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Sid & Friends In The Morning Honors the Life & Times of the Great Dolly Parton · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 1: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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  Speaker 3: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: he didn't make it years ago. Today, Sid forever joins
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  Speaker 3: a roll call of some of the greatest legends in
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  Speaker 3: the history of New York broadcasting and talk radio. the
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  Speaker 3: best in the business, and he's the best in the business.
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  Speaker 3: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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  Speaker 3: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
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  Speaker 3: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
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  Speaker 3: to be one of those people in the audience. And
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  Speaker 3: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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  Speaker 4: And now breaking news involving the death of music legend
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  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton. We now know her cause of death is cancer.
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  Speaker 5: Many mourning the loss of Dolly Parton, dead at the
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  Speaker 5: age of 80. Her publicist saying that Dolly died after, quote,
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  Speaker 5: bravely facing a brief battle with cancer. She died peacefully,
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  Speaker 5: surrounded by loved ones at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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  Speaker 4: Condolences coming in from presidents, colleagues and fans all over
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  Speaker 4: the world. This is Dolly's star on the Hollywood Walk
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  Speaker 4: of Fame where fans have been laying flowers.
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  Speaker 6: She was a national treasure.
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  Speaker 5: The Empire State Building turning pink at 9.25 p.m. in
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  Speaker 5: a nod to Dolly's hit movie and song, 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 4: Fans also placing flowers at the front gate of Dolly's
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  Speaker 4: home in Brentwood, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: And the flag at the White House lowered to half-staff.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump ordering all flags lowered for the next week
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  Speaker 5: to honor Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 4: And we begin our coverage with entertainment reporter Joelle Gargiulo.
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  Speaker 7: 80 years, six decades of it on a stage.
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  Speaker 8: Life is a show and the show will go on.
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  Speaker 7: You could call it a life well lived, but in
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  Speaker 7: the case of Dolly Parton, it feels like we've been
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  Speaker 7: robbed of so much time.
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  Speaker 9: All you gotta.
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  Speaker 6: Do is smile and smile.
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  Speaker 7: That's because of her spirit. It made its way into
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  Speaker 7: everything she touched, the music, movies, Dollywood, the imagination library
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  Speaker 7: that's put hundreds of millions of books into kids' hands.
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  Speaker 7: Queen of country, cultural icon, America's sweetheart. Titles she earned
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  Speaker 7: and then some. Born in a tiny mountain town in Tennessee,
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  Speaker 7: she was the fourth of 12 kids growing up in
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  Speaker 7: a small cabin. At six years old, she was singing
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  Speaker 7: in church. At 13, made her debut on stage at
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  Speaker 7: the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. She recorded more than 1,000
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  Speaker 7: songs and sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Dolly
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  Speaker 7: Parton made her acting debut in the 1980 hit comedy
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  Speaker 7: 9 to 5, opposite Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
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  Speaker 10: Working 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 7: She went on to star in other films, like Steel
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  Speaker 7: Magnolias in 1989. The thing I.
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  Speaker 11: Can say about her is all her tattoos.
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  Speaker 6: Are spelled correctly.
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  Speaker 7: Beyond the film sets and the recording studios, the bulk
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  Speaker 7: of her wealth came from her Dollywood theme park and
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  Speaker 7: the Dollywood Company. Much of it she invested back into
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  Speaker 7: the community, like her beloved Imagination Library, which to date
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  Speaker 7: has provided over 300 million books to children. To talk
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  Speaker 7: about her heart and her music, well, there simply isn't
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  Speaker 7: enough time. But let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 12: Jolene, 1973.
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  Speaker 7: The next year, I Will.
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  Speaker 8: Always Love You.
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  Speaker 13: The hits kept coming.
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  Speaker 7: And the music icon was inducted into the Country Music
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  Speaker 7: Hall of Fame in 1999. 19 certified gold, platinum, and
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  Speaker 7: multi-platinum albums, as her family said so eloquently in a statement.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all.
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  Speaker 6: She will always love you.
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  Speaker 7: Tributes have been pouring in. Dolly Parton's 9to5 co-star Jane
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  Speaker 7: Fonda writing in part, More than anyone I have ever known,
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  Speaker 7: Dolly will always be with us because she was so present,
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  Speaker 7: so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven
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  Speaker 7: into all our lives and hearts forever. Sally Field took
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  Speaker 7: to social media alongside a photo from their film Steel
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  Speaker 7: Magnolias saying, if there are truly angels on earth, then
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  Speaker 7: we have just lost one. And here in New York,
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  Speaker 7: a musical about the life of Dolly Parton has been
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  Speaker 7: planned to officially open on what would have been Dolly's
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  Speaker 7: 81st birthday. Dolly Parton was 80 years old.
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  Speaker 14: State law takes effect in New York that bans police
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  Speaker 14: departments from cooperating with ICE. Fox 5's Morgan McKay live
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  Speaker 14: in the newsroom with more on what this means for
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  Speaker 14: law enforcement agencies and how it's becoming a top issue
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  Speaker 14: in the race for governor.
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  Speaker 6: More again.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, Teresa.
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  Speaker 16: So Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman says no comment, even
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  Speaker 16: though he's facing increased pressure to dissolve his county's agreement
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  Speaker 16: with ICE. Blakeman is facing off against Hochul in the
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  Speaker 16: governor's race this year. The state attorney general's office says
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  Speaker 16: they have sent letters to four law enforcement agencies that
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  Speaker 16: are not complying with this new law taking effect. This
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  Speaker 16: includes the Nassau County Sheriff's Office and the Nassau County
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  Speaker 16: Police Department. State lawmakers earlier this year passed a package
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  Speaker 16: of legislation aimed at expanding sanctuary city protections across the state.
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  Speaker 16: This includes this new law that bans local law enforcement
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  Speaker 16: agencies from cooperating with ICE on civil immigration enforcement. Governor
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  Speaker 16: Kathy Hochul says this does not include migrants who have
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  Speaker 16: committed violent crimes. The critics of this new law disagree,
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  Speaker 16: saying that crime will only get worse. Sheriffs in at
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  Speaker 16: least two upstate counties say that they plan to sue
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  Speaker 16: over the new law. Here's Hochul and Blakeman responding to
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  Speaker 16: the recent law at a campaign rally a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 17: We'll not sit idly by when... ICE commits atrocities on
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  Speaker 17: our streets.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, shut up.
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  Speaker 17: We will not allow local cops to be diverted as
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  Speaker 17: ICE agents to conduct civil immigration enforcement. To keep crime down,
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  Speaker 17: as we have been doing, we need local police. focused
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  Speaker 17: on thwarting local crimes.
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  Speaker 18: Kathy Hochul, where do you want those guns? What neighborhood
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  Speaker 18: do you want to destroy? Where do you want those drugs?
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  Speaker 18: What community do you want to destroy? Where do you
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  Speaker 18: want those illegal.
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  Speaker 6: Migrants with criminal records to live? You want them back
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  Speaker 6: in New York? We say no!
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  Speaker 19: U.S.-Canada trade war taking a sweeping turn after President Trump
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  Speaker 19: hit Canada with 50% tariffs. Canada now striking back, imposing
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  Speaker 19: new tariffs on 700 different American goods. sold in Canada.
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  Speaker 6: Here's Rachel Scott.
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  Speaker 15: After President Trump imposed steep new tariffs on Canadian goods,
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  Speaker 15: Canada now firing back with tariffs of up to 50
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  Speaker 15: percent on some 700 American products sold in Canada.
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  Speaker 6: Canada will match the United States tariffs dollar for dollar,
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  Speaker 6: rate for rate.
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  Speaker 15: Canada doubling its tariffs on American goods, including steel, aluminum,
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  Speaker 15: furniture and clothing. Here in the U.S., President Trump's tariffs
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  Speaker 15: on Canadian goods now forcing small businesses like Jesse Prager's
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  Speaker 15: hardware store in Philadelphia to raise prices.
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  Speaker 20: 2x4 went from $ 5 up to, I think I'm now
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  Speaker 20: at $ 12 to $ 14 for one 2x4.
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  Speaker 15: President Trump fuming Canada has been ripping off the USA
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  Speaker 15: for decades. Adding, I deal with many countries and Canada
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  Speaker 15: is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. The president later posting,
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  Speaker 15: the United States is giving serious consideration to changing the
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  Speaker 15: name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Canadian officials unfazed.
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  Speaker 15: We'll always call it Lake Ontario.
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  Speaker 6: Period.
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  Speaker 15: And David, amid the president's new trade war with Canada,
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  Speaker 15: a new report shows all the tariffs that he has
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  Speaker 15: imposed on goods from other countries is really taking a
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  Speaker 15: toll on American families, costing them nearly $ 1, 100 more a year, David.
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  Speaker 21: We have breaking commitment 2026 News. Senator Darlene Graham has
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  Speaker 21: been declared the projected winner and Republican nominee in the
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  Speaker 21: special runoff election for South Carolina's U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Senate seat.
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  Speaker 22: That is according to both NBC News and the Associated Press.
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  Speaker 22: Let's take a look at the results right now where
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  Speaker 22: they stand live with 88 percent of the vote in.
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  Speaker 22: You see Darlene Graham there with 52 percent to Ralph
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  Speaker 22: Norman's 48 percent. Again, that is 88 percent reporting.
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  Speaker 21: We want to go ahead and go now to our
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  Speaker 21: Jane Robilo. She is live in Columbia with the Graham Campaign.
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  Speaker 6: Jane.
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  Speaker 23: Well, it's been a very tense night all night, Sidney
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  Speaker 23: and Nigel. Nobody really knowing where this would go. Everybody's
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  Speaker 23: been looking at their phones. But about 8.45, big eruption
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  Speaker 23: of applause and cheers when President Donald Trump posted on
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  Speaker 23: Truth Social, Darlene Graham wins, Trump endorsed candidate. And then
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  Speaker 23: just a moment ago, shortly after 9 o'clock, when the
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  Speaker 23: Associated Press declared, that made it official along with NBC.
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  Speaker 11: You know, the president got involved.
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  Speaker 6: He has that right.
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  Speaker 11: That's his prerogative.
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  Speaker 13: As I told.
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  Speaker 11: I never, well, y'all, his policies are good. I never
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  Speaker 11: understood why he got in this race to beat, you know,
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  Speaker 11: but it is what it is, and I'll accept it.
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  Speaker 10: I have mixed emotions right now. I'm still feeling grief, heartache,
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  Speaker 10: and immense gratitude. So thank you all again. During the
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  Speaker 10: past several weeks, I've been amazed at the number of
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  Speaker 10: people Lindsey personally impacted and the legacy he left behind.
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  Speaker 10: Our state and nation are much better and safer because
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  Speaker 10: of him. Thank you, Lindsey, for your service to South
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  Speaker 10: Carolina and to this country. It's just not the same
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  Speaker 10: without you here.
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  Speaker 6: You can call me a Democrat.
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  Speaker 12: It's okay.
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  Speaker 5: You can laugh with the little MAGA crowd who take
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  Speaker 5: shots at me that they'd never take to my face.
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  Speaker 12: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh at the little MAGA crowd.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know the MAGA crowd. Who's the little MAGA crowd? Oh,
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  Speaker 6: you don't.
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  Speaker 24: Who are they?
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  Speaker 12: You don't.
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  Speaker 6: Did they follow me home? I think it was a
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  Speaker 6: therapy session or something. Who's the guy you go on
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  Speaker 6: the radio with? How would you describe that guy?
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  Speaker 24: He's like this big.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like a human big toe.
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  Speaker 6: I go on all kinds of radio. Yeah, you're full.
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  Speaker 6: Now we're talking about... I stuck up for you on
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  Speaker 6: that show. Yo, please.
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  Speaker 24: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Fellas. Let me tell you something. Never stick up for
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  Speaker 6: anybody ever again.
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  Speaker 2: Look, here's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: I can't figure out what you guys are arguing about.
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  Speaker 25: I know you can't, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 6: People at home will. The late, great Dolly Parton passed
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  Speaker 6: away yesterday at the age of 80 years old. That's
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  Speaker 6: how we started today's open. And it's sad. You know,
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  Speaker 6: she was.
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  Speaker 6: Really an incredible person. You know, we spend so much
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  Speaker 6: time on this show, and I do. I'm guilty as anybody.
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  Speaker 6: People talk about, well, there's great division. We need to unite.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want it. I'm guilty, okay? I'm guilty. I
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  Speaker 6: hate Democrats. I hate them. I don't want to unite, okay?
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  Speaker 6: I want Republicans like Darlene Graham to win every race.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not about uniting. But I think we can all
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  Speaker 6: agree that that Republicans, Democrats, everybody loved Dolly Parton. Talent,
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  Speaker 6: of course. So many gold and platinum records. So many huge,
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  Speaker 6: huge hits. Not just musically, where again she started at
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  Speaker 6: the age of six, performed at the Grand Ole Opry
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  Speaker 6: at the tender age of 13. Then she became an
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  Speaker 6: actress and a good one. 9 to 5, she was
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  Speaker 6: really good. She was great in Steel Magnolias. She did more.
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  Speaker 6: But the Dolly Parton that I came to love is
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  Speaker 6: a Dolly Parton that became so willing to help everybody
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  Speaker 6: in her community. From her imagination library, over 300 million
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  Speaker 6: books to kids. Pretty intense. She had that theme park, Dollywood,
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  Speaker 6: did very, very well, but she wasn't afraid to take
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  Speaker 6: money from Dollywood to help victims of events all across Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: Let me remind you, Dolly Parton, my people fund, you
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  Speaker 6: don't hear this on the news, 2016, for six months,
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  Speaker 6: she gave $ 1, 000 per month to families who lost homes
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  Speaker 6: in those Tennessee wildfires. Then you had the flooding, Middle
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  Speaker 6: Tennessee flooding. This was 2021. She raised over $ 700, 000 for
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  Speaker 6: Smoky Mountain businesses. And then the big one, Hurricane Helene relief.
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  Speaker 6: That was 2024. She gave a million dollars of her
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  Speaker 6: own money to the Mountain Ways Foundation. And then Dollywood
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  Speaker 6: matched the million dollars. Those are three classic examples. And
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  Speaker 6: you've got more. COVID-19 research in 2020. She donated $ 1
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  Speaker 6: million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 2017, the Children's Hospital
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  Speaker 6: donated $ 1 million to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital
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  Speaker 6: at Vanderbilt in honor of her niece who beat leukemia. 2022,
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  Speaker 6: another million to Vanderbilt for pediatric research. I mean, this
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  Speaker 6: is a woman who was so part of the problem.
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  Speaker 6: She gave money to everybody at every opportunity. If there
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  Speaker 6: was a wildfire, if there was a hurricane, if somebody
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  Speaker 6: got sick, you can pretty much count on Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 6: to give you a million dollars. I've never really seen
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  Speaker 6: anything like that. Have you, Lou, over the years?
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  Speaker 27: There's not many people who have been like her in
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  Speaker 27: the world. You just think about it. There hasn't been.
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  Speaker 27: That's why the world is stopping her.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the world really did stop. President Trump with a
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  Speaker 6: true social right-of-way.
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  Speaker 27: As soon as the news is out, everybody's looking at him.
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  Speaker 6: He actually lowered the flags to half-mast. He's going to
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  Speaker 6: keep it that way for the week. Taylor Swift. Big Statement,
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  Speaker 6: Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus. On that song, what was
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  Speaker 6: the name of that song that was beautiful?
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  Speaker 27: The Light of a Clear Blue Morning.
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  Speaker 6: Light of a Clear Blue Morning.
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  Speaker 28: She recorded it a number of times. Like 77, I think,
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  Speaker 28: was the first time that came out.
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  Speaker 6: But the latest version, the one you just played, correct
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  Speaker 6: me if I'm wrong, Miley Cyrus is on that.
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  Speaker 27: Yes, Miley Cyrus is on it. Lainey Wilson's on it.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 27: Queen Latifah's on it.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 27: And Reba McEntire's on it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 28: So the first time she recorded it, she wrote a
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  Speaker 28: lot of songs with Porter Wagner.
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  Speaker 27: You know, in Out of Nashville. She was in his band.
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  Speaker 28: And I think the song actually is a reflection of
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  Speaker 28: her breakup, leaving that band. She wasn't with him, but
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  Speaker 28: I'm saying they were partners, songwriting partners. So that's where
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  Speaker 28: the origin of that song comes from. But she's written
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  Speaker 28: like over a thousand songs. songs and she sold over
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  Speaker 28: a hundred million records worldwide.
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  Speaker 9: Jeez.
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  Speaker 28: And she's just, there's nobody who has not been paying
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  Speaker 28: tributes to her in the music world.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: All the different genres too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 27: All the genres.
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  Speaker 28: She just, she touched everybody and you know, it's, it's a,
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  Speaker 28: it's a huge loss and it's very sad, but she
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  Speaker 28: impacted the world.
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  Speaker 6: She did.
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  Speaker 27: And that's for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Nolan, can you add anything to this Dolly Parton story?
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  Speaker 29: You know, the whole thing with Dollywood, you know, the
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  Speaker 29: whole idea behind it was to put it in the
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  Speaker 29: backwards where she grew up. And if you've ever been,
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  Speaker 29: and I have gone down to Pigeon Forge, which is
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  Speaker 29: where she grew.
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  Speaker 13: Up in this tiny one room house.
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  Speaker 6: Why were you there?
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  Speaker 29: Because it's a great vacation spot. It's right in the
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  Speaker 29: middle of the Smoky Mountains. It's, beautiful pigeon forge and
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  Speaker 29: they've created this entire town i mean there's tons of
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  Speaker 29: stuff to do restaurants there was nothing there before and
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  Speaker 29: she said what is the best way i can help
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  Speaker 29: these people who are down and out let's create businesses
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  Speaker 29: and so this is like a huge tourist place i
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  Speaker 29: mean i don't know how many millions of people go
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  Speaker 29: there every year but it's packed if you go for
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  Speaker 29: sure during the course of the summer and at christmas
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  Speaker 29: time and dollywood is onto its own this gigantic amusement
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  Speaker 29: park that rivals you know great adventure and some of
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  Speaker 29: the other ones across the country. So just even small
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  Speaker 29: things like that, she was thinking, how can I help out?
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  Speaker 29: She could have built Dollywood anywhere. She could have built
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  Speaker 29: it in Nashville. Nobody would have blinked.
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  Speaker 13: But she said, no, I'm going to.
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  Speaker 29: Help the people because I know how bad it was
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  Speaker 29: growing up there.
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  Speaker 13: How can I help out? And she built this empire there.
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  Speaker 6: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 28: And to see where she came from is unbelievable. A
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  Speaker 28: small cabin with like 11 siblings.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she was one of 12.
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  Speaker 27: Well, it's incredible. It's very... Very rural, very, very modest.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 27: And out of the Smoky Mountains, as Noam was talking about.
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  Speaker 6: I've been to Nashville, Tennessee. I told you guys, I
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  Speaker 6: actually went to the Grand Ole Opry. It's a great story,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm there with Scott Kaplan. I believe it was 1999,
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  Speaker 6: and it was John Daly. You know the golfer John Daly.
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  Speaker 6: He's a Tennessee guy. He was having his annual Celebrity
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  Speaker 6: Golf Classic. I remember we had breakfast that morning with
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  Speaker 6: Steve Spurrier. the old football coach. So we go to
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  Speaker 6: the Grand Ole Opry, and you talk about me sticking
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  Speaker 6: out like a sore thumb. You know, I'm wearing, like,
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  Speaker 6: tight jeans and, you know, some Brooklyn shirt. Everybody there
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  Speaker 6: is wearing flannel and boots and jean shorts, and there's
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  Speaker 6: a huge barbecue that they serve outside the Grand Ole Opry.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: And I'm enjoying myself. I loved it. Then we went
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: in to see the concert, and it was a very
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: big deal. Now, we're talking 25-plus years ago. They had
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Vince Gill. And at the time, Vince Gill was a
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: monster superstar.
• 18:08
  Speaker 12: Monster.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: So we were sitting there watching Vince Gill. And at
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: the time, I did not like country music. So I
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: had no idea about any of these songs. I'm sitting there.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: I was having a good time, but certainly not my thing,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: you know. And at one point, Vince Gill calls a
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: lady up on stage, and they do a duet together.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: And I turn over to my buddy Scott Kaplan, my co-host,
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: and I say, wow, these two, he's banging her, right?
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: He goes, sit, sit, sit, stop, stop. He's married, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: she's a gospel singer. I go, okay, I don't know.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. She's a gospel singer. She sings about Jesus.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: She's not having an affair with Vince Gill. I go, Scott, okay,
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: take it easy. Calm down. It just looks to me
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: like these two are a little above and beyond the
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: singing stage. Turns out that lady was Amy Grant, and
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: I was right. Vince Gill was banging her. Turned out
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: to be a huge story. One of the biggest controversies
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: in the history of country music. And guess who nailed it?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Big Sid. All over it, Noam. I could tell right away.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Right away.
• 19:13
  Speaker 27: Big country fan that you are.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Big country fan I am now. Now I love country music.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: They are the best Americans of any genre by miles.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: It's not even close, Noam, is it?
• 19:26
  Speaker 22: No.
• 19:27
  Speaker 24: Right?
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: Yeah, they're just unbelievable, actually.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Who's your favorite country music star?
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: Johnny Cash.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Johnny Cash!
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: Easily, that's an easy one.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: Anybody who's alive?
• 19:40
  Speaker 29: I'd have to think about that. I hear it, but
• 19:43
  Speaker 29: I don't know who all the artists are. I'll listen
• 19:45
  Speaker 29: to it on SiriusXM.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Jason Aldean? Yeah, sure. Luke Bryan? Yeah, why not? What's
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: the name of that young girl who sings that Texas song?
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: I love that song.
• 19:54
  Speaker 27: Oh, Ella Langley.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Ella Langley? You like her, no? Yeah. You could pick
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: one of a lot of, could you know?
• 19:59
  Speaker 29: No, but I'll listen. I just don't know who the
• 20:01
  Speaker 29: artists are. I'll put on the station, listen to the music.
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: I don't even know anymore who wins the Artist of
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: the Year. I knew a couple years ago, like Jason
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Aldean won it two or three years in a row.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: You guys remember that. But then since then, I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: know either. But at any rate, it's a terrible loss.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: And Dolly Parton, rest in peace, gone at the age
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: of 80. So we started the Open with Dolly. We
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: ended the Open with Chris Cuomo. And Bill O'Reilly's right.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: How many times, Norman Liu, has Bill O'Reilly defended Dolly?
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Chris Cuomo on this show. A bunch.
• 20:35
  Speaker 27: A lot.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Because part of my introduction to Bill every week is
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: he was the best. He still is the best. He'll
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: always be the best. I mentioned Bill O'Reilly.com. I mentioned
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: all of his books. And then I always say every week,
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: but maybe Bill O'Reilly's greatest accomplishment is he has somehow
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: made Chris Cuomo relevant on News Nation. Because as far
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: as I'm concerned, Chris Cuomo's a moron. And O'Reilly's like, no, no, no,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: he's not Sadie. Look, he's a Democrat. He is what
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: he is, his father, his brother, and he's always making
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: excuses for them. So they're on this show together. It's
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: not Chris's show. It's the guy Leland. I think he's
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: on at 10 o'clock at night. Leland Vittert. And Leland,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: who I like, I've met him, did a terrible job
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: in this interview. Terrible job. O'Reilly and Cuomo going back
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: and forth. Leland clearly has no idea what they're talking about.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Or the fact that it was me. And he keeps
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: jumping in. What are you guys talking about? It's like
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: a therapy session. Leland, shut up. Okay? The biggest stars
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: on the show are Chris and Bill. Let them talk.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Let them get through their two minutes of back and forth.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Then you jump in. But in that little cut I
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: played there, Noam, Leland jumped in about ten times. It
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: was weird, no?
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: Very strange.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Very strange. Like Leland, shut up. And Cuomo was making
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: a point that, hey, man, I'm a Democrat. You MAGA
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: people want to come at me. You wouldn't say it
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: to my face. I would. Now, look, don't get me wrong.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Chris is an animal. He's an animal. He's got muscle.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: He's got veins popping out. He does like karate and
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: all this stuff. And odds are, I'll admit this. Chris
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Cuomo would probably kill me. But that wouldn't stop me
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: from going at him. And for years, we've been doing this.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: You know, this dates back, guys, to January of 2023.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: You remember the story. My house got damaged. The water,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the pipes burst. So we were staying in a hotel
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: in New York City. Ended up staying in hotels and
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: apartments for the better part of six months. Me, Danielle,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: and Gabe, Ava was in college. So one night I'm
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: walking out of one of the hotels you were staying in,
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: the first one, which was by the U.N., and it
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: was like New Year's Eve. I had just seen Flavor
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Flav inside my hotel.
• 23:01
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, boy. So I walked down the block outside.
• 23:05
  Speaker 27: One of Norm's faves, by the way.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: I know. I love Flavor Flav. And I see Chris Cuomo,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: and we shook hands. It was a very friendly conversation. Very.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. Oh, you
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: look great. Hey, you look great. That's the end of it, okay?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: So then about a week later, we come back from
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: vacation after New Year's. This is now 2024, early 2024.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: And I asked Chris to come on the show. We'll
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: talk about his CNN stay. We'll talk about his brother,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: his new gig at News Nation, and how him and
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: I actually had a very friendly encounter in the street.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: And right away, Cuomo on the text is like, you
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: know what, man? Now I know who you want. You're
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: lucky I didn't punch you across the face. Shut up, Chris.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Shut up, okay? What are you, a five-year-old? Punch me
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: across the face. Stop it, okay? But he goes on
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: and on. And you remember, Lou, the texting was nonstop.
• 24:03
  Speaker 27: A lot.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Like a maniac. And at one point he goes, I
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: tell you what, big mouth Sid, how about I fight
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: you for a million dollars? How about your rich boss,
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: John Katsimatidis, puts up a million dollars for The winner
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: gets to put that money towards a charity, and I'll
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: fight you. So Cindy Adams, the most famous gossip columnist
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: of all time, writes the story in the New York Post.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: You remember that, Lou, don't you?
• 24:31
  Speaker 24: Of course.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: It dates all the way back to January 29th of 2023,
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: not 24. That's how many years ago this was. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: I don't talk to this jackass. I see him on
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: TV with O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith once in a while.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: But he's a moron.
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: I'm sorry.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: But now you can't make this up. Now, I read
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: this morning in the New York Post that Barry Weiss,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: who I happen to like, you know that, no? Who
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: I think may save CBS and CBS News. She's the
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: only person, I believe, at any major network who has
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: a plan. She is actively and enthusiastically pursuing Chris Cuomo.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: So if you're CBS, And Chris Cuomo was canned by CNN,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: he's suing him, for acting like a complete idiot throughout
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: the whole COVID deal with his brother Andrew. Now he's
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: working at News Nation. He makes a decent salary, I
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: know that. But if you're CBS and you're Barry Weiss,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: and you are trying right now to bring credibility back
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: to CBS, no, Chris Cuomo's the guy you hire.
• 25:40
  Speaker 29: No, I mean, don't forget that he was the one
• 25:44
  Speaker 29: breaking journalistic ethics ethics when he was advising his brother when.
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: He was accused of you know those women were accusing him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 29: Of sexual assault he was advising them and then bringing
• 25:54
  Speaker 29: them on a show and not mentioning that behind the
• 25:56
  Speaker 29: scenes he was pricing them so that's true yes i
• 26:00
  Speaker 29: i i didn't seem like the wrong guy to bring
• 26:03
  Speaker 29: in but She obviously sees something we don't see.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Well, here's what you see. He's a good-looking guy. And
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I watched on the clip last night. He's a good-looking guy.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Very good-looking, okay? Very good-looking. And he can speak. He's
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: not a dummy. There was a time I thought when
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I was at ABC many, many years ago when I
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: thought he was pretty good. He just let the politics
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: completely erode any credibility he's got. And he likes to
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: play it both sides sometimes. But he does get eyeballs.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: He's a good-looking guy. And that's what Barry Weiss sees, right?
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, how many people on these news shows, on networks,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: why do you think David Muir does well? You think
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: David Muir's a genius? Nah, the ladies watch him at night.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: They think he's cute. I don't, but they do. That's
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: why he wins the ratings war on ABC. Who was
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: on NBC these days? I don't even know. But he
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: was beating Lester Holt. He was beating him. And whoever
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: CBS has on, he's a nice guy, that guy Tony.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: He's also a handsome guy. But that's what Chris Cuomo
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: offers you. The Cuomo name, the good looks, a lot
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: of years of experience. Barry Weiss seems to like him.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: That's the story. But I don't know. Somebody just texted me,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: looks like Chris Cuomo was taking too many peptides. It's
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: kind of funny. So Cuomo was... Telling O'Reilly that your
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: friends wouldn't say it to my face. I'll say it again, Chris.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: I would say it to your face. I don't care.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I think you're a jackass. I really do. But, to
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: your credit, you've been able to stick around. And if
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: you get a job at CBS, trust me, I'll be
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: the first one to give you credit.
• 27:41
  Speaker 29: I wonder if he put that story out there. Is
• 27:44
  Speaker 29: she publicly speaking about it?
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Well, she would come out and say, Barry Weiss is
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: not the type. to have a story. Now, if she
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: comes out, that is in today's paper. So Barry can
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: come out tomorrow and say, I don't know what Chris
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: is talking about, but she hasn't done that. So my
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: guess is, I'm not lying about that, Barry Weiss in
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: hot pursuit of Chris Cuomo for CBS News, why snagging
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: him might not be so easy. And the Post goes
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: on to say the issue is, is that the CNN
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: lawsuit is a problem. Russ Sullivan checks in, the amazing
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: brother of Mike Sullivan, Secret Service, somewhere between Virginia and Maryland.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: He says Chris Cuomo is proof that Sid Derangement Syndrome, SDS, exists.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: They need a sixth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-6,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: of mental disorders for Chris. Are you inside his head
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: or what? I guess I am. I don't know. I'm
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: inside a lot of people's heads. Cuomo, Mamdani, Lewis. Lewis
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: can't stop thinking about me.
• 28:52
  Speaker 27: All the time.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Why is that?
• 28:53
  Speaker 27: Pretty much at inopportune times, too, when I, like, get out.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Kind of gay, bro. No?
• 28:58
  Speaker 27: No, that's one way to look at it. I would actually,
• 29:01
  Speaker 27: maybe it's an honor.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: It is an honor. We had a lovely dinner last night,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: the Sorrentinas. We celebrated Lou's significant other, MJ's, birthday. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: don't give the age for women. Just know that her
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: and I are neck and neck. So Lou, MJ, me,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: and my beautiful wife, Danielle, the four of us had
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: a great dinner and a really nice time last night.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Great dinner.
• 29:21
  Speaker 27: Les Sorrentino is amazing.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they do a great job, John and Joe. It
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: was fun. A lot of fun on a Tuesday night, Noam,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: and sorry you weren't there.
• 29:30
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: But you weren't invited.
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: I was waiting for my invite, yeah.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Billy Lou was not a huge fan of yours.
• 29:37
  Speaker 27: Well, Gnome's not in my head as much.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: No, apparently not.
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: I guess I would have been invited if I had.
• 29:41
  Speaker 27: There is room, though.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: There is room.
• 29:44
  Speaker 28: I mean, I don't have a lot going on, really.
• 29:47
  Speaker 27: You need to take some space. You're welcome.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: You know what's funny about that? When we first got
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: to the restaurant, they had a table of eight. I go, eight?
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Who are these other four people? And they go, no, no, no.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: It's only six. I go, six? That's too much. Who
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: are these other two people? Like, I never see Lou
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: talking to anybody else.
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: Ever.
• 30:06
  Speaker 27: So that surprised you?
• 30:08
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I know he goes to the northern part
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: of the state to go see MJ's family in some
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: pedumptious town in upstate New York. But otherwise, I never
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: see Lou talking to anybody. Who are these people coming
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: to dinner tonight?
• 30:21
  Speaker 27: Well, I do have friends.
• 30:23
  Speaker 24: No, you don't.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: This is not true.
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: No.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: Give me one name. One name.
• 30:28
  Speaker 27: Why do I have to give you a name?
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: You can't do it. You can't do it.
• 30:32
  Speaker 27: I don't have to prove that I've got friends.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Give me one name.
• 30:35
  Speaker 27: You don't see me with people because of the hours.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Louie, give me one goddamn name.
• 30:40
  Speaker 27: I have my friend from college, Chris, okay? I have John.
• 30:44
  Speaker 27: I have.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: John Burns?
• 30:46
  Speaker 27: Yeah, John Burns.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: John Blum, you mean. John Blum.
• 30:49
  Speaker 27: Yeah, you didn't even get it. He's not your buddy.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: We're friends. I see him in the gym.
• 30:53
  Speaker 27: All right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: No.
• 30:55
  Speaker 28: I'm not hanging out with people every night because we
• 30:57
  Speaker 28: get up at an insane hour.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: So when are you with them? On the weekends?
• 31:01
  Speaker 23: Sure.
• 31:01
  Speaker 27: That's when I see people.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Never.
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: Never.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: This is such nonsense. Okay.
• 31:06
  Speaker 27: If you'd like to think that, that's fine.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, I could take you out of my head
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: and put them in there if you want. Noam, what
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: do you think?
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: That Lou has friends? Of course he does.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: He does?
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Can you name some of them?
• 31:19
  Speaker 13: I've never met any of them, no.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Do you have friends? I do. Oh, this is crazy.
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: I've got Chris and John.
• 31:26
  Speaker 27: Yeah, Noam knows them pretty well.
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: I do. We both, we share the imaginary.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: I guess you do. Everybody has imaginary friends named Chris
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: and John. What's going on, Noam, with Canada this morning?
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: It seems like The Canadians are not, starting with Mark Carney,
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: of course, they're not intimidated by Trump. Maybe changing the
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, these tariffs. Seems
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: like Canada is fighting back, which is not good. We
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: don't need that right now. We've got the midterms coming up,
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: the big convention in a couple of weeks. I don't
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: think it's a good time. to be messing with Canada.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: But what is the latest?
• 32:04
  Speaker 29: Yeah, so the Canadian leader is now backing down. They
• 32:07
  Speaker 29: had a press conference yesterday. They are going to, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 29: tariffs will reach as high as 50% on a bunch
• 32:12
  Speaker 29: of U.S.
• 32:13
  Speaker 12: Products.
• 32:14
  Speaker 29: It'll be fish, seafood, appliances, lumber, certain U.S.
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: Dairy products.
• 32:19
  Speaker 29: They'll also be slapped with 50% tariffs, and this is
• 32:22
  Speaker 29: expected to start on September 8th, which gives the Americans
• 32:26
  Speaker 29: and the Canadians a little room to try to come
• 32:28
  Speaker 29: to some sort of agreement. That's, you know, about two
• 32:30
  Speaker 29: weeks away. They say they didn't want to do it,
• 32:32
  Speaker 29: but they say they were forced into it, so they're
• 32:33
  Speaker 29: going to. They're going to stand up for themselves.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: Wow. So we got a legitimate war here.
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 29: And, you know, it's being felt and has been felt
• 32:42
  Speaker 29: here in New York City over the last year or so.
• 32:44
  Speaker 29: The tourism industry said they've taken a major hit. Canadians
• 32:48
  Speaker 29: are not coming to the city like they used to.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: It used to be the.
• 32:52
  Speaker 29: English were number one and the Canadians were number two
• 32:55
  Speaker 29: when it came to tourism in New York City.
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: They say the Canadians have fallen off big time.
• 32:59
  Speaker 29: So now they've started all these promotions trying to remind
• 33:02
  Speaker 29: Canadians we're not that far away, a plane ride away
• 33:05
  Speaker 29: or a drive away.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Right, right. Well, that's a big story now. It's overtaken
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Iran because not really much going on with Iran the
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: last couple of days. Or is there anything?
• 33:16
  Speaker 30: No.
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: Well, OK.
• 33:17
  Speaker 29: Pakistan says that they've had fruitful talks with Iran about
• 33:22
  Speaker 29: redoing this agreement of understanding.
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: You mean the MOU? Yeah. The Memorandum of Understanding.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: So, but, you know, how many times have we heard this? So,
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: and Iran, of course, says, no, there's nothing to that.
• 33:35
  Speaker 29: But apparently there's some sort of talk that's going on
• 33:37
  Speaker 29: between not direct talks, but talks with Pakistan as the middleman.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: All right. Let's get to local races. Darlene Graham gets
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: the win. That was getting a bit hairy, of course.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: There was that debate last week or the week before.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: where Ralph Norman brought up foreign policy and Darlene Graham said, no,
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: I don't really follow it. What do you mean you
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: don't follow it? You're running for senator. And your brother, Lindsey,
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: was such an important piece in that. Lindsey, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: for people that don't know this, he would have private
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: conversations with Bibi Netanyahu, not even with President Trump, just
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Graham and Bibi. You know, Lindsey was involved in all
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: the talks, just about every conflict going on around the world.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: So to hear his sister say, foreign policy is not
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: my thing, I don't really follow it, that seemed like
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: that may have been a death knell for Darlene. But
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: as it turns out, and I'll mention this to Brian
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: Kilmeade coming up momentarily, for you folks out there that
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: tell me President Trump is dead and no one cares
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: anymore and Tucker's got it right and MTG's got it right,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: you couldn't sound dumber. Because almost every candidate, every one
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: that President Trump endorses around the country, including Darlene Graham,
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: they win. And then when you get these backstabbers like
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: Bill Cassidy or Thomas Massey, they lose and they lose badly.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: So last night, I think, you know, Greenhome was a
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: win for Darlene Graham and a win for President Trump again.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Hard to argue that, right?
• 35:12
  Speaker 29: I think the two things playing here, of course, were
• 35:15
  Speaker 29: that she was Lindsey Graham's sister and he was beloved
• 35:19
  Speaker 29: in South Carolina. But maybe bigger last night was, yeah,
• 35:22
  Speaker 29: that stamp of approval from the president. And in a
• 35:24
  Speaker 29: place like South Carolina, that's a huge deal.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: Ralph Norman was so upset. He really was. He's like,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: why is the president getting involved in the race? That's
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: a dumb question. The president, Lindsey Graham, are like brothers.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: So that means that the president and Darlene Graham... are
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: like brother and sister. Nothing personal, Ralph, but he was
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: very upset. You can play this one more time. It
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: was in the open. This is Ralph Norman after losing
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: to Darlene Graham, questioning why President Trump got involved in
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: the first place. Lewis, cut number seven.
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: You know, the president got involved. He has that right.
• 35:54
  Speaker 11: That's his prerogative.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: As I told, I.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Never, well.
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: Y'all, his policies are good. I never understood why he
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: got in this race to beat, you know, but it
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: is what it is, and I'll accept it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: All right, good man. Big local story. We had Bruce
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Blakeman on last week. He'll be on again today. He's
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: on weekly now. And we talked about this bill that
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the governor passed, Kathy Hochul, and what this bill does.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: And I want New Yorkers to listen carefully. I got
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: a beautiful story. invitation last night from Ruben Diaz, who
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: I may bring on today at some point. I got
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: to see to a big, big breakfast tomorrow in the Bronx.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: But what this does, and I want everybody to listen,
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: not just Nassau County, but African-Americans, Latinos, all New Yorkers
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: that care about public safety. Kathy Hochul's bill will make
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: you in your communities less safe. Okay. There's been four incidents, four,
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: where ICE has had to do something they did not
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: want to do because people were in the wrong place
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: and instigating in a place they never should have been, four.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: But the amount of really bad people, murderers, rapists, pedophiles,
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: drug dealers, that ICE has arrested and deported, and by
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: the way, the amount of lost children, under the Biden administration,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: is in the hundreds of thousands, right? It's kind of
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: like when they try to equate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism. No,
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: it's not even close. Same thing here. ICE, what's gone
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: bad to what's gone good, not even close. So, Kathy
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Hochul wants to make your community less safe. What is
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: the safest way County in America? No.
• 37:59
  Speaker 13: Nassau County.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: And does Nassau County cooperate with ICE at every opportunity?
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: They do. So why would you want to change that?
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: You wouldn't want to, you would think.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: Right, but she does, and she is, because I believe
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: that bill went into effect yesterday. It did.
• 38:15
  Speaker 12: It did.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: So as of yesterday, the Nassau County Police Department, led
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: by my dear friend Pat Ryder, the Sheriff's Department, they
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: are no longer allowed... in Kathy Hochul's New York to
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: cooperate with ICE. Isn't that right?
• 38:31
  Speaker 13: It's crazy, but yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 29: I mean, she took it a step further because she
• 38:34
  Speaker 29: knows that Bruce Blakeman, of course, who she's facing off
• 38:37
  Speaker 29: against in November.
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: Is going to push back.
• 38:39
  Speaker 29: And she said anybody that stops cooperating with the feds
• 38:42
  Speaker 29: will face legal troubles from the state.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So we'll get Blakeman on later on today.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: He did not make a comment yesterday. He decided not
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: to comment, but no one comes on this show and
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: doesn't comment, so we'll get Bruce to say something. Hopefully
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: coming up at about 8.50 this morning. What else is
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: out there today, Nomi?
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: You know, there's this distressing story. Maybe you saw that
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: there was two shootings, one over the weekend.
• 39:07
  Speaker 29: It was Sunday in Brooklyn where a worker was shot
• 39:10
  Speaker 29: and killed in a chicken restaurant.
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: This kid had come in. Well, not a kid. He's
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: a 31-year-old.
• 39:16
  Speaker 29: And he robbed the place and shot the place up
• 39:18
  Speaker 29: at the same time. Well, now they say he's the
• 39:20
  Speaker 29: same guy. who was behind a shooting that took place
• 39:23
  Speaker 29: in the Bronx yesterday at a bodega.
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: And why this is a big deal is.
• 39:27
  Speaker 29: He probably should have never been on the street. He's
• 39:30
  Speaker 29: 31 years old, has 13 prior arrests.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Of course he does.
• 39:33
  Speaker 29: Back to 2010, where he was arrested for robbery when
• 39:37
  Speaker 29: he was just 14 years old. So lots to suggest
• 39:40
  Speaker 29: this guy should have never been on the streets. And
• 39:41
  Speaker 29: now he has shot three people.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: One of them is dead.
• 39:44
  Speaker 29: The two others are going to survive, thank God, but
• 39:47
  Speaker 29: none of this should have happened if this guy had
• 39:49
  Speaker 29: been behind bars.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: They got him now?
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: No, they can't find him.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: They can't find him.
• 39:52
  Speaker 13: They know who he is. It's Jesus Acosta, but they
• 39:54
  Speaker 13: can't find him.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Interesting. I did see that story. Anything else?
• 39:58
  Speaker 29: The boys of Bayonne, the Little League team that was
• 40:01
  Speaker 29: representing our area in Williamsport, the Little League World.
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: Series, they lost last night.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're done.
• 40:06
  Speaker 13: Five to two to Ohio.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're done. That's it. Nice run, though. Yeah. Congratulations
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: to Bayonne, that little league team. God bless those little kids.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Good job. What else you got?
• 40:17
  Speaker 29: The NYPD asking for help finding these two creeps who
• 40:22
  Speaker 29: attacked two synagogues in Queens, one in Holliswood, the other
• 40:26
  Speaker 29: one in Jamaica Estates. They threw this disgusting mix of oil.
• 40:31
  Speaker 29: and feces onto the steps of both of these synagogues.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 40:36
  Speaker 29: So now we have video of them, but so far
• 40:38
  Speaker 29: they've been unable to find them.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Where is this?
• 40:40
  Speaker 13: It is Young Israel of Jamaica Estates.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's where I was honored the last couple of years.
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: That's Yaakov Saron's place.
• 40:47
  Speaker 13: That is right.
• 40:48
  Speaker 29: And Young Israel in Holliswood, which is not too far away.
• 40:52
  Speaker 29: So this happened a number of weeks ago, and the
• 40:54
  Speaker 29: cops were just trying to look for these creeps on
• 40:56
  Speaker 29: their own, but unable to, so now they're releasing the video,
• 40:59
  Speaker 29: hoping somebody.
• 41:00
  Speaker 13: will recognize.
• 41:01
  Speaker 29: A meanwhile by the way young israel of jamaica states
• 41:04
  Speaker 29: they're not taking any chances uh... over the last couple
• 41:07
  Speaker 29: days they put up those big cement planters in front
• 41:10
  Speaker 29: of the buildings are worried if they're going to do
• 41:12
  Speaker 29: this or they want to drive a car into the
• 41:14
  Speaker 29: front of the synagogues and others to johnny kianek planters
• 41:17
  Speaker 29: that hopefully would prevent somebody from yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: We've seen that and not just synagogues but there's issues
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: with churches too so there's a couple of stories i
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: believe now in queens and in brooklyn of two or
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: three guys showing up with keffiyehs dressed in the garb,
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: if you will, showing up with Korans and pamphlets, and
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: videotaping people inside church. Now, one of the churches they
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: did this at happens to be the church in my neighborhood,
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: where Lou and MJ go every week, where I've been
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: to a couple of funerals already, unfortunately. It's a beautiful church.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: My son plays basketball right across the street every summer. St. Francis.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: And the father there, Father Jim, who's a wonderful guy,
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: he loves this show. He's probably listening right now. So
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: good morning, Father Jim.
• 42:04
  Speaker 27: Good morning.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: And he loves you too, Lou. He was disturbed, to
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: say the least, as was the congregation, seeing a bunch
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: of these guys, two, maybe three, I forget, wearing keffiyehs
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: and videotaping what was going on inside the church. And
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: they just left. And no one asked them, what are
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: you doing? What are you videotaping? Now, don't forget, this
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: lady that was arrested in Albany last week, who joined ISIS, right?
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: She was radicalized. She did the same thing. She was
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: going to church in Albany and videotaping. So these guys
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: do this, the church in my neighborhood, in Bell Harbor
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: and Rockaway. And I've reached out to a couple of
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: people in law enforcement. I can't say exactly the conversations
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I had. But I did. Lou was right there. And
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: we're going to work on finding these guys. And I
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: think Father Jim is going to join us on this
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: show tomorrow, yes? Yeah.
• 43:02
  Speaker 27: Well, I've already been in contact with him, and he's ready.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: Did I miss anything on that story, Lou? You were
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: there that day, I think.
• 43:08
  Speaker 28: No, I mean, MJ related it to me first, and
• 43:10
  Speaker 28: then it was in the Rockaway Times. And I think
• 43:14
  Speaker 28: they were observed, a couple of individuals.
• 43:16
  Speaker 27: One, Kefia. They were walking around the block and videotaping
• 43:20
  Speaker 27: the area. And then they went into the parish and
• 43:25
  Speaker 27: sat in the back. And they didn't make themselves known
• 43:30
  Speaker 27: right away. I think I've got it right. But they
• 43:33
  Speaker 27: were observed. And then they videotaped a little bit in there.
• 43:37
  Speaker 27: And then they got out. And they left.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Geez.
• 43:42
  Speaker 27: All right. I think he already contacted Homeland Security.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Father Jim did.
• 43:46
  Speaker 27: Yeah, Father Jim. And it's disturbing. To say the least.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: We're on it. We're on it. We're going to find
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: out who you bastards are and what exactly you guys
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: are doing, and don't do it again. Or Lou will
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: personally kick your ass.
• 43:59
  Speaker 27: I actually will.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: I know you will. You've got a lot of pent-up anger, Lou, so. Yeah,
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: that is a truism.
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: Maybe John and Chris can help.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: You in that. Your friends. John and Chris. Two lovely guys.
• 44:11
  Speaker 27: Sure, they'll be there.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: All right, seriously, these guys, we're going to find who
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: you are, and we're going to stop you and find
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: out exactly what you're up to. So we're on you.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: That's it. We're on you. All right, that's it for now.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: We've got so many great guys stopping by today. Brian Kilmeade,
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: always tremendous. He's going to join us first. We'll talk
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: to Peter King. We'll talk to Jim Jordan. We'll talk
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: to Bruce Blakeman. Who knows what else? It is the
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: Wednesday edition.
• 44:34
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• 44:38
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• 44:41
  Speaker 6: 16 days away. That's it. 16 days from the 25-year
• 44:46
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• 44:49
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• 44:54
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• 44:58
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• 45:01
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• 45:08
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• 45:14
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  Speaker 20: Robert Stock will get the start in tonight's middle game
• 46:27
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• 46:30
  Speaker 20: what will be a 7-10 p.m.
• 46:32
  Speaker 25: First pitch from Citi Field.
• 46:33
  Speaker 20: In the Bronx, Yankees went blow for blow with the
• 46:36
  Speaker 20: Astros before ultimately falling 9-7 in the opener of a
• 46:39
  Speaker 20: three-game series against Houston for a hit night for first
• 46:42
  Speaker 20: baseman Luis Garcia Jr. in the loss, an RBI double
• 46:45
  Speaker 20: that gave the Yankees a 6-5 lead at the time
• 46:47
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• 46:50
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• 46:52
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• 46:55
  Speaker 20: Bay for first place in the East.
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: They have yet to.
• 46:58
  Speaker 20: Announce a starter for tonight's middle game against Houston. First
• 47:00
  Speaker 20: pitch there, 7.05 p.m.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: It is worth mentioning the long three-run home run from
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: Cody Bellinger.
• 47:08
  Speaker 20: Yeah, 32-game homer list streak there for Cody. Obviously spending
• 47:11
  Speaker 20: half of that on the I.L.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: That gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead. Astros tied it
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: at 3. Garcia home run by three Yankees.
• 47:17
  Speaker 25: That guy rakes.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Three or four times Yankees had the lead last night.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: I did want to mention that at the restaurant last
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: night with Lou and MJ at La Sorrentina. Right.
• 47:26
  Speaker 25: Nostradamus.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Our dear friend Charlie Marino was there. And Louie met
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: Charlie for the first time. That was great. Charlie Marino
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: and his three buddies were there last night. But I
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: was Nostradamus. Yes. Because I said to Lou, 3-3, Danielle
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: and MJ are talking. I look at Lou, I go...
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: Right here.
• 47:44
  Speaker 12: 5-3.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: Did that happen? That happened. The very next pitch, home
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: run for Garcia.
• 47:50
  Speaker 25: Couldn't believe it. And then Lou got up and left.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to do that anyway.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: True story. I called it. Aye, aye, aye. Well, the...
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: What did he say? The three and a half back now?
• 48:01
  Speaker 25: Three and a half back at Tampa.
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: Indeed.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: But they're the number one wild card team.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: By a good distance. By a distance, yeah.
• 48:08
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• 48:18
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• 48:24
  Speaker 6: At the RJC. What is that? That's the Republican Jewish Coalition.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Happens to be run by my first cousin, the former
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: senator from Minnesota, the great Norm Coleman, and my friend
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: Matt Brooks. So it's a huge lineup of big-time speakers.
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: Everybody from Mike Rogers, running for the Senate in Michigan,
• 48:43
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• 48:53
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• 48:59
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• 49:03
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• 49:07
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• 49:11
  Speaker 6: think it would be good for him if he plans
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: on running in 2028. But how about Teddy Politics? My guy,
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: Ted Cruz, conversation. out yesterday and says, Forget about anointing J.D.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: Vance 2028. He's not ready. He's not ready. Brian Kilmeade
• 49:30
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• 49:33
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• 49:49
  Speaker 6: not ready. Your thoughts?
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he's running. Ted Cruz is definitely running.
• 49:54
  Speaker 30: He's got a book out with Clarence about Clarence Thomas
• 49:56
  Speaker 30: and his impact. You know, he is a judicial scholar,
• 50:00
  Speaker 30: Ted Cruz. Remember, Alan Dershowitz said Ted Cruz was the
• 50:03
  Speaker 30: smartest student he ever taught at Harvard. So, I mean,
• 50:06
  Speaker 30: that's pretty impressive.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Listen, his likability factor is not through
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: the roof.
• 50:11
  Speaker 30: His Q ratings, not the Sid Rosenberg type, doesn't have
• 50:15
  Speaker 30: that incredible smile and wonderful upper body build. You could
• 50:20
  Speaker 30: do additional leg work. We're going to talk about that
• 50:22
  Speaker 30: after the show. But Senator Ted Cruz is running, man.
• 50:26
  Speaker 30: And you know, remember, he went after Trump. He was
• 50:29
  Speaker 30: one of the toughest guys for Trump to KO. So
• 50:32
  Speaker 30: if he's in, he's not going to wilt. But if
• 50:36
  Speaker 30: he does go in, he will make, and if J.D.
• 50:38
  Speaker 30: does survive, he will make him better. And as I've
• 50:41
  Speaker 30: always told you, and I think you realize too, Rubio's
• 50:44
  Speaker 30: not getting.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: In if J.D.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: 's in.
• 50:45
  Speaker 30: They're friends. Trump is not going to be put in
• 50:49
  Speaker 30: that spot. It looks like he's going to have a co,
• 50:54
  Speaker 30: I guess he's going to be co-headlining the midterm convention
• 50:58
  Speaker 30: they're putting together.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: So I think Trump is queuing him up.
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: I think you're right. I think Trump is anointing J.D.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: and Rubio will not run. And maybe Republicans are thinking, well,
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: that's good because maybe you get four or eight years
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: of J.D. Vance, then Rubio runs. I mean, there are
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: so many names. For people running, and it's only a
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: couple of years away now. You know, it's only two-plus
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: years away now, whether it's Ron DeSantis. I know you
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: like him a lot, and he's been an amazing governor
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: in Florida. There's a bunch of names out there that,
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: you know, some of the names actually surprise me. But
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: in the end, if Trump anoints J.D. Vance, he's the guy, no?
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: He's the guy.
• 51:35
  Speaker 30: But, I mean, I don't think it's going to be
• 51:36
  Speaker 30: a Dennis Kucinich going against him. Like I mentioned, I
• 51:39
  Speaker 30: think there's other people that are going to get in.
• 51:41
  Speaker 30: For example, Josh Hawley. I think he's absolutely considering it,
• 51:45
  Speaker 30: and he's formidable. The guy really understands. He's a great speaker.
• 51:49
  Speaker 30: If you ever watch him in those hearings, man, he
• 51:52
  Speaker 30: is tough to upend. I think that's going to be somebody.
• 51:56
  Speaker 30: DeSantis doesn't want to lose again, and unless he feels
• 51:59
  Speaker 30: like he will be an overwhelming frontrunner, I think he's
• 52:02
  Speaker 30: going to wait to see if Trump's going to put
• 52:03
  Speaker 30: him in the administration where he can rehab.
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: If J.D.
• 52:06
  Speaker 30: Vance shows vulnerability, Glenn Youngkin will jump in. I don't
• 52:10
  Speaker 30: think there's any doubt about that. I put Sean Duffy
• 52:14
  Speaker 30: as a dark horse, but not to go against J.D.,
• 52:16
  Speaker 30: but if J.D. falters, look, there's a chance that this
• 52:20
  Speaker 30: guy looks around and says, you know, my poll numbers,
• 52:23
  Speaker 30: it's not overwhelming. It might not be a good Republican year.
• 52:26
  Speaker 30: I got a six-month-old at home. Maybe I'm not going
• 52:30
  Speaker 30: to do it. If something like that goes, it'll be
• 52:32
  Speaker 30: a lot of talent jumping in there, and that would
• 52:35
  Speaker 30: include Rubio. So I think that that's going to be interesting.
• 52:38
  Speaker 30: The one on the left is going to be, Absolutely.
• 52:41
  Speaker 30: I think at least 20 people think they're going to
• 52:44
  Speaker 30: be president.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: Can you name? We know the obvious ones. Kamala Harris,
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: she'll be in the mix. Gavin Newsom, I guess, in
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: the mix. AOC seems to be the leader in the
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: clubhouse right now. Anybody else that's worth mentioning, you think,
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: on the left?
• 52:59
  Speaker 30: Shapiro, Bashir, Pritzker, no question. Senator Mark Kelly, I don't
• 53:05
  Speaker 30: think there's any doubt that Kelly's running. He's getting everything together.
• 53:10
  Speaker 30: I think Rahm Emanuel, he'll be running. And I think
• 53:13
  Speaker 30: he'll keep people honest anyway. At the very least, are
• 53:17
  Speaker 30: you people crazy with these socialists? He'll be calling them out.
• 53:22
  Speaker 30: Even Hillary Clinton is so afraid of the socialists. She
• 53:24
  Speaker 30: praised them today. So I think those guys will be in.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I'm very curious if Whitmer.
• 53:30
  Speaker 30: Will run because people on the left love to do
• 53:34
  Speaker 30: different things.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Give me an Asian. Give me an Eskimo. Give me
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: a woman.
• 53:39
  Speaker 30: I want to break some barriers, some invisible glass ceiling.
• 53:42
  Speaker 30: I could see Whitmer getting some momentum or or being second.
• 53:46
  Speaker 30: So those are some of the people I think, you know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 30: we just named probably 10 just off the.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Top of our heads.
• 53:52
  Speaker 30: I think that, you know, I would not doubt someone
• 53:56
  Speaker 30: like if Hochul is successful against Blakeman. I'm not sure
• 53:58
  Speaker 30: she will, but maybe she sees herself as a presidential candidate.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, she might be that delusional.
• 54:04
  Speaker 30: People say, you know, people are impressed with the governor,
• 54:08
  Speaker 30: the governor of New Jersey.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: They're saying that she'll be on some kind of ticket,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: which is crazy.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy. You know, I was watching Jimmy Fallon
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: and Lara Trump on your network a couple of days ago.
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: They mentioned Hillary Clinton. They said, look, you know, the
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: progressives and now, of course, the DSA, the communists are
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: so whacked out. This may be an opportunity for Hillary.
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: Too old. I think she's too old, too. I agree
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: with you. You know, look, I have a lot of friends, Brian,
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: so do you, who never really were into politics. The
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: one that comes to mind right away, he's on this,
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: my show every week now. He's a WFAN legend, Joe Benigno.
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: All he cared about this guy for 65 years was
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: the Mets, the Jets, the Knicks, the Rangers, everything. And
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: he has gone so crazy with President Trump. When he
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: comes on my show, he'd rather talk about President Trump
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: than any sporting event. And he still works at WFAN
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: with Trump leaving in a couple of years. Does a
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: lot of that political interest go away? Or has he
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: set the stage for a huge 2028?
• 55:13
  Speaker 30: I think there's going to be mainstream people. I mean,
• 55:17
  Speaker 30: sports people and other people who still want to get involved.
• 55:20
  Speaker 30: Now they're really into it. For example, let's say you
• 55:22
  Speaker 30: grow up in the 80s, 70s, and you love the Dolphins.
• 55:27
  Speaker 30: When Jim Kick and Larry Zonka and Bob Greasy go
• 55:31
  Speaker 30: to the WFL and the team falls apart, that launched
• 55:33
  Speaker 30: you into football, and it kept you in football. I
• 55:37
  Speaker 30: think that Trump launched you into politics. I think he
• 55:41
  Speaker 30: keeps you in politics. Because it's going to be the
• 55:44
  Speaker 30: cult of personality. I mean, people are still saying that
• 55:46
  Speaker 30: some Democrat or Republican is going to come from the
• 55:49
  Speaker 30: entertainment world to launch themselves into politics. Politicians don't have
• 55:56
  Speaker 30: a great reputation, but politics is appealing. It's so similar
• 56:00
  Speaker 30: to sports, especially the primary season. Game plans, appearances... How
• 56:05
  Speaker 30: do you do in the interview, the tough interview? How
• 56:08
  Speaker 30: do you do at the debate? This is so similar
• 56:11
  Speaker 30: to sports and looking at numbers and crunching them.
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 56:16
  Speaker 30: I guess Kamala Harris has got three percent in New Hampshire.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: All right. It's like sports. What is she doing in
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: South Carolina?
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: First.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: OK, what is for South Carolina's first? What is New Hampshire?
• 56:27
  Speaker 12: Third.
• 56:27
  Speaker 30: So, again, how similar is this? to when we're talking
• 56:30
  Speaker 30: about Major League Baseball, when we're talking about the NBA.
• 56:33
  Speaker 30: It's very similar, and it's at the same mindset, too.
• 56:36
  Speaker 30: Performance under pressure matters. Raising money matters. Who's backing matters?
• 56:42
  Speaker 30: Those people in the stands. Now you have donors in
• 56:45
  Speaker 30: the stands. So I'm very intrigued, let alone legitimate policies. Like,
• 56:50
  Speaker 30: for example, what are you doing about China? What are
• 56:53
  Speaker 30: we doing about these trade deals with Canada? How are
• 56:56
  Speaker 30: you going to handle it differently?
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: So I just think.
• 56:59
  Speaker 30: It's very natural for a guy like Joe Bedingo, who's
• 57:02
  Speaker 30: kind of a raw guy, who won a contest in
• 57:04
  Speaker 30: order to win and has sustained a career.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: For, what, 25 years now?
• 57:08
  Speaker 30: So I think it's very natural for guys like that.
• 57:10
  Speaker 30: I know people talk to me about politics all the
• 57:12
  Speaker 30: time now, the way they used to talk to me
• 57:14
  Speaker 30: about sports. And I know you're working, Brian, but can
• 57:17
  Speaker 30: I ask you a question? I can't tell you how
• 57:19
  Speaker 30: many conversations start like that now.
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: Well, I get the same thing. I get the same
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: exact thing. You know, talking about President Trump, I've got
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: friends and they've turned on him. You know, he's not
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: America first and the whole Iran thing. And nobody cares
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: what Trump says anymore. You got to love that one.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Nobody cares, right? Like Tucker says that and MTG and
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: Candace Owens and Thomas Massey, all these losers. But yet,
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: look at South Carolina. You just mentioned South Carolina moments ago.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: He goes out there and he wants Darlene Graham to win.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: Ralph Norman, good candidate. Good candidate. And in fact, if
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: Trump doesn't endorse Darlene Graham, I'm here to tell you
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: that Ralph Norman wins today. But almost every candidate that
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: President Trump endorses wins. And almost every candidate that stabs
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: Trump in the back, Bill Cassidy, Thomas Massey, they lose.
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: And they lose badly. So don't tell me that President
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: Trump has lost his fastball.
• 58:24
  Speaker 30: No, I mean, that's the first story in the New
• 58:25
  Speaker 30: York Times today. You know, Donald Trump, now he has
• 58:28
  Speaker 30: people turning against him because you look at Canada, you
• 58:31
  Speaker 30: look at.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Different countries that made a stand against him, I guess.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: You know, how many.
• 58:39
  Speaker 30: how many other countries are going to join in the
• 58:41
  Speaker 30: sanctions against Iran. So you look at some of the,
• 58:44
  Speaker 30: I guess he blew off, some of the State Department
• 58:46
  Speaker 30: blew off some people at that Grand Prix over the weekend.
• 58:49
  Speaker 30: So people are sounding off against Trump. I think that
• 58:52
  Speaker 30: it's typical. I mean, anything, when you're done in the
• 58:54
  Speaker 30: last two years, some people are going to turn on you.
• 58:56
  Speaker 30: So he's got tremendous power. He's got tremendous push, got
• 58:59
  Speaker 30: tremendous confidence, and he knows how to leverage the country.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: To get what he wants.
• 59:03
  Speaker 30: There's still so many things that Trump's got to get done,
• 59:06
  Speaker 30: and he's got the leverage of our economy and our
• 59:09
  Speaker 30: military to do it.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: It.
• 59:10
  Speaker 30: Internally, I don't know one candidate that's going to, outside
• 59:14
  Speaker 30: Susan Collins, is not going to benefit from having him.
• 59:16
  Speaker 30: But I will say this. Got to land the plane
• 59:19
  Speaker 30: with Canada. Michigan is really hurt. I mean, Detroit needs Canada.
• 59:25
  Speaker 30: I mean, they literally are almost like another state in Detroit,
• 59:29
  Speaker 30: right over that bridge. And with the automakers, some parts
• 59:32
  Speaker 30: are only made in Canada. Now they're going to come
• 59:34
  Speaker 30: over and they've got to cost more with these tariffs.
• 59:37
  Speaker 30: So right away, you're affecting farmers and you're affecting automakers
• 59:41
  Speaker 30: in a battleground state like Maine and Michigan. So things
• 59:45
  Speaker 30: like that, I think the president would be good to
• 59:47
  Speaker 30: take that thing behind closed doors and fix it. I
• 59:50
  Speaker 30: think that I hear that we wake up today to
• 59:53
  Speaker 30: find out that We got 500 vessels that went through
• 59:56
  Speaker 30: the Strait, and the Strait might begin to get open.
• 59:59
  Speaker 30: Oman and Iran want to take credit for it, but
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 30: I hear the Oman side is open. So if things
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 30: like that happen and gas and oil drop, the power returns.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: I think you're right, and I think both of those
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: things are going to happen. Before we get to your
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: amazing lineup for your Sunday night show and the big
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: to-do in October on Long Island, the great Brian Kilmeade
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: right here. You mentioned Dallas. I'll be there. You'll be there,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: of course, a couple of weeks, a couple of days,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: a midterm convention never done before. And look, this is
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: President Trump trying to gin up the party to make
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: sure we do well. And I do say we because
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: I am a Republican in the midterms. How big do
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: you think this thing is going to be? I mean,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee was so big and so emotional because don't forget,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: literally the day before President Trump arrived in Milwaukee at
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: that RNC conference, he was shot. in Butler, Pennsylvania, walked
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: out there with a white bandage on his ear. How
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: big do you think Dallas is going to be?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Well, put it this way.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 30: Anything it generates is unprecedented because we've never had this before.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 30: We've never had a midterm convention. It's such a great idea.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 30: The Democrats thought they could do it. Then they realized
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 30: they have absolutely no money. They literally, the DNC has
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 30: got zero money and nothing but debt. So they owe
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 30: something like $ 30 million. They can't have this. So don't
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 30: let anyone say it's unnecessary. They would love to do this.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: They just don't have it. So this will be a chance.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, co-headliner J.D.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Vance.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: This will be a chance.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 30: They've already outlined it's going to be a MAGA day.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 30: It's going to be a trade day. They're not talking about.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: The Iran war at all. I think that might be smart,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: might not.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 30: You can talk about a bulked up foreign policy, especially
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 30: what he's done in Central and South America.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: But they're going to get momentum. They're going to get money.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 30: They're going to get a chance to wine and dine
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 30: their donors and get them some face time with important people.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 30: They get strategy sessions when you get together, too. Hey,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 30: what are we doing? How do we help you over
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 30: in South Carolina? What's going on with Paxson over in Texas?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 30: How do we help Sununu over in New Hampshire? There's
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 30: nothing better than getting donors with people and brainstorming.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: That's going to help.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 30: So anything they do, Sid, is unprecedented. It's not going
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 30: to be close to two years ago, though. I'm not
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 30: even sure if our show's going.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: Wow, really? Okay, well, there you have it. Let me
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: get to your show. Forget about our show, which is
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: Fox and Friends in the morning. Your amazing show, 10 p.m.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: every Sunday night. I love it. One Nation. I know
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: we're four days away, so you're still in the planning mode.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: But what are we looking at, Brian?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Very much so. Michelle Tafoya's got to be joining us, too.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 30: I think she put Minnesota in play that she's within
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 30: eight points in that left-wing position. A state that maybe
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 30: wants some sobriety. How about Mark Wayne Mullen? Unbelievable amount
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 30: of illegals.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Have been picked up. 400 criminals over the weekend.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 30: 400 criminal records pending or convictions have been scooped up.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 30: And then we have the situation in Texas where they're
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 30: trying to arrest the ICE agent that was involved in
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 30: a shooting over in Minnesota.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Will Texas give him up? We'll talk about that. So
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: that's basically what we got so far.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 30: Mark Wayne Mullen, Michelle Tafoya, because we are dealing with
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 30: this on Wednesday. I got to see what comes into play.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 30: what comes into play during the week.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: Every day is like a year in this news cycle.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: And for folks who still want to buy tickets to
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: see me act live theater Long Island with you in October,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: how easy is that?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 30: Yeah, we're going to have to go to some rehearsals.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 30: I'm bringing the crew in to around the Sid Rosenberg.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 30: We'll find a place to go over some stuff. Westbury
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 30: Music Fair, it'll be October 17th. It's going to be
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 30: around my book, United in the States, the six crucial
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 30: moments that forge the American miracle. Another reason to appreciate
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 30: where America has been. A lot of it happened in
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 30: the New York area. So I try to bring all
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 30: that to life and also tell the American story and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 30: let people fully understand how close, why we became the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 30: country we did and how close we came to not
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 30: being a country at all.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: So I've been.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 30: Doing this thing for two and a half years researching it.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 30: And it's, I'm going to get the final version in
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 30: a week. Everybody with a ticket gets a book and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 30: I'll be able to sign it to VIP opportunities before.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 30: where if I can convince you, Sid, to get out
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 30: there early, we'll have a chance to mingle with select fans.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, I love that. I'm going to do that for sure. Listen,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: you're amazing, whether it's on my show, Fox and Friends,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: One Nation, your awesome radio show that follows me every morning.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: You really are, Brian. You're an amazing guy. There's nothing
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: you don't know. I love when you come on this program, buddy.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for today, and I'll see you very,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: very soon.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: You're the best, Sid. Stay within yourself.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 12: You too.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: There he is, Brian Kilmeade. Stay within yourself. Those three
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: very important words. Brian Kilmeade coming up at 10. We'll
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: take a short break.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: The next governor here in New York working his ass
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: off traveling the state. It's like a three or a
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: four day tour. I don't even know. My dear friend
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, good Wednesday morning, buddy. How are you?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 12: We're doing great, Sid. We've had a wonderful trip. We've
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 12: been to a lot of different places, met a lot
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 12: of different people. The story is the same wherever you go.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 12: People are miserable under Kathy Hochul. They want change. They
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 12: want good jobs. They want prosperity, lower taxes, lower electric bills,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 12: safer neighborhoods. So everywhere I go, it could be in
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 12: a city, it could be in a town, it could
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 12: be in a rural area. Everybody feels the same, and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 12: that's why we're going to win.
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  Speaker 6: I think so, too. And, of course, your lieutenant governor, Mr.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: Madison County, the great Todd Hood, he's with you every
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 6: step of the way. He knows those cities, those towns,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 6: those neighborhoods very, very well. So you got a good
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: little tour guide there, Bruce, as you make your way
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: towards that northern part of the state.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 12: Well, we just spent three days together, and Todd's a
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 12: great guy. We've become really good friends. He's not only
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 12: a running mate, he's a friend of mine. We share
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 12: the same values. He's got a great wife, Kelly, great kids.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: He's got grandkids. And he looks the part of a sheriff.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 12: He's a big guy, about 6'4, 265, but one of
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 12: the nicest people you can possibly imagine. And yeah, he's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 12: showing me around a lot of rural areas up here.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 12: He tells me stories about working on the dairy farms.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 12: So we're having a really good time. But you know, Sid,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 12: There's so much poverty in this state. It's really, really
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 12: something that I have to correct as governor. We've got
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 12: to bring business into this state. We've got to build
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 12: our economy. We've got to make this a vibrant place
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 12: where young people want to grow up here and raise
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 12: a family. So we have a lot of work to do.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 12: And as I ride along the southern tier, you know,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 12: we're sitting on one of the largest natural gas reserves
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 12: in the world. And I'm talking about real poverty. And
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 12: on the other side of the border in Pennsylvania, where
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 12: they're allowed to drill that natural gas, well, they're living
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 12: in prosperity. They're driving brand new Cadillac Escalades on that
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 12: side of the border. On the New York side, they're
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 12: driving around in 25-year-old rusted-out pickup trucks. It's not right.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 12: It's our natural resource, yet we're not able to use
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 12: it because Kathy Hochul has this green energy scam where
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 12: she's scamming all of us, investing. I've been driving through
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 12: the state We have these large wind turbines. Sid, none
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 12: of them are spinning. It's like it's a joke. Then
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 12: we have solar farms that have been under snow for
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: four months. They're not producing any energy. People are making
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 12: billions of dollars off of us. And Kathy Hochul is
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 12: getting millions of dollars in political contributions.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 9: It's not right.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 12: We've got to end it. We've got to build our economy.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 12: And we've got to bring our energy supply up so
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 12: it brings our costs down.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: Couldn't agree more. I want to get back to Kathy
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 6: Hochul in a second. So I defend you all the time.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 6: Nothing you needed because you're doing very, very well. Your
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: campaign is doing great and you're going to win. But
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: every now and then somebody comes up. I know you
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 6: hear this too, Bruce. So does Peter King. Okay. This is,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: I'm not breaking news, but like Sam Antar, you know,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: that guy is Sam Antar. Well, then it's Eddie Antar.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: So he's on Twitter.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: So he goes, you know, poverty and you got black
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: neighborhoods are not doing very well in New York. Some
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: of these Latino neighborhoods. And every time I see a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman commercial, they're white people. Where are the black people?
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: Where are the Latino people? Where are the... So I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 6: got to be honest, okay? I haven't paid attention to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 6: every commercial that I've seen from you. I notice them
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: a lot in the morning because I do watch Fox News,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: and they're great. And I love the AI stuff you
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: do with Mamdani and Hochul. But I have heard that
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: complaint once or twice that not enough other people outside
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 6: of whites in your commercials. Is there any... credibility.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 12: First of all, it's complete nonsense. And second of all,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 12: I have a commercial running right now. If you watch
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 12: the Yankees, game last night, it was running on the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 12: Yankee game where Kathy Hochul said that black kids in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 12: the Bronx don't know what a computer is. Can you
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 12: imagine what a racist comment that is? How she's denigrating
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 12: young black people. So not only am I calling her
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 12: out for that, I'm explaining how I've made every neighborhood
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 12: in my county safe. I've made every person in our
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 12: county more prosperous, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, lifestyle, abilities.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 12: I've gotten a record number of African-American votes for a
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 12: Republican because they trust me. They know that if I
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 12: give my word, I keep my word. When I said
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 12: to the moms and dads in Roosevelt, New York, which
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: is a predominantly African-American and Hispanic and Latino community, that
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 12: I would finally build the park that every other politician
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 12: had promised and never delivered. I got it done in
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 12: less than a year and a half, and it's the
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 12: most beautiful park that we have in the whole county.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 12: I have done things in the African-American community, like this
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 12: week on Monday night, I'm bringing in Florida. OK, I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 12: brought in boys to men. I have increased and spread
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 12: out the type of entertainment that I have in my
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 12: summer series. We had Ja Rule. I did this because
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 12: I wanted everybody in my county to know that we
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 12: were going to celebrate every culture and every community. And
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 12: the fact is, Kathy Hochul saying that black kids in
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 12: the Bronx don't know what a computer is. That tells
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 12: you what her opinion is of black kids. And I'll
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 12: assure you one thing, Sid, and I guarantee this. There
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 12: is not one 12-year-old black kid in the Bronx that
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 12: is worse on a computer than I am. So they're
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 12: a lot better than I am. They know what a
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 12: computer is. So, yes, we actually have a commercial up
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 12: right now. And listen, they're not paying attention. I was
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 12: with over a thousand Dominicans.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 24: On Saturday night. I got an award at the Miss Dominican.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 12: Pageant. They had a pageant for celebrating women in the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 12: Dominican community that achieved very, very, very admirable things and
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 12: great things and women of stature. And I was on
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 12: Dominican television, probably over a million people in the Dominican
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 12: Republic and the United States were watching that program when
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 12: I received it. So I'm out in every community. I'm everywhere.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 12: I'm meeting with a bunch of pastors this morning. I'm
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 12: having breakfast with pastors here in Buffalo. Then I'm meeting
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 12: with union leaders. Then I'm going back to Long Island
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 12: and taking care of business there for a couple of days.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 12: So we're out and about. We're everywhere. We're in every community.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 12: Anybody who's criticizing me for that is not paying attention.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 12: Look at the AI that I have. Look at the
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 12: social media that I have. I featured a black child
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 12: who came home, and he said to his mother, I
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 12: got an A on a test. She looked at his
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 12: report card and said, son, this says you had a B.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 12: And he goes, mom, I swear I got an A.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 12: Call the school. She calls the school, and guess who
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 12: the principal of the school is? Kathy Hochul. And Kathy
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 12: Hochul says, well, your son did get an A, but
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 12: little Cindy got a C, so we wanted to make
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 12: him feel good, so we averaged it and gave both
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 12: a B. So the black woman says to Kathy Hochul, well,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 12: isn't that socialism? And she says, yes, it is. So
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 12: I'm in every community. I'm going to be a governor
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 12: for all people.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: I love it. I love it. See, that's why it's important, though, Bruce,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: that you're on this show every week, because guess what?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 6: New York One, Channels 2, 4, 5, and 7, even Newsmax.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 6: They're not going to tell the people all this. On
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: this show, you get to tell the people, look at
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: this commercial. Look what I said. Look what Kathy Hochul said.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: So this is where the real Bruce Blakeman, I should say,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 6: comes alive right here every week with me. There's also
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: a big breakfast tomorrow I want to make you aware
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: of because talking about the Latino community, Ruben Diaz loves you.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: I told you this. I called him. I cold-called Ruben Diaz,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: brought you up. He said, my community loves Bruce. We're
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: voting for him on two lines, the conservative and Republican line.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: They've got a big prayer breakfast tomorrow morning with A.L. David,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 6: who's now the new general counsel of Israel. Christians and Jews,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: this alliance, over 100 ministers, all that taking place tomorrow.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. So that may be a
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: stop for you. I don't know. Ruben Diaz.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we'll take a look at it and look at
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 12: the schedule. But Ruben Diaz is a great leader. He's
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 12: a devout Christian. He's got good morals, good values. He's
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 12: a great American. And those are the people that I
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 12: want to associate, people that love America. You love America.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 12: I don't care what race, religion, ethnic group you are.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 12: I don't care how you live your life. I don't
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 12: care what your abilities are. if you love America, even
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 12: if we disagree on policy, you know, see, that's the
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 12: problem I have with the current Democrat regime. They hate America.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 12: Zoran Mandami never says a good word about America. You know,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 12: I remember when we had Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we had
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 12: Mario Cuomo, Hugh Carey, Ed Koch, even Bill Clinton. I
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 12: disagreed with them on policy. But one thing I knew
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 12: about those Democrats, They loved America.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 12: This new regime hates America. And that's my problem with them.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 24: It's true.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 6: By the way, you left out one great Democrat whose
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: wife clearly loves you, Frank Lautenberg.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 12: Oh, Bonnie Lautenberg is terrific. Frank Lautenberg. You see, Frank
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 12: Lautenberg and I would probably disagree on a lot of
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 12: different things. But I always knew Frank Lautenberg was a
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 12: man of ethics. a man of high moral values, and
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 12: a man who loved America. So I knew when he
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 12: stepped foot on the floor of the Senate that his
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 12: heart was in the right place. I can't say that
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 12: about a lot of these modern Democrats, and I'm very
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 12: proud to have Bonnie's support. And since Bonnie came out
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 12: and said she was going to support me, I've had
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 12: Democrats call me constantly and say to me, Bruce, We're
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 12: going to back you. We're going to make a financial contribution.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 12: We're going to get our friends to vote for you.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 12: Every day a Democrat comes up to me and says,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 12: I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never voted Republican before in
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 12: my life. I'm voting Republican this year. My party is insane.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: I know. I saw it. I was with you in
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 6: the Hamptons a couple of weeks ago at the Roberts
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: House with Steve Witkoff. Half that crowd were Democrats, and
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: they were giving you money and lauding you with compliments.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: And you've won two consecutive elections in Nassau County, which
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: is mostly Democrat elections. So you don't have to prove
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: to the audience that Democrats and independents, they love you.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: Last one. This is the big story of the day.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: I believe it wanted to affect yesterday in Nassau County.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: You've got the safest county in America, right? We just
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 6: had President Trump in Nassau County two weeks ago complimenting.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: You and Patty Ryder and all your great police. Safest
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: county in America. And what does this wretched governor want
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: to do? She wants to make it less safe. So
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 6: correct me if I'm wrong. Yesterday goes into effect that
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: you guys are not allowed, not allowed to cooperate with ICE.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: Even though you're on record on this show and other places, Bruce,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: telling me that ICE has made many arrests and deported
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: a bunch of very, very dangerous people who are in
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: Nassau County. So yesterday goes into effect. So really, in essence,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: as of today, Kathy Hochul is making your county less safe.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 6: Or are you saying, I don't care what Kathy says,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: it's business as usual in Nassau County?
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 12: Well, here's the thing, Sid. So just last week in
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 12: my county, we had a 14-year-old girl raped. Oh, no.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 12: By an illegal migrant, someone who entered this country illegally.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, God.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 12: Two months before that, two women were murdered in my
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 12: county by an illegal migrant.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: I remember that guy. He went to two different households
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: and slit their throats.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: Two different houses. Yeah. Two months ago, an illegal migrant
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 12: set fire to 10 different cars, an arsonist. They could
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: have burnt down a building with children in it. What
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 12: the hell is wrong with Kathy Hochul? She passes this
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 12: law that handcuffs all of our law enforcement. I met
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 12: with sheriffs throughout the state, police commissioners throughout the state
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 12: the last three days. They are outraged. They want to
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 12: take legal action against her. So I'm going to talk
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 12: about that a little later. I just... I have to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 12: brief my sheriff and my police commissioner, Pat Ryder, very well.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 12: He does a great job. I'm going to brief them
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 12: a little later today, and we're going to come out swinging. And,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 12: you know, to pass a law like that and talk
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 12: about how there were atrocities by ICE, we threw out 2,000
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 12: illegal migrants with criminal records from attempted murder, rape, robbery, burglary, carjacking,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 12: drug dealing, and gang activity. We got them out of
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 12: the state. We got them out of the region. And
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 12: we didn't raid one church, one school, one hospital, one
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 12: daycare center, one business. We didn't conduct raids. I don't
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 12: know what Kathy Hochul is talking about. The atrocities that
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 12: are being committed on our community are being committed by
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 12: people who don't share our values. They have criminal intent.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 12: They are evil. And they're in our country. And we
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: got to get them out. I'm not talking about hardworking people,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 12: immigrants who may have overstayed their visa. And, you know,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 12: they're people who are working hard. They haven't committed any
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 12: criminal acts. They're good people. I'm going to talk about
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 12: that next week, about how we should have a guest
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 12: worker program. But, Sid, I'm going to leave you with
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 12: this because I've got to run to all these pastors.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 12: I don't want to get on the wrong side of God.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: But I just want to tell you. What the hell
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 12: is Kathy Hochul doing? She's making it less safe for everybody.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 12: She is the worst governor in America.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 6: I agree. I love you, Bruce Blakeman. You're doing a
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 6: fantastic job. I'm really proud of you, buddy. Thank you
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 6: for another great appearance. Thank you so much.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 24: God bless you, Sid.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 12: You're my brother. Take care.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: God bless you, too. My man, Bruce Blakeman, right there.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: Nassau County executive running for governor. And again, I hear
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: the criticisms all the time, you know. Well, he does
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 6: Sid show. What about a black show? I mean, I
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: think he's done a couple. I don't know. I'm sure
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 6: if Charlemagne, the guy, that genius, reaches out to him,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 6: he'll go on, I'm sure. Yeah, but the commercials are
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 6: all white. No, it's not true. Yeah, but he never
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: goes to the northern part of the state. No, he
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: just called me from Buffalo. He's actually done about 20
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: different counties the last two weeks. Yeah, but what about
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: if he doesn't get 37% in the five boroughs, he
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: can't win? Okay, he's going to get 37%, and he's
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: coming back to Long Island tomorrow, and we'll spend time
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 6: in all five boroughs. I just don't know what you
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 6: want from the guy, you know. You know, you're not
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: really paying attention. You know, you hear something at the
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 6: pool or in the Hamptons or wherever you are, and
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: you just repeat it. You have no idea what you're
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 6: talking about. I don't know. You know, I watched Lee
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 6: Zeldin very, very closely. Lee was on this show just Friday.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 6: He was great. I love Lee. And he ran a
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: very close race and did a terrific job. Bruce is
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 6: ahead of where Lee was at this time, four years ago.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: He's ahead of him. And I heard the same things
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: about Lee, who was still a, Senator, I guess, out
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 6: there in Suffolk County. So he's got a job to
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 6: do right now in Nassau County. Plus, he's campaigning. And
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: for some of you, it's not enough. I don't know
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: what you want the guy to do, but I think
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 6: he's doing a terrific job. I really do. And I
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: remind him about some of these communities. And I did
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: reach out on his behalf to Ruben Diaz. And I
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: do speak to other politicians. None of your business. On
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: behalf of Bruce. I've kind of taken it upon myself
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: to be Bruce's unofficial. Chief of Staff. Is that fair
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: to say, Lou?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 27: I think that's appropriate.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: Right. That's me. So I really want this guy to
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: win because I want to save our state. We'll take
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: a break. Still lots more to do. Peter King is
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: going to be here. Jim Jordan. He's going to be here.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 6: The amazing congressman out of Ohio. Lots more to do.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: Big conference is coming up September 9th and 10th. So
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to miss the big rally outside of City Hall.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: I apologize to Giovanni Galante and all the 9-11 families.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: I promised I would go and I would take Bruce Blakeman,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: but it turns out I'm going to be in Dallas,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 6: so I'm not going to make it. I'll be in
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 6: Dallas the 8th, 9th, and 10th with President Trump, J.D. Vance,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: and just about every big Republican in this country. They're
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: also going to do a commemoration, if you will, a
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 6: Beautiful couple of minutes for Charlie Kirk, I was told,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: in Dallas coming up. But as we're doing this, as
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 6: Brian Kilmeade pointed out earlier, the Democrats would love to
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 6: do it too, but they're broke. They got no money.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: And they're divided right now because you've got an anti-Semite,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: a little bitch by the name of Hassan Piker, who
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: I would love to punch right across the face. I'm
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 6: saying it. I don't care. Get mad at me. Go ahead.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: What do I care? Everybody's mad at me anyway. Hassan Piker,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: who actually said on his ridiculous Twitch show, I guess
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 6: it's Twitch, I don't know, it's some dumb podcast, that
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 6: American Jews are putting themselves in a position, not Israelis,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: not Israelis, we know he hates Israelis, so does Mamdani,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: so does El-Sayed, but American Jews are putting themselves in
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: a position where they're going to end up dead. Yeah,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 6: that's right. If you're an American Jew and you continue
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 6: to defend Israel, which not enough American Jews do, and
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 6: I've been at the very forefront, along with people like
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: Dov Heikin, Michael Rappaport, and others complaining about this, even
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 6: pissed off my wife, because I've been calling out Jews
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: since October the 7th, because I can't believe what I'm
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: seeing from my own community. If you're an American Jew
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: defending Israel, you're probably putting yourself in harm's way, and
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: you deserve it. Just like America deserved 9-11. That's Hasan Piker.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: It's gotten so bad in the Democrat Party that people
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 6: like that waste. And he's a waste. Cory Booker in
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: New Jersey. A waste. But he keeps winning. He came
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: out and blasted Piker, so good job there by Corey. Obviously,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: Josh Gottheimer, Democrat, he's Jewish. He blasted Corey. More and
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 6: more Democrats, not Chuck Schumer, not Chuck the Schmuck Schumer,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 6: that pussy, but more and more Democrats are coming out
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 6: and blasting Hassan Piker every day, and he's causing... Quite
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 6: a rift in the Democrat Party. Remember, years ago, the
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 6: Democrats always stuck together. Didn't matter. Didn't matter what they did.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 6: They could have erased emails, could have been in trouble
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 6: for all kinds of legitimate crimes. They always stuck together.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: It was Republicans that stabbed each other in the back.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: They still do.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 6: Years ago, you had Paul Ryan out of Wisconsin. You
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 6: had McConnell out of Kentucky. You still got him. The
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 6: Thomas Massys, the Marjorie Taylor Greens, backstabbing lousy Americans. That's
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: what they are. But the Democrats, they never did that.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: Ever.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: And they're falling apart. Hassan Piker is ruining that party,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: which is great because the party is garbage anyway. This
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: is fun to watch. Hassan Piker. Lowlife. So, keep that
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: in mind. when you try to figure out who is
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: the best candidate, don't tell me it's not about the party,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: it's about the best candidate, because I don't hear many Democrats, many,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: or enough, I should say, speaking out. I don't hear enough.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: Bottom line. So, Hasan Piker, he's yours. You can have him. Congratulations.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: And friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 6: I love Dolly Parton.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 24: I did.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: So that's a terrible, terrible loss. Also, one more thing
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 6: before I get to the great Jim Jordan. This is
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 6: a jerk-off mayor of ours. This is Mamdani. Who does
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 6: he think he's kidding? You know, going out of his
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 6: way to make sure that poor people can go watch
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: the World Cup. In the meantime, he had no idea
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: whether those people who got those tickets were poor or not.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 6: Same thing with the U.S. Open.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 6: The U.S. Open has been here in New York for
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: a long time. It's a great event. I believe it's
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: right there with the marathon. Maybe the two best events
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: we've got in New York all year long. And you
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 6: know what? It is pricey. Sorry. So are sporting events,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 6: for the most part, outside of the bleacher seats at
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: Yankee Stadium. That's just the way it is. You know,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: you reach a certain level of success in America. You
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: get to enjoy things others can't. So what? What is
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: this nonsense? Everybody gets a trophy. If you're poor, well,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 6: why are you poor? Are you poor because you had
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: a bad situation? Or are you poor because you enjoy
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 6: watching cartoons and eating cereal at 2 o'clock in the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 6: morning while the government pays you? While people like Sid
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 6: Rosenberg pay you? I don't know what the answer is,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 6: but how is this idiot going to ensure that these first-come,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: first-served people at the U.S. Open are all so destitute
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: they couldn't afford tickets? How can you do that, Justin?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 25: How are you going to prove that you're poor?
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 6: You can't.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 25: What are you going to give them?
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 6: Food stamps.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 25: Yeah, a payment.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: You're going to trade food stamps for U.S. Open tickets.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: But it's all PR. He's such a loser.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, I really... I really couldn't dislike a person
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 6: any more than I hate all of these people. And
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 6: I hate them. That's a strong word. I hate them.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 6: I hate Mamdani. I hate Hassan Piker.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 12: I do.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: I've already physically threatened him. I don't care. I hate
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: these people. And every decent American, Republican or Democrat, should
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: hate them. Now, hopefully, this is going to be good
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 6: for us Republicans, especially Jewish Republicans, as we get set
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: for the big... RJC conference. coming up in Las Vegas
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: this weekend, and we have a laundry list of amazing speakers, politicians,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: laundry list. But you guys know this. I'm friends with
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: a lot of Congress people, a lot. This guy out
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: of Ohio, Jim Jordan, as far as I'm concerned, is
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 6: as good as it gets. I love this guy. So
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: here he is. I think he's in Ohio, but he'll
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: be in Vegas with me this weekend, the great Jim Jordan. Jim,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: good morning, buddy. How are you?
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 9: I'm doing fine, and good morning to you. Thanks for
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: all the good work you're doing. And yeah, we will
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: be in Vegas with you later this week, so we're
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: looking forward to that.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: I don't think you disagreed with anything I just said,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 6: now do you, Jim?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: Well, remember, it was eight months, 26 days ago today,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 9: when Mom Donnie took the oath of office, said he
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 9: was going to replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 9: the warmth of collectivism. Now, think about that statement. In
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 9: this country, it was built on rugged individuals chasing down
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 9: their goals and dreams. In Europe, they told us They
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: told him you couldn't– you had to practice your faith
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: a certain way, and they said, no, we don't. We
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 9: will get on the ship. We will risk it all.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: We will come to America. We can practice our faith
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 9: the way we think the good Lord wants us to,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: and if we work hard, we can reach our goals
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 9: and our dreams. He wants to fundamentally change what America
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 9: is about with this– and I've seen the warmth of collectivism.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 9: My background is in the sport of wrestling. I wrestled
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 9: in the Soviet Union when– that's how old I'm getting–
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 9: when it was still the Soviet Union, like 40 years ago.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 9: And I tell people, you go to places like that,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 9: you thank the good Lord you live here. I mean,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 9: I was in Moscow in February. It's like 400 below
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 9: zero with no food in the shelves.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 12: It was the worst place.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 24: And it's not about the people.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 9: People are people. But it's about a system that doesn't
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 9: recognize freedom and liberty, rule of law, private property, free markets, constitution, bill,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 9: all the great things we have. And he wants to
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 9: fundamentally change all that. That is how scary this is.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 9: And I think it's I think this is going to
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 9: be a key element in this campaign as more and
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 9: more Americans wake up and see where the left wants
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 9: to take the country.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: Well, my cousin Norm Coleman was on the show yesterday. And,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 6: of course, he and Matt Brooks won the RJC. I
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 6: know you're very close with Norm, too. And he said, Sid,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 6: what a perfect time for our conference in Las Vegas.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 6: Because it's not just Mamdani. It's... El Sayed, Michigan. I
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 6: think Mike Rogers is going to beat him. I hope so,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: at least. And so many others. Chevalier in New York.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 6: Valdez in New York. And then you get a guy
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: who's not even running, but he's become the face of
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 6: the party who actually said just this week that American
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 6: Jews are literally placing their lives in danger. He was
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 6: happy about it because they continue to defend Israel. This guy,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: Hassan Piker, Jim Jordan, you've been around a couple of years.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 6: Have you seen anybody worse than that guy?
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 9: No, I've not. And the things, the ugly, outrageous, ridiculous,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 9: wrong things he is saying are just like, they're frightening.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 9: And again, I think this is going to be something
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: we have to go make sure that the good people
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 9: of this great country understand when they head to the
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 9: polls this, what is it now, 70 days, 70 some days.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 9: This is how serious it is. And this idea that
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 9: the left has now that Somehow we should now be
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 9: friends with the state of Israel. This makes no sense.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 9: That relationship is beneficial for everyone, beneficial for the world,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 9: beneficial for Israelis. They're a great country, beneficial for our country.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 9: The ways that they help us, I mean, there are
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 9: religious reasons, there are cultural reasons, there are strategic reasons
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 9: why we should never abandon our friend and ally, the
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 9: state of Israel. But the left obviously just doesn't see that.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: Not just the left, I got to tell you, not politicians,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: but I watched an interview last week. There was one
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 6: guy on the left, and that is a disgraced son
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 6: of former President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, sitting there with
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 6: a guy that you and I liked at one point.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: I'm sure we did, Tucker Carlson. And in 46 seconds,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 6: Jim Jordan, 46 seconds, Tucker Carlson blamed Israel for the
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 6: laptop Hunter Biden scandal, for pedophilia, I swear to God,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 6: for the Iran war. Basically, every ill. or every issue
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 6: in this country, is all Israel's fault. Now, yes, the
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 6: overwhelming majority are on the left, and they're politicians. That's
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 6: even scarier. But there is this little cult, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson, Fuentes, these lowlifes on the right, that have
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: joined forces, so it just seems like it's increasing every day,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: and I don't get it.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, that's why it's so important we keep that
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 9: element out of our party. You know, I said this
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 9: a while back, but The once great party of FDR
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 9: and JFK is now anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and socialist. We've got
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 9: to make sure none of that element gets in our party.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 9: It's one of the reasons I was so involved in
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 9: primaries around the country this year, making sure that doing
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 9: everything we could to help make sure that we didn't
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 9: get people with those kind of views winning seats to
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 9: Congress and making sure we had a conservative who understood
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 9: the importance of this relationship between the United States and
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 9: the state of Israel. It's really, really important in my judgment. So, yeah,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 9: let's make sure that element doesn't get any foothold in
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 9: the GOP.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 6: One of your colleagues and friends in Congress, he's a
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 6: dear friend of mine, Randy Fine. He ran against another
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 6: horrible person, Dale Bilzerian, right? You know the story there,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: Jim Jordan. This guy put out a two-minute video where
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 6: he was extolling the virtues of Hitler. He put horns
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 6: on my friend Randy Fine's head. And Randy Fine said
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 6: it best. I think you'll agree, Jim. November, this is
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 6: not about Republicans versus Democrats. This is about, I hate
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 6: to say this, Chuck Schumer, this is about good versus evil,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 6: right versus wrong. Is that an exaggeration or is that
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 6: about right?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 9: Well, I think that's exactly right. Where the left wants
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 9: this country to go is really, really scary. And, you know,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 9: you can start with Mamdami statements. You can move to others.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 9: You can look at this Piper guy and the crazy
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 9: things he's saying. But, yeah, it is frightening. And obviously
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 9: we've all had to deal with it to some degree.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 9: We just don't talk about it quite as much as
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 9: I think the left does. But this this this physical
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 9: violence threats, what Randy's had to endure. I know he's
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 9: had multiple people threatening people who've been arrested and, you know,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 9: prosecuted everything else. um this is ridiculous we're supposed to
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 9: with the first amendment like we have in this country
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 9: you you get your best ideas you go make your
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 9: arguments you have the debate and then you have the
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 9: election that's how you settle things and it's not this
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 9: this this violence we've been hearing about many times coming
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 9: from uh from some of these radicals on the.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 6: Left yeah they've actually threatened his life a couple of
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 6: times a few more minutes uh jim jordan how happy
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: were you to see lindsey's sister darlene wing in south carolina.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: Last night well the I think it's just another testament.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 9: I mean, she's a wonderful lady. I met her when
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 9: I was in South Carolina helping a colleague, Sherry Biggs,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 9: a little over a week ago, and I met Darlene there.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 9: And I, of course, knew Ralph. Ralph's a good man
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 9: as well. But Darlene is, I think, a testament to
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 9: President Trump's endorsement. When President Trump came in and said,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 9: we want Darlene to be the senator of this great state,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 9: of course, I think that's what put her over the top.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 9: She's going to do a fine job. We're all going
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 9: to miss Lindsay. Lindsay was an amazing individual. I know
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 9: we've talked about that here now for a few weeks,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 9: of course, but One of the funniest guys, one of
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: the funniest individuals I've ever been around. He had a
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 9: way of just making you laugh. And it could be
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 9: an intense debate. And you're talking to most colleagues about
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 9: what we're going to do, how we're going to proceed.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: And he would have some joke. And he was just
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 9: a funny guy and a sharp guy. Of course, he
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 9: got things done.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: He was a pretty incredible guy. And for people, I
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 6: discussed this with Brian Kilmeade last hour, Jim Jordan. For
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 6: the people who have turned their backs on Trump, and
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: you can name the same names again, Tucker, MTG, but
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 6: friends I know too, just civilians, and they go, ah,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 6: Trump lost it.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 12: Really?
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 6: Well, he endorses Lindsey's sister. About 92%, I think that's
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 6: the number, 92% of the candidates Trump endorsed the last
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 6: couple of months won. And then look at the other side.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 6: How did Bill Cassidy do? How did Thomas Massey do?
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 6: The people that stabbed Trump in the back, how did
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 6: they do so? But the folks that are screaming and
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 6: yelling that Trump, it's over, he lost the power, seems
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 6: kind of silly, no?
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 9: Well, it's the most powerful endorsement in American political history.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's pretty darn amazing, you know, this and
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 9: what he has done with the Republican Party in focusing
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 9: it in on, you know, this maybe the greatest slogan
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 9: in modern politics is make America great again. And it
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: just resonated with Americans because, yeah, we live in the
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 9: greatest country ever. Let's make sure it stays the greatest
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 9: country ever. I mean, yeah, President Trump's endorsement is, I think,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 9: the most powerful. I've certainly seen in my time in politics, maybe,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 9: maybe ever. because when he endorses someone, it sure makes
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 9: a difference.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: Two policy calls, Save America Act. Is that going to happen?
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 6: What do you think?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 9: I sure hope so. You know, again, we're talking about
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 9: the United States Senate and can they do it? And
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 9: a lot of this is intertwined with the whole issue
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 9: of the filibuster, as you know, Sid. So I'm to
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 9: the point now, because we know what the Democrats are
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 9: going to do if they.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 24: Ever get back in control.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 9: They will get rid of the filibuster and then they'll
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 9: proceed on all their crazy policies. So we should, I'm convinced,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: and of course, I'm not in the Senate, but I'm
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 9: convinced The Senate should get rid of the filibuster and
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 9: pass the Save America Act, which would put in place
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 9: the kind of protections we need to make sure our
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 9: elections work the way they should work and that they're fair,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 9: that they're honest, and that we can get in place
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 9: the policies that make sense, like no foreigners voting in
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 9: our elections. By the way, we've now deposed our committee
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 9: working alongside the House administration committee. We've now deposed eight people.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: who are part of ActBlue. Every single one, board members,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 9: people in part of their fraud division, their CEO, and
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 9: their top legal counsel at ActBlue, we've deposed eight of them.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 9: Every single one has taken nothing. The fifth.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: Because I'm convinced they were they were taking in some
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 9: foreign money. Foreign money in our elections. Foreigners voting in
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 9: our elections. This is why the Save America Act makes
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 9: so much sense.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 6: Act Blue. That's a bad group of people right there.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 6: Bad group. So what do you think about the Supreme
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: Court decision? Mail in ballots, you know, accepting President Trump's
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 6: executive order. You love it, right?
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah, of course.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 12: Of course.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 9: Because, again, it's common sense. Like it's like that. You know,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 9: people have said this election is about common sense versus crazy.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 9: I said you could summarize this election, this midterm election
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 9: in two sentences. They're crazy. We're not. And this is
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 9: like this this this line about this line of it,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 9: you know, just like, yeah, let's make sure that these
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 9: common sense. policies are in place to guarantee just our
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 9: safe and secure election. That's what Americans want. And look,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 9: if you lose, you lose. Americans are always for a
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 9: fair game, fair fight. Let's make sure that happens. This
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 9: idea that in California, where they have ballot harvesting, it
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 9: takes three and a half weeks, four weeks to figure
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 9: out who won an election.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 6: It's just goofy.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 9: Everyone knows it's goofy. Even people in California know it's goofy.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: So let's get to the basics here. which is exactly
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: what President Trump's trying to do with the executive order
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 9: that was upheld in court, and, of course, the Save
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 9: America Act.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 6: See, Canada has effects here in the United States. You
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 6: know that, Michigan, especially when it comes to the car industry.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: So we need to figure this out. I know right
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: now Mark Carney's being very tough, and President Trump is
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 6: being even tougher. We're going to call Lake Ontario Lake America,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 6: but you know, Jim Jordan, for the betterment of our party,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 6: for our country, the U.S.-Canada thing... Needs to be figured out.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 9: And President Trump is, you know, he's been doing deals
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 9: and involved in negotiations his entire career. He will get
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 9: this figured out. He's been, you know, president and their
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 9: team there at the White House. Good people. They'll they'll
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 9: they'll get this figured out. But you're right. The sooner
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 9: the better. Let's hope they do. And I think that
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 9: they will.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 6: Are you closer to Cincinnati or Cleveland?
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 9: Cincinnati. We're just north of Dayton, Ohio, where our home is,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 9: near the big town of Urbana. We live out in
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 9: the country. But yeah, we're about an hour and a
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 9: half north of Cincinnati, about two and a half hours
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 9: south and west of Cleveland.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 6: So you're a Joe Bortle Bengals fan, yeah?
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 24: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 9: But growing up, I hate people in Ohio, but when
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 9: you're a kid, if you're like me, when you're a kid,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 9: you like the winter. So I grew up, I'm old,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 9: I grew up in the 70s. I love the Pittsburgh Steelers,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 9: which is blasphemous to say that in Ohio. But I
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 9: loved it. I loved Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Kwan,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: Mike Webster Center. Loved Mean Joe Green. But my favorite guy,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 9: of course, was Jack Lambert from Ohio. An Ohio guy
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 9: playing middle linebacker for the Steelers. I wanted to be
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 9: the next Jack Lambert. You know how you are when
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 9: you're a kid.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 9: I love watching Jack Lambert tackle people.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 6: That's terrible, though. I mean, Vinny Testaverde throwing the ball
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 6: right to Cornell Lake or Dion Figures. Or the Cleveland Browns.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, that was terrible. All right, last one. So
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 6: have you prepared? Because you're a great speaker. You're one
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 6: of my best guests. You really are. You're not much,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 6: I think, the world of you, Jim Jordan. Have you
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 6: prepared a speech yet for Vegas? Or do you write
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 6: it on the plane on the way there?
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 9: No, I've been thinking about what I want to say.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 9: And one of the things I've been talking about as
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 9: I travel around the country, we're actually traveling now helping
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 9: candidates and colleagues so that hopefully we can keep this majority,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 9: which I think we can. I mean, I talk about the.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 6: Hold on. Do you think we can? Do you think
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 6: we will?
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 9: No, I think we will. I really do. I think
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 9: we will. But we have to, I think, make sure
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 9: we stress and talk about to the voters what you
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 9: and I've been talking about, just how just how ridiculous
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 9: the left has become. But I've been talking about just
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 9: how great this country is. 250 years. It's an amazing place.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 9: There's no place like it. And I've been fortunate enough
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 9: to travel around. You see other places. This is the best.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 9: We saw it during the World Cup. All these Europeans
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 9: coming here and talking about Buc-ee's and Costco and big
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 9: steaks and Prime. All the things. It's an amazing, amazing place.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 9: Where if you got, as I said before, you got
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 9: a dream, you got a goal, and you work hard,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 9: good things happen. And a lot of places around the world,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 9: that's not the case. But it is here. No place
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 9: is great. And 250 years ago, my wife and I,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 9: we went to the musical, the stage production of 1776.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 9: And you look at what those guys did when they
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 9: wrote it down, declared to the world why it was
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 9: justified to do what they did and start this experiment
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 9: in liberty we call America. It is a special, special place.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 9: And they gave it all. We remember Adams and Jefferson.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 9: But most of them lost their farm, their family. They
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 9: lost sons in the battle. Some of them gave their
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: own lives so that we could have the greatest place ever.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 9: And we don't want to screw that up. We want
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 9: to understand just how special it is. And so I'm
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: going to talk about that and, of course, this special bond.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 9: Because Israel is the same kind of country. What they've done,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 9: what they've accomplished, unbelievable. 48, what they started. So that's
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 9: that common thing that I think is so important. I'm
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 9: trying to figure out how to say some of that.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 6: You just did it just now. It was perfect. I mean, Justin,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: send Jim the tape of this and just replay it
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 6: in Vegas. It was perfect. You know, you use that
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 6: word special a bunch of times, and Jim Jordan, you know,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 6: I really feel this way. You are special. So have
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 6: a safe trip. I can't wait to see you in
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 6: Vegas this weekend, buddy. Thank you.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: Look forward to it. Take care.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 6: Me too, buddy. Jim Jordan right there, the amazing congressman
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 6: out of the state of Ohio, where Justin Ellick, as
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 6: a sophomore in college, got his ass kicked. Yeah, uh-huh.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 25: I almost went to Denison out in Ohio.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 6: You did?
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 13: I almost did.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 6: That's a good school.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 6: Denison's a good school. That's in?
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 25: It's in Ohio.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 6: I know, but I think it's closer to Cleveland than Cincinnati, Denison.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 25: I drove through like 10, maybe 10 to 15 hours
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 25: of just cornfields.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, you drove over there?
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 25: Just cornfields.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: That's it. That's all they've got.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 25: There's nothing else there.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 6: We'll take a break. We'll go from one amazing congressman
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 6: serving now to one of the best I've ever served.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 6: He really was. He's still doing very, very big things
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 6: out there in Long Island. Him and Joe Cairo. Pete King,
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 6: his Wednesday appearance. Pete King. Rudy Giuliani and Pete King.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 6: Pete was an amazing congressman for about four decades. Homeland
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 6: Security and He's still out there on Long Island with
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: Joe Cairo running the show, making it possible for people
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 6: like Bruce Blakeman. Hopefully he'll be our next governor. People
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 6: like Mike LaPetri and Janine Driscoll, Anthony D'Esposito and Lolota, Garbarino,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 6: all of them. And he's my friend. I love him,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 6: Pete King. Pete, good morning, buddy.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 12: How are you?
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 24: I'm doing great. Thanks for the introduction there. But just
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 24: so you know, Joe Cairo is the top guy in
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 24: Nassau County. And Bruce is going to be our next governor,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 24: no doubt about it.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 6: He was on with me this morning for like 25 minutes.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: He was great. Thank him. Glad you listened. You know, Pete,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: I mentioned this to you, and I will continue to
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: do so until we get there. We are now 16
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 6: days away from 9-11. And I remind my audience every
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 6: week that nobody did more for the families who are
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 6: still We lost loved ones after 9-11. There are still
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: people sick and dying still 25 years later. And you
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 6: made sure that some of these families will be compensated,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 6: I believe, for about 100 years. If I'm right, if
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 6: I'm wrong, you can correct me. So thank you for
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 6: doing all that. And as we get closer and closer again,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 6: just 16 days away. How do you feel, Pete King?
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 24: Every time it gets closer, you realize how terrible that
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 24: day was, how horrible it was, and how many just
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 24: regular people were murdered that day. It's bad enough when
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 24: a soldier, somebody in combat, or a police officer was
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 24: killed in the line of duty. That's terrible. But these
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 24: were innocent people going off to work that day. The
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 24: furthest thing from their minds or their families' minds was
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 24: they wouldn't come back that night. We're not talking about
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 24: a car accident. We're not talking about something that may
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 24: happen in the ordinary course of life and death. This
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 24: was an attack right in the greatest city in the world,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 24: downtown Manhattan, the World Trade Center. I mean, those people
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 24: were killed, and all of us had good friends that day,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 24: and the way they died was horrible. And at that time,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 24: I thought we would never, ever, ever forget how terrible
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 24: this day is. But today, there's so many people that
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 24: look upon that as ancient history, like the Battle of
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 24: Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor. The fact is, it happened in
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 24: all our lifetimes and today. And it continues today, as
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 24: you said, there are people still sick and dying from
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 24: the illnesses caused by that attack. And the other fact,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 24: and again, I'm not trying to scare people at all,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 24: but ISIS and al-Qaeda and the entire radical Islamist movement
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 24: still wants to destroy the United States. And they're very... Active,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 24: they're very effective. And if we ever let our guard down,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 24: and sometimes the more and more we are, we leave
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 24: ourselves vulnerable to another 9-11. Not that they could ever
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 24: do what they did at 9-11. That we are fully
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 24: protected against. And we have so many defenses set up,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 24: and we're very proactive. But the fact is ISIS, al-Qaeda,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 24: and all those Islamists, they are also active to work
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 24: around it. So we have to constantly protect. try to
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 24: stay ahead of them. In New York, I mean, no
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 24: one did a better job than Ray Kelly and the NYPD.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 24: I mean, they had more Arabic speakers than the FBI.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 24: They had cops planted all over the world trying to
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 24: anticipate what might happen. They were proactive here in New York.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 24: Now they were attacked for it by the liberal media,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 24: by liberal politicians, accusing them of being racist and bigots.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 24: The fact is, that there's been over 20 attacks against
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 24: New York that have been stopped over the years. And
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 24: if you would say that on September 12th, nobody ever
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 24: thought that we would be that 25 years going out
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 24: a major attack in New York. Yes, there have been
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 24: the incidental ones, and they're terrible, but there's been no
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 24: coordinated attack in been successful. And that's because of the
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 24: NYPD and Nassau County. Pat Ryder is on top of
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 24: it all the time here. And Washington, sometimes I think
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 24: even in this administration, they're focusing so much on immigration,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 24: which has to be done. But we can't take our
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 24: minds off. you know, the terror plot, the plots, the
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 24: threats against us. So anyway, that's it. But again, also
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 24: probably what's my main thought from 9-11 is the heroism
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 24: and the courage that was shown that day and the week,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 24: the days, weeks, and months afterwards as we fought back.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 24: But just imagine if the image had been cops and
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 24: firemen running away from ground zero, not going into those buildings.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 24: And also if everything wasn't being done to take care
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 24: of those victims afterwards. We came back, we fought back,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 24: and to me, that's like the spirit of New York,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 24: the spirit of America, and that's going to sustain us,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 24: I hope.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 6: That is well said, Pete. You know, and just to
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 6: emphasize what you're talking about, we saw an arrest in
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 6: Albany just last week, some lady that was radicalized by ISIS,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 6: and she was looking to do something terrible, and we've unveiled,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 6: like you said, 20, maybe 30 or 40, I don't know, plots,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 6: everything from, you know, white vans with explosives in it
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: in Times Square to... People trying to get across the border.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: But I will tell you, I went on a rant
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 6: a couple of days ago. I went looking for a
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: specific piece of audio, Peter, about some gentleman or lady,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 6: now I've forgotten, who called their loved one from Canada
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 6: Fitzgerald and basically said goodbye. And I play those because
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 6: they are gut-wrenching, because I want New Yorkers who have forgotten...
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 6: people who voted for Mamdani, for example, they forgot. Now,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 6: some of them are young. Most of them are young.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: They weren't even born yet. I get that. But there's
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 6: a percentage of people who were around. They forgot, okay?
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 6: That's why I play that stuff. You know, maybe Mamdani
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 6: will hear it and he won't show up. But as
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 6: I'm looking for it and I'm scrolling through Twitter, all
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 6: I see, page after page after page, are these ridiculous
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 6: conspiracy theories that 9-11 never happened. There were no planes.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 12: No.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: They're showing videos of a plane going into a building
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 6: and no explosion. Never happened. There were no planes. Clearly
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 6: this was done by the American government. Israel, I see
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 6: 9 million different tweets that Israel did this on 9-11,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 6: even though we know the 19 hijackers all hated Israel
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 6: with a passion. We've become such a sad, demented, sick society.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: And I know people who believe this is true, that
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 6: there was no 9-11, that Israel and America together blew
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 6: up those buildings. When you see that, what do you think?
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 24: It's absolutely disgraceful. Let me tell you, the first time
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 24: I saw that actually was in Nassau County about two
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 24: weeks after 9-11. There was an interfaith meeting held. The
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 24: bishop was there. Various Protestant leaders were there. Rabbis were there.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 24: Priests were there. And they also had imams there. And
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 24: at that time, everyone was united. Everyone was standing together.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 24: And then the interfaith coordinator for the biggest mosque in
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 24: Nassau County got up and said, there's no evidence at
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 24: all that Muslims were involved in this. It could have
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 24: been the Zionists. It could have been the CIA. And
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 24: I think, my God, this isn't some crazy guy in
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 24: his basement. This was the interfaith coordinator for one of
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 24: the leading mosques on Long Island saying this. And I
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 24: never thought that would take hold. But then, of course,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 24: you have the other conspiracies. that the Bush family owned dynamite,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 24: which blew up the building seven, all this crazy stuff
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 24: that's out there. And I don't know why people want
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 24: to go down those rabbit holes. It was complicated, but
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 24: it was also simple. This was carried out by radical Islamists.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 24: They were operating out of Afghanistan, but they're situated around
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 24: the world. And this is well-coordinated, well-planned. It was carried
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 24: out by them. They had diabolical murderers, and they plan
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 24: on doing it again. Every time we take our eye
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 24: off that, all we do is help the enemy. And
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 24: why this thing? Those were the first times maybe in
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 24: recent history where I saw somehow the Jews being blamed
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 24: for this. And they've been blamed for a lot through history.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 24: Every phony conspiracy comes up. But this one, how anyone
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 24: can say that Israel was involved in the attack on
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 24: the World Trade Center is insanity. But there's always a
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 24: certain element. We're going to believe that. Then it puts
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 24: doubts out there. And then you have, how can we
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 24: give them money in Israel? How can we let Israel
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 24: do this, do that? And to me, the bottom line
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 24: in Israel is really very simple. No matter what the
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 24: religion of Israel happens to be, they are our closest ally.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 24: They cooperate with us so much. The fact that it
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 24: is a Jewish state and what happened to the Jews
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 24: in the Holocaust is makes it all the more important
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 24: we stand with Israel. But even if we're not, just
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 24: the fact what they do to help us, the intelligence
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 24: we share. I mean, if we didn't have Israel in
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 24: the Middle East, we'd have to create one. I mean,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 24: that's the reality.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 6: It's true. Yeah, it's true.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 24: It's the only country in the Middle East, Jordan and Egypt,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 24: But there's no country you can really count on at all.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 24: And that's Israel.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 6: And by the way, he says a Jewish state. There's
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 6: Christians there. There's Muslims there. And they all live together.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 6: They're all fine. The only people that give Israelis any issues,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 6: when I say Israelis, I'm including Christians. The only people
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 6: that give them an issue are the Palestinians who graduate
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 6: to Hamas. Those are Palestinians that graduate to Hamas.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 6: They're not Jews. They're not Christians. They're not Israelis. That's
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 6: who that is. You know, I do have to bring up, though,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 6: one of the issues going on right now. I brought
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 6: up with Jim Jordan and Brian Kilmeade earlier talking about
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 6: foreign policy. What's going on right now with Canada? It
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: doesn't seem like there's a healthy appetite to take this
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 6: too far. You know, you've got the convention in Dallas
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 6: less than two weeks away, the midterms 70 days away,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 6: this whole Canada deal. What is your thought?
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 24: Yeah, I hope that President Trump can resolve it. Canada
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 24: has been a good ally over the years. They lost
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 24: a lot of people in Afghanistan fighting on our side.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 24: But also, in very practical political terms, we have to
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 24: win that Senate seat in Michigan. I know Mike Rogers,
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 24: he was chairman of the Intelligence Committee when I was
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 24: on it, former FBI agent, great guy. We need him
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 24: in the Senate. But people in Michigan and Canada have
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 24: a very, very close relationship. I think these tariffs could
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 24: actually severely hurt industry and jobs in Michigan, hurt the economy,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 24: and that's the last thing we need at this time.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 24: So for very practical reasons, political reasons, I think it's
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 24: important it be resolved. Secondly, as far as foreign policy
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 24: is concerned, Canada needs us. We need them. We can
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 24: survive without Canada. The fact is it's very helpful to
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 24: have a strong Canada working with us. I hope they
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 24: can resolve that. And again, any time you have these
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 24: terror fights, maybe in the end we win, but there's
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 24: always people that will lose along the way. And Michigan
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 24: can lose on this, certainly in the short run. And
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 24: the whole country will lose if that guy El Sayed
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 24: is ever elected in Michigan.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God, Joe. Last one, you know, people are
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 6: coming home now. This is about it. The summer's about over.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 6: I just depressed a whole bunch of people listening. I'm sorry, buddy.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 6: It really is, you know. We're less than three weeks
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 6: away from 9-11 and three weeks away from home opener
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 6: for the Giants and the Jets in Tennessee. So it's
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 6: basically down to the last couple of weeks. And you
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 6: know this, Peter, as a guy that won a lot,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 6: almost every time, that people start to take this very
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 6: seriously after the summer, right? So, you know, I'm talking
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 6: about it all summer long. You're talking about it all
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 6: summer long, but There's a healthy amount of voters in
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 6: New York, for example, in the Hamptons, upstate New York,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 6: the Jersey Shore. They're not paying close attention. They'll put
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 6: on Fox News or put me on. That's about it, okay?
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 6: But they get home in September, and for the next
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 6: two months, it is balls-to-the-wall politics leading up to the midterms. So,
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 6: for example, in your community, people like Mike LaPetrie, Janine Driscoll,
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 6: what did they do to kind of up their games
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 6: as we head towards September towards the midterms?
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 24: They have to get out everywhere, which they are. Janine
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 24: is working hard. Mike is working hard. Again, the people
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 24: in the community have to get involved in the local parties,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 24: go to door-to-door, make the phone calls. Also, anyone who
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 24: has money contributes to their campaigns. Democrats are going to
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 24: have a fortune coming in. I know Janine's opponent will. Obviously,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 24: Lepetri's opponent will.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 6: Swazi gets a ton of money, right? He gets a
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 6: ton of money, Swazi.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 24: Now, Swazi is loaded with money. Also, the opponent of
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 24: Janine Driscoll is going to have money. And I know
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 24: it's important for Janine to raise money, but the fact
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 24: is I don't want her spending all the time on
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 24: the telephone calling people to raise money. Let people see her.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 24: Let them hear her. I mean, she's on your show.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 6: She's great.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 24: She's a natural. But if she has to spend all
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 24: her time trying to raise money, she's not going to
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 24: be out there. People aren't going to see her. Then
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 24: you can run almost anybody. So I want people to
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 24: see her, and I also want the people out there
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 24: The day after election, they complain, oh, how do these
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 24: people get elected? What happened? How come the Republicans didn't win?
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 24: They will win if we get out there because we
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 24: have a message. I've been in politics for a long time.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 24: There's some years where it's not that easy to get
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 24: a message to show the difference between us and them.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 24: The fact is this year, unfortunately, it's very easy for us.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 24: These democratic socialists are going to destroy the United States
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 24: of America. They're opposed to all the values that we have.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 24: And whether or not your opponent is a democratic socialist,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 24: he's allied in a party now which has been taken
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 24: over by them. So if you want to stop democratic socialism,
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 24: if you want to restore and keep and maintain democracy,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 24: traditional American values. You have to vote Republican. But we've
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 24: got to get that message out. And I don't have
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 24: people sitting home bitching and complaining, this should be done,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 24: that should be done. Get out there, get off your ass,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 24: get to work, and really work hard for the people
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 24: you believe in, because they're going to fight for you.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 24: If not, you should just go home and have nothing
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 24: to say.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 6: That's a perfect message. Pete King, I love you. Give
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 6: my best to Rosemary. Another amazing appearance. buddy. Thank you
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 24: You bet.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Come on, man. Pete King right there. That's
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 6: a great message. Don't bitch, right? If you don't do
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 6: anything about it, don't bitch. I don't want to hear
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 6: from you. Go out there and vote. And that, if
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 6: we lose, you can bitch all you want, but don't
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 6: sit at home and then start yelling and screaming, how
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 6: did these wacky Democrats win?
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 9: Go vote.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 6: And help these people the next couple of months. You
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 6: got two months. September, November.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 13: Balls to the wall.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 6: That's it. If you hate the Democrats as much as
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 6: I do, and you love this country as much as
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 6: I do, and you're sick of the nonsense and the
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 6: Israel bashing and all that garbage that has nothing to
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 6: do with this country. Nothing. Get out there and help.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 6: Help Michael Petri. Help Janine Driscoll. Help all these House
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 6: and Senate candidates all across the country and make sure
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 6: we retain the House and the Senate come November. And
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 6: then make sure no matter who it is, and a
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 6: lot of you folks don't like J.D. Vance, I'm not
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 6: there yet either. I'm looking forward to seeing J.D. the
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 6: next couple of weeks, having a little one-on-one. But I
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 6: tell you what, no matter who the Republican candidate is,
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 6: he or she is getting my vote, ain't going to
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 6: be a Democrat. So go out and do something. Go
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 6: out and vote. Make sure America stays great. We'll take
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 6: a short break. Lots more to do. Brian, come here.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 6: He gets the football.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm an ass man. I'm not a boob man.
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 6: So I never fell in love with Dolly Parton like
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: Greg Kelly did in the third grade because she had
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 6: big boobs. I was aware of it, but it wasn't
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 6: my thing. But on a serious note, man, did I
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 6: love her as she got older and she did some
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 6: Wonderful things. Helping out people in Tennessee who suffered through wildfires.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 6: Helping out people in Tennessee who suffered through floods. A
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 6: couple years ago, 2024, Hurricane Helena. She handed out millions.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 6: Helping people who suffered, I should say.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 12: COVID.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 6: COVID. She gave money to Moderna. Now, you may hate
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 6: the vaccine, and that's fine. I've actually gotten 180 on that.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 6: Because of the people on this show. Smart people. But
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 6: she tried to help. Pediatric centers and the amount of
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 6: money that this woman gave to help children and Americans
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 6: who were suffering. Eye-opening. So above and beyond all the
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 6: great music. A lot of that. A lot. The movies.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 6: The acting. And just a genial person. Everybody who met
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: her loved her. This woman literally devoted millions, a lot
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 6: of her Dollywood money, where she made a ton of money,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 6: still does, at Bean Park. She took a lot of
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 6: that money and gave it away. So there's about a
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 6: billion reasons why you should love Dolly Parton. I never
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 6: heard Republicans, Democrats, President Trump, who's a class act, did
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 6: the right thing, lowering the flag to half-mast, and it'll
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 6: be that way all week. All week for Dolly Parton,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 6: so nice job. Out of President Trump, and all the
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 6: tributes started coming in last night. Taylor Swift loved her.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 6: She was destroyed last night. Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 6: Just tons and tons of people who love that lady.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: And you see where she came from.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 28: She came from a house, a small cabin, 11 feet.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 28: 12 children.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 6: She was one of 12, yeah.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 27: No electricity.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 6: Nope.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 27: And no running water.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 9: No.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 6: She had to make duty in an outhouse like Justin
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 6: had to do.
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 27: She still does, maybe.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 6: Probably.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 27: But from that to doing so many.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 2: Great things for the world.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 12: Oh, God.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 6: An amazing story. You talk about rags to riches. Dolly Parton,
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 6: maybe the epitome of that.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the great people in the world.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 6: So rest in peace. And it's a terrible loss for
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 6: all Americans today. This is one that has nothing to
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 6: do with politics. And I got to tell you, I
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 6: hate almost every entertainer in the world today. I hate them.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 6: People I used to love. Bruce Springsteen. F you, Bruce. Seriously,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 6: F you. Actors. I mean, you know, I said earlier,
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 6: I want to punch Hasan Piker across the face. I do.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 6: What about this guy? What's this actor? He's fighting with
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 6: Disney now. This jerk off, he hates Israel. Oh, come on.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 25: Mark Ruffalo.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 6: Mark Ruffalo.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, him again?
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 6: I want to punch him across the face.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 27: Oh, it's still him.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 6: I hate all these entertainers. I hate him. He's a dick.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 6: So to see somebody like Dolly Parton, my God. Terrible loss.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 27: Never got in her life. And she just wanted everything
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 27: to be great.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 6: And she did it. And she did it. So Nikki
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 6: Van Voren is the president of the Welfare League in
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 6: Rockland County, where she advocates for individuals with physical and
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 6: intellectual disabilities. She was diagnosed, Nikki, with brain cancer at
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 6: just nine years old.
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 16: Nine.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 6: Life-saving surgery saved her life, but left her with permanent
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 6: invisible challenges, including severe memory loss. So she's going to
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 6: come in and do this interview today, and on the
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 6: way home, forget about it. You are. Oh, my God.
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 2: I knew you would do something like that.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 6: I'm going to ask Justin if she can come on tomorrow.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 27: 50 First Dates with Sid Rosenberg.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 6: I love that movie. 10 Second Tom.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 20: You know, that's usually the kind of joke you make
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 20: after the interview.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 6: Right. Not me. That's why I'm number one. Anyway, I
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 6: want to help this girl. She's great.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 25: Oh, she's an absolute delight.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she had a big event last week in Rockland County.
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 6: Mike Lawler was there. Joe Hernandez was there. But, of course,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 6: she forgot about it. So, anyway.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 27: You really need some help.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 20: What?
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 27: It's not funny.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 6: I wonder if she thinks it's funny. I bet you
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 6: she does. I bet you she does. You've got to
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 6: have a sense of humor when it comes to these things.
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 27: Of course, I would imagine. But still, leave it to you.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 6: Well, we'll talk to her and find out exactly what's
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 6: going on. She's a brave kid. Nikki Van Voren.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 27: Some of the things you and I have, I'd like
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 27: to have forgotten about, too.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 6: I wish I could. Nikki Van Voren is coming up next.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 6: In August of 2026, she hosted, it was called the
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 6: annual Welfare League Summer Celebration in Teals, New York. And
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 6: she's trying to get this organization as much exposure as possible. Well, Nikki,
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 6: good morning. How are you?
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having me, Sid. I'm doing great.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 6: Good. Tell everybody exactly what you endured as a nine-year-old
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 6: that got us to this day.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 31: So when I was nine years old, I had an astrocytoma.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 31: So I was diagnosed with brain cancer.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 6: What were some of the symptoms that you were suffering
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 6: through when this came about? What was happening with you?
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 8: I just started having headaches.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 6: Headaches?
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 8: And all of a sudden, I just had a seizure.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 6: You had a seizure? Yeah. And where were you? Were
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 6: there parents?
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 31: I was actually at the doctor's office because I was
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 31: having an asthma attack.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 6: So you had asthma, and then now you're having a seizure,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 6: and it turns out to be this brain issue.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 31: Yeah, and then they took me to the hospital. And
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 31: when they did the scan, they realized there was a
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 31: mass in my brain.
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 6: Mass in your brain. And it was malignant, obviously.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 6: Okay. So at that point, you have to have this
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 6: thing removed. You're nine years old. You're a little girl.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 6: Now they got to literally remove part of your brain, right? Yeah.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 31: It was so scary because all I remember is the
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 31: doctor saying, you know, your chances are not high.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 6: You remember the doctor saying that? Yeah.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 31: And one of the other doctors came in, which was
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 31: a phenomenal doctor. And he said, you know what? You're
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 31: out of our team. Because I was petrified. I thought
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 31: I was going to die.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 6: What did your parents think?
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 31: We came from Chile. And they had just learned the language.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 31: And they were petrified.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 6: They were so scared. From South America.
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 6: And here you are in a hospital in, I guess,
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 6: in Rockland County. Is that where you were?
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 8: It was Westchester Medical Center.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 6: Westchester Medical Center. And you're nine years old. And they're
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 6: telling you you may die. Yeah.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 8: I was so scared.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 6: So when you came out of the operation, you were alive.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 31: Yes.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 6: And then how many weeks or months or years did
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 6: you have to endure side effects, issues after the surgery?
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 31: It was terrible for me because I was extremely intelligent
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 31: when I was little and I realized how much I
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 31: had suffered. And I still remember standing in front of
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 31: the mirror and I said to myself, my God, I
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 31: look like a monster. And everything just changed from there.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 31: I started having so many cognitive issues, memory issues.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 8: It just became very hard for me.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 6: What about depression? Any of that stuff? Did that all
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 6: set in?
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 8: It was very difficult because everyone made fun of me.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 6: They made fun of you? You told me this. You
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 6: were bullied quite a bit. You were harassed quite a bit.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 6: And they made fun of you.
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 6: Because you had scars and issues?
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 8: Because I had scars. I was overweight. And I just.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 31: I had a hard time remembering anything.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 6: Anything?
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but that doesn't seem to be the case now.
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not with you. I don't talk to
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 6: you all that much. But you seem to be actually smart.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 3: So.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 6: Do you have those issues now?
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 31: I was so excited that I was going to come
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 31: visit you this morning, so I put my alarm on.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 8: The problem is that I forgot to label it. So
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 8: I'm like, oh, my God, my alarm went off, but
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 8: where am I going?
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 6: So for a second there, you really had no idea.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 8: I had no idea.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 6: So you still have these issues today, even today. Yeah. Wow. Okay.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 6: So do you take medication now?
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I take a bunch of medication.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 6: Every day? Yeah. Just for the brain injury? Yeah.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 6: And how much of your brain would you say they
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 6: actually removed?
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 8: It was the size of the tennis ball, but then
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 8: the rest of it just kind of died off.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 6: What do you mean the rest of it died off?
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 6: So the cells around the part that they removed just
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 6: kind of died?
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was kind of like necrotic and it just
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 8: kind of died.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 6: So they have literally, between what they removed and what died,
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 6: like half your brain is gone and yet you're still
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 6: smarter than Justin. That's unbelievable. No, Justin's very, very bright.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 6: He's a great boy too. We love Justin. So you
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 6: started this charity how long ago?
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 8: About two months ago.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 6: Two months ago?
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 6: That's it?
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 29: Yeah.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 6: What were you doing for the last 25 years?
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 8: I don't know because I don't remember.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 31: Yeah.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 6: Have you seen the movie 50 First Dates without him
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 6: standing with you about anymore?
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's how I feel.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 6: Is that how you really feel?
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, every day is a new day.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 6: But you're not as bad as that one guy. It
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 6: was a 10-second Bob, a 10-second Tom. He would go, hey,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 6: nice to meet you. And then 10 seconds later, you forget.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 6: You don't have it that bad. I mean, you may forget.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 6: How bad is your memory? Oh, it's terrible.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 31: But the thing is, I get very proud of myself
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 31: because I... I put alarms on, but then they go off.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 31: But then the problem is I forget to label them.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 31: So I don't get anywhere.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 6: You have kids too, right? Yeah. So you remember their
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 6: names and all that stuff. Well, yeah.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 6: And a husband, remember his name or?
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 8: No, half of the time I don't know who he is.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 8: I wake up in the morning.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 6: And I'm like... You're not kidding.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 8: You're being serious.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 15: No.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 8: He laughs. He goes, don't come out of that room
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 8: unless you know who I am.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. So is there a certain part of this, though,
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 6: that is almost exciting because every day is like really
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 6: a new day?
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 8: No, I think it's great.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 6: You think it's great? Yeah. Like you seem so happy.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, why not?
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, you've forgotten
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 6: everything bad that's happened to you. You seem happy, right?
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, your life is pretty good now.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 6: So the only thing you really want now moving forward
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 6: is to grow this charity, this organization.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 8: I love helping people.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 6: You do?
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 12: I do.
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 6: And have you found a bunch of people like you
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 6: over the last couple of months that were bullied, harassed?
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 6: And with the same type of brain issue or- No.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 31: Just different types of disabilities. So I joined the Special
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 31: Olympics about like.
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 8: Two years ago.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 6: You did? Yeah. Okay. How'd you do?
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 31: And I still remember walking in and he was very
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 31: nice and he said, where is the athlete?
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 8: And I said, I'm the athlete.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 6: He goes, you are? I'm like, yeah.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 31: So that's been my biggest problem with this disability is
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 31: that nobody realizes.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 6: Because you look good. You look normal. I can't see
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 6: the scars right now. I can't see any of that.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 8: That's been the hardest part.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 6: So my son, for example, has a disability, my son Gabriel,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 6: who's an angel, and he's got something called dysproxia. And,
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 6: you know, 99% of his life, you'd never know he
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 6: had anything. He has trouble buttoning his shirt. When he runs,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 6: you can see it's not perfect, you know. But 99%
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 6: of the time, they're like, what's wrong with this kid?
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 6: So then my wife and I started this charity, and
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 6: we've raised a lot of money, thank God, because I
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 6: have very nice friends. But it's kind of the same thing.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 6: You know, certain issues, you just see it, right? You
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 6: can tell. With you, I really can't see anything. And
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 6: even when you speak, you're funny, you're good, you're smart.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 6: So I wouldn't even know there's something wrong with you.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 6: Except when this interview is over, you'll have no idea
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 6: who I am.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 12: Do you? No.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 6: You can't make this up. She's not even kidding.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 31: That's why I need you to sign something, so then
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 31: I'll be like, oh, well, I came here.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 8: At least I have a souvenir.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, I know.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 8: I hang it up in the wall.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 6: So do you have any family members that are listening
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 6: to this right now or friends?
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I hope so. I told them, I think.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 6: You told them, you don't remember. Okay. So then when
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 6: your interview is over here, you get in a car,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 6: you go back to Rockland County, and then what happens
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 6: the rest of the day? In your life, what does
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 6: a day look like?
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 8: Then I love going outside.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 6: You like going outside. I love it.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 8: I love going hiking.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 31: Like I said, majority of the last two months, it's
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 31: been my devotion of trying to Get this organization going
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 31: to helping people.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 6: Well, you wrote a very nice letter to President Trump,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 6: which he sent to me, which I did text the president,
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 6: just so you know, I promised I would. And I did.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 6: I sent that letter to the president. I can't guarantee
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 6: he looked at it. He did. He's going to do something.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 6: But I did do that. But knowing that Mike Lawler
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 6: is on your side, who I call the king of
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 6: Rockland County, Mr. Salt, that's a big deal.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 8: He's been amazing.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 6: He has been.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 8: Since the moment that I walked through those doors, he
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 8: welcomed me with open arms.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 6: He's a great guy.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 31: He's always been a great friend. He's always said, anything
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 31: that you need, I'm more than happy to help you.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 31: When he found out that I was having this event,
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 31: he actually moved his schedule around and they were able
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 31: to fit him in to come to this event.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 6: Isn't that awesome? Did you have a couple hundred people
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 6: there that day? What was the turnout?
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 8: It was about at least 400.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 6: Oh my God, you did great. My friend Dimitri was
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 6: probably there. He keeps calling me in Rockland County. I
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 6: know you had a phone call back there, Dimitri. So
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 6: the local politicians are helping you. The people are helping you.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 6: Are you in New City? Where are you exactly? Where
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 6: do I live?
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 8: I live in Suffern.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, Suffern. Okay. In fact, when I went to see
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 6: Mike Lawler about a month and a half ago and
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 6: President Trump came, that was in Suffern.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was sitting right in front of President Trump.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 6: That's where I met you.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 6: I met you that day. And I don't remember. See,
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 6: now I don't remember. There you go. Okay, folks. So
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 6: maybe we got the same thing.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 8: No, but I remember because I have a picture.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 6: I know. And Justin said, this young lady met you.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 6: She said you were very nice, which is no surprise.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 6: I'm a nice guy. And she said, you know, that
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 6: she told you about the whole thing and you wanted
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 6: to help her, which again, no surprise. I do want
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 6: to help you. And that's how this whole thing came about.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 6: So we met there at that big Rockland County, President Trump,
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 6: big day, right?
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 6: So you're right there in front of President Trump. Did
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 6: you like that?
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 8: I loved it.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 6: You love Trump, right?
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I love him.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 8: And I really want to meet him.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 6: Well, that one is going to be difficult. I don't know.
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 6: Let's see what we can do. Is that your lifelong
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 6: dream at this point, to meet President Trump? You know
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 6: what it is?
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 31: It's not even about him being the president. It's because
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 31: I think he's just a great person.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 6: Great guy.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 31: The fact that he always gets up no matter what,
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 31: all the criticism that he gets and how negative people
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 31: speak about him, I think he's just.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 12: A great person.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 6: Which you could appreciate because you went.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 8: Through all that.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 31: Yeah, I hated being bullied and people always spoke bad
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 31: about me even though they didn't even know me. And
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 31: that's why my dream is to grow this organization. But
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 31: I want to be different than any other organization because
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 31: that day I was really happy with the event. Seeing
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 31: all those people come through those doors made me smile.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 31: The fact that they were coming from all over the place.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 31: My biggest flaw was that day, I want to make
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 31: an organization that it's, yes, it's united and it's inclusive,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 31: but I want to make it for every single individual.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 31: Because that night I realized that every single individual, when
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 31: I had food out, I got sandwiches, everyone helped me.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 31: And then I realized that some of those people, they
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 31: couldn't chew. They had diabetes. They had kidney problems. So
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 31: I want to be able to have an organization that
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 31: I can have somebody in the kitchen and whatever they need,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 31: I can grow it to have a secretary and they
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 31: can take.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 30: All their needs.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 8: And for every single person, I want to individualize it.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 31: And if they're diabetic, I want to make something that
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 31: it's just for them.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 6: Nice.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 8: That's what I want to do.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 6: So where can people find out more about the organization
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 6: right now? Are you online or do you have an
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 6: online address?
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's called the Welfare League.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 6: Welfareleague.org maybe or. com? I know it's a very tough question.
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 8: I mean, I always give everyone my phone number.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 6: Just go to Google. I would go to Google and
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 6: Google the Welfare League, right? That's the best way to
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 6: do it. And then they can contact you and find
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 6: out ways to help, right?
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Like I said, I always give my phone number out.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 6: Your personal number?
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because I don't really care.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 6: Very bad idea. Very bad idea.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 8: I promise them they'll forget.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 25: By the way, it's thewelfareleague.net.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 6: Is that right? Yeah. So just so you know, Nikki,
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 6: it's thewelfareleague.net. You can remember that, right?
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, thewelfareleague.net.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 6: There you go. If I ask you tomorrow, what would
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 6: the answer be?
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 8: The Welfare League. No, I mean, listen, I remembered it,
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 8: but for some reason I'm throwing a blank at this moment.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 8: And I'm terrible at it.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 6: No, you're not.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 31: No, it's the Welfare League Empowering the Disability. and you
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 31: can follow me that way on Facebook.
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 6: I think the Welfare League doesn't. That's probably easier, don't you?
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 6: That's the email.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 25: Well, listen, they got a nice picture of you there, Nicky,
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 25: on the website.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 6: There you go. The president. There you go, the president.
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 25: And, yeah, it looks like a great website.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 6: Listen, you've done a great job.
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 25: A little donate button, top right.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 6: Donate button. Give her a couple of bucks. You've done
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 6: a great job, so you should be very proud of yourself.
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 6: You did a great job here today. The event was great,
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 6: Lola told me. Your organization is great, and you're going
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 6: to do all these dreams that you have are going
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 6: to come true, I guarantee you, okay?
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 6: It's good to see you.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Sid.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 6: All right. Sid, Sid, she knew. See that, Lou? Okay.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 6: How do I forget? Don or Howard. Excellent job. Our
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 6: name is Nikki Van Voren. Please help her out today, thewelfareleague.net.
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 2:16:56
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