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Sid & Friends In The Morning Ends Another Week With a Bang! · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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Speaker 4: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I can't believe
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Speaker 4: he didn't make it years ago. Today, Sid forever joins
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Speaker 4: a roll call of some of the greatest legends in
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Speaker 4: the history of New York broadcasting and talk radio. the
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Speaker 4: best in the business, and he's the best in the business.
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Speaker 4: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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Speaker 4: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
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Speaker 4: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
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Speaker 4: to be one of those people in the audience. And
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Speaker 4: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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Speaker 5: The movers and shakers of New York City gather for
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Speaker 5: the annual Al Smith dinner. It is a fundraiser for
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Speaker 5: the Catholic.
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Speaker 6: Church, but it's also a political roast.
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Speaker 5: Dick Brennan is just back from the Waldorf to tell
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Speaker 5: us all about it.
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Speaker 7: All right, Christine, it had to be a difficult night
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Speaker 7: hosting this event for Archbishop Ronald Hicks, whose father just
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Speaker 7: died last night. And there were prayers for Pope Leo
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Speaker 7: suffering from cancer. But the Al Smith dinner, a $ 5, 000
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Speaker 7: a plate fundraiser, always becomes a joke fest. And in
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Speaker 7: some cases, the zingers come from people you least expect.
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Speaker 7: The Waldorf Astoria Ballroom was packed for the 2026 Al
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Speaker 7: Smith dinner with Mayor Mamdani alongside Governor Hochul and a
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Speaker 7: first for the new Archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks.
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Speaker 8: Sometimes to project confidence, we'll say things like, well, you know,
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Speaker 8: this isn't my first rodeo.
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Speaker 6: But friends, this is my first rodeo.
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Speaker 7: Not the first rodeo for the keynote speaker of the evening,
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Speaker 7: Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for inviting this now-retired, unemployed pensioner on Social Security
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Speaker 2: and a fixed income as.
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Speaker 9: Your speaker this evening.
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Speaker 2: I used to be in Who's Who?
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Speaker 10: Now I'm Who's He?
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Speaker 7: The dinner, a fundraiser for Catholic Charities, attracting the rich
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Speaker 7: and powerful of New York.
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Speaker 11: We have a pretty diverse dais. We have with us
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Speaker 11: the 1%, the. 01 %.
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Speaker 2: And the.
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Speaker 11: 001 %. Sadly, Mayor Bloomberg couldn't make it.
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Speaker 7: Honored tonight, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who stepped out of
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Speaker 7: character and even made jokes of her own.
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Speaker 12: Things have gotten a little hot for me this week,
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Speaker 12: just in.
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Speaker 2: Case anyone hiring.
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Speaker 7: Tisch referring to New York Democratic Socialist, part of the
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Speaker 7: mayor's base, demanding she step down over the department's handling
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Speaker 7: of protests and the presence of ICE in the city.
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Speaker 13: There's a lot of talk these days that the mayor's
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Speaker 13: friends don't like me.
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Speaker 14: That is simply not true.
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Speaker 7: President Trump and I get along great. In the noticeably
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Speaker 7: absent department, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, apparently with good reason.
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Speaker 7: He said in a statement, I would have loved to
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Speaker 7: attend the Al Smith dinner, but I wasn't invited. And
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Speaker 7: I look forward to attending next year as governor. Now,
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Speaker 7: the archdiocese says the only candidates they ever invite are
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Speaker 7: presidential candidates, along with certain office holders. And the governor
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Speaker 7: did not speak at the dinner. But, of course, the
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Speaker 7: one-liners were flying all around. And Christine Cardinal Dolan proving
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Speaker 7: he's a world-class jokester. But who knew that Jessica Tisch
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Speaker 7: was coming with the lads?
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's surprising. It's a rare form for her.
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Speaker 7: Everyone was a good form.
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Speaker 1: And, of course, they raised an awful lot of money
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Speaker 1: for charity, too.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely. That's the most important thing, Nick. Nineteen days until
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Speaker 5: Election Day, Mayor Mamdani released his first campaign video for
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Speaker 5: Governor Hochul on social media, attacking her Republican opponent, Bruce Blakeman.
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Speaker 8: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
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Speaker 8: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
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Speaker 8: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
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Speaker 8: City needed a partner in delivering free universal child care,
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Speaker 8: Governor Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats
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Speaker 8: for two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we
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Speaker 8: could deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm
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Speaker 8: voting for Governor Hochul.
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Speaker 15: Because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
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Speaker 2: And Bruce Blakeman?
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Speaker 15: He's a bad apple.
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Speaker 5: So Blakeman responded to this campaign video saying, in part,
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Speaker 5: I support universal child care for working parents, but why
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Speaker 5: would any common sense leader pay for child care for
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Speaker 5: someone who is not working? That is not child care.
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Speaker 5: That is a dereliction of a parent's responsibility to raise
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Speaker 5: their children.
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Speaker 16: A unique high school in the Bronx focused on careers
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Speaker 16: in the business of basketball is celebrating a major milestone. Students,
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Speaker 16: NBA legends and community leaders dedicated the new home of
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Speaker 16: the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School. And Nick Calloway
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Speaker 16: takes us to the celebration.
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Speaker 17: In a neighborhood where basketball is part of the culture,
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Speaker 17: students at the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School now
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Speaker 17: have a permanent home. The new five-story, 69,000 square foot
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Speaker 17: campus in the South Bronx was officially dedicated Thursday. Earl
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Speaker 17: the Pearl Monroe attended alongside his former teammate Bill Bradley
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Speaker 17: and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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Speaker 1: Although my name is on.
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Speaker 2: The billboard, so to speak, it's about what these kids
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Speaker 2: get from this learning experience.
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Speaker 17: Founder Dan Clores says the idea was simple. Create a
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Speaker 17: specialty high school centered on basketball. Not learning how to play,
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Speaker 17: but learning about the industries surrounding the game.
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Speaker 18: There's a lot of specialty high schools in New York.
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Speaker 18: When I grew up, it was Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech.
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Speaker 18: Now there's more, you know? And I said, well, why
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Speaker 18: can't there be a specialty high school for basketball, but
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Speaker 18: not for the playing of the game?
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Speaker 17: The school first opened five years ago in a rented space. Today,
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Speaker 17: students can learn basketball topics like analytics, media, law, and marketing.
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Speaker 17: While basketball is the school's theme... Students are encouraged to
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Speaker 17: explore opportunities far beyond the court.
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Speaker 12: I'm involved in softball, volleyball, student government, senior committee.
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Speaker 2: It's always something to do all the time, even if
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Speaker 2: it's around basketball.
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Speaker 17: School leaders say the goal is to prepare graduates for college, careers,
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Speaker 17: and leadership roles, even if they never step onto a
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Speaker 17: basketball court.
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Speaker 12: With just 19 days until the critical midterm elections, President
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Speaker 12: Trump out west, rallying support for Republican candidates in Arizona
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Speaker 12: and Montana, states he won.
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Speaker 4: And I want to say a very special hello to Arizona.
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Speaker 12: Trump hoping to translate support for him into a win
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Speaker 12: for Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, who's facing an uphill battle
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Speaker 12: to unseat Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs in Arizona.
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Speaker 4: Would you give some of those votes to Andy?
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Speaker 12: In Montana, Trump backing Kurt Allmey for the Senate and
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Speaker 12: House candidate Aaron Flint, both in close races.
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Speaker 4: So I'm asking you just pretend I'm on the ballot,
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Speaker 4: show up and vote for these guys.
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Speaker 2: We have to win.
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Speaker 12: The president blitzing conservative strongholds that Republicans are now trying
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Speaker 12: to defend. In the coming days, visiting Georgia, Kansas, Florida,
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Speaker 12: North Carolina and Michigan. And he says he's heading back
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Speaker 12: to Texas soon, too. for the third time in the
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Speaker 12: final stretch. There, Attorney General Ken Paxton locked in a
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Speaker 12: tight race with Democrat James Tallarico, overnight zeroing in on
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Speaker 12: the number one issue for voters, the rising cost of living.
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Speaker 19: It's why I've called for this war to come to
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Speaker 19: a close, because not only is it costing us a
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Speaker 19: billion dollars a day, not only is it driving up
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Speaker 19: gas prices and diesel prices here at home, but it
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Speaker 19: is also killing our brave men and women in uniform.
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Speaker 12: Spiking oil and diesel driven by the war with Iran
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Speaker 12: now pushing the rate of inflation to 3.7 percent. The
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Speaker 12: president says he knew costs would skyrocket when he launched
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Speaker 12: the war, but argues it's worth it.
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Speaker 4: This is a very small price, people.
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Speaker 2: I thought it would go up much higher.
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Speaker 12: But Republicans now on defense. In Maryland, this remarkable moment,
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Speaker 12: a debate audience laughing when Republican Congressman Andy Harris tried
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Speaker 12: to blame high diesel prices on Democrats.
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Speaker 11: The facts are that diesel prices have gone up.
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Speaker 6: There's no question about it.
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Speaker 13: Why has it gone up?
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Speaker 20: Because the Democrats' environmental.
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Speaker 6: Regulations have not changed.
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Speaker 12: And as Republicans wrestle with the economic fallout of this war,
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Speaker 12: the president is increasingly lashing out at his opponents overnight,
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Speaker 12: saying that leakers who reveal information on military plans should
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Speaker 12: be shot. Meanwhile, the money continues to flow into these races.
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Speaker 12: Advertisers now on track to spend $ 10 billion on campaign ads.
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Speaker 15: Well, here I am in Israel.
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Speaker 21: And I want to say to my buddy, Sid Rosenberg,
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Speaker 21: my God, do you deserve to be in the Radio
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Speaker 21: Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 15: You're just fantastic.
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Speaker 21: You know, Sid and I started out, first of all,
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Speaker 21: not really knowing each other, then kind of despising each other.
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Speaker 15: Now we love each other. I don't mean in that way. No,
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Speaker 15: we're just dear, dear buddies. I love talking to him.
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Speaker 15: I love watching him.
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Speaker 21: I love him saying words that I'm not allowed to say.
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Speaker 15: My wife would just kill me. But that's Sid. That's
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Speaker 15: why we love him. And I'll tell you something else.
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Speaker 15: He's smart as hell. He really is sharp as can be.
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Speaker 21: And it is such a privilege, such a privilege to
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Speaker 21: have him join me and so many others in the
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Speaker 21: Radio Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 15: WABC could not have a better morning host.
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Speaker 21: The biggest city in America, really the biggest host on
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Speaker 21: any local station that I'm aware of, is Sid Rosenberg.
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Speaker 15: God bless you, Sid. I love you, my brother. And
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Speaker 15: take care of all of you.
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Speaker 2: So, like, for me, for example, that song you just played,
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Speaker 2: this is why I love you, Lou, because you're smarter
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Speaker 2: than everybody else. That is a great Billy Joel song.
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Speaker 2: I mean it. I love that miami 2017 captain jack
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Speaker 2: to me those are the the big ones and they're
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Speaker 2: also very long songs scenes from an italian restaurant is
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Speaker 2: in that category oh i guess um stranger yeah but
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Speaker 2: that's it's a long song you're right the title track
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Speaker 2: Another one that was very popular, I guess, is... These
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Speaker 2: are the times to remember.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and I love these days.
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Speaker 2: I love the.
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Speaker 10: That's not big.
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Speaker 2: Oh, what was big, too, when he was married to
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Speaker 2: Christie Brinkley was Uptown Girl. Uptown Girl. Which is a
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Speaker 2: horrible song. Pressure is a horrible song. Terrible. That was popular.
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Speaker 10: Allentown is not a bad song.
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Speaker 2: I love Allentown. I like that song. I also like
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Speaker 2: the song... When he talks about Saigon. Good night, Saigon.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's good night.
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Speaker 2: It's another very long song. Starts with the helicopter. You
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Speaker 2: hear the helicopter. So he's a magnificent artist. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: I read something this morning that compelled Lewis to start
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Speaker 2: with Billy Joel today. And that is that Billy Joel,
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Speaker 2: his health, has taken a very, very bad turn. And
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Speaker 2: he can not drive. Or perform anymore. He cannot drive.
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Speaker 2: And now I feel badly because years ago, when I
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Speaker 2: first came back to New York City, one of the
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Speaker 2: most popular things to do in this town was to
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Speaker 2: go where I was last night and see Billy Joel
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Speaker 2: perform at Madison Square Garden. So I was working with
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Speaker 2: Bernie and Jill. And Jill was raving. Jill Vitale, flirty flipper.
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Speaker 2: She was great. God bless her. She's having great success
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Speaker 2: as a YouTube star these days. TikToker, actually. No, she
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Speaker 2: went from TikTok to YouTube, I think.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's got more than 4 million followers on TikTok.
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Speaker 17: I know.
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Speaker 2: Her and her two beautiful daughters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 14: What?
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Speaker 2: No, no, she's a legitimate TikTok star. Star. Yeah, she's
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Speaker 2: a funny girl, man. She's cool. I love Jill. Love her.
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Speaker 2: So she would rave about the Billy Joel concert. So
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Speaker 2: I finally went one night, me and Danielle. I told
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Speaker 2: you this. We sat next to Larry Goodman, who's better
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Speaker 2: known as the guy that dances at the Ranger Games.
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Speaker 20: Awesome.
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Speaker 2: Dancing Larry.
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Speaker 10: Dancing Larry.
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Speaker 2: He got up during Honesty and started doing the.
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Speaker 10: It's such a lonely world. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. And I remember saying to Danielle after the concert, man,
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Speaker 2: that was depressing. I hated it. And I love Billy.
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Speaker 2: Do I not love Billy?
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Speaker 13: I do.
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Speaker 10: You're one of the biggest fans.
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Speaker 2: Biggest fans. It was a bunch of 75-year-old ladies dancing
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Speaker 2: to Only the Good Die Young. I'm like, what am
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Speaker 2: I doing? What am I doing? Getting up to Uptown Girl.
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Speaker 2: There was like no young people there. There were none. Zero. Zero. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, Billy never gets up. He sits on that
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Speaker 2: piano bench the whole show. I guess maybe if Jim
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Speaker 2: Brewer hops on stage and starts doing, you know, Black Sabbath,
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Speaker 2: maybe then he gets up. I don't know, but. I
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Speaker 2: wanted to be such a depressing concert.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's going to be with a lot of the artists.
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Speaker 2: I know. Well, the last time I saw Frank Sinatra,
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Speaker 2: he was in his.
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Speaker 13: 80s, I guess.
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Speaker 2: It was not long before he died, Lou. And he
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Speaker 2: was a mess. And it was in Westbury, actually, where
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Speaker 2: I'm going to perform with Brian Kilmeade. And he was hammered.
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Speaker 2: He was drinking scotch the whole night on his stool.
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Speaker 2: He actually forgot the words to my way.
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Speaker 10: And they used to have the screens up, I think,
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Speaker 10: for him to read, see the lyrics.
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Speaker 2: Because it got bad.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. I think they would have money from what I saw.
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Speaker 2: No, it's true. Now, mind you, I still loved it
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Speaker 2: because I could tell everybody now I saw Prank Sinatra live,
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Speaker 2: which I did. But this was at the very end.
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Speaker 2: But you're right. I mean, a lot of these artists,
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Speaker 2: like Barry Manilow. Is he back performing in Vegas? What
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Speaker 2: are you hearing?
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Speaker 1: You know he had bronchitis, so he had to cancel
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Speaker 1: some of his Vegas shows.
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Speaker 2: He's like 82 or 83. He's got cancer. He's got bronchitis.
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Speaker 2: He'll be doing Mandy and just stroke out. That'll be it.
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Speaker 2: Kind of like Kathy Hochul against Bruce Blakeman. Just stroke out.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 10: Well, that's a good perspective to put it in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Kathy Hochul stroking out. Talking about Bruce Blakeman,
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Speaker 2: I was with him last night. I'll get to that. So, Billy,
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Speaker 2: we wish you the best.
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Speaker 10: Prayers for Billy.
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Speaker 2: Prayers for Billy.
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Speaker 10: But it's a good thing he's not driving anymore anyway.
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Speaker 2: Well, of course.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had some issues over the years.
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Speaker 2: Some issues?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He took out every tree in the Hamptons.
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Speaker 10: I think Shelter Island is sighing.
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Speaker 2: I think so, too. Was it Shelter Island or Quad?
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Speaker 2: One of those. Yeah, one of those. Chris Cuomo hangs
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Speaker 2: out in Shelter Island, that douchebag. But, Billy, we love you.
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Speaker 2: And you're one of the all-time best. He really is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you think about the all-time greatest artists. You
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Speaker 2: may start with Billy and Elton John.
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Speaker 10: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Is that crazy?
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Speaker 23: No, it's not crazy. And he's so interesting, actually. If
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Speaker 23: you see, I forgot what the last documentary was.
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Speaker 10: It was in two parts. But I think it was HBO.
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Speaker 10: And his history is fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you brought that up. Yes, yes.
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Speaker 23: It's really stuff that you didn't know, like where his
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Speaker 23: family came from and who he was influenced by. I mean,
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Speaker 23: he's such a great musician, and he quotes so many
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Speaker 23: classical composers and old German composers.
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Speaker 20: Wow.
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Speaker 10: He really is. That's what makes him great.
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Speaker 2: Because he's a great musician.
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Speaker 20: He is.
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Speaker 13: He's just great.
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Speaker 2: Not just a great singer and songwriter.
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Speaker 10: And he can just start playing.
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Speaker 23: Things on the piano from Bach, concertos, and then say, well,
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Speaker 23: this is how.
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Speaker 10: This is influenced.
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Speaker 2: Well, some of his best songs have those great piano,
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Speaker 2: I guess, solos. Angry Young Man, that's a great piano.
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Speaker 2: What other songs am I missing? Oh, come on, Steve.
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Speaker 10: Piano Man, of course.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we forgot to mention that song. We've got to
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Speaker 2: play that today, right? Noam, when you go out in
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Speaker 2: Jersey City on Friday night, you've got to play Piano Man, right?
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Speaker 13: Of course, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to play that today. How cool was
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Speaker 2: the end of today's Open? So my Hall of Fame induction,
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Speaker 2: you guys are going to get sick of hearing about this,
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Speaker 2: and guess what? I don't care. I just don't care.
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Speaker 2: President Trump and all of us Republicans are really worried
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Speaker 2: about the midterms in 18 days, but I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to let that ruin my big day on Thursday. Six
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Speaker 2: days from today, I officially become a Hall of Famer,
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Speaker 2: the iconic Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. Five tables already
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Speaker 2: coming from me. There's never been, I believe, an inductee
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Speaker 2: that's had a bigger showing than I will on Thursday. Family, friends,
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Speaker 2: radio people, all of it. It's going to be magnificent.
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Speaker 2: And we know already that President Trump, you heard a
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Speaker 2: piece of President Trump's video. You hear it every morning
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Speaker 2: at the very top of the open. And a couple
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Speaker 2: of times I played Bibi Netanyahu's video. They both sent
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Speaker 2: me videos so nice. But now I've got some other
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Speaker 2: very famous and cool friends of mine that you've heard
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Speaker 2: on the show the last couple of days sending me videos, too.
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Speaker 2: So you heard Mike Lawler, the king of Rockland County, Mr. Salt,
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Speaker 2: who just kicked Kate Connolly's ass in a debate two
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Speaker 2: nights ago, doing a pretty good Trump impression. He sent
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Speaker 2: me a video two days ago. You've heard from Michael Rappaport,
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Speaker 2: the amazing comedic actor. He sent me a video. There
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Speaker 2: you heard from Mark Levin. I know I'm missing a couple.
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Speaker 2: Joseph Abood sent me one yesterday. We'll play that today.
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Speaker 2: So if you're a friend of mine and you just
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Speaker 2: are compelled, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, 30 seconds, I don't care,
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Speaker 2: to send me a video and congratulate me, not only
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Speaker 2: will I post it on all my social media, at Rosenberg.Sydney
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Speaker 2: on Instagram, at Rosenberg.Sydney, SidRosenberg19 on Twitter, and SidRosenberg on Facebook,
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Speaker 2: but there's a chance I'll play it on the show.
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Speaker 9: You know, there's a lot of people asking me yesterday
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Speaker 9: because we found out that the video that they're going
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Speaker 9: to show at the Rainbow Room next Thursday, they cut
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Speaker 9: Justin and Lou.
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Speaker 10: Gone.
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Speaker 1: And Danielle, was Danielle in it too?
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Speaker 2: She was not in it. Okay. She was never in it.
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Speaker 2: Neither were my kids. But, of course, they're going to
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Speaker 2: be there on Thursday. I'm going to make a big
18:19
Speaker 2: deal about them, which really matters on stage. Same thing
18:22
Speaker 2: with Lou and you guys.
18:23
Speaker 1: But the video they cut, and so I had people
18:25
Speaker 1: asking me yesterday.
18:26
Speaker 9: will they ever get to see this because they figured
18:29
Speaker 9: that knowing Lou and Justin, that they probably had some
18:31
Speaker 9: pretty great stuff to say.
18:33
Speaker 20: Yeah.
18:34
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
18:35
Speaker 2: Have I seen their interviews? I have not. All I've
18:37
Speaker 2: seen is the five. It's a five minute, three second interview. Uh,
18:42
Speaker 2: they did not only cut Lou and Justin. This is
18:45
Speaker 2: actually pretty funny, but during the video, they go over
18:48
Speaker 2: my whole career. So, and they've got video to support it.
18:52
Speaker 2: So they show me and Bernie, God rest his soul, Bernie.
18:55
Speaker 2: I love you. They show me and Bernie, ah, the
18:58
Speaker 2: Bernie and Sid show. And they have video clips while
19:02
Speaker 2: they're talking about this. And the video clip of the
19:06
Speaker 2: Bernie and Sid show, you can't make it up, is
19:09
Speaker 2: a video of me and Curtis Slewa.
19:13
Speaker 10: Oh, my God. It gets worse.
19:14
Speaker 2: It gets worse. So Danielle saw the video. She goes,
19:18
Speaker 2: what is this creep doing in your video? This backstabbing
19:21
Speaker 2: jerk off. So I had to go, you know, we've
19:24
Speaker 2: gone back to them five times. Keep Lou in. Keep
19:27
Speaker 2: Justin in. Then they said they couldn't add Bibi. I go,
19:30
Speaker 2: you can't add Bibi. He's the prime minister of Israel.
19:34
Speaker 2: What are you, nuts? Then I made him get rid
19:36
Speaker 2: of Curtis. So we did cut Curtis out of the video.
19:39
Speaker 2: That just happened two days ago.
19:40
Speaker 9: But I might make the argument that people might want
19:43
Speaker 9: to hear more from Lou and Justin than they would B.B.
19:47
Speaker 9: Netanyahu because those people know you really.
19:50
Speaker 2: Inside and out. I'll tell you what, Norm, here's what
19:53
Speaker 2: we'll do, okay? You troublemaking bastard. You think I'm stupid?
19:57
Speaker 2: You think I'm dumb? Here's what we'll do. When you
19:59
Speaker 2: make the Hall of Fame, when you make the Hall
20:01
Speaker 2: of Fame, you can pick your own video. How about that?
20:05
Speaker 2: You can have Lou talk for 10 minutes.
20:07
Speaker 1: Just telling you what the people are saying. They want
20:09
Speaker 1: to know. What Lou and Justin said.
20:12
Speaker 2: On a serious note, because I know you're just causing trouble.
20:14
Speaker 2: You're very cute and very funny. I would rather the
20:17
Speaker 2: video be seven minutes and leave Lou and Justin in it.
20:20
Speaker 2: By the way, you should be in there. Of course.
20:23
Speaker 1: I was off the day the camera came on.
20:24
Speaker 2: I know you were. But I would love to see Lou, Justin,
20:29
Speaker 2: and Noam in the video. I really would. Now, again,
20:32
Speaker 2: you guys are going to be there, which is even
20:34
Speaker 2: more special. And you know that whether my speech is
20:37
Speaker 2: four minutes or ten... I'm going to make a big
20:40
Speaker 2: deal about you guys. But no, I am not happy.
20:43
Speaker 9: So you'll unearth, you know, just people are asking, so
20:46
Speaker 9: I just want to know. You'll unearth this video of
20:49
Speaker 9: Lou and Justin.
20:49
Speaker 1: At some point.
20:50
Speaker 2: Oh, God, no, it's long gone. Who knows?
20:51
Speaker 13: I don't care.
20:52
Speaker 1: So it's been edited and then deleted.
20:54
Speaker 2: Ah, it's on the cutting. It's gone. Remember when Robert
20:58
Speaker 2: De Niro picked up the payphone? After Joe Pesci went
21:02
Speaker 2: to become a– they're about to make him?
21:04
Speaker 20: Yes.
21:05
Speaker 1: That's what they did with him.
21:05
Speaker 2: How did that phone call go with John? Not well, yeah.
21:08
Speaker 10: Well, you know– He's gone. There's nothing we can do.
21:12
Speaker 2: Nothing we can do. He's gone. Nothing we can do,
21:14
Speaker 2: and he's gone. That's it. It's gone.
21:16
Speaker 10: He's gone.
21:16
Speaker 13: No, no.
21:17
Speaker 2: What I'm going to do, in all seriousness, is– And
21:19
Speaker 2: that's that. On the day of the Hall of Fame
21:21
Speaker 2: induction next Thursday, I have not yet released on my
21:25
Speaker 2: social media the full videos of Trump and Bibi. I
21:29
Speaker 2: just put out, like, 30-second clips. So what I'm going
21:31
Speaker 2: to do on Thursday morning is actually post the full
21:36
Speaker 2: videos of Trump and Bibi. And you're ready for this?
21:39
Speaker 21: No.
21:39
Speaker 2: I'm going to get the videos of Lewis and Justin
21:42
Speaker 2: and post those two on Thursday morning. Because that's the
21:46
Speaker 2: type of guy I am.
21:47
Speaker 10: That's very magnanimous.
21:49
Speaker 2: I haven't asked anybody for that yet, but. You just
21:52
Speaker 2: gave me a very good idea, though. Yeah, sure.
21:53
Speaker 10: That's going to happen like Wednesday night. You're going to
21:55
Speaker 10: wake up before we pick you up.
21:57
Speaker 2: Well, this is a big deal, bro. This is a
21:58
Speaker 2: very big deal. I understand. They're coming from all over
22:01
Speaker 2: the world for this.
22:02
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're telling me. I'm on the floor. That's why.
22:05
Speaker 10: That's how big a deal it ended up.
22:07
Speaker 2: You're not on the floor.
22:08
Speaker 23: If I was Noam and I somehow got into the
22:11
Speaker 23: Hall of Fame, I would.
22:14
Speaker 10: Have you record something and then edit you out.
22:16
Speaker 1: Yes, I would do that. Yeah, 100%.
22:19
Speaker 10: Oh, Sid, I worked with him for these years and
22:21
Speaker 10: it was a great time. I just couldn't fit him in.
22:24
Speaker 2: To be serious for a second. I love Justin. And
22:29
Speaker 2: Justin is a great producer. And boy, he's so loyal.
22:32
Speaker 10: He's excellent.
22:33
Speaker 2: He's a great kid. But I've known Justin for... Five years?
22:38
Speaker 2: I think he's been on this show for three or
22:41
Speaker 2: four years at most.
22:43
Speaker 10: Yeah, before I got back.
22:45
Speaker 2: I met Noam going on 11 years ago. He worked
22:49
Speaker 2: with me and Bernard. He was great. And we made
22:51
Speaker 2: a stupid decision.
22:53
Speaker 1: You whacked me.
22:54
Speaker 13: Right.
22:54
Speaker 2: Stupid, stupid.
22:55
Speaker 10: And that's it.
22:56
Speaker 2: That's it. But God is good. And he brought Noam
22:59
Speaker 2: back to us and You know, I can't say enough
23:02
Speaker 2: good things about Noam. And, Noam, you know I'm being serious.
23:04
Speaker 2: I think you're a tremendous talent. I think you're the
23:06
Speaker 2: best news guy in New York. But above and beyond
23:08
Speaker 2: the news, you are a funny guy. Like, you add
23:13
Speaker 2: so much to this show. I'm almost tired of explaining
23:16
Speaker 2: that to people, you know. You're not just a news guy.
23:19
Speaker 2: Who cares? God, you put on 10-10 wins for that nonsense.
23:23
Speaker 2: You provide the news. You've got a great voice. And
23:25
Speaker 2: you're funny. And you know radio. I can't. But it's
23:28
Speaker 2: 11 years. Lou. I have now known Lou and worked
23:34
Speaker 2: with Lou in different capacities. I'm working together on the
23:37
Speaker 2: I Miss in the Morning program. And, of course, him
23:40
Speaker 2: working with me now. We're going on 25 years. 25 years.
23:47
Speaker 2: Really 26. I'm sorry. Because WNEW let me go in 2000.
23:52
Speaker 2: Jeremy Coleman and Ken Stevens. My partner was Craig Carton.
23:57
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand him. And my producer intern was Chris Olivero, who,
24:04
Speaker 2: of course, runs all of the Odyssey stations and has
24:06
Speaker 2: for years. What a wonderful guy. So I left NEW.
24:10
Speaker 2: I was going back to Florida until I got a
24:12
Speaker 2: phone call from one Steve Cohen, not the owner of
24:15
Speaker 2: the Mets, not the GM of the Brooklyn Cyclones, but
24:19
Speaker 2: Stevie Cohen, married to the lovely Eileen Marchese, valued WFAN guy,
24:26
Speaker 2: called me and said, Meet me at Merchant's Restaurant on
24:29
Speaker 2: 61st and 1st. I want to talk to you. And
24:33
Speaker 2: you knew I wanted to go to the fans so badly.
24:35
Speaker 2: I had met Mark Chernoff. Believe it or not, at
24:37
Speaker 2: Rockefeller Center, Mike and the Mad Dog did a show
24:41
Speaker 2: outside during the Met Yankee World Series, 2000. I went
24:46
Speaker 2: to Merchant's. I met Steve. He said, the fan likes you.
24:49
Speaker 2: I said, oh, stop it. I'm going back to Miami tomorrow. Sid,
24:52
Speaker 2: the fan likes you. Lee Davis likes you. Mark Chernoff
24:56
Speaker 2: likes you. A young lady who was in, at the time, marketing,
25:00
Speaker 2: Connie Fitzpatrick. She likes you. He got a shot. And
25:04
Speaker 2: he was right. Oh, my God, there's my picture, New
25:06
Speaker 2: York 1, with Bruce Blakeman and all at the basketball
25:08
Speaker 2: game last night. Look at that. Look how good I
25:11
Speaker 2: look in my blue jacket, black shirt, and that great smile.
25:14
Speaker 2: They took that from my Twitter page. Did they give
25:17
Speaker 2: me any credit? They did not, no.
25:19
Speaker 20: They didn't.
25:19
Speaker 2: That's so funny. I want to get to that Bruce
25:22
Speaker 2: Blakeman night last night with Jim Dolan. They just put
25:24
Speaker 2: a picture up on New York One. They gave me
25:26
Speaker 2: no credit. So anyway, Cohen gets me a meeting with
25:29
Speaker 2: Mark Chernoff, and I get the job. And next thing
25:30
Speaker 2: you know, I'm working with Lou and Imus and Bernie
25:33
Speaker 2: and the whole crew. And it's been 26 years, and
25:37
Speaker 2: I love Louis. And I think he's a tremendous talent.
25:42
Speaker 2: He never got the credit he deserved on the Imus show.
25:44
Speaker 2: They gave a lot of credit to, quite frankly, me
25:46
Speaker 2: and Bernie and Rob. But Louis... Always funny.
25:51
Speaker 20: Always.
25:52
Speaker 2: And the Iron Man knew that he can count on Lou.
25:54
Speaker 2: And that's how I feel. Like, I can never think
25:57
Speaker 2: about doing this show without Lou. You know, even when
25:59
Speaker 2: he takes a vacation. And Justin runs a fine board. And, yeah,
26:03
Speaker 2: that Puerto Rican kid, I guess he was fine.
26:05
Speaker 22: I don't know.
26:06
Speaker 9: When Lou goes on vacation, you are in a bad way.
26:08
Speaker 9: I don't mean the show's bad, but you're not happy.
26:10
Speaker 2: Well, because, well, here's what you have to understand. And
26:14
Speaker 2: you know this. The beginning of the show is very,
26:16
Speaker 2: very important because it kind of sets the pace for
26:18
Speaker 2: the rest of the show. And the first hour of
26:20
Speaker 2: the show, we don't do guests. And people love the
26:23
Speaker 2: first hour. I know it sounds crazy. Nobody does a
26:26
Speaker 2: better interview and radio than me. Nobody. Howard Stern used to,
26:30
Speaker 2: and he still probably does. But outside of Howard, nobody
26:33
Speaker 2: does a better radio interview than me. I'll include Imus
26:36
Speaker 2: in that. Not better. But people really love our number
26:40
Speaker 2: one because it's us. And you play a major role. No,
26:43
Speaker 2: I'm doing all the news. But when Lou is not here,
26:46
Speaker 2: you're right. I'm like off. I'm off kilter. You are.
26:49
Speaker 20: Yeah.
26:50
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that song. I want to
26:52
Speaker 2: talk about that band. I want to talk about the Islanders.
26:54
Speaker 2: So I guess what I'm trying to say is I
26:56
Speaker 2: can't really ever put in words how much you guys
27:00
Speaker 2: mean to me, all of you, and Lou, you especially,
27:02
Speaker 2: 26 years. So the video doesn't mean a heck of
27:06
Speaker 2: a lot to me. What matters to me is what
27:09
Speaker 2: we've done together. As part of a team. Years ago.
27:14
Speaker 2: That goes down in history as one of the all
27:16
Speaker 2: time greats. To now our show. This is our show guys.
27:20
Speaker 2: This is us. And a lot of people hate me.
27:22
Speaker 2: I know they do. Just go onto my Twitter right now.
27:25
Speaker 2: You won't believe what they say about me. The media
27:27
Speaker 2: in New York hates me.
27:28
Speaker 13: They do.
27:29
Speaker 2: They hate me. You know. But I know this. Day
27:33
Speaker 2: in and day out. This is the best show in
27:35
Speaker 2: New York. And it's not even close. It's not. And
27:39
Speaker 2: a lot of that is because of you guys. Most
27:41
Speaker 2: of it is because of me. Let's not get stupid, okay?
27:43
Speaker 10: No, let's not get stupid.
27:44
Speaker 2: Right, take it easy. Calm down. But a lot of
27:47
Speaker 2: that is because of you guys.
27:48
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, that's why it's just kind of shocking to
27:51
Speaker 9: me that you would, after all that, cut Lou out.
27:56
Speaker 1: Okay, Justin, maybe you feel like you've known him 10
27:58
Speaker 1: minutes in your life. But Lou, you've known him for hours.
28:01
Speaker 2: Truth is, I don't put much of a fight either.
28:05
Speaker 2: I'm a big-time guy, okay? Maybe you're Lou.
28:07
Speaker 1: I love Lou.
28:09
Speaker 9: See, I would have chosen Lou, hands down, because I'm
28:12
Speaker 9: sure whatever Lou said was probably really funny.
28:15
Speaker 2: That's why you're just a news guy. You make what
28:18
Speaker 2: you make, and I'm about to sign a new deal
28:20
Speaker 2: for millions of dollars.
28:22
Speaker 23: Can you hear the laughter and shit on that phone
28:24
Speaker 23: call from them?
28:26
Speaker 2: No, the truth is I never spoke to them. Justin did.
28:30
Speaker 20: Oh.
28:30
Speaker 2: So they sent out an e-mail. You know, they've sent
28:33
Speaker 2: me probably 20 e-mails. I'm not exaggerating, 20. I don't
28:37
Speaker 2: think I've answered any of them. Justin does all that.
28:40
Speaker 2: And then I read that they cut these two guys out,
28:43
Speaker 2: and I just wondered about my day.
28:45
Speaker 10: Of course you did. Barely looked up from your phone.
28:48
Speaker 2: I didn't rush you on that.
28:50
Speaker 10: Well, of course you got me.
28:52
Speaker 2: No, if David Donovan said to me, there's no room
28:55
Speaker 2: and Luke can't come, then I would probably not even, well.
28:58
Speaker 10: No, just... Again, stay in the Milky Way, all right?
29:02
Speaker 10: What are you thinking? What do you mean? I wouldn't
29:04
Speaker 10: even go.
29:05
Speaker 2: Lou, you're my guy. Just so you know that.
29:09
Speaker 1: So much so.
29:09
Speaker 10: Okay, let's walk the state down.
29:11
Speaker 2: A large percentage of why I'm a huge success is
29:14
Speaker 2: because of you. Because of you. I mean that. You, Lou, you.
29:17
Speaker 10: It's great to hear.
29:18
Speaker 2: That's all I'm going to say. Enough of this, my God.
29:20
Speaker 10: Oh, God. It's okay. I hope we say hello to
29:22
Speaker 10: each other the day this happens.
29:23
Speaker 2: Oh, that's going to be difficult. There's a lot of
29:25
Speaker 2: very famous people.
29:26
Speaker 10: I understand. That's why I brought it up.
29:30
Speaker 2: I'll say hello to you Thursday morning here on the show.
29:32
Speaker 2: We'll do a four-hour radio show together. Then, yeah, that's it.
29:34
Speaker 2: You shut your load for the day.
29:36
Speaker 10: That's it.
29:36
Speaker 1: Are we still sitting at your table? Has that changed, too?
29:40
Speaker 10: Look what I'm thinking.
29:41
Speaker 2: Look what I'm thinking.
29:41
Speaker 13: Oh, no.
29:42
Speaker 2: It's funny he brings that up.
29:44
Speaker 10: Right.
29:45
Speaker 22: Oh, no.
29:45
Speaker 10: Things are going to change by that day. You know that.
29:47
Speaker 10: Are you kidding? I'm going to be way far away.
29:52
Speaker 2: Those horrible people I work with. I literally just said
29:55
Speaker 2: such beautiful things about all of you, and you just
29:59
Speaker 2: want to berate me. Over nonsense. I mean, the truth is, no,
30:02
Speaker 2: you're probably not going to be sitting at my table
30:03
Speaker 2: because there's somebody more famous.
30:06
Speaker 10: That is a joke. You are joking about that.
30:10
Speaker 2: How about those brewers? Come on now.
30:12
Speaker 1: Wow, you switched out the table too, huh?
30:14
Speaker 22: Wow.
30:15
Speaker 2: No, I'm only kidding. You're at my table. My table
30:17
Speaker 2: is me, Danielle, Ava Gabriel, Naomi Rosenberg, Louis Ruffino, Noam Layden,
30:25
Speaker 2: Justin Ellick, I think Dr. John Batash is at my table.
30:28
Speaker 2: I love him.
30:29
Speaker 1: Who's that?
30:29
Speaker 2: Who is Dr.
30:30
Speaker 10: John Batash?
30:30
Speaker 24: Dr.
30:30
Speaker 13: John.
30:31
Speaker 2: I've never heard of him. You know him. Yes, you've
30:33
Speaker 2: met him a bunch of times. In fact, he brought
30:35
Speaker 2: his kids with him to the anniversary show. Tall guy,
30:39
Speaker 2: bald guy, doctor.
30:40
Speaker 10: Oh, okay. Wow, that describes him.
30:42
Speaker 2: Well, you remember Caroline Schenkel from that show. A tall,
30:45
Speaker 2: bald guy.
30:46
Speaker 13: Yeah, I know.
30:46
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bald guys.
30:47
Speaker 2: I've never walked into an.
30:48
Speaker 23: Office and not talked to him.
30:50
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:51
Speaker 10: Okay, good. I'm sure he's an amazing guy.
30:53
Speaker 2: He's a great, great guy. I love him. He was
30:56
Speaker 2: in Israel with me my last trip. You may remember that.
30:58
Speaker 2: I told you that about a thousand times.
30:59
Speaker 10: Superb. Fantastic.
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know. I've got like two other
31:02
Speaker 2: places at my table. And, of course, Pete Morgan has
31:05
Speaker 2: a table and Bo Dietl has a table. So those
31:07
Speaker 2: guys are all set. We'll see. But, yeah, you guys
31:09
Speaker 2: are sitting with me. Now, moments ago on New York One,
31:12
Speaker 2: they showed a picture. They're going to show it all
31:15
Speaker 2: morning long. What is that guy's name? Hardita? Hardita. How
31:18
Speaker 2: do you say his name?
31:19
Speaker 1: I think it's Hart.
31:20
Speaker 2: And it's Hart. Okay. Is it Bob? Bob, yeah. I
31:23
Speaker 2: like him. He's actually very good. And he was on
31:26
Speaker 2: with the Leprechaun just now. What is his name again?
31:29
Speaker 1: Pat Kiernan.
31:30
Speaker 2: That's right. And they were talking about this big fundraiser
31:33
Speaker 2: last night that the owner of the Knicks and the Rangers,
31:36
Speaker 2: James Dolan, put on for Bruce Blakeman. And everybody knows
31:41
Speaker 2: that outside of maybe Chris Boyle and Fenton McCormack, maybe
31:46
Speaker 2: Peter King, that's even up for debate, and maybe Joe Cairo,
31:49
Speaker 2: there's nobody closer to Bruce than me. Nobody. Nobody. I've
31:54
Speaker 2: been kind of his unofficial chief of staff since the
31:57
Speaker 2: day he announced he was running. So Dolan is putting
32:02
Speaker 2: on this fundraiser last night, and I was invited. Thank you,
32:06
Speaker 2: Chris Boyle. So I got to the garden before anybody else.
32:11
Speaker 2: They told us to arrive at 645. I got there
32:13
Speaker 2: at 545. I was sitting in the studio literally all
32:16
Speaker 2: day long. I listened to Dominic Carter. He was great.
32:19
Speaker 2: I listened to Bo Snardley. He was great. Made my
32:22
Speaker 2: way on the E train to the garden. What a
32:25
Speaker 2: beautiful suite. They have a fireplace in that suite.
32:27
Speaker 22: What?
32:28
Speaker 2: You guys know that? A fireplace.
32:30
Speaker 10: Where does the smoke go?
32:32
Speaker 2: I don't know. But it's a gorgeous suite. And they've
32:35
Speaker 2: got a bar and they've got food and You walk
32:38
Speaker 2: out the suite, and you're literally right there by the court.
32:42
Speaker 2: So we sat about six rows from the court. Now, again,
32:45
Speaker 2: this is a preseason game against Toronto, right? You want
32:49
Speaker 2: those tickets Tuesday night. That's where Corey Zelnick and Bill
32:53
Speaker 2: O'Reilly and Steve Sharippa and Dick Faye Spike Lee and
32:57
Speaker 2: all those guys sit. Tuesday when LeBron James comes to
33:00
Speaker 2: town and the Knicks raise the banner, it's going to
33:02
Speaker 2: be unbelievable. I've got to say this. The energy in
33:05
Speaker 2: that building last night, Norman Luke, was completely wild. This
33:12
Speaker 2: is a preseason game. Preseason. I can only imagine. I'm
33:17
Speaker 2: so jealous. I got to go. Tuesday night. Come on.
33:20
Speaker 2: You guys love me. I have a million listeners every morning.
33:23
Speaker 2: Someone's got to take me. That place is going to
33:25
Speaker 2: be nuts. Raise the banner, LeBron. So I get there.
33:30
Speaker 2: And then eventually, James Dolan comes in. I've never really
33:35
Speaker 2: had any conversations with James. I did last night. It
33:38
Speaker 2: was very nice. I grabbed him. I said, listen, Jim,
33:42
Speaker 2: I love the fact you brought New York a championship.
33:45
Speaker 2: I love that. I've been a Knick fan my whole life,
33:47
Speaker 2: 53 years. It's great. But I got to tell you
33:49
Speaker 2: the truth, James. I actually appreciate you more for what
33:54
Speaker 2: you stand for. Because he hates Mom Donnie like I do.
33:58
Speaker 2: He hates him. And he can't stand Kathy Hochul just
34:02
Speaker 2: like me. He actually said, because he made a little
34:04
Speaker 2: bit of a speech earlier, In the suite last night,
34:08
Speaker 2: he says, I wake up every morning trying to find
34:11
Speaker 2: another way to help Bruce Blakeman beat Kathy Hochul. James
34:16
Speaker 2: Dolan said that. It was unbelievable. So we go out
34:20
Speaker 2: and watch the first half of the game. Bruce Blakeman
34:23
Speaker 2: showed up kind of late. So I sat with Bruce
34:26
Speaker 2: and his son, Arlen, who's a great kid, knows a
34:29
Speaker 2: lot about sports. I love Arlen. Reminds me of Gabriel
34:31
Speaker 2: in that respect. And then halftime, we all went back
34:34
Speaker 2: to the suite. Dolan was sitting under the basket by
34:37
Speaker 2: Johnny Franco and a bunch of guys. He came back
34:39
Speaker 2: to the suite. Dolan introduced Bruce. Bruce spoke for about
34:45
Speaker 2: 10 minutes. Then he had another event. This is like
34:47
Speaker 2: 9 o'clock last night. This guy works his ass off.
34:51
Speaker 2: I love when people go, I never see him. I
34:53
Speaker 2: never see him in the boroughs. And you have no
34:56
Speaker 2: idea what you're talking about. But what I took from
34:58
Speaker 2: last night was what a great New Yorker Jim Dolan is.
35:03
Speaker 2: All the years of criticizing Dolan for Isaiah Thomas and
35:08
Speaker 2: Larry Brown and Phil Jackson and all that nonsense. Well,
35:12
Speaker 2: now we've got a championship, okay? Now we got a championship,
35:16
Speaker 2: and this guy stands for everything right. He's got President
35:20
Speaker 2: Trump in that building. Sorry, Stephen A. Smith, all the time.
35:24
Speaker 2: He's got Bruce Blakeman in that building. He can't stand Mamdani.
35:29
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is, even above and beyond sports,
35:32
Speaker 2: I love James Dolan. Now, I don't think he loves
35:36
Speaker 2: me because something tells me That he heard everything I
35:41
Speaker 2: said over the years when I was doing sports at
35:43
Speaker 2: WFAM because he's a stoic guy anyway. Kind of stoic.
35:48
Speaker 2: But I can tell he was not lovey-dovey with me,
35:53
Speaker 2: you know. Like he had heard me say things over
35:55
Speaker 2: the years on the fan. And I was critical of
35:57
Speaker 2: Jim Dolan with both the Knicks and the Rangers. But
36:00
Speaker 2: I'm an adult now. You know what I mean? I
36:02
Speaker 2: care less about that nonsense and more about my city.
36:07
Speaker 2: So I love James Dolan. And I love Bruce Blakeman.
36:12
Speaker 2: And I kind of like Noam.
36:14
Speaker 1: No, you didn't hug it out with Dolan?
36:16
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, we did. We hugged. If you go
36:17
Speaker 2: to my Instagram page this morning, at Rosenberg.Sydney, there's three
36:21
Speaker 2: pictures of me and James. That was great. He was terrific.
36:24
Speaker 2: He really was. But, you know, you get that feeling, Noam,
36:27
Speaker 2: you just... He's a little bit.
36:30
Speaker 1: Tiny bits stand off.
36:31
Speaker 2: Right, but that's him anyway. His own guy told me that.
36:35
Speaker 1: He doesn't come across as incredibly warm.
36:37
Speaker 2: Right.
36:37
Speaker 13: Yeah.
36:38
Speaker 2: But he was with Bruce. He was incredibly warm, smiling.
36:41
Speaker 9: He played in our, do you remember this? He played in,
36:44
Speaker 9: I don't remember if you were at ABC yet.
36:45
Speaker 2: I wasn't here then. No, I know.
36:46
Speaker 1: He played in the WABC band. He was a very
36:48
Speaker 1: nice guy.
36:49
Speaker 2: He's got his own band. He's a very talented musician.
36:52
Speaker 1: With drums? Is that what he played?
36:53
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I don't know.
36:54
Speaker 1: I think it was the drums.
36:54
Speaker 2: But I wasn't here for that.
36:56
Speaker 22: Yeah.
36:56
Speaker 2: I wasn't here for that.
36:57
Speaker 10: Short Shot, I think they were called.
36:58
Speaker 20: J.D.
36:58
Speaker 10: And the Short Shots. I think that's what his name is.
37:01
Speaker 2: Maybe that was it, yeah.
37:03
Speaker 10: I think it was at one point.
37:05
Speaker 20: Yeah.
37:07
Speaker 2: I told Dolan about Ron Duguay also. I got a very,
37:10
Speaker 2: very emotional text from Sarah Palin yesterday. That's right, folks.
37:15
Speaker 2: The same Sarah Palin that John McCain picked to be
37:19
Speaker 2: the VP. That one, Alaska Sarah Palin. People, I think
37:24
Speaker 2: you guys know that I'm very close with Sarah and Ronnie,
37:26
Speaker 2: her boyfriend Ron Duguay, but very close with Sarah. And
37:30
Speaker 2: she texted me two days ago, and she said, Sid,
37:32
Speaker 2: I want you to know this. I'm on the way
37:34
Speaker 2: to California. Ronnie starts his kidney dialysis this morning. He's
37:39
Speaker 2: a fighter, but the cancer is starting to win. So
37:43
Speaker 2: I took Dolan aside last night, and I told him that.
37:46
Speaker 2: I said, one of our all-time greats. Now, Jim Dolan
37:49
Speaker 2: didn't own the Rangers, obviously, when Ron Duguay was a
37:53
Speaker 2: superstar in New York. But he's a nice guy, James,
37:56
Speaker 2: and he understands that he is still– a part of
37:59
Speaker 2: the Ranger and Nick family, and he seemed very upset
38:03
Speaker 2: and wanting to help. So hopefully I got Ron Duguay
38:05
Speaker 2: some help on the owner of the Knicks and Rangers
38:08
Speaker 2: last night. He is very sick. Nice.
38:10
Speaker 10: Good job.
38:10
Speaker 13: Thank you.
38:11
Speaker 2: And the Islanders have been great to him. Clark Kelly's foundation.
38:15
Speaker 23: Well, those guys all played against each other for a
38:19
Speaker 23: long time.
38:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
38:20
Speaker 10: They're quite familiar with Ron.
38:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they like him. Of course they like him.
38:23
Speaker 2: Even though there was a vicious rivalry back then.
38:25
Speaker 13: Vicious.
38:26
Speaker 20: Right.
38:26
Speaker 2: Vicious.
38:27
Speaker 10: But this is how hockey is, though, of course.
38:30
Speaker 2: They're different. They're better. I'm going to say this. They're
38:33
Speaker 2: better people.
38:33
Speaker 10: They could beat each other up. Right.
38:36
Speaker 2: But every sport is like that. Right.
38:37
Speaker 10: That's true.
38:38
Speaker 2: I remember I got so angry. There was a game.
38:41
Speaker 2: The Giants was at the Niners, and T.O. just cooked
38:46
Speaker 2: Jason Sehorne. The whole game. Cooked him. And then, you
38:49
Speaker 2: know how the NFL, when the game's over, the networks
38:52
Speaker 2: show all the players walking off the field, and the
38:54
Speaker 2: two of those guys are walking off like they're lovers.
38:56
Speaker 2: I go, what are you doing? How many times did
38:58
Speaker 2: you see Yankee players walk over to Red Sox players
39:02
Speaker 2: after a series is over? I'm like, what are you doing?
39:05
Speaker 2: You cannot fraternize with the enemy. That'd be like me
39:08
Speaker 2: hanging out with El Sayed or Mamdani or Hochul or fat,
39:13
Speaker 2: stupid Letitia James. What, did you just say no?
39:16
Speaker 14: No.
39:18
Speaker 10: No, it's a bad look, obviously.
39:19
Speaker 2: It's not a good look. Right, true.
39:21
Speaker 10: But that's how hockey, you know, it's no surprise. I mean, yeah,
39:25
Speaker 10: I'm an Islander fan, but I loved Ron Duguay playing,
39:28
Speaker 10: and I still do.
39:29
Speaker 2: Although the other thing is they're all drunk. I mean,
39:31
Speaker 2: let's be honest. Nobody drinks like hockey players.
39:33
Speaker 13: Nobody.
39:34
Speaker 2: Okay. I love those guys.
39:36
Speaker 10: True.
39:36
Speaker 2: They're hammered. Remember the Hanson brothers? Is that the greatest
39:41
Speaker 2: sports movie ever? Slapshot? Paul Newman?
39:45
Speaker 1: Okay. It's a pretty great movie.
39:46
Speaker 2: Pretty great.
39:47
Speaker 10: It's a great movie.
39:47
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a serious movie like, you know,
39:50
Speaker 2: Field of Dreams or, you know, the Yankee thing with
39:54
Speaker 2: Jim Cagney. I don't know. But Slapshot was so good.
39:58
Speaker 2: So good.
39:59
Speaker 10: Yeah.
39:59
Speaker 2: God, I loved it.
40:00
Speaker 10: It's great.
40:01
Speaker 13: Yeah.
40:01
Speaker 10: It's a great.
40:02
Speaker 2: Fantastic. I know what else is going on in our
40:06
Speaker 2: world here in New York. And I know Trump is
40:08
Speaker 2: going to be in Georgia today. And then he's got Kentucky.
40:11
Speaker 2: Not Kentucky.
40:12
Speaker 17: Kansas.
40:13
Speaker 2: Is it Kansas?
40:14
Speaker 20: Yes.
40:14
Speaker 2: He keeps saying Kentucky. Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida.
40:19
Speaker 2: And then he's going back for a third time to Texas.
40:24
Speaker 20: Wow.
40:25
Speaker 2: They've got a big rally in Georgia today and I
40:27
Speaker 2: believe Kansas tomorrow.
40:28
Speaker 9: He's trying to convince Republicans down in Texas that they shouldn't.
40:32
Speaker 2: Stay home.
40:33
Speaker 9: I mean, they're not worried about necessarily Republicans voting for
40:36
Speaker 9: James Tallarico.
40:36
Speaker 1: They're just worried they won't.
40:37
Speaker 2: Vote at all. Well, is he winning right now? He is.
40:40
Speaker 2: He's up a couple points. A couple points.
40:41
Speaker 1: And has been since Labor Day.
40:42
Speaker 2: That hasn't changed.
40:43
Speaker 22: Right.
40:44
Speaker 2: So is Tallarico winning in Texas over Rodgers right now?
40:47
Speaker 24: And.
40:47
Speaker 2: No, no.
40:47
Speaker 1: Over Paxton.
40:48
Speaker 2: Over Paxton. And is El Sayed up on Rodgers in Michigan, too?
40:51
Speaker 9: Yeah, but that one seems a little bit closer. The
40:53
Speaker 9: Tallarico one, you know, it's not a wide amount. They
40:56
Speaker 9: could change the narrative. They've got enough time to convince Republicans.
41:00
Speaker 9: The key is They've got to convince Republicans in Texas
41:03
Speaker 9: to go vote.
41:04
Speaker 1: That's what they're worried about. They're not worried they're going
41:06
Speaker 1: to vote for Tallarico. They just need him to go
41:08
Speaker 1: vote like Trump's on the ballot.
41:10
Speaker 9: That's why he keeps reminding people, just pretend like I'm
41:12
Speaker 9: on the ballot because that motivates voters to go.
41:14
Speaker 2: Well, he kind of is, though. I don't understand that
41:16
Speaker 2: whole thing. He is on the ballot because if you
41:20
Speaker 2: don't vote Republican– You're about to make President Trump's life miserable.
41:26
Speaker 2: I'm not saying his presidency, his life. Like, I disagree
41:29
Speaker 2: with Rich Lowry and these other people, even KTG is
41:32
Speaker 2: coming on today. They kind of downplay if we lose
41:35
Speaker 2: the midterms what it means. Folks, I'm going to give
41:39
Speaker 2: you the honest truth, okay? They're going to make this
41:41
Speaker 2: man miserable. They're going to go after Trump. They're going
41:45
Speaker 2: to go hard after his family. He is scared to
41:48
Speaker 2: death of that. Somebody tip me off on that one. Heck,
41:51
Speaker 2: even a guy like me could be subpoenaed. So don't
41:53
Speaker 2: downplay what's going to happen. If they win and retain
41:57
Speaker 2: the House, not retain, take over the House, and God
42:02
Speaker 2: forbid the Senate, but even the House, they're going to
42:04
Speaker 2: make President Trump miserable, and he knows it. So he
42:09
Speaker 2: is on the ballot. Forget about Paxton. You know, forget
42:13
Speaker 2: about Rogers. Lawler all the Petri. If you love Donald Trump,
42:17
Speaker 2: you better vote red like your effing life depends on it.
42:22
Speaker 2: Am I making any sense?
42:23
Speaker 1: Well, that's the argument they're going to make in the
42:25
Speaker 1: coming weeks.
42:25
Speaker 9: And they have enormous amount of money to do so,
42:28
Speaker 9: way more than the Democrats do. So that could help them.
42:31
Speaker 9: That's what they're counting on.
42:32
Speaker 2: More importantly, did you like the picture they put up
42:34
Speaker 2: on you?
42:36
Speaker 1: It was a good picture.
42:38
Speaker 24: Yeah.
42:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. Pretty good, right?
42:39
Speaker 1: You look handsome in it.
42:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, thank you, buddy. All right. Now back to
42:43
Speaker 2: the midterms.
42:44
Speaker 10: Nice work, Noam.
42:46
Speaker 1: I know what you want.
42:47
Speaker 2: This is why Al Bolpe loves him.
42:48
Speaker 13: This is why.
42:49
Speaker 2: Oh, talking about Al Bolpe, you know what today is?
42:52
Speaker 14: No.
42:53
Speaker 2: Keith Cantuitz's birthday, Lewis.
42:55
Speaker 24: Oh, huge.
42:56
Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Keith Cantuitz.
42:59
Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
43:00
Speaker 13: Do you know Keith, Noam?
43:02
Speaker 1: I do not.
43:02
Speaker 2: I've met him before, but I can't say I know him. Well,
43:04
Speaker 2: he's going to be at the Hall of Fame. He's
43:06
Speaker 2: got his own table. And his birthday is today. We've
43:09
Speaker 2: got a big birthday dinner coming up at Fresco. Rosanna
43:11
Speaker 2: Scotto's restaurant. You'll be there on the 27th, Louis. All right.
43:16
Speaker 10: That's the table we're going to be moved to.
43:18
Speaker 2: Yes. That's where you're going to be sitting. Well, ironically,
43:21
Speaker 2: Rosanna Scotto is being inducted into the Hall of Fame
43:25
Speaker 2: with me on Thursday.
43:26
Speaker 10: That's crazy.
43:26
Speaker 2: Isn't that funny?
43:27
Speaker 20: That is. Yeah.
43:28
Speaker 2: All right. So the midterms, what else is going on?
43:30
Speaker 1: Just this horrendous, horrific story out of Bend, Oregon.
43:33
Speaker 2: Oh, this is terrible.
43:35
Speaker 13: It is.
43:35
Speaker 1: The 16-year-old.
43:37
Speaker 9: Is able to shoot his way into a local elementary
43:41
Speaker 9: school there. And along the way, he kills, I mean,
43:45
Speaker 9: it's just so horrific, a 5-year-old, an 8-year-old, and an 11-year-old.
43:49
Speaker 1: He shoots dead.
43:50
Speaker 2: And a teacher, too.
43:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then a 54-year-old teacher. So you can imagine.
43:55
Speaker 2: Is he dead?
43:56
Speaker 20: He is.
43:57
Speaker 2: So by he killed himself with a.
43:59
Speaker 13: No, no.
43:59
Speaker 1: A sideline story. That's the only positive thing.
44:02
Speaker 9: If there's such a thing, a positive thing out of
44:04
Speaker 9: this story is they think a dad who was there.
44:07
Speaker 9: They haven't told us who he is. They think it
44:08
Speaker 9: was a dad who was on the scene just happened
44:10
Speaker 9: to be there was the one who shot and killed him.
44:12
Speaker 9: Or he may have killed a whole bunch more. So
44:15
Speaker 9: we don't know. They haven't identified him. They haven't identified
44:18
Speaker 9: the 16 year old. I mean, what will matter what
44:20
Speaker 9: his motive is?
44:21
Speaker 1: It won't make any sense.
44:22
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
44:24
Speaker 9: And so now you have another community left with the
44:26
Speaker 9: school shooting and these kids so young. These parents sent
44:30
Speaker 9: these kids to class yesterday thinking they'd come back home.
44:34
Speaker 17: And they didn't.
44:34
Speaker 13: Of course, of course.
44:35
Speaker 2: I got a guy on Twitter who said, you know,
44:37
Speaker 2: you ended yesterday's show for 30 minutes just bullying with
44:39
Speaker 2: the guys and you started the first 20 minutes today
44:42
Speaker 2: just bullying with the guys. Hey, stupid, shut up, okay?
44:44
Speaker 2: When you host your own radio show and you get
44:46
Speaker 2: the ratings that I get, then you can dictate content.
44:49
Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing. You don't just beat people
44:52
Speaker 2: over the head with news that 6 o'clock in the
44:54
Speaker 2: morning on a Friday? You know why they love this show?
44:56
Speaker 2: Because I don't do that, you dumb bastard. If that's
44:59
Speaker 2: what you want, go put Fox News on your radio.
45:01
Speaker 2: Don't bother me. Don't ever, ever, ever try to dictate
45:05
Speaker 2: content to me. Okay? I'm number one because I know
45:09
Speaker 2: more than all of you. And if you don't like it,
45:12
Speaker 2: change the channel. I think I'm one of the only
45:15
Speaker 2: radio hosts in America that actually encourages people to change
45:20
Speaker 2: the channel. Management goes, don't do that. What about your ratings?
45:23
Speaker 2: I have so many people listening. I can afford to
45:26
Speaker 2: lose a couple of jackasses, okay? So we've already done
45:30
Speaker 2: serious news already.
45:32
Speaker 10: What's the point?
45:34
Speaker 2: What's the point? Talk radio is all about personality, and
45:37
Speaker 2: that's why they love me. They don't love a lot
45:40
Speaker 2: of radio hosts. They listen. They're fine. They love me.
45:45
Speaker 10: You're talking at the beginning. You're talking at the end.
45:47
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you talking about, you dickstein? I'm sorry.
45:50
Speaker 2: What else do you want to know?
45:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's an awful story.
45:54
Speaker 9: I can bring it back home into the city with
45:57
Speaker 9: just some kind of crazy stories.
45:58
Speaker 2: By the way, I blocked that guy on Twitter just now.
46:00
Speaker 13: You did?
46:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just going to block you.
46:02
Speaker 1: And what was he saying? He said he just doesn't
46:03
Speaker 1: like when we're serious or doesn't like when we're funny.
46:06
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he wants me to just
46:08
Speaker 2: be a straight news guy. That's not going to happen.
46:10
Speaker 2: I'd never get the ratings I got if I did that. Never. Never, ever, ever.
46:15
Speaker 2: There's plenty of shows, even on this station, where they
46:17
Speaker 2: don't lamp nearly as much or not as funny. They
46:20
Speaker 2: don't talk about their lives and all that. So just
46:22
Speaker 2: go listen.
46:23
Speaker 10: I turned into ESPN. I saw sports. What the hell
46:26
Speaker 10: are they doing?
46:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. These people are just, I mean, just listen
46:32
Speaker 2: and shut up. Okay. I don't take phone calls because
46:35
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in what you think. You don't like that.
46:38
Speaker 2: That's fine. What else you got here?
46:42
Speaker 11: No.
46:43
Speaker 1: On a much lighter note, you know New Park Pizza
46:46
Speaker 1: and Howard Beach?
46:46
Speaker 2: This is not a lighter note. Do I know it?
46:48
Speaker 2: Me and Danielle were at New Park Pizza on Monday.
46:51
Speaker 13: Wow.
46:52
Speaker 2: I live in Bell Harbor. I go right, not only
46:56
Speaker 2: do we frequent New Park Pizza, which is famous for
47:00
Speaker 2: a bad story. Years and years ago, a bunch of
47:03
Speaker 2: kids in that pizzeria chased a bunch of black kids
47:06
Speaker 2: with baseball bats onto the Bell Parkway. And one of
47:09
Speaker 2: them died. Maybe two died. I don't know. That's what
47:11
Speaker 2: that place became famous for. But not only do we
47:13
Speaker 2: frequent New Park Pizza, Danielle and I, but directly across
47:17
Speaker 2: the street, directly across the street from New Park Pizza
47:22
Speaker 2: is my tanning salon, Mike's Place. I got one in
47:24
Speaker 2: Howard Beach, and I got Raul and Portobino here in
47:28
Speaker 2: the city. So that one block in Howard Beach. That's
47:32
Speaker 2: my block.
47:33
Speaker 24: Right.
47:33
Speaker 2: Tanning Salon and New Park Pizza. You know, it's right
47:36
Speaker 2: around the corner from New Park Pizza.
47:37
Speaker 13: Who's that?
47:38
Speaker 2: Stephanie Bongiorno and Mike DiDino. They live right around the corner.
47:42
Speaker 2: So there was some type of accident there yesterday.
47:44
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know, when you were there on Monday,
47:46
Speaker 9: was there a drive-thru at New Park Pizza?
47:48
Speaker 2: There's always been a drive-thru. What are you talking about?
47:50
Speaker 9: Well, there's a new drive-thru this morning through the back
47:53
Speaker 9: wall of the restaurant. They have this $ 70. Three-year-old woman
47:56
Speaker 9: hit the gas instead of the brake when she was
47:59
Speaker 9: in the parking lot.
47:59
Speaker 7: Oh, God.
47:59
Speaker 2: Oh, so you're joking. Another drive-thru.
48:01
Speaker 9: She went into the back of the Downing Hall. The
48:03
Speaker 9: good thing is nobody was seriously hurt.
48:04
Speaker 20: Oh, my God.
48:05
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to be okay.
48:06
Speaker 2: We actually, you know, usually there's an outside area. You
48:09
Speaker 2: know about this. Yeah. And it just so happened, it
48:11
Speaker 2: was so crowded the other day when Dan and I
48:13
Speaker 2: were there, that we did eat inside. We very rarely
48:16
Speaker 2: eat inside. But if we had been, there's a chance
48:19
Speaker 2: we could have been killed yesterday. No?
48:22
Speaker 13: Yeah.
48:22
Speaker 2: Over a square. Don't get me wrong. It's great pizza.
48:24
Speaker 20: Yeah.
48:25
Speaker 1: But not worth that, no.
48:27
Speaker 2: So are they closed?
48:28
Speaker 9: Well, we don't know how long they'll be closed for.
48:30
Speaker 9: It's pretty serious damage. The car went all the way
48:32
Speaker 9: into the restaurant.
48:33
Speaker 2: All the way in? Yeah.
48:34
Speaker 10: In that back area.
48:36
Speaker 2: Well, shit. About ten tables.
48:38
Speaker 22: Yeah.
48:38
Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Is the lady okay?
48:42
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to be okay.
48:43
Speaker 2: Why did she crash into that? She hit the gas.
48:46
Speaker 2: Gold drunk on medicine?
48:49
Speaker 9: Sometimes you just make a mistake, and that seems.
48:51
Speaker 1: It all was.
48:52
Speaker 2: Make a mistake? You question to a restaurant? Yeah.
48:55
Speaker 1: It happens a fair amount. We don't cover all these stories.
48:57
Speaker 1: This one's big.
48:58
Speaker 2: Well, we love New Park Pizza.
49:00
Speaker 13: Yeah.
49:00
Speaker 2: I mean, we also love.
49:02
Speaker 10: Good thing Billy Joel wasn't driving around.
49:04
Speaker 2: Well, he's done that. We also love 126 Pizza, of course.
49:08
Speaker 2: That's John and Joe's place. They also own La Sorrentina.
49:10
Speaker 2: They got the pizzeria there, too. But New Park is
49:13
Speaker 2: a classic pizza. I mean, you talk about like Ray's
49:16
Speaker 2: Pizza was in Manhattan years ago, the real classics. That's
49:20
Speaker 2: New Park pizza.
49:20
Speaker 10: And it's going all night.
49:22
Speaker 2: All night. It's always packed.
49:23
Speaker 10: Yeah. So you get a wide variety of people coming
49:28
Speaker 10: in there.
49:28
Speaker 2: All kinds.
49:30
Speaker 10: Why is there two lines?
49:32
Speaker 2: Oh, they do get mad. So you don't know how
49:35
Speaker 2: long it's closed for? I don't. Okay.
49:37
Speaker 1: I imagine, you know, for a couple days for sure,
49:39
Speaker 1: they've got to shore up the building and.
49:40
Speaker 2: Replace the Ricks. Oh, this is terrible news.
49:42
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, I think.
49:43
Speaker 2: You said on a lighthearted note, a car crashed into
49:46
Speaker 2: a new park and the best pizza in New York
49:48
Speaker 2: is closed?
49:48
Speaker 1: Well, like compared to the Bend, Oregon.
49:50
Speaker 22: Oh, right.
49:50
Speaker 2: Anyway. Anything compared to Oregon is like.
49:53
Speaker 13: All right.
49:53
Speaker 2: What else you got?
49:54
Speaker 9: There's a father in Connecticut. Maybe you've seen this video
49:57
Speaker 9: that's gone viral. So he takes his kid to a Darien,
50:01
Speaker 9: Connecticut street festival. And there's a local puppeteer who's walking
50:04
Speaker 9: the streets and engaging kids.
50:07
Speaker 1: A puppeteer? Somebody who's in, you know, does a puppet thing.
50:12
Speaker 2: And he's just walking the streets? Yeah, you know, like.
50:14
Speaker 1: He's holding a puppet?
50:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he's... No, you mean it's part of
50:17
Speaker 2: the festival?
50:18
Speaker 22: Yeah.
50:19
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you meant he's just kind of walking
50:20
Speaker 2: the streets with a puppet. No, no, somebody part of
50:22
Speaker 2: the festival. That guy should be allowed to walk around.
50:26
Speaker 2: Remember the guy in Soap? That guy had a great dummy.
50:29
Speaker 2: I love that.
50:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is part of the entertainment for the street festival.
50:32
Speaker 24: Oh, okay.
50:32
Speaker 2: All right, fine.
50:32
Speaker 9: So this father, he has his one-and-a-half-year-old there at this festival.
50:37
Speaker 1: They're African-American.
50:39
Speaker 9: And he notices that the puppeteer, every time he brings
50:41
Speaker 9: this kid up, turns the other way and only engages
50:44
Speaker 9: the white kids at this event. And if you watch
50:47
Speaker 9: the video, and I said, okay, let me see this video,
50:49
Speaker 9: see if this is something legit to it.
50:51
Speaker 1: It totally is legit.
50:52
Speaker 9: Every time this little kid, Messiah, goes up to The puppeteer,
50:56
Speaker 9: you can see the puppeteer turn around.
50:58
Speaker 1: Here's the dad.
50:59
Speaker 25: That was the first thing that I ever posted on
51:01
Speaker 25: the internet. You can see in the video, she did
51:04
Speaker 25: look at him at least once or twice. So you
51:06
Speaker 25: would think eventually, you know, she would show him a
51:08
Speaker 25: little bit of attention.
51:09
Speaker 9: Yeah, and then they started to walk away. And then
51:12
Speaker 9: the woman, like, then started engaging people. Once they were gone,
51:15
Speaker 9: started engaging more kids. So he said no. He initially thought.
51:19
Speaker 1: No, this isn't on purpose. Then he realized it was
51:22
Speaker 1: on purpose.
51:22
Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
51:23
Speaker 9: So now the Darien Library, she's a librarian who works
51:27
Speaker 9: at the library. She's now on leave as they investigate
51:30
Speaker 9: this thing.
51:30
Speaker 2: Good, good. I like that. One more quickly. What is
51:33
Speaker 2: this Mamdani ad? I guess he's endorsing Hochul, and he
51:38
Speaker 2: takes a shot at my guy, Bruce Blakeman. Is that right?
51:40
Speaker 2: He does.
51:41
Speaker 1: Let me get the audio for you.
51:43
Speaker 2: You actually have the commercial? I do. Oh, let's hear it.
51:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the commercial.
51:47
Speaker 2: Or this is part of it anyway.
51:48
Speaker 24: Okay.
51:48
Speaker 1: He first goes after Bruce Blakeman in this commercial.
51:51
Speaker 8: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
51:54
Speaker 8: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
51:57
Speaker 8: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
51:58
Speaker 8: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
52:01
Speaker 8: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
52:04
Speaker 8: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
52:06
Speaker 8: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
52:10
Speaker 8: for Governor Hochul, because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
52:12
Speaker 2: And Bruce Blakeman? Ew.
52:15
Speaker 10: He's a bad apple.
52:16
Speaker 2: Oh, shut up. He's a bad apple. Look who's talking.
52:18
Speaker 2: I mean, you're the worst person God ever created. Bruce
52:20
Speaker 2: is a wonderful man. And again, make sure you, whatever
52:24
Speaker 2: you're doing this morning, and I never recommend this because
52:26
Speaker 2: it's a communist station and they've got a bunch of
52:28
Speaker 2: racists on there, but make sure you've got New York
52:30
Speaker 2: One on at some point because you're going to see
52:33
Speaker 2: a great picture of me and Bruce Blakeman and Bruce's son, Orlin,
52:36
Speaker 2: at the Nick game last night. That's right. Dolan hosted
52:40
Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman. And who was sitting with Bruce Blakeman?
52:43
Speaker 20: Me.
52:45
Speaker 2: You know, I've got another event with Bruce coming up
52:47
Speaker 2: in the city on Wednesday night. It's Suzanne Miller's event.
52:49
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
52:50
Speaker 24: No.
52:50
Speaker 2: I did not.
52:51
Speaker 13: No.
52:51
Speaker 22: Yeah.
52:52
Speaker 2: I got a lot going on.
52:53
Speaker 1: She's throwing an event for Bruce?
52:54
Speaker 2: She is. It's a big deal. There's other people, famous
52:58
Speaker 2: people I will be speaking to. Wednesday night, I'll get
53:01
Speaker 2: those specifics for you. And then, of course, Thursday morning is,
53:06
Speaker 2: I haven't talked much about this yet. What is Thursday?
53:11
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I don't know.
53:13
Speaker 1: I need to put this on my calendar.
53:14
Speaker 2: Let me get this Joseph Abud thing. In fact, we'll
53:16
Speaker 2: go to break with this. I do love Joseph. I
53:19
Speaker 2: do believe he's the best men's fashion designer ever. We've
53:24
Speaker 2: got a friendship like me and Lou that goes all
53:26
Speaker 2: the way back to the Imus days. I mean, he
53:29
Speaker 2: actually did a show on TLC, if you know that channel.
53:35
Speaker 2: And they did makeup on people. Makeovers, you know. And
53:38
Speaker 2: they made over one day me and Janice Dean. Janice,
53:42
Speaker 2: who went on to star on Fox News, you know,
53:43
Speaker 2: the whole deal there. They made my hair, I had
53:46
Speaker 2: hair back then, blonde at Frederick for Kai in the city.
53:51
Speaker 2: And Abood dressed me, took me to Frederick for Kai.
53:54
Speaker 2: And they did all this. They unleashed it at Mohegan Sun,
53:58
Speaker 2: where I missed a lot of live shows and Abood
54:00
Speaker 2: was there. So we went there for the weekend. Abood
54:02
Speaker 2: took me to Dan Aykroyd's birthday party that night. He
54:05
Speaker 2: took me to see Cher Gay over the weekend. And
54:08
Speaker 2: we've been friends for, I mean, great friends for 25 years.
54:11
Speaker 2: So just like Michael Rapaport and Mike Waller and the
54:16
Speaker 2: great one, Mark Levin, Trump BB, Abood sent me a
54:20
Speaker 2: video yesterday about the Hall of Fame, and it sounded
54:23
Speaker 2: like this.
54:23
Speaker 24: To my dear friend, Sid Rosenberg, congratulations on being inducted
54:28
Speaker 24: into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. What
54:33
Speaker 24: an incredible accomplishment. From Basement Studios in Queens... to the
54:38
Speaker 24: Rainbow Room in the heart of Manhattan. As they say,
54:42
Speaker 24: if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
54:44
Speaker 24: You've done it, Sid. You've been a champion for those
54:46
Speaker 24: things you believe in. And all of us, your friends,
54:49
Speaker 24: your family, we're all so proud of you. God bless you,
54:53
Speaker 24: and many, many more to come.
54:55
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
54:59
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
55:01
Speaker 2: So I was sitting in the studio doing the Dominic
55:03
Speaker 2: Carter show. He does a great show. I love Dominic.
55:06
Speaker 2: Really does. And he was taking all these phone calls
55:09
Speaker 2: from New Yorkers about the story where the horse carriage
55:16
Speaker 2: industry is about to be shut down here in New York.
55:21
Speaker 2: Which is ridiculous. Okay? I know you animal rights lovers.
55:25
Speaker 2: Just take it easy. Get a job.
55:29
Speaker 1: Okay?
55:30
Speaker 2: You have no proof, zero proof, that these horses are
55:35
Speaker 2: being mishandled. In fact... Most of the people that I've
55:38
Speaker 2: talked to about this story says they take very good
55:41
Speaker 2: care of these horses. Okay? What do you want? Do
55:44
Speaker 2: you want to shut down Belmont next and Aqueduct? These
55:47
Speaker 2: horses are taken care of. And we know that that
55:51
Speaker 2: industry employs a lot of New Yorkers. A lot of
55:54
Speaker 2: kids get to eat because Jimmy and Margaret from Ohio
56:01
Speaker 2: take a little walk through Central Park on a horse.
56:04
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. You're there on Fifth Avenue. It's tradition to
56:09
Speaker 2: shut it down because one horse died last year of
56:13
Speaker 2: a heart attack. People die from heart attacks all day,
56:15
Speaker 2: every day. It's a living creature, okay? And then one tourist,
56:20
Speaker 2: God rest his soul, some Indian kid got killed. I mean,
56:22
Speaker 2: come on. More people will die this week. I talked
56:25
Speaker 2: about this yesterday because of scooters and bicycles in New
56:29
Speaker 2: York City than the horse carriage industry in 40 years.
56:33
Speaker 2: There's no reason to shut that thing down. You want
56:36
Speaker 2: to tweak it. You want more reforms. You want to
56:39
Speaker 2: make sure on very hot days the horses don't come out.
56:43
Speaker 2: I'm good with all those things. But to put all
56:46
Speaker 2: these people out of business and you think I trust
56:50
Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, the biggest piece of garbage liar ever, or Hochul,
56:54
Speaker 2: or John O'Lieber, or even Julie Menon to get these
56:58
Speaker 2: people jobs? You think I'm stupid? So I would say
57:03
Speaker 2: the majority of the people that called Dominic were on
57:05
Speaker 2: my side. And of course they are, because I'm smart.
57:08
Speaker 2: It's dumb. There's no reason to shut it down. But
57:11
Speaker 2: whatever Mamdani wants, whatever King Mamdani wants, Julie Menon does.
57:20
Speaker 2: That's really the bottom line here. I mean, she, you know,
57:22
Speaker 2: every once in a while, she argues about something, comes
57:24
Speaker 2: off okay. That's why I don't hate her, because she
57:27
Speaker 2: does have her moments. But for the most part, Whatever
57:31
Speaker 2: Mom Donnie wants, Hochul does, Julie does. There's no reason
57:35
Speaker 2: to shut this thing down. You know that, Noam, right?
57:37
Speaker 2: No reason.
57:38
Speaker 9: Well, unless you're spending a lot of money on the
57:40
Speaker 9: candidates who are going to make the decision.
57:41
Speaker 4: Right.
57:42
Speaker 2: Oh, politics. So the city council, you know, I love
57:48
Speaker 2: Vicky Palladino. She's listening right now. Good morning, Vickala. And
57:52
Speaker 2: I love Frank Morano, and I love David Korn. I
57:54
Speaker 2: love Ina Verna Korn, and I love Joanne Areola. Then
57:58
Speaker 2: you get 46 Democrats, about 30 are complete lunatics. They're
58:02
Speaker 2: good for nothing, the city council, let's be honest. So
58:05
Speaker 2: they can stop this and instead Julie Menon, because she's
58:09
Speaker 2: terrified of the mayor, may want to run for mayor
58:11
Speaker 2: herself one day, I don't know. She ain't doing nothing
58:13
Speaker 2: about it. She's with them. Let's shut it down. And
58:17
Speaker 2: it's dumb. And it's, you're ruining a beautiful tradition. And
58:20
Speaker 2: more importantly, putting a lot of good immigrants, so what
58:24
Speaker 2: about the immigrants? Putting a lot of good immigrants out
58:26
Speaker 2: of work. That's what they're doing. And the Al Smith
58:32
Speaker 2: dinner was last night. I was sitting here, too, and
58:34
Speaker 2: I saw Governor David Patterson walking around in his... He
58:39
Speaker 2: was wearing a ducktail tuxedo. Is that what you call that?
58:43
Speaker 1: With the split hands on the shirt.
58:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, the long jacket.
58:45
Speaker 1: Yes, those are ducktails.
58:47
Speaker 22: Yeah.
58:47
Speaker 2: I said, what, are you getting married again? He looked very,
58:50
Speaker 2: very cute.
58:51
Speaker 1: Did he have a top hat, too?
58:52
Speaker 2: I don't know if he had a top hat. I
58:53
Speaker 2: did see... It was either Ed Cox... I saw two
58:57
Speaker 2: or three guys... Patterson was here early. He did some...
59:02
Speaker 2: I think he did something with Michael Cohen. I don't know.
59:04
Speaker 2: But then the other guys started showing up and I
59:06
Speaker 2: was leaving. But I did see at least one or
59:08
Speaker 2: two others wearing... tuxedos like that, you know, and I
59:11
Speaker 2: hate wearing tuxedos.
59:12
Speaker 13: I hate it.
59:13
Speaker 2: I've done it twice in the last, I don't know
59:15
Speaker 2: how long, both times for Trump. His inauguration party and
59:19
Speaker 2: some other big Trump thing.
59:20
Speaker 22: I don't know.
59:21
Speaker 2: He loves to wear tuxedos, Trump. I can't stand it.
59:23
Speaker 2: I hate wearing ties. I have three weddings in November.
59:27
Speaker 2: My dear friend, Mike Sullivan's son, he's getting married. My
59:31
Speaker 2: dear friend Siggy Flicker, her son is getting married. My
59:34
Speaker 2: cousin Scott, our abuse and order, their son is getting married.
59:39
Speaker 2: And all I can think about is, oh my God,
59:40
Speaker 2: I got to wear a tie three times. I'm already
59:43
Speaker 2: freaking out. Isn't that weird, Noam?
59:45
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to wear a tie to
59:47
Speaker 1: a wedding anymore.
59:47
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't? No. Can you call Danielle and tell
59:50
Speaker 2: her that?
59:52
Speaker 1: I can. No, you absolutely can get.
59:54
Speaker 2: Away without a tie at a wedding. Listen, I'm famous.
59:57
Speaker 2: I should do whatever the hell I want.
59:58
Speaker 14: Right.
59:58
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to say anything to you.
59:59
Speaker 2: Bruce Willis shows up with a t-shirt and jeans. I go, ah,
1:00:02
Speaker 2: look how great that is.
1:00:03
Speaker 10: Wow, what a great style he's got.
1:00:05
Speaker 2: Right.
1:00:05
Speaker 10: Only he could do that.
1:00:06
Speaker 2: I'm going to wear some tie. I mean, I don't
1:00:09
Speaker 2: think men look good in tie. I'm weird like that. Like,
1:00:11
Speaker 2: I don't think women look good in gowns, ever. Show
1:00:14
Speaker 2: me a girl with sweatpants that has juicy on her ass.
1:00:18
Speaker 2: And I'm like, that looks great. Pair of tight jeans
1:00:20
Speaker 2: and put a woman in a gown with her hair
1:00:23
Speaker 2: up like 90 feet high. Terrible. And enough makeup for
1:00:26
Speaker 2: 10 women. I'd never go to a wedding and be like, wow,
1:00:30
Speaker 2: that girl's. Never. Never.
1:00:32
Speaker 10: It's stupid.
1:00:33
Speaker 2: I know. They spent a billion dollars on jewelry, on makeup,
1:00:36
Speaker 2: on hair, on these big gowns. And they never look good.
1:00:40
Speaker 23: This thing where they all, a wedding party wears the
1:00:42
Speaker 23: same exact thing, too?
1:00:44
Speaker 2: Well, we did that. I'm not going to lie to you.
1:00:46
Speaker 2: My mother made me do that. You can tell me
1:00:48
Speaker 2: about that one. I just don't, I think women look
1:00:51
Speaker 2: better when they're not dressed like that. I just.
1:00:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a sleeveless dress. You know, you want to
1:00:55
Speaker 1: look good.
1:00:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's got to be some sex. The bottom line is.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: Women need to maintain some sex appeal. Absolutely. You can
1:01:01
Speaker 2: be beautiful and look beautiful, but once you throw out
1:01:05
Speaker 2: all the sex appeal in your attempt to be beautiful,
1:01:09
Speaker 2: no one's looking at you.
1:01:09
Speaker 18: No.
1:01:10
Speaker 2: They say all the right things. Look how beautiful you're looking.
1:01:13
Speaker 10: Oh, that's so great on you.
1:01:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:01:14
Speaker 10: You can't see a damn thing about it.
1:01:16
Speaker 2: No, it's stupid. It doesn't look good.
1:01:18
Speaker 24: 1940s?
1:01:18
Speaker 14: Right.
1:01:19
Speaker 2: Wear your hair down. Lighten up on the makeup. Oh,
1:01:23
Speaker 2: my God. And wear a short skirt and... And you
1:01:27
Speaker 2: look great.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: These aren't black tie weddings, are they?
1:01:29
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't even checked.
1:01:30
Speaker 1: Because that's the case you do. But if they're not,
1:01:32
Speaker 1: then you can get away without a tie.
1:01:34
Speaker 13: I know.
1:01:35
Speaker 2: And the problem is I'm so close to all three
1:01:37
Speaker 2: of them, I can't say no, you know? Because I
1:01:39
Speaker 2: would say no if it's a black tie affair. I'd
1:01:40
Speaker 2: just say no because I don't want to.
1:01:42
Speaker 10: Well, that would do it.
1:01:43
Speaker 26: Yeah.
1:01:43
Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:01:45
Speaker 10: Oh, okay.
1:01:46
Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:01:47
Speaker 2: What, are you kidding me? You're a tough crowd.
1:01:49
Speaker 3: I am.
1:01:50
Speaker 2: And I'm a fashionista. No one dresses better than me.
1:01:53
Speaker 2: You know how many compliments I got last night at
1:01:55
Speaker 2: the Garden? But that blue jacket I wore last night?
1:01:57
Speaker 22: Tons.
1:01:58
Speaker 2: Tons. Even Johnny Franco, the former Met Great, texted me.
1:02:02
Speaker 2: He was sitting under the basket. God, I love your jacket.
1:02:04
Speaker 2: So I care about the way I dress. Big time.
1:02:08
Speaker 2: But I just, I hate tuxedos. I hate ties. They
1:02:12
Speaker 2: all look the same. You got the stupid black vest
1:02:15
Speaker 2: and the buttons.
1:02:16
Speaker 13: Right?
1:02:16
Speaker 10: It's silly.
1:02:17
Speaker 2: And a cummerbund. What kind of dickhead enjoys wearing a cummerbund?
1:02:24
Speaker 10: I mean, jeez.
1:02:25
Speaker 20: It is.
1:02:26
Speaker 10: It's just the way fashion about that is.
1:02:28
Speaker 2: I don't get it. I don't get it at all.
1:02:30
Speaker 20: Yeah.
1:02:31
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's enough of that. We have a lot of
1:02:33
Speaker 2: great guests stopping by today. Hank Sankoff is going to
1:02:36
Speaker 2: be here, and KT McFarland, and Joe Takapina, Miranda DeBine,
1:02:41
Speaker 2: Bernadette Castro, all kinds of great guests, and why not?
1:02:45
Speaker 10: None wearing ties, either.
1:02:46
Speaker 2: None wearing ties. Well, Takapina wears a tie occasionally.
1:02:49
Speaker 10: Well, he'll look good in it.
1:02:50
Speaker 2: He's a lawyer. He's got to do that in front
1:02:52
Speaker 2: of the jury.
1:02:53
Speaker 10: Whatever. He looks good whatever he wears.
1:02:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I did see Hank Sankoff last week at Russo's
1:02:56
Speaker 2: on the Bay. He was wearing a tie. Right. So
1:02:59
Speaker 2: you've got two guys who wear ties. Well, how about that?
1:03:02
Speaker 10: I can't believe it.
1:03:03
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:03:07
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:03:09
Speaker 2: So the last time the Milwaukee Brewers, we'll get to
1:03:12
Speaker 2: some serious political talk coming up. We've got Hank Sheinkopf
1:03:15
Speaker 2: and KT McFarland and Miranda DeBine and Bernadette Castro. You'll
1:03:20
Speaker 2: have Bruce Blakeman coming out your ass, okay? So the
1:03:23
Speaker 2: last time.
1:03:23
Speaker 1: Jesus.
1:03:24
Speaker 2: Take it easy.
1:03:26
Speaker 17: Talk.
1:03:28
Speaker 10: He's happy with that endorsement.
1:03:29
Speaker 2: I love Bruce. Chris Boyle, thank you, too, for last night.
1:03:32
Speaker 2: So the last time the Milwaukee Brewers, and the only time,
1:03:36
Speaker 2: went to the World Series was 1982. 44 years ago.
1:03:41
Speaker 2: In fact, you've got to get Ron Johnson, the great
1:03:43
Speaker 2: senator from Wisconsin, on this week. They're either going to
1:03:45
Speaker 2: play the Guardians or the Rays in the World Series.
1:03:50
Speaker 2: Cleveland won yesterday. That series moved to Cleveland. They split
1:03:53
Speaker 2: the first two in Tampa. So the Guardians are up
1:03:56
Speaker 2: two games to one. I call them the Indians still.
1:03:59
Speaker 2: So the last time they went to the World Series
1:04:02
Speaker 2: was 82, and it was an unbelievable series, and the
1:04:06
Speaker 2: Brewers lost a seventh and deciding game to Keith Hernandez
1:04:13
Speaker 2: and the St. Louis Cardinals. Joaquin Andujar outpitched Pete Vukovic,
1:04:20
Speaker 2: and the Cardinals won the World Series. Here's the lineup
1:04:23
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. Let's see how you do. Leading off at
1:04:27
Speaker 2: third base, he went on to be a star for
1:04:28
Speaker 2: the Toronto Blue Jays. He's a Hall of Famer. A
1:04:33
Speaker 2: big-time manager, too, but a lot of hits, over 3,000 hits.
1:04:37
Speaker 2: Brewers and Blue Jays. You mentioned him to Justin earlier.
1:04:40
Speaker 2: I did.
1:04:41
Speaker 10: Oh, Paul Mullen?
1:04:42
Speaker 2: Very good.
1:04:42
Speaker 10: Okay.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: Second at shortstop, another Hall of Famer. Great shortstop for
1:04:46
Speaker 2: the Brewers. Mr. Brew Crew.
1:04:48
Speaker 10: Robin Young.
1:04:49
Speaker 2: Very good. First base, I think this guy played for Boston, too.
1:04:55
Speaker 10: With first base?
1:04:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is too hard. Cecil Cooper.
1:04:59
Speaker 10: Oh, and he played for the Yankees.
1:05:02
Speaker 2: Did he play a little bit for the Yankees? No,
1:05:03
Speaker 2: that's Cecil Fielder you're thinking about. Ted Simmons caught Ben
1:05:08
Speaker 2: Ogilvie at a home run that day. He was a
1:05:10
Speaker 2: nice player.
1:05:10
Speaker 10: Ed Simmons was a really good player.
1:05:12
Speaker 2: Very good catcher. Gorman Thomas, who was a big home
1:05:14
Speaker 2: run hitter. He was on that team. Pretty good baseball team.
1:05:18
Speaker 2: Charlie Moore, Jimmy Gantner at second base.
1:05:20
Speaker 10: Moose Haas, Jim Caldwell.
1:05:24
Speaker 2: Bob McClure, Pete Bukovic, but they lost that in seven.
1:05:28
Speaker 2: So the Boers, you remember all those names, right?
1:05:30
Speaker 15: Of course.
1:05:32
Speaker 2: So much fun. I love going over old baseball stuff.
1:05:34
Speaker 10: It's the best. I can hear Phil Rizzuto saying the names. Yeah.
1:05:38
Speaker 2: Well, Joe Garagiolo probably did it back then. I don't know.
1:05:41
Speaker 10: Yeah, but when they played the Yankees a lot.
1:05:43
Speaker 2: Oh, they did, 100%. Oh, and here's Molitor.
1:05:46
Speaker 10: Yeah. 17 troubles, 13 troubles, 14 triples, and... 27 home runs.
1:05:53
Speaker 2: Just so you know. Because the Brewers were in the
1:05:54
Speaker 2: American League. Yes, they were in the American League. That's right.
1:05:57
Speaker 2: So that game seven was October the 20th, which is Tuesday,
1:06:02
Speaker 2: 44 years ago, 1982. So they swept the Dodgers. Everybody thought,
1:06:07
Speaker 2: including me, the Dodgers were overstamped. Their third consecutive visit
1:06:13
Speaker 2: to the World Series. They won the last two. And
1:06:16
Speaker 2: to lose in that manner, get swept after Otani went yard.
1:06:21
Speaker 1: Not only that, they were winning in every game.
1:06:23
Speaker 2: I know. They had the lead in every game. Well,
1:06:26
Speaker 2: the Rays were winning yesterday, too. Two to one and
1:06:28
Speaker 2: lost that game. But every win in this series was
1:06:30
Speaker 2: a comeback victory. They've been a great team. It's been
1:06:32
Speaker 2: a very exciting story. So the Brewers, again, will take
1:06:35
Speaker 2: on the winner of Tampa Bay Cleveland. And then we'll
1:06:37
Speaker 2: have no baseball for a long time. But the good
1:06:40
Speaker 2: news is we've got basketball Tuesday night. I was in
1:06:42
Speaker 2: the garden last night. LeBron James and the Sixers. We're
1:06:46
Speaker 2: going to take on our world champion New York Knicks.
1:06:48
Speaker 2: We're going to raise the banner. It's going to be
1:06:50
Speaker 2: a wild atmosphere. So just in case you have a
1:06:54
Speaker 2: buddy who doesn't want to go, you can always reach
1:06:57
Speaker 2: out to me. I'm dying to go Tuesday.
1:06:59
Speaker 10: Dying.
1:07:00
Speaker 2: I was there last night for preseason basketball. The place
1:07:03
Speaker 2: was insane. They went nuts. I can just imagine what
1:07:05
Speaker 2: Tuesday is going to be like. Anyway, we've got five
1:07:09
Speaker 2: amazing guests in a row coming up. Lots to discuss.
1:07:12
Speaker 2: I met this guy. for the first time at Russo's
1:07:15
Speaker 2: on the Bay last week. I really respect this guy.
1:07:19
Speaker 2: You know, I say a lot of nice things, but
1:07:21
Speaker 2: a lot of people I tend to go out of
1:07:23
Speaker 2: my way to compliment my guests. But this guy really
1:07:26
Speaker 2: is about as savvy and smart when it comes to
1:07:30
Speaker 2: politics as anyone you'll ever hear on radio. He's that good.
1:07:34
Speaker 2: Hank Sheinkopf, who's a sweet man, met him in person.
1:07:38
Speaker 2: He's back on Sid and Friends in the morning, and
1:07:41
Speaker 2: he's coming up.
1:07:42
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:07:46
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:07:48
Speaker 2: You know, I say a lot of nice things about
1:07:50
Speaker 2: my guests. I know I do. But this guy's really smart,
1:07:53
Speaker 2: really special, great political mind here in New York. And
1:07:56
Speaker 2: he was such a gentleman last week when I met him.
1:07:59
Speaker 2: He actually seemed, Louis, happy to meet me. Well, why?
1:08:03
Speaker 2: What is that?
1:08:04
Speaker 10: Is that shocking?
1:08:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes people are phony, you know, because I'm a
1:08:07
Speaker 2: big deal. They act like they don't really care. He
1:08:11
Speaker 2: was so sweet and nice. I'm like, damn, Hank Sheinkopf
1:08:16
Speaker 2: is a big deal for me. And here he is
1:08:18
Speaker 2: back on Sid and Friends in the morning, my friend Hank. Hank,
1:08:20
Speaker 2: good morning, pal. How are you?
1:08:22
Speaker 20: Thank you, Sid. I'm doing great. It was a pleasure
1:08:24
Speaker 20: to see you last week. It was wonderful.
1:08:26
Speaker 2: It was for me, too. You're such a sweet guy.
1:08:28
Speaker 2: You really are a terrific guy, Hank. So when the mayor,
1:08:32
Speaker 2: and you know I hate his guts. I don't beat
1:08:34
Speaker 2: around the bush. I don't. Try to be nice. I'm
1:08:37
Speaker 2: over the top. Hate him. So when he comes out
1:08:39
Speaker 2: and he talks about him holding on to Jessica Tisch, well,
1:08:43
Speaker 2: it makes sense on two fronts. A, the crime numbers
1:08:46
Speaker 2: are down and he can boast about that. And B,
1:08:48
Speaker 2: of course, she's Jewish. She's got enough problems in anti-Semitism.
1:08:52
Speaker 2: But am I supposed to believe that he likes her?
1:08:55
Speaker 2: Does the mayor actually like her, Hank?
1:08:58
Speaker 20: He doesn't. Well, Sid. I think you're raising an important point.
1:09:01
Speaker 20: He doesn't have to like her. He has to tolerate
1:09:03
Speaker 20: her because he needs her. He can get away with
1:09:06
Speaker 20: anything he wants so long as he's got her. Crime
1:09:09
Speaker 20: starts to go up on top of the anti-Catholicism and
1:09:12
Speaker 20: the anti-Semitism and the anti-this and the anti-that and the
1:09:15
Speaker 20: crazy woman uptown, the Congresswoman-elect soon. who thinks it's okay
1:09:21
Speaker 20: to complain about cops all day long and maybe even
1:09:24
Speaker 20: hurt them.
1:09:24
Speaker 2: That's Chevalier, right?
1:09:26
Speaker 13: Yeah.
1:09:26
Speaker 20: As long as you have all that going on, he
1:09:29
Speaker 20: really needs to keep.
1:09:30
Speaker 13: Her in place.
1:09:31
Speaker 20: Now, my question is, why would Jessica Tisch stay? If
1:09:34
Speaker 20: I were her, I would never have tolerated this for
1:09:36
Speaker 20: 20 seconds or less. She's extraordinarily competent, capable, highly credentialed. Um,
1:09:45
Speaker 20: and frankly, you know, there's a place for her when the,
1:09:47
Speaker 20: when the city goes belly up, which it will coming
1:09:50
Speaker 20: pretty soon. The debt, the deficit is, is, is a
1:09:53
Speaker 20: serious problem. The governor won't have enough cash to really
1:09:56
Speaker 20: bail the city out. Uh, this guy is spending money.
1:09:59
Speaker 20: Like he's like, he has a printing press in the basement,
1:10:02
Speaker 20: which he doesn't have. You know, it's a problem. I
1:10:05
Speaker 20: would have wanted to stay if I were her and
1:10:06
Speaker 20: become head of the, as the governor makes me head
1:10:08
Speaker 20: of the financial control board operations and force the city
1:10:12
Speaker 20: back into solvency.
1:10:14
Speaker 22: Yeah.
1:10:14
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting.
1:10:15
Speaker 20: She didn't do that.
1:10:16
Speaker 2: No, she didn't. And it's interesting because I got a
1:10:19
Speaker 2: great relationship with Jessica Tisch. I mean, great to the
1:10:21
Speaker 2: point when I had dinner with her months and months ago.
1:10:23
Speaker 2: We took a picture together. It went viral. And the
1:10:25
Speaker 2: Mondani administration went nuts on her and me for actually
1:10:29
Speaker 2: having dinner together. So when she first was considering staying,
1:10:33
Speaker 2: I'm honored. She met me here at the station at
1:10:37
Speaker 2: the diner around the corner, the New York Luncheonette, before
1:10:40
Speaker 2: she talked to anybody else. She said at the time
1:10:42
Speaker 2: all she spoke to was her mother, who was a
1:10:44
Speaker 2: lovely lady, and her children. And we walked around the
1:10:46
Speaker 2: block for about, oh, I don't know, about 30 minutes, Hank, two-story.
1:10:50
Speaker 2: And I said to her, what are you doing? Just,
1:10:52
Speaker 2: you know, when he takes over, get out of here.
1:10:55
Speaker 2: And she said, Sid, everybody says that to me, but
1:10:59
Speaker 2: I really care about New Yorkers. I'm really worried about
1:11:03
Speaker 2: what's going to happen specifically to Jewish New Yorkers. I
1:11:07
Speaker 2: like my job. And I think I'm going to stay.
1:11:09
Speaker 2: And I want you to respect that. And by the
1:11:12
Speaker 2: time we were done walking, I said, not only do
1:11:14
Speaker 2: I respect that, but to a certain extent, you're my hero.
1:11:19
Speaker 2: And that's how it goes. She cares about the people
1:11:22
Speaker 2: in this city. She's worried about protecting everybody, not just
1:11:26
Speaker 2: Jewish people, but specifically Jewish people. And she takes that
1:11:29
Speaker 2: job very, very seriously. I don't think she likes them.
1:11:32
Speaker 2: In fact, I bet she doesn't. But she does love
1:11:36
Speaker 2: the people of New York.
1:11:39
Speaker 20: She is. That's all true, I'm sure. She's a 44-year-old
1:11:42
Speaker 20: woman who's highly credentialed, educated, and capable. What do you
1:11:46
Speaker 20: do after you become the police commissioner?
1:11:48
Speaker 24: Mayor.
1:11:49
Speaker 20: What's the next move? That's part of the thinking. And
1:11:52
Speaker 20: we need somebody, frankly, as New Yorkers who has the
1:11:55
Speaker 20: capacity to run that department with.
1:11:57
Speaker 13: All its issues.
1:11:58
Speaker 20: And the issues surrounding it have more to do with
1:12:00
Speaker 20: tradition and the inside, probably, in some cases, than day-to-day problems,
1:12:06
Speaker 20: because there's a It's a hierarchical place. It has a
1:12:10
Speaker 20: whole culture to it that's different than anything else as
1:12:14
Speaker 20: most organizations do. But this organization, if it fails, if
1:12:17
Speaker 20: it ceases to do its job appropriately, we will not
1:12:20
Speaker 20: be able to walk around. As for the Jewish New
1:12:23
Speaker 20: Yorker issue, yeah, Jews are in trouble in this city.
1:12:26
Speaker 20: They're in trouble in this country. This is going to come.
1:12:29
Speaker 2: To an end.
1:12:30
Speaker 20: If El-Sayed wins in Michigan, we're in even more serious
1:12:33
Speaker 20: trouble because the notion of pluralism We'll start to dissipate. Why?
1:12:39
Speaker 20: Because guys like him do not believe in pluralism. They
1:12:42
Speaker 20: don't believe in tolerance. They don't believe in the American
1:12:46
Speaker 20: way as we know it, but they do believe in
1:12:48
Speaker 20: a uniformity of opinion. that is both dangerous and anti-American
1:12:53
Speaker 20: by definition. That is the thing we're facing. Should he win,
1:12:57
Speaker 20: you're going to see, I think, an exodus from New York.
1:13:00
Speaker 20: Particularly why? Because the people that put up the money
1:13:02
Speaker 20: to fight people like that in campaigns are not going
1:13:05
Speaker 20: to do it anymore. They just got whacked for significant
1:13:08
Speaker 20: money in the Cuomo nonsense, the independent expenditures there. They
1:13:12
Speaker 20: put up money to stop Al-Sayed. They lose here. They
1:13:16
Speaker 20: lose in that one. it's going to be hard to
1:13:18
Speaker 20: find them again. Yep.
1:13:19
Speaker 13: They'll be gone.
1:13:20
Speaker 2: I agree, 100%. They're going to get smacked around. Yep,
1:13:22
Speaker 2: I agree. I want to get to this horse coward story.
1:13:25
Speaker 2: I know a horse died of a heart attack last summer.
1:13:27
Speaker 2: By the way, lots of humans die from heart attacks
1:13:29
Speaker 2: every day, okay? And I know there was one tourist
1:13:32
Speaker 2: who was killed. I got to tell you, Hank, we're
1:13:33
Speaker 2: having an honest conversation. There are more people that get
1:13:36
Speaker 2: injured and killed from the scooters and the bicycles. I mean,
1:13:39
Speaker 2: that's dangerous. I am scared to death. I'm a big,
1:13:42
Speaker 2: tough guy. You met me, okay? I'm scared to death
1:13:44
Speaker 2: to walk across the street. I really am. But that's okay, right?
1:13:48
Speaker 2: Scooters and bicycles. But the horses. Give me a break, okay?
1:13:52
Speaker 2: No one has proven to me yet that these horses
1:13:55
Speaker 2: are treated badly. Nobody. And we employ a whole bunch
1:13:58
Speaker 2: of immigrants. A whole bunch. We're about to wipe them
1:14:01
Speaker 2: all out. So what do you think is the real
1:14:04
Speaker 2: motivation behind Mamdani and Menon destroying this traditional business?
1:14:11
Speaker 20: Well, you have a history of... One particular group of
1:14:15
Speaker 20: people in my class, led by people with tremendous amounts
1:14:19
Speaker 20: of money who are animal rights people, Who made this
1:14:24
Speaker 20: their life's work?
1:14:25
Speaker 2: Well, wait a second. But the animal rights people, they
1:14:27
Speaker 2: have not been able to prove to me. I mean,
1:14:30
Speaker 2: you want to shut down Aqueduct? You want to shut
1:14:32
Speaker 2: down Belmont? There's no proof that these horses are being
1:14:35
Speaker 2: treated badly every day. You know what? If you want
1:14:37
Speaker 2: to tweak it, Hank, and go, look, if the temperature
1:14:39
Speaker 2: goes above 90 degrees, let's keep the horses in the stable.
1:14:42
Speaker 2: That's fine. Tweak it. But where's the proof that these
1:14:46
Speaker 2: horses are being mistreated all the time?
1:14:49
Speaker 20: You sound like John Samuelson of the Transport Workers Union,
1:14:52
Speaker 20: who's a good guy.
1:14:53
Speaker 2: I like John.
1:14:54
Speaker 20: He's a very good man, and he works hard for
1:14:57
Speaker 20: his people and should be respected for the work he does.
1:15:02
Speaker 20: Whose members have now been impacted significantly. I mean, the
1:15:06
Speaker 20: tradition in New York of those carriages is another way
1:15:09
Speaker 20: of saying goodbye. It's kind of poetically tragic in a way.
1:15:13
Speaker 20: You have the Plaza Hotel closing.
1:15:15
Speaker 13: For four years.
1:15:16
Speaker 20: Right on the park, right? And you have the horses
1:15:18
Speaker 20: going away at the same time. It tells you that
1:15:21
Speaker 20: New York is in tremendous transition and that the things
1:15:25
Speaker 20: we think are most important are going to be disappearing.
1:15:28
Speaker 2: That's my issue. You just nailed it. Tradition. He wants
1:15:31
Speaker 2: to wipe out all of tradition. It's not about the horses, okay?
1:15:35
Speaker 2: Because horses aren't dying every day, okay? This is about
1:15:38
Speaker 2: the mayor wiping out, wiping out. And then you get
1:15:41
Speaker 2: Julie Menon, who's got no spine half the time. No
1:15:43
Speaker 2: disrespect to her. The mayor wiping out tradition. That's my fear.
1:15:49
Speaker 20: Well, the tradition as we know it is in New
1:15:51
Speaker 20: York where where people of all kinds can somehow meld together.
1:15:56
Speaker 20: The great melting point is the subway. It's unlike Los Angeles,
1:16:00
Speaker 20: where your subway is the car you have to drive, right?
1:16:04
Speaker 20: The place where New Yorkers meet in great numbers is
1:16:07
Speaker 20: on that subway system and the buses and the rest
1:16:09
Speaker 20: of it. Any disruption of that way of life is
1:16:13
Speaker 20: tantamount to destroying New York. if you take our traditions
1:16:16
Speaker 20: away of where people meet and how they, how they,
1:16:19
Speaker 20: how they, no matter the problems that somehow, how we, we,
1:16:23
Speaker 20: we're not confined to spaces. We're not confined to groups.
1:16:26
Speaker 20: We get along. We do our best to get along.
1:16:29
Speaker 20: What this guy is talking about is that certain groups
1:16:31
Speaker 20: don't belong. That if you stand there and raise your
1:16:34
Speaker 20: middle finger up to the statue of Columbus, you're telling
1:16:36
Speaker 20: Catholics that they can drop dead. If you say I'm
1:16:40
Speaker 20: not on October 7th, that, yes, terrible about those dead Jews,
1:16:44
Speaker 20: but look at the lies about the number of people
1:16:47
Speaker 20: who were murdered, who had died. I'm on the other
1:16:49
Speaker 20: side of the argument, right, who are mostly combatants, kinds
1:16:53
Speaker 20: of people who hide hostages in schools, hide weapons in hospitals,
1:16:59
Speaker 20: and who believe in death, cult of death more than
1:17:02
Speaker 20: a cult of light. That's who we're dealing with, and
1:17:06
Speaker 20: we should get prepared for that and what that means.
1:17:08
Speaker 20: And again, if El Sayed wins that Senate race in Michigan,
1:17:12
Speaker 20: he will be entirely empowered, and that will be tragic
1:17:15
Speaker 20: for us.
1:17:16
Speaker 2: And he is winning right now. It's a very close
1:17:18
Speaker 2: race with Mike Rogers in Michigan, but he is winning
1:17:20
Speaker 2: right now. So last night I had the opportunity to
1:17:23
Speaker 2: go to the Knick game with Bruce Blakeman and his
1:17:25
Speaker 2: lovely son, Arlen James Dolan, put on a big fundraiser.
1:17:28
Speaker 2: And Dolan has been there for Bruce Blakeman from day one.
1:17:31
Speaker 2: I really had no idea how close those guys were.
1:17:34
Speaker 2: I saw it last night. Very, very, very, very close.
1:17:36
Speaker 2: And it was a wonderful evening. It really was. And
1:17:39
Speaker 2: this is fresh off what I thought was a beating
1:17:42
Speaker 2: he put on Kathy Hochul. Two things at play here,
1:17:44
Speaker 2: in my opinion, Hank Sheinkopf. One was Bruce Wakeman was
1:17:47
Speaker 2: very good. He was prepared. He knew what he was
1:17:49
Speaker 2: talking about. But the other side was she was really bad.
1:17:53
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm talking the only worst performance I saw.
1:17:57
Speaker 2: Maybe Biden against Trump, or not maybe, certainly Biden against Trump.
1:18:01
Speaker 2: She was even worse than Letitia James against Saritha last week.
1:18:05
Speaker 2: So you put those two things together, it was a
1:18:08
Speaker 2: colossal failure for Kathy Hochul. The question to you, Hank,
1:18:12
Speaker 2: is does it matter?
1:18:15
Speaker 20: It does matter. The problem in the Blakeman campaign probably
1:18:22
Speaker 20: is the lack of money to go out and touch
1:18:24
Speaker 20: people um outer borough new york city uh catholics and
1:18:29
Speaker 20: outer brook and new york city jews and um heard
1:18:33
Speaker 20: directly like to hit doors and do the things that
1:18:36
Speaker 20: the mondami campaign did for example in 2025. um if
1:18:41
Speaker 20: he has the money to touch those doors and touch
1:18:43
Speaker 20: those people he has a shot to win Why? New
1:18:46
Speaker 20: Yorkers will absolutely do the opposite of what's expected of
1:18:48
Speaker 20: them under certain cases. The city is in trouble. We
1:18:51
Speaker 20: know that financially and administratively. We also know that Kathy
1:18:57
Speaker 20: Hochul's great strengths, she has some strengths with respect to her,
1:19:02
Speaker 20: is that she's an extraordinary fundraiser. And she's an amazing campaigner.
1:19:06
Speaker 20: She knows how to do these things. But her performance
1:19:08
Speaker 20: with Blakeman on the stage was not very good. Blakeman
1:19:11
Speaker 20: captured the affordability argument, which is what's driving a good
1:19:15
Speaker 20: deal of our politics today. And Kathy Hochul could just
1:19:18
Speaker 20: say Trump. At some point, Trump doesn't work. But that's
1:19:24
Speaker 20: what she did.
1:19:25
Speaker 2: Do you know how many times she said Trump? You
1:19:29
Speaker 2: want the exact amount of times? This is unreal. We
1:19:32
Speaker 2: all knew she would say Trump to your point, Hank, okay?
1:19:34
Speaker 2: We all know it. The day before I spoke to
1:19:35
Speaker 2: Bob Holden on this show, I spoke to George Pataki.
1:19:38
Speaker 2: We said she's going to go to Trump. Do you
1:19:40
Speaker 2: realize she said the name President Trump? This is unreal.
1:19:45
Speaker 2: 41 times. 41, Hank.
1:19:48
Speaker 20: But it tells you, Sid, about the fact that New
1:19:54
Speaker 20: Yorkers are not holding our elected officials up. We're just
1:19:59
Speaker 20: not holding them accountable for their behavior. You know, we
1:20:02
Speaker 20: have a return rate on incumbents that is absolutely outrageous.
1:20:05
Speaker 20: And having a wipeout of the system would be a
1:20:07
Speaker 20: very good thing. We've created a permanent, what I call
1:20:10
Speaker 20: the political industrial complex, a permanent class of elected officials.
1:20:14
Speaker 20: If you look at the city council, for example, people
1:20:17
Speaker 20: have staffs. I mean, you must be kidding me. When
1:20:19
Speaker 20: I was a young man in the political business, I
1:20:21
Speaker 20: did those kinds of campaigns. We spent a top of $ 15, 000
1:20:25
Speaker 20: with a lot of money. The council people didn't have
1:20:28
Speaker 20: staffs and nobody ran around and coined them. Honorable council members,
1:20:32
Speaker 20: they called them by their first names.
1:20:34
Speaker 13: They went to work.
1:20:35
Speaker 20: Now we call them all kinds of, you know, chairman
1:20:38
Speaker 20: and this and that and boom, boom, boom. They have staffs,
1:20:40
Speaker 20: they have people, they have press secretaries and chiefs and stuff.
1:20:43
Speaker 13: Come on.
1:20:45
Speaker 20: These bureaucracies we've created that are part of a political, political,
1:20:49
Speaker 20: you know, industry. Allow incumbents to hide from the things
1:20:54
Speaker 20: they don't do and to take credit for the things
1:20:57
Speaker 20: they also don't do. We don't hold them to an account.
1:21:01
Speaker 20: What Bruce Blakeman tried to do the other night and
1:21:02
Speaker 20: was successful was to hold her to an accounting on affordability.
1:21:05
Speaker 20: And that's why he won that argument. And that's why
1:21:08
Speaker 20: he did so well, because that's what people care about.
1:21:11
Speaker 20: So we have a political class that talks about things
1:21:12
Speaker 20: that no one cares about and somehow gets away with
1:21:15
Speaker 20: it all day long because people are just completely turned off.
1:21:18
Speaker 20: So what I think Blakeman did in his with great
1:21:21
Speaker 20: skills to turn people on to the thing that they
1:21:24
Speaker 20: really care about. And that was important.
1:21:26
Speaker 2: Let's wrap this up where we started. We started talking
1:21:28
Speaker 2: about Zoe's amazing job, Hank, Jessica Tisch. So I had
1:21:32
Speaker 2: Vincent Vallelong on this show yesterday, dear, dear friend of mine.
1:21:35
Speaker 2: He happens to be the sergeant's president for that union.
1:21:39
Speaker 2: They're all good friends of mine, Scott Monroe with the detectives,
1:21:41
Speaker 2: Patrick Hendry and Pat Lynch with the PBA. And they
1:21:45
Speaker 2: hate this guy. They hate this mayor. And Vinny was
1:21:47
Speaker 2: going on and on yesterday about how he's destroying the city,
1:21:51
Speaker 2: you know. Comes out when Oscar Belgao, who's a gang-banging,
1:21:56
Speaker 2: drug-dealing lowlife. He's a lowlife. So what does the mayor do?
1:22:01
Speaker 2: Caught up in his criticism of ICE. That's all he
1:22:04
Speaker 2: wants to do is talk bad about ICE, okay? You
1:22:06
Speaker 2: can count on two hands, Hank. Two hands. The Rene Goods,
1:22:10
Speaker 2: the Alex Pretties, this clown who survived. And I can
1:22:13
Speaker 2: give you thousands and thousands and thousands of murderers, drug dealers, rapists,
1:22:19
Speaker 2: pedophiles who've gotten out of this country. The numbers aren't
1:22:21
Speaker 2: even close. Not even close. But they go on and
1:22:23
Speaker 2: on about ICE. And in his argument about ICE, he
1:22:27
Speaker 2: had to nerve this mayor, this prick, to call the
1:22:30
Speaker 2: president and call Mark Wayne Mullen and tell them he
1:22:34
Speaker 2: wants Oscar Belgal with a rap sheet. as long as
1:22:39
Speaker 2: a menu at your favorite restaurant, and some violent crimes
1:22:43
Speaker 2: back on the streets. And Vinny's saying, come on, man.
1:22:47
Speaker 2: We're out every day trying to keep people safe when
1:22:50
Speaker 2: the mayor is actually campaigning to put criminals back on
1:22:55
Speaker 2: the streets. How are we ever going to be safe?
1:22:59
Speaker 20: You know, Sid, it is.
1:23:03
Speaker 20: It's a very simple, simple way to think about this really.
1:23:07
Speaker 20: And it is worth getting upset about. Vinny Rallelong is
1:23:10
Speaker 20: a very good man, as is Scott Monroe, as is
1:23:13
Speaker 20: Pat Hendry, as is Chris Monahan, the head of the
1:23:17
Speaker 20: Captains of Diamond Association, as are Louis Turco and Dennis Gannon,
1:23:21
Speaker 20: the two tenants.
1:23:22
Speaker 2: You know them all.
1:23:24
Speaker 20: The day you see a politician run into a building
1:23:29
Speaker 20: where shots are fired, Or with this fire, with the
1:23:33
Speaker 20: Halligan tool, is the day the world will be turned
1:23:36
Speaker 20: upside down. Because a cop or firefighter goes into situations
1:23:42
Speaker 20: that are just unthinkable and thinks little about their own safety.
1:23:47
Speaker 20: Those are people who we will not see their like again.
1:23:52
Speaker 20: And with this mayor, we may lose them. That you
1:23:55
Speaker 20: over-regulate their ability, you over-regulate them, and you make it
1:23:58
Speaker 20: less likely that they will take the risks required to
1:24:03
Speaker 20: keep a society sane and stable. And that is what
1:24:07
Speaker 20: we're going to go through. And that is both dangerous
1:24:10
Speaker 20: and destructive over time. And a very serious, very, very
1:24:14
Speaker 20: serious moment we're facing.
1:24:16
Speaker 2: So on the way out here, grandchildren, relatives, even you, Hank,
1:24:21
Speaker 2: are you... You're a tough guy. I know you're a
1:24:24
Speaker 2: tough guy. All the cops love you. You know every
1:24:26
Speaker 2: single union president, and I saw you're a big deal
1:24:28
Speaker 2: at Russo's last week. But are you nervous? Are you
1:24:32
Speaker 2: nervous moving forward for New Yorkers?
1:24:34
Speaker 20: Look, I never think of myself as a big deal
1:24:38
Speaker 20: or anything else. I've had a wonderful, wonderful life and career.
1:24:42
Speaker 20: I'm very fortunate. I have a kid who started out
1:24:43
Speaker 20: with absolutely nothing, no family, and somehow I've risen to
1:24:46
Speaker 20: wherever people think I have. So I'm a very fortunate man.
1:24:50
Speaker 20: But am I afraid? I'm concerned. I'm a tough guy,
1:24:54
Speaker 20: I guess. I'm concerned for my children and their children.
1:24:58
Speaker 20: I wanted them to grow up in the city, and
1:25:00
Speaker 20: they did, my children. I wanted them to take that
1:25:03
Speaker 20: which is best, which is, you know, Jack Newfield, may
1:25:06
Speaker 20: he rest in peace, used to coin the term New
1:25:08
Speaker 20: York nationalist. I'm a New York nationalist. I've worked all
1:25:11
Speaker 20: over the world, all over the United States, and for
1:25:16
Speaker 20: heads of state and others, and And I've always come home.
1:25:19
Speaker 20: I could have lived anywhere or been anyplace else. I
1:25:22
Speaker 20: came home because in my mind, I see a cop,
1:25:25
Speaker 20: I see a firefighter, I see an old gin mill
1:25:27
Speaker 20: where I used to get drunk when I was a kid.
1:25:31
Speaker 20: I see different kinds of people getting together in places
1:25:34
Speaker 20: that the rest of the country would never understand. I
1:25:37
Speaker 20: see a place where anything is possible and that the
1:25:41
Speaker 20: communalism that we once shared being ripped apart. That's what
1:25:45
Speaker 20: I'm afraid of, because the politician now running the city,
1:25:49
Speaker 20: the mayor particularly, does not believe in that. He believes
1:25:53
Speaker 20: in the destruction of a particular nation that existed long
1:25:57
Speaker 20: before all the rest of the nations in that part
1:26:00
Speaker 20: of the world existed. And when you talk about destroying
1:26:05
Speaker 20: that particular nation, Israel, you talk about an entire culture.
1:26:10
Speaker 20: That created the very ideas that created the Constitution and
1:26:16
Speaker 20: the Declaration of Independence, very Western ideas like protecting women's rights.
1:26:20
Speaker 20: That's in the Jewish wedding ceremony, and the document is
1:26:23
Speaker 20: called the Petubah, the marriage license. The prohibition against self-incrimination
1:26:29
Speaker 20: comes out of the Talmud.
1:26:32
Speaker 14: The.
1:26:34
Speaker 20: The notion of incorruptible courts run by, in Hebrew, it
1:26:39
Speaker 20: means judges and marshals, not police. Marshals to make sure
1:26:43
Speaker 20: there is order in our courts, not chaos. That everyone
1:26:46
Speaker 20: has an opportunity to justice, justice under the law. And
1:26:50
Speaker 20: the police officers you're talking about are the people that
1:26:53
Speaker 20: guarantee that. If they are undermined and if they are
1:26:56
Speaker 20: castrated and unable to do their jobs... We will not
1:27:00
Speaker 20: have the kind of New York that we deserve and
1:27:02
Speaker 20: we won't have the kind of country we deserve. And yeah,
1:27:04
Speaker 20: you need restrictions and you need some kind of controls
1:27:06
Speaker 20: on power. And that's the great thing about democracy. You
1:27:09
Speaker 20: have that battle all the time between the power and
1:27:11
Speaker 20: the powerful. But show me a politician that'll run into
1:27:15
Speaker 20: that building when there are shots fired. You show me
1:27:19
Speaker 20: that guy and I'll show you that Mondami's right. But
1:27:23
Speaker 20: he's not. Because there is no guy but a cop
1:27:25
Speaker 20: that'll do that. And that's the difference.
1:27:28
Speaker 2: Well, I will correct you on one thing you just said,
1:27:30
Speaker 2: because that was brilliant what you just did. You are
1:27:32
Speaker 2: a very big deal. And this was another amazing appearance, man.
1:27:37
Speaker 2: I love having you on this show. You're a sweet
1:27:39
Speaker 2: man and a brilliant man. Thank you for hopping on, Hank,
1:27:41
Speaker 2: and let's do it again very, very soon. Have a
1:27:44
Speaker 2: great weekend. You're great. Thank you so much.
1:27:46
Speaker 20: All the best to you, and thank you so much
1:27:47
Speaker 20: for having me on.
1:27:48
Speaker 2: You too. You're terrific. Come on. It's my honor. Hank
1:27:50
Speaker 2: Sankoff right there. That's one of the smartest people and
1:27:53
Speaker 2: most loyal New Yorkers you'll ever meet. What a wonderful guy.
1:27:56
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. We'll come back. I love this lady, too.
1:27:59
Speaker 2: She's on every Friday. Also brilliant. Worked for four presidents,
1:28:03
Speaker 2: most recently Donald J. Trump. KT McFarland back on the
1:28:09
Speaker 2: big show on a Friday morning. Good morning, KT. How
1:28:19
Speaker 2: are you?
1:28:20
Speaker 6: I'm great.
1:28:21
Speaker 14: Thank you so much. Good morning. I'm thrilled to be
1:28:23
Speaker 14: with you.
1:28:23
Speaker 2: Oh, God, I love you. I really do. And I
1:28:26
Speaker 2: know you love me, too. We have this, well, we've
1:28:28
Speaker 2: just built this unbelievable relationship. And when they first came
1:28:32
Speaker 2: to me and said, KT McFarland, she's great on Fox
1:28:34
Speaker 2: News and She loved Imus, and I really wanted you
1:28:38
Speaker 2: to enjoy this program. I really did, so. makes my
1:28:40
Speaker 2: heart warm when you say things like that you're thrilled
1:28:42
Speaker 2: to be here but i want to piggyback on what
1:28:44
Speaker 2: bill o'reilly was just talking about because you know this
1:28:46
Speaker 2: stuff better than anybody and he's trying to figure out
1:28:49
Speaker 2: why president trump is kind of being nice to putin
1:28:52
Speaker 2: so my uh this diesel deal and he said well
1:28:54
Speaker 2: listen Bill said maybe it's because Trump thinks it will
1:28:58
Speaker 2: lead to cheaper energy around the world. I started thinking
1:29:02
Speaker 2: the other thing. I started thinking maybe this will be
1:29:04
Speaker 2: the impetus for Vladimir Putin to stop killing innocent Ukrainians.
1:29:09
Speaker 2: Either way, there are reasons why we would want Putin
1:29:13
Speaker 2: to be happy and stop doing a whole bunch of stuff.
1:29:15
Speaker 2: But he hasn't proven, not even a little. If you
1:29:18
Speaker 2: do something in the past, he's not going to stop
1:29:20
Speaker 2: doing what he wants to do anyway. So with that said,
1:29:23
Speaker 2: why is Trump doing this?
1:29:26
Speaker 14: Well, he's got competing interests, right? On one hand, America First,
1:29:30
Speaker 14: he worries about the price of gasoline, especially American farmers.
1:29:33
Speaker 14: So diesel fuel is a big deal. It's a major
1:29:36
Speaker 14: part of the budget of any farmer in America. And
1:29:39
Speaker 14: so he wants to somehow try to figure out, well,
1:29:42
Speaker 14: there's a shortage of diesel fuel. Now it's gone up
1:29:44
Speaker 14: higher than even gas has percentage-wise. And so he wants to,
1:29:47
Speaker 14: how do we get more diesel fuel? How do we
1:29:49
Speaker 14: get it? How do we get it quickly? And that's
1:29:51
Speaker 14: why I did the the conversation with the Russians, right?
1:29:54
Speaker 14: You release the diesel fuel, it'll help American farmers, and
1:29:58
Speaker 14: then let's go from there. But on the other hand,
1:30:00
Speaker 14: the other competing interest is you give Russia more money,
1:30:03
Speaker 14: which you do by buying oil, and then Russia has
1:30:06
Speaker 14: more money to fight in Ukraine. The irony and the
1:30:08
Speaker 14: thing that just makes me so mad is to listen
1:30:10
Speaker 14: to these Europeans who say, oh, this is so terrible,
1:30:13
Speaker 14: Donald Trump. He's giving the Russians the money to fight on.
1:30:16
Speaker 14: You want to know something? The Europeans still buy Russian oil.
1:30:20
Speaker 14: They still buy Russian oil. LNG. What is that? To
1:30:24
Speaker 14: what tune do they buy it? They buy they give
1:30:26
Speaker 14: Russia more money in revenues from those sales of energy
1:30:31
Speaker 14: than they give Ukraine in military and other assistance. So
1:30:36
Speaker 14: don't talk to me about hypocrites. The Europeans are paying
1:30:39
Speaker 14: for Russia to fight Ukraine.
1:30:41
Speaker 2: 100 percent true and a very fair statement. But just
1:30:44
Speaker 2: because they do it, why should we? shouldn't we consider
1:30:47
Speaker 2: just completely strangling Putin? Because it's not only innocent Ukrainians
1:30:53
Speaker 2: he's killing, but you know that Russia, along with China,
1:30:56
Speaker 2: have their hand in Iran. They're also friends with Iran.
1:31:00
Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing that Putin does, okay,
1:31:05
Speaker 2: that says, eh, give him the benefit of the doubt.
1:31:08
Speaker 2: He's in bed with every one of our adversaries, enemies,
1:31:12
Speaker 2: and very, very, very bad people. So why not just
1:31:16
Speaker 2: Strangle him to death.
1:31:19
Speaker 14: You know, if you don't have leverage, somebody I forget
1:31:22
Speaker 14: who said it anciently said, go out and get some.
1:31:25
Speaker 14: So what's your leverage over Russia? Well, you don't have
1:31:28
Speaker 14: a lot right now. I mean, President Trump could like
1:31:30
Speaker 14: invite him into the world, you know, back into the
1:31:34
Speaker 14: into the real world. But how do you do that?
1:31:37
Speaker 14: So one way you do it in a funny roundabout
1:31:40
Speaker 14: way is you buy oil from Russia and then you
1:31:42
Speaker 14: threaten to shut it off. So then when oil is
1:31:46
Speaker 14: flowing again, he could just go to Russia and Putin
1:31:48
Speaker 14: and say, hey, look, by the way, that freebie I
1:31:52
Speaker 14: gave you of buying Russian oil, I'm going to stop it.
1:31:56
Speaker 2: You're screwed. As you're saying this, you're probably right. I'm
1:32:01
Speaker 2: thinking about Mamdani because I hear the same thing. I'm
1:32:04
Speaker 2: going to be nice to Mamdani and nice to Mamdani,
1:32:08
Speaker 2: and then I'm going to shut it off. I swear
1:32:10
Speaker 2: to God, you could have been talking about Mamdani because
1:32:13
Speaker 2: I keep hearing the same thing. Look, I know in
1:32:16
Speaker 2: my heart of hearts, I know this. Trump doesn't like him.
1:32:19
Speaker 2: And guess what? Mamdani, he can't stand Trump. He can't
1:32:23
Speaker 2: stand him. Trump is everything Mamdani hates. So this little
1:32:27
Speaker 2: clown show they both put on is just for show.
1:32:30
Speaker 2: But what you just said about Putin, that's Trump and Mamdani.
1:32:33
Speaker 2: I'll help him. I'll help him. And then I won't.
1:32:36
Speaker 24: Right?
1:32:39
Speaker 14: Yeah, I get it. But on the other hand, when
1:32:42
Speaker 14: you look at what is Trump doing tough to Mondami,
1:32:45
Speaker 14: what is he doing tough to Putin? Well, tough to
1:32:47
Speaker 14: Putin is that President Trump is giving Ukraine sharing intelligence,
1:32:53
Speaker 14: which is extremely important. He's also giving them massive offensive weapons. Now,
1:32:59
Speaker 14: we used to give it to them in the Biden administration,
1:33:01
Speaker 14: although we didn't give the Ukrainians the kind of weapons
1:33:05
Speaker 14: Trump is. This time Trump's giving them, but he's making
1:33:08
Speaker 14: them pay. The Europeans are buying the weapons and the
1:33:10
Speaker 14: Europeans are giving them to Ukraine. So when you talk
1:33:15
Speaker 14: about what's he doing with Putin, he's tougher on Putin
1:33:20
Speaker 14: than Biden ever was. He's definitely tougher on Putin than
1:33:23
Speaker 14: Obama ever was. Now he's tough on Mondami. Well, he's
1:33:26
Speaker 14: not rushing over to give Mondami to bail him out
1:33:29
Speaker 14: of this, that, and the other thing. So talk is
1:33:32
Speaker 14: one thing. Being nice to, you know, you know, Trump,
1:33:35
Speaker 14: every time he sort of shakes a hand, somebody will
1:33:37
Speaker 14: say to him, well, did you meet so-and-so?
1:33:39
Speaker 6: I said, oh, yeah, he's a good friend of mine.
1:33:41
Speaker 14: Not a good friend.
1:33:41
Speaker 24: No.
1:33:41
Speaker 14: He just met him once.
1:33:43
Speaker 2: He doesn't even care.
1:33:43
Speaker 14: You know, what do you, so not, it's my words.
1:33:47
Speaker 2: I remember he first said that about me. I'm like,
1:33:49
Speaker 2: you know, the guy loves it. I'm keeping an eye
1:33:52
Speaker 2: on this big election in Israel. I'm America first. OK,
1:33:55
Speaker 2: Alex Jones, before you start tweeting and General Mark Flynn,
1:33:58
Speaker 2: Mike Flynn, before you start tweeting, I'm America first. I'm
1:34:01
Speaker 2: very concerned about 18 days from today, but I can
1:34:05
Speaker 2: do more than one thing at one time. So in
1:34:07
Speaker 2: 25 days, they've got elections in Israel. And Bibi Netanyahu
1:34:11
Speaker 2: is trying to stay in power now off the record,
1:34:14
Speaker 2: which is now on the record between you and I.
1:34:16
Speaker 2: I think the Israelis want me to charter planes. Literally, KT.
1:34:20
Speaker 2: charter planes to have Israeli New Yorkers fly home. Because
1:34:24
Speaker 2: if they fly home, they can vote. I know you
1:34:26
Speaker 2: know that. And I know a bunch of anti-Bibi New Yorkers,
1:34:31
Speaker 2: these psychos, they are going back. They are literally flying
1:34:35
Speaker 2: back to vote against them. I don't know if the
1:34:38
Speaker 2: people that love Bibi like me are planning on doing
1:34:40
Speaker 2: the same thing. So they're reaching out to me to say, Sid,
1:34:44
Speaker 2: let's get those New York Israelis back here so we
1:34:47
Speaker 2: get Bibi the win. Are you paying a lot of
1:34:49
Speaker 2: attention to that race?
1:34:52
Speaker 14: I didn't pay attention to the Sid Rosenberg air system,
1:34:57
Speaker 14: but I have paid a lot of attention to the race.
1:35:00
Speaker 14: And I think whatever happens, whether in Israel or the
1:35:04
Speaker 14: United States, the day after the elections, I think we'll
1:35:09
Speaker 14: go back to military action.
1:35:11
Speaker 2: Oh, you do?
1:35:13
Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:35:13
Speaker 2: You think both? So Israel goes back to, whether it's
1:35:16
Speaker 2: Gaza with Hamas or Hezbollah, in Lebanon or Iran, and
1:35:21
Speaker 2: you think day after midterms, Trump, now, if he goes back, KT,
1:35:27
Speaker 2: he's going to do what I've been begging for for
1:35:30
Speaker 2: basically five months. If he goes back, he goes back hard.
1:35:35
Speaker 24: Yes?
1:35:37
Speaker 14: Look, there's a small, medium, and large option here. And
1:35:40
Speaker 14: whenever I would give options to the president or suggestions
1:35:44
Speaker 14: of policies, there would always be the minimum option. The medium,
1:35:47
Speaker 14: the maximum. Usually he would take the medium, sometimes the maximum.
1:35:52
Speaker 14: But here's what I think are the options that the
1:35:55
Speaker 14: president has the day after the election. Number one, continue
1:35:58
Speaker 14: as the small option. The minimum option is to continue
1:36:01
Speaker 14: as we are with the blockade. Strangle Iran economically. Continue
1:36:06
Speaker 14: to open the Strait of Hormuz. The middle option is
1:36:09
Speaker 14: the one that says, OK, we go in, but we
1:36:12
Speaker 14: don't go in alone. We go in with Israel. We
1:36:15
Speaker 14: go in, oddly enough, with the Gulf Arabs, including Saudi Arabia.
1:36:19
Speaker 14: And we go after their remaining military targets, not just Iran,
1:36:24
Speaker 14: but it's the proxies as well, Hezbollah, Hamas, and particularly
1:36:27
Speaker 14: the Houthis. The maximum option is you just go in
1:36:30
Speaker 14: scorched earth. But what I find is that sort of
1:36:33
Speaker 14: Iran's worst nightmare, and the reason we're here where we
1:36:37
Speaker 14: are today in the world, is three years ago, the
1:36:40
Speaker 14: Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, went on
1:36:43
Speaker 14: Fox News and he said, we're getting close to joining
1:36:45
Speaker 14: the Abraham Accords. Even Netanyahu, a night later, said, we're
1:36:49
Speaker 14: getting close to having Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords.
1:36:54
Speaker 14: And what did Iran do? They went nuts. They went,
1:36:56
Speaker 14: oh my gosh, our worst nightmare. Saudi Arabia joining with
1:36:59
Speaker 14: Israel and the United States. Peace with the Gulf Arabs
1:37:02
Speaker 14: and Israel and the United States. We're finished. Let's unleash Hamas.
1:37:06
Speaker 14: And that's when the massacre happened. So their worst nightmare,
1:37:09
Speaker 14: Iran's worst nightmare, is that somehow you have that coalition
1:37:13
Speaker 14: of the Gulf Arabs led by Saudi Arabia, Israel, United States.
1:37:16
Speaker 14: So what's Iran brought about? That worst nightmare. Because after
1:37:21
Speaker 14: October 7th, Israel went after Hezbollah and Hamas, more or
1:37:25
Speaker 14: less destroyed them. And then the United States went in
1:37:28
Speaker 14: and destroyed Iran's nukes with the mother of all bombs,
1:37:30
Speaker 14: the bunker buster bombs. And then what do you have now? Well,
1:37:33
Speaker 14: now Iran is, you know, strangled economically. It's increasing the
1:37:38
Speaker 14: scope of the war. It's bombing Saudi Arabia. And so
1:37:41
Speaker 14: you're now going to have the worst nightmare of Iran.
1:37:45
Speaker 14: And that is going to be all those countries joining
1:37:47
Speaker 14: together in righteous anger and indignation to go after Iran.
1:37:51
Speaker 14: And I think the first place they go is you
1:37:54
Speaker 14: better believe Mossad has, you know, the trackers on the
1:37:57
Speaker 14: top 100,000 guys of the IRGC.
1:37:58
Speaker 24: Yeah.
1:38:01
Speaker 14: I don't want to write the life insurance policies. It's
1:38:05
Speaker 14: a limited time. But then they're all the other side.
1:38:08
Speaker 14: So small, medium, and large. My guess is it's medium.
1:38:11
Speaker 14: But the difference this time between any other previous action
1:38:14
Speaker 14: against Iran is that you now have the entire Middle
1:38:17
Speaker 14: East united against Iran.
1:38:19
Speaker 2: It does seem that way. They're pissing off everybody. They're
1:38:21
Speaker 2: bombing everybody. I mean, they're ridiculous. And those MOABs, those
1:38:25
Speaker 2: mother of all bombs, I think would be used again.
1:38:27
Speaker 2: I really do this time around. Let me ask you
1:38:29
Speaker 2: about ECB. Elon Omar. I know you're following that one closely, slowly.
1:38:33
Speaker 2: I mean, I, you know, some of these news stories,
1:38:35
Speaker 2: I got to tell you, Katie, I root them on
1:38:37
Speaker 2: like the giants playing the saints on Sunday. Like I
1:38:41
Speaker 2: want so badly Mahmoud Khalil to be deported. And I
1:38:44
Speaker 2: feel the same way about this creep Elon Omar. What
1:38:47
Speaker 2: do you think?
1:38:49
Speaker 14: I think that the reason, you know, there's a reason
1:38:52
Speaker 14: you go in that you justify the action. And then
1:38:55
Speaker 14: there's maybe what you're really looking for. I think that
1:38:58
Speaker 14: the reason that they did the raid on her house
1:39:00
Speaker 14: and her computers and all that, it was supposed to
1:39:03
Speaker 14: be about, you know, immigration violations. Is she really an
1:39:06
Speaker 14: American citizen? Was there some funny paperwork? But maybe the
1:39:10
Speaker 14: real reason behind it is how deeply tied into the
1:39:13
Speaker 14: Somali fraud network is she?
1:39:15
Speaker 7: Yes.
1:39:16
Speaker 14: Where is she getting her money?
1:39:18
Speaker 20: Yes.
1:39:18
Speaker 14: How did her husband, who was worth, I don't know, $ 100, 000
1:39:20
Speaker 14: on one filing for your financial filings, And then, like,
1:39:28
Speaker 14: all of a sudden it's worth $ 30 million, and then
1:39:30
Speaker 14: he's back to worth $ 100, 000. There's something really funny going
1:39:33
Speaker 14: on there with the accounting of her family. And so
1:39:36
Speaker 14: I think the real thing that they're looking for, that
1:39:39
Speaker 14: they might stumble upon as they look at her computer
1:39:42
Speaker 14: and her text messages and all that, is that she
1:39:44
Speaker 14: might be deep in the middle of the Somali fraud operation.
1:39:48
Speaker 2: I think you nailed it. Final 60 seconds. I'd be
1:39:50
Speaker 2: remiss not to ask you. You're a Long Island native,
1:39:52
Speaker 2: and you are the queen of Southampton. What do you
1:39:55
Speaker 2: think of our guy's Bruce Blakeman's performance a couple nights ago?
1:39:59
Speaker 14: Oh, it was awesome. I mean, if anybody was doing
1:40:02
Speaker 14: this on the merits of the case, he was great.
1:40:05
Speaker 14: And I'm a Suffolk County resident. But Nassau County, which
1:40:08
Speaker 14: was going the way of the worst of New York City,
1:40:11
Speaker 14: he totally turned it around. Nassau County is great now.
1:40:15
Speaker 14: It's prosperous.
1:40:16
Speaker 13: It's thriving.
1:40:16
Speaker 14: It's safe. They got rid of the gangs. If there's
1:40:19
Speaker 14: a merit, if anybody's voting this election on the basis
1:40:21
Speaker 14: of merit, vote for him.
1:40:23
Speaker 2: Absolutely. KT, I love you. Great today. Great always. We
1:40:27
Speaker 2: really look forward to coming on on Fridays. You never disappoint.
1:40:30
Speaker 2: Amazing job today. Thank you so much.
1:40:33
Speaker 14: Thank you.
1:40:34
Speaker 2: God bless you. KT McFarlane right there. We're lucky enough
1:40:36
Speaker 2: to have her every Friday on Sid and Friends in
1:40:39
Speaker 2: the morning. We've got to do some news. Three more
1:40:42
Speaker 2: great guests still to come. The best defense attorney in
1:40:44
Speaker 2: the world and my dear friend of 49 years, Joseph Takapina,
1:40:47
Speaker 2: is back. We're going to talk to the best columnist
1:40:50
Speaker 2: in the world, New York Post writer Miranda Devine. Sid
1:40:53
Speaker 2: and Friends in.
1:40:55
Speaker 3: The Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
1:40:59
Speaker 2: So if it's raining, I'm going to get wet. So
1:41:01
Speaker 2: this weather looks miserable.
1:41:02
Speaker 10: That's usually how it works.
1:41:04
Speaker 2: I know, but it's like it's a block or two.
1:41:07
Speaker 2: And I never use an umbrella. Umbrellas are for pussies.
1:41:09
Speaker 10: They don't work either.
1:41:11
Speaker 2: Oh, God, I see a person holding an umbrella. I
1:41:12
Speaker 2: want to knock him on the ground. I really do.
1:41:14
Speaker 10: That's unusual for you.
1:41:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not like that. I like when the Asians
1:41:17
Speaker 2: use it in the summertime. That's even better. What the
1:41:21
Speaker 2: hell is that all about? Jesus.
1:41:23
Speaker 1: Maybe they know something. Maybe they know something we don't.
1:41:25
Speaker 2: They know nothing. Well, they know a lot, actually. They're
1:41:28
Speaker 2: a lot smarter than we are.
1:41:29
Speaker 10: Oh, and it's really sunny in there.
1:41:31
Speaker 2: I can't stand it. And they poke in the eye
1:41:33
Speaker 2: and they train, you know, they just poke it right
1:41:34
Speaker 2: in the eye. They don't care.
1:41:35
Speaker 10: I don't care.
1:41:36
Speaker 2: No. So, quickly, before I get to Takapina, there's this
1:41:38
Speaker 2: thing that's been going on in this city. I meant
1:41:40
Speaker 2: to talk about this because I got the Uber home
1:41:42
Speaker 2: last night after spending the night at Madison Square Garden
1:41:45
Speaker 2: with Bruce Blakeman and James Dolan. And I did an
1:41:47
Speaker 2: event last week. It was the same thing. So, they
1:41:50
Speaker 2: shut down one side of the Battery Tunnel. You know this?
1:41:55
Speaker 20: No.
1:41:56
Speaker 2: If you're coming south down West Street, heading towards Battery Park,
1:42:02
Speaker 2: you can't make a left into the tunnel.
1:42:04
Speaker 10: Oh, you can't merge into the tunnel?
1:42:05
Speaker 22: No.
1:42:05
Speaker 2: You've got to go all the way around. So last
1:42:09
Speaker 2: week and last night, I'm not exaggerating, it took me
1:42:12
Speaker 2: an hour and 15 minutes to get from the Freedom
1:42:16
Speaker 2: Tower inside the Battery Tunnel. And it's down to one lane.
1:42:22
Speaker 2: You cannot merge. You've got to follow all these cars
1:42:25
Speaker 2: that barely move and go around to the other side
1:42:29
Speaker 2: to get to the Brooklyn side.
1:42:31
Speaker 10: Going northbound. Is that what you're talking about? Going back
1:42:34
Speaker 10: towards the FDR Drive?
1:42:36
Speaker 2: Yes.
1:42:37
Speaker 1: Okay.
1:42:38
Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. And nobody knows. And I forgot about
1:42:42
Speaker 2: it last night. My Uber driver was stuck. I'm like,
1:42:45
Speaker 2: maybe you can turn around and go to the Midtown Tunnel.
1:42:47
Speaker 2: You can't even turn around. It's a nightmare. I don't
1:42:51
Speaker 2: know what the hell they're doing, but weeknights in New
1:42:53
Speaker 2: York City, you cannot shut down a complete side of
1:42:58
Speaker 2: the Battery Tunnel, you morons.
1:43:01
Speaker 10: Not there. You just came out of the Holland Tunnel area.
1:43:05
Speaker 2: Well, no, we didn't. We came down, obviously. We came
1:43:08
Speaker 2: all the way down. We were at Madison Square Garden,
1:43:09
Speaker 2: so we came down the West Side Highway. Yes, you
1:43:12
Speaker 2: got the Holland Tunnel, all of it. And they shut
1:43:15
Speaker 2: it down. They just shut it down.
1:43:18
Speaker 20: So I.
1:43:20
Speaker 2: Don't know who was in charge of that, but I'm
1:43:22
Speaker 2: very angry. And I got no sleep last night, like
1:43:24
Speaker 2: two hours, literally two hours. And no umbrella. I hate umbrellas.
1:43:28
Speaker 2: Joe Takapina is coming up next, the best defense attorney
1:43:31
Speaker 2: anywhere in the world. More importantly, my dear friend of
1:43:34
Speaker 2: 49 years, a very smart and entertaining radio guest, the
1:43:37
Speaker 2: great Joseph Takapina.
1:43:39
Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
1:43:43
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:43:45
Speaker 2: Sitting with me in the back of that car, very
1:43:47
Speaker 2: famous Italians, and one year it was Joseph Takapina. It
1:43:50
Speaker 2: was so much fun. So we just celebrated Columbus Day. Now,
1:43:54
Speaker 2: Sunday in Williamsburg, my guy Joe Nunziata and the Julio
1:43:57
Speaker 2: boys will have their day, so the Italians are still celebrating.
1:44:01
Speaker 2: How was your Columbus Day, Joseph?
1:44:05
Speaker 13: I was in D.C. with the Army, so it was
1:44:08
Speaker 13: an Army event. So it was just a regular American
1:44:11
Speaker 13: day for me. It wasn't a Columbus. And, you know, look,
1:44:15
Speaker 13: I didn't know Mondami was not showing up. I'm glad
1:44:18
Speaker 13: he didn't. You know, of course, he's a racist and racist.
1:44:21
Speaker 13: You know, if this were the Palestinian Day Parade, he'd
1:44:25
Speaker 13: be there with a flag and everything else with that
1:44:27
Speaker 13: stupid smile. But I knew he didn't show up because
1:44:30
Speaker 13: I saw you there. So I knew there was no way.
1:44:33
Speaker 2: No, no, I actually did. No, I threatened the organizers.
1:44:36
Speaker 2: They get me this convertible every year. And I threatened them.
1:44:39
Speaker 2: I said, not threaten them. I love those people. But
1:44:41
Speaker 2: if the mayor shows up, I'm not coming. I'm not
1:44:43
Speaker 2: doing it. But he was, listen, he ain't showing up
1:44:46
Speaker 2: at the San Gennaro Feast. He's not showing up at
1:44:48
Speaker 2: the Columbus Day Parade because, and don't get mad because
1:44:51
Speaker 2: I know you hate the mob stereotype, but if somebody's
1:44:53
Speaker 2: going to punch him in the face, it's going to
1:44:54
Speaker 2: be an Italian. Trust me.
1:44:57
Speaker 13: And you don't have to be a mobster to do that, dude.
1:44:58
Speaker 13: I'd punch him in the face. And I'm not part
1:45:01
Speaker 13: of a crime family. So, you know, you just have
1:45:03
Speaker 13: to be someone who hates to be stereotyped, someone who
1:45:06
Speaker 13: hates to be really discriminated against, which he does. I mean,
1:45:10
Speaker 13: he absolutely does. You know, you want to talk about
1:45:12
Speaker 13: Christopher Columbus? We could talk about Christopher Columbus all day long.
1:45:15
Speaker 13: If you know the facts, we'll talk about him and
1:45:17
Speaker 13: what he's done. And basically, we wouldn't be United States.
1:45:20
Speaker 2: Of America without him.
1:45:21
Speaker 13: You want to say he owned Indians or whatever?
1:45:24
Speaker 2: God, who cares?
1:45:25
Speaker 13: It was a different time.
1:45:26
Speaker 2: They all did it back then. Exactly.
1:45:28
Speaker 13: Oh, my goodness gracious.
1:45:29
Speaker 2: You're so stupid. You know who marched that day, Joe?
1:45:32
Speaker 2: You're going to love this. Well, the wretched governor was there.
1:45:37
Speaker 2: But you know who marched with the wretched governor side
1:45:39
Speaker 2: by side? Any idea? Your favorite person.
1:45:44
Speaker 20: Who?
1:45:45
Speaker 13: Sliwa?
1:45:45
Speaker 2: No, he was there. He was standing by himself on
1:45:47
Speaker 2: the corner of 47th and 5th, and I came by
1:45:49
Speaker 2: my Cadillac, and I swear to God, it was moving
1:45:52
Speaker 2: like a mile an hour, and the car pulled up
1:45:54
Speaker 2: to Curtis, and I said, Hey, Curtis, how does Mamdani's
1:45:57
Speaker 2: bleep taste? And he laughed, and he smiled, and we
1:45:59
Speaker 2: drove away. No, your favorite person standing next to Hochul
1:46:02
Speaker 2: at that parade, why she would be at the Columbus
1:46:05
Speaker 2: State Parade, I have no idea.
1:46:06
Speaker 13: Leticia James?
1:46:08
Speaker 2: Yes!
1:46:09
Speaker 13: Oh, yeah. Well, she's a true Italian-loving individual. I mean, please. Please,
1:46:15
Speaker 13: these politicians will make me sick, I've got to be
1:46:17
Speaker 13: honest with you. Be there if you support what the
1:46:20
Speaker 13: Columbus Day Parade's about, Christopher Columbus, the Italian heritage. Be
1:46:23
Speaker 13: there for that reason. Don't be there because you think
1:46:25
Speaker 13: you have to show up because you're a politician. Leticia James,
1:46:27
Speaker 13: you know, I think the world of her, as you know.
1:46:29
Speaker 13: I think she's a very capable prosecutor. I don't think
1:46:32
Speaker 13: she has any biases or anything like that. I mean,
1:46:34
Speaker 13: what kind of prosecutor on day one says, oh, my God,
1:46:38
Speaker 13: these guys are rapists, and I stand with the victim
1:46:40
Speaker 13: of the Cornell incident. And then day two gets appointed
1:46:44
Speaker 13: by Governor Hochul, who apparently didn't read the quote the
1:46:47
Speaker 13: day before, and appoints her to be a fair and
1:46:49
Speaker 13: unbiased prosecutor.
1:46:50
Speaker 7: Exactly.
1:46:50
Speaker 13: And then she goes out there and says, well, we're
1:46:52
Speaker 13: going to follow the law. You know, we have no– wait,
1:46:55
Speaker 13: a day ago you were an advocate for these seven
1:46:58
Speaker 13: guys being executed, basically. Yeah. Now today you're the prosecutor
1:47:02
Speaker 13: in charge of determining whether they'll be charged?
1:47:04
Speaker 2: I'm begging you.
1:47:05
Speaker 13: I mean, you've got to be kidding me.
1:47:06
Speaker 2: Two things about that. Our girl Saritha, she was there
1:47:08
Speaker 2: too at the parade, and I want Saritha to beat
1:47:10
Speaker 2: James so badly she kicked her ass in the debate.
1:47:12
Speaker 2: Just like Blakeman kicked Hochul's ass in the debate. But
1:47:14
Speaker 2: in that debate, Blakeman brought up the fact, when the
1:47:18
Speaker 2: Cornell thing came up, Blakeman said, hey, Kathy, aren't you
1:47:21
Speaker 2: a trustee? She's an alumnus. She's a trustee. She's on
1:47:25
Speaker 2: the board. He's like, what did you do? What did
1:47:28
Speaker 2: this school do? You did nothing. You did nothing. I
1:47:33
Speaker 2: thought that was one of the great moments of that
1:47:35
Speaker 2: debate when Bruce Blakeman looked at Kathy Hochul and said,
1:47:39
Speaker 2: you're part of the problem at Cornell. I thought that
1:47:41
Speaker 2: was huge.
1:47:42
Speaker 20: Yep.
1:47:42
Speaker 13: Now, Bruce is phenomenal. Look, I love Bruce. You know,
1:47:45
Speaker 13: I met him really through you. And so, look, we
1:47:49
Speaker 13: need him. We need him. We need to change so
1:47:52
Speaker 13: badly up in Albany. We really do. And Bruce is phenomenal.
1:47:55
Speaker 13: I've seen him speak live. And, you know, he's New Yorker.
1:47:59
Speaker 13: And he's someone who will help put back sanity into
1:48:02
Speaker 13: this city. I mean, you talked about the battery car thing.
1:48:05
Speaker 13: That's one little stupid thing, right? But that's a big thing.
1:48:07
Speaker 13: I mean, that is a crazy big thing. But when
1:48:10
Speaker 13: you don't have safety on the streets, And that's what
1:48:12
Speaker 13: we don't have. And when you're chasing out our biggest
1:48:15
Speaker 13: taxpayers and philanthropic donors like Ken Griffin or, you know, now.
1:48:19
Speaker 13: all of a sudden Amazon's threatening to leave because of
1:48:23
Speaker 13: the mayor's policies and, you know, their workers here. It's
1:48:25
Speaker 13: just it's unbelievable the damage he's doing. I didn't think
1:48:28
Speaker 13: he could do it. I figured out we're New York City.
1:48:30
Speaker 13: We're the greatest city in the world. The biggest, the
1:48:32
Speaker 13: toughest in the world. There's no single person that could
1:48:35
Speaker 13: bring us to our knees. This guy's actually doing some
1:48:37
Speaker 13: real damage. It's unbelievable.
1:48:39
Speaker 2: It's only nine months.
1:48:40
Speaker 26: Yeah.
1:48:41
Speaker 13: And it's not nine months. It's like, you know, Amazon
1:48:44
Speaker 13: is now saying, you know, we need safe conditions for
1:48:49
Speaker 13: our employers, for our works. We're going to move them out. And,
1:48:51
Speaker 13: you know, this act that the mayor is proposing is
1:48:55
Speaker 13: something that Amazon, if they close city delivery facilities and
1:48:59
Speaker 13: move thousands of jobs outside New York City. It's another
1:49:03
Speaker 13: blow to this economy.
1:49:04
Speaker 2: Of course.
1:49:05
Speaker 13: We're losing. I mean, the people who are moving to Florida,
1:49:08
Speaker 13: South Carolina, wherever, because they can't stand this guy. And
1:49:13
Speaker 13: he's hurting our city so bad. Forget about his policies.
1:49:16
Speaker 13: Forget about the fact that I think he's a jihadist,
1:49:18
Speaker 13: the fact that he's an anti-Semite, the fact that I
1:49:20
Speaker 13: think he doesn't love this country. All that stuff aside,
1:49:23
Speaker 13: that's bad enough. But practically speaking, he's really doing damage
1:49:28
Speaker 13: to this city. You know, I spoke to Ken. When
1:49:30
Speaker 13: Ken Griffin went– you know, that stunt where he stayed
1:49:32
Speaker 13: outside this guy's house. This guy has done more for
1:49:35
Speaker 13: New York City than you could do in 100 lifetimes.
1:49:37
Speaker 20: Okay?
1:49:37
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:49:38
Speaker 13: Mandami, 100 lifetimes. And aside from the $ 6 billion he
1:49:43
Speaker 13: pays in taxes every year, whatever it is, some crazy number,
1:49:46
Speaker 13: he donates $ 600 million to philanthropic causes, donates to New
1:49:49
Speaker 13: York City. annually 600 million said i mean and we
1:49:54
Speaker 13: just basically say get out get out we don't want
1:49:56
Speaker 13: you no no instead we want people who want to
1:49:58
Speaker 13: collect welfare checks who listen i don't there are people
1:50:01
Speaker 13: who have hard lives and and have bad luck in
1:50:04
Speaker 13: life and and people are born into poverty you i
1:50:07
Speaker 13: want them to be okay we want to help them
1:50:09
Speaker 13: we have to help our our our weakest but not
1:50:12
Speaker 13: the way he's doing it where basically you're incentivized to
1:50:15
Speaker 13: be a lazy no good piece.
1:50:16
Speaker 2: Of course There's a bunch of able-bodied people that are
1:50:20
Speaker 2: sitting home every day smoking weed and watching cartoons. And
1:50:23
Speaker 2: I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and
1:50:24
Speaker 2: you get up in the middle of the night and
1:50:25
Speaker 2: work all day long. We pay for these losers. Give
1:50:28
Speaker 2: me this story. The U.S. judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit
1:50:32
Speaker 2: over New York City sanctuary laws. Why? What's the deal
1:50:36
Speaker 2: with that?
1:50:37
Speaker 13: Well, look, my position on this is straightforward. You have
1:50:39
Speaker 13: to respect constitutional limits, protect due process. where public safety
1:50:45
Speaker 13: demands it, right? So the judge didn't stop deportations. Let's
1:50:48
Speaker 13: make sure this is clear to your listeners. This decision
1:50:51
Speaker 13: concerns local assistance to federal immigration enforcement. It doesn't eliminate
1:50:55
Speaker 13: the federal government's own enforcement authority. So ICE is coming
1:50:58
Speaker 13: here tomorrow, right? So the legal question and the public
1:51:01
Speaker 13: safety question really deserve separate answers. The judge said basically
1:51:06
Speaker 13: that the federal government cannot force New York to use
1:51:09
Speaker 13: its personnel and its resources to enforce deportations federal immigration law.
1:51:13
Speaker 13: So that's a serious constitutional issue. City officials still have to,
1:51:16
Speaker 13: the judge even said that city officials still have to
1:51:18
Speaker 13: explain their policy choices. So when someone has been convicted
1:51:21
Speaker 13: of a serious violent crime, the public deserves a lawful
1:51:24
Speaker 13: effective system for cooperation between local and federal authorities. You
1:51:28
Speaker 13: can't do what Mondami wants to do, which is make
1:51:30
Speaker 13: them the enemy. They're not the enemy. They're our federal government.
1:51:33
Speaker 13: We have to, we've always worked. When Giuliani was mayor,
1:51:36
Speaker 13: federal and local authorities were hand in hand. That's why
1:51:39
Speaker 13: we had safest city at the time. So supporters of
1:51:42
Speaker 13: the sanctuary policies argue that the community trust helps victims
1:51:46
Speaker 13: and witnesses come forward. That concern deserves real consideration, right?
1:51:50
Speaker 13: But so does the need to protect the public from
1:51:52
Speaker 13: dangerous offenders. So it's You know, it's ridiculous, but don't forget,
1:51:58
Speaker 13: it's not quite as bad as it sounds.
1:52:00
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:52:00
Speaker 13: Because the federal authority to come in here and do
1:52:03
Speaker 13: what they want to do, Washington has broad authority over immigration.
1:52:06
Speaker 13: So that doesn't automatically, you know, give them authority to
1:52:10
Speaker 13: order the local police to carry out federal immigration. But
1:52:13
Speaker 13: they can come in here and do their own thing.
1:52:14
Speaker 2: Right, right. Why am I still seeing all this coverage
1:52:17
Speaker 2: around this one particular juror in this Lindsey Clancy trial?
1:52:22
Speaker 2: Are we ever really going to get a finish with
1:52:24
Speaker 2: that trial?
1:52:25
Speaker 13: You know, we're in a new world, Sid. I mean,
1:52:28
Speaker 13: I've been trying cases for a long time, and I've
1:52:32
Speaker 13: just not ever seen the point where the juror becomes
1:52:34
Speaker 13: a story. The juror has a lawyer. The juror has
1:52:37
Speaker 13: a press agent now. And, you know, for some reason,
1:52:40
Speaker 13: this country was fascinated with that trial.
1:52:43
Speaker 2: Well, I understand the fascination. I mean, the mother kills
1:52:46
Speaker 2: three children. That's, you know, that's really about as bad
1:52:49
Speaker 2: as it gets. No, no.
1:52:50
Speaker 13: I know that, y'all. Of course, it was a tragedy. But,
1:52:53
Speaker 13: you know, when you had some of the people supporting
1:52:56
Speaker 13: her like she were some sort of a saint or
1:52:58
Speaker 13: something like that. She's either the biggest monster ever created
1:53:01
Speaker 13: or the sickest human being alive. She's not a hero.
1:53:04
Speaker 13: She's not a hero in any stretch, right? Some of
1:53:06
Speaker 13: these people were, you know, and it's just, it's mind-boggling.
1:53:10
Speaker 13: And then, you know, her lawyers making ridiculous things like
1:53:13
Speaker 13: asking Trump for a pardon when he knows full well,
1:53:15
Speaker 13: unless he didn't go to law school, like the new
1:53:18
Speaker 13: press secretary for the White House. You know, who else
1:53:23
Speaker 13: can't pardon someone on a state conviction? By the way,
1:53:27
Speaker 13: speaking of which, your friend should have been the press secretary.
1:53:31
Speaker 2: Liz Pipko, right? Of course.
1:53:33
Speaker 13: This is amazing, yeah, absolutely.
1:53:35
Speaker 2: Kate, the Zachariah girl, was on Fox News moments ago. Now,
1:53:38
Speaker 2: in all fairness, she was a lot better with Brian
1:53:42
Speaker 2: Lawrence and Ainsley this morning than she was behind that
1:53:46
Speaker 2: podium a couple of days ago. And maybe she'll get better.
1:53:49
Speaker 2: You know, it was day one. It's a very nerve-wracking job.
1:53:52
Speaker 2: She knows Trump, watches everything she says. But she was awful.
1:53:56
Speaker 2: There's no way Pipko would have been better day one.
1:53:59
Speaker 13: There's no way anyone in your studio there, Lou, Justin,
1:54:04
Speaker 13: those are two smart guys, so I should use them
1:54:07
Speaker 13: as examples. The guy who cleans the coffee pots in
1:54:10
Speaker 13: the back would have been better. It was hard, dude.
1:54:14
Speaker 13: She was reading, mispronouncing things, putting the wrong gate into
1:54:18
Speaker 13: the speech, like stopping when she wasn't supposed to stop,
1:54:21
Speaker 13: reading everything, looking up, laughing, calling her husband the president.
1:54:25
Speaker 13: I mean, God damn, you couldn't have started off worse
1:54:29
Speaker 13: than that. And then now the problem with this world
1:54:34
Speaker 13: that we live in now where everything is recorded– And
1:54:36
Speaker 13: you say, oh, I'm a lawyer. I'm a lawyer. I'm
1:54:38
Speaker 13: a lawyer.
1:54:39
Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
1:54:40
Speaker 10: Yeah.
1:54:40
Speaker 13: That's a problem.
1:54:41
Speaker 2: So I guess if you go to law school, which
1:54:44
Speaker 2: Ava's going for her master's in law at UPenn right now,
1:54:47
Speaker 2: and she graduated in the UK, and my wife, of course,
1:54:50
Speaker 2: is a great attorney like you. So when you go
1:54:52
Speaker 2: to law school, you mean you're not a lawyer? You
1:54:54
Speaker 2: mean you got to pass the bar? Really?
1:54:56
Speaker 24: Yeah.
1:54:58
Speaker 13: Well, okay. I said, thank God. So you've been sarcastic.
1:55:00
Speaker 22: Yes.
1:55:01
Speaker 13: Exactly. Going to law school gives you the right to
1:55:02
Speaker 13: take the bar exam. It doesn't make you a lawyer. Otherwise,
1:55:05
Speaker 13: we don't need a bar exam. So, yes.
1:55:07
Speaker 2: I mean, let's not forget, by the way, JFK Jr.,
1:55:09
Speaker 2: God rest his soul. I love that guy. Great-looking guy. Mr.
1:55:12
Speaker 22: New York.
1:55:12
Speaker 2: My wife still loves him to this day. God, if
1:55:14
Speaker 2: he was still alive, she'd kick me out in 15 seconds.
1:55:17
Speaker 2: I think he failed the bar, what, three or four times?
1:55:19
Speaker 13: Yeah, three or four times, and they gave him a
1:55:21
Speaker 13: special room with, like, soft music or something like that.
1:55:24
Speaker 13: I mean, yeah, he filled the bar. He filled the
1:55:26
Speaker 13: bar a lot. I don't know.
1:55:28
Speaker 2: Is that true?
1:55:29
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:55:31
Speaker 13: His last one, he's like.
1:55:32
Speaker 2: They played special, like, soft music?
1:55:36
Speaker 13: Dude, he got a lot of... After he kept failing
1:55:38
Speaker 13: the bar, they were like, Jesus Christ, this is Kennedy's sub.
1:55:41
Speaker 13: We got to do something here. So I think the
1:55:44
Speaker 13: bar questions then became, like, you know, you can answer
1:55:47
Speaker 13: and spray on. It's A or B. So, I don't know.
1:55:52
Speaker 13: I passed the bar the first time, thank God.
1:55:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did. So did Danielle. She passed the bar
1:55:56
Speaker 2: the first time in New York and Florida.
1:55:59
Speaker 13: Yeah, and that's not easy.
1:56:00
Speaker 2: There we go. This is the music. We got it now.
1:56:02
Speaker 2: This is the music they're actually playing in the background.
1:56:04
Speaker 2: When Junior... This is.
1:56:05
Speaker 13: The one where he passed the.
1:56:09
Speaker 2: Ball. Oh, Johnny Mathis. You can't go wrong with Johnny Mathis.
1:56:15
Speaker 2: All right. So back to your friend.
1:56:16
Speaker 13: I just want to say one thing, though. I've seen
1:56:18
Speaker 13: this is really she's going to let maybe Scaramucci is
1:56:22
Speaker 13: going to be the press secretary longer than she's going
1:56:24
Speaker 13: to be, because it's unbelievable. She's saying she's a lawyer,
1:56:28
Speaker 13: but she's not. You know, she's an attorney at law,
1:56:31
Speaker 13: but not a lawyer. She's trying to make a distinction.
1:56:33
Speaker 13: There is no distinction. All you are when you graduate
1:56:35
Speaker 13: law school. is a law school graduate. That's it.
1:56:37
Speaker 20: Great.
1:56:38
Speaker 13: That's good. You're a JD. You have a Juris Doctor.
1:56:39
Speaker 14: Right.
1:56:39
Speaker 13: It doesn't mean you're an attorney.
1:56:41
Speaker 20: No.
1:56:41
Speaker 13: It doesn't mean you're an attorney at law.
1:56:43
Speaker 20: No.
1:56:43
Speaker 13: She's killed all these distinctions, and she's really, you know,
1:56:46
Speaker 13: and apparently she went to China.
1:56:49
Speaker 22: She did.
1:56:49
Speaker 13: And put the bar there, which is impossible. One, she
1:56:52
Speaker 13: doesn't speak Chinese. Two, and more importantly, you must be
1:56:55
Speaker 13: a Chinese citizen to become a lawyer in China.
1:56:58
Speaker 22: Right.
1:56:58
Speaker 13: So, Meh, that didn't work. And the best part was,
1:57:02
Speaker 13: did you see Trump's face when someone asked her? And
1:57:04
Speaker 13: she's like, when.
1:57:05
Speaker 20: Did you pass the bar?
1:57:06
Speaker 13: It's like, ah, what's in China?
1:57:08
Speaker 20: Trump was like.
1:57:10
Speaker 13: That was awesome.
1:57:12
Speaker 2: He handled it very, very well. He did.
1:57:15
Speaker 13: Of course he did.
1:57:16
Speaker 2: He had a rough week between Kimberly Gilpoyle on Monday
1:57:19
Speaker 2: and Zachariah on Tuesday. Poor Kimberly.
1:57:23
Speaker 13: My client and my friend have known her for a
1:57:25
Speaker 13: long time, so have you. That was upsetting. I feel
1:57:29
Speaker 13: really bad for her. She went from being a step
1:57:32
Speaker 13: away from being in the family. you know, engage the
1:57:35
Speaker 13: junior and whatnot to, you know, being really.
1:57:39
Speaker 2: Listen, I know you represent her, and, you know, I
1:57:41
Speaker 2: was friendly with her, very friendly. She was on the
1:57:43
Speaker 2: show many times, and I did a bench with her
1:57:45
Speaker 2: and Junior, but you don't think she's innocent, do you?
1:57:48
Speaker 13: Well, innocent of what? I don't think there's any crime.
1:57:51
Speaker 13: It's not about a crime.
1:57:51
Speaker 2: No, not about a crime, but, I mean, you don't
1:57:53
Speaker 2: think that she pressured this guy to give her $ 100, 000
1:57:55
Speaker 2: and all that stuff?
1:57:57
Speaker 13: And this guy, don't forget, he has a checkered past, right?
1:57:59
Speaker 13: It was Despart, I heard, or something of that nature.
1:58:02
Speaker 13: I'm not sure, but I heard he's got a checkered past.
1:58:04
Speaker 13: And look, what she's saying is that he asked for
1:58:09
Speaker 13: things of her. He used her as a consultant. This
1:58:12
Speaker 13: was before she became a master.
1:58:13
Speaker 2: Actually, she went further. She actually tried to deny it
1:58:15
Speaker 2: and said those messages were sent by AI.
1:58:18
Speaker 13: If that's the case, then that's game, set, and match.
1:58:21
Speaker 13: That's when you... You guys know, if I were representing
1:58:23
Speaker 13: on this one, I'd be like, embrace it, grab it,
1:58:26
Speaker 13: and say, this is what happened. He owed me this money,
1:58:28
Speaker 13: and go back and show the work you did for
1:58:30
Speaker 13: him as a consultant. All these people, the problem is...
1:58:33
Speaker 13: All these big money people want the paper access, right?
1:58:36
Speaker 13: They want to pay for access. And when you're in
1:58:39
Speaker 13: Kimberley's position, you have to be uber, uber sensitive to that.
1:58:42
Speaker 2: Very careful.
1:58:43
Speaker 13: Because you can't sell access to the president of the
1:58:46
Speaker 13: White House or the administration. You cannot do it. That's
1:58:48
Speaker 13: a crime.
1:58:49
Speaker 2: They were furious. Marco Rubio was really pissed. Marco was
1:58:52
Speaker 2: actually more pissed than President Trump is what I heard.
1:58:54
Speaker 2: But she's a nice girl. We like her. And she'll
1:58:57
Speaker 2: end up on her feet. She'll be back in Miami
1:58:59
Speaker 2: and living a nice life. Joe Tacopini, you're always amazing, man. Everybody,
1:59:03
Speaker 2: you're so great. And I love you. And we'll do
1:59:05
Speaker 2: it again next week, buddy. Thank you so much.
1:59:07
Speaker 13: Okay, my brother.
1:59:08
Speaker 2: My man, the great defense attorney right there, my friend
1:59:10
Speaker 2: of 49 years, the amazing Joseph Tacopini. We'll take a
1:59:14
Speaker 2: break talking about the best ever, the best columnist, the
1:59:17
Speaker 2: New York Post, Miranda Devine. She's next.
1:59:21
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:59:24
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:59:26
Speaker 2: And we played him today, Mark Levin, the great one.
1:59:29
Speaker 2: He sent a great video. We played him today. Mike
1:59:32
Speaker 2: Lawler yesterday, Mike Rappaport yesterday, and of course, the big
1:59:35
Speaker 2: ones that the audience will see Thursday in the Rainbow
1:59:38
Speaker 2: Room are President Trump, who sent me a 90-minute video.
1:59:41
Speaker 2: It's so great. And Bibi Netanyahu, who did another 90-second
1:59:45
Speaker 2: video as well. So I put all these videos up
1:59:48
Speaker 2: on my social media. You can see them. Instagram at Rosenberg.Sydney.
1:59:53
Speaker 2: Twitter is at SidRosenberg19. And one of my favorite people
1:59:57
Speaker 2: on Twitter, she always reposts my stuff. Always, she's great.
2:00:00
Speaker 2: And she's got a great Twitter page as well. Is
2:00:03
Speaker 2: the best columnist in the world today. I really mean that.
2:00:08
Speaker 2: I like my good one. He's good. But nobody's as
2:00:10
Speaker 2: good as Miranda Devine. Nobody. New York Post, she's got
2:00:13
Speaker 2: a great podcast too. And I just love her. She's
2:00:15
Speaker 2: my friend. Miranda, good morning. How are you? Good morning.
2:00:19
Speaker 26: You're always so generous with me. It always makes my day.
2:00:22
Speaker 6: I'm being honest.
2:00:23
Speaker 2: I just, I think the world of you, I really
2:00:25
Speaker 2: do as a, as a pro and as a person,
2:00:28
Speaker 2: I think you're a terrific person.
2:00:30
Speaker 26: So likewise, and congratulations for another honor to add to
2:00:35
Speaker 26: your many others that you I'm sure have a mantelpiece
2:00:38
Speaker 26: just bulging with awards and honors.
2:00:42
Speaker 2: I do. Thank you for that, Miranda. Thank you. The
2:00:44
Speaker 2: only thing I talked about this, um, a couple of
2:00:47
Speaker 2: days ago with somebody. The only thing that, um, I
2:00:52
Speaker 2: don't want to say I regret or upsets me is
2:00:55
Speaker 2: that my dad, he died six years ago. And then,
2:00:58
Speaker 2: and everybody says to me, he sees all of this. He's,
2:01:01
Speaker 2: he's the man that's doing all of this. And I
2:01:04
Speaker 2: choose to believe it because it just feels good to
2:01:07
Speaker 2: believe it. I don't know why you argue it. Who knows,
2:01:09
Speaker 2: you know? So hopefully he does see all this. That's
2:01:11
Speaker 2: my only, uh, regret that he's not here for this.
2:01:14
Speaker 26: I'm sure he does, and he would be so proud
2:01:17
Speaker 26: of you and is proud of you. So, you know,
2:01:21
Speaker 26: that's what it's all about, isn't it? His legacy is you,
2:01:24
Speaker 26: and you're doing good work and making the world a
2:01:27
Speaker 26: better place.
2:01:27
Speaker 2: Thank you, Miranda. You are too. And I got to
2:01:29
Speaker 2: tell you, this is what Trump is afraid of, and
2:01:32
Speaker 2: he doesn't talk about this because he's Trump, okay? And
2:01:35
Speaker 2: he's got this really confident exterior, and he's trying to
2:01:38
Speaker 2: go to all these states and win all these states.
2:01:41
Speaker 2: But behind the scenes, I'm telling you this, He's scared
2:01:44
Speaker 2: to death that if in fact he loses his midterms,
2:01:48
Speaker 2: he's not worried about getting impeached. Who cares? We've been
2:01:51
Speaker 2: there already. He's worried about his family, what they're going
2:01:54
Speaker 2: to do to his sons, what they're going to do
2:01:56
Speaker 2: to the people he really loves and cares about. Heck,
2:01:58
Speaker 2: you could be subpoenaed. I could be subpoenaed. Who knows?
2:02:00
Speaker 2: So behind the scenes, and no one's ever really going
2:02:03
Speaker 2: to talk about this, I'm telling you that he is
2:02:06
Speaker 2: nervous about what will come. Not about him, but people
2:02:10
Speaker 2: that he loves and cares about if in fact we
2:02:12
Speaker 2: lose the house. I agree.
2:02:15
Speaker 26: It's really high stakes. And we only just saw what
2:02:20
Speaker 26: the Democrats did in his last term. I just did
2:02:24
Speaker 26: the story about the debanking that went on. 100,000 complaints
2:02:28
Speaker 26: poured in of the major banks, closing accounts, refusing credit
2:02:35
Speaker 26: to conservatives, anybody related to MAGA, any sectors they didn't like,
2:02:40
Speaker 26: like gun manufacturers or gun retailers or oil and gas.
2:02:44
Speaker 26: And the Trump family were foremost in that. You know,
2:02:48
Speaker 26: the Trump businesses, then Eric Trump, Melania Trump and Barron Trump,
2:02:54
Speaker 26: they had their bank accounts closed. So it was... And
2:02:59
Speaker 26: Donald Trump's been suing, I think, JPMorgan Chase about this.
2:03:04
Speaker 26: But honestly, the retribution that we saw before against Trump
2:03:09
Speaker 26: and the efforts to stop him from being an effective
2:03:12
Speaker 26: president and then from running again, the Democrats are redoubling
2:03:17
Speaker 26: their efforts. And I think that wiser heads... such that
2:03:22
Speaker 26: are left in the Democrat Party will be powerless against
2:03:26
Speaker 26: this new influx of Mamdani clones, people like El-Sayed, God
2:03:31
Speaker 26: forbid that he wins.
2:03:33
Speaker 2: I think he may win. I know the latest polls
2:03:36
Speaker 2: have Roger's inching right there, but I was talking to
2:03:39
Speaker 2: Hank Shankoff this morning, who's a brilliant guy. And he
2:03:42
Speaker 2: said that, he said, if El-Sayed wins, we are in
2:03:46
Speaker 2: some serious trouble because Mamdani right now is kind of
2:03:49
Speaker 2: that face, right? He's that face. He's that guy. You know, Chevalier,
2:03:52
Speaker 2: she's going to win, but she's in Congress. But if
2:03:54
Speaker 2: this guy is actually able to attain a Senate seat
2:03:58
Speaker 2: in Michigan, the United States is in big trouble. Big trouble.
2:04:03
Speaker 26: Big trouble, although I will say that it will encourage
2:04:08
Speaker 26: the Democrats to take the wrong message from that and
2:04:11
Speaker 26: to believe that the path to success for them is
2:04:16
Speaker 26: to run more candidates like Mamdani and like El-Sayed across
2:04:21
Speaker 26: the country and in the presidential election in 2028, you know,
2:04:24
Speaker 26: like an AOC candidate. And if they did that, I
2:04:30
Speaker 26: think that the American people would give them a big
2:04:33
Speaker 26: punch in the nose.
2:04:33
Speaker 2: Oh, God, I hope so.
2:04:34
Speaker 26: Just like they did in 2024. They always overreach. They
2:04:38
Speaker 26: always go too far. In 2024, the election of re-election
2:04:42
Speaker 26: of Donald Trump shows you where that ends for them.
2:04:45
Speaker 26: But look, I actually, you know, I don't feel I'll
2:04:49
Speaker 26: probably have egg on my face.
2:04:51
Speaker 6: After November 3rd.
2:04:53
Speaker 26: But I saw a CNN, you know, that pollster, I
2:04:56
Speaker 26: can't remember his name, but he's quite jolly and decent
2:04:59
Speaker 26: compared to the rest of them.
2:05:01
Speaker 6: And he said, look, there's a big margin of error
2:05:05
Speaker 6: in these polls. And it's not unknown in history.
2:05:09
Speaker 26: That they would be out by 3%. If they're out
2:05:12
Speaker 26: by 3% in favor of the Republicans.
2:05:15
Speaker 6: They keep the House and they gain Senate seats. So
2:05:20
Speaker 6: I know it's against history that they keep the House,
2:05:23
Speaker 6: but certainly in the Senate, they.
2:05:25
Speaker 26: Have a buffer.
2:05:26
Speaker 6: They have a buffer of one with J.D.
2:05:29
Speaker 26: Vance because he can cast the deciding vote, just like
2:05:32
Speaker 26: Kamala Harris.
2:05:33
Speaker 6: Did as VP.
2:05:35
Speaker 26: So that's an extra seat they can afford. And then secondly,
2:05:39
Speaker 26: John Fetterman, the wonderful, one of the few Democrats left
2:05:43
Speaker 26: who's sound.
2:05:44
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, not one of the few, the
2:05:46
Speaker 2: only one.
2:05:47
Speaker 26: Well, the only one left, yes.
2:05:49
Speaker 2: Yes.
2:05:50
Speaker 26: He is now saying that if he were the deciding vote,
2:05:55
Speaker 26: that it's likely that he would switch to the Republican Party.
2:05:59
Speaker 2: I love him, guys. He's a mega-federman.
2:06:01
Speaker 26: Isn't he great?
2:06:01
Speaker 2: He's a mega-federman. So Trump is going to be in
2:06:04
Speaker 2: Georgia and Kansas and Kentucky and North Carolina and Michigan
2:06:08
Speaker 2: and Florida. But you know this, Miranda. He's going back
2:06:11
Speaker 2: for a third time. Third time to Texas.
2:06:15
Speaker 20: Yes.
2:06:16
Speaker 2: He mentioned El Sayed, how dangerous he is in Michigan.
2:06:18
Speaker 2: And he's the most dangerous because he's like Bamdani, hates America,
2:06:22
Speaker 2: hates Israel, all that. But this lunatic, Tallarico, I mean,
2:06:27
Speaker 2: I've been watching clips of this guy the last couple
2:06:29
Speaker 2: of days. This guy's completely insane. Then he went missing
2:06:32
Speaker 2: for like two weeks. He said he had the flu
2:06:35
Speaker 2: or something.
2:06:35
Speaker 22: I don't know.
2:06:36
Speaker 2: Now, look, I don't love Paxton. I'm not going to lie.
2:06:39
Speaker 2: But I don't love Rodgers either, being honest. But I
2:06:41
Speaker 2: love these guys. I love these guys compared to El
2:06:43
Speaker 2: Sayed and Tallarico, right?
2:06:46
Speaker 6: Well, exactly.
2:06:48
Speaker 26: You know, it's the least of two evils. And Tallarico
2:06:53
Speaker 26: is like a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's got this
2:06:58
Speaker 26: baby face. And if you don't really listen to what
2:07:02
Speaker 26: he says and what he has said in the past,
2:07:04
Speaker 26: you think that he's this lovely, you know, Christian, Presbyterian, educator, kind,
2:07:12
Speaker 26: looks after the poor person. And he's a complete freak.
2:07:17
Speaker 26: He's a complete far left talafrico, low T talarico. And
2:07:24
Speaker 26: he's so the opposite of Texas.
2:07:27
Speaker 6: And Donald Trump is hilarious.
2:07:29
Speaker 26: He said when Califrico took 12 days off for the flu.
2:07:34
Speaker 20: Who's ever heard of that?
2:07:35
Speaker 26: And Donald Trump made the most hilarious joke. He said, um, Oh,
2:07:39
Speaker 26: he's probably sick because he said to force himself to
2:07:42
Speaker 26: eat meat during the campaign to pretend he's not a vegan.
2:07:48
Speaker 2: That is a good line. That is a good line.
2:07:50
Speaker 2: Good for president Trump. Good for him. He's doing all he.
2:07:52
Speaker 26: Can, but he shouldn't have to go back and waste
2:07:55
Speaker 26: his valuable time shoring up Texas. You know, that's, but
2:08:00
Speaker 26: also it's the Democrats have been working for generations to
2:08:05
Speaker 26: try and flip Texas, you know, absolutely patriotic, all.
2:08:11
Speaker 13: Blue, white.
2:08:13
Speaker 26: And they are trying desperately with illegal immigration and various
2:08:19
Speaker 26: other tactics to turn it red. And, you know, I
2:08:23
Speaker 26: hope it's not a matter of time, but clearly they,
2:08:27
Speaker 26: even though they've missed out with Beto O'Rourke, for instance,
2:08:30
Speaker 26: you remember the resources they poured into that guy and
2:08:34
Speaker 26: the media, the glowing media, saying he was the second
2:08:38
Speaker 26: coming of JFK, And Califrico is not an inch on
2:08:44
Speaker 26: the kind of, I don't know, charisma, if you can
2:08:47
Speaker 26: call it, of Beto O'Rourke, but he's still getting glowing
2:08:51
Speaker 26: media praise.
2:08:53
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah.
2:08:55
Speaker 26: I hope that Texans wake up and turn out. And
2:09:00
Speaker 26: the whole thing is go to vote. All you have
2:09:03
Speaker 26: to do, if you're a Republican, if you're a MAGA person,
2:09:07
Speaker 26: don't be lazy.
2:09:08
Speaker 14: This.
2:09:09
Speaker 26: This is to save your country.
2:09:11
Speaker 2: It really is the bottom line. And the same holds
2:09:15
Speaker 2: true because I know you are a great, great New
2:09:17
Speaker 2: Yorker for our gubernatorial race. And I was with Bruce
2:09:21
Speaker 2: Blakeman last night with James Dolan at Madison Square Garden,
2:09:24
Speaker 2: which was quite a bit. And I was very proud
2:09:26
Speaker 2: of Bruce a couple of nights ago up against Kathy Hochul. Now, look,
2:09:29
Speaker 2: she's awful. The bottom line is, you know, Hank Shankoff
2:09:32
Speaker 2: said earlier, she's great at raising money. That may be true.
2:09:35
Speaker 2: She's pretty good at campaigning. That may be true. But
2:09:37
Speaker 2: put her on the debate stage, whether it's against Lee
2:09:39
Speaker 2: Zeldin or Blakeman, and she looks terrible. She looks terrible.
2:09:42
Speaker 2: She sounds terrible. She mentioned the president's name. I got
2:09:46
Speaker 2: the final count. 41 times, Miranda Devine. 41. I mean,
2:09:51
Speaker 2: what kind of psycho does a debate and mentions the
2:09:55
Speaker 2: person she's not running against 41 times?
2:09:59
Speaker 26: That is insane.
2:10:01
Speaker 6: Oh, 41 times.
2:10:03
Speaker 26: Honestly, they're all like this, but I think she's the
2:10:06
Speaker 26: worst because she's so insecure. We had a body language
2:10:09
Speaker 26: expert analyze both Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hochul's body language
2:10:14
Speaker 26: that night during the debate.
2:10:16
Speaker 6: And she was nervous.
2:10:19
Speaker 13: I mean, you could see it yourself.
2:10:21
Speaker 6: She was stuttering and went blank. She's not very smart.
2:10:26
Speaker 26: And Bruce Blakeman, the body language expert said, was resolute
2:10:30
Speaker 26: and a few times angry, particularly when... I detected when
2:10:34
Speaker 26: he was talking about illegal migration that is just bankrupting
2:10:38
Speaker 26: this state and causing so much mayhem and crime and
2:10:43
Speaker 26: tragedy for New Yorkers. And he just destroyed her. I mean,
2:10:48
Speaker 26: she's boasting that she's not a defund police. Oh, I
2:10:52
Speaker 26: gave $ 4 billion to law enforcement.
2:10:55
Speaker 6: I mean, she didn't give it to them.
2:10:58
Speaker 26: And Bruce Blatman said, well, you spent twice as much
2:11:01
Speaker 26: on illegal migration. $ 8 billion on illegal migrants. You give
2:11:06
Speaker 26: them more benefits than New Yorkers get, which is absolutely true.
2:11:10
Speaker 26: And he just keeps on hammering the case that a
2:11:13
Speaker 26: vote for Hochul is a vote for Mamdani. He is
2:11:17
Speaker 26: the only way New York can stop this. The disaster
2:11:21
Speaker 26: that Mamdani... Mamdani's no signs of moderating. He's getting worse
2:11:26
Speaker 26: and more hateful and kind of more out of the shadows.
2:11:30
Speaker 26: That fake smile, he doesn't even bother to hide what
2:11:33
Speaker 26: he really thinks now. The malice behind the destruction he's wreaking.
2:11:38
Speaker 6: She is his.
2:11:40
Speaker 26: Totally complicit ally. And she, I think, is vulnerable.
2:11:45
Speaker 6: Because Lee Zeldin came.
2:11:47
Speaker 26: Pretty close, but that was before New Yorkers knew who
2:11:51
Speaker 26: Kathy Hochul was.
2:11:52
Speaker 6: Now we know.
2:11:53
Speaker 26: And Bruce Blakeman is a steady pair of hands. He's
2:11:57
Speaker 26: a proven guy. He's so perfect for New York.
2:12:01
Speaker 6: He's really quite moderate.
2:12:04
Speaker 26: He doesn't rock the boats. He's not highly partisan or
2:12:07
Speaker 26: highly political. He's just competent. But he loves this country
2:12:11
Speaker 26: and he loves this state, born and raised here.
2:12:15
Speaker 6: Can't get more New York than him.
2:12:16
Speaker 26: And he's angry about what Kathy Hochul and Mamdani have
2:12:21
Speaker 26: done to this city and this state, going back to
2:12:25
Speaker 26: de Blasio and the destruction. You know, they inherited this
2:12:29
Speaker 26: fantastic state and this fantastic city, and they've just trashed.
2:12:34
Speaker 6: It in a few years.
2:12:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, true. I mean, she had some help from
2:12:37
Speaker 2: the guy before her, Andrew Cuomo. You know, and this
2:12:41
Speaker 2: creep who's the worst mayor ever had a lot of
2:12:43
Speaker 2: help from Bill and even Eric Adams for that matter.
2:12:46
Speaker 2: He wasn't very good either. So these two losers, I'll
2:12:50
Speaker 2: say it, losers that are in power right now didn't
2:12:54
Speaker 2: exactly come on the scene with a bunch of great
2:12:56
Speaker 2: ones right before them, but whatever was left of the
2:12:59
Speaker 2: city and the state, they are destroying. There's no question
2:13:01
Speaker 2: about that. Miranda, you're the best. I love you. New
2:13:05
Speaker 2: York Post columnist and her podcast is amazing every week
2:13:09
Speaker 2: and She's my favorite, Miranda Devine. Thank you so much.
2:13:12
Speaker 26: Thank you, Sid, and thank you to your team and
2:13:14
Speaker 26: your audience, and have a wonderful day.
2:13:16
Speaker 2: You too. Have a great weekend. You're great. Miranda Devine
2:13:18
Speaker 2: right there, folks, New York Post columnist, and on this
2:13:22
Speaker 2: show quite a bit because she's terrific. We'll take a break.
2:13:24
Speaker 2: We've got the news coming up. A lot going on.
2:13:26
Speaker 2: And I think Bernadette Castro is still going to join us.
2:13:28
Speaker 2: We love Bernadette. She was back on this show last
2:13:31
Speaker 2: week after many, many years ago.
2:13:33
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
2:13:37
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
2:13:39
Speaker 2: But I thought that there's got to be something else
2:13:41
Speaker 2: you can do all day, every day. You know, so
2:13:44
Speaker 2: we're going to the Fifth Avenue is going to be
2:13:46
Speaker 2: so different in this city. Mamdani is doing exactly what
2:13:50
Speaker 2: he wants to do. He wants to change New York,
2:13:53
Speaker 2: change tradition. They're going to shut down the horse and
2:13:56
Speaker 2: carriage business because one horse died of a heart attack.
2:14:01
Speaker 2: And one tourist, God rest his soul, was killed. Even
2:14:04
Speaker 2: though I can make an argument that many, many more
2:14:06
Speaker 2: people are hurt and killed between bicycles and scooters in
2:14:09
Speaker 2: the city every day. They're not shutting that down.
2:14:11
Speaker 24: No.
2:14:11
Speaker 2: So they're taking the horse and carriage business away, putting
2:14:14
Speaker 2: all these nice immigrants out of work. And the plaza
2:14:17
Speaker 2: shut down for four years. So that beautiful part of
2:14:20
Speaker 2: Manhattan is about to change. And that makes Mom Donnie happy.
2:14:24
Speaker 2: Trust me. Ideally, he wants all the tradition and all
2:14:29
Speaker 2: the things we love about this city, including our beautiful
2:14:32
Speaker 2: horses in Central Park, to go away. I can't help
2:14:35
Speaker 2: these wacko animal rights people. They're whack jobs. I love
2:14:39
Speaker 2: animals too, but you take it to a certain level,
2:14:42
Speaker 2: it gets ridiculous. There's no proof, zero, that these horses
2:14:46
Speaker 2: are being treated any worse than if they were in
2:14:48
Speaker 2: a barn in Monticello. And like I said earlier, you
2:14:51
Speaker 2: want to shut down Aqueduct? You want to shut down Belmont?
2:14:53
Speaker 2: Come on, take it easy. It's got to be something else.
2:14:56
Speaker 2: You can get a job. There you go. How about
2:14:59
Speaker 2: getting a job? You can love animals, not be a
2:15:03
Speaker 2: complete psycho, and work. How about that, Lou?
2:15:07
Speaker 10: That sounds pretty reasonable.
2:15:08
Speaker 2: I would think so.
2:15:09
Speaker 20: Sure.
2:15:10
Speaker 10: You make a good point.
2:15:11
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
2:15:12
Speaker 13: Thank you.
2:15:12
Speaker 2: But you know who makes better points than me? Bernadette Castro.
2:15:15
Speaker 2: So let's take a break. We love this lady. She
2:15:18
Speaker 2: made her first appearance on this program ever last week.
2:15:22
Speaker 2: She was so good. She's coming back every week.
2:15:24
Speaker 10: Making so crazy statements.
2:15:26
Speaker 2: Stop it.
2:15:28
Speaker 10: We love the horses.
2:15:30
Speaker 2: We do.
2:15:31
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
2:15:34
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
2:15:37
Speaker 2: So Bernadette, the very easy question for you because you
2:15:40
Speaker 2: are invested in this is my gut tells me that
2:15:44
Speaker 2: you agree with me that that was a real ass
2:15:47
Speaker 2: kicking Bruce Blakeman put on Kathy Hochul a few nights ago.
2:15:51
Speaker 22: Oh, my God. He was so frigging good. And I'm
2:15:54
Speaker 22: only disappointed that more people didn't watch it. So if
2:15:58
Speaker 22: you didn't see it, please, you can watch it on YouTube.
2:16:02
Speaker 22: It'll give you a sense of who Bruce Blakeman really
2:16:05
Speaker 22: is and how incompetent the governor was. You know, I
2:16:08
Speaker 22: was at the Al Smith dinner last night and very appropriately,
2:16:12
Speaker 22: they sat the mayor and the governor next to each other.
2:16:15
Speaker 22: That was great. He's going to campaign for her. I mean, OK,
2:16:19
Speaker 22: let me just say something. I love Miranda. Your Miranda
2:16:22
Speaker 22: is a powerhouse in the Post. She's got to get
2:16:25
Speaker 22: the investigative reporters of the Post to really understand why
2:16:29
Speaker 22: the plaza isn't closing January. It's closing Tuesday. Look, we're
2:16:37
Speaker 22: in the small commercial real estate business in Manhattan. We
2:16:41
Speaker 22: work with scaffolding in front of our building. There is
2:16:44
Speaker 22: nothing on the interior of the plaza. The interior is impeccable.
2:16:48
Speaker 22: It wasn't like the Waldorf where they ripped out the ballroom,
2:16:51
Speaker 22: put in a new ballroom. Nothing is wrong with the interior.
2:16:54
Speaker 22: It's the exterior. And the rules and regs are so
2:16:58
Speaker 22: tough on the exteriors of buildings, especially older buildings. Something's wrong.
2:17:04
Speaker 22: I don't think the mayor negotiated with the owners. I
2:17:07
Speaker 22: don't think he took the time to talk to them
2:17:10
Speaker 22: because they could have used some scaffolding and kept this
2:17:13
Speaker 22: thing going for four years. So I really want someone
2:17:16
Speaker 22: to look into that because James Dolan, brilliant businessman, took
2:17:21
Speaker 22: the Knicks, look where we are now, has endorsed Blakeman
2:17:26
Speaker 22: and begging New York City businesses, give him the big money.
2:17:31
Speaker 2: Not just endorsing Blakeman, but just to remind folks, if
2:17:34
Speaker 2: you're watching New York One all morning long, which I
2:17:36
Speaker 2: don't know why you would, but if you are, there's
2:17:38
Speaker 2: a beautiful picture of me with Bruce Blakeman at the
2:17:40
Speaker 2: Knicks game last night. Dolan put on a big fundraiser
2:17:43
Speaker 2: for Blakeman at Madison Square Garden before the Knicks-Raptors preseason
2:17:47
Speaker 2: game were all there together. So not only is he talking,
2:17:50
Speaker 2: but he's donated, he's endorsing, he is really enthusiastic, Bernadette,
2:17:56
Speaker 2: about Bruce's candidacy.
2:17:58
Speaker 22: If you're a Knicks fan and you like what Dolan
2:18:00
Speaker 22: did for the Knicks, why wouldn't you want Blakeman to
2:18:03
Speaker 22: do the same thing for the state of New York?
2:18:05
Speaker 22: Trust Dolan. If you don't know Blakeman well enough, just
2:18:09
Speaker 22: bet your money on Dolan. He needs money for this
2:18:12
Speaker 22: TV advertising. Whatever you can give, you've got to give
2:18:14
Speaker 22: to Blakeman. And guess what? He needs votes. If you've
2:18:18
Speaker 22: turned 18 years old and you haven't registered, you have time.
2:18:22
Speaker 22: You have two more weeks. You have until October 24th,
2:18:26
Speaker 22: which early voting starts. Go register. If you're a young
2:18:30
Speaker 22: Jewish college student and you want to wear your Star
2:18:34
Speaker 22: of David on the outside of your shirt... You better
2:18:37
Speaker 22: go register and you better start voting for Bruce Blakeman.
2:18:41
Speaker 22: Jessica Tisch got a big award at the Al Smith dinner.
2:18:44
Speaker 22: She stole the show. The Cardinal Dolan was incredible as always.
2:18:48
Speaker 22: But Jessica Tisch was the only one that touched, truly
2:18:53
Speaker 22: touched on the anti-Semitism that's happening. And she told the
2:18:57
Speaker 22: story quickly of Cain and Abel from the Bible and
2:19:02
Speaker 22: how Cain murdered Abel, and when God asked him why,
2:19:06
Speaker 22: she spoke in Hebrew, a short sentence, and translated it saying,
2:19:11
Speaker 22: am I to be my brother's keeper? And then she
2:19:14
Speaker 22: looked at the audience and said, yes, the NYPD is
2:19:19
Speaker 22: the brother's keeper. What she did for the NYPD last night,
2:19:23
Speaker 22: praising them, telling the audience, you know, right now there's
2:19:26
Speaker 22: a guy with a gun, a police officer saving a family.
2:19:30
Speaker 22: There's a police officer in the subway saving your daughter.
2:19:33
Speaker 22: I mean, this woman is incredible. She blew me away.
2:19:36
Speaker 2: Oh, she's awesome. She's awesome.
2:19:38
Speaker 22: If you like Jessica Tish and you want to give
2:19:40
Speaker 22: her more support in New York City, please get Blakeman
2:19:44
Speaker 22: as governor.
2:19:44
Speaker 2: Agreed. So let me ask you, though, about New York City,
2:19:46
Speaker 2: because you've been here for a couple of years. It's
2:19:48
Speaker 2: nobody's business exactly how long, Bonadette. You look great. You
2:19:50
Speaker 2: look fantastic. But in all your years in this city,
2:19:55
Speaker 2: have you ever felt like this? Nervous, anxious about what
2:20:01
Speaker 2: this mayor and on a state level, what this governor
2:20:05
Speaker 2: will do to this city and this state.
2:20:08
Speaker 22: No, I've never felt this way because I feel this
2:20:11
Speaker 22: way on a personal level with granddaughters working in the
2:20:14
Speaker 22: city as an attorney. I feel this way from a
2:20:16
Speaker 22: business perspective, seeing what's happened with the state as far
2:20:21
Speaker 22: as taxation. And, you know, Bruce's point about eighty thousand
2:20:26
Speaker 22: dollars per person. illegal immigrant. And he said, which I love,
2:20:32
Speaker 22: there's an executive order on his desk waiting to be
2:20:35
Speaker 22: signed that we will no longer be a sanctuary state.
2:20:39
Speaker 22: God bless him for that. But he's got big plans,
2:20:43
Speaker 22: reducing utilities. I mean, by 50%, he wants to help
2:20:48
Speaker 22: regular New Yorkers, small businesses. You know, Mondami's thing about
2:20:52
Speaker 22: the grocery store is give me a break. He's trying
2:20:55
Speaker 22: to hurt the small bodegas. He's trying to hurt Young,
2:20:59
Speaker 22: small business operators, it's not just the big grocery store
2:21:03
Speaker 22: chains like your boss, John Katsimatidis, who I adore. It's
2:21:07
Speaker 22: the smaller operators. They're going to be wiped out if
2:21:10
Speaker 22: there's free grocery stores, if there's discounted so heavily. John
2:21:16
Speaker 22: Katsimatidis made a great point. He said, if you're going
2:21:19
Speaker 22: to do that, are you going to reduce the real
2:21:20
Speaker 22: estate property taxes on every supermarket, on every little local deli?
2:21:25
Speaker 22: Are you going to do that? If we own the property,
2:21:27
Speaker 22: are you going to help us? This is really anti-business,
2:21:32
Speaker 22: anti-capitalism at its worst.
2:21:34
Speaker 2: At its worst. So would you be as angry with
2:21:38
Speaker 2: the mayor if you found out that when he was
2:21:41
Speaker 2: a little boy, his dad actually invested in a cash
2:21:46
Speaker 2: flow convertible?
2:21:48
Speaker 22: Yeah, I'd still be mad at him.
2:21:50
Speaker 2: You would?
2:21:50
Speaker 22: I can tell you, our country comes first. And my
2:21:53
Speaker 22: father was an immigrant. He learned English. He never taught
2:21:56
Speaker 22: me Italian. I hope that doesn't offend Italian-Americans. He wanted
2:22:00
Speaker 22: to assimilate. I couldn't pierce my ears until I was
2:22:02
Speaker 22: like 30, okay?
2:22:03
Speaker 2: I love that.
2:22:04
Speaker 22: Everything was American. Assimilation.
2:22:08
Speaker 2: Learn English.
2:22:08
Speaker 22: He gave my kids thesauruses with a $ 50 bill tucked in.
2:22:12
Speaker 2: Did he really? That's cute. I love that.
2:22:16
Speaker 22: Yeah, true story. He was a great American.
2:22:18
Speaker 2: So did you go to the Columbus Day Parade on Monday?
2:22:21
Speaker 22: You know, I watched it on television. I couldn't get in,
2:22:24
Speaker 22: and it was fabulous. I didn't like that, you know,
2:22:29
Speaker 22: Hochul was there, but, of course, she was the governor.
2:22:32
Speaker 22: But I don't think she got total support from the people.
2:22:35
Speaker 2: No, no. Plenty of boos. Plenty of boos there. And
2:22:38
Speaker 2: what's funny is, you know, you're Italian, Bernadette Castro. She's Italian.
2:22:41
Speaker 2: People go to me, is she the one with the
2:22:43
Speaker 2: Castro convertibles? Other go, no. Is she Fidel Castro's granddaughter?
2:22:48
Speaker 2: I go, yes. I know. It's crazy, right?
2:22:50
Speaker 22: I'm actually half Italian. Let me set the record straight.
2:22:52
Speaker 22: So my dad was born in Sicily. My mother, Hungarian,
2:22:57
Speaker 22: Austrian descent. Born in Pennsylvania.
2:23:00
Speaker 2: No wonder you're a killer. My God. Half Sicilian, half Hungarian.
2:23:04
Speaker 2: I know.
2:23:06
Speaker 22: Similar to Governor Pataki, who was there last night.
2:23:09
Speaker 13: God bless him.
2:23:09
Speaker 22: He's the last great governor we've had and one of
2:23:12
Speaker 22: the greatest ever. And I think Blakeman's going to be
2:23:15
Speaker 22: like Pataki. But here's what I want. I want the
2:23:18
Speaker 22: president to unleash Marco Rubio to come into New York
2:23:23
Speaker 22: and spend a fly around three days with Blakeman. Look,
2:23:29
Speaker 22: if the vice president can show up, why can't the
2:23:31
Speaker 22: secretary of state? Marco Rubio could help with the Latino community.
2:23:35
Speaker 22: He could help with everybody loves Marco Rubio. You got
2:23:39
Speaker 22: to love him.
2:23:40
Speaker 2: I'm actually texting Marco as we speak, I swear to you.
2:23:43
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
2:23:44
Speaker 22: Please, please beg him. It would be so important to Bruce.
2:23:49
Speaker 22: You know, that would be an October surprise, okay? And
2:23:52
Speaker 22: there's nothing Hochul can say against that.
2:23:54
Speaker 2: Nothing.
2:23:55
Speaker 22: She's not going to repeat Rubio 40 times. No. That's
2:23:59
Speaker 22: for sure.
2:24:00
Speaker 2: 41 to be exact. I mean, just... 41 to be exact.
2:24:04
Speaker 2: I mean, just.
2:24:04
Speaker 22: Before we sign off, congratulations on your big award. The
2:24:08
Speaker 22: Hall of Fame... I think it's overdue. You are a
2:24:11
Speaker 22: great radio personality. And I just, you know, I'm so
2:24:16
Speaker 22: happy for you and proud of you. So congratulations on that.
2:24:19
Speaker 2: Bernadette Castro, I love you too. And everybody's happy you're
2:24:21
Speaker 2: back on this show. Every time we're going to hang
2:24:23
Speaker 2: up in two seconds and my phone's going to blow up. Oh, man,
2:24:26
Speaker 2: I missed her. I love her. I'm not exaggerating. I'm
2:24:28
Speaker 2: being honest. I'm not patronizing you. My phone blows up
2:24:31
Speaker 2: and it'll blow up again this morning. So thank you,
2:24:33
Speaker 2: Bernadette Castro.
2:24:34
Speaker 22: That's so kind. Well, listen, we're going to get together.
2:24:37
Speaker 22: We're having that dinner with me, you, and your wife.
2:24:39
Speaker 2: We're going to do it.
2:24:40
Speaker 22: Stay tuned on that.
2:24:40
Speaker 2: We're going to do that. I will actually be in
2:24:43
Speaker 2: the city. I'm doing something for Bruce again Wednesday night
2:24:46
Speaker 2: with Suzanne Miller. Are you involved in that?
2:24:49
Speaker 22: No, I'm not involved in that.
2:24:50
Speaker 2: Well, now you are.
2:24:50
Speaker 22: I did a fundraiser for him. In Nassau County, and
2:24:53
Speaker 22: everybody loved him. The people that hadn't heard him speak
2:24:56
Speaker 22: were floored.
2:24:56
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you're going to come once a night then, okay?
2:24:58
Speaker 2: You're coming.
2:24:59
Speaker 20: Okay.
2:24:59
Speaker 2: All right?
2:25:00
Speaker 22: Can we talk offline about that?
2:25:02
Speaker 2: Yes, I will text you after the show, and have
2:25:04
Speaker 2: a great weekend. We'll talk. All right, sweetheart. Great job.
2:25:06
Speaker 22: Thank you so much.
2:25:06
Speaker 2: What a great job. Thank you. There she is, the
2:25:09
Speaker 2: lovable and brilliant Bernadette Castro, back here on Sid and
2:25:12
Speaker 2: Friends in the morning. Are we done now, Louis? Is
2:25:15
Speaker 2: that it? That's it. That's it, Nomi. Weekend coming up,
2:25:20
Speaker 2: I'm going to get Brian Kilmeade and the rest of
2:25:21
Speaker 2: the daily programming, Greg and Dominic and Bo and John
2:25:25
Speaker 2: and all that. But before you know it, it'll be
2:25:27
Speaker 2: Fernando Mateo. And what's his name still on here? What's
2:25:32
Speaker 2: his name? Dick Morris.
2:25:35
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 10: What do you think drives the weekend?
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Speaker 2: Are you kidding? I don't know who drives the weekend, Lou.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought it was, to be honest,
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Speaker 2: I thought it was Joe Piscopo tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: I love Joe.
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Speaker 10: Fernando on the other side. Let's figure this out!
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Speaker 2: Yeah! Let's go!
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Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?