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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator Recaps WABC Radio's Annual Gala · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: John Katzmatidis because he is the big shot, Mr. Red
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  Speaker 1: Apple Media, not one but two great shows on our station,
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock every weekday afternoon alongside Rita Cosby. I was
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  Speaker 1: on twice last week, the Katz and Cosby show, and
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  Speaker 1: then he does this amazing show Sunday mornings.
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  Speaker 2: What a guest list.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Katz Roundtable, 8 a.m., every Sunday, but
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll rewind to Friday, John, another big birthday
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  Speaker 1: party for you and Simone, a bunch of other people
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  Speaker 1: and another great gala and an important one this year
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  Speaker 1: on September the 11th, another big night.
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  Speaker 2: It was the biggest gala ever. Uh, we had, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: 700 people, maybe more, uh, in the place only fits 600.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad the fire department was on our side.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it this way. I mean, we could have
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  Speaker 2: had 1,100. We had to turn away hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of people because we just didn't have room. But those
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  Speaker 2: people made contributions. And we took in a million, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, 400,000, 500,000. We haven't stopped counting. And that
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  Speaker 2: money is going to the Police Athletic League. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to the Tunnels to Towers League. It's going to the
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  Speaker 2: Pataki Foundation, who does wonderful things for the Ukraine and
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  Speaker 2: helping people over there. And it's going to WABC Foundation,
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  Speaker 2: which we're preparing for the Thanksgiving Day celebration that every
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  Speaker 2: year we used to give away. Tens of a thousand
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  Speaker 2: turkeys to the needy. And we're trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to give more to the people of New York.
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  Speaker 2: And we love the people of New York.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, you do. And listen, the Thanksgiving thing that
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  Speaker 1: we do is great. We go around with the trolleys.
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  Speaker 1: We hand out turkeys. You do amazing work. You do.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. You've got a great soul, John Katz.
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  Speaker 1: And all the money.
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  Speaker 2: All the money goes.
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  Speaker 1: To the charity. But I'm a little upset that we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Thanksgiving. I'm still enjoying the 72-degree sunny summer days.
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  Speaker 1: And Thanksgiving is usually pretty cold, John. But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's right around the corner. Here it comes. And Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: mind you, will be a couple of weeks after the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: And you and I will know at that point, John,
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  Speaker 1: if we stay or go.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is under attack. And I've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: it with some major figures. Even, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: very– I said– Uh, I'm even disappointed in, uh, the Canadians,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cause, uh, Connie and prime minister Connie is
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  Speaker 2: a very smart guy. Uh, but, uh, I, I think the,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Canadians, whether it's the Europeans, uh, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the evil empire, remember when James Bond movies, we used
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  Speaker 2: to call it, uh, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees, too. People have called the Yankees the evil empire.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the evil empire, we got Russia, we got North Korea,
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  Speaker 2: we got China, Iran, and the Cubans come to see
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  Speaker 2: me all the time, and And I said to them,
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  Speaker 2: you have to pledge allegiance to America and to North America,
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  Speaker 2: and you're part of North America and not part of
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  Speaker 2: the evil empire. And what's happening, what's really happening is
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  Speaker 2: everybody is gathering together. They're raising the price of oil
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  Speaker 2: to over $ 100. The interest rates are going up right now.
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  Speaker 2: So this is not normal course of business. This is
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  Speaker 2: an attack on President Trump. They figure because they figure
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  Speaker 2: if they can weaken him by him losing the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what they're figuring. Every American out there
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  Speaker 2: has to realize the truth. They figure, but you know
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  Speaker 2: what he joked about the other day, president Trump, he says, uh,
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  Speaker 2: on November, uh, November 3rd is the election. November 4th,
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  Speaker 2: the price of oil go down. He said, because that
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  Speaker 2: is what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to attack president Trump. But how are they
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  Speaker 1: going to raise it? Isn't that what we have Washington
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  Speaker 1: there not to raise the interest rates?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see what he does. I mean, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to raise the, my opinion. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to raise the interest rates.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I believe you.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, But it's an attack on Trump. You know why?
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  Speaker 2: They know they're going to weaken him. And if they
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  Speaker 2: ever get another Democratic administration the way this Democratic administration is,
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  Speaker 2: what are they going to do? They're going to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to pack the Supreme Court. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: make these other states, you know, these other city states.
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  Speaker 1: The socialists are running the Democratic Party. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: common sense people.
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  Speaker 2: Oil.
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  Speaker 1: Because I saw Marjorie Taylor Greene, another Trump backstabber, another traitor.
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  Speaker 1: She's a traitor. She was saying this week, and I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea if she's right. You do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference between light crude oil and heavy crude oil. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And she says we should be making both in America,
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  Speaker 1: yet we are forced to buy heavy crude oil someplace else.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we doing that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're buying because you buy it where it exists.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever it exists. We can't make it here? Can our
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  Speaker 2: refineries make it here? No, no, no, no. That has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do. This is the stuff that comes out
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  Speaker 2: of the ground. And Canadians have heavy oil. The Venezuelans
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  Speaker 2: have heavy oil. What President Trump has just did in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: $ 65 billion. Barrels is the supply for the next 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth trillions of dollars to the American people. Trillions!
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  Speaker 2: What other president ever did that? Now, light oil is
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  Speaker 2: available in certain other countries. And the way the refineries work,
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  Speaker 2: they take the heavy oil and the light oil and
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  Speaker 2: you mix it. And you can make different kinds of
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  Speaker 2: jet fuel. Makes sense. So Marjorie Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Greene, she says we're not being American first.
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  Speaker 2: She has no clue what she's talking about. It's just
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  Speaker 2: whatever comes out of the ground, it comes out of
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  Speaker 2: the ground. And you know it's not made.
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  Speaker 2: Oil, crude oil, not made by the dinosaurs. That was
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  Speaker 2: all crap. It's the planet Earth makes it. It makes
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  Speaker 2: it to take the plaque, to be able to, what
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  Speaker 2: do you call them? The plateaus underneath the Earth that flow.
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  Speaker 2: To make it easier for them to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: when you take too much oil out, like in Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you end up with? If you take
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  Speaker 2: too much oil out and the planet Earth can't make
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  Speaker 2: it fast enough? Earthquakes.
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  Speaker 1: Earthquakes. There you go. I want to move over to
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. What a great interview you did yesterday on
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  Speaker 1: your radio show. Great to catch you on the table.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a good friend for 40 years, and he
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  Speaker 2: loves America. And I would say he was the last
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  Speaker 2: great Democratic president.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I would agree with that. So his second term
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  Speaker 1: was a bit rough, but that's okay. That wasn't all
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  Speaker 1: his fault. Some of it was. But he talked specifically
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  Speaker 1: about Osama bin Laden because people say, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: want to blame Bush. He sat there. He looked very
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  Speaker 1: confused on 9-11. But Clinton had three opportunities to get
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  Speaker 1: to bin Laden. He didn't do it. But Clinton told you,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, I wanted him. I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: get him. But the CIA said, don't do it. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that right?
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  Speaker 2: He did say that. And you got to remember, there's many,
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  Speaker 2: many opportunities. There might have been three opportunities, might be
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  Speaker 2: four opportunities, might be five opportunities. So it depends which
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  Speaker 2: opportunity you're talking about. You know, he lived it day
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  Speaker 2: to day. You know, we live it on what ABC, CBS,
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  Speaker 2: and NBC talks about. Don't forget fake news. Yes. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the only way you can get fired from WABC news
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  Speaker 2: is by being fake news.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Trump was furious, too, in Dallas because they were
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  Speaker 1: saying there were empty seats all over the arena. I
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  Speaker 1: was in that arena, John. That place was packed.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you 110%. And even somebody from WorldWise
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  Speaker 2: News Network, who I'm going to deal with, said the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Said what? Said that there were empty seats.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's not empty seats.
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  Speaker 2: At 1 o'clock in the morning, I was listening.
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  Speaker 1: Trump heard it. Did you know that? I heard it. No,
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  Speaker 1: Trump heard it too.
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  Speaker 2: I heard your interview too. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I just hear that on hold. Sid, you
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  Speaker 1: got to help me. I was sitting there. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to deal with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a, we can't.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be woke? Go work someplace else.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what, what a morning for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I feel like you're on fire. Well, I slept
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  Speaker 2: seven hours and 15 minutes last night. So I feel good.
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  Speaker 1: Were you home this weekend on the half?
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  Speaker 2: I was home.
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  Speaker 1: You were home.
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  Speaker 2: I was home this weekend. We had a great party
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night. The greatest party ever. And you know
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to do? Every 9-11 from now until forever.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to celebrate 9-11, the WABC Gala, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do it to help our veterans, to help
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  Speaker 2: our kids in the inner city. And it's all about charity.
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  Speaker 2: It's about helping. And people support that, and people love it. 100%.
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  Speaker 1: And it was nice seeing your beautiful wife, Margo, out
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  Speaker 1: there on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she was dressed great. And, you know, she's had
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  Speaker 2: problems with her ankle and her knee. But she was
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  Speaker 2: out there. uh, you know, she's a trooper. She's out
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  Speaker 2: there dancing every dance and every, I mean, on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: she suffered. But she's a trooper Friday night, and her
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  Speaker 2: ulcers are good, so she's back. She's back!
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  Speaker 1: Thank God. Thank God for that. Well, it's great to
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  Speaker 1: see you, and congratulations on the gala, the huge weekend,
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  Speaker 1: everything going so well for WABC. We'll do it again
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  Speaker 1: later on this week. John Katsimatidis, I love you. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Sit, we fight together, and God bless America.
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  Speaker 1: God bless America. Yes, John Katsimatidis, Kats and Cosby, 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: every weekday afternoon, the Kats Roundtable, 8 a.m. every Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Just a terrific guy. My guy, John Katsimatidis.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?