: squads before he delves into what's coming up next for
- 20:08Speaker 2: the Jets and the Giants.
- 20:09Speaker 3: My next guest is my former midday partner at WFAN.
- 20:13Speaker 3: He's still a legend on the fan on every Saturday,
- 20:16Speaker 3: but now he contributes once a week to our show.
- 20:20Speaker 3: One of the all-time greats, my dear friend Joe Beningo. Joe,
- 20:23Speaker 3: good morning, buddy.
- 20:24Speaker 4: How are you?
- 20:25Speaker 7: Sidney Arthur. First of all, I want to congratulate you
- 20:28Speaker 7: on your big meeting with J.D. I know you're going tomorrow.
- 20:31Speaker 7: You're going to see Don. You're going to see J.D.
- 20:33Speaker 7: You're going to straighten him out about whatever issues he
- 20:35Speaker 7: has with Israel. Go get him, bro.
- 20:38Speaker 3: I'm going to try at least.
- 20:39Speaker 1: I have no idea if I'll be successful.
- 20:41Speaker 3: I love all the people.
- 20:41Speaker 7: Tweeting this morning. I'm confident. I've got great confidence in you, bro.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I know.
- 20:44Speaker 3: Thank you. All the people tweeting this morning, J.D. Vance's
- 20:47Speaker 3: issue is not Sid Rosenberg or the Jews. They make
- 20:50Speaker 3: up a small percentage. He's got bigger fish to fry.
- 20:53Speaker 3: So you know that the folks who don't care about
- 20:56Speaker 3: the Jews or Israel are out there saying, why is
- 20:59Speaker 3: Vance talking to Rosenberg?
- 21:00Speaker 7: Why?
- 21:00Speaker 3: What's the big deal? He doesn't get the Jewish vote.
- 21:02Speaker 3: He can still win. OK, it's not just a Jewish vote.
- 21:06Speaker 3: What about some of the things that he said about
- 21:07Speaker 3: President Trump? I don't know. Calling President Trump the Antichrist.
- 21:11Speaker 3: That may be an issue with J.D.
- 21:12Speaker 4: Vance, no?
- 21:14Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 21:14Speaker 7: Well, I mean, when did he call him the Antichrist?
- 21:17Speaker 7: Did I miss something here? When was that? In the
- 21:19Speaker 7: early days before?
- 21:19Speaker 1: No, no, no.
- 21:20Speaker 3: That was Tucker Carlson who did that.
- 21:22Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not J.D.
- 21:23Speaker 7: No, no, no.
- 21:24Speaker 3: By the way, J.D. called him a Nazi.
- 21:26Speaker 4: J.D.
- 21:26Speaker 3: Called President Trump a Nazi years ago.
- 21:29Speaker 7: Well, I know he wasn't. I know he was not
- 21:32Speaker 7: for Don and, you know, way back when. Tucker Carlson's
- 21:35Speaker 7: lost his cookies, bro. I mean, let's be honest. You know,
- 21:37Speaker 7: him and we talked about this yesterday. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens,
- 21:43Speaker 7: Marjorie Taylor Greene, these people have all like they've lost
- 21:46Speaker 7: their minds, these people. Well, I mean, you got to
- 21:49Speaker 7: be kidding me. Right?
- 21:50Speaker 3: They're traitors.
- 21:51Speaker 7: You got Tucker Carlson back in El Saeed now?
- 21:53Speaker 6: Yeah. What the hell is that?
- 21:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:55Speaker 3: Yeah, he is.
- 21:56Speaker 7: I mean, what? I know. I know.
- 21:58Speaker 3: And he said that El Saeed is right about 9-11. Look,
- 22:01Speaker 3: there's no other way.
- 22:02Speaker 1: To put it.
- 22:03Speaker 3: They're traitors. You know, Trump's a liar. He's not America first.
- 22:07Speaker 3: He's Israel first, like Rosenberg. Let me just say this
- 22:10Speaker 3: again for you folks. As soon as you say Israel first,
- 22:15Speaker 3: like Alex Jones loves to do, you're an anti-Semite. That's it.
- 22:18Speaker 3: That's it. There's another way to say it.
- 22:20Speaker 7: You are a great, I know you for many years now.
- 22:23Speaker 7: We've been through, you and I went through, we did
- 22:25Speaker 7: a lot of different crap together. We had some interesting moments.
- 22:28Speaker 7: We can't get it. We can't get into. But you
- 22:30Speaker 7: know what? You are a freaking patriot, bro.
- 22:34Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 22:34Speaker 7: You love this country more than anything. Yeah, you know,
- 22:38Speaker 7: you're a serious Jew, and I have great respect for
- 22:41Speaker 7: all that. By the way, Happy New Year, and have
- 22:43Speaker 7: a good fast if I don't talk to you next week.
- 22:45Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 22:46Speaker 1: Very nice.
- 22:47Speaker 7: But anyway, you are a great patriot, and that's the
- 22:52Speaker 7: bottom line, bro. You're America first all the way.
- 22:55Speaker 3: All the way.
- 22:55Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 22:56Speaker 3: And you know what?
- 22:56Speaker 7: If you're America first, and I really believe this, too,
- 23:00Speaker 7: If you're America first, you're going to be pro-Israel. I mean,
- 23:03Speaker 7: they're our number one ally in the world. I mean,
- 23:05Speaker 7: to me, it's not– don't give me England. Don't give
- 23:08Speaker 7: me France. Certainly don't give me Canada or any of
- 23:11Speaker 7: these other freaking whacked-out places. It's Israel, and that's number one.
- 23:15Speaker 1: God, I love you.
- 23:16Speaker 3: And you're a great patriot, too, for a guy that,
- 23:18Speaker 3: you know, look, for so many years, and still, you know,
- 23:21Speaker 3: everybody wants to hear Joe Benningo on a Monday morning
- 23:24Speaker 3: after a jet game.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Everybody.
- 23:26Speaker 3: Or, you know, when Peter Lonzo comes to Citi Field.
- 23:28Speaker 7: Oh, my God, bro, please. And I got to, let
- 23:31Speaker 7: me just say this. I'm glad you brought that up.
- 23:33Speaker 7: Congratulations to all the great Met fans out there, okay,
- 23:37Speaker 7: who let David Stearns and the owner hear it. the
- 23:41Speaker 7: last couple nights, hear it about the massive mistake. You know,
- 23:45Speaker 7: the only big– and the Mets have made many. I
- 23:47Speaker 7: don't have to go through the litany of great Mets
- 23:50Speaker 7: that they have either traded away or allowed to walk away.
- 23:53Speaker 7: But Peter Alonso, only Tom Siva was worse than letting
- 23:58Speaker 7: Peter Alonso walk. That's the only thing that has been–
- 24:01Speaker 7: the Siva trade is the only worst thing that the
- 24:05Speaker 7: Mets franchise has ever done in letting one of their
- 24:08Speaker 7: iconic– Future Hall of Famer, walk away. 36 homers, 102 RBIs.
- 24:14Speaker 7: His OPS is about 860. He plays every effing day.
- 24:19Speaker 7: He hit that home run off Sengel last night. He
- 24:22Speaker 7: knew he was going to hit number 300 at Citi Field.
- 24:26Speaker 7: God bless Pete Alonzo. What an effing mistake.
- 24:30Speaker 3: Fire Stern. Fire Stern. Now, look, you mentioned Seaver. And
- 24:36Speaker 3: don't forget, before you were my great midday partner, I
- 24:38Speaker 3: worked with Jody McDonald. His father, Joe, he's the guy
- 24:41Speaker 3: that traded Seaver. And, you know, we know about that
- 24:43Speaker 3: terrible trade. Doug Blaine, Steve Henderson, Pat Zachary, and Dan Norman.
- 24:48Speaker 3: But I got one more for you that may be
- 24:49Speaker 3: even worse than Alonzo.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Go. Go.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Nolan Ryan for Jim Figozzi?
- 24:54Speaker 7: The only reason you can't make that worse is because
- 24:57Speaker 7: at the time they traded Nolan Ryan, nobody knew that
- 25:00Speaker 7: Nolan Ryan was going to turn into this all-time great pitcher.
- 25:03Speaker 7: You know what I mean? You didn't know it. He'd
- 25:06Speaker 7: been there a few years. He was great in the
- 25:08Speaker 7: World Series in 69. He wasn't even starting.
- 25:11Speaker 3: They were starting Gary Gentry. Let's be honest.
- 25:14Speaker 7: What's that?
- 25:15Speaker 3: They were starting Gary Gentry.
- 25:16Speaker 7: Yeah, Gary Gentry was part of the rotation in 69.
- 25:20Speaker 7: But Ryan came out of the pen, man. You look
- 25:22Speaker 7: at it. In the World Series, he pitched that great
- 25:24Speaker 7: game in Game 3. I mean, you know, he was
- 25:26Speaker 7: unbelievable against the Braves in the playoffs. He pitched like
- 25:28Speaker 7: seven innings in the clincher out of the pen. But
- 25:32Speaker 7: they never knew he was going to turn out to
- 25:34Speaker 7: be that. So if you want to say Nolan Ryan–
- 25:36Speaker 7: To me, it's Seaver number one, it's Alonzo number two,
- 25:40Speaker 7: and it's the dismantling of the 86 championship team by
- 25:44Speaker 7: Frank Cashin, number three.
- 25:46Speaker 3: What about the fact that every July 1st, even now,
- 25:51Speaker 3: Bobby Bonilla gets a million dollars?
- 25:54Speaker 7: Bobby Bonilla. Say whatever you want about Bobby Bonilla. Is
- 25:58Speaker 7: there ever been a smarter guy than this guy?
- 26:00Speaker 4: Well, a ton.
- 26:01Speaker 7: I mean, they got a million dollars every year. I know.
- 26:04Speaker 7: Remember when he first came up and they said, you're
- 26:06Speaker 7: never going to wipe my smile. I'll show you the Bronx.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Yes.
- 26:09Speaker 7: You're never going to wipe the smile off my face.
- 26:12Speaker 7: Remember that? I do.
- 26:13Speaker 1: I do.
- 26:14Speaker 3: He's getting paid, folks. Just so you know, until 2035.
- 26:18Speaker 7: One quick one.
- 26:18Speaker 3: I know. We've got to go to football, but the
- 26:21Speaker 3: Yankees went again last night. Weed looks good. They're scoring runs.
- 26:24Speaker 3: Aaron Judge is back. I'm not sure they catch Tampa.
- 26:28Speaker 3: I think they've got four head-to-head. Doesn't matter, right? That's
- 26:30Speaker 3: the best team in the American League, right?
- 26:32Speaker 7: No question. You know, I tell this story, and obviously
- 26:35Speaker 7: I'm not a Yankee fan. I know you're a Yankee
- 26:37Speaker 7: fan now. I tell this to all my friends who
- 26:39Speaker 7: are Yankee fans. Just think about the Knicks, okay? The
- 26:42Speaker 7: Knicks finished with 53 wins. They were the third seed
- 26:45Speaker 7: in the Eastern Conference. It doesn't matter. You know, the
- 26:49Speaker 7: regular season, it is what it is. You've got to
- 26:52Speaker 7: play 162 games, all of that. It doesn't matter if
- 26:55Speaker 7: they catch Tampa or not. They're going to have home
- 26:57Speaker 7: field success. in the wild card round, and they're going
- 27:01Speaker 7: to win. You know, I love their rotation. I'm a
- 27:03Speaker 7: little worried about Garrett Cole. I mean, the Mets had
- 27:05Speaker 7: batting practice against them.
- 27:06Speaker 3: Forget about the Mets. The game before the Mets, he
- 27:08Speaker 3: started the Padre game giving up three home runs.
- 27:11Speaker 7: Right, right, right. He could give up four to the
- 27:13Speaker 7: Mets before he went out of the game. Mets hit
- 27:15Speaker 7: six in that game. But, you know, I'm a little
- 27:17Speaker 7: worried about Cole, but Schlittler is the best pitcher in
- 27:19Speaker 7: the American League in my mind. You know, you got
- 27:22Speaker 7: Max Freed. You got a pretty decent bullpen. Bednar has
- 27:25Speaker 7: really been good out of the pen. A couple other
- 27:26Speaker 7: of these guys, Weathers, Warren, whoever you want to throw
- 27:29Speaker 7: out there. I like the Yankees to win the pennant.
- 27:32Speaker 7: I really do. And I don't think the Dodgers are
- 27:34Speaker 7: coming back. They're not getting to the World Series again.
- 27:37Speaker 7: Ohtani's been hurt. And, you know, am I supposed to
- 27:41Speaker 7: be afraid if you're a Yankee fan of the Milwaukee
- 27:43Speaker 7: Brewers or even the Braves or the Phillies? No. I
- 27:46Speaker 7: think the Yankees win it this year. I do.
- 27:48Speaker 1: Wow.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Well, let's hope so. Randy Levine, I'm going to send
- 27:52Speaker 3: you this later on today. Joe Beningo has the Yankees
- 27:55Speaker 3: winning the World Series. I'm a Met fan.
- 27:58Speaker 7: Randy knows what kind of Met fan I am.
- 27:59Speaker 1: He knows.
- 28:00Speaker 4: He knows.
- 28:00Speaker 3: All right, quickly, we've got a couple of minutes. I
- 28:02Speaker 3: want to get the football. Yes. The Jets have not
- 28:05Speaker 3: looked better. in week one in years. Is this team
- 28:09Speaker 3: primed to win the Super Bowl?
- 28:10Speaker 1: No.
- 28:11Speaker 7: But I'll tell you what, though. They're going to be
- 28:13Speaker 7: a competitive football team all year, Sid. I think, seriously,
- 28:17Speaker 7: they can win between seven and ten games. This is
- 28:20Speaker 7: a much better team. They're nowhere near resembled what they
- 28:24Speaker 7: were last year. You got a completely different defensive football team.
- 28:28Speaker 7: The strength of this team is the offensive line. They
- 28:32Speaker 7: got a really good offensive line. I mean, I know
- 28:34Speaker 7: Tennessee stinks. Look, I don't want to sugarcoat that. Tennessee stinks, okay?
- 28:38Speaker 7: I feel bad in a lot of ways for Robert
- 28:39Speaker 7: Sala because he's stuck with a completely garbage team. Cam
- 28:43Speaker 7: Ward is not any good.
- 28:44Speaker 4: Whatever.
- 28:45Speaker 7: But the offensive line, man, these guys– I mean, they
- 28:49Speaker 7: ran the ball beautifully with Brees Hall and Braylon Allen.
- 28:53Speaker 7: You know, they kept Geno. They didn't even touch Geno
- 28:54Speaker 7: in this game. And if you give Geno time to throw,
- 28:58Speaker 7: he's going to, you know, go 19 for 24 for
- 29:00Speaker 7: 200 and whatever yards.
- 29:01Speaker 3: He could throw.
- 29:02Speaker 7: And tear you up. You know, Wilson had a big game.
- 29:05Speaker 7: The kid Mitchell had a big game. I'm very happy
- 29:09Speaker 7: with the team, bro. I think this team is really
- 29:12Speaker 7: going to surprise some people this year. I think they'll
- 29:14Speaker 7: at least be in the mix again. you know, for
- 29:17Speaker 7: most of the season to make the playoffs. I don't
- 29:19Speaker 7: think they will, but I think at least they'll give
- 29:21Speaker 7: us a, you know, a competitive season this year. And
- 29:24Speaker 7: they're set up, bro. They got three number one draft
- 29:27Speaker 7: choices again next year. This guy, Aaron Bougie, has done
- 29:30Speaker 7: a terrific job setting them up. That trade, their source
- 29:33Speaker 7: guard in the trade, looks like the biggest fleecing of
- 29:35Speaker 7: all time. Just think about it. They got the Colts'
- 29:38Speaker 7: number one pick next year.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Wow.
- 29:40Speaker 7: Colts look like they're going to stink.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Stink.
- 29:41Speaker 7: They may wind up with the first and second pick
- 29:43Speaker 7: in the draft.
- 29:44Speaker 1: They may.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Yeah, Daniel Jones looked terrible.
- 29:47Speaker 1: Sit in Friends in the morning.
- 29:49Speaker 5: Weekend Review.
- 29:52Speaker 3: This is Sit in Friends in the morning.
- 29:54Speaker 5: Weekend Review.
- 29:59Speaker 2: Thursday morning heard attorney Randy Mastro make his return to
- 30:02Speaker 2: Sid's Airwaves to talk about Mayor Zoran Mamdani being accused
- 30:05Speaker 2: of colluding on his NYC rent freeze initiative as a
- 30:08Speaker 2: judge orders City Hall to release emails and texts in
- 30:11Speaker 2: a scathing ruling.
- 30:12Speaker 3: My good buddy Randy Mastro. Randy, good morning, pal.
- 30:15Speaker 4: How are you?
- 30:16Speaker 6: Pleasure to be here, Sid.
- 30:17Speaker 3: Great to have you. So this is exciting that the
- 30:20Speaker 3: mayor is being exposed as basically, and whatever I'm wrong about,
- 30:24Speaker 3: just correct me, but what I'm reading is this guy
- 30:27Speaker 3: basically rigged this whole board to make sure that he
- 30:30Speaker 3: was going to get what he wanted, this rent freeze.
- 30:34Speaker 6: Well, that's the overarching theme of the lawsuit. He promised this.
- 30:40Speaker 6: He guaranteed this when he ran for mayor. So how
- 30:44Speaker 6: did he guarantee a rent freeze, unprecedented rent freeze, for
- 30:48Speaker 6: the first time in city history across the board, one-year,
- 30:51Speaker 6: two-year leases across the board? How did he guarantee that
- 30:54Speaker 6: if he wasn't communicating with the board when it was
- 30:58Speaker 6: supposedly independently deciding what increases to impose? It doesn't make
- 31:05Speaker 6: any sense. So this judge, I think, absolutely correctly ruled
- 31:11Speaker 6: that Hey, we've got to see what documents there are,
- 31:14Speaker 6: what communications there were, because the city has admitted this
- 31:18Speaker 6: rent guidelines board was supposed to be independent. Well, now
- 31:22Speaker 6: we're going to see how independent it was or it
- 31:24Speaker 6: wasn't and how much the mayor influenced it. Right.
- 31:27Speaker 3: I mean, how could it be independent? And again, if
- 31:30Speaker 3: I'm wrong, correct me. What I'm reading from this is
- 31:32Speaker 3: that he basically he basically put people in position on
- 31:37Speaker 3: this board that were going to agree with him.
- 31:41Speaker 6: He stacked the board, super majority of the board, with
- 31:44Speaker 6: his acolytes, people who were largely already on record for
- 31:49Speaker 6: rent freeze. Then he spent millions of dollars on advocacy
- 31:54Speaker 6: campaigns to stack the board meetings with tenant advocates. And
- 31:58Speaker 6: then he had special briefings done by people in the
- 32:02Speaker 6: mayor's office to basically give this board instructions. All that
- 32:08Speaker 6: is going to come out.
- 32:10Speaker 3: And let's say all that does come out, and it
- 32:13Speaker 3: turns out that we find out for a fact this
- 32:16Speaker 3: guy stacked the board, this guy is giving out directions
- 32:19Speaker 3: and instructions to get what he wants. What would the
- 32:22Speaker 3: penalty be at best?
- 32:25Speaker 6: Well, that rent freeze gets invalidated, and the board has
- 32:30Speaker 6: to start over and apply the proper legal standard. There's
- 32:34Speaker 6: a statutory standard. They're supposed to consider the increasing costs
- 32:39Speaker 6: and less income that landlords are suffering too. And the
- 32:44Speaker 6: board has got to issue a decision that meets that
- 32:49Speaker 6: statutory standard and is consistent with its own data showing
- 32:54Speaker 6: how much landlords are hurting right now and how much
- 32:56Speaker 6: small landlords are in jeopardy of losing their properties.
- 32:59Speaker 3: If I'm wrong, you are actually representing these landlords right now.
- 33:03Speaker 3: We talked about this last time you were on. There
- 33:05Speaker 3: seems to be this issue that Mamdani just pictures and
- 33:08Speaker 3: complains every day about how horrible some of these apartments
- 33:12Speaker 3: are and they need fixing and blah, blah, blah. Some
- 33:15Speaker 3: of these landlords agree. They go, okay, but how am
- 33:18Speaker 3: I going to fix it? How am I going to
- 33:19Speaker 3: fix it if you freeze the rent and I'm not
- 33:22Speaker 3: taking in any money? So, I mean, he wants them
- 33:24Speaker 3: to do something, but at the same time, he's cutting
- 33:26Speaker 3: their balls off.
- 33:28Speaker 6: Well, it's that catch-22, right? Oh, we want you to
- 33:32Speaker 6: offer better apartments, but we're not going to give you
- 33:34Speaker 6: any credit for how much more you have to pay
- 33:37Speaker 6: to do that. Makes no sense. But the fact of
- 33:40Speaker 6: the matter is, look, we should win this case for
- 33:43Speaker 6: many reasons. The decision was arbitrary, capricious, illegal. But at
- 33:48Speaker 6: its core, the reason why it was all of those
- 33:51Speaker 6: things is because this mayor is engineered a sham process
- 33:56Speaker 6: to reach a predetermined outcome. We win either way. It's
- 34:00Speaker 6: an irrational, arbitrary, and capricious decision, first and foremost. But
- 34:05Speaker 6: it's also a decision that this mayor engineered to a
- 34:09Speaker 6: predetermined outcome.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Wow. This is unbelievable. I've got people texting me going, hey,
- 34:14Speaker 3: can you ask Randy what else does this mayor have
- 34:18Speaker 3: to do before maybe he gets recalled or suspended or...
- 34:22Speaker 3: Some type of real punishment as we start to find
- 34:25Speaker 3: out more and more really gross things that this mayor
- 34:30Speaker 3: is doing and has done to push across what he promised.
- 34:35Speaker 6: Well, Sid, our system here in New York City doesn't
- 34:41Speaker 6: work that way. Only the governor has authority in New York.
- 34:46Speaker 6: extreme circumstances to alter the status of an elected official.
- 34:51Speaker 6: But the fact of the matter is that this is
- 34:53Speaker 6: a wake up call to all New Yorkers. You know,
- 34:57Speaker 6: your right to vote is precious and you better exercise
- 35:00Speaker 6: it and you better exercise better judgment when you elect
- 35:03Speaker 6: a officials to represent you because the consequences can be
- 35:08Speaker 6: seismic in your everyday life. And we're experiencing that right
- 35:12Speaker 6: now in New York City.
- 35:13Speaker 1: You really are.
- 35:14Speaker 3: So now you got this, the rent-free thing, this freeze
- 35:17Speaker 3: seems like that's going to go the way we want
- 35:20Speaker 3: it to go. Let me skip back to the second home.
- 35:23Speaker 1: Tax, whatever they call it. I don't know, some stupid
- 35:26Speaker 1: place thing.
- 35:27Speaker 3: Where are we with that? Last time I spoke to you,
- 35:29Speaker 3: it looked like, A, you would have to wait too
- 35:33Speaker 3: many people, maybe as many as 8,000, 9,000, and you
- 35:37Speaker 3: guys were pretty confident you'd have to roll out that
- 35:40Speaker 3: whole process all over again. What about today?
- 35:44Speaker 6: First of all, from your lips to God's ears, a
- 35:47Speaker 6: lot of good things are happening, but cases aren't over
- 35:50Speaker 6: until they're over. On the Pieta tear tax, which is
- 35:56Speaker 6: called a surcharge, we're waiting for a decision from our
- 36:00Speaker 6: judge on Staten Island. We had a two-hour hearing there
- 36:04Speaker 6: on August 31st. We expect a decision any day now.
- 36:09Speaker 6: And that's the same judge who said there should be
- 36:13Speaker 6: a temporary restraining order against the city for their botched rollout.
- 36:17Speaker 6: So we remain hopeful that the judge will once again
- 36:22Speaker 6: tell the city, hey, you've got to do it over
- 36:24Speaker 6: again because you screwed up. You didn't do your homework.
- 36:28Speaker 6: You didn't figure out who actually owed the tax. You
- 36:30Speaker 6: tried to switch the burden to homeowners to prove they
- 36:34Speaker 6: live in their own homes, and that's illegal and that's wrong.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Is this the same judge as Judge Landry in both?
- 36:40Speaker 6: No. Judge Landry is in Manhattan. Judge Ozzie is on
- 36:45Speaker 6: Staten Island. And in the New York state system, we
- 36:48Speaker 6: call them justices. And we are hopeful justice will be
- 36:52Speaker 6: done in both cases.
- 36:53Speaker 3: You know, one of the things that I will give
- 36:55Speaker 3: Eric Adams credit for, and you, is, look, he certainly
- 37:00Speaker 3: likes the Jewish people. You know, I didn't think he
- 37:01Speaker 3: did enough after October 7th, but that's a whole other story.
- 37:04Speaker 3: He certainly does. And he's pro-Israel, and he gets along
- 37:07Speaker 3: great with Netanyahu. So he's coming here a week from today, Randy,
- 37:11Speaker 3: a week from today to speak at the General Assembly
- 37:14Speaker 3: at the U.N. And this mayor, who you're involved with
- 37:17Speaker 3: court cases all day long, He's talked about arresting him.
- 37:21Speaker 3: He knew. He knew, Randy. He's not stupid. I don't
- 37:25Speaker 3: like him, but he's not stupid. He knew he never
- 37:28Speaker 3: had the authority to arrest B.B., but he doesn't care.
- 37:32Speaker 3: And he knows that when he says stuff like that,
- 37:34Speaker 3: all he's going to do is throw gasoline on top
- 37:37Speaker 3: of an anti-Semitic fire that is burning and raging here
- 37:41Speaker 3: in New York. What are your thoughts on B.B. coming
- 37:44Speaker 3: here a week from today?
- 37:46Speaker 6: Well, first of all, We are the home to the
- 37:52Speaker 6: UN and welcome leaders from all over the world, whether
- 37:55Speaker 6: we like the person leading a country or not. So
- 37:59Speaker 6: it's incumbent upon us as the host city to create
- 38:05Speaker 6: an atmosphere where world leaders can come here and debate
- 38:09Speaker 6: in open forum at the UN. What Mayor Mondani did earlier,
- 38:15Speaker 6: threatening to arrest Netanyahu. You're absolutely right. He must have
- 38:20Speaker 6: realized he had no legal authority. He ultimately admitted that
- 38:23Speaker 6: that was all public relations stunt to appeal to his
- 38:28Speaker 6: base and that his lawyers told him he didn't have
- 38:31Speaker 6: the legal authority. Of course, he didn't have the legal authority.
- 38:34Speaker 6: But that's just outrageous for a mayor to conduct himself
- 38:39Speaker 6: that way. And you are completely right about this. I
- 38:45Speaker 6: never thought I was going to live in a city
- 38:48Speaker 6: where anti-Semitism, hate crimes against Jews were the predominant hate
- 38:55Speaker 6: crime in our city. More hate crimes against Jews than
- 38:59Speaker 6: all other hate crimes combined. Wasn't that way when I
- 39:03Speaker 6: was in City Hall in the 90s? Wasn't even on
- 39:05Speaker 6: the radar screen. But today, hate crimes against Jews more
- 39:11Speaker 6: than against all other groups combined. And it's spiking. In
- 39:15Speaker 6: this administration, you would think a mayor, that's a five
- 39:18Speaker 6: alarm fire, you would think a mayor of a city
- 39:21Speaker 6: with the largest Jewish population in the world, larger than
- 39:25Speaker 6: any city in Israel, would be making that a top priority.
- 39:30Speaker 6: instead of stoking the fires. It is shameful.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Finally, Tom Emmer, majority whip of the United States House
- 39:43Speaker 2: of Representatives, joins Sid live in studio to recap last
- 39:46Speaker 2: week's RNC midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, and if he
- 39:49Speaker 2: believes the convention did what it was intended to do
- 39:51Speaker 2: in garnering support and excitement around Republican candidates across the country.
- 39:56Speaker 3: Tom Emmer, and I had a chance to meet Tom
- 39:58Speaker 3: Emmer's lovely wife that night, too.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Put his mic on.
- 40:02Speaker 9: Go ahead.
- 40:03Speaker 5: You're on.
- 40:04Speaker 4: We're live.
- 40:05Speaker 3: We're live.
- 40:05Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 40:06Speaker 9: Everybody knows. Everybody loves Jackie. Just ask the president. He
- 40:12Speaker 9: loves her, too?
- 40:13Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
- 40:13Speaker 5: He'll tell you.
- 40:14Speaker 3: Oh, really? Because you know what's funny about that? For
- 40:16Speaker 3: the first time ever, the president met my wife yesterday.
- 40:19Speaker 3: Him and I had closed for years. He never met Danielle.
- 40:21Speaker 3: I took her into the Oval Office.
- 40:23Speaker 1: He said, oh, my God, what a pretty wife. What
- 40:24Speaker 1: a pretty wife.
- 40:25Speaker 3: And he was so complimentary and so great. And my
- 40:27Speaker 3: wife was a Democrat. And Trump kind of turned to,
- 40:30Speaker 3: you know, so he's like that.
- 40:32Speaker 9: The president gave an invitation. There's a few months back
- 40:34Speaker 9: for dinner. He says, you want to come over for dinner?
- 40:37Speaker 9: What do you say?
- 40:38Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 40:39Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
- 40:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 40:39Speaker 9: He says, is Jackie with you? I said, yeah, she is.
- 40:42Speaker 9: He goes, that's great. Bring her with you. Otherwise, don't
- 40:45Speaker 9: bother showing up.
- 40:46Speaker 4: That's him.
- 40:47Speaker 3: There you go. It's not great. Yeah, that is fantastic.
- 40:50Speaker 3: And he was terrific that night. How do you think
- 40:53Speaker 3: the whole thing, when I saw you the next morning
- 40:55Speaker 3: walking back and forth doing about 9 million interviews, and
- 40:58Speaker 3: I spoke to him that next morning when you walked
- 40:59Speaker 3: by for about an hour, what do you think last
- 41:02Speaker 3: week was fun and glitzy for the party, or do
- 41:06Speaker 3: you think it really helped?
- 41:08Speaker 9: Well, look, people can have different opinions, but this is
- 41:12Speaker 9: the genius of our president. Our president understands that the
- 41:16Speaker 9: result will be based on turnout, Sid, and unfortunately... When
- 41:21Speaker 9: a party is in the White House, they tend to
- 41:23Speaker 9: be happy because they've got Donald.
- 41:25Speaker 5: Trump sealed the border.
- 41:27Speaker 9: Donald Trump has got homicide levels and crime at the
- 41:31Speaker 9: lowest level in 100 years.
- 41:32Speaker 5: I mean, all of these successes.
- 41:35Speaker 9: That Donald Trump is having, the parties, you know, that
- 41:38Speaker 9: the hardcore MAGA world is happy. And what he was
- 41:42Speaker 9: doing last week with all of us in the same
- 41:45Speaker 9: place was saying, don't rest on your laurels.
- 41:49Speaker 5: This is not over.
- 41:50Speaker 9: You got to stand up, you got to show up
- 41:53Speaker 9: and you got to vote. And I want you to
- 41:54Speaker 9: pretend that I'm on the ballot. And I, from that standpoint,
- 41:57Speaker 9: because look, none of these media outlets, you know, present
- 42:01Speaker 9: company excluded, none of the, uh, lamestream, uh, media is
- 42:05Speaker 9: ever going to do him a favor of celebrating anything
- 42:09Speaker 9: that he's done.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Right. Okay.
- 42:11Speaker 9: Uh, we weren't talking to Democrats. We weren't talking to
- 42:13Speaker 9: independence last week. He was talking to, to hardcore Republicans
- 42:17Speaker 9: challenging them to get up and get out and vote.
- 42:20Speaker 3: Now, there are some things that are not going great.
- 42:22Speaker 3: He'll admit that, President Trump. I mean, he knows that
- 42:25Speaker 3: when the Iran conflict is over, he doesn't call it
- 42:28Speaker 3: a war anymore, it's a conflict at this point, that
- 42:30Speaker 3: at that point we'll see gas and oil prices start
- 42:33Speaker 3: to come down. And, you know, I know he wasn't
- 42:35Speaker 3: happy with Kevin Warsh earlier in the week. He handpicked
- 42:38Speaker 3: the guy and he raised interest rates. That's not great.
- 42:41Speaker 3: And I think you'd even admit that goods are still
- 42:43Speaker 3: a little high. Inflation, that's why Walsh did it, is
- 42:46Speaker 3: still a little high. So Trump, while he deserves a
- 42:50Speaker 3: ton of credit because he was left a big bag
- 42:53Speaker 3: of duty, folks, smelly duty by that walking cadaver, Joe Biden,
- 42:58Speaker 3: and he's fixed a lot of it. He hasn't fixed
- 43:01Speaker 3: all of it. He knows that. You know that. Is
- 43:04Speaker 3: that fair to say?
- 43:06Speaker 5: Yes and no.
- 43:07Speaker 9: I mean, I think if we want to play the
- 43:10Speaker 9: game that Democrats and the left-wing media play and just
- 43:13Speaker 9: pick trees in the economy instead of the entire forest, yeah,
- 43:17Speaker 9: I can tell you, you know, we were having this
- 43:20Speaker 9: argument the other day.
- 43:21Speaker 5: Eggs are down, right? Eggs are down big. I can
- 43:25Speaker 5: talk about all these things that are good.
- 43:27Speaker 1: Now, look.
- 43:29Speaker 3: By the way, he tells a great story. He goes,
- 43:31Speaker 3: I come into office and eggs are high, okay? They
- 43:35Speaker 3: start yelling at me, yelling at me. What are you
- 43:38Speaker 3: going to do about eggs, sir? What are you going
- 43:40Speaker 3: to do about eggs? He said, I just took over
- 43:43Speaker 3: an hour ago. He tells that almost, but he's right.
- 43:47Speaker 3: I mean, right away, make it mix, make it better
- 43:50Speaker 3: when he does do that.
- 43:50Speaker 1: But again, I'm sorry.
- 43:51Speaker 5: The other, no, no, don't be sorry. I think that's great.
- 43:53Speaker 9: So I can pick those trees too, the way they
- 43:56Speaker 9: do on the other side. There's just happens to be
- 43:58Speaker 9: more effective because it's the gas and.
- 44:01Speaker 5: People should just think, How crafty this is.
- 44:05Speaker 9: We don't fill our tank every day, just like we
- 44:07Speaker 9: don't go into the grocery store every day.
- 44:08Speaker 5: But you know what we do? We do drive by
- 44:11Speaker 5: that sign every.
- 44:12Speaker 9: Day that says $ 3.
- 44:15Speaker 5: 50, $ 3. 75, $ 4, $ 4.
- 44:16Speaker 1: 25.
- 44:16Speaker 9: So, look, the economy, just look at last week. We
- 44:22Speaker 9: had a jobs report that was three times larger than
- 44:25Speaker 9: anything they expected.
- 44:26Speaker 5: And Sid?
- 44:27Speaker 9: It wasn't gig economy jobs.
- 44:29Speaker 5: It wasn't Uber drivers. It wasn't DoorDash.
- 44:33Speaker 9: It was high paying, high tech jobs and manufacturing jobs
- 44:38Speaker 9: with benefits, by the way.
- 44:40Speaker 5: Nobody seems to want to focus on that.
- 44:42Speaker 9: And the other piece is you realize if you think
- 44:45Speaker 9: your country is not headed in the right direction.
- 44:48Speaker 5: Do you spend more money?
- 44:50Speaker 3: Usually, no.
- 44:51Speaker 9: You pull the belt tight and you hold on. You
- 44:54Speaker 9: realize consumer spending is up 6% over last year. Look,
- 45:00Speaker 9: there's a lot of good in the economy. Donald Trump
- 45:02Speaker 9: was handed the absolute biggest mess that anyone could have
- 45:06Speaker 9: had to deal with. Because of Joe Biden's failed policies,
- 45:09Speaker 9: you had inflation, double-digit inflation we hadn't seen in 40 years.
- 45:14Speaker 9: You had all kinds of things that were just out
- 45:16Speaker 9: of reach for the average American. I now under Donald Trump,
- 45:20Speaker 9: he's bringing back investment. He's reshoring manufacturing jobs. I mean,
- 45:25Speaker 9: the future is incredibly bright because of what Donald Trump
- 45:28Speaker 9: has done.
- 45:29Speaker 5: Are we all the way there?
- 45:30Speaker 9: He's had 18 months. It's it's like your story about
- 45:33Speaker 9: the eggs. I got here an hour ago.
- 45:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 45:35Speaker 5: You know, Joe Biden had four years to destroy this.
- 45:38Speaker 7: He did.
- 45:39Speaker 3: And he did destroy it. You know, we talk about
- 45:41Speaker 3: Trump being on the ballot in terms of these midterms.
- 45:45Speaker 3: And people are quick to say he's not on the ballot.
- 45:47Speaker 4: He is.
- 45:47Speaker 3: You know, he's said on television a million times. He
- 45:50Speaker 3: said on this show on Friday, he said, Sid, I'm
- 45:52Speaker 3: going to 35 states. He goes, Father, you've got great energy.
- 45:54Speaker 1: Maybe you can do five. I'll do 30. I said, sure.
- 45:57Speaker 3: But he's going to go to all these states and campaign.
- 45:59Speaker 3: He was in North Carolina two days ago for Michael Watley.
- 46:02Speaker 3: You're doing the same thing, by.
- 46:03Speaker 4: The way, Mr. Emmer.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You're a great American and a
- 46:05Speaker 1: great patriot and a great Republican.
- 46:07Speaker 3: And you're going to go out and help a bunch
- 46:08Speaker 3: of people as well. So he's going to be out
- 46:10Speaker 3: there in all these states.
- 46:11Speaker 1: And I don't know.
- 46:12Speaker 3: You know, last look, Watley was getting beat pretty good
- 46:15Speaker 3: by Roy Cooper. I'm not sure Trump will win everyone,
- 46:18Speaker 3: but he's got a pretty good record, pretty damn good
- 46:20Speaker 3: record up to this point. So you've got to feel
- 46:23Speaker 3: better knowing that President Trump is going to spend money,
- 46:26Speaker 3: maybe a heap of billion dollars, and at the same
- 46:29Speaker 3: time also hit the road.
- 46:30Speaker 1: That's a good thing.
- 46:31Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 46:31Speaker 5: No, look, Michael Watley, great example.
- 46:36Speaker 9: You on the outside, you look in and you go, boy,
- 46:38Speaker 9: the numbers aren't great with Michael Wadley in this Cooper, but.
- 46:42Speaker 9: North Carolinian Politico told me the other night he guaranteed
- 46:46Speaker 9: Michael Watley will beat Roy Cooper.
- 46:49Speaker 1: He did.
- 46:50Speaker 5: Very compelling.
- 46:51Speaker 9: He said, first off, Cooper has never been exposed. No
- 46:56Speaker 9: one has ever run a campaign against him to literally
- 46:58Speaker 9: lay out the argument as to why this guy is
- 47:01Speaker 9: not qualified to lead. And he said, it's coming. And
- 47:03Speaker 9: when it does, what happens is Cooper's numbers collapse, by
- 47:06Speaker 9: the way. The other thing is, you've got to look
- 47:08Speaker 9: at his numbers now.
- 47:09Speaker 5: He has topped out.
- 47:11Speaker 4: He's done.
- 47:11Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not going any bigger.
- 47:13Speaker 3: Here's what I would do if I was Mike Watley,
- 47:15Speaker 3: and I know he worked with Laurie Trump, and I'm
- 47:16Speaker 3: close to Laurie, I may tell her this. You want
- 47:18Speaker 3: to beat Roy Cooper?
- 47:19Speaker 1: Here's how you beat him, Tom.
- 47:21Speaker 3: All you've got to do, I mean this, I know
- 47:23Speaker 3: it's horrible, but I mean this, because sometimes you've got
- 47:26Speaker 3: to fight this way. All you've got to do is
- 47:28Speaker 3: show the video of that beautiful, blonde Ukrainian girl getting
- 47:34Speaker 3: on a train, and some animal behind her slitting her throat,
- 47:39Speaker 3: and you could actually watch the girl die on this video.
- 47:44Speaker 3: And that happened in Roy Cooper's state. And Roy Cooper,
- 47:48Speaker 3: like the people here, has no issue allowing people like
- 47:52Speaker 3: that walk the streets. While he plays that, he wins.
- 47:56Speaker 9: Yeah, well, again, a North Carolinian that has reason to know, guaranteed,
- 48:01Speaker 9: didn't tell me I think he can win.
- 48:03Speaker 5: Guaranteed that Michael Wadley is going to win.
- 48:05Speaker 3: So what is the, of all the issues out there,
- 48:08Speaker 3: for the Republicans at least, what is our battle cry
- 48:11Speaker 3: as we head towards November?
- 48:12Speaker 1: What are we looking to prove?
- 48:14Speaker 5: You've got to be selling.
- 48:15Speaker 9: You've got to be selling what's already happened because the
- 48:18Speaker 9: left-wing media is not doing it. So you've got to
- 48:20Speaker 9: be talking about no taxes on tips. You've got to
- 48:22Speaker 9: be talking about no taxes on overtime. You've got to
- 48:24Speaker 9: be talking about no taxes on Social Security. And then
- 48:28Speaker 9: you've got to create the contrast and have people need
- 48:31Speaker 9: to understand.
- 48:32Speaker 4: The other side.
- 48:33Speaker 5: Not only did they not vote for any of this,
- 48:35Speaker 5: they will undo all of it.
- 48:37Speaker 9: And it's really about putting more money in people's pockets,
- 48:40Speaker 9: about safety and security. Donald Trump's promises make America healthy again,
- 48:46Speaker 9: make America safe again, make America prosperous again. You've got
- 48:50Speaker 9: to focus on all those things that we've been doing
- 48:52Speaker 9: in just 18 months that are literally having that impact.
- 48:56Speaker 9: And I believe that people are smarter than these political elitists.
- 49:00Speaker 9: Give them credit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're going to go
- 49:04Speaker 9: into that voting booth and you're going to you're going
- 49:06Speaker 9: to say, ask yourself a very simple question. Do I
- 49:09Speaker 9: feel better about where I'm at today than I did
- 49:12Speaker 9: 18 months ago?
- 49:13Speaker 3: Is it even close? Unless you watch. What is her name?
- 49:16Speaker 3: This idiot, Amy Poehler, sitting with Robert De Niro today.
- 49:20Speaker 6: Ago.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Did you see that?
- 49:20Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about America falling apart,
- 49:23Speaker 3: these two morons who make millions and millions of dollars?
- 49:26Speaker 5: You know, just move.
- 49:27Speaker 1: Just move, right?
- 49:27Speaker 5: If you don't like this place, just go.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Right, get out.
- 49:29Speaker 4: Get out.
- 49:30Speaker 3: Get the hell out of here.