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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Surging to Become New York's Next Governor · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: My son. Gabriel checks in from Bruce Blakeman's offices. He's
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with Daniel and jud and Jacob Yoni, all
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  Speaker 1: the great interns. Gabe's having a blast working for Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: and our dear friend Lynn checks in, says, I'm counting
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  Speaker 1: on you to make sure Bruce Blakeman wins. Well, how
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  Speaker 1: about cutting on Bruce. He's doing a damn good job himself.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly I've got Bruce on this program every week
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  Speaker 1: and we talk every day every day because I really
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  Speaker 1: want Bruce Blakeman to win. In my lifetime. I think
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Blakeman. I never wanted and to win more
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  Speaker 1: than these two guys. But Bruce is doing a terrific
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  Speaker 1: job as both the current Nasau County executive and campaigning
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  Speaker 1: to be our next governor. With that said Bruce, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Pal, how are you doing great? Sid having a great
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  Speaker 2: day today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's going on you? Gabriel? Yesterday said he met
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  Speaker 1: Pat Ryder, your amazing police commissioner. He loved that. Today
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  Speaker 1: he was talking about Bibe Bruce or something with that,
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  Speaker 1: and something about maybe the police headquarters again. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but what's on your dogget today?
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  Speaker 2: So one hundred years ago today, Babe Ruth caught a
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  Speaker 2: baseball that was dropped out of an airplane over Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Field in Nassau County. No way, now, yep. And so
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  Speaker 2: here's what happened. A friend of mine, guy Savve, has
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  Speaker 2: sent me a picture of it. And he owns me
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  Speaker 2: a post of America Great, Great restaurant. But he sent
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  Speaker 2: me a picture of it, and at first I didn't
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  Speaker 2: believe it. So I called my friend Randy Levigne, who's
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  Speaker 2: a good friend of yours, president and the Yankees, and
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  Speaker 2: I said, Randy, have you ever heard of this? He said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't, he said, but I'll ask my historian. He'll
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  Speaker 2: call you. So the historian of the Yankees called me
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  Speaker 2: back and he said it's absolutely true, and not only that,
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  Speaker 2: we have a video of it. So today we're going
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  Speaker 2: to reenact it. We're not going to drop it from
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  Speaker 2: an airplane or a helicopter. I tried to do that,
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  Speaker 2: but there's something known as FAA rules. So I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in the mood to get arrested today. So what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do is we're gonna get one of those hooking
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  Speaker 2: ladders from one of our local fire departments. They're great,
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  Speaker 2: our local firefighters. And we're gonna drop some baseballs, not hardballs,
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  Speaker 2: ones that are rubber, right, and we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see if some of our kids can catch them. And
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna honor Babe Ruth, the Yankees, and the history
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  Speaker 2: of aviation. Nassau County was the cradle of aviation here.
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  Speaker 2: Harry Guggenheim, the guy who financed most of the airports
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. He financed the production and exploration
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  Speaker 2: of rockets. He was in Nassau County residence. Charles Lindberg
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  Speaker 2: actually lived with him in Nassau County and Sands Point Grubbing,
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  Speaker 2: the aircraft manufacturer. Just so many, so many things historical here,
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  Speaker 2: but the Babe. He was probably one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: athletes of all time, certainly the best baseball player. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to honor his memory today, and we're also
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  Speaker 2: going to honor American aviation here in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I would have done my show live
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  Speaker 1: from there today. I should. To God, that sounds like fun.
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  Speaker 1: I want to catch one of those balls, and no
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  Speaker 1: gabees out there, but and correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was there up on stage. Did we not
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  Speaker 1: celebrate your latest victory in Nashau County Executive, your inauguration
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  Speaker 1: at the Aviation Museum.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we did. There you go. So we had this
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  Speaker 2: very rich history here, and we're starting to bring manufacturing
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  Speaker 2: back to Nassau County, back to Long Island because you know,
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  Speaker 2: economic development is very important to me. The defense industry
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  Speaker 2: is coming back, cybersecurity, all kinds of technology companies, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what I want to do for New York State.
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  Speaker 2: All of our jobs have left the state because Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hopeless taxed us to death. Are electric those who's seventy
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  Speaker 2: percent higher than the national abble. I'm gonna cut you
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  Speaker 2: utility bills in half. I'm going to cut your taxes.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna bring businesses in, We're gonna create jobs. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it more affordable by giving people more money.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you who wouldn't like what you just said.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you who New York Newsday. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say this. You don't have to. These people are the worst.
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  Speaker 1: They like The New York Times. So I never read
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  Speaker 1: it before boost because I don't live in Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: I live in Queens. But now I read it. You
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  Speaker 1: know why, because I love you and I want to
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  Speaker 1: see what these animals are saying. I'm just it's like
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  Speaker 1: Trump with the Times. Almost every day somebody at New
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  Speaker 1: York Newsday hammers you, and by the way, in turn,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they hammer me. So the latest thing is they're
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  Speaker 1: taking you to task on your AI commercials. I think
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  Speaker 1: some of those commercials are brilliant. But you've seeing some
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  Speaker 1: of the criticism.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean I don't pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: Newsday is suing me right now, so I can't talk
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  Speaker 2: too much about They were the official newspaper of Nassau County.
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  Speaker 2: I decided to make a change and make the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post the official newspaper of Nassau County. Good only
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  Speaker 2: because I think their editorial board at the New York
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  Speaker 2: Post more accurately reflects the values and the ideology of
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  Speaker 2: the people who live in Nassau County and on Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: So they got really angry with me, and they're suing me.
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  Speaker 2: So we're in court. But I can tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: our association with the New York Post has been great.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they're critical of me. I don't mind that. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to be fair and even. And if
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  Speaker 2: I do something right, print it. If I do something wrong, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's fair game. If it's something that's in between, tell
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  Speaker 2: my side of the story. That's all I ask of
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  Speaker 2: the media.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to tell you the mayor two
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  Speaker 1: does you a favor every day. I mean, look, when
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  Speaker 1: you go ahead to head against Hkle, you do a
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  Speaker 1: great job on this show and everyone explaining it. You
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  Speaker 1: know the fact that she wants attach people. You never
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  Speaker 1: raised taxes once in a wile, you stay in Nassau County,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you are so pro lawn order led
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  Speaker 1: by your own community with a guy like Pat Ryder,
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  Speaker 1: and as you said on this show, you one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent right. She is the complete antithesis of that, the
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  Speaker 1: worst of any governor anywhere in the country energy. But
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  Speaker 1: she's done with that, all those issues back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But what she makes it easy for you too, is
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  Speaker 1: is actually friends with Mam Donnie. She's not just scared
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  Speaker 1: of Mam Donnie. What she is not only Cayle tows
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  Speaker 1: Mam Donnie. She's friends with Mam Donnie. And every day
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  Speaker 1: this guy goes on to prove to New Yorkers that
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  Speaker 1: he's an anti Semite, that he's anti American. So her
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  Speaker 1: association with the Mayor, I have to think only helps you.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I think he's got a problem with estic groups
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  Speaker 2: that built this country. I think he's got a problem
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  Speaker 2: with Puerto Ricans. He canceled the Puerto Rican breakfast that
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  Speaker 2: every mayor had hosted. And by the way, I hosted
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  Speaker 2: it because I wasn't going to let the leaders of
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  Speaker 2: that great parade, that wonderful parade in New York go
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  Speaker 2: without a breakfast, so I sponsored it. But he has
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  Speaker 2: the problem with Puerto Ricans. He's got a problem with Italians.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't know that two of the most important places for
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  Speaker 2: immigration and tourist destinations are Little Italy in the Bronx
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  Speaker 2: on Arthur Avenue and Italy in Lower Manhattan on Mount
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  Speaker 2: and Mulberry. He couldn't attain the installation of the new
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  Speaker 2: Archbishop of the Catholic Church in New York City. What
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  Speaker 2: was he doing that day that he was too busy
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  Speaker 2: to attend a guy who's the religious leader of the
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  Speaker 2: largest religion in New York City. I mean, you could
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  Speaker 2: go line, chapter and verse with this guy. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: put Hell's Kitchen where all the Irish immigrants settled in
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  Speaker 2: his map. He didn't put Little O'guessa where the Russian immigrants,
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  Speaker 2: but he put Little Palestine. I don't know anybody who
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  Speaker 2: knows where Little Palestine is.
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  Speaker 1: I only do because I'm really upset with some of
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  Speaker 1: my friends and pay wage for allowing that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, it's not like everybody knows Little Palestine
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  Speaker 1: is in Bay Ridge. He also left out the Germans.
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  Speaker 1: No Germantown, Bruce, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. First of all, in the Yorktown section of Manhattan
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  Speaker 2: was a huge German enclaves. So uh, he doesn't talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Polish that that settled on the west side,
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  Speaker 2: by by the by the uh Hudson Hudson River over
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  Speaker 2: by Uh. I'm trying to think of the community over there,
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  Speaker 2: but a big Polish population on the west side.
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  Speaker 1: And uh Hudson Hudson Ydge is now No Hell's.
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  Speaker 2: Kitchens is lowered down. I'm gonna say it's between the
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  Speaker 2: two tunnels. Okay, yep. But but the fact is that
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  Speaker 2: he left the Polish off, he left the Germans off,
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  Speaker 2: he left the Italians off, the Irish. Uh he's at
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  Speaker 2: war with the Jews. Uh. He he is ignoring the
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  Speaker 2: Puerto Ricans, he's ignoring Catholics. Uh. It's just one thing
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  Speaker 2: after another with this guy. You know, do your job.
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  Speaker 2: Do your job. We're the most overtaxed city. We have
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  Speaker 2: regulations that are driving businesses out. There isn't affordable housing
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  Speaker 2: because you won't let landlords make a small profit and
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  Speaker 2: recoup their investment. You want to take over grocery stores
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  Speaker 2: in the Bronx. That's a terrible idea, competing with family
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  Speaker 2: owned businesses that own bodegas and small grocery stores in
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  Speaker 2: the Bronx. I don't know what's wrong with this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He hates America and you know what arresting that Nan?
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  Speaker 2: Why doesn't he arrest Putin when he comes to town,
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  Speaker 2: who's killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
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  Speaker 2: Why doesn't he arrest Xi, who has who has tortured
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  Speaker 2: and kill people in China? Why doesn't hear rest the
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  Speaker 2: president of his home country in Uganda where there's political
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  Speaker 2: torture and killing these He is so disingenuous, and he
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  Speaker 2: is so biased, bigoted, and I I gotta tell you
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  Speaker 2: it's a disgrace that this guy is the mayor of
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  Speaker 2: New York City and here's only one person that can
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  Speaker 2: keep him in check. That's me as governor.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Because Kathy Hochel is so scared of him
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  Speaker 1: that she barely says anything. I mean, you know, come on,
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  Speaker 1: even Julie Menin, who's the speaker of the City Council,
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  Speaker 1: she's out there every day hammering this guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: during the snowstorm, people died. He did a bad job.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got Legionnaire's disease, people are dying. Julie Menin
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  Speaker 1: comes out in the New York Post today and audio
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and she blamed him, and she's right. So all
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  Speaker 1: this guy has done so far is allow people to die,
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  Speaker 1: people to leave, and people to hate. That's what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: And where the hell is the governor of this state
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  Speaker 1: calling that out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Julie Menin is a liberal, and she and I
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  Speaker 2: would disagree on a lot of issues. But Julie men
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  Speaker 2: In loves America. Zoah and Mandami does not love America.
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  Speaker 2: He has anti American values. So I respect somebody like
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  Speaker 2: Julie men And even though I would disagree with her,
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  Speaker 2: and I have no respect for Mandami.
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  Speaker 1: But what about Huckell. She's a governor. Why is she
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  Speaker 1: calling him out? This is her state.
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  Speaker 2: She's subservient, he's running the party. She's scared the death
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  Speaker 2: of him, and she's presiding over a state that's in
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  Speaker 2: a death spiral. We're number fifty, an economic outlet five zero.
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  Speaker 2: We're left the once great Empire state. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'll cut you tility costs, I'll cut Texas, I'll bring
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  Speaker 2: businesses back, and I'll make communities safer, just like I
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  Speaker 2: did in Nassau.
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  Speaker 1: County in the northern part of the state, like two
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  Speaker 1: days ago.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, Yeah, we had a great trip in central
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: And when are you going back up to that part
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  Speaker 1: of the state.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're heading up to west Chester at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week. Then we got a big swing. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a three day swing in Buffalo, Rochester, all points
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  Speaker 2: in between. Then we're going to go up to the
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  Speaker 2: North Country. Then we've got a big trip plant for
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  Speaker 2: the southern tier. Then we're going to go in the
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  Speaker 2: Capitol District there in the Hudson Valley. But I also
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  Speaker 2: spend a lot of time in New York City too,
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  Speaker 2: because I can tell you right now there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of votes there. People are really upset with Kathy Hochel.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like her. They feel like she has ignored them,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the out of borough. So I have you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have a campaign that is statewide and we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of momentum and we're gonna win this race.
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  Speaker 1: I know we are. You have energy like Trump. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you all over the place. Every day I
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  Speaker 1: say this guy Blake min, he could be he could
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  Speaker 1: be Manhattan this morning, and he can be in Buffalo tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So on the way out, what football team do you with?
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  Speaker 1: Boor Again?
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  Speaker 2: So, as I said many times, I'm more of a
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  Speaker 2: college football guy. My alma Motte Arizona State University is
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  Speaker 2: always number one.
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  Speaker 1: Jam Scottibu baby Scotti bul.
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  Speaker 2: That's my boy. And I got to tell you that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I like the Jets. They're they're a Long
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  Speaker 2: Island team that they should come back to Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: Woody Johnson, if you're listening, let's build the stadium here?
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  Speaker 2: Uh you are? You?
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  Speaker 1: Are?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: If we got the Giants, are you really interested in
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  Speaker 1: building the stadium with the Jets there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely? Where would you put it coliseum site.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Woody, UH open up the check book, Let's
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  Speaker 2: do business. Let's get a brand new stadium. You need
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  Speaker 2: to come back to Long Island. Uh. And and my
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  Speaker 2: father was a big Giants fan, so I have an
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  Speaker 2: affection for the Giants. But I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: When the Giants and Jets left New York for New Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: I happened to agree with Governor Mary Oclomo that the
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  Speaker 2: only New York team was Buffalo the Bills. So I
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  Speaker 2: also root for the Bills. Sarmon Thomas, Jim Kelly, Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Smith because I like the name Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we beat the Beats. We had to miss a
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  Speaker 1: field goal, but we beat him in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: thank God, and that great Super Bowl. And I was
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  Speaker 1: at that game with the Houston sign the national anthem.
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  Speaker 1: But the only the only issue I've got with you
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  Speaker 1: being a Bills fan. You're right, the Jets play on
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey, the Giants play in New Jersey. But
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo Bills fan. And the worst of all, Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hokeel she makes money off that team and her husband.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want Bruce Blakeman winning for the same
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  Speaker 1: team as Kathy Hokeel do I.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear the video of Kathy Hockle at the
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  Speaker 2: bill Es rally?
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  Speaker 1: Pathetic?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my buddy, nobody joined in with her. Nobody, they
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  Speaker 2: ignored her. Listen. She knows them as much about the
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  Speaker 2: Bills as she knows about the Knicks, claiming that the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks one a championship in nineteen ninety three, criticizing Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump that he doesn't know the Knicks. I was seeing
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump at Nick games in the eighties and nineties,
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  Speaker 2: sitting courtside. Come on, Kathy, you can do better than that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Local papers print that Bruce Blakeman the quote
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  Speaker 1: other day. She knows as much about the Buffalo Bills
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  Speaker 1: as she does the New York Nicks. I love that,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce of the absolute best. You are going to win.
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  Speaker 1: Every day I get stopped in the street and people say,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I love that guy. So we're
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  Speaker 1: just getting started. Big summer ahead of us, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of events, and come November you will be the next
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  Speaker 1: governor here in New York. I love you, pal, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so.
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  Speaker 2: Much, thanks so much. Appreciate it, y buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Bakeman right there and right now the Nashville County executive,
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  Speaker 1: but he will be the next governor here in New York.
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