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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review | 05-04-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Which Lowry National Review, the great editor on this show
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  Speaker 1: every week, usually on Wednesdays. But the family had a
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  Speaker 1: nice trip to the Yankee Stadium on Saturday, so I
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  Speaker 1: figured I'll bring him on today. So Rich, you guys
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  Speaker 1: had a good time at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: Hun, Yes, it's really not fair. I've been a Yankee
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  Speaker 2: fan for fifty years. You've been a Yankee fan for
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  Speaker 2: five minutes, and you're responsible for getting me on the
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  Speaker 2: field of the Yankee Stadium the first time in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. You know it's so funny you say that,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm going back to the Yankee Stadium tonight to
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  Speaker 1: watch the Yankees sweep Baltimore. My buddy's Keith Camschwitz, Mark Orangeer.
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  Speaker 1: It's a birthday gift, you know, and they got these
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  Speaker 1: great seats. So I just text Randy Levine White, text
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  Speaker 1: it on your behalf and I said, I'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: Tidy goes we you're sitting with me. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: not even like you're sitting with me. That's it. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going up to his suite tonight, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this last week. We're really happy about this.
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  Speaker 1: August the twenty second, which Yankees are hosting the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays and Randy Levine and the Yankees have given
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  Speaker 1: me and Danielle Randy Sweet to hold out the very
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  Speaker 1: first ever this proxy a DCD America Day at Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: something we did in Florida. Vinny Violda's Panthers as many
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  Speaker 1: wins a Kentucky Derby on Saturday. So the Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: hosting how at Charity for a Saturday matinee between the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees and Blue Jays in August. And you better be
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  Speaker 1: there with the kids.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's my birthday. Actually, no way, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Okay, yeah, we'll see you then.
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  Speaker 2: I'm such a baseball fan, I have to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm almost just content seeing warm ups. I just I
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  Speaker 2: just love being on a beautiful baseball diamond. If you
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  Speaker 2: look closely, you always notice something new. Like the Orioles
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  Speaker 2: first baseman was doing this drill. This coach is doing
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  Speaker 2: a drill of them. But the coach is standing on
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  Speaker 2: second base and hitting ground balls for the first basement
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  Speaker 2: like they were bad throats so you had to pick them.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before. It's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I just it was a fantastic experience as a babble
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  Speaker 2: that day. We got in early. When he got there
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  Speaker 2: was like ten thirty in their lines, like this gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a world serious game.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 2: It was fantastic. So I owe you one yet against it, and.
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  Speaker 1: I owe me nothing. We're but dear friends for a
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  Speaker 1: very very long time, and I love you. I want
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  Speaker 1: to read this tweet from my friend Mark Levin. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to the Democratic Socialists of America aka Marxist. Congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, who helped kill Spirit Airlines and thirty thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Bernie Sanders, whose support for Obamacare has caused
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  Speaker 1: medical care course to explode. Congratulations to Zoron Mamdanni, who
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  Speaker 1: has nearly bankrupted New York City in just three months.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great tweet from Levin, and he's attacking the
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  Speaker 1: right people. Mom, Donnie here and Bernie. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Liz Warren. He talked about Spirit Airlines.
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  Speaker 1: They literally went out of business, like in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of flights. They told the flights to come back. They
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  Speaker 1: shut down customer service. What an awful way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy, and they wanted to merge with Jeff Blue, which
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  Speaker 2: would have made sense as two budget airlines, and it
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  Speaker 2: was blocked in the Biden years, and this crazy theory
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  Speaker 2: that this was too much corporate concentration. These two budget
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  Speaker 2: airlines that I don't know would have been like five
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  Speaker 2: percent of the market. It was insane. And they're just
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  Speaker 2: in the grip of an ideological mania where no mergers
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  Speaker 2: are allowed, so they'd rather have the thing go out
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  Speaker 2: of business.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, they'd rather have the thing go out of business.
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  Speaker 1: I've bought him a couple of times, you know, don
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  Speaker 1: to Florida. Ruddy Giuliani's on the hospital. He's in critical condition.
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  Speaker 1: I've been texting back and forth since literally one forty
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  Speaker 1: eight this morning with his beautiful son Andrew, who's got
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  Speaker 1: that monster job now in charge of FIFA, as we
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  Speaker 1: get ready for World Club Soccer here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out lung embolism, pneumonia. But I think he's
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  Speaker 1: turned the corner now and I think he is actually
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  Speaker 1: doing better. Eighty one years old. Nothing can kill this guy.
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  Speaker 1: But it's interesting to see all the other folks around
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  Speaker 1: town that are a Rudy. We love you, we love you,
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  Speaker 1: we love you. Nothing from Mom Donnie. Of course, what
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  Speaker 1: do you expect you think, Ma'm Donnie will say something
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  Speaker 1: nice about Ruddy?
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  Speaker 2: Of course not. And really just such a historic figure
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  Speaker 2: in at least two ways and probably three right one
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  Speaker 2: killing crime in New York City in a way, there's
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  Speaker 2: a model for the rest of the country to his
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  Speaker 2: leadership of the city after September eleventh and three. Early
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  Speaker 2: Trump adopter that key in that first campaign in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: So we're we're all hoping for the best for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a fighter, but made a huge difference in the
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  Speaker 2: life of this city.
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  Speaker 1: So Donald Trump's granddaughter, because all Rudy Giuliani did the
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  Speaker 1: last stage of his life was work for Trump. He
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  Speaker 1: was well to Trump. Roddy, he really believed in his
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  Speaker 1: heart of hearts, Rudy and Trump both believe this. Said,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do that the twenty twenty election was rigged?
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  Speaker 1: So Rudy uncovered a lot of information that at the
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  Speaker 1: very least, at the very least has to make you
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  Speaker 1: think about it. Maybe you don't want to buy into it,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're like, well, maybe doesn't matter. Rudy loyal to Trump,
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  Speaker 1: did a very good job on covering a lot of
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  Speaker 1: information that should at the very least make you think twice.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. Ki Trump, who happens to
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  Speaker 1: be the daughter of the granddaughter of President Trump. And
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  Speaker 1: of course Ki Trump's mom has been dating Tiger Woods.
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  Speaker 1: She's an amazing gobbler. She comes out this week. I
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  Speaker 1: want to play this for you. This is a cut
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  Speaker 1: eight Lewis and here's what Ky Trump, the granddaughter, had
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  Speaker 1: to say about her last name.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hey, some people don't like me. I mean
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  Speaker 3: fifty percent of the world doesn't like me because my
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  Speaker 3: last name, but like they don't actually know me. So
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  Speaker 3: like I'm hoping if people actually give me a shot
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  Speaker 3: and like not look at like the last name, then
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  Speaker 3: I won't have any ops. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Does that happen often? Or people screaming shit at you?
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  Speaker 3: I've had one time I was out in public and
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  Speaker 3: someone really walked up to me to tell me that
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  Speaker 3: my grandma sucks. I'm like, well, thank you so much
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  Speaker 3: for taking time or a day to say that, Like great,
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  Speaker 3: what do you want to say to that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So Kyle Trump says there that just based on
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  Speaker 1: her last name, we had a dump it. There was
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  Speaker 1: a person there based on old last name, that she
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  Speaker 1: believes that fifty percent of the country hates her, forget
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  Speaker 1: about her grandfather hates her. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably true and terrible. And someone has to
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  Speaker 2: be really motivated to go up to someone and say
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  Speaker 2: they hate them or someone associated with them. Yeah, that's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Shouldn't happen. It's destructive of our civil order. You judge
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  Speaker 2: people by the merits as individuals, not by their last name.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really sorry that's happening to her.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think we are on this whole Iran conflict?
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of times, if we can actually
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  Speaker 2: break their blockade at the straight of her moods, which
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  Speaker 2: Trump is now talking about, and we've seem more serious about,
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  Speaker 2: their leverage just disappears. And there have been reports that
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  Speaker 2: were rejecting Gilds that I would think would be pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: suggesting that Trump thinks he has a lot of leverage
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  Speaker 2: here in the blockade is really destroying their economy, which
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  Speaker 2: it probably is. I've been surprised at his stick to itiveness.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's very sensitive to markets, very sensive to
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  Speaker 2: oil prices, and he's just like, no, this is more important.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm a little more optimistic than I have been
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  Speaker 2: in recent weeks.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, him getting reports right now. I can't confirm this,
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  Speaker 1: although it's been told to me that Wan just mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it on their show that we started this conversation with
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees. I am getting reports at John Sterling, the
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  Speaker 1: amazing voice of the Yanks for so many years, eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old. I'm getting reports he died today. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have that confirmation. I am very very quick not
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  Speaker 1: to go on the air but stuff like that, because
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  Speaker 1: if the person's not dead, you know, you freak out
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people. But once the fan says
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  Speaker 1: that they do have the Yankees on their station, so
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  Speaker 1: Boomers Syazin said it, then I'm gonna have to go
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  Speaker 1: with it. I'm gonna wait for no Him to confirm
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  Speaker 1: this or maybe John Katsumatid's maybe Chad don't beget John
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  Speaker 1: Sterling did a show here last summer, which I hope
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  Speaker 1: with to He loved being on WABC and loved doing
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees. So if we can confirm or deny. But
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  Speaker 1: I am hearing from multiple sources now, but the former
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  Speaker 1: legendary voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, has passed away?
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  Speaker 1: You have anything there known? Right now? Do you see anything? No?
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  Speaker 1: No confirmation? You bet, I'll get yourself all right. That
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  Speaker 1: would be really sad if it's true, and again if
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  Speaker 1: it's not, I'm sorry. But when you get a piece
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  Speaker 1: of information like that, you're I guess I have to
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  Speaker 1: say it right, right, Rich?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What a radio voice hopefully still with us in
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  Speaker 2: this report is fault, right, But I just heard that
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  Speaker 2: they still occasionally play spot advertising thoughts during Yankee games
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  Speaker 2: with Stirling's voice. And if they did one over the weekend, like,
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  Speaker 2: dear god, what a voice, what a great calls? I
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  Speaker 2: think you'd probably remember, right. It was the Braves versus
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  Speaker 2: the Mets, that crazy eighteen inning game or whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was where Rick cam'p phit a home run against the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sixteen innings, No Rick, Rick Camp was there a
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  Speaker 1: leaver for the Braves and the Mets beat him in sixteen?
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think Rick can't hit a home
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  Speaker 2: run to tie a two run home Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: to keep it going. But he I just I missed
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  Speaker 2: him every time. He annoyed me a lot as a
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  Speaker 2: broadcaster because he gets home run calls wrong. Because his
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  Speaker 2: home run call is not entirely accurate, because not every
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  Speaker 2: home run was high and far and deep. But otherwise
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  Speaker 2: he just had so much personality and so loved the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: No one loves his team. No broadcasters ever loved his team,
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  Speaker 2: no more than John.
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  Speaker 1: Remind people all the time that made fun of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's too cheesy, the bend the Tino Ben being why,
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  Speaker 1: but he did. I don't care an a bomb from
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  Speaker 1: a rod Burn baby burn. Baseball is entertainment. Now. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: wins and losses matter, and people get billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: to perform, but at the end of the day, all
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  Speaker 1: baseball is is another form of entertainment, and John Sterling
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  Speaker 1: understood that, and he, I believe is the most entertaining
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  Speaker 1: of all time. I think Gary Cohen's great for the match.
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  Speaker 1: He's a dick, but he's a great announcer, but he's
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  Speaker 1: not entertaining. Saying Bob Murphy was somewhat entertaining, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially I've had a couple of shapers before the game,
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  Speaker 1: but I think starting was the most entertaining of all.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see about this latest rumor.
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  Speaker 2: I used to I used to, you know, you'd watch
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  Speaker 2: the end of the game on TV, and there's always
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  Speaker 2: a little delay in the radio. So for the big
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  Speaker 2: Yankee win, I turned on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people did that. Yeah, no disrespect to
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  Speaker 1: Michael Kay because they like Michael on Yes, but they
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  Speaker 1: would go to Sterling on the radio instead. You know
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  Speaker 1: what's funny is for this charity that the Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: putting together for me and Danielle and my son, but
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  Speaker 1: this proxy DCD America, Randy actually said to me, you
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  Speaker 1: know what you can do. You can go on the
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  Speaker 1: air like the third or fourth inning with Dave and Susan.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you don't want to check with Susan about
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  Speaker 1: We've got some very rough history, me and Woldman. But
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  Speaker 1: he said, don't worry about that. I'll smooth it over.
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  Speaker 1: So he just opened me that literally a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days ago, to go on the air one inning during
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  Speaker 1: that Saturday matchup against Toronto, and man, just hearing even
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  Speaker 1: that rumor kind of took me for rey from Loop.
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  Speaker 2: But I've grown very fond of over the years. I
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  Speaker 2: have to say, I can imagine what you said about her,
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  Speaker 2: but I've grown fond.
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  Speaker 1: I told her to go home and get your shinebox.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it didn't go well. I love your Rich Lowry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys had a good time on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Witch. Thank you there. He is
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  Speaker 1: the editor of the National Review. The great Witch Lowry.
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