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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator | 04-27-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sitting with me right now in studio is mister red
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  Speaker 1: Upper Media himself, the amazing host of not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two great shows here at seventy seven WABC five pm
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  Speaker 1: every weekday afternoon alongside we to Cosby H's Kats and
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  Speaker 1: Cosby and then of course his Sunday morning masterpiece eight am,
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  Speaker 1: Cats Round Table. Had a very busy weekend, very But
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  Speaker 1: before we get to all the fun stuff, I guess, Kats,
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  Speaker 1: we got to get right to what happened Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: at the White House. And I was worried for a
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  Speaker 1: second because I know you're friendly with Trump. I said,
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  Speaker 1: John's gotta be there, but you weren't there because your
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  Speaker 1: schedule was so packed. And now, as it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: thank god you weren't there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't there because it was Greek Independence weekend
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  Speaker 2: and we had I had the busiest weekend ever ever ever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Friday night, I had the Brooklyn Tech reunion
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  Speaker 2: dinner with my friends sixty years since graduating Brooklyn Tech. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: and we we had a good thing, a good party
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  Speaker 2: at the University Club, a good dinner, and some of
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  Speaker 2: those people haven't seen in twenty years, and it was
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  Speaker 2: so nice. It was you know, your old friends are
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  Speaker 2: your best friends. You know that. I think you know that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well the ones that are happy for you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because some of them they're a little envious of where
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  Speaker 1: you were where I am. But the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: really happy for you, they make you feel great.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I said, I don't give a crap. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still you know, they want to feel that way, they
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  Speaker 2: don't feel that way to me. It doesn't matter. I
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  Speaker 2: just I felt good. We how many people there?
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  Speaker 1: Forget to study? How many people you think were there?
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  Speaker 2: All graduating class was a thousand? Wow, And I think
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  Speaker 2: we had about one hundred people. And the one of
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  Speaker 2: the alumni tell me that we're seventy seven years old,
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  Speaker 2: seventy some of them, seventy seven seven seventy eight. It
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  Speaker 2: says forty percent of that might be gone. Yeah, my god. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They would saying, well, maybe you know, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a seventy or three union. Maybe we should do it
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  Speaker 2: every year or every five years now, I mean, then
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  Speaker 2: not wait till the ten years. And then the Saturday
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, we went back to the high school itself,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you the floors, the doors were the
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  Speaker 2: same doors, the same floor as they were.
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  Speaker 1: There, no kiddy years ago, no kidding. And where was
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  Speaker 1: at school? Exactly?
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  Speaker 2: John Tech twenty nine Fort Green Place in Brooklyn, right
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  Speaker 2: by the cowb Avenue subway I used to take and
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  Speaker 2: we had that's what cousin Bruce learned how to do radio.
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  Speaker 2: We had our own radio station and with the antenna
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  Speaker 2: on top of the Brooklyn Tech and it was it
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  Speaker 2: was something great.
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  Speaker 1: But didn't you live in Halem at that point?
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  Speaker 2: I took the subway for an hour, an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half, about fourteen years old, fifteen years old, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't think anything of it. The world has changed
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  Speaker 2: a lot. And then we did what else? We We
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  Speaker 2: had the Greek Independent The reason I didn't to go
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  Speaker 2: to Washington. I was the Grand Marshal for the Greek
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  Speaker 2: Independence Day parade. And they had a big galla on.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday, no Sat. Sunday night was the gallo.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So instead of being at the correspondence dinner because
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  Speaker 2: that was the Grand Marshal, I had to be right
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  Speaker 2: right and yeah, but by the way, and we had
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred people and I gave some speech.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do we have the audio from from John's speech?
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  Speaker 2: Cauld.
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  Speaker 1: We got some of that audio. I heard it was fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: not from John, from somebody else who said John was
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  Speaker 1: amazing on Saturday, now, Cort if I'm wrong. Coupled in
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  Speaker 1: all of that was also supposed to be a home
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  Speaker 1: game for the Saten Island Ferry Hawks, but the weather
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  Speaker 1: did not cooperate, so you had to play two games
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  Speaker 1: instead yesterday on Sunday. Right, So and all that you had.
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  Speaker 2: The gallow not only we I went for the parade
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  Speaker 2: in the morning and we watched a fifth avenue, We
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  Speaker 2: had the the WABC trolley, we had a fro float.
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  Speaker 2: We watched and then afterwards went al the way to
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island.
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  Speaker 1: So you did do that yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we did that. We did it all just like
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  Speaker 2: Buffy and McCall.
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  Speaker 1: Great song. I love that song. That would be key
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  Speaker 1: logo by the great Bertie Higgins. Ladies and gentlemen, key logo,
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  Speaker 1: but the great Bertie Higgins. So you had a very
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  Speaker 1: very very busy weekend. But just getting back to Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: what was your impression what you saw? Did you feel
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  Speaker 1: as if the gunman got too close? President Trump texted
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  Speaker 1: me and he thanked his Secret Service to me on
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  Speaker 1: early Sunday morning. But somebody came on the air. Pull
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  Speaker 1: Morrow said, well, he's quick to thank his cops, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of folks who still feel like this
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  Speaker 1: guy got a little too close.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think, Well, I think it's a bad venue.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a different world today than it was
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  Speaker 2: ten years ago or twenty years ago. And my advice
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  Speaker 2: to President Trump and I texted him that was you
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  Speaker 2: got to stay away from those kind of venues. You
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  Speaker 2: can't have two thousand, I don't know how many rooms
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  Speaker 2: there are upstairs at the Capitol Hilton. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: same place that they targeted Ronald Reagan. He shot him,
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  Speaker 2: Hanky shot him. Yep. And right now I think he
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  Speaker 2: has to be extra careful, extra triple extra careful because
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  Speaker 2: he's a target. And some of my intelligence people that
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  Speaker 2: I talked to, uh said that so far they sent
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  Speaker 2: three bozos against them. Next time they're gonna send professionals.
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  Speaker 1: You mean they sent you think this guy was hired
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  Speaker 1: by somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think there's more to this than we know. Look,
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  Speaker 2: there's certainly more to this than we know. In uh uh.
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  Speaker 1: Butler, yes, that one, I'll give you you think that
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  Speaker 1: clown that shrought up with the golf course was hired
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  Speaker 1: by somebody I don't know, and I don't think I know,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what he do sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: So that there were that way, there's no blame to
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  Speaker 2: go because don't forget. Don't forget what happened in Iraq
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  Speaker 2: when they pissed off President Bush and he went in
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  Speaker 2: there like like what was the old expression like Grant
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  Speaker 2: went through Richmond.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 2: And and I think, I just I don't trust you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I said, don't trust anybody. Uh. And the fact
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  Speaker 2: is that he's a target, he's a talk out. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he should build that ballroom so far as
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  Speaker 2: it's a more secure area. Uh and uh. And I
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  Speaker 2: said to him, you know there's nobody's there to replace you, now,
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  Speaker 2: said think about it. Who can replace the courage that
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  Speaker 2: this man has. Nobody? Nobody, Okay, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: keep the free world free. And the speech I gave
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  Speaker 2: yesterday at the Saturday night at the gala was that
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  Speaker 2: I praised two years ago when I introduced Mike Pompeo
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  Speaker 2: in Athens, and I said to the Prime Minister, and
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  Speaker 2: I said to everybody, Greece is for Greece, Germany is
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  Speaker 2: for Germans, French, France is for French, Italy is for Italians.
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  Speaker 2: Do not allow our country to be invaded. And that
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  Speaker 2: is important because that's what they're trying to do. Then
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  Speaker 2: they invaded Germany, they invaded France, and I called out,
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  Speaker 2: and they invaded the UK. You know the real reason
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  Speaker 2: a president, that King Charles is here to make peace
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  Speaker 2: between the Brits and Washington because of what their prime
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  Speaker 2: minister is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Storm is a mess.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's the real reason. They're friends. They're friends, but
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to they're trying to mend offense offenses. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But I said, I said to them on on Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: who are you gonna trust? You're gonna trust the French
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  Speaker 2: to protect you, You're gonna trust the Germans to protect you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there is no free world without the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America. There is no free world without a
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  Speaker 2: tough guy like President Trump. What are you gonna you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna trust Putin? No? I mean, but this is what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. This is what the French are doing, this
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  Speaker 2: is what the Germans are doing, and and that that
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  Speaker 2: prime minister in in great Britain. That's what he's.
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  Speaker 1: Doing about Spain. Spain terrible, God terrible.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm disappointed. No, So you know, you know what
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  Speaker 2: my attitude was to the Greeks in that room, I said,
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  Speaker 2: trust America before you trust some of those people horse
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  Speaker 2: the French or the Germans, Italians, of course, because without
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America there is no free world.
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  Speaker 2: There is no free Europe because you know, look what
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  Speaker 2: happened Iran. Are you gonna trust them with a nuclear bomb?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, President Trump is one hundred and ten percent correct.
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  Speaker 2: You can't trust them. Remember originally said I'm the one
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  Speaker 2: that went on on the air and said they're playing
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Hamas they got fourteen kids. They go in,
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians go in whoever the powers that be in
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  Speaker 2: Iran at that time. I shouldn't say all the Iranians,
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  Speaker 2: because the Persians of great people. They go in there
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  Speaker 2: and they said to the Hamas, you have fourteen kids,
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  Speaker 2: give us one of them, will give you ten thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna give you gun guns. Go in there
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  Speaker 2: and rape and kill and plunder. Yep, kill, do whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to do. But this is what and you
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  Speaker 2: know who gave him the money. We get President Biden
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  Speaker 2: by raising the price to one hundred dollars a barrow
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  Speaker 2: for forty eight months while he was president. Okay, because
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  Speaker 2: everybody is criticizing Trump. It's up to ninety dollars a
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  Speaker 2: barrel for six weeks, okay. And then I mean Trump
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  Speaker 2: had I mean Biden had it for forty eight months.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, guys, enough is enough of this crap? And
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  Speaker 2: and the fact is, you know what they're did. And
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  Speaker 2: then not only did they raise it to one hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars a barrow, they allowed the Iranians to go from
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  Speaker 2: three hundred thousand barrels a day where President Trump had
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  Speaker 2: a cap on it a cap to three million battles
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  Speaker 2: a day. We made them super wealthy. And with Russia
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  Speaker 2: at at ten million battles a day, they make at
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars a barrel. We made them super wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: They had Russians had nothing to do. They said, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's go take Ukraine. And in President Trump he said
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  Speaker 2: yesterday the hatred between Zarinski and Putin isn't you can't
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  Speaker 2: fix it, you can't mix it. No, I trust Zarenski
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  Speaker 2: like like I.
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  Speaker 1: May tell you I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I don't think he's a legitimate guy. What
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  Speaker 2: he wants I don't like. I mean, but the fact
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  Speaker 2: is that he's not a legitimate guy. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most that's one of the most crooked
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  Speaker 2: countries in the world. But all of those that say
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  Speaker 2: lay off Iran. Yes, President President Trump does not want
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  Speaker 2: to plunder Iran, but he's got to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the current management. That's because if they gave those those
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  Speaker 2: people in Hamas all the weapons to go in there
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  Speaker 2: and plunder not just as, all of them, but why
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  Speaker 2: why they would do that same thing with your weapons?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: That I don't get it either.
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  Speaker 2: It looks I've had a lot of friends from Brooklyn
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  Speaker 2: Tech and a lot of them are on the liberal side,
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  Speaker 2: which is fine. I get along with everybody, Yes I am,
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  Speaker 2: But but look, I look, I think this should be
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  Speaker 2: tor res despondence. There should be communications with everybody, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: If they're honest, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: But no, no, but but but they're but they're saying that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we we should give i Ran a break.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, don't you know that way?
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  Speaker 2: You gotta get rid of the people.
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  Speaker 1: The regimes. Gotta go to regime, right, you gotta. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta make sure there's no more when I'm being enriched,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to make sure the straight is open
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  Speaker 1: one more for you. Now you have a better relationship
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  Speaker 1: with this guy the night Do I hate him? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the Mayor? You've actually met with the guy. For me?
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  Speaker 1: When I see King Charles being escorted by Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: to the Freedom Tower on Wednesday to the nine to
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  Speaker 1: eleven Museum, I'm a vomit all over myself. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think about King Charles coming to New York this
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to visit the museum with Mom Donnie and even
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  Speaker 1: coming back on nine to eleven to commemorate that day
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  Speaker 1: with the Mayor.
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  Speaker 2: There's two events on Wednesday with King Charles. I've been
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  Speaker 2: invited to both of them. I'm not sure I'm gonna go. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta do my five o'clock show. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: watch you there now ahead of time. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: there and sit down for an hour ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you just why don't you just go to
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  Speaker 1: the State Department dinner at the White House tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not invited to that. Oh, yes, you are I'm
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  Speaker 2: not invited.
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  Speaker 1: John one text, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Want to ask, Okay, I don't want to ask. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to. My daughter is going to the congressional
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  Speaker 2: uh hearings.
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  Speaker 1: Charles is gonna join.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the giant session is going to both. Yes, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Good for her, Yeah, good for her. But look, the
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  Speaker 2: sun is shining, and let's save New York. Let's it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's save New York. Let's save New York State. And
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  Speaker 2: we love, we love New York. You know, I go
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  Speaker 2: to Florida. That's great. I love Florida. But four days later,
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  Speaker 2: I want to come back, same way, and I go
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  Speaker 2: to the Hampton's three days light. I want to come down.
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  Speaker 1: I know it gets in your blood. This place, it's
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  Speaker 1: a weird thing. It gets in your blood.
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  Speaker 2: Right. It's the greatest city in the world. And when
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  Speaker 2: I did meet with Mondamie and I met with his
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  Speaker 2: deputy mayor, uh Julie Sue, I said to her, look,
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  Speaker 2: if I can help in any way, I want to help.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, all I'm saying is, uh, let's let's
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  Speaker 2: let's see what happens that. You know the question I'm asking,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you the question I'm asking, let's see
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  Speaker 2: what the actions are versus him possibly playing the violin
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  Speaker 2: to his own people. Yeah, you have here the plan, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the old expression that Jews, the Greeks, the Italians war
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  Speaker 2: one people. Yes, the playing the violin to your own thing.
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  Speaker 2: And then let's see what he really does well, or
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  Speaker 2: what he can do. There's a lot of power here,
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  Speaker 2: you know that. You know that city council Julie Mennin
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be the one and maybe even Hulkle to
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  Speaker 2: keep him in check. We'll see, Well, it's up to
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  Speaker 2: Hukele and she's got a big election and people, you
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  Speaker 2: know blackman has a great shot. Yes he does, but
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  Speaker 2: but he has to communicate that what he's gonna do,
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  Speaker 2: and and especially that the sergeant. The pardon for that
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  Speaker 2: sergeant Eric Duran, Eric Durant, And then I think whoever's
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  Speaker 2: governor has to pardon that sergeant. This was wrong, wrong conviction. Agree,
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  Speaker 2: Jake Clayton, the US attorney coordinating the federal forces down here,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI and all the other da as a coordination
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  Speaker 2: and why you know why murders are down and everything. First,
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  Speaker 2: we got rid of a lot of migrants right now,
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  Speaker 2: The criminals.
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  Speaker 1: That was Tom Holman, President Trump and at the time
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  Speaker 1: Christine Oh, okay, right.
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  Speaker 2: And and I think the federal government is overseeing it
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  Speaker 2: through Jake Clayton, overseeing what's going on in New York.
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  Speaker 2: And if the New York City or New York State
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  Speaker 2: won't prosecute, he'll get he'll cross.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, Jessica Tish too. Amazing, amazing, amazing appearances always.
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  Speaker 2: I know you had a great weekend. So the sun,
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  Speaker 2: the sun is shining. The sun was shining. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what happened with the Greek parade. It was raining
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, was rating everybody. That's the end of the world.
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  Speaker 2: But as we were getting ready to march, the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Sign came out. God loves the Greeks, just like it
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  Speaker 1: never rains on Young Kapor never. It's always, Sonny, I've
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  Speaker 1: noticed that. Goodness yere. I love you, John, great job,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, wake a thank you. I will
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  Speaker 1: John Katz Matiti check him out later on this afternoon
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