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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator Recaps a Weekend on The Hamptons · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here he is. Mister went up a media my guy,
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  Speaker 1: love them. John Katzmatidis, John, Good, Monday morning, Pall, how
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  Speaker 1: are you good?
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  Speaker 2: Monday? Well, Monday morning. I can't believe it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's well, I'm headed for the city. I'm on the
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  Speaker 2: Long Island Expressway, the long Long analy Expressway, and it
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  Speaker 2: never shortens. It's always long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like it's probably getting longer. But you
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  Speaker 1: had such a great weekend. And the folks that don't
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  Speaker 1: know John and Margo out in the Hamptons, they put
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  Speaker 1: together these huge events and they have these really great
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  Speaker 1: speakers every Saturday morning, and lots of folks show up.
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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly shows up just to watch and have some fun.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe that your speaker this Saturday was the
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  Speaker 1: former governor Andrew Cuomo. You've got many other big names
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  Speaker 1: on the horizon. So another big successful weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: katz Matides out in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Andrew Cuomo on Saturday morning was full of
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  Speaker 2: what do you just call it, piston vinegar. He was
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  Speaker 2: full of strength. And if he was like that, if
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  Speaker 2: he was like that during the election, you would won.
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  Speaker 2: And he he you know, the night before he calls me.
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  Speaker 2: He says, I'm going to speak about ten minutes and
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a few questions. Well, he wouldn't stop talking.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke for about forty minutes and he was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Father Alex breakfast that we have every
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, and it was wonderful. And I know k
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  Speaker 2: Ty McFarland is going to be our speaker next next
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  Speaker 2: weekend and the weekend after that. I think it's let's
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  Speaker 2: see Bill O'Reilly will speak on August one and August eighth.
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  Speaker 2: I think Governor Hochele was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Explain that dynamic to me. Look, I know that you've
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  Speaker 1: been funding with Hochel over the years. It is what
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a relationships, JIMMI is it's a quasi church event,
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  Speaker 3: and the church is a church and doesn't take positions
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  Speaker 3: in politics.
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  Speaker 1: No, I get it, but but you do so. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you who you're choosing between
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman and Hokell. I could probably guess you know how
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  Speaker 1: I feel so not in the church when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to politics, but has she is a relationship between you
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  Speaker 1: and the governor the same A little strained because you
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  Speaker 1: are critical of local as you should be on this station.
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  Speaker 1: How is that relationship these days?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we I try to be civilized at
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  Speaker 2: all times. You know, she is the governor. I have
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  Speaker 2: respect for the governor. I have respect for the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Do I agree with them on a lot of things. No,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of things we don't agree in uh
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  Speaker 2: And but you know, we do business in the city,
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  Speaker 2: we do business in the state. And I believe everybody
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  Speaker 2: has to be civilized. And if you're not civilized, then well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, et cetera, et cetera. Now, you had a
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  Speaker 2: great time at that fundraiser at Ben Mister, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: We had a really good time and it was special.
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  Speaker 1: The President stopped by. He only spoke for seven minutes, John,
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  Speaker 1: that was it. You know. He came down at the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning of the event, spoke for seven minutes. And
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  Speaker 1: just like he did at the East wing of the
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  Speaker 1: White House on Honikah, just like he did in Rockland
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  Speaker 1: County a couple of weeks ago, he saw me. He
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  Speaker 1: made a big deal about seeing me. He told Secret Service,
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  Speaker 1: get out of the way, let's get sit up here,
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  Speaker 1: not once, but twice. So the President and I had
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  Speaker 1: a really really nice hug and a handshake on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: That is great news. And look, the president is the president,
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  Speaker 2: and look we got to support him in what he's
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  Speaker 2: doing because he's trying to keep the free world free.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, he's not having an easy time and we
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  Speaker 2: all know he's not having an easy time. But if
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  Speaker 2: we don't keep the free world free. And also when
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  Speaker 2: I spoke to him last I said that November is
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  Speaker 2: the most important part of our year. And if we
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  Speaker 2: don't in November, uh, the Democrats are going there and
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  Speaker 2: and try to indict you.
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  Speaker 1: All over again every day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Democrats have lost their mind. But I
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  Speaker 2: went to an event on let's say Saturday morning. We
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  Speaker 2: had Andrew Cuomo. Saturday night. Oh my god, what what
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  Speaker 2: those storms were unbelievable, Father Alex and if father Allixon.
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  Speaker 2: Southampton had that big festival and at what point the
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  Speaker 2: state troopers came in or the Southampton police came in
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  Speaker 2: and wanted everybody out of the tent indoors in the
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  Speaker 2: building because those lightning boats were coming down and those
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  Speaker 2: thunder those thunderstorms were really really dangerous. And uh, but
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  Speaker 2: the food was good, so that's good. That lamb shank
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  Speaker 2: that was the best lam shank I ever had in
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  Speaker 2: my life, and that they didn't and the food was good.
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  Speaker 2: But also then Sunday morning, me and uh Chi Shapiro
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  Speaker 2: stopped into what's his day? He used to be in
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  Speaker 2: charge of the Ways and Means Committee in the UH,
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  Speaker 2: in the State Assembly for like Jerry Kremer, Okay for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, and he had an event for Speaker
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  Speaker 2: Hasty and the only thing me and Speaker Hasty having
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  Speaker 2: UH in common were both trekkies. And we talked about
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  Speaker 2: it for about ten minutes. UH But uh so I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you the good news. The big discussion in UH
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  Speaker 2: with Jerry Kremer introducing UH Carl Hasty was how to
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  Speaker 2: that all this stuff with the Socialists is temporary and
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  Speaker 2: that the Democratic Party is going to stick together and
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  Speaker 2: not allow the Socialist Party as much as they can
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  Speaker 2: to go forward.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Well, that's goodness if you believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it, and I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: The w a reporter for the Hampton.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I love that and I'm glad he said it.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't believe it. I think that Americans should
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  Speaker 1: treat this very seriously, be very afraid. Do not underestimate
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  Speaker 1: what They're small in numbers now, but they're gaining by
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  Speaker 1: the day. I don't believe any of these Democrats because
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  Speaker 1: they all fold. And this guy called Hasty by the way,
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  Speaker 1: he's the guy that wants to do nothing, nothing about
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  Speaker 1: bail reform. He's been approached him and Andrew and Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Stuart Cousins more than once by two different governors and mayors.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to do nothing about bail reform. Sorry, John,
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  Speaker 1: he's a bad guy.
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  Speaker 2: Well listen, all I am is a reporter on this Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you what happened? Okay? And then an hour later me
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  Speaker 2: and Todd would go over to Vicky Slipses uh party
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  Speaker 2: and honoring Bill O'Reilly heralda rivera wow, and uh where's
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  Speaker 2: his name from w ABC television has all the time
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  Speaker 2: as Tom Bill Ritter. Yes, yeah, Ritta. And they raised
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money and uh it was a great event.
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  Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly looked great. Uh and uh uh and then
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a NonStop for the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Great weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But the weather was great yesterday. How bad was uh
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  Speaker 2: bed Minster when you were down there? With the year
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  Speaker 2: with during it was bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what point at three o'clock in the afternoon, John
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  Speaker 1: Danielle and I canceled, well, like we were not making
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  Speaker 1: it out there. We were getting bad thunder and lightning
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  Speaker 1: and storm because who live on the beach too, You're
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  Speaker 1: on the Hampton's on the beach, run Queen's on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: So I actually called Gregory and said, we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it. Then the sky's cleared up at about four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: so we ended up going, thank god because I got
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  Speaker 1: a chance again to see the President. But it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad here too, and it was really bad in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. So Saturday was just a wash out. Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, was gorgeous. Did you have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to watch any of the soccer yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and it was very exciting and one of the
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  Speaker 2: big things, you know, I look at politics. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a big sports guy like you are, but I did
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  Speaker 2: watch it. And the fact is that I thought that
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna have that prime minister from Canada, Karnie was
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  Speaker 2: there with President Trump and a few other prime ministers,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought that at least they would talk. And
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  Speaker 2: this morning's headline was that Trump. I think he was
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  Speaker 2: annoyed at Connie at those wildfires and those wildfire yeah
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  Speaker 2: are horrible. I mean they were polluting all our air
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  Speaker 2: from I mean it must have been at least ten states.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I don't know what they have to do,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to do something somebody, I think at
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock in the morning or two o'clock in the
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  Speaker 2: morning one of the shows, I think the Walter Show maybe,
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  Speaker 2: why don't they have that? It could be all these
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  Speaker 2: wildfires could be a fundraising thing from people to make money.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, if you get a helicopter but one bucket,
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  Speaker 2: what good is going to be one bucket? Why don't
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  Speaker 2: we take the seven sevens are dead, dead meat? Why
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  Speaker 2: don't we replace them and make them? They can carry
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thousand gallons of water?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we have two of them in the country
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  Speaker 2: that whenever it's a fire's fire, those things, those seven
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  Speaker 2: forty sevens could go anywhere and dry nineteen twenty thousand
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  Speaker 2: gallons of water. Oh, he put those firefighters off those
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  Speaker 2: fire over low film.
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  Speaker 1: No, it makes sense, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, yeah, I mean why are you taking Nope,
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  Speaker 2: I mean how much you're paying for that bucket of water.
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  Speaker 2: It does nothing. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Trump said he's gonna tariff Canada for polluting our air
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years up there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe they should pay for the healthcare expense too.
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  Speaker 2: Then yeah, who knows, but they should take care of
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  Speaker 2: those firefighters. But now I got some breaking news. You know,
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  Speaker 2: last year, the you know in Christianity, the pope and
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  Speaker 2: the patriarch in Constantinople a set on equal ground in Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: Last year a St. Nicholas Church on down in Battery
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  Speaker 2: Park City honored the patriarch that came in person and
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  Speaker 2: I mean raised millions of dollars millions. And well, we
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  Speaker 2: got a new honor in this year. You're ready for
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  Speaker 2: this and this hasn't We're breaking it on your show
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  Speaker 2: because it's breaking in the rest of the in the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the city, and the rest of the country,
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the well the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Right after that, this year's nominee and accepted the honor
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  Speaker 2: is from Ukraine Prime Minister, not for President Zelenski.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: And he'll be he'll be in town on September twenty
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  Speaker 2: fourth for a big event honoring him because of his
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  Speaker 2: help to Christianity in the Ukraine. And don't forget in
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  Speaker 2: September eleventh, w ABC along with the Pataki Foundation, along
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  Speaker 2: with TULL a little police athletically and we're heading the
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  Speaker 2: New York Police Foundation involved. We're gonna get to FD
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  Speaker 2: and Y involved. We're all going to be celebrating the
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  Speaker 2: big event of September eleventh honoring Governor for Tacky. And
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  Speaker 2: you never know, we might have some surprise, surprise super guests.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I know a couple of people that we'll be
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  Speaker 1: in town that day.
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  Speaker 2: So between read between read between the lives, we may
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  Speaker 2: have some super guests.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, between you and I, we we got
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  Speaker 1: a good shot. Anyway, John is always a Monday conversations
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  Speaker 1: are always amazing. I'm glad the weekend in the Hamptons
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  Speaker 1: was as great as it sounds like it was. Have
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  Speaker 1: a safe trip into the offices here in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Will see you very very shortly, John katz Matidi's I
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  Speaker 1: love your great job, Pal, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say you soon, See you soon.
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