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Bo Dietl | Red Apple Media Podcast Host Delivers Special 9/11 S&FIM Rant Ahead of Friday's 25-Year Commemoration · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So, Bo, I'm following in my uncle's footsteps, the great
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  Speaker 1: cop Uncle Bo, the great Bo Dietl. They love this
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday segment, so here he is. And Bo was around
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  Speaker 1: us quite a bit during those 9-11 days with Imus.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, again, as I said, I think he worked
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  Speaker 1: with those steel beams on the World Trade Center. So
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  Speaker 1: good time to have you on this morning, three days
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  Speaker 1: before the 25-year commemoration. How are you, Bo? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be a little more solemn today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go crazy because it's 25 years
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  Speaker 2: of remembrance because we got to always remember the victims
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  Speaker 2: that are not here and the people that are very
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  Speaker 2: sick from this. So we're going to bring this to
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  Speaker 2: a very solemn type thing. But at the end, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you where we are 25 years later.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget that morning. Now, you got to understand something.
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  Speaker 2: I worked as a concrete contractor. laborer in the local 6A,
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  Speaker 2: concrete labor. Then Ralph Scopo, yep, the gangster guy, told me, Bo,
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  Speaker 2: call me Black Mike down at the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 2: They got two towers coming up there. I could get
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  Speaker 2: you on a permit as an iron worker. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell does an iron worker do? He goes,
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  Speaker 2: you get a stud wrench, you become a connector, you
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  Speaker 2: connect the beams. So I went down there and I
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  Speaker 2: worked down there and made a lot of money. I
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  Speaker 2: bought a brand new Corvette and I was down there
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  Speaker 2: And I became an eye worker. So the morning of 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget, I had my convertible Mercedes and I'm
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  Speaker 2: driving on the Long Island Expressway. I hit the top
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  Speaker 2: of the viaduct before I go into the Midtown Tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden I saw smoke. And
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  Speaker 2: it said a small Cessna hit the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually was armed with Imus, some part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I went on air with Imus. I said, she's smoking.
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  Speaker 2: And the next thing I saw, I didn't see the
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  Speaker 2: plane hit, but the explosion was half the size of
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  Speaker 2: the other tower. And I said, oh, my God. Then
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  Speaker 2: you realize what it was. So I go down to
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  Speaker 2: the Midtown Tunnel, they close the Midtown Tunnel, I show
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  Speaker 2: my badge, I go through there at 90 miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: My offices were the Daily News building at 228 42nd Street.
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  Speaker 2: So I used to wear, I wear a suit every
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  Speaker 2: day with a tie, you know that. So I'm there
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden we're at my office, we're
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  Speaker 2: looking downtown. Now we're hearing. The next thing is everybody
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  Speaker 2: in my office starts screaming. The tower, the one tower imploded.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, oh, my God. So Mike Cirovola was
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  Speaker 2: the president of my company at that time. I said, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to get down and we've got to help people.
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  Speaker 2: So we went to the Army and Navy store in
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  Speaker 2: Second Avenue. We bought NYPD sweatshirts and dungarees and construction boots.
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  Speaker 2: And we shot down there. And I'll never forget, people
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  Speaker 2: don't remember, when that plume was up there after those
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  Speaker 2: buildings came down, it was like it was nighttime down
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  Speaker 2: there because of the dark plume when you rode in there.
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  Speaker 2: So now we get on the site. These towers are down.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew what they were doing. It was really crazy
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  Speaker 2: down there. So all of a sudden, we were using
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  Speaker 2: handkerchiefs over our noses. Now, as an iron worker back then,
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  Speaker 2: I remember we sprayed those beams with that stuff, the asbestos.
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  Speaker 2: That only came out in 1973 was when they banned it.
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  Speaker 2: But we had sprayed asbestos on those beams, and they
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to remove it. And a lot of contracts
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  Speaker 2: went by the wayside, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't remove it. And then snaggled, the other snaggled tooth,
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  Speaker 2: the governor said, oh, the air is good. I went
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  Speaker 2: on radio, and I was on CBS radio. I said,
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  Speaker 2: anybody down here that has asbestos, cover your face. So
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  Speaker 2: now when we get down there, the towers were down already.
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  Speaker 2: And the next thing is Tower 7 came down. And
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  Speaker 2: we're climbing all over the— there was a pile of bent steel, everything.
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  Speaker 2: But there was smoke coming up all the way on
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  Speaker 2: the end. And I'm crawling around with a little flashlight
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  Speaker 2: in my hand. And I'm saying, is anybody down there?
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  Speaker 2: I figured maybe someone wrote it down. There was really
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  Speaker 2: nobody to be saved. I'll get to the last two
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  Speaker 2: people that I remember that were saved. And I went,
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  Speaker 2: I crawled over to the edge. I looked over, there
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  Speaker 2: was a fire. And I realized what hell must look
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  Speaker 2: like because the fire was raging from deep down. And
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  Speaker 2: then I crawled back and I'm just yelling, is anybody there?
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  Speaker 2: Can I help somebody? So we went back onto the
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  Speaker 2: sidewalk with the crew of firemen and cops. And then
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  Speaker 2: there was two people that were alive still, was a
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  Speaker 2: support authority sergeant and a port authority cop. And then
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  Speaker 2: we went on.
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  Speaker 1: They were alive in that rubble? Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. A Port Authority sergeant, a Port Authority
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  Speaker 2: cop were deep down in there. And the real heroes
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  Speaker 2: were the NYPD emergency service and the fire department emergency service.
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  Speaker 2: We were lowering guys down into this hole where they
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  Speaker 2: didn't know where the hell they were going. And we
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  Speaker 2: were part of passing oxygen and water. And we were
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  Speaker 2: the passing gang. And we stayed on that. The sun
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  Speaker 2: came up. And then I'll never forget that. Did we
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  Speaker 2: got those two guys out of there alive? They live.
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  Speaker 2: And the next thing is that when this all happened,
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  Speaker 2: we stayed down here for a couple of days and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Servo and I, and then I miss called the
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  Speaker 2: days to come. He wanted to thank the first responders
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  Speaker 2: and Mike Piazza. We brought a lot of people down here,
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  Speaker 2: but people cannot, cannot forget 25 years. And that, when
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  Speaker 2: I see, you know, now we're going to go, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to kick into 25 years later that, uh, You
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  Speaker 2: have only 20% of the people in New York City
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  Speaker 2: that were present on September 11, 2001. They all moved
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  Speaker 2: out or they passed away. 80% of these people now
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  Speaker 2: are people that are from other states, legal, illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we have right now. And they're spending all
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  Speaker 2: this money supporting all these people. And here's a big one, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: Only two states legally require that 9-11 be taught in
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  Speaker 2: the public schools. You know, what they're doing is they
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  Speaker 2: twist these lessons. Now they're downplaying to this bullcrap Islamic
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  Speaker 2: phobia and the real tragedy. Then you got only the
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  Speaker 2: two states, Arizona and Florida, mandate that the 9-11. Then
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  Speaker 2: you got this fat pig, George Commie Soros, and his
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  Speaker 2: extremism there. And they're saying that 9-11 occurred because America
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  Speaker 2: has Islamophobia.
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  Speaker 1: They blame us.
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  Speaker 2: They support.
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  Speaker 1: They blame us, and they blame Israel, too. They blame
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  Speaker 1: America and Israel for 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: Here's very important for people to understand. They said this
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  Speaker 2: was caused by U.S. support, like you just said, with Israel. Also,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying that America was the colonizers, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: these attacks happened. And these scumbag college professors are teaching
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 was... our fault that's why it all happened they
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  Speaker 2: don't talk about that scumbag osama bin laden and al
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  Speaker 2: qaeda that's not taught and that right now 25 years
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  Speaker 2: later you have a whole generation of kids that don't
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  Speaker 2: even have a clue what happened on 9 11 and
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  Speaker 2: it's not being taught in our schools because you know
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  Speaker 2: why now it's shifted around to the scumbags and when
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  Speaker 2: you got a mayhem on dummy Really showed again who
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  Speaker 2: he is with that aid. Raz me, Raz me, Cassie me,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the hell. He's a former lawyer there. And when
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing happened with our police commissioner, that was
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  Speaker 2: the smirk. That was the smirk on his face to
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  Speaker 2: his other scumbag people out there where he actually said
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  Speaker 2: he was inspired by 9-11. Not to fight terrorism, but
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  Speaker 2: to defend the terrorists. And this guy is one of
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  Speaker 2: our officials in New York City, 25 years later, when
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  Speaker 2: all these beautiful people died and people are dying every day.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you, Mondavi? I might be going down to
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  Speaker 2: the 9-11. I may be going with our friend Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But I guarantee you one thing. If
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  Speaker 2: I go there, I'm going to be very quiet and
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  Speaker 2: keep my mouth shut. because of respect to the families.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to do what you want to do. You
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  Speaker 2: know what we'd like to do. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We've got to respect these families. And on top of it,
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  Speaker 2: we're facing right now a forgetful period. 25 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: we forgot all about it. Everybody was together. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: all about free-stop communism, turning our country over. We're all Islamic-phobic.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you take my country and turn it around?
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  Speaker 2: We do very good with the West Indian Day Parade.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a cop, we used to make bets.
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  Speaker 2: Two or three dead every year. We only had six
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  Speaker 2: stabbed and shot this year. They're doing good.
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  Speaker 1: But why is that? We have all these parades all
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  Speaker 1: year long, all year long. Why is it that the
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  Speaker 1: West Indian Day Parade, every year, there are stabbings and
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  Speaker 1: shootings every year? I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it right out. Gangs. You got the gangs.
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  Speaker 2: And now Mondami wants to get rid of the gang
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  Speaker 2: data list. They want to get rid of this. They
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  Speaker 2: could get these gangs and rattle and round them up.
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  Speaker 2: This is your same criminal element. And on top of it,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, New York City's safer.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, one thing, you never see this type
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  Speaker 1: of violence before the Israeli day parade. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: not to. Not to point out the difference between groups
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  Speaker 1: of people, but you don't see stabbings and shootings with
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  Speaker 1: Jews on the street before the Israeli Day Parade. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. Or St. Patrick's Day. One of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest things are these gangs. Because these little punks don't
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  Speaker 2: care about human lives, don't care about going to jail.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool. It's cool to go to jail. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what we got to thank for a low-crime thing?
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  Speaker 2: We can thank ICE, because they actually captured up 2,200
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  Speaker 2: of these scumbags, full murderers, rapists, child predators, they're bringing
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  Speaker 2: them out against all odds of the mayor and the
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  Speaker 2: governor holding their securities there. And there's 13,000 criminals, 13,000
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  Speaker 2: have been released back onto the streets by Trump. Mayor Mondami. Now,
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  Speaker 2: here's the big one. Here's the big one. Please stay
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  Speaker 2: with me. Right now, we don't understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell the people what's going on. Mondami
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  Speaker 2: here is a very smart, smiley piece of garbage. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He has 200 influencers. He pays them on the city payroll, $ 5, 000, $ 20, 000. See,
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  Speaker 2: they realize one thing. They don't have to go to
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  Speaker 2: the regular Channel 2, 4, Fox. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go there. They hit social media with all these morons
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  Speaker 2: out watching everything.
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  Speaker 1: Not just social media, but they also hit major events.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been paying attention to the U.S. Open, and
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  Speaker 1: millions do, almost every night, Mamdani's influencers make a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of assholes of themselves. But they make sure they get noticed.
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  Speaker 2: What they're doing, and people, listen to me, please listen
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  Speaker 2: to me. I'm staying in New York, what you said,
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  Speaker 2: but listen to me. They control social media. Majority of
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  Speaker 2: people now, the idiots, are getting their information from social media.
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  Speaker 2: Half of it's AI generated. All those hot chicks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're not even real. On top of it, what they're
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  Speaker 2: doing is they're sending out psychologically to people on social
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  Speaker 2: media about how good communism is and socialism. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what's conditioning our young generation. 25 years later, we're all
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  Speaker 2: forgetting about what happened. I'm not forgetting. I was down there.
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  Speaker 2: I saw families. I help people. I raised $ 300, 000 for
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  Speaker 2: the fine apartment museum on Hutchins Street. And you want
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  Speaker 2: to know something? Those firemen and those cops that ran
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  Speaker 2: in those buildings, they didn't care about their own lives
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  Speaker 2: or their families. They cared about saving people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bo. I'm sorry. That's what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get this week from Bo Dietl just now, who is
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  Speaker 1: the toughest guy you'll ever meet.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me.
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  Speaker 1: Driven to tears. Nicole Parker before him, driven to tears.
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  Speaker 1: Bo especially. Bo's just the toughest guy you'll ever meet.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what you're going to get, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I was there that day, too. And I was on
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  Speaker 1: the air with Imus that day, too, like Bo Dietl was.
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  Speaker 1: And I made the long walk. My beautiful wife, Danielle,
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  Speaker 1: her buddy, Paige Richmond, was dating a guy. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy's brother, the guy's name was Michael. His brother, I
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  Speaker 1: forget the brother's name, was in Canada Fitzgerald that morning.
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  Speaker 1: So Danielle and I, Danielle made it out of her building.
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  Speaker 1: I was very nervous. She worked by the Empire State Building.
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  Speaker 1: I said, D, you got to get out. Get out.
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  Speaker 1: And we ended up meeting on the Upper East Side
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  Speaker 1: in Paige's apartment, waiting for the phone call from Michael's brother.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know that everybody died at Canada Fitzgerald, so
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  Speaker 1: he did not make that call. And then Danielle and
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  Speaker 1: I actually walked home that night from 82nd and 3rd
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  Speaker 1: or 83rd and 2nd. We had a quick burger at
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Hole. back to Chelsea on 21st and 8th and
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  Speaker 1: walked right by that site. And I can still hear
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  Speaker 1: the whistle from the firemen's.
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  Speaker 2: This is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: And to hear scumbags talk about these ridiculous conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 1: and the building... Jim Brewer is doing that stuff now.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be very close with Jimmy, me, and Bernard,
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  Speaker 1: the comedian. He sounds like an idiot. It was terrible, man.
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  Speaker 1: And if you weren't there, just don't even talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Do the right thing and teach our kids what really happened.
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  Speaker 1: It had nothing to do with Israel. You know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: sent me this tweet. They go, I have a friend,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, all Sid does is talk about Israel.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I mention Israel twice in a four-hour show,
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  Speaker 1: and the person tunes in for that one second, that's
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  Speaker 1: all they hear, you know. Meantime, I do 90 topics
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  Speaker 1: a day, 90. But it's going to be a very
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  Speaker 1: emotional week, I can tell you that. I'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of politicians in Dallas tomorrow and Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: a lot. President Trump will be on this show on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We have him, President Trump, on Friday. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people will end up breaking down, like Bo Dietl
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  Speaker 1: and Nicole Parker just did.
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• 14:34
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?