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Giovanni Galante | 9/11 Widower Who Launched Petition to Bar Mamdani from 9/11 Memorial Ceremony Offers Update on Surging Petition · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani, he's going to come proud. He don't care
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  Speaker 1: what Giuliani says. He don't care if a million families
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  Speaker 1: sign that petition. He doesn't care. It's all about him.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about him. He's going to be there all
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  Speaker 1: week at all the events. We've been over this so
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  Speaker 1: many times. I mean, I hate the guy. I legitimately
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  Speaker 1: hate him. I know that's a strong word. But I
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  Speaker 1: hate him. I hate his guts. Everything about him makes
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  Speaker 1: me nauseous. Everything. There's not one decent bone in that
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  Speaker 1: man's body. Not one bone. genuine, authentic bone. He's garbage.
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  Speaker 1: He's a terrorist. I'll say it again. I don't care, Fox.
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  Speaker 1: I am banned by Fox, you know. Never made an
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  Speaker 1: official statement because I don't work for Fox. So they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to, but I haven't been invited back, right?
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  Speaker 1: They fired Maria last week. They banned me. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to President Trump about that tomorrow. But at
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  Speaker 1: any rate, he's a bad guy. He's a very bad person.
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  Speaker 1: And these poor families, they don't want him there. For
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  Speaker 1: every Liz Miller, there's a thousand that don't want him.
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  Speaker 1: Like Giovanni Galante, this brave man, who's about to make
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  Speaker 1: his third appearance on this show. His wife, Grace, was
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  Speaker 1: murdered on that day. He started this petition. He started it.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe he told me the day he came on,
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  Speaker 1: he had 1,400 signatures. Now it's over 100,000. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take some of the credit for that, Lou,
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  Speaker 1: because that's just, that's me, you know. Well, you can't
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  Speaker 1: argue with the facts. Right, right. So here he is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: our dear friend, very brave man, Giovanni Galante. Giovanni, good morning, pal.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? Good morning, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me back on. And yes, you are
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  Speaker 2: responsible for most of those numbers going up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: That you give you the credit. I will give you
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  Speaker 2: the credit because I saw it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that. My audience, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, are great New Yorkers, great Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And they all feel horrible for you, and they all
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  Speaker 1: hate Mom Donnie, and they don't want him there. Even
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  Speaker 1: people like me, I didn't lose family members that day.
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  Speaker 1: I did lose friends, a bunch of friends. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they were in the windows on the World Restaurant that morning,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stock guys that worked out on Bond Street.
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  Speaker 1: But your wife, your wife was murdered that day. You've
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  Speaker 1: been so beautiful in remembering her on this program a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times. And we've been talking about this for
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  Speaker 1: two months, and here we are three days away. And unfortunately, Giovanni,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like he's not budging.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's childish. What can we say? I mean, him
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  Speaker 2: showing us that he signed a piece of paper for remembrance,
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  Speaker 2: not knowing that every family member and everyone in New
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  Speaker 2: York remembers that day and the family members remember it
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  Speaker 2: every day since that day. We don't need him to
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  Speaker 2: sign anything to show that. And then handing a pen
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  Speaker 2: to an Al Qaeda attorney is slap in the face
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  Speaker 2: and childish. But, you know, he's the one that looks
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  Speaker 2: like the idiot, not our That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That was so evil. You're being nice and you call
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  Speaker 1: it childish. When he handed that pen to Ramsey's the
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  Speaker 1: other day, that was evil. That was him punking you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, saying, oh, your family member died? Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the mayor. Hey, Mr. Al Qaeda attorney, grab the pen.
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  Speaker 1: It was so disgusting that... I don't know how Jessica Tish.
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  Speaker 1: I love Jesse lover, how she stood there through all that.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I know she's a good soul, but my God,
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  Speaker 1: what he did that day, just a couple of days ago. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Just a couple of days ago. Basically he gave you
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  Speaker 1: Giovanni and your late great wife, grace, the middle finger.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he did.
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  Speaker 2: Actually over 3000 people and the people that are still
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  Speaker 2: dying today. He kind of showed us the man that
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  Speaker 2: he is. And obviously the people that voted for him
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  Speaker 2: should really open their eyes and and see what they
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  Speaker 2: vote for. But, you know, New York is a hard
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  Speaker 2: state to turn.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's why you spend a lot of time in Naples,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dummy. So have you been getting, since you
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  Speaker 1: started this, you become famous for all the wrong reasons, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: You'd much rather have grace back, I understand that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about famous, but.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're pretty famous. Are you getting, like, phone calls
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  Speaker 1: from other family members that are okay with the mayor
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  Speaker 1: there saying, hey, Giovanni, do me a favor, don't speak
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  Speaker 1: for me?
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  Speaker 2: Never received one phone call that said, don't speak for me.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the people that have reached out, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to say all the people, like I said the last time,
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  Speaker 2: now we're at 101,000 signatures. Most of those people have
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  Speaker 2: said beautiful things. And all the family members that have
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  Speaker 2: chimed in, I love what you're doing. Please keep it up.
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  Speaker 2: They all want to be at the press conference. They're
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  Speaker 2: all going to the 9-11 ceremony, obviously. We've had the
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  Speaker 2: Port Authority retired police officers that lost 37 people reach out.
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  Speaker 2: They wrote two letters, one to Hochul, one to the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said before, I don't like to say his
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  Speaker 2: name because it's not worth mentioning.
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  Speaker 1: It really isn't. I'm trying to make my way down
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  Speaker 1: there on Friday, too, right after the show, just to
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  Speaker 1: see you. I love you so much.
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  Speaker 2: It's sad to hear you're not coming today.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can reach out to Blakeman and see
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  Speaker 2: if he's really coming today, it would be great.
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  Speaker 1: He's on after you. He's literally on the show right
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  Speaker 1: after you, so I'll ask him right on air. And
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  Speaker 1: I was coming with Bruce, but the president and Dallas
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  Speaker 1: is in the wedding. So give me the exact deal,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening today, what time. I know it's at City Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Give me all the specifics.
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  Speaker 2: So family members will be on the steps of City Hall.
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  Speaker 2: We're all going to speak a little bit about this
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  Speaker 2: whole ceremony thing and him coming, where you will bring
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  Speaker 2: the petition into City Hall, signed letter stating that he
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  Speaker 2: takes a day off, maybe goes to the beach. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you're actually going to bring the petition into
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  Speaker 1: City Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to bring the petition.
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  Speaker 1: Are they going to let you do that? Are they
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  Speaker 1: going to stop you from doing that, the mayor's people?
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  Speaker 2: No. Areola's office set up the press conference, which was great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've been a lot of help, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: be on the steps. And we wrote a letter. I
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  Speaker 2: signed the letter, and we're going to present it with
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  Speaker 2: the petition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Joanne Areola, my council lady, and Phyllis Inserello, who
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  Speaker 1: works with her, have both been great. In fact, Phyllis
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  Speaker 1: was the one who gave me your number in the
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  Speaker 1: first place and contacted me about this, and Jack Joyce. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got any other politicians that will be showing
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  Speaker 1: up today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have some other council people. We have Yana Kanikovic,
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  Speaker 2: the sponsor. She's coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Ina Vernikov, yes, from Brooklyn, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And also some other councilmen that Walter had spoken to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know their names. And it's Blake. Blake then comes.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to have Donahue there from the church.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Bill Donahue, that's right. He actually promoted on his page.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be there with him. I'm sorry I won't, but
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  Speaker 1: he's a great guy, Giovanni.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the group, the Jewish Hate, we're doing the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish Hate.
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  Speaker 1: And Jewish Hatred, right, with Brooke Goldstein.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing that tonight as well. I'll be at this
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  Speaker 2: press conference at 6 o'clock. Good. So they'll be there
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  Speaker 2: for us, and we definitely will be there for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two big rallies today. Your rally first at City
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  Speaker 1: Hall this afternoon. Their rally, I believe, tonight is outside
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  Speaker 1: the DSA headquarters, right, Giovanni?
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  Speaker 2: Correct, 6 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock tonight. So it's a big day for all
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  Speaker 1: you folks. And, you know, because of you, I got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk on this show to your friend
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  Speaker 1: Michael Wolfe. He was terrific. And we had Charles Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying Mike. Mike Wolf was a bear. He's
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  Speaker 1: a bear guy. He wrote bear books about Trump. Charles Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And Jeanette Pick. Jeanette Pick was on this show, too.
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  Speaker 1: I asked Jeanette Pick. At the end of the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: I said, her father, Joseph, was murdered that day. I said,
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  Speaker 1: just tell me the truth, you know. Do you want
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  Speaker 1: the mayor to be there? We're going to play this, Lou,
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  Speaker 1: because she puts it perfectly. Cut number eight. This is
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  Speaker 1: your friend, Jeanette Pick, Giovanni, telling me how she feels.
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  Speaker 1: Should the mayor be there or not? Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, we don't want you there. When I say we,
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  Speaker 3: I mean myself and the almost 90,000 people who have
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  Speaker 3: signed the Change.org petition. I don't know how else we
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  Speaker 3: can say this to you. We've gone to the media. We've,
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  Speaker 3: you know... had a petition started. Literally, Scott Lobato put
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  Speaker 3: it in skywriting. I don't know how much clearer we
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  Speaker 3: can tell you. We don't want you there. Like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I don't, like, what don't you get?
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  Speaker 1: What don't you get, your friend?
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  Speaker 2: She put it in simple terms. If he doesn't understand it,
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  Speaker 2: we have to, you know, I guess translate.
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  Speaker 1: It for him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What if the mayor actually today kind of steps out
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  Speaker 1: and makes an appearance? I mean, are you prepared for that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I don't need to talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: You can come out and do whatever he wants. Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's his, it's his place of work. It's not mine.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're, we're just family members, regular citizens,
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  Speaker 2: just asking politely. That's all we could really do, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this whole thing going back and forth is
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  Speaker 2: kind of childish in my eyes, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you've been a gentleman the whole way. I mean, you're, you're,
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  Speaker 1: you got an amazing temperament. I imagine behind closed doors,
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  Speaker 1: you may be a psycho, but, What time does this
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  Speaker 1: event start today, Giovanni?
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  Speaker 2: Twelve o'clock. Twelve o'clock. We're going to miss you, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to miss you.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm going to miss you guys, too. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: thinking about you the whole day. And really, the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that could have kept me away was President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And even that, I feel bad about.
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  Speaker 2: I would have went with President Trump as well.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sad that President Trump is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be there, Fadi? J.D. Vance will be there, the vice president,
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  Speaker 1: but no Trump. Are you sad about that?
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  Speaker 2: I am, but he has to do what he has
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  Speaker 2: to do. You know, I don't hold it against anyone. Look,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, this ceremony is really
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  Speaker 2: for us. It's not for the politicians. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: great that they pay their respect. But, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: individual that wants to come and we don't want there,
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  Speaker 2: it's a different story. You know, we all know what
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  Speaker 2: he's done, what he believes in. You know, he says
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  Speaker 2: he supports, he loves New York. But if you love
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  Speaker 2: New York and you love America, why would you want
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  Speaker 2: to change its way of life? Why do you want
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  Speaker 2: to give free shit out? It doesn't make sense. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: is ever free. And if he doesn't know that, and
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  Speaker 2: I always say it, I have a good friend in
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  Speaker 2: Italy that has businesses, very wealthy. He always says to me,
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  Speaker 2: if you at 20 years old have not learned that
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  Speaker 2: communism is bad, you haven't learned... Fucking thing. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Your friend in Italy is a very, very smart guy
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  Speaker 1: over there, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Very smart.
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  Speaker 1: Very smart. So have you ever, Giovanni, read the names
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  Speaker 1: during the service there? Do you have any responsibilities coming
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  Speaker 1: up this Friday?
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  Speaker 2: No, I've read the names before. It's very nerve-wracking. This
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  Speaker 2: whole thing for me is nerve-wracking, but I don't like
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  Speaker 2: being the center of attention.
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  Speaker 1: Right. No, I see that. No, I see that.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had a different personality like you.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not patronizing you. You say that. You come
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  Speaker 1: on the air, and you're terrific. You really are. You
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  Speaker 1: know why? Because you're just being real. You're just being authentic,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what people love. They want authenticity and originality.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. They don't care about the sound great or
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  Speaker 1: use every word correctly and all that nonsense. You're great.
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  Speaker 1: You come on, and people love you. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get text messages all the time you're on this program.
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  Speaker 1: So you have read the names before. But no responsibilities
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  Speaker 1: this Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Not this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: What time do you get down there, usually?
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  Speaker 2: We usually leave Staten Island. We take the ferry, and
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  Speaker 2: we're there by 7.30.
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  Speaker 1: When you say we, I have to imagine there's a
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  Speaker 1: ton of people leaving from Staten Island that morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a group of people that have been going
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  Speaker 2: for a while together, and we used to have a
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  Speaker 2: bus service that used to take, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: about 60, 70 people at a time. There's two or
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  Speaker 2: three buses that would leave the mall, but that stopped
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  Speaker 2: a while ago. But now we just we get together,
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  Speaker 2: we meet by the ferry and we go in. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then when it's all over this ceremony on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: usually the last 24 years, I have to imagine you're
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  Speaker 1: exhausted and just hearing your wife's name and going through
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  Speaker 1: those emotions all over again. I got to think Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: you're wasted, right? Just exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of, your body temperature goes down. You
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  Speaker 2: kind of start thinking about the past more and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: crazy things that happened. I mean, for me, I told
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  Speaker 2: you the story, you know, I was there and the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing happening in front of my eyes just felt
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  Speaker 2: like I was in, you know, my body. I was
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  Speaker 2: out of my body and I was in a movie
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  Speaker 2: kind of. So it's a weird experience. Yeah. I never
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  Speaker 2: miss it for anything. I go every year. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter even if I would live in Europe, I'd still
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  Speaker 2: come to do this. You know, it's something in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: And every year, me and her family, we celebrate her
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  Speaker 2: birthday on August 2nd. We try to go to the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, memorial, but sometimes we can't get there at
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  Speaker 2: this point. Her parents are a little bit older and
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  Speaker 2: her sister and her brother can't get too far away.
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  Speaker 2: They need to be there for them. And we let
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  Speaker 2: balloons go. into the sky for her birthday and her remembrance.
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  Speaker 1: Did, um, I know there's a big memorial on Staten Island.
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  Speaker 1: Cause again, you mentioned you lived there. Yeah. Did, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the borough president beautiful seller reach out to you to
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  Speaker 1: invite you to that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I, um, sometimes I go to the one in
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  Speaker 2: angel circle. I get stuck in the city sometimes cause I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I kind of hang around and linger and
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  Speaker 2: want to just soak it in. Yeah. Um, yeah. But,
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  Speaker 2: You know, today is going to be a little different
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  Speaker 2: because I have interviews with certain people, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to get to that other press conference as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to go back to Staten Island.
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  Speaker 1: You're just going to stay in the city all day, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No, I'll stay in the city.
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  Speaker 1: You'll go for a nice lunch maybe? I'll get you
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  Speaker 1: a hotel room if you want. What do you need?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: You sure? I'll get you whatever you want. You sure?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm great.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going for lunch? You want to go
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  Speaker 1: for a nice lunch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. We'll send you out to lunch. Justin, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to send Giovanni out to lunch. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: put you on hold. You're going to tell Justin where
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  Speaker 1: you want to go, and we'll pick it up for you, okay?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: No, I want to.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's okay. I want to. 12 o'clock on the
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  Speaker 1: front steps of City Hall, 6 o'clock tonight, and Jew Hatred,
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  Speaker 1: the headquarters of DSA, and you, Giovanni Galante, will be
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  Speaker 1: at both of those. Anything else you want to say?
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  Speaker 1: This will be... The last time he'll be on before, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: until next year. Anything else you want to say to
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  Speaker 1: the listeners out there, your wife or anything?
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  Speaker 2: I just ask for everyone to pray for us, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully everything will go our way. Maybe he'll change his mind.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope so. You did an amazing job either way,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure the overwhelming majority, Giovanni, overwhelming majority of
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 families are proud to know you. I know I am, so.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Giovanni.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, stay on hold. We'll get your information, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck today. Giovanni Galanti right there, who started the petition,
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  Speaker 1: now over 100,000 strong. What the heck is going on here?