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- 0:00Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
- 0:05Speaker 1: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
- 0:09Speaker 3: Congratulations, Sid, on your induction into the New York State
- 0:13Speaker 3: Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I completely agree with President Trump.
- 0:17Speaker 3: It's unbelievable it took them so long. Sid, you've not
- 0:20Speaker 3: only become one of the great voices of New York
- 0:23Speaker 3: and America, you're one of the greatest voices of truth
- 0:26Speaker 3: for Israel. And there's a reason you have such an
- 0:29Speaker 3: enormous audience. You don't blabber woke nonsense. You don't tell
- 0:34Speaker 3: people what the fashionable crowd thinks they should hear. You
- 0:37Speaker 3: tell them the truth, the hard truth. And you tell
- 0:41Speaker 3: it with passion, with humor, and with absolutely no fear. Sid,
- 0:46Speaker 3: I want you to know, Israel knows who its friends are.
- 0:50Speaker 3: You have stood with us when it was popular, and
- 0:52Speaker 3: more importantly, when it wasn't. That means a great deal
- 0:56Speaker 3: to me, It means a great deal to the people
- 0:58Speaker 3: of Israel. So thank you, Sid, and congratulations. The Hall
- 1:02Speaker 3: of Fame just got a lot louder and a lot better.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Mazel tov, Sid.
- 1:08Speaker 4: The warning that we got is about as dire as
- 1:11Speaker 4: it gets. The very people who form these models say
- 1:14Speaker 4: that AI is moving so quickly, we're about to lose
- 1:17Speaker 4: control of it. And if that happens, it could cause
- 1:20Speaker 4: human extinction. This is all the backdrop of this city
- 1:24Speaker 4: council hearing that took place the first of its kind
- 1:26Speaker 4: in the nation. Whistleblowers who have worked within the industry
- 1:31Speaker 4: warn that the technology is advancing at a pace far
- 1:33Speaker 4: beyond our ability to understand, monitor, and control it. Their
- 1:37Speaker 4: concern isn't just what AI can do today, but what
- 1:40Speaker 4: happens when these advanced frontier models become more powerful, more autonomous,
- 1:45Speaker 4: and increasingly capable of doing the very research and coding
- 1:48Speaker 4: used to build the next generation of AI.
- 1:51Speaker 5: We do not know how to control any AI system yet.
- 1:55Speaker 5: So any AI system that we build, or perhaps more accurately,
- 2:00Speaker 5: that we grow, we don't fully control it. We don't
- 2:04Speaker 5: understand its drives or why it does the.
- 2:06Speaker 6: Things it does.
- 2:08Speaker 5: That was the first thing that became apparent. The second
- 2:12Speaker 5: thing is that the pace of capability improvement is accelerating,
- 2:17Speaker 5: and the capabilities of the models next year will be.
- 2:22Speaker 7: Very high.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Well, that warning led to one of the most important
- 2:24Speaker 4: questions of the day. What happens when these models go rogue?
- 2:27Speaker 4: Council Speaker Julie Menon pressed AI and tech leaders on
- 2:30Speaker 4: the safeguards that actually exist and whether a human can
- 2:34Speaker 4: shut down a frontier model if it begins acting in
- 2:37Speaker 4: ways its creators didn't intend.
- 2:40Speaker 8: As you all four are under oath, we want to
- 2:43Speaker 8: hear how each of you quantify the risk imposed by
- 2:48Speaker 8: AI in the worst case catastrophic scenario. I don't know.
- 2:54Speaker 9: I also don't think it matters whether it's 1% or
- 2:59Speaker 9: 10% or a 20% chance that something catastrophic will go wrong.
- 3:04Speaker 9: None of these levels is remotely acceptable. We should not
- 3:09Speaker 9: train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case
- 3:14Speaker 9: that we can keep under human control.
- 3:17Speaker 8: I'm sorry, but to say you don't know and it
- 3:19Speaker 8: doesn't matter is flippant at best.
- 3:23Speaker 4: Certainly a lot of questions, not a lot of answers.
- 3:26Speaker 4: By the way, this is part of a larger initiative, Natasha,
- 3:28Speaker 4: by the city council to put these guardrails on AI
- 3:31Speaker 4: in place, at least temporarily.
- 3:33Speaker 7: For here in the city.
- 3:34Speaker 4: That's the latest from City Hall.
- 3:35Speaker 10: Back to you.
- 3:36Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a big conversation happening across the country. Teresa,
- 3:38Speaker 9: I understand five companies were invited to participate, but only
- 3:41Speaker 9: four showed up.
- 3:42Speaker 8: So who was missing?
- 3:44Speaker 4: Well, that would be SpaceX. All five companies were invited.
- 3:47Speaker 4: SpaceX was subpoenaed. They didn't show. Elon Musk did not come.
- 3:53Speaker 4: So now the city council speaker says they are pursuing
- 3:56Speaker 4: that subpoena in court. We'll stay on that and see
- 3:58Speaker 4: what happens.
- 4:00Speaker 11: I'm Bruce Blankman.
- 4:01Speaker 12: I'm here in Manhattan with a very talented and very
- 4:05Speaker 12: creative artist.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Debra Messing. We all love her.
- 4:10Speaker 13: She is truly iconic and she is trying as hard
- 4:15Speaker 13: as she can to save New York, to make sure
- 4:19Speaker 13: that it's safe for Jewish people to live in this
- 4:22Speaker 13: community and to live in this state. So, Deborah, thank
- 4:25Speaker 13: you so much for your courage to speak out.
- 4:27Speaker 14: Oh, gosh, I am so grateful that you are running.
- 4:32Speaker 14: You are what we need more than anything. The decline
- 4:38Speaker 14: in this city over the last four years has.
- 4:41Speaker 15: Been so exponential and devastating economically, socially, on every level,
- 4:48Speaker 15: and obviously we've lost so much business here, people are
- 4:52Speaker 15: leaving the city.
- 4:53Speaker 16: I was born here, this is the city I love,
- 4:56Speaker 16: and it's not the city that I love anymore. And
- 5:01Speaker 16: I believe with all my heart that you are the answer.
- 5:05Speaker 17: You are the affordable campaign candidate.
- 5:09Speaker 18: And I think more than anything, people are just really
- 5:13Speaker 18: struggling and they need their utilities to be lower and
- 5:18Speaker 18: they don't want to have to pay to have congestion
- 5:21Speaker 18: and the driving and it's just too expensive to live
- 5:25Speaker 18: in New York City And I love the fact that.
- 5:29Speaker 15: That is the top of your mind.
- 5:32Speaker 11: We have to cut taxes, cut utility expenses, and create
- 5:36Speaker 11: good jobs so our young people will stay here. Jobs
- 5:39Speaker 11: that pay good wages, good benefits, and create economic activity
- 5:44Speaker 11: and prosperity. That's important because we have to bring our
- 5:48Speaker 11: state back.
- 5:49Speaker 19: As you said, we used to be the Empire State,
- 5:52Speaker 19: and we can do it again.
- 5:52Speaker 2: And I want you to love New York again.
- 5:54Speaker 20: I do too.
- 5:56Speaker 21: Watch.
- 5:56Speaker 22: The world's going to be, OK, let's negotiate. You know,
- 6:00Speaker 22: Israel's got to negotiate. They're not going to negotiate. These
- 6:03Speaker 22: people have played their cards. They want to kill as
- 6:07Speaker 22: many Israelis as they can. And negotiating with killers is
- 6:10Speaker 22: not an option for the elected government of Israel. And
- 6:14Speaker 22: so we're just going to have to remain steadfast. But
- 6:15Speaker 22: it's not going to take long. It's gone on too long.
- 6:19Speaker 22: Surely there's a way to settle this through negotiations. Both
- 6:22Speaker 22: sides are guilty. My view is one side is guilty,
- 6:25Speaker 22: and it's not Israel.
- 6:26Speaker 23: I love it.
- 6:29Speaker 24: Another breath of fresh air. There aren't two sides here.
- 6:32Speaker 24: One side attacked, and the other side is defending itself.
- 6:36Speaker 24: And there's no question that there was issues beforehand when
- 6:39Speaker 24: Israel was trying to make peace with its Palestinian neighbors.
- 6:42Speaker 24: but they clearly don't want to make peace. Hamas certainly
- 6:45Speaker 24: doesn't want to make peace. So who are you negotiating with?
- 6:47Speaker 24: And then we get fed up in the West. Oh,
- 6:49Speaker 24: we can't continue this. Okay, it's nice to say that,
- 6:52Speaker 24: but who are you negotiating with? Who are you making
- 6:54Speaker 24: a deal with? The people who wrote on their charter
- 6:57Speaker 24: that we are determined to destroy the Jewish state? What
- 7:01Speaker 24: exactly are you negotiating? We have to defend ourselves. We
- 7:04Speaker 24: have to defeat the enemy. And it's not fun.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Nobody loves it.
- 7:08Speaker 24: The people who hate it the most is Israel. But
- 7:13Speaker 24: get real, man. The president's real.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Proud to call him a friend, the great President Donald Trump.
- 7:20Speaker 25: Mr.
- 7:21Speaker 2: President, how are you, pal?
- 7:23Speaker 25: Well, I'm good, and it's good to be with you.
- 7:25Speaker 2: It's good to have you, too. You know, people have
- 7:27Speaker 2: called me courageous President Trump all week. I'm actually doing
- 7:30Speaker 2: the show from a place called Snerot, Israel. which they
- 7:34Speaker 2: burned down the police department. They killed a bunch of
- 7:36Speaker 2: people inside the kibbutzim, women, babies, children. Here I am
- 7:40Speaker 2: today in Israel, and I know this. I know this.
- 7:43Speaker 2: As a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, you're from Queens. You
- 7:46Speaker 2: care about the Jewish people deeply.
- 7:48Speaker 23: You know what?
- 7:48Speaker 2: I have to laugh, President Trump. They'll call you an anti-Semite.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I go, wait a second, wait a second. His daughter converted.
- 7:54Speaker 2: She's Jewish, and she's a real good Jew, not a
- 7:56Speaker 2: crappy Jew like Doug Hemhoff. She's a real good Jew.
- 7:59Speaker 2: They're going to be in temple this weekend from Yom Kippur.
- 8:02Speaker 2: His son-in-law, Jared, helped create the Abraham Accords with him.
- 8:05Speaker 2: His grandchildren, I know how much Trump loves his grandkids.
- 8:08Speaker 2: They're all Jewish. This means a lot to you. So
- 8:12Speaker 2: me being here, October 7th, President Trump, I know this
- 8:16Speaker 2: means a lot to you.
- 8:17Speaker 23: Well, it does.
- 8:18Speaker 26: And nobody's done more for the Jewish people than I have.
- 8:21Speaker 26: Nobody's done more for Israel as a president, maybe beyond
- 8:25Speaker 26: being a president, if you want to know the truth.
- 8:27Speaker 26: Golan Heights, I moved the capital, ended the Iran nuclear deal,
- 8:31Speaker 26: which was a great thing to do. But Biden, of course,
- 8:34Speaker 26: did nothing with it.
- 8:34Speaker 25: You know, I had them where they would have made
- 8:36Speaker 25: a deal. Any day you could have walked away with
- 8:38Speaker 25: a deal.
- 8:38Speaker 23: I ended it.
- 8:40Speaker 25: And it was a great thing. You know, Bibi never
- 8:42Speaker 25: wanted it.
- 8:43Speaker 26: He said, please don't do it.
- 8:44Speaker 25: It was very dangerous.
- 8:45Speaker 26: It was a terrible thing, but they didn't do anything
- 8:47Speaker 26: with it. But if you think about Golan Heights, but
- 8:50Speaker 26: if you think about Israel, OK, take her, take Israel
- 8:54Speaker 26: and the.
- 8:54Speaker 6: Capital of Israel going to Jerusalem.
- 8:57Speaker 25: I did that. And then I built the embassy.
- 9:00Speaker 6: I got it built.
- 9:01Speaker 23: Nobody thought that was possible.
- 9:02Speaker 6: I got it.
- 9:03Speaker 26: It wouldn't be built for 30 more years.
- 9:05Speaker 25: And I got it built in We.
- 9:07Speaker 26: Took a building that was existing, which was really good,
- 9:10Speaker 26: and converted it. And it's beautiful. You'll never build a
- 9:13Speaker 26: more beautiful embassy. And I got it all done in
- 9:16Speaker 26: the best location. They were going to spend billions of dollars.
- 9:19Speaker 26: I got it done for peanuts. And it's one of
- 9:23Speaker 26: the most beautiful embassies with all Jerusalem stone, everything.
- 9:27Speaker 6: But all of the things.
- 9:28Speaker 26: And then, of course, the Abraham, of course, that nobody
- 9:30Speaker 26: could have done. And I did.
- 9:32Speaker 2: All of that.
- 9:32Speaker 26: And, you know, let's put it this way. I should
- 9:37Speaker 26: get 100% of the Jewish vote and I don't.
- 9:39Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 9:40Speaker 6: We did not seek that war.
- 9:41Speaker 21: It was waged upon us by horrific barbaric terrorists who raped, butchered,
- 9:46Speaker 21: abducted and killed our citizens. And with our inherent right
- 9:50Speaker 21: for self-defense, we went out to fight and we changed
- 9:54Speaker 21: the route of the Middle East with our heroic fighters.
- 9:57Speaker 21: And all the rest is bashing and attacking around us
- 10:01Speaker 21: all over the place blaming Israel for all the faults
- 10:04Speaker 21: but the truth of the matter is that Israel is
- 10:06Speaker 21: protecting the West and the free world by its activities.
- 10:10Speaker 14: Four errors tonight.
- 10:11Speaker 23: What do you think caused this defense to completely unravel?
- 10:14Speaker 27: Yeah, I mean, obviously, a really rough night, to say
- 10:17Speaker 27: the least, for us. So, you know, we've got to
- 10:20Speaker 27: get over it. You know, we've responded all year to
- 10:25Speaker 27: difficult times, and we've got to do that again. We've
- 10:28Speaker 27: got to get ourselves up off the mat.
- 10:29Speaker 28: Obviously, tonight was just.
- 10:31Speaker 27: Not good enough for us and certainly not good enough
- 10:34Speaker 27: to beat that club. So we got to get over
- 10:37Speaker 27: it and, you know, plan for our lives Tuesday night.
- 10:41Speaker 2: He said, well, we're going to have to come back
- 10:43Speaker 2: and play good baseball on Tuesday. And let me ask
- 10:48Speaker 2: Noam Layden, my news guy, the best in the business.
- 10:53Speaker 2: When Aaron Boone says at the very end, we need
- 10:57Speaker 2: to come back and play our best baseball on Tuesday,
- 11:01Speaker 2: why is that a mistake?
- 11:02Speaker 7: Well, that's not going to help them because the game's
- 11:04Speaker 7: not until Wednesday.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Right! So how could you expect Aaron Boone to manage
- 11:10Speaker 2: his team to a win when he's going to be
- 11:12Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium tonight and no one else is going
- 11:14Speaker 2: to be there?
- 11:17Speaker 7: Nobody should tell him just to see if he shows up.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Right, just go on out to the park, Aaron. It'll
- 11:21Speaker 2: be great.
- 11:21Speaker 29: Maybe that's what he wants to do.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Well, listen, let me say this. You know today, we're
- 11:26Speaker 2: going to talk to Joe Meningo coming up, the legendary
- 11:30Speaker 2: WFAN host and now a weekly contributor with us on
- 11:33Speaker 2: this program. That's how big we are. We're going to
- 11:36Speaker 2: talk to Joe today, but on WFAN all day, they're
- 11:41Speaker 2: going to be killing Aaron Boone. They do it anyway.
- 11:44Speaker 2: All year, every year. Does it matter? Yeah, there you go.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Does it matter how many games the Yankees win? They
- 11:51Speaker 2: won 93 this year. Really 95 when you consider they
- 11:54Speaker 2: took two from the Boston Red Sox in the wild
- 11:57Speaker 2: card round. But Yankee fans want a championship. I think
- 12:01Speaker 2: this is year nine for Aaron Boone. Next year would
- 12:04Speaker 2: be 10 if he gets there. And the Yankees haven't won.
- 12:08Speaker 2: They've not won a World Series now 17 years running.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Last time the Yankees won it, 2009, under Joe Girardi.
- 12:17Speaker 2: So Boone can win 95, he can win 100. Yankee
- 12:20Speaker 2: fans don't care. In fact, I think in Boone's nine-year stay,
- 12:24Speaker 2: I may be wrong, but he's only gotten to the
- 12:27Speaker 2: World Series once. And that was a loss to the
- 12:30Speaker 2: Dodgers two years ago. Brutal series for Aaron Judge. So
- 12:34Speaker 2: the Yankees are now facing elimination. They played a terrible
- 12:39Speaker 2: baseball game last night. And the reason why Boone is
- 12:42Speaker 2: going to get killed today is he continues to play
- 12:45Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon. And Ryan McMahon offers nothing for the Yankees offensively.
- 12:52Speaker 2: So the only reason, the only reason why you can
- 12:56Speaker 2: make any argument, I'd rather see Anthony Volpe out there.
- 13:00Speaker 2: I'd rather see Caballeros out there. Ahmed Rosario. Lou Ruffino.
- 13:04Speaker 2: I don't care.
- 13:05Speaker 25: Let's be honest.
- 13:06Speaker 2: The only reason, yes, let's be honest, Joseph, that Boone...
- 13:10Speaker 2: can defend, putting McMahon at third is, Ryan is the
- 13:15Speaker 2: best defensive third baseman on the Yanks. And he failed
- 13:20Speaker 2: the Yankees defensively last night, making the very first of
- 13:24Speaker 2: those four errors. So he gives you nothing offensively, nothing,
- 13:30Speaker 2: and he made a bad error last night. So he's
- 13:32Speaker 2: going to get killed for that. Just trust me. All
- 13:35Speaker 2: day today, why didn't he play Volpe? Why didn't he
- 13:37Speaker 2: play Caballeros? Again, we'll talk to Joe Benningo about these,
- 13:42Speaker 2: you know, details. He's the minutia of baseball, which we
- 13:45Speaker 2: don't do here on this show for the most part.
- 13:48Speaker 2: That's an FAN, ESPN thing. But trust me when I
- 13:51Speaker 2: tell you, if you turn on the fan today at
- 13:53Speaker 2: any point, whether it's Boomer and Geo, which I don't
- 13:56Speaker 2: know why you listen to that when I'm on, but
- 13:59Speaker 2: Evan and Tiki or Craig and C-Mac, they're going to
- 14:02Speaker 2: be killing Aaron Boone. You agree with that, Lou?
- 14:07Speaker 29: Of course I agree with it.
- 14:08Speaker 2: That's all they do anyway.
- 14:09Speaker 13: Right.
- 14:09Speaker 29: Well, the second guessing will start. By the way, maybe
- 14:14Speaker 29: they're not way off. Something has to change. They're doing
- 14:18Speaker 29: the same.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Thing year after year. Winning a lot of games and
- 14:22Speaker 2: then posing, for the most part, outside of two years
- 14:25Speaker 2: ago they got closer, but posing no threat. When it
- 14:29Speaker 2: gets to the postseason.
- 14:30Speaker 29: Well, they don't have their two big guys, obviously.
- 14:33Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've had it before and they still lost.
- 14:35Speaker 30: Right.
- 14:36Speaker 22: Of course.
- 14:36Speaker 29: So you have to do something to change your team
- 14:40Speaker 29: when you just keep running into the same and committing
- 14:43Speaker 29: three errors in the first inning.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Poor Cam Schlittler, best pitcher in baseball. And now he's done.
- 14:51Speaker 2: So you get Max Freed, who's a wonderful pitcher, too,
- 14:53Speaker 2: for game three.
- 14:54Speaker 29: Jazz Chisholm is like.
- 14:56Speaker 2: He's a terrible second baseman. He's not a second baseman.
- 14:58Speaker 23: No.
- 14:59Speaker 2: He's not a second baseman. So the Yankees, but then
- 15:02Speaker 2: if you're going to call out those types of situations,
- 15:06Speaker 2: doesn't that speak louder? And I like this guy a lot,
- 15:09Speaker 2: a lot. But doesn't that speak louder to the GM,
- 15:12Speaker 2: Brian Cashman, than the manager? You got players out of
- 15:15Speaker 2: place because they don't have the right personnel at those positions.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Is that not a fair criticism? I don't know.
- 15:24Speaker 29: It's going to happen. Unfortunately, it will happen. I love him.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Didn't he just sign an extension or he's about to sign?
- 15:30Speaker 2: A long-term extension, Brian? Another three years?
- 15:33Speaker 29: He's the Yankee family, man.
- 15:35Speaker 2: He ain't going anywhere.
- 15:36Speaker 29: No, he's not going anywhere.
- 15:37Speaker 2: And the Steinbrenners like Aaron Boone, too. So when the
- 15:40Speaker 2: Yankees lose this series, and they're not winning three straight,
- 15:43Speaker 2: let's just stop the nonsense, okay? Stop it. I know
- 15:45Speaker 2: what Sal Licata said yesterday. He's out of his mind.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Yankees have scored two runs in two games. They can't
- 15:51Speaker 2: catch the baseball. They're not winning this series, okay? Sal's
- 15:54Speaker 2: not worried. Right, so then we're going to have the
- 15:56Speaker 2: same conversation all over again. Cashman has either signed or
- 16:01Speaker 2: is about to sign an extension. He's not going anywhere,
- 16:05Speaker 2: so we have the same boon conversation. I don't know
- 16:08Speaker 2: his contractual status because, honestly, I'm more concerned today about
- 16:13Speaker 2: the three-year commemoration of October the 7th tomorrow than the Yankees.
- 16:18Speaker 2: That's why I do news talk now. That's why I'm
- 16:21Speaker 2: not hosting a show with the band, which I can
- 16:23Speaker 2: still do today and get great ratings. And trust me,
- 16:27Speaker 2: Chris Oliveira would love it. What do you think, Dom?
- 16:30Speaker 2: I do.
- 16:31Speaker 31: But I have a question for you about the Yankees
- 16:32Speaker 31: before you move on. How important, because I'm not a
- 16:35Speaker 31: gigantic baseball fan, how important is a manager to a
- 16:39Speaker 31: baseball team compared to a coach of a football team
- 16:42Speaker 31: or something like that?
- 16:43Speaker 2: Not nearly as important. Because football, you can scheme your
- 16:48Speaker 2: way to a win. For example, Tom Brady, when he
- 16:53Speaker 2: won his first Super Bowl as a rookie with the Patriots,
- 16:56Speaker 2: that team was not nearly as talented as the Rams. Now,
- 17:02Speaker 2: the Rams had won the Super Bowl two years before that,
- 17:05Speaker 2: that amazing win over Tennessee and Atlanta. I was there
- 17:08Speaker 2: under Dick Vermeule. But then they moved on, Dick left,
- 17:12Speaker 2: and he handed the reins over to his coordinator, Mike Martz.
- 17:15Speaker 2: And Martz decided for some reason... when the Patriots played
- 17:18Speaker 2: the Rams in the Super Bowl, to stop giving Marshall
- 17:21Speaker 2: Falk the football. And that cost the Rams the game.
- 17:25Speaker 2: He was outcoached. I'll give you one closer to home.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Super Bowl XXV, no. The Giants had taken on the
- 17:31Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills. The Giants have their backup quarterback in the game,
- 17:35Speaker 2: Jeff Hostetler. Sims was out. They had an aged defense,
- 17:40Speaker 2: Lawrence Taylor, not the same player he was in 1986.
- 17:44Speaker 2: And the Bills were loaded with Hall of Famers.
- 17:47Speaker 23: Loaded.
- 17:48Speaker 2: Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reid, Bruce Smith, Steve Tasker,
- 17:54Speaker 2: the list goes on and on. But Parcells said, I'll
- 17:57Speaker 2: tell you what, I'm going to hand the football to O.J.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Anderson about a thousand times to keep that Buffalo offense
- 18:04Speaker 2: off the field. And it still almost didn't work because
- 18:07Speaker 2: the truth is the Bills had a chance to win
- 18:09Speaker 2: the game. If their kicker, Scott Norwood, makes a very
- 18:13Speaker 2: makeable field goal, he missed it. But, yes, he kept
- 18:16Speaker 2: the Bills' offense off the field, and that gave the
- 18:18Speaker 2: Giants a shot. And God was good to them, and
- 18:21Speaker 2: they won. So football, the coach, if he schemes, he
- 18:25Speaker 2: can beat a more talented team. Baseball, listen, when the
- 18:29Speaker 2: Yankees hired Joe Torre, the headline of the New York
- 18:33Speaker 2: Post read, Clueless Joe. A play on Shoeless Joe. Clueless Joe.
- 18:39Speaker 2: He had managed in Atlanta. They were good, actually. Dale Murphy,
- 18:42Speaker 2: Bob Horner, Chris Chambliss. But they didn't win. He managed
- 18:46Speaker 2: the Mets. They were terrible. He managed St.
- 18:49Speaker 6: Louis.
- 18:50Speaker 2: They were terrible. So the Yankees replaced Buck Showalter with
- 18:54Speaker 2: Joe Torre. And the New York Post read Clueless Joe.
- 18:58Speaker 2: But guess what Joe had when he got to the Bronx?
- 19:01Speaker 2: Derek Jeter. Bernie Williams. Andy Pettit. Mariano Rivera. And the
- 19:07Speaker 2: Yankees made some trades in 96, bringing in people like
- 19:10Speaker 2: Tino Martinez and Jeff Nelson. And Joe Torre went on
- 19:13Speaker 2: to manage in six World Series for the Yankees, and
- 19:16Speaker 2: he won four of those. He went from clueless Joe
- 19:19Speaker 2: to a guy that's considered today as one of the
- 19:21Speaker 2: greatest managers of all time. Not because he became a
- 19:25Speaker 2: great manager. But because he had immense young talent in
- 19:30Speaker 2: the Bronx. So, basketball, same thing. Phil Jackson, best coach ever. Well,
- 19:36Speaker 2: he had Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Phil Jackson, best
- 19:40Speaker 2: coach ever. Well, he had Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
- 19:43Speaker 2: And then he came to the Knicks, he couldn't win.
- 19:46Speaker 2: Same thing with Larry Brown. Came to the Knicks, he
- 19:48Speaker 2: couldn't win. So, of all... the sports, of all the sports,
- 19:53Speaker 2: baseball is the easiest to win. I remember sitting once
- 19:58Speaker 2: in the fan studios with Mad Dog Russo. And he
- 20:01Speaker 2: had Tony La Russa in there. And I interviewed Joe Torre,
- 20:04Speaker 2: asked him the same question. And they would say, Sid,
- 20:07Speaker 2: the truth is a really good manager maybe in 162
- 20:12Speaker 2: games gets you 10 more wins. That's it. So to
- 20:16Speaker 2: answer your question, I did it in very long form.
- 20:19Speaker 2: Of all the major sports, the manager, the coach, whatever
- 20:23Speaker 2: you want to call them, in baseball, especially compared to
- 20:27Speaker 2: basketball and football, means the least.
- 20:30Speaker 31: So when all those idiots call into the fan today
- 20:33Speaker 31: calling for the firing of Aaron Boone, they.
- 20:35Speaker 7: Just don't know what the hell they're talking about.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, no, there are some issues. The
- 20:37Speaker 2: way Aaron Boone handles the bullpen, you know, and... Again,
- 20:41Speaker 2: Aaron Boone deciding to stick with Ryan McMahon, although, hey,
- 20:45Speaker 2: that's the guy that Brian Cashman got him. You know,
- 20:48Speaker 2: that's the guy who supposedly is going to be your
- 20:51Speaker 2: best option defensively at third base. So is that really
- 20:55Speaker 2: a Boone issue or a Cashman issue? I don't know.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Does Boone make every right decision all the time?
- 21:01Speaker 25: No.
- 21:03Speaker 2: But a lot of folks would love a manager who
- 21:05Speaker 2: wins somewhere between 90 and 100 baseball games every year
- 21:09Speaker 2: and has the Yankees in the postseason eight out of
- 21:12Speaker 2: nine times. I think he's been there nine years, eight
- 21:15Speaker 2: out of nine times. But, again, this is the Yanks,
- 21:18Speaker 2: 27 world championships. They expect to win the World Series,
- 21:22Speaker 2: and it's been 17 years. Do I think the fans
- 21:26Speaker 2: get carried away with Boone?
- 21:27Speaker 23: Yes.
- 21:28Speaker 2: But is he worthy of criticism?
- 21:30Speaker 23: Sure.
- 21:31Speaker 2: And what else are you going to talk about on
- 21:32Speaker 2: the fan? I mean, let's be honest. The Giants are 3-1.
- 21:36Speaker 2: That's big. That's great. And we know that Aaron Glenn
- 21:38Speaker 2: can't coach a lick. Talking about bad managers, bad coaches,
- 21:42Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn for the Jets can't coach a lick.
- 21:45Speaker 23: Okay?
- 21:46Speaker 2: But this is the Yanks. It's the postseason. And here
- 21:49Speaker 2: we are again staring at elimination.
- 21:51Speaker 25: Let's be honest.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be honest, Joe. So that voice right there,
- 21:55Speaker 2: let's be honest, Joe Benigno will join me in about
- 21:58Speaker 2: 30 minutes. But I thought the best part of the
- 22:01Speaker 2: Open this morning was you heard from three consecutive presidents.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Did you notice that, Noam?
- 22:07Speaker 7: I did.
- 22:08Speaker 2: 43, George Bush, who was so prescient, he called it.
- 22:14Speaker 2: He called it. He said, look... The PR campaigns, he
- 22:18Speaker 2: didn't use the exact verbiage, but Israel is going to
- 22:21Speaker 2: become the bad guy before you know it. And clearly
- 22:25Speaker 2: he's been right. All these morons all over the world
- 22:28Speaker 2: that are blaming Israel for everything when all Israel has
- 22:32Speaker 2: been doing for the better part of three years and longer,
- 22:35Speaker 2: in fact much longer decades, is defending themselves. Then you
- 22:38Speaker 2: heard Trump with me. Don't forget, one year commemoration, 2024,
- 22:44Speaker 2: October the 7th, I did this show live from Israel.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I was in this little town right by Gaza called Sderot,
- 22:53Speaker 2: and the Hamas animals killed all the cops, burned down
- 22:58Speaker 2: the police station, raped the women, murdered the babies, which
- 23:02Speaker 2: they did all over that area in Israel. And President
- 23:06Speaker 2: Trump was not the president. It was still Joe Biden.
- 23:09Speaker 2: But he agreed to call me on that day and
- 23:12Speaker 2: we played some of the conversation from the candidate Donald J.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Trump and me two years ago on the one-year commemoration
- 23:22Speaker 2: of October the 7th as we get prepared tomorrow to
- 23:26Speaker 2: commemorate three years. So you had President Bush 43, Presidents
- 23:31Speaker 2: 45 and 47 in Donald J. Trump, and the third
- 23:36Speaker 2: president you heard, which he was on Fox News yesterday,
- 23:39Speaker 2: is the current president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, who, by
- 23:44Speaker 2: the way, Noam, will join me Live this morning, coming
- 23:48Speaker 2: up in about two hours. How about that?
- 23:50Speaker 7: That's great.
- 23:51Speaker 2: That's a biggie, President Isaac Herzog. I know he was
- 23:54Speaker 2: on Fox News. I don't know why Fox News continues
- 23:57Speaker 2: to get these guys. I mean, Beebe's on there all
- 23:59Speaker 2: the time. All the time. I know he likes Brian
- 24:03Speaker 2: Kilmeade and he loves Sean Hannity. So as soon as
- 24:07Speaker 2: that fly Dubai flight story happened, I could have predicted
- 24:11Speaker 2: that Bibi would be back on Fox News with Sean
- 24:14Speaker 2: and Brian, and he was. I am efforting Bibi for tomorrow.
- 24:17Speaker 2: I am in touch with Dr. Ophir Falk, happens to
- 24:21Speaker 2: be Bibi's senior policy advisor, and it looks good. Not definite,
- 24:26Speaker 2: not 100% that Bibi will join us tomorrow on the
- 24:30Speaker 2: actual three-year commemoration, but we are getting President Isaac Herzog today.
- 24:35Speaker 2: And you heard him talking on Fox News yesterday. So
- 24:38Speaker 2: let's do this again, Noel. Excuse me, Louis. It was
- 24:41Speaker 2: so good. Start with a very prescient George Bush with
- 24:45Speaker 2: my friend Rabbi Wilds. You know, I did an event
- 24:49Speaker 2: months ago with my friend from Australia, Aaron Mullen and
- 24:52Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl and the actor James Maslow at the Manhattan JCC.
- 24:58Speaker 2: And Rabbi Wilds runs that place. He was terrific. And
- 25:01Speaker 2: he was the guy that found this Video and audio
- 25:05Speaker 2: of Bush 43 right after the October 7th atrocities, and
- 25:12Speaker 2: Bush nailed it. Cut number five, Bush 43.
- 25:16Speaker 22: Watch, the world's going to be, okay, let's negotiate. You know,
- 25:20Speaker 22: Israel's got to negotiate. They're not going to negotiate. These
- 25:23Speaker 22: people have played their cards. They want to kill as
- 25:27Speaker 22: many Israelis as they can, and negotiating with killers is
- 25:30Speaker 22: not an option for the elected government of Israel. And
- 25:33Speaker 22: so we're just going to have to remain steadfast. But
- 25:35Speaker 22: it's not going to take long. That's gone on too long.
- 25:39Speaker 22: Surely there's a way to settle this through negotiations. Both
- 25:42Speaker 22: sides are guilty. My view is one side is guilty,
- 25:45Speaker 22: and it's not Israel.
- 25:46Speaker 2: No, that's enough of that. Thank you. And he's right.
- 25:48Speaker 2: It's not Israel. So Bush, really good on that one.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Then I played Trump. And here it is again. He'll
- 25:53Speaker 2: join me coming up in about two hours. The current
- 25:56Speaker 2: president of Israel, Isaac Herzog. I think he was on
- 25:59Speaker 2: with Dana Perino. Courtesy of Box News, talking about that
- 26:04Speaker 2: awful day, Lewis, cut number seven.
- 26:07Speaker 6: We did not seek that war.
- 26:08Speaker 21: It was waged upon us by horrific barbaric terrorists who raped, butchered, abducted,
- 26:14Speaker 21: and killed our citizens. And with our inherent right for self-defense,
- 26:18Speaker 21: we went out to fight. And we changed the route
- 26:21Speaker 21: of the Middle East with our heroic fighters. And all
- 26:25Speaker 21: the rest is bashing and attacking around us all over
- 26:28Speaker 21: the place, blaming Israel for all the faults. But the
- 26:31Speaker 21: truth of the matter is that Israel is protecting the
- 26:34Speaker 21: West and the free world by its activities.
- 26:36Speaker 2: You're damn right, President Herzog. And we got elections coming
- 26:42Speaker 2: up in Israel three weeks from today. You know, it's funny.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Four weeks from today, because I am America first.
- 26:49Speaker 6: Take it easy, guys.
- 26:51Speaker 2: You know, I spent how many months talking about 9-11,
- 26:54Speaker 2: Lou and Noam? Three months? I started right after July
- 26:57Speaker 2: the 4th, right? Three months. So now I'm going to
- 26:59Speaker 2: spend two days, two days, today and tomorrow, talking about
- 27:03Speaker 2: October 7th, And watch all the morons on Twitter and
- 27:07Speaker 2: social media, all my haters, people like Alex Jones and
- 27:11Speaker 2: General Michael Flynn and all these losers that refer to
- 27:16Speaker 2: me as Israel first. Because I'll be talking about October 7th,
- 27:20Speaker 2: the next two days. I did 9-11, no, for three months,
- 27:23Speaker 2: did I not? You did. Nobody did more on 9-11
- 27:26Speaker 2: than I did. I am America first, I'm Israel second,
- 27:31Speaker 2: if that's okay. So four weeks from today, today, happens
- 27:35Speaker 2: to be our midterms in the United States. And three
- 27:39Speaker 2: weeks from today is the election in Israel. Did you
- 27:43Speaker 2: know that, Noel? I did. You know all that stuff already, huh?
- 27:46Speaker 2: It's a big one.
- 27:46Speaker 31: They're both big elections, the midterms.
- 27:48Speaker 2: And the ones in Israel. They're huge for both countries.
- 27:53Speaker 2: And today we decided to swap out President Trump congratulating
- 27:57Speaker 2: me on my Hall of Fame induction coming up, which
- 27:59Speaker 2: will be two weeks from this Thursday. October the 22nd
- 28:04Speaker 2: at the iconic Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, coming up
- 28:08Speaker 2: in 16 days. We swiped out the video that President
- 28:11Speaker 2: Trump was kind enough to send me for the video
- 28:14Speaker 2: that the Israeli Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, was kind enough
- 28:18Speaker 2: to send me. So we're celebrating big. That big day
- 28:22Speaker 2: is coming up. But one of the big elections, too,
- 28:26Speaker 2: coming up in November here, four weeks from today, is
- 28:29Speaker 2: my dear friend Bruce Flakeman. You guys know. I've kind
- 28:32Speaker 2: of been, I think it's fair to say this, Norman Lou,
- 28:35Speaker 2: the unofficial campaign manager for Bruce Blakeman since he announced
- 28:40Speaker 2: he's running for governor. And mind you, one of the
- 28:42Speaker 2: two or three people he spoke to first, first, months
- 28:45Speaker 2: and months ago, just like Andrew Cuomo did when he
- 28:48Speaker 2: decided to run for mayor. Who did he tell first? Me.
- 28:52Speaker 23: Me.
- 28:52Speaker 2: I had people at this station saying, nah, he's going
- 28:54Speaker 2: to run for governor. No, no, folks. A year before
- 28:58Speaker 2: he decided to run for mayor, he and I, we
- 29:00Speaker 2: had dinner at Fresco, Rosanna Scotto's restaurant. Mind you, I
- 29:05Speaker 2: told Curtis Sliwa about it. He thought it was a
- 29:07Speaker 2: great idea. You should go for dinner. That's great. Remember? Oh, yeah.
- 29:11Speaker 32: I remember.
- 29:11Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted to get any information he could because
- 29:14Speaker 2: he's got CDS, Cuomo Derangement Syndrome. So a year before
- 29:18Speaker 2: he even announced he was running, he had dinner with me.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Same thing with Bruce. I was there before anybody else.
- 29:25Speaker 2: I knew he was running. I knew it. You know,
- 29:28Speaker 2: Stefanik had already announced and Mike Lawler. He was even
- 29:31Speaker 2: thinking about it. I knew Bruce was in. So Bruce
- 29:35Speaker 2: is running, obviously. He's our candidate. And what's been happening lately?
- 29:39Speaker 2: this is great news for Bruce Blakeman, all these Democrats
- 29:44Speaker 2: are jumping on. A couple of weeks ago, Bonnie Lautenberg,
- 29:49Speaker 2: the lovely widow, of the late, amazing Democrat politician Frank
- 29:55Speaker 2: Lautenberg jumped on and I believe even held a fundraiser
- 29:59Speaker 2: for Bruce in the Hamptons. Not long after that, a
- 30:04Speaker 2: gentleman that a lot of people think may be the
- 30:06Speaker 2: best city council member we've had in decades, if not ever,
- 30:12Speaker 2: another Democrat, Bob Holden, jumped on the Blakeman campaign. And
- 30:17Speaker 2: then you heard in the open, and I posted a
- 30:19Speaker 2: picture this morning on my Twitter, at SidRosenberg19, and Instagram,
- 30:25Speaker 2: at Rosenberg.Sydney, the very talented actress from Will & Grace.
- 30:31Speaker 2: I mean, I'm talking about a diehard Democrat. She hates
- 30:34Speaker 2: President Trump. At least I thought she did. How can
- 30:37Speaker 2: you hate President Trump and now be there for Bruce Blateman? Shocking.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Deborah Messing is now on the Bruce Blakeman train. How
- 30:47Speaker 2: about that, Noam?
- 30:48Speaker 7: That's big news.
- 30:49Speaker 23: Huge.
- 30:50Speaker 2: So months ago, you guys may remember, my dear friend
- 30:54Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport, who's in Israel, is going to call us
- 30:57Speaker 2: live from Israel tomorrow morning on October the 7th. The
- 31:02Speaker 2: amazing actor, comedian. Remember a couple of months ago, I
- 31:05Speaker 2: went to see his documentary, Am I Cancelled Yet? in Tribeca.
- 31:10Speaker 2: You remember that, Noam?
- 31:11Speaker 30: I do, yeah.
- 31:12Speaker 2: And who was in the audience that night? Deborah Messing.
- 31:15Speaker 23: Yes.
- 31:16Speaker 2: And I posted a picture. And again, I posted that
- 31:19Speaker 2: same picture this morning. And all of the comments were
- 31:22Speaker 2: so nasty. Why would you do that, Sid? She hates Trump.
- 31:27Speaker 2: I thought you loved Trump. First of all, don't ever
- 31:29Speaker 2: question how I feel about Trump or how Trump feels
- 31:33Speaker 2: about me. You know why? He doesn't know you. He
- 31:35Speaker 2: doesn't care about you. I know you love him. That's great.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Thank God you love him. He doesn't know you. He
- 31:40Speaker 2: doesn't care about you. Shut up, okay? Shut up. Not
- 31:44Speaker 2: everybody I love loves Trump. Trump understands that. He still
- 31:48Speaker 2: loves me. I can criticize Trump every now and then.
- 31:52Speaker 2: He still loves me. So all the comments were, what
- 31:55Speaker 2: are you doing, Sid? I thought you loved Trump. I
- 31:57Speaker 2: do love Trump, asshole. But if Deborah Messing, who's a Democrat,
- 32:03Speaker 2: is going to hop on with Bruce Blankman, who's going
- 32:06Speaker 2: to need Democrat and independent votes to beat that wretched Trump,
- 32:11Speaker 2: wretched hag Kathy Hochul, and God bless Deborah Messing. I
- 32:16Speaker 2: don't care if she hates Trump or not. It doesn't
- 32:18Speaker 2: matter to me. She speaks to a very big Democrat
- 32:22Speaker 2: and independent audience. Does that make sense, Noam? Sure. It's
- 32:26Speaker 2: a big deal for Bruce. Lautenberg, Holden, and Messing. How
- 32:31Speaker 2: about that?
- 32:32Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 32:32Speaker 31: Did she actually make a comment or a statement?
- 32:37Speaker 2: No, we played the whole video.
- 32:38Speaker 29: Oh, I didn't.
- 32:39Speaker 2: Here it is. I'll play it for you again. No, Kelly,
- 32:40Speaker 2: you missed it.
- 32:41Speaker 28: I did.
- 32:41Speaker 2: This is, take a listen. Cut number three, Debra Messing
- 32:46Speaker 2: joined Bruce Blateman in Manhattan yesterday, and the two of
- 32:49Speaker 2: them went back and forth.
- 32:51Speaker 12: I'm Bruce Blateman. I'm here in Manhattan with a very
- 32:54Speaker 12: talented and very creative artist.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Debra Messing.
- 32:59Speaker 23: We all love her.
- 33:01Speaker 13: She is truly iconic, and she is trying as hard
- 33:06Speaker 13: as she can. to save New York, to make sure
- 33:09Speaker 13: that it's safe for Jewish people to live in this
- 33:13Speaker 13: community and to live in this state. So, Deborah, thank
- 33:16Speaker 13: you so much for your courage to speak out.
- 33:18Speaker 14: Oh, gosh, I am so grateful that you are running.
- 33:23Speaker 14: You are what we need more than anything.
- 33:26Speaker 16: The decline in this city.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Over the last four years has been.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Four years, that includes Eric Adams, folks.
- 33:34Speaker 14: And devastating economically, socially, on every level.
- 33:40Speaker 11: And obviously we've lost so much business here.
- 33:43Speaker 16: People are leaving the city. I was born here.
- 33:45Speaker 15: This is the city I love. And it's not the
- 33:49Speaker 15: city that I love anymore.
- 33:52Speaker 16: And I believe with all my heart that you are
- 33:54Speaker 16: the answer.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
- 33:56Speaker 17: You are the affordable campaign candidate and I think more
- 34:01Speaker 17: than anything people are just really struggling and they need
- 34:06Speaker 17: their utilities to be.
- 34:08Speaker 15: Lower and they don't want to have to pay to
- 34:11Speaker 15: have congestion and the driving and it's just too expensive
- 34:16Speaker 15: to live in New York City and I love the
- 34:19Speaker 15: fact that that is the top of your mind.
- 34:23Speaker 11: We have to cut taxes. cut utility expenses, and create
- 34:27Speaker 11: good jobs so our young.
- 34:28Speaker 2: People will stay here.
- 34:30Speaker 19: Jobs that pay good wages, good benefits, and create economic
- 34:35Speaker 19: activity and prosperity. That's important because we have to bring
- 34:39Speaker 19: our state back. As you said, we used to be
- 34:41Speaker 19: the Empire State, and we can do it again, and
- 34:44Speaker 19: I want you.
- 34:44Speaker 13: To love New York again.
- 34:45Speaker 23: I do too.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you do. So I saw Kathy Hochul,
- 34:49Speaker 2: of course, at the diner. That's an old story now.
- 34:51Speaker 19: Yeah.
- 34:52Speaker 2: John's Coffee Shop on 44th and 2nd. I love that place. Early,
- 34:55Speaker 2: early Saturday morning. What are the odds? The only three customers.
- 34:59Speaker 2: The only three. At 7.35 a.m. Saturday morning. Sid Rosenberg,
- 35:04Speaker 2: Governor Hochul and her husband. That was the case. I
- 35:07Speaker 2: took a picture. The Democrats got angry, called me a creep,
- 35:11Speaker 2: called me a pedophile. All these nasty names because, oh,
- 35:14Speaker 2: my God, I took a picture of the sitting governor
- 35:18Speaker 2: in a diner because they're losers. Justin Brannan, you're a loser.
- 35:22Speaker 2: You're a nice kid. But look at you. Look at
- 35:25Speaker 2: you now. You are the most despicable of Democrats. I
- 35:29Speaker 2: don't like you. Stop telling people you think I like you.
- 35:32Speaker 2: I don't like you, okay? And he was one of
- 35:34Speaker 2: my most ardent critics on Twitter. So Blakeman now is
- 35:38Speaker 2: going to beat this lady. And what did you think
- 35:41Speaker 2: of that little conversation, though? Yeah, that was big.
- 35:43Speaker 28: Nice.
- 35:44Speaker 2: Very big. So it looks like I'll be campaigning with Bruce.
- 35:47Speaker 2: I'm waiting to find out the official details in the
- 35:52Speaker 2: next couple of days. But I'll be heading to Syracuse
- 35:56Speaker 2: on Friday to campaign with my brother, The next, Governor
- 36:01Speaker 2: Bruce Blankman. And one, President Donald J.
- 36:05Speaker 23: Trump.
- 36:06Speaker 2: Trump, Blankman, and Rosenberg on Friday. You like that, Norm?
- 36:11Speaker 7: Yeah, that'll be a fun afternoon.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Yeah, Syracuse is rough. And I still have no idea
- 36:16Speaker 2: what time it is or how I'm getting there, any
- 36:18Speaker 2: of those details. But my plan is to be there.
- 36:21Speaker 2: With Blakeman and Trump come Friday. All right, Nolan, what
- 36:24Speaker 2: else is going on in the city? Well, the U.S.
- 36:26Speaker 31: oh, in the city, well, I can tell you that
- 36:28Speaker 31: there's– unfortunately, there's this breaking story overnight, and we're trying
- 36:32Speaker 31: to get confirmation on it. But the cops showed up
- 36:35Speaker 31: outside this apartment building in the Bronx on Olinville Avenue,
- 36:39Speaker 31: and there was an infant and a mother lying on
- 36:41Speaker 31: the ground in critical condition. And there's an eyewitness who
- 36:44Speaker 31: claims that they were thrown, both of them.
- 36:46Speaker 7: Thrown from the balcony of a building.
- 36:48Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
- 36:49Speaker 23: Yeah.
- 36:49Speaker 31: So we're getting one report that that mother has passed away.
- 36:52Speaker 31: She's 23 years old. Can't confirm that.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
- 36:55Speaker 31: And police are not saying much yet that they're going
- 36:57Speaker 31: through surveillance video.
- 36:58Speaker 7: It could either be a.
- 37:00Speaker 31: Case of someone jumping or even more. I mean, not
- 37:03Speaker 31: that either way would be awful or that someone pushed
- 37:05Speaker 31: them off that balcony. But that's just coming into us overnight.
- 37:08Speaker 7: The other story.
- 37:09Speaker 31: in the city is courses that a i hearing you
- 37:11Speaker 31: played a couple clips from it yesterday i don't know
- 37:13Speaker 31: that we learned a whole lot they're still these threats
- 37:15Speaker 31: out there uh... one whistleblower yesterday saying to the fifty
- 37:19Speaker 31: one members of the city council that he was worried
- 37:21Speaker 31: for mankind he said that uh.
- 37:23Speaker 7: a i could take over.
- 37:25Speaker 2: You see this i don't get and again i'm not
- 37:27Speaker 2: computer savvy i i barely can put the computer on
- 37:30Speaker 2: i don't have a computer i just use my phone
- 37:32Speaker 2: but We create AI. We build AI. We program AI.
- 37:39Speaker 2: Yet you're telling me that the computer can do things
- 37:43Speaker 2: that human beings don't want them to do? I don't
- 37:47Speaker 2: get it.
- 37:47Speaker 31: There's been examples of this already where on its own
- 37:51Speaker 31: it's gone rogue. Nothing got awful just yet, but where
- 37:55Speaker 31: it's sought out information and sought out things that it
- 37:59Speaker 31: wasn't asked to do.
- 38:00Speaker 2: So the computer... It.
- 38:01Speaker 7: Was thinking on its own, essentially.
- 38:04Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense. I'm sorry.
- 38:06Speaker 29: It's like the premise from Terminator.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Yeah, like a war games or something. That Matthew Broderick movie.
- 38:13Speaker 2: I mean, we program the computer. We build the computer.
- 38:16Speaker 29: Well, I used to hear at work sometimes, excuses wherever
- 38:19Speaker 29: we worked. Sometimes somebody would say, yeah, the computer or
- 38:26Speaker 29: the piece of equipment... It just does that. It'll do that.
- 38:29Speaker 25: What does that mean?
- 38:30Speaker 29: And I would say back to somebody who went, well,
- 38:33Speaker 29: but we made that.
- 38:35Speaker 28: Right.
- 38:35Speaker 29: So it shouldn't do that.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I don't... I need Elon Musk to come on this
- 38:41Speaker 2: show and explain to me.
- 38:42Speaker 29: But this is different, though, of course.
- 38:44Speaker 2: No, listen. There's enough people out there that are talking
- 38:47Speaker 2: about this, including... Elon Musk, the dangers of AI going
- 38:52Speaker 2: rogue and making humans extinct. They're actually talking about that.
- 38:57Speaker 2: But someone needs to really explain to me, like Denzel
- 39:00Speaker 2: Washington said in the movie Philadelphia with Tom Hanks, as
- 39:05Speaker 2: an attorney talking about age in the early days, talk
- 39:08Speaker 2: to me like I'm a first grader. Tell me how
- 39:10Speaker 2: something we created, something we created is going to have
- 39:15Speaker 2: the ability to take over the world. And cause all
- 39:18Speaker 2: these horrible issues. I just don't understand it. On a
- 39:23Speaker 2: very practical level, no.
- 39:26Speaker 31: Yeah, well, they're talking that now they should create some
- 39:29Speaker 31: sort of kill spree.
- 39:30Speaker 25: Switch.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Just unplug the damn thing.
- 39:33Speaker 7: Well, you would think it would be that easy, but
- 39:34Speaker 7: apparently it's not.
- 39:36Speaker 2: So now we need a kill switch?
- 39:38Speaker 29: That's right, because Joe Nolan just reminded me there was
- 39:40Speaker 29: a Star Trek episode. Same kind of thing.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Oh, my God. He's actually quoting Star Trek. Somewhere Frank
- 39:45Speaker 2: Morano just got a hard-on.
- 39:47Speaker 29: Well, to show and impress upon you, this was in
- 39:52Speaker 29: the mid-60s.
- 39:53Speaker 2: Right. Now we know about this.
- 39:54Speaker 29: When Star Trek... Sure.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 39:55Speaker 29: So it's been around for a long time, the concept.
- 39:58Speaker 29: But there was.
- 39:58Speaker 2: What did Nolan say exactly?
- 39:59Speaker 29: Well, there was an episode where there was a computer,
- 40:02Speaker 29: an ultimate computer was brought on the ship, and all
- 40:05Speaker 29: of a sudden it took over. It just started... I know.
- 40:09Speaker 29: I mean, of course, it sounds insane.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Ridiculous. Yes, but out there alone, I guess it's possible.
- 40:14Speaker 29: You can actually go to the question. Remember, people, maybe
- 40:17Speaker 29: friends of yours who are wackos would say, could God
- 40:22Speaker 29: create a rock that even he couldn't lift?
- 40:26Speaker 2: Yes.
- 40:27Speaker 29: Like, remember that?
- 40:28Speaker 2: Of course.
- 40:29Speaker 25: Right.
- 40:29Speaker 29: So it's one of those things where you could think,
- 40:32Speaker 29: wait a second, if it's God... How can he not
- 40:35Speaker 29: lift a rock, but maybe he could create one?
- 40:37Speaker 2: So now we're comparing AI to God, which I guess, no,
- 40:40Speaker 2: but to Lou's point.
- 40:41Speaker 29: It's the concept.
- 40:42Speaker 23: Right.
- 40:43Speaker 2: That's right. I should say, too, that John Katzmatidis, who
- 40:46Speaker 2: I love dearly, is also a big Star Trek fan.
- 40:48Speaker 31: Now, did Joe say how this episode ends so we
- 40:51Speaker 31: know how it'll end in real life for us?
- 40:53Speaker 29: I know, of course, the episode.
- 40:54Speaker 7: Oh, so how does it end?
- 40:55Speaker 2: Was this the rant of Khan?
- 40:57Speaker 7: Right.
- 40:57Speaker 2: Ricardo Montalban? Yeah, he came on. He came on board.
- 41:01Speaker 2: He said, and listen, if you're dying here, don't worry
- 41:03Speaker 2: about it because you can meet me in the midget
- 41:04Speaker 2: on Fantasy Island in about 20 minutes. The plane boss!
- 41:08Speaker 29: I know you, but I don't know you. But you
- 41:12Speaker 29: left me on this planet. Where is Kirk? You know
- 41:17Speaker 29: where Kirk is. There's actually, though, a line in this episode,
- 41:21Speaker 29: I think it's the one Joe's talking about, where they
- 41:23Speaker 29: can't stop the thing and they're flying, you know, the
- 41:26Speaker 29: ship is going and Kirk yells... We got to get
- 41:29Speaker 29: down there and, Spock, unplug the thing.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Unplug it. Oh, there you go.
- 41:34Speaker 23: There you go.
- 41:35Speaker 2: Unplug the damn thing. Just unplug this machine. I need
- 41:38Speaker 2: to get better versed on this. I admit I don't
- 41:41Speaker 2: know much about it. My fear is that nobody does.
- 41:45Speaker 2: Even people that talk about it, like David Carr was
- 41:48Speaker 2: on yesterday. Very, very smart guy. He will be the
- 41:52Speaker 2: next Staten Island Borough President, because I guess Vito can't
- 41:55Speaker 2: do it anymore. He's timed out. And he is one
- 41:59Speaker 2: of the two city council members from Staten Island, him
- 42:01Speaker 2: and Frank Marano, one of the five Republicans, him, Marano, Ina, Verna, Corvada, Brooklyn,
- 42:07Speaker 2: and the two Queens ladies. One will join me today,
- 42:10Speaker 2: Vicky Palladino and Joanne Areola. And he seemed to have
- 42:13Speaker 2: a really good grasp of all this, really good, with
- 42:17Speaker 2: the city council meeting on this yesterday, which is why
- 42:21Speaker 2: we're talking about it. But even he really couldn't explain
- 42:25Speaker 2: to me how the computer was about to take off.
- 42:27Speaker 6: World.
- 42:28Speaker 2: You don't know him.
- 42:29Speaker 7: I wouldn't rely on the 51 members of the city
- 42:32Speaker 7: council to figure this out.
- 42:34Speaker 2: Who would you rely on? Elon mustn't even show up,
- 42:37Speaker 2: the son of a bitch.
- 42:38Speaker 7: We have really smart people who can figure this.
- 42:40Speaker 2: Out, but not those guys. Who are the really smart people?
- 42:43Speaker 7: The people who created it, who created EI. I've been
- 42:46Speaker 7: working on this forever.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Those people are confusing the hell out of me. Just
- 42:50Speaker 2: so you know. Murano's already texted me. He actually texted
- 42:54Speaker 2: me the episode that Lou was talking about So I
- 42:58Speaker 2: got the whole episode. You can grab a clip.
- 43:00Speaker 29: Okay. Well, all right. We can grab a clip, although
- 43:03Speaker 29: I gave a synopsis of it.
- 43:04Speaker 2: I think you did a very good job.
- 43:06Speaker 29: Great job, Frank. I'll look into it.
- 43:09Speaker 2: The episode is Star Trek Ultimate Computer.
- 43:13Speaker 29: Okay. I think the computer was called M5. M5.
- 43:16Speaker 2: The Ultimate Computer.
- 43:17Speaker 17: Wow.
- 43:19Speaker 2: We've got it here on YouTube. What else is going on?
- 43:22Speaker 2: We'll get you a clip later, John Katz. Matides will
- 43:24Speaker 2: be happy. Eddie Scazzeri, who used to go to Star
- 43:27Speaker 2: Trek conventions with Spock ears. This is a grown man, folks, okay?
- 43:31Speaker 2: They make fun of me wearing a baseball jersey at
- 43:33Speaker 2: a Yankee stadium. This man would show up at the
- 43:36Speaker 2: Jacob Javits Center wearing Spock ears. And Frank and all
- 43:39Speaker 2: those people, they love it.
- 43:41Speaker 29: He actually quotes a simulation game from Star Trek that
- 43:46Speaker 29: they would play to get themselves ready for combat, like Krikens.
- 43:50Speaker 29: It was called, I swear to God, we actually named it.
- 43:54Speaker 2: It's so ridiculous. Come on, please.
- 43:56Speaker 29: I think it was called Kobayashi Maru.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Maybe that was it, yeah.
- 44:01Speaker 29: I swear to God.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Who was the gay guy that was on Howard Stern
- 44:05Speaker 2: all the time? Yeah, it was George Takai. George Takai. What,
- 44:08Speaker 2: did he play Han Solo or something?
- 44:10Speaker 7: No, that was not Star Wars.
- 44:11Speaker 29: He played Sulu.
- 44:13Speaker 2: Sulu, okay, yeah. It was a terrible show. I mean,
- 44:15Speaker 2: I know Gene Roddenberry's a genius, and everybody loves Bill Shatner.
- 44:19Speaker 2: It was awful. The acting was terrible. Terrible. I remember, too.
- 44:23Speaker 29: Benigno played on this team once, and he saw the name,
- 44:27Speaker 29: and he goes, are you taking part in this game
- 44:31Speaker 29: with the Kobayashi mob?
- 44:33Speaker 7: What?
- 44:34Speaker 2: Are you playing? You know what? I can't believe I'm working.
- 44:39Speaker 2: Beningo's coming up next. I'm going to ask him about that.
- 44:41Speaker 2: I bet he's going to ring me up.
- 44:44Speaker 29: I don't know. I don't know what the team name is.
- 44:47Speaker 2: What's that? Oh, my God. Let's be honest.
- 44:50Speaker 29: We're not going to play this game.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Wasn't there a lady on the show? Her name was
- 44:54Speaker 2: Hora or something? Who?
- 44:57Speaker 25: Hora?
- 44:58Speaker 2: I think it was Ohora.
- 44:59Speaker 31: Ohora, yes.
- 45:00Speaker 2: She was Ohora? Ohora.
- 45:01Speaker 28: Ohora.
- 45:05Speaker 2: I know, what else is going on? Why don't you
- 45:08Speaker 2: go back to your home on Whore Island? Still the
- 45:13Speaker 2: greatest line ever in Will Ferrell history. From the great movie,
- 45:18Speaker 2: anybody know? Anchorman. Another very stupid film.
- 45:23Speaker 31: What else you got? We got another funeral home mix-up again.
- 45:30Speaker 2: R.G.
- 45:31Speaker 7: Ortiz funeral home.
- 45:33Speaker 31: The family came in and they said that their father
- 45:36Speaker 31: had asked to be cremated because he had been very
- 45:39Speaker 31: sick at the end of his life. Well, instead of
- 45:40Speaker 31: doing that, they dressed him up. and four awake for
- 45:44Speaker 31: somebody else's wake.
- 45:45Speaker 2: Aye, aye, aye.
- 45:46Speaker 31: So his body, when they opened up the casket at
- 45:48Speaker 31: this other wake, there was another body in there, and
- 45:51Speaker 31: when the family complained, they said, no, that is your
- 45:54Speaker 31: loved one.
- 45:54Speaker 2: You must be mistaken. Of course that's your father. How's
- 45:57Speaker 2: it matter with you? I think I kind of know
- 45:59Speaker 2: who my dad is.
- 46:01Speaker 31: So the daughter's now just outraged, as you, anybody else
- 46:04Speaker 31: would be, and here's what they said yesterday.
- 46:06Speaker 7: They're now suing the R.G. Ortiz funeral home.
- 46:09Speaker 33: He wanted strict, straight cremation because he didn't want anyone
- 46:12Speaker 33: to see him. You know, he had lost a lot
- 46:15Speaker 33: of weight and he was sick, so he didn't want
- 46:17Speaker 33: to be remembered that way. This is what gets me
- 46:19Speaker 33: so beyond angry. It just pains me, right? Because I
- 46:24Speaker 33: think about what they did to his body.
- 46:25Speaker 2: You're telling me this lady has to make an argument
- 46:28Speaker 2: because I know her own parent is? I mean, the
- 46:31Speaker 2: worst part of these stories is not that these funeral
- 46:34Speaker 2: homes mix up the bodies. That's bad enough, okay? That's
- 46:37Speaker 2: bad enough. But the fact that they tell the family members... No,
- 46:40Speaker 2: you're wrong. That's your relative. What are you, nuts? Of
- 46:44Speaker 2: course they should sue the place. They should shut the
- 46:46Speaker 2: place down. You made a mistake. It's the wrong body.
- 46:49Speaker 2: The next thing you do is apologize, not try to
- 46:52Speaker 2: convince the family member, no, that guy, I know your
- 46:55Speaker 2: father was a white Jewish man. This guy's a black guy.
- 46:58Speaker 2: That's your father. What are you talking about?
- 47:00Speaker 7: Well, you know, it gets worse.
- 47:01Speaker 31: This guy who had requested to be cremated never have
- 47:04Speaker 31: a wake. They put him in the clothes of the
- 47:08Speaker 31: person who was supposed to be in. And so the
- 47:11Speaker 31: clothes were ill-fitting. They didn't even fit completely.
- 47:14Speaker 29: You look like a child's eyes on the guy.
- 47:20Speaker 34: Are you going to be.
- 47:25Speaker 35: Rich Paul said over the summer that had the Knicks
- 47:27Speaker 35: not won the championship, it would have been a pretty
- 47:29Speaker 35: easy decision for you.
- 47:31Speaker 2: You're signing up to play with the Knicks. Is that accurate?
- 47:34Speaker 28: And.
- 47:35Speaker 35: What was that like, I guess, knowing that that option
- 47:37Speaker 35: was off the table when they beat the Spurs?
- 47:39Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's pretty accurate.
- 47:42Speaker 36: You know, I have visions of definitely, you know, playing
- 47:44Speaker 36: in the Garden, finishing my career in the Garden, one
- 47:46Speaker 36: of the best places I've ever played. I think it's
- 47:48Speaker 36: the number one arena in the world as far as
- 47:50Speaker 36: a basketball player. But after they beat San Antonio, I
- 47:54Speaker 36: was like, I couldn't do it.
- 47:57Speaker 3: Wouldn't feel right.
- 47:58Speaker 36: Y'all wouldn't have let me lay that down at all.
- 48:03Speaker 36: But much respect to the Knicks, obviously. Unbelievable team, unbelievable players.
- 48:06Speaker 36: Shout out Jalen Brunson.
- 48:07Speaker 25: Love that guy.
- 48:08Speaker 2: He's unbelievable. But, yeah, I'm happy where I'm at, and
- 48:11Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. Greatest basketball arena in the world.
- 48:16Speaker 29: Where has he been?
- 48:17Speaker 2: What do you mean?
- 48:18Speaker 29: All the chances he had to come here.
- 48:20Speaker 2: Oh, I know. Come on. The one where he should
- 48:23Speaker 2: have done it. was when he went to Miami. Miami,
- 48:25Speaker 2: of course. That was it. And you know what's funny
- 48:27Speaker 2: about that? There I was. I was working in Miami.
- 48:32Speaker 2: But Miami decided to use a guy that was a
- 48:35Speaker 2: big-time player for the Dolphins. He's very well-known in Florida.
- 48:38Speaker 2: He has a bunch of sports bars that do very
- 48:41Speaker 2: well to this day. His name is Kimbo Camper. And
- 48:44Speaker 2: he was part of that killer B defense with Dan Marino. Yeah,
- 48:47Speaker 2: good player. And he was at his own bar in Miami.
- 48:52Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith was in Philadelphia. This is the night
- 48:57Speaker 2: when LeBron James is making his decision, him and Jim Gray.
- 49:03Speaker 2: And even though I was in Miami, everybody knew I
- 49:04Speaker 2: still loved New York. So I don't know if you
- 49:06Speaker 2: know this, Lou, but I say they, Larry King called me,
- 49:11Speaker 2: his show.
- 49:12Speaker 25: Yeah.
- 49:13Speaker 2: And the Larry King show on CNN wanted to cover
- 49:16Speaker 2: Jim Gray and LeBron James. True story.
- 49:19Speaker 29: Wow, that's crazy.
- 49:20Speaker 2: Crazy. So Larry King was the one, his people, I guess,
- 49:24Speaker 2: that decided on which people would be in these cities
- 49:30Speaker 2: to get reaction when LeBron James made that decision with
- 49:36Speaker 2: Jim Gray and Live on the air. So it wasn't
- 49:40Speaker 2: Bo Camper's decision or Sid's decision or Stephen A. Smith's decision.
- 49:45Speaker 2: It was up to Larry King. So Larry King, like
- 49:51Speaker 2: I said, had Kim Bo Camper down in Miami. Larry
- 49:55Speaker 2: King had Stephen A. Smith in Philadelphia. And the show
- 49:59Speaker 2: called and said, Sid, would you be willing to do
- 50:03Speaker 2: the show tonight live from Jay-Z's club in New York City?
- 50:08Speaker 29: 40-40 club, right?
- 50:09Speaker 2: The 40-40 club. It was relatively new back then, Lou.
- 50:12Speaker 2: And it was a big deal. People were flocking to
- 50:15Speaker 2: that place.
- 50:15Speaker 29: I've been in there twice. It was a crazy place.
- 50:18Speaker 2: Crazy.
- 50:19Speaker 29: Like about 30 rooms.
- 50:20Speaker 2: Oh, it was huge. So I made my way. I
- 50:22Speaker 2: flew up. They flew me there, Larry King Live, from
- 50:26Speaker 2: Miami to New York. Listen, I got killed in Miami
- 50:29Speaker 2: every day because they were like, hey, Sid, do us
- 50:31Speaker 2: a favor. Take I-95 North and get out of here.
- 50:34Speaker 2: You want to be in New York so badly? Go home.
- 50:36Speaker 2: We don't like you guys anyway. They're so stupid. Miami
- 50:39Speaker 2: wouldn't exist without New York. South Florida, as great as
- 50:42Speaker 2: it's doing, they all brag about how great it is.
- 50:45Speaker 2: I lived there for 16 years. Take New Yorkers out
- 50:47Speaker 2: of that mix, you got a bunch of nobodies. A
- 50:50Speaker 2: bunch of old Miami, toothless, plant-wearing shirts and Cubans.
- 50:53Speaker 6: That's it.
- 50:54Speaker 2: We made South Florida New Yorkers. But they hated me. Ah, Sid,
- 50:58Speaker 2: go back to New York. So I go back to
- 51:00Speaker 2: New York. They'll take care of me. And I'm doing
- 51:02Speaker 2: the show for Larry King from Jay-Z's club. And there's LeBron.
- 51:07Speaker 2: And he announces... I'm taking my talents to South Beach.
- 51:11Speaker 2: A lot of New Yorkers really thought he was coming here.
- 51:14Speaker 2: They really did. But he goes to Miami, and then
- 51:17Speaker 2: Pat Riley gets the ultimate coup. Dwayne Wade convinces both
- 51:21Speaker 2: Bosh and LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and they go to
- 51:25Speaker 2: four straight NBA finals. They win two of them, and
- 51:28Speaker 2: it was a magnificent era. I was down there for
- 51:30Speaker 2: Heat basketball. The Knickerbockers couldn't get James, so they signed Bosh.
- 51:35Speaker 2: Amari Stoudemire, who had an unbelievable year one with the Knicks.
- 51:40Speaker 2: And then after that, it was just cool that he's Jewish.
- 51:43Speaker 2: That's the end of the Knicks story with Amari Stoudemire.
- 51:46Speaker 2: He's actually Jewish. And that was it. So that's when
- 51:50Speaker 2: LeBron should have come here. But yes, he did say
- 51:52Speaker 2: yesterday that he would have come here if the Knicks
- 51:55Speaker 2: did not win the championship. But they did. So now
- 51:57Speaker 2: he's in Philly. How gracious of him.
- 51:59Speaker 29: That's great.
- 52:00Speaker 26: Yeah.
- 52:01Speaker 2: First game of the year for the Knicks. When we
- 52:02Speaker 2: raise the banner, we'll take on LeBron James. and those 76ers,
- 52:06Speaker 2: and that should make for a very electric night at
- 52:09Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden. Talking about all that sports stuff, we'll
- 52:12Speaker 2: take a short break. Again, don't forget, coming up at 8.20
- 52:15Speaker 2: this morning. On this October 6th, tomorrow, we commemorate three
- 52:20Speaker 2: years of that atrocious, tragic... heartbreaking day in Israel, October 7th.
- 52:27Speaker 2: So we're going to speak live on the air this
- 52:29Speaker 2: morning with President Isaac Herzog. He'll be on at 8.20,
- 52:34Speaker 2: and I would say the chances are better than 50-50.
- 52:38Speaker 2: that BB joins me tomorrow. But right now, after this,
- 52:41Speaker 2: we'll take a short break. We'll talk to the legend,
- 52:44Speaker 2: WFAN legend, and now weekly Sid Rosenberg contributor.
- 52:48Speaker 7: This is Sid on Sports. Sponsored by Peerless Boilers on
- 52:54Speaker 7: 77 WABC.
- 52:58Speaker 37: Justin, I like hearing the sports update sponsored by Pete
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- 53:05Speaker 37: out in Tampa Bay. Yankees dropped the ball both figuratively
- 53:09Speaker 37: and literally last night. Countless miscues in a shotgun display
- 53:14Speaker 37: reminiscent of that collapse in Game 5 of the 24
- 53:16Speaker 37: World Series and run to a 5-2 loss in Game
- 53:19Speaker 37: 2 of the ALDS against the Tampa Bay Rays. Backs
- 53:22Speaker 37: up against the wall now heading back home to the
- 53:25Speaker 37: Bronx for tomorrow night's Game 3. Down two games to nothing.
- 53:28Speaker 37: The lefty Max Freed will get the start against Tampa's
- 53:31Speaker 37: Nick Martinez tomorrow night. Elsewhere on the diamond out in Cleveland,
- 53:34Speaker 37: the White Sox beat the Guardians 4-3. ALDS game two there.
- 53:38Speaker 37: Chicago leading the series now two games to nothing. You
- 53:40Speaker 37: know the White Sox are undefeated in the playoffs?
- 53:42Speaker 2: Yeah. The 4-0.
- 53:43Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 53:43Speaker 2: They swept Houston. They're about to sweep Cleveland. So the
- 53:46Speaker 2: White Sox, Barack Obama's team, one win away from the ALCS.
- 53:51Speaker 2: White Sox raise. Hmm.
- 53:55Speaker 25: I don't know.
- 53:57Speaker 37: Divine intervention there from the Pope.
- 53:59Speaker 2: Oh, he's also a White Sox fan. That's right. Yeah.
- 54:02Speaker 37: Probably more notable at this point than Barack Obama, I
- 54:04Speaker 37: would think, yeah.
- 54:05Speaker 23: No.
- 54:06Speaker 37: You don't think so?
- 54:07Speaker 2: No, no. Obama's still the man. He's Black Jesus. What's
- 54:11Speaker 2: wrong with you? But, like, the Pope is holy. Mike
- 54:14Speaker 2: Francesco was nicknamed the Pope. Oh, okay. This is black Jesus.
- 54:18Speaker 2: I didn't know Mike Francesco was a White Sox fan.
- 54:20Speaker 23: Wait a second.
- 54:21Speaker 29: Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait
- 54:24Speaker 29: a second.
- 54:24Speaker 2: Wait a second. You've got to play Chicago ball. Wait
- 54:28Speaker 2: a second.
- 54:28Speaker 25: Wait a second.
- 54:29Speaker 29: Wait a second. Wait a second.
- 54:31Speaker 2: Aye, aye, aye.
- 54:32Speaker 37: Aye, on the dominant night, game three of the NLDS
- 54:34Speaker 37: between the Dodgers and the Braves, 6 p.m. That series
- 54:36Speaker 37: not ended a game apiece, and then the Brewers and
- 54:38Speaker 37: Padres get They're Game 3 of that NLDS underway tonight
- 54:40Speaker 37: at 9.30. Milwaukee leading that series, commandingly two games to nothing.
- 54:44Speaker 37: Monday night football wrapping out Week 4 in the NFL.
- 54:47Speaker 37: The now 2-2 Falcons running roughshod on the now 1-3 Saints.
- 54:51Speaker 37: 45-24 is your final there. Looking ahead to NHL action
- 54:55Speaker 37: here locally. Devils will welcome in the Utah Mammoth tonight,
- 54:57Speaker 37: 7 p.m. puck drop in the Islanders and Rangers. Go
- 55:00Speaker 37: head-to-head for the first time at the Garden tonight, 7.30 p.m.
- 55:03Speaker 2: That is your sports. Sponsored by P. Morton.
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- 55:18Speaker 37: Sid and friends in.
- 55:20Speaker 1: The morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
- 55:26Speaker 30: Difference in the two football teams in New York is
- 55:28Speaker 30: the Giants have a real head coach.
- 55:30Speaker 2: Okay.
- 55:31Speaker 30: And it doesn't matter.
- 55:31Speaker 2: They don't have the quarterback.
- 55:33Speaker 30: It doesn't matter. They don't have Brian Burns.
- 55:35Speaker 2: Okay.
- 55:35Speaker 30: They have a real head coach and they're winning football
- 55:38Speaker 30: games and we don't.
- 55:40Speaker 2: And we suck.
- 55:42Speaker 30: And how much, I'm telling you, bro, the Knicks championship
- 55:45Speaker 30: only goes so far once I continue to watch the
- 55:49Speaker 30: garbage that I have to watch week in and week out.
- 55:52Speaker 30: And I'm telling you, if they lose to Cleveland, you
- 55:54Speaker 30: can say whatever you want. I think he's in trouble.
- 55:56Speaker 2: He's not getting fired in week five. It ain't happening.
- 55:58Speaker 2: So he should. He's a terrible coach. He's right. Joe's
- 56:01Speaker 2: right about that. So here he is, the legend, the
- 56:04Speaker 2: WFAN legend. And now he's on with us every week.
- 56:07Speaker 2: And we couldn't be happier. Everybody loves Joe Beningo. Joseph,
- 56:11Speaker 2: good morning, buddy. How are you?
- 56:12Speaker 25: Sidney Arthur, not everybody loves me. And how many, when,
- 56:17Speaker 25: at what point, okay, you think he's last in the season?
- 56:22Speaker 26: Yes.
- 56:23Speaker 25: If this team is 1-7, 1-8, you still think he's
- 56:26Speaker 25: the head coach?
- 56:26Speaker 2: Yes. I don't think so. Wait, wait, wait. You've got
- 56:34Speaker 2: to give me precedence. You've got to give me history
- 56:37Speaker 2: of the Jets axing terrible head coaches, and they've had
- 56:41Speaker 2: a bunch of them during the regular season.
- 56:43Speaker 25: Well, he got rid of Salah two years ago after
- 56:46Speaker 25: the fifth game, and he shouldn't have. They were only
- 56:48Speaker 25: 2-3 at that point, and they had Aaron Rodgers. Do
- 56:51Speaker 25: you know what it's going to be like at the
- 56:53Speaker 25: Meadowlands on Sunday if they lose to Cleveland? The fire
- 56:58Speaker 25: Glenn Chance will be, for anybody who's left in the building,
- 57:02Speaker 25: will be resonating, resonating. I'm telling you right now, man,
- 57:07Speaker 25: the fan base is in an uproar over this head coach.
- 57:11Speaker 2: Listen, I get it.
- 57:13Speaker 25: Enough is a freaking enough.
- 57:15Speaker 2: I think he's a terrible head coach. I know.
- 57:19Speaker 25: I love the guy. He's a great jet. Look, I
- 57:21Speaker 25: love him as a player.
- 57:23Speaker 23: But he's 4-0-17, Sid. When do we win?
- 57:24Speaker 25: When does it change? Tell me when.
- 57:30Speaker 23: Tell me.
- 57:31Speaker 2: Listen, all I'm going to say to you is it
- 57:32Speaker 2: didn't start with Aaron Glenn. This organization has been terrible for.
- 57:36Speaker 23: A long time.
- 57:37Speaker 25: It's been going on for 58 freaking years. I understand that.
- 57:39Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no. You had Rex Ryan.
- 57:41Speaker 2: You had winning seasons. But it's been like, I don't know, 8, 9,
- 57:44Speaker 2: 10 years. They haven't made.
- 57:46Speaker 25: The playoffs since 2010. They haven't had a winning season
- 57:49Speaker 25: since 2015. And I agree, the constant carousel of head coaches,
- 57:55Speaker 25: it's brutal. I'm with you on that all the way.
- 57:57Speaker 25: But the guy's 4 and 17. What we saw on
- 58:02Speaker 25: Sunday was just despicable. You know what bothered me more
- 58:05Speaker 25: than anything else Sunday? The penalties. Bro, they finally get
- 58:09Speaker 25: an interception after 20 games. Only the Jets could set
- 58:12Speaker 25: that kind of record, 20 games without an interception. And
- 58:15Speaker 25: then they set another record because they had three interceptions
- 58:18Speaker 25: called back by penalties. It's never happened before, Sid. Never.
- 58:23Speaker 25: All right? Three interceptions called back by penalties. They had
- 58:27Speaker 25: 12 penalties in the game. I understand they never had
- 58:29Speaker 25: the ball. The Bears just, you know, had the ball forever.
- 58:32Speaker 25: I mean, come on. The Jets, 89 plays to 32 plays.
- 58:37Speaker 25: The Jets went 0 for 7 on third down. I
- 58:39Speaker 25: get it all. But, I mean, this stuff has got
- 58:42Speaker 25: to stop. I'm sick and tired. Really, I'm sick and tired.
- 58:46Speaker 25: I am so sick and tired of losing. It's unbelievable.
- 58:50Speaker 25: Then I look at the other team in town. Like
- 58:51Speaker 25: I said, you played the clip. They're 3-1. You know why?
- 58:55Speaker 25: Because they got a real freaking head coach. They got
- 58:58Speaker 25: a real head coach, and I'm tired of the Jameis
- 58:59Speaker 25: Winston experience. Jameis Winston's one of the best backup quarterbacks
- 59:03Speaker 25: in the NFL, okay? And the reason they bought J
- 59:06Speaker 25: J J McCarthy and was to push Winston more. Cause
- 59:09Speaker 25: I don't think he's any good either to be very
- 59:11Speaker 25: honest with you. All right. So let's, let's be real
- 59:15Speaker 25: about it. That's the difference in the two football teams.
- 59:18Speaker 25: One has a coach. One doesn't have a coach. The
- 59:21Speaker 25: difference in talent. I don't think is that, that much
- 59:24Speaker 25: on the two teams. It all comes down to who
- 59:26Speaker 25: the coach is. It really does.
- 59:28Speaker 2: The Jets held the football for 45 seconds in the
- 59:32Speaker 2: fourth quarter on Sunday. 45 seconds.
- 59:35Speaker 25: I believe they had the ball for the last nine minutes.
- 59:37Speaker 2: I know.
- 59:38Speaker 25: This defense stinks. Where is this guy, David Bailey? He's
- 59:41Speaker 25: a second pick in the draft. All I heard is,
- 59:45Speaker 25: in training camp was, oh, he's a beast.
- 59:47Speaker 23: This guy's unbelievable.
- 59:49Speaker 25: Where is he? He stinks. And the guy for the Giants, Reese,
- 59:52Speaker 25: he was like Harry Carson called– I won't say LP
- 59:55Speaker 25: because there's only one LP.
- 59:57Speaker 23: Right.
- 59:57Speaker 25: But he was like Harry Carson called banks on something.
- 1:00:00Speaker 23: He was.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: He was. He was not very good the first couple
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: of weeks, but he was awesome for the Giants this week.
- 1:00:05Speaker 28: Right.
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: And you're right. Look, listen, I know that J.J. McCarthy
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: can't be good because I've been paying attention to the Vikings.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: They're one of the three unbeaten teams left. Kansas City,
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: the Vikings, and I forget the third. That's 4-0. But
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: I watch them every week, and I watch them just
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: beat a terrible Miami team on Sunday. And I've got
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: to tell you, Kyler Murray is terrible. Terrible.
- 1:00:31Speaker 25: J.J.
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: McCarthy was behind Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz. He was
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: a third-string quarterback in Minnesota. That's all you need to know.
- 1:00:40Speaker 23: Yes.
- 1:00:41Speaker 25: Yep, yep. And it's worth a shot for the Giants.
- 1:00:44Speaker 25: Fifth-round pick, he's a young guy. You do have a
- 1:00:47Speaker 25: premium coach in Harbaugh that maybe you can get something
- 1:00:49Speaker 25: out of him. But I think they brought him in
- 1:00:51Speaker 25: just to kind of tweak Jameis a little bit and
- 1:00:55Speaker 25: get him to up his game. So that's my feeling.
- 1:00:58Speaker 25: I think you can certainly— look, Winston, you saw it Sunday.
- 1:01:01Speaker 25: He threw a couple picks. He threw three touchdown passes.
- 1:01:04Speaker 25: you know, but you can certainly win games with him.
- 1:01:06Speaker 25: By the way, I got, I got to throw this
- 1:01:07Speaker 25: at you. Say you were the only man I know.
- 1:01:10Speaker 25: And I love, you know, I love it. You're like
- 1:01:11Speaker 25: a brother to me. You were the only man I
- 1:01:13Speaker 25: know that. wanted to leave Florida for New York. There's
- 1:01:17Speaker 25: nobody else.
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: Nobody. I did it.
- 1:01:19Speaker 25: Everybody else wants to go the other way. I know.
- 1:01:21Speaker 25: Sid wants to leave freaking Florida to come here.
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: What do you mean wants to? I did it.
- 1:01:26Speaker 25: I did it. Of course you did.
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: I'm an idiot.
- 1:01:31Speaker 25: I wouldn't call you an idiot. You're not an idiot.
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: I got a great job opportunity, but believe me, there's
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: a lot of days where I kick myself in the
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: ass and a lot of days where I sit down
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: with Danielle Lavin-Gabe and go, should we go back? I
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: don't know. A lot of things.
- 1:01:44Speaker 25: Well, you can't leave now. You're too big a deal
- 1:01:47Speaker 25: now in New York. You can't leave. You're too much
- 1:01:49Speaker 25: of the conservative voice, the leader of the Jews in
- 1:01:54Speaker 25: New York. You're kind of that now. I put you
- 1:01:56Speaker 25: in that category. You can't leave now. New York needs
- 1:02:00Speaker 25: you now.
- 1:02:00Speaker 23: Oh, my God.
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: You're like Chance Palminteri in a Bronx tale. Now you
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: just can't leave inside the Shea Bippy. I think you're right.
- 1:02:07Speaker 25: You can't leave now.
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: You're the man. Come on. I'm the man.
- 1:02:11Speaker 25: I got to love you. You got to keep Zohan
- 1:02:14Speaker 25: in tow.
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: You know what I mean, bro? I know. And maybe
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: I'll run against him in 2029. We'll see. That's still
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: out there.
- 1:02:19Speaker 25: I'd love to see that.
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: I know you would.
- 1:02:21Speaker 25: By the way, talking about Francesa, bro.
- 1:02:23Speaker 23: Come on.
- 1:02:23Speaker 25: Remember, okay? Okay, now I was number one for 35
- 1:02:28Speaker 25: consecutive years.
- 1:02:29Speaker 23: Okay?
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: Number one.
- 1:02:31Speaker 25: Okay? And I love the White Sox. Okay? Me and
- 1:02:35Speaker 25: the Pope. Just remember that. Don't forget that.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: That's very good. That's very good. Number one for 35 years.
- 1:02:42Speaker 23: Number one.
- 1:02:43Speaker 25: Okay, nobody touched me. I didn't need the dog, okay?
- 1:02:47Speaker 25: I was still number one.
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: Pretty good, Mike.
- 1:02:50Speaker 29: Where has this been?
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: Joe, that's a really good, that's better than Gio.
- 1:02:53Speaker 29: Much better.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: No, no, no.
- 1:02:54Speaker 25: It's not better than Gio, but I mean, come on.
- 1:02:56Speaker 25: I mean, Mike's, you know, he's easy to, you know.
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: No, he's easy to make fun of, I know.
- 1:03:00Speaker 25: Well, I'm not making fun of him. I'm just stating
- 1:03:03Speaker 25: the facts.
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: Five straight years of number one. I know, but they
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: were only on for 20-plus years.
- 1:03:08Speaker 25: You know what I said. He didn't need Russo to
- 1:03:11Speaker 25: continue to be number one.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: And when, of course, Russo left, Mike was scared to death,
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: and he called me and Max Kellerman, and he denies
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: that to this day. Whatever, Mike.
- 1:03:20Speaker 25: I'll be honest.
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: Come on.
- 1:03:21Speaker 25: Now, wait a minute now, bro. Mike had no intention
- 1:03:24Speaker 25: of having a partner after Russo left.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: Oh, sure he did.
- 1:03:26Speaker 25: No, no, no, no, no, no. That's all that was, Sid.
- 1:03:29Speaker 25: Come on. You know that.
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: No, he was scared to death. He did not think
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: he could do it on his own despite his bravado.
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: And I'm Mike, and I'm the greatest ever. Oh, I'm
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: telling you it's true. And I had to fly to
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: New York. I almost got fired down in Florida to
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: meet Mike and Churney at that diner. in Astoria, Queens,
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: and had many conversations. We kept all the emails, Danielle
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: and I. Chernoff told Danielle to look for a house.
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: That's how serious that got. It wasn't Bill Simmons. It
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: wasn't Stephen A. Smith. It wasn't Iron Eagle. He wanted
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: Sid because Sid was the Met Band, the New Yorker,
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: and Kellerman because Kellerman was the number guy. I am
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: the Yankee fan now.
- 1:04:09Speaker 25: Wait on the Yankees.
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: Wait on the Yankees. One more on the Giants. Look,
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: the Eagles are not a good football team. I'm sorry.
- 1:04:20Speaker 25: Even without thought.
- 1:04:21Speaker 23: Right.
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: Why not? They can still do it?
- 1:04:24Speaker 25: I think so. I mean, are the Cowboys that good?
- 1:04:27Speaker 25: I mean, come on. I mean, the Cowboys, you know,
- 1:04:28Speaker 25: they won the other day against the Texan team. They
- 1:04:30Speaker 25: can't get out of their own way.
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: The Giants already beat Dallas. I mean, mind you.
- 1:04:34Speaker 23: Right.
- 1:04:34Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 1:04:35Speaker 25: Yeah, Dallas gave the game away to the Ravens two
- 1:04:37Speaker 25: weeks ago, and for some reason they're playing in Rio
- 1:04:40Speaker 25: de Janeiro, which is absolutely ridiculous, but that's another story.
- 1:04:45Speaker 25: I mean, yeah, why not? Washington's not any good. Now
- 1:04:47Speaker 25: Mariota's even hurt with Washington. I mean, come on. Why
- 1:04:51Speaker 25: can't the Giants win that division?
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: They could. By the way, the Giants play that Washington
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: team this week, but Jaden Daniels is coming back. Jaden
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: is coming back.
- 1:04:59Speaker 25: Is he playing this week?
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I was told.
- 1:05:02Speaker 25: You've got to watch with him, though, man. He's got
- 1:05:04Speaker 25: that problem with his arm. I mean, he could go
- 1:05:06Speaker 25: at any time.
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: Of course.
- 1:05:07Speaker 25: Who knows? Who knows?
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: Giants are very— they rush the passer well, and they can
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: really hurt him. And like you said, Mariota got hurt
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: pretty badly in that first quarter against the Colts.
- 1:05:14Speaker 25: You know what else the Giants got? You got some
- 1:05:15Speaker 25: weapons now, bro. You got neighbors in his back. You
- 1:05:18Speaker 25: got this Malachi Fields. You got the tight end. You know,
- 1:05:21Speaker 25: what's his name? Lively. I mean, come on.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: He's good. Isaiah Likely from Baltimore. You're damn right he is.
- 1:05:26Speaker 25: I mean, you got Scadable. You got three different guys
- 1:05:28Speaker 25: now running the ball. Giants, I'm telling you, man. And
- 1:05:32Speaker 25: you got the coach, and that's really the most important thing.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: Let's get to the Yankees. We got the coach. Something
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: tells me... that all the calls at the fan today
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: from Boomer and Geo to Evan and Tiki to Craig
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: and C-Mac, fire Aaron Boone, fire Aaron Boone, maybe Cashman
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: too just for bringing in Ryan McMahon. Who do you
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: blame for last night's debacle?
- 1:05:54Speaker 25: Who do I blame? I just think this has been
- 1:05:56Speaker 25: an issue with them all year. Well, you've seen them
- 1:05:58Speaker 25: all year throwing the ball around like that. And they're
- 1:06:01Speaker 25: playing a team that is as fundamentally sound as anybody
- 1:06:04Speaker 25: could be in Tampa Bay. I think that's the bottom line, bro.
- 1:06:09Speaker 25: I really do. And they don't hit enough. I mean,
- 1:06:10Speaker 25: outside of Ben Rice, who's hitting? Nobody.
- 1:06:13Speaker 23: Right?
- 1:06:14Speaker 25: Who's hitting right now? Nobody.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: Bellinger had one decent game against the Red Sox, and
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: that's it.
- 1:06:19Speaker 23: That's it.
- 1:06:20Speaker 25: So Yankee fans should be in a situation that we
- 1:06:22Speaker 25: are as Mets fans. You know, they have no idea.
- 1:06:24Speaker 25: You know, Yankee fans could cry all they want. They're
- 1:06:26Speaker 25: in the playoffs every year. I'm sorry you haven't won
- 1:06:28Speaker 25: a World Series since 2009. I mean, what do you want?
- 1:06:31Speaker 25: And thank God. I got to tell you this, too, bro.
- 1:06:34Speaker 25: Thank God I only do this part time now on Saturday.
- 1:06:36Speaker 25: And I don't have to, you know, be there every
- 1:06:38Speaker 25: day talking Yankee baseball. Thank God. I got to tell you.
- 1:06:43Speaker 25: Thank God.
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: Yeah, but what good is making the postseason, it's like
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: Dan Marino, if you can't win a World Series and
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: they haven't done it, like you said, in 17 years?
- 1:06:51Speaker 25: Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's better than being with
- 1:06:53Speaker 25: a Mets off.
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: I know that.
- 1:06:55Speaker 25: It's better than being in the dumps.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: I know that. You know what I mean, bro?
- 1:06:58Speaker 25: I mean, you know what I'm saying?
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: But the expectations are different.
- 1:07:01Speaker 25: What great Met are we going to get rid of next?
- 1:07:03Speaker 25: Who are we letting go this time? You know what
- 1:07:05Speaker 25: I mean?
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: I don't know, but the expectations are different. And the
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: question remains, I think Cashman just got an extension. I
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: think Boone did, too. And you talk about how.
- 1:07:13Speaker 25: You'd be down to trade David Stearns for Cashman.
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: Of course you would. But you talk about Jet fans
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: being furious with Aaron Glenn.
- 1:07:20Speaker 25: I'm telling you, brother, Jet fans are in an uproar
- 1:07:23Speaker 25: over this head coach.
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: But don't you think Yankee fans, because I hear it
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: every day when I put the fan on, they feel
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: the same way about Aaron Boone. I know, but they
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: feel the same way about Aaron Boone.
- 1:07:35Speaker 25: Look, I think they love Aaron Boone there. Cashman loves him.
- 1:07:39Speaker 25: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe if they get
- 1:07:42Speaker 25: swept by Tampa, maybe they will fire him. I don't know.
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: I don't think they will.
- 1:07:46Speaker 25: I would be surprised. I would be surprised.
- 1:07:47Speaker 28: Me too.
- 1:07:47Speaker 25: I really would.
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Because they do love him. But, you know, I know
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: that Volpe hasn't spent a lot of time at third base.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: That's a tricky turf in Tampa Bay. I get that.
- 1:07:55Speaker 25: What about McMahon? McMahon was at third. He made that error.
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: No, I understand that, but he actually admitted he thought
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: about not playing McMahon because McMahon, at this point, is
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: just a complete impediment to the Yankees. So he plays him,
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: and he started off the whole error rally.
- 1:08:11Speaker 25: Yeah, but, you know, they compounded it. You know, Lombard's
- 1:08:13Speaker 25: throwing the ball away. Jazz Chisholm is throwing the ball away.
- 1:08:16Speaker 25: I mean, come on. The guy at first base isn't
- 1:08:19Speaker 25: getting off the base to save the throw that gets
- 1:08:21Speaker 25: chucked away. Maybe he could have, you know, at least
- 1:08:22Speaker 25: caught the ball there if he gets off the bag.
- 1:08:25Speaker 25: I mean, we could go on and on, and they
- 1:08:26Speaker 25: don't hit. They're not hitting. Outside of Ben Rice, Ben
- 1:08:29Speaker 25: Rice is tremendous, right? If he was on the Mets,
- 1:08:32Speaker 25: he'd be gone when he became a free agent because
- 1:08:34Speaker 25: why would we ever pay a guy like that? You
- 1:08:35Speaker 25: don't have to worry about it with the Yankees. But
- 1:08:37Speaker 25: outside of him, you know, who's really hitting, bro? Nobody.
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: So the question is, do you see any scenario where
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: the Yankees win the next three?
- 1:08:47Speaker 25: I think it's possible, but I don't think it's going
- 1:08:49Speaker 25: to happen. I just think this team is– The Rays
- 1:08:53Speaker 25: are really a good team. They play fundamentally sound baseball.
- 1:08:58Speaker 25: They don't have a bunch of big stars. on the team,
- 1:09:01Speaker 25: but they do everything right. You know, I think it's
- 1:09:03Speaker 25: going to be tough, and they're going to have to
- 1:09:04Speaker 25: go up against Rasmussen again, right?
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: And they all– Rasmussen again.
- 1:09:08Speaker 25: I mean, you know, I think the Yankees are in
- 1:09:10Speaker 25: trouble now. I mean, could I see them coming back
- 1:09:13Speaker 25: and winning a couple games at the stadium? Yeah, I
- 1:09:14Speaker 25: could see that. But I think when all is said
- 1:09:17Speaker 25: and done, I think Tampa's going to win now.
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: Do we talk enough about Kevin Cash? I mean, you
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: said it. Great manager.
- 1:09:25Speaker 28: Right?
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: I mean, they spend no money. You'll be hard-pressed to
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: grab a guy in the street right now who watches
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: the Mets and Yankees. He probably can't name three Tampa
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: Bay baseball players.
- 1:09:35Speaker 6: Three.
- 1:09:36Speaker 2: And every year they win 90-plus games, and they're on
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: their way seemingly to the ALCS. But no payroll.
- 1:09:43Speaker 15: None.
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: And it's every year. How does Kevin Cash do it?
- 1:09:46Speaker 25: Yeah, well, I mean, it's above him. It's the management team,
- 1:09:50Speaker 25: the ownership. Look, in all sports, it all starts with
- 1:09:54Speaker 25: the owner. Let's be honest. I mean, that's where it
- 1:09:57Speaker 25: all begins. If you have terrible ownership, the chances are
- 1:10:00Speaker 25: you're not going to win. I mean, it's going to
- 1:10:02Speaker 25: almost be impossible to win, and it just kind of
- 1:10:05Speaker 25: bleeds it down, you know?
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: Let me stop you. So are you saying, Joe Beningo,
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: that Woody Johnson is a terrible owner?
- 1:10:13Speaker 25: He's a terrible owner.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:10:14Speaker 25: Look, I like Woody Johnson because I know he's a
- 1:10:16Speaker 25: big Trump supporter. So, you know, that's kind of a
- 1:10:19Speaker 25: saving grace for him. But he's been a terrible owner, Sid.
- 1:10:23Speaker 25: I mean, come on. I mean, how many bad head
- 1:10:25Speaker 25: coaches have we brought in here? I mean, at some point,
- 1:10:29Speaker 25: we got to get it right with the coach. Some point,
- 1:10:32Speaker 25: you got to get it right. You really do. I mean,
- 1:10:34Speaker 25: I know Mike Tomlin's out there. I doubt he's ever
- 1:10:36Speaker 25: coming to this disaster. Although, I will say this about
- 1:10:39Speaker 25: the franchise. They're set up. They got three first-round picks
- 1:10:43Speaker 25: again next year. The personnel on this team is not terrible. Okay?
- 1:10:47Speaker 25: It's not terrible. It's not good.
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: I mean, you mentioned David Bailey may be the best
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: defensive player. I can't name three people on that defense.
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: That defense is not good.
- 1:10:55Speaker 25: It's not good.
- 1:10:56Speaker 23: No.
- 1:10:57Speaker 25: No, no, no, I can't. How could I say?
- 1:10:59Speaker 23: They are.
- 1:11:00Speaker 25: You know what kills me, too, about this team? Just
- 1:11:02Speaker 25: think about this. And it's still one and three. They've
- 1:11:04Speaker 25: turned the ball over once all year.
- 1:11:05Speaker 23: Once. Once.
- 1:11:07Speaker 25: And they still are 1-3. One turnover the entire year.
- 1:11:11Speaker 25: That was that fumble on the last play in Detroit
- 1:11:13Speaker 25: last week by Geno when he got, you know, blitzkrieg
- 1:11:16Speaker 25: by the Lions.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: He got killed. He fumbled.
- 1:11:19Speaker 25: I mean, come on. He hasn't even thrown a pick.
- 1:11:23Speaker 23: It's unbelievable.
- 1:11:23Speaker 25: And they're still 1-3. It's a joke. The penalty's got
- 1:11:27Speaker 25: to stop. To me, that bothers me more than anything else.
- 1:11:30Speaker 25: They had like 14 penalties against the Packers. They had
- 1:11:33Speaker 25: 12 penalties in this game. How many kill a third down,
- 1:11:37Speaker 25: you know, getting first downs on third downs, stupid penalties,
- 1:11:40Speaker 25: illegal hands to the face, jumping the Mario Davis of
- 1:11:43Speaker 25: all people, veteran of veterans, jumping off sides. I mean,
- 1:11:47Speaker 25: come on. I mean, it just, it doesn't stop, Sid.
- 1:11:50Speaker 25: It doesn't stop.
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: I understand. I still love you. It's very painful. I know,
- 1:11:54Speaker 2: I know.
- 1:11:54Speaker 25: As far as LeBron, screw LeBron, okay? Go to China.
- 1:11:57Speaker 25: Go ahead, tell us how great it is in China, LeBron.
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: Go up yourself, LeBron.
- 1:12:01Speaker 25: I mean, this guy, you know, he didn't come to
- 1:12:04Speaker 25: the Knicks when he should have. You know, like you said,
- 1:12:06Speaker 25: you talked about it. You know, I'm taking my talents
- 1:12:08Speaker 25: to South Beach. Then he wants to call me. Thank
- 1:12:11Speaker 25: God we won. I want no part of this guy.
- 1:12:13Speaker 25: And I want to stick it up his rear end.
- 1:12:15Speaker 25: I can't stand to go. He's an all-time great player.
- 1:12:18Speaker 25: I can't stand it.
- 1:12:18Speaker 2: You and Laura B don't feel the same way. I
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: feel differently. I want every great player to play in
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: New York at some point. I don't give you an
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: ass to hold it on. You need to play here.
- 1:12:25Speaker 25: I don't want that. I want my own guys. I
- 1:12:28Speaker 25: don't want somebody else's people to come here and try
- 1:12:30Speaker 25: to save us. I love exactly what happened with the Knicks.
- 1:12:34Speaker 25: They did it with Leon Rose. I mean, look, everybody
- 1:12:37Speaker 25: came from another team.
- 1:12:38Speaker 28: Right.
- 1:12:38Speaker 25: But he didn't bring in any super-duper stars here. He
- 1:12:41Speaker 25: brought in very good players. I know Brunson's getting into
- 1:12:44Speaker 25: that category. He brought in very good players that are
- 1:12:48Speaker 25: a team, bro. This is a team.
- 1:12:51Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 1:12:51Speaker 25: Okay. All right? And that's how you win.
- 1:12:54Speaker 23: Yeah.
- 1:12:54Speaker 25: Yeah, you need great players. But if you have... you know,
- 1:12:57Speaker 25: five guys and ten guys and guys coming off the
- 1:13:00Speaker 25: bench that are all playing as a team and you're
- 1:13:02Speaker 25: all very good, you can win. And we saw that
- 1:13:05Speaker 25: last year.
- 1:13:06Speaker 23: No, we didn't.
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: We didn't. Hopefully we can see it again. One's not
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: enough for me. Anyway, I know it's been 53 years,
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: but to win one and then disappear for a couple
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: of decades like the Rangers have done.
- 1:13:14Speaker 25: They're not disappearing. They're going to be a team to
- 1:13:15Speaker 25: be reckoned with next year, even if they don't. And
- 1:13:17Speaker 25: I tell this to everybody, and I mean this. Every
- 1:13:20Speaker 25: Knicks fan should be very, just relax. The season starts
- 1:13:23Speaker 25: in April. They're going to make the playoffs. There's no
- 1:13:26Speaker 25: doubt about it. Does it matter what the seed is?
- 1:13:29Speaker 25: As long as they're in the top four, I'm telling you,
- 1:13:32Speaker 25: you'll worry about it. The season starts in April. If
- 1:13:35Speaker 25: they have a five-day losing streak in the middle of
- 1:13:37Speaker 25: the year, everybody's going to be panicking. Don't worry. Just
- 1:13:40Speaker 25: calm down. You know what I mean, bro?
- 1:13:41Speaker 2: No, you're right. I got to run.
- 1:13:43Speaker 25: They're going to make a run in the playoffs. They're
- 1:13:44Speaker 25: going to win again. I mean, chances are they're not.
- 1:13:48Speaker 25: We haven't had a repeat champion in a lot of years.
- 1:13:50Speaker 25: But you know what?
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: So what?
- 1:13:52Speaker 25: Enjoy it. We're the champions.
- 1:13:54Speaker 23: They're chasing us.
- 1:13:55Speaker 25: Think about that. They're chasing us.
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: All true. Joe, I love you. Amazing appearance today on fire.
- 1:14:02Speaker 25: I love you, Sid.
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: You're so great. Don't ever leave New York now.
- 1:14:05Speaker 25: You've got to be here now.
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: I promise.
- 1:14:07Speaker 25: You know what I mean? You've got to take the mantle.
- 1:14:10Speaker 25: in New York to try to keep it where it
- 1:14:13Speaker 25: needs to be.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: See what you just did? Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: Nice job, Joe. Joe, I love it. Great job. Thank you, buddy.
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
- 1:14:20Speaker 29: Do Frances again for a second.
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: Yeah, one more.
- 1:14:22Speaker 25: Okay, all right. Listen, Sid Rosenberg. Okay.
- 1:14:28Speaker 34: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
- 1:14:31Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: Talking about how anti-Semitism is going up and up and up,
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: and it's not going to change because the mayor hates Jews.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: I had some guy approach me at the ferry yesterday.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: He's like, I know who you are. He started asking
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: me a bunch of questions. I'm like, I don't want
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: to be bothered. But he's like, doesn't it make more
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: sense for you and the mayor to get along? And
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: why do you think the mayor hates the Jews? And
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: what has he done? I mean, shut up, anti-Semitism. An
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: all-time high. And now there's this story. It's on the
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: cover of today's New York Post. I always talk about
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: people I want to punch in the face in this city.
- 1:15:06Speaker 2: Always talk about that. It's a long list. Add this guy,
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: Damian Neva, this pussy, this teacher at some school. I
- 1:15:14Speaker 2: think it's in Brooklyn. Noam's got the latest. Who actually
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: has praised Sinwar. Sinwar, the mastermind behind October 7th, which
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: will commemorate tomorrow three years. He's called Hamas. I guess
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: he said they're great in their effort to free Palestine.
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: And this kid is a teacher in New York today.
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: I haven't heard Mamdani say anything about the guy, but
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: I sure will. Noam, what's the latest with this story? Well,
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: he's no kid.
- 1:15:43Speaker 31: He's a 48-year-old special education teacher at PS77.
- 1:15:47Speaker 7: That's in Park Slope.
- 1:15:49Speaker 31: And yeah, you won't be shocked to hear that he's
- 1:15:52Speaker 31: part of the Park Slope food co-op. That's the food
- 1:15:55Speaker 31: co-op that's now banned all products from Israel. And in
- 1:15:59Speaker 31: a chat group they have, this is where he made
- 1:16:01Speaker 31: all these comments praising Hamas, long live Al-Sinwaar. And so
- 1:16:07Speaker 31: now parents are finding out about this, and they're saying,
- 1:16:09Speaker 31: why are you letting this dope in front of our
- 1:16:11Speaker 31: kids in class?
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: Why is he still working there?
- 1:16:13Speaker 7: Well, apparently this just was unearthed in the last couple days.
- 1:16:16Speaker 31: And I will say, normally the Department of Education is
- 1:16:19Speaker 31: slow to respond to these things, but they say actually—
- 1:16:22Speaker 31: This 48-year-old is now under investigation.
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: He's on the cover of the New York Post. What
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: do you mean, slow? This isn't a couple of guys
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: talking on the corner of Bedford Avenue. He's on the
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: cover of the New York Post.
- 1:16:32Speaker 25: Yeah.
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: What are we talking about here?
- 1:16:34Speaker 31: Yeah, well, they're investigating it, and we'll see how fast
- 1:16:37Speaker 31: they take him out of the classroom.
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: This guy needs to be fired, and quite frankly, he
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: needs a good ass kicking. That's what he needs. The
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: good old days of the JDL, this guy would walk
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: outside the school one day, and they would teach him,
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: teach him a lesson. At least fire this bastard, okay?
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: No investigations. Don't take a long time. Keep this animal
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: away from our kids. What is the matter with you people?
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: Haven't you seen our kids have been destroyed already between
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: all that awful wine garden. What's her first name? Randy. Randy.
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: She's a disgusting, vile person. And who's the other guy? Michael, um.
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: The head of the New York one.
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: Yeah, the head of the New York one. Forgot his name.
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: Michael something. I forgot his last name. These people have
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: already destroyed basically a whole generation of children. And now
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: you're going to wait for an investigation? Send the kid
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: home today. The guy. He's not a kid. Send the
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: guy home today. And then do your investigation. And if
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: he survives it, give him his back pay. But get
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: this mother effer out of our kids' schools now. What
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: school is this?
- 1:17:50Speaker 7: This is PS77. It's in Park Slope.
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: Justin, get the damn principal on the phone right now.
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: I want to talk to this guy. PS77, Park Slope,
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: a bunch of libs, a bunch of wannabe Manhattan retards.
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: That's what that is. Let me take a break. Bo
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: Dietl is coming up in a minute. God, I'm so pissed.
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: It's true. Park Slope and Dumbo and all these morons
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: who pay Manhattan prices to live in Brooklyn. These dumb bastards.
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: That's who these people are. Bunch of libtards. Every parent
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: in that neighborhood should be standing outside the school today
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: yelling and screaming like I am. My kids don't go there.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: We don't even live in Brooklyn. I'm worried about your kids. God,
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: I should run for mayor.
- 1:18:33Speaker 29: What are you thinking about?
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: I actually care about other people's children. I know that's stupid. Anyway,
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: Bo Dietl and President Isaac Herzog are coming up.
- 1:18:43Speaker 34: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
- 1:18:47Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: She is a lunatic, Kate Conley. She's running against our
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: dear friend Mike Lawler in Rockland County. And I did
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: speak to Bruce Blakeman very early this morning trying to
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: get those plans together for me, Blakeman, and Trump in
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: Syracuse on Friday. Also congratulated Bruce on getting Debra Messing
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: on board. That's now three Democrats in the last six weeks.
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: Bonnie Lautenberg, Franks, you know, she was married to Frank Lautenberg,
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: Bob Holden, and now Debra Messing. And he will be
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: campaigning today, Bruce Blakeman, with the aforementioned Mike Lawler. So
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: I got a huge audience in Rockland County. Don't even
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: consider this one. Mike Lawler, light years better than Kate Conley,
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: and quite frankly, Bruce Flakeman, light years better than the
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: wretched Kathy Hochul. Bo Dietl, everybody loves Bo on a Tuesday.
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: He does his thing. Nobody more New York, nobody cares
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: more than my Uncle Bo. Bo Dietl, good Tuesday morning, buddy.
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: How are you?
- 1:19:53Speaker 23: Good morning, Sid. I love listening to your show. I
- 1:19:57Speaker 23: love listening to you tell the truth. It's such a
- 1:19:59Speaker 23: refreshing thing. I listen every morning, whether I'm in Miami.
- 1:20:03Speaker 23: I was down in Miami for a couple of days.
- 1:20:05Speaker 23: I wake up in the morning, I put you on.
- 1:20:08Speaker 23: Are you going Thursday night to the DEA annual award
- 1:20:11Speaker 23: dinner at Russo's on the Bay? You're invited by Scott.
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: Monroe, you know. Well, he called me yesterday because I
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: was not going to go. And he called me. He said,
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: let me tell you, you got to go. You have
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: to go. I have you sitting at my table. You
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: have to go.
- 1:20:24Speaker 23: I said, you sit with me. But the most important
- 1:20:26Speaker 23: thing is what Scott has been doing for the rank
- 1:20:30Speaker 23: and file. He is the best DEA president that we've
- 1:20:34Speaker 23: ever had. He fights. He goes up to Albany. He
- 1:20:38Speaker 23: had deals with Snaggletooth. He does what he has to
- 1:20:40Speaker 23: do for his people. His membership is his most important thing.
- 1:20:44Speaker 23: And he fights and he fights. And remember, I want
- 1:20:47Speaker 23: to be labeled as sit in the mornings in-house detective.
- 1:20:51Speaker 23: Because when I come every Tuesday morning, I bring it.
- 1:20:55Speaker 23: I look at things and I do an investigation. That's
- 1:20:58Speaker 23: what my life has always been. I've been a detective.
- 1:21:01Speaker 23: And here are some of the issues that I like
- 1:21:03Speaker 23: people to be in lighting with. You know, remember the
- 1:21:07Speaker 23: second apartment tax, the PDRT, whatever that bullcrap was, right?
- 1:21:12Speaker 23: And then all of a sudden, you know, when I
- 1:21:13Speaker 23: looked up what it's all about, it really parallels this
- 1:21:17Speaker 23: thing with communism. They invoked one of these things, the collective,
- 1:21:23Speaker 23: listen to this one, the collective good to justify imposing
- 1:21:27Speaker 23: tax on private wealth. So what it's all about is
- 1:21:31Speaker 23: that he's making it as an excuse for the people
- 1:21:33Speaker 23: that don't have it that we got to go after
- 1:21:35Speaker 23: the people who have it. And that's it. Even though
- 1:21:38Speaker 23: he's facing an $ 8 billion, $ 8 billion budget gap next week,
- 1:21:44Speaker 23: he's going after, you know, he's going after, he's going
- 1:21:47Speaker 23: after landlords and CEOs and all that. And this is
- 1:21:51Speaker 23: his favorite line. What he does is he promises the government,
- 1:21:56Speaker 23: listen to these words, the government will deliver whatever you need.
- 1:22:00Speaker 23: That is the communists saying that they've always used when
- 1:22:04Speaker 23: they took over countries all around the world, when the
- 1:22:06Speaker 23: communists took it over and they ran them into the
- 1:22:09Speaker 23: damn ground.
- 1:22:10Speaker 25: You know what?
- 1:22:12Speaker 23: The people who are going to suffer are the people
- 1:22:15Speaker 23: of our basic services, and we could see it running down.
- 1:22:18Speaker 23: What I said about the police department last week, about
- 1:22:21Speaker 23: them just putting bodies in there. Oh, you don't have
- 1:22:23Speaker 23: to do any pull-ups. You don't have to do any push-ups.
- 1:22:26Speaker 23: We're going to pass you. You don't need any academic
- 1:22:28Speaker 23: skills because we're going to pass. you and you walk
- 1:22:31Speaker 23: around and all you see is a police department with
- 1:22:34Speaker 23: their heads on their cell phone, not paying attention to
- 1:22:37Speaker 23: that whole UN thing. I was disgraced. I was disgraced
- 1:22:41Speaker 23: because New York city police department is the greatest police
- 1:22:44Speaker 23: department in the world, but we're starting to go back.
- 1:22:47Speaker 23: We're starting to go back. And you know what? We
- 1:22:49Speaker 23: talking about what they want.
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: Hold on a second. You're saying we're starting to go back.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: I have to bring up somebody that you and I
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: both love. I know I love. I think you do, too.
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: Jessica Tisch. Is she responsible for some of that?
- 1:23:01Speaker 23: No, Jessica Tisch is probably. And I like Jessica. I
- 1:23:06Speaker 23: think she's doing a fabulous job being in a pen
- 1:23:10Speaker 23: of communist scumbag. She's trying to juggle the city council
- 1:23:15Speaker 23: morons and this. And this Mondami, who hates police, and
- 1:23:19Speaker 23: all his cabinet hates police. If she ever leaves, they're
- 1:23:23Speaker 23: going to probably throw the guy from the Central Park Five,
- 1:23:26Speaker 23: that big black guy, Salami, Salami, whatever the hell his
- 1:23:29Speaker 23: name is. He was one of the Central Park Five.
- 1:23:31Speaker 23: They got whacked up $ 50 million. My friend Mike, the
- 1:23:35Speaker 23: detective investigator, they were wilding in the park. They were
- 1:23:38Speaker 23: robbing people, beating people up. But they didn't rape the girl.
- 1:23:42Speaker 23: Little Julio came by and dropped a little bit of
- 1:23:44Speaker 23: his fermentation. And then they got somebody else. So they
- 1:23:47Speaker 23: let them go. They sued him. They gave him $ 50 million.
- 1:23:50Speaker 23: Now he's a city council member. And he was part
- 1:23:54Speaker 23: of a group that were beating people up all about it.
- 1:23:57Speaker 23: And I got it from my friend Mike, the detective.
- 1:24:00Speaker 23: He's no longer with us. And he told me the facts.
- 1:24:03Speaker 23: Linda Fairstein told me the facts.
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: They ruined her life, Paul Linda Fairstein. They did that
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: whole movie, the documentary. They ruined her life.
- 1:24:11Speaker 23: Right. And this is what we're facing right now is
- 1:24:15Speaker 23: a council member who is a criminal. He's a damn criminal.
- 1:24:19Speaker 23: He'll make him the police commission. What do you think
- 1:24:22Speaker 23: we're going to have then, Sid? Real bad. And then
- 1:24:24Speaker 23: all of a sudden this mayor now jumps on the
- 1:24:27Speaker 23: city council. Ban the beautiful horses going through the snow,
- 1:24:32Speaker 23: riding with your wife with a blanket, and how beautiful.
- 1:24:35Speaker 23: This is New York, you fools. This is part of
- 1:24:38Speaker 23: our life in the snow. How beautiful. One death, a
- 1:24:41Speaker 23: tribute to the horses. Nobody talks about the 20 people
- 1:24:45Speaker 23: dead and hundreds of people mowed down by these delivery
- 1:24:48Speaker 23: bikes and these electric bikes and motorbikes. This is what
- 1:24:52Speaker 23: we're focusing on. Now let's go to Governor Snaggletooth Hochul.
- 1:24:56Speaker 23: Only one debate she's going to do. She's going to
- 1:24:59Speaker 23: do one debate with Blakeman on that fat racist. When
- 1:25:03Speaker 23: I ran for mayor, that fat racist there, your friend, Eric,
- 1:25:07Speaker 23: what's his name?
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: Errol Lewis.
- 1:25:08Speaker 32: Errol Lewis.
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: What a lot. By the way, that debate you're mentioning,
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: it just so happens one week from tonight.
- 1:25:15Speaker 23: Yeah, and I mean, Bruce has been trying to get what?
- 1:25:19Speaker 23: Why not have more debates? Let the people know how
- 1:25:22Speaker 23: you've destroyed this state. We're going to be at $ 300
- 1:25:26Speaker 23: billion in another year. Mark my words. You're listening to
- 1:25:30Speaker 23: Bo Dietl's words. I've been adding up all these programs
- 1:25:33Speaker 23: and all that. And then all of a sudden we
- 1:25:35Speaker 23: got A.G. Tish James. Oh, she wins all her campaigns.
- 1:25:39Speaker 23: You know how she wins the campaigns? They knocked Trump.
- 1:25:42Speaker 23: So this is what Snaggletooth is going to do. Snaggletooth
- 1:25:45Speaker 23: is going to debate and keep bringing out Trump. Trump
- 1:25:48Speaker 23: is not running. Bruce Blakeman is running. A guy who
- 1:25:51Speaker 23: had the safest community where I have a house in
- 1:25:54Speaker 23: Nassau County. He's a great, great politician. But more so,
- 1:25:59Speaker 23: he's a great manager. And he's a person that can
- 1:26:02Speaker 23: save this state. And I'm talking about all... They won't
- 1:26:05Speaker 23: talk about... Blakeman wants to talk about things... We should
- 1:26:09Speaker 23: talk about the energy prices with the gas. Man, I'm
- 1:26:12Speaker 23: paying all kinds of things. I got three houses. And
- 1:26:15Speaker 23: then the energy price, the criminal justice laws, and the
- 1:26:18Speaker 23: feckless governor who's done nothing. She's afraid to debate Blakeman
- 1:26:23Speaker 23: more than once because she knows one thing. And also,
- 1:26:26Speaker 23: we have this thing with this rape law, this terrible
- 1:26:30Speaker 23: rape law that has to be adjusted with what happened
- 1:26:32Speaker 23: up in Cornell and all that. Faith. Guess what, Sid?
- 1:26:35Speaker 23: You want to go Christmas shopping and Hanukkah shopping? Just
- 1:26:38Speaker 23: go over to Canal Street. It's about four blocks over
- 1:26:41Speaker 23: there by these guys from Senegal. You can see them
- 1:26:44Speaker 23: standing on the corner there who don't speak English. They
- 1:26:47Speaker 23: don't speak anything.
- 1:26:48Speaker 25: They're all illegals.
- 1:26:49Speaker 23: Go buy a Fugazi Rolex. Go buy a Prada. Go
- 1:26:53Speaker 23: buy sunglasses. And you know what they do? They grab them.
- 1:26:56Speaker 23: They put them in. One hour later, they're back on
- 1:26:59Speaker 23: their way. They put all their bags in a blanket.
- 1:27:01Speaker 23: They pick them up. They run down the street. Oh,
- 1:27:03Speaker 23: this is another good one. Our mayor, guess what? He
- 1:27:07Speaker 23: has security clearance. I'll guarantee you he's got security clearance.
- 1:27:11Speaker 23: If there's probably an active thing happening, you got to
- 1:27:14Speaker 23: let stupid know about it. I do agree. But you
- 1:27:17Speaker 23: don't let him know any informants or anything like that.
- 1:27:20Speaker 23: His best friends are terrorists and his best friends support terrorists.
- 1:27:24Speaker 23: And you know what? You don't let this little moron
- 1:27:27Speaker 23: smiling punk know nothing. And I guarantee our intelligence, our
- 1:27:31Speaker 23: United States intelligence people know we're dealing with a fool.
- 1:27:34Speaker 23: Because we had operations that we were talking to these
- 1:27:37Speaker 23: imams and all that stuff. And the next thing that
- 1:27:39Speaker 23: happened is they let out. We thought they were going
- 1:27:43Speaker 23: to cooperate like Mondami, that they were going to be
- 1:27:45Speaker 23: loyal to our intelligence. And all of a sudden they
- 1:27:48Speaker 23: let the Iman, let the people that we will follow
- 1:27:50Speaker 23: it know that we will follow them. And then they
- 1:27:53Speaker 23: took off and then they went back to Iraq. My
- 1:27:56Speaker 23: problem here is you can't tell this little smiley fool nothing.
- 1:28:00Speaker 23: And then all of a sudden now Mondami uses the
- 1:28:03Speaker 23: race card. Our schools are failing. Our poor students. And
- 1:28:06Speaker 23: they're mostly black, Hispanic. And that's our schools. He says
- 1:28:11Speaker 23: it's a race card. But there's only one problem, you fool.
- 1:28:14Speaker 23: Why don't you look at the numbers? 16% of the
- 1:28:18Speaker 23: students are white.
- 1:28:19Speaker 25: That's it.
- 1:28:20Speaker 23: That's it. It's only 16%. So you want to use
- 1:28:22Speaker 23: the race card? You're an idiot. You don't even know
- 1:28:24Speaker 23: the numbers. And then once you look at the numbers
- 1:28:27Speaker 23: of the failures, 50% in reading failure, 45% in male failure.
- 1:28:32Speaker 23: They go to college. They got to take courses, how
- 1:28:35Speaker 23: to read and write. And then you know what? When
- 1:28:38Speaker 23: you put a chancellor in there like this, scumbag that
- 1:28:40Speaker 23: he put in there, he's under investigation for a non-bid contract.
- 1:28:44Speaker 23: It's just as bad as your friend Eric Adams' defeat
- 1:28:47Speaker 23: when he put that Banks brother as the chancellor. He
- 1:28:51Speaker 23: ran out of there before the handcuffs went on him.
- 1:28:53Speaker 23: And here's another one, economic development. We need that. Over
- 1:28:57Speaker 23: there in Hunts Point, their whole deal collapsed. They were
- 1:28:59Speaker 23: going to put $ 650 million, but all of a sudden
- 1:29:02Speaker 23: they started throwing this BS, economic justice and all that.
- 1:29:07Speaker 23: And then the mayor refused to appoint someone for seven
- 1:29:10Speaker 23: months to head up this economic development. That's why that
- 1:29:13Speaker 23: didn't go by. Just a couple of more shits. Just
- 1:29:15Speaker 23: a couple of more, please. Okay, after that subway attack,
- 1:29:19Speaker 23: what happened? Mondami, with your billion-dollar safety promise, it ain't
- 1:29:23Speaker 23: funny yet. The Department of Community Safety, all you have
- 1:29:27Speaker 23: are these scumbag nonprofits getting hundreds of millions of dollars.
- 1:29:31Speaker 23: And you know what they do? They do nothing. They
- 1:29:33Speaker 23: pull the votes out for this creep. And then we
- 1:29:36Speaker 23: got this and a couple more, a couple more, that's all. Hey,
- 1:29:39Speaker 23: all of a sudden, Mondami's hit with this ethics complaint.
- 1:29:43Speaker 23: What happened was they have 200-plus influencers I talked about
- 1:29:46Speaker 23: last week in City Hall. And, like, again, I'll say
- 1:29:50Speaker 23: it again. We don't get our news from Channel 247.
- 1:29:54Speaker 23: People get their news on the social media. And, i.e.,
- 1:29:57Speaker 23: I got to tell people, when you see stuff on
- 1:30:00Speaker 23: social media, you idiots, a majority of it is just AI-generated.
- 1:30:05Speaker 23: So don't believe what you see on AI. He hires
- 1:30:09Speaker 23: these 200 fools to control people's minds in social media.
- 1:30:14Speaker 25: I was down in Miami.
- 1:30:15Speaker 23: Ken Griffith, great man, great man. Guess what he just
- 1:30:18Speaker 23: did for Miami? I was down there when it happened.
- 1:30:21Speaker 23: $ 3 billion. He's bringing Carnegie Mellon. College in there, $ 3 billion,
- 1:30:28Speaker 23: 35 acres for Carmine Mellon and building over there. He
- 1:30:31Speaker 23: gave Pittsburgh another billion. What is he doing for New York? Nothing,
- 1:30:35Speaker 23: because you smiley fool made the guy leave, and all
- 1:30:38Speaker 23: these people with money now, our services are going to
- 1:30:41Speaker 23: be taken out. You're a piece of garbage. All of
- 1:30:43Speaker 23: a sudden, Holcomb, okay, soaring energy costs. She sends out
- 1:30:47Speaker 23: $ 200 rebate checks, but the electricity price is up 14%.
- 1:30:52Speaker 23: And then now all of a sudden the heating oil
- 1:30:54Speaker 23: is up to $ 6. 20 per gallon, and you send a
- 1:30:57Speaker 23: large $ 200? I turn my heat off for one second.
- 1:31:00Speaker 23: That's all that does. And here, this is very important.
- 1:31:04Speaker 23: There's an investigation. The judge ordered the email because all
- 1:31:08Speaker 23: these people with that CD weaver, that ugly-looking broad there,
- 1:31:12Speaker 23: that's the one that's a housing thing, the one that
- 1:31:15Speaker 23: looks like my last toilet bowl dispensary, she now... We
- 1:31:20Speaker 23: want now, they're investigating all these rent boards independents. They
- 1:31:25Speaker 23: were using this thing called, what do they call it
- 1:31:28Speaker 23: when it disappears, the message disappears. They were using, and
- 1:31:32Speaker 23: they're not supposed to be using that disappearing message because
- 1:31:35Speaker 23: they didn't want to show that there was a conspiracy
- 1:31:39Speaker 23: with that. And two more, that's all, two more. Okay,
- 1:31:44Speaker 23: now we have the mayor's lovely wife, Mrs. Regurgitation. Where
- 1:31:50Speaker 23: has she gone in the last month? July 1st through.
- 1:31:53Speaker 25: 6th, Mallorca, Spain.
- 1:31:55Speaker 23: Workshops. Plants of the Quran. July 9th through the 14th, Corsica, France.
- 1:32:00Speaker 25: Mary and the Quran.
- 1:32:02Speaker 23: August, all of a sudden, she went upstate New York
- 1:32:05Speaker 23: and she was doing some whatever she does up there.
- 1:32:08Speaker 23: And then September, Portugal served as an artisan resident. The
- 1:32:12Speaker 23: journey through Islamic, whatever the hell it is. September, Syria
- 1:32:17Speaker 23: and Lebanon announced relatives completion. All she cares about is
- 1:32:23Speaker 23: nothing for this city. She doesn't like you. She doesn't
- 1:32:28Speaker 23: like me. She doesn't like New York. Why don't you
- 1:32:32Speaker 23: go back to where you belong and leave me alone
- 1:32:35Speaker 23: and take your smiley husband with you, this piece of garbage.
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: Well said. Bo Dietl, there he is, folks, each and
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: every Tuesday morning. Those musical stylings right here. That's why
- 1:32:45Speaker 2: you love him. That's why we love him. Uncle Bo,
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: the great cop Bo Dietl, the voice of New York,
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: right here on Sid and Friends in the Morning. We'll
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: take a break. We're off to a great start already
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: with Joe Beningo and Bo Dietl.
- 1:32:58Speaker 34: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
- 1:33:01Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 1:33:03Speaker 2: Now, Israel gets their chance tomorrow to commemorate three years
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: since October the 7th. Told this story many times. Never
- 1:33:12Speaker 2: went to Israel. 56 years I was on this planet.
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: Wanted to go, almost went for Gabe's Bar Mitzvah. Time
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: and time again, talked about going, never went. But after
- 1:33:23Speaker 2: October 7th, I said that next morning, October 8th, I'm going.
- 1:33:27Speaker 2: And I did. Just two and a half months after
- 1:33:30Speaker 2: the war started in January of 2024, I was there.
- 1:33:35Speaker 2: Been there four times since and will be heading back
- 1:33:38Speaker 2: in May. And I've made some great friendships in Israel.
- 1:33:41Speaker 2: Great friendships. One I'm really proud of happens to be
- 1:33:45Speaker 2: the president of Israel. He's a super guy. Super guy.
- 1:33:49Speaker 2: His friends call him Bougie. His name is Isaac Herzog.
- 1:33:53Speaker 23: Mr.
- 1:33:53Speaker 2: President, good morning. How are you?
- 1:33:57Speaker 6: Thank you. Thank you, dear Sid. And good morning to
- 1:34:00Speaker 6: you and your listeners, of course, your many followers.
- 1:34:04Speaker 2: We all love you here in New York. I mean
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: that sincerely, Isaac. You've got a huge following here in
- 1:34:08Speaker 2: New York and, of course, everybody in Israel. Going back
- 1:34:11Speaker 2: to the days of your grandfather and father, too. What
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: a magnificent family. Let me get to this Dubai flight
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: story first, though. Turns out the co-pilot was Omani. People
- 1:34:21Speaker 2: keep asking me, well, how does an Omani guy have
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: permission to fly planes even from Dubai into Israel? Now,
- 1:34:30Speaker 2: it turns out, we found out at least, that he
- 1:34:32Speaker 2: wanted to do something very similar to 9-11. and crashed
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: that plane into the airport in Tel Aviv. What else
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: do we know? Do we know anything else? The guy
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: was radicalized, seemingly a lone wolf. Do we know anything else?
- 1:34:47Speaker 6: No. So, look, this is under heavy investigation. a major
- 1:34:51Speaker 6: interagency activity, both in Israel and in the entire region, and,
- 1:34:56Speaker 6: of course, with agencies around the world, including the various
- 1:35:02Speaker 6: intelligence and investigation bureaus in America and elsewhere, because everybody
- 1:35:07Speaker 6: wants to get to the truth of it. The Omani,
- 1:35:17Speaker 6: the co-pilot who carried out the terror attack, is under
- 1:35:22Speaker 6: heavy investigation in the United Arab Emirates. They are doing
- 1:35:27Speaker 6: their best, and they are sharing information with all the
- 1:35:31Speaker 6: relevant authorities. Every few hours, there's another leak adding to
- 1:35:37Speaker 6: what you just mentioned.
- 1:35:38Speaker 2: So we'll know more, I guess, as the days move on.
- 1:35:41Speaker 6: Listen, it's unbelievable, honestly, Sid. It's both a miracle and
- 1:35:47Speaker 6: a result of incredible Israeli bravery and courage. On Thursday,
- 1:35:53Speaker 6: I will honor these incredible heroes with the Israeli Presidential
- 1:35:59Speaker 6: Medal for Bravery and Courage because these are incredible people,
- 1:36:04Speaker 6: one woman and five men. who rescued this plane just
- 1:36:08Speaker 6: before it may have crashed.
- 1:36:11Speaker 2: Wow, good for you. I love you doing that, President Herzog.
- 1:36:13Speaker 2: I absolutely love that.
- 1:36:14Speaker 25: Thank you.
- 1:36:15Speaker 2: You're welcome.
- 1:36:15Speaker 6: I love you, too.
- 1:36:17Speaker 2: So let's rewind this tape to three years ago today.
- 1:36:21Speaker 2: Three years ago today, it was a Friday. It was Shabbat.
- 1:36:24Speaker 2: and you guys were wrapping up the Sukkot holiday, and
- 1:36:30Speaker 2: no one had any idea what was about to happen
- 1:36:33Speaker 2: the very next morning.
- 1:36:35Speaker 25: Morning.
- 1:36:36Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:36:36Speaker 6: You know what? On that noontime, it was Friday, and
- 1:36:41Speaker 6: it was the 6th of October, exactly 50 years to
- 1:36:46Speaker 6: the date of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, where Israel
- 1:36:50Speaker 6: was attacked again by surprise from Egypt and from Syria
- 1:36:56Speaker 6: and when it went to one of its most challenging
- 1:36:59Speaker 6: and painful Wars and So we marked that noon 50
- 1:37:05Speaker 6: years to the wall and I went to a ceremony
- 1:37:09Speaker 6: of a an army army military's a ceremony of a
- 1:37:15Speaker 6: brigade and that functioned heroically in the battlefront 50 years earlier.
- 1:37:20Speaker 6: So there were many old people, some in wheelchairs, some
- 1:37:25Speaker 6: lost their hands and legs and heavily wounded, and they
- 1:37:29Speaker 6: even came with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And I came back home.
- 1:37:34Speaker 6: I said to my wife, listen, You know, this nation
- 1:37:38Speaker 6: is unbeatable. I saw these people. They fought like lions,
- 1:37:44Speaker 6: and now they're coming with their great-grandchildren. And the next morning,
- 1:37:47Speaker 6: it starts again. The next morning, 629 sirens, a major
- 1:37:53Speaker 6: surprise attack, and terrorists swarm in by the thousands, and
- 1:38:00Speaker 6: they burn, and they hijack, and they... rape, and they
- 1:38:06Speaker 6: kill innocent civilians all throughout the border with Gaza in
- 1:38:11Speaker 6: the most horrific tragedy since the Holocaust for the Jewish people.
- 1:38:16Speaker 2: That's all exactly what happened. You just nailed it. And
- 1:38:19Speaker 2: then would you think that October 7th was the day,
- 1:38:23Speaker 2: and a lot of people around the world, Mr. President,
- 1:38:25Speaker 2: think it all started October the 8th. And you've got
- 1:38:28Speaker 2: a mayor. I know you love this city you always
- 1:38:30Speaker 2: tell me we're together in israel how much you love
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: new york and you've got a mayor who wanted to
- 1:38:34Speaker 2: arrest a prime minister whose wife actually liked those graphic
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: images of our young girls being raped and babies being
- 1:38:42Speaker 2: burned can you believe we've got a guy like that
- 1:38:45Speaker 2: here in new york city So.
- 1:38:47Speaker 6: You know, I echo the heavy criticism on the mayor
- 1:38:53Speaker 6: a couple of times already because his expressions are utterly anti-Semitic.
- 1:39:00Speaker 6: And worse than that, of course, it shows indifference to
- 1:39:05Speaker 6: pain and to justice. Because with all due respect, you know,
- 1:39:10Speaker 6: we did not wage this war. We did not want
- 1:39:12Speaker 6: this war. This war was enforced upon us.
- 1:39:15Speaker 25: By a.
- 1:39:17Speaker 6: Raving terrorist group, jihadists, who came simply for barbaric reasons
- 1:39:24Speaker 6: to attack and kill and burn and rape. And we
- 1:39:29Speaker 6: went to defend ourselves by the mere right of any
- 1:39:32Speaker 6: nation on earth, most inherent right to defend ourselves, And
- 1:39:37Speaker 6: the enemy chose the terrain of the battle. They fought
- 1:39:42Speaker 6: and they attacked us by missiles from people's living rooms
- 1:39:46Speaker 6: and bedrooms and mosques and shops. And they, I mean,
- 1:39:53Speaker 6: they've used these people's homes to dig tunnels underneath and
- 1:39:58Speaker 6: hijack our hostages. Today I met with a few of
- 1:40:02Speaker 6: the hostages who were interned. and families of hostages who
- 1:40:06Speaker 6: were killed in Gaza. And we were discussing it. They
- 1:40:09Speaker 6: were there in the tunnels. They entered it from people's homes.
- 1:40:14Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Well, good for you for doing that today.
- 1:40:17Speaker 2: One more for you. Four weeks from today, Mr. President,
- 1:40:20Speaker 2: we've got a big election day. I know you follow
- 1:40:22Speaker 2: this very closely in the United States, and President Trump
- 1:40:25Speaker 2: wants Republicans to maintain the House. And you spoke in
- 1:40:28Speaker 2: front of Congress right before that tragic day, I think
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: three months before, July of 2023.
- 1:40:33Speaker 23: Exactly.
- 1:40:34Speaker 6: And I said, I alerted the U.S. Congress in a
- 1:40:38Speaker 6: joint session of the House. I said, you know, we
- 1:40:41Speaker 6: want peace. Truly, we want peace. But it cannot exist
- 1:40:46Speaker 6: so long as there is terror undermining it all the time.
- 1:40:50Speaker 6: And people justify this terror with horrors. By the way,
- 1:40:54Speaker 6: we will have our own elections.
- 1:40:55Speaker 2: Well, that's where I was going. Right, which is actually
- 1:40:59Speaker 2: three weeks from today in America, four weeks from today.
- 1:41:02Speaker 2: Yours is three weeks from today. Please excuse me. I
- 1:41:05Speaker 2: don't know the rules. Is the president, are you allowed
- 1:41:08Speaker 2: to endorse Bibi or anybody? Will you be doing that
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: in Israel?
- 1:41:13Speaker 25: No, no.
- 1:41:13Speaker 6: The president is like equivalent of the king of England.
- 1:41:18Speaker 6: I'm above politics. But after the elections, I have the
- 1:41:24Speaker 6: constitutional power to delegate the right to form a government
- 1:41:30Speaker 6: to a member of the Knesset. And that depends on
- 1:41:33Speaker 6: the results and the chances of any member of the
- 1:41:36Speaker 6: Knesset to form a government. It's still a long, drawn-out process.
- 1:41:40Speaker 2: I know it's much different than the United States. So
- 1:41:43Speaker 2: in the final 30 seconds.
- 1:41:44Speaker 6: One thing I want to say, I'm very proud of
- 1:41:46Speaker 6: the Israeli democracy. We are celebrating democracy. We're the only
- 1:41:52Speaker 6: democracy in the Middle East. There's about 50 parties running
- 1:41:56Speaker 6: in this election.
- 1:41:57Speaker 2: I know, like 50. There's a lot going on. So
- 1:42:00Speaker 2: give me quickly in the final 30 seconds, what will
- 1:42:03Speaker 2: the day be like tomorrow in Israel?
- 1:42:08Speaker 6: Tomorrow, the 7th, will be a very sad day because
- 1:42:12Speaker 6: yesterday was a very sad day because it was the
- 1:42:15Speaker 6: Hebrew date of the massacre. Tomorrow will be, you know,
- 1:42:21Speaker 6: the regular date, October 7th, and there will be tens
- 1:42:24Speaker 6: of thousands of people gathered all over in sites around
- 1:42:28Speaker 6: the country, including a major event in Tel Aviv. I
- 1:42:31Speaker 6: will be with my wife at the Nova Festival site
- 1:42:35Speaker 6: where they... Terribly, I mean, most cruelly, butchered and killed
- 1:42:41Speaker 6: and hijacked and took people who came to dance and
- 1:42:44Speaker 6: celebrate simply in a nature party. By the way, people
- 1:42:48Speaker 6: from 36 countries, including Americans.
- 1:42:52Speaker 2: Terrible. What a horrible, horrible scene that was. I've been there. sense,
- 1:42:57Speaker 2: beautiful faces all over the place. They're terrible.
- 1:43:00Speaker 6: I know, I know. You know, may I invite your
- 1:43:05Speaker 6: listeners to come and visit our country, show solidarity, and
- 1:43:09Speaker 6: see what a beautiful country it is.
- 1:43:11Speaker 2: It is a beautiful country, and you're a beautiful man.
- 1:43:13Speaker 2: President Herzog, I love you. I really do. You're a
- 1:43:14Speaker 2: terrific guy. Thank you for making time for me today.
- 1:43:17Speaker 29: Thank you.
- 1:43:17Speaker 6: All the best, my dear.
- 1:43:18Speaker 2: You too. God bless you. Take care. President Herzog right there,
- 1:43:22Speaker 2: Isaac Herzog, what a lovely guy. The president of Israel
- 1:43:26Speaker 2: joining us on this very important day, the day before
- 1:43:29Speaker 2: October the 7th. Short break, more to do. Mazzy Phillip
- 1:43:32Speaker 2: in studio, Vicky Paladino, and working on B.B. for tomorrow.
- 1:43:36Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the morning on a Tuesday.
- 1:43:38Speaker 34: Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple
- 1:43:42Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 1:43:44Speaker 2: We love Eddie, and he died six years ago today,
- 1:43:47Speaker 2: and tomorrow, of course, again, I just mentioned October the 7th.
- 1:43:51Speaker 2: But we're also getting ready four weeks from today for
- 1:43:54Speaker 2: Election Day midterms. And I know Martha McCallum. Martha McCallum
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: brings on all these lefties. You know that, right? She
- 1:44:02Speaker 2: had Eric Swalwell on like almost every week. I don't
- 1:44:05Speaker 2: know what that was about. But she was doing 7 p.m.
- 1:44:08Speaker 2: Then they demoted her to 3 p.m. So yesterday she
- 1:44:11Speaker 2: had El Cyan on. And I don't love Mike Rogers.
- 1:44:14Speaker 2: I just don't. I'm sorry. He's fine. He's okay. He
- 1:44:16Speaker 2: bores me. A lot of these Republican candidates bore me.
- 1:44:20Speaker 2: It's the bottom line. But he's a thousand times better
- 1:44:23Speaker 2: than this America-hating, Jew-hating, Hassan-Pikram-Mamdani-loving El-Sayed. I'll give him that.
- 1:44:29Speaker 2: But for some reason, McCollum brings these people on. I
- 1:44:32Speaker 2: guess Fox wants you to see the other side. I
- 1:44:37Speaker 2: guess the Murdochs, specifically one of their kids, is really
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: a lefty. And it ruins it for me. I've been
- 1:44:45Speaker 2: very critical of Fox News. And it's funny because today
- 1:44:49Speaker 2: they're celebrating 30 years. It's their 30-year anniversary. I just
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: saw Steve Doocy walking down the street with some stranger
- 1:44:57Speaker 2: on 6th Avenue outside the building, which they are actually fixing.
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: And there's a lot of folks on that network that
- 1:45:04Speaker 2: I love dearly, that are my heroes. Mark Levin, hero.
- 1:45:08Speaker 2: Sean Hannity, hero. Hero. I love Brian Kilmeade. Love him
- 1:45:13Speaker 2: to pieces. Others I like, you know. But a lot
- 1:45:17Speaker 2: of it has become very disappointing. They never should have
- 1:45:20Speaker 2: fired Maria Bartiromo. They never should have banned me. No
- 1:45:24Speaker 2: one has come out and said that publicly, but I'm
- 1:45:26Speaker 2: telling you that's the case because I called Mamdani a
- 1:45:29Speaker 2: terrorist on a weekend show, which I got ratings for,
- 1:45:33Speaker 2: with Campos, Duppy, Jenkins, and Hurt. So Fox News, to me,
- 1:45:39Speaker 2: is not nearly what it was, even with Levine, Hannity,
- 1:45:44Speaker 2: and those types of talents. But I guess there's still
- 1:45:48Speaker 2: the place to go because Newsmax does not draw the
- 1:45:51Speaker 2: audience that Fox News does, even though Newsmax is better
- 1:45:57Speaker 2: if you're a conservative Republican. You're not going to see,
- 1:46:00Speaker 2: for example, El Sayed or Harold Ford Jr. or Eric
- 1:46:05Speaker 2: Swalwell or these Democrats on that show. Kind of like
- 1:46:09Speaker 2: this station, you know? We have shows on this station
- 1:46:12Speaker 2: who bring on Democrats. That's fine. They want to give
- 1:46:16Speaker 2: you a taste. Of all sides, right? Let you make
- 1:46:19Speaker 2: your own decisions. I don't. I brought Cuomo on when
- 1:46:23Speaker 2: he ran for mayor because I wanted Mamdani to lose,
- 1:46:26Speaker 2: and I knew Curtis had no chance, and I was right.
- 1:46:30Speaker 2: Every now and then I'll bring on a Democrat, but
- 1:46:32Speaker 2: it's very, very rare. I hate Democrats. They're lunatics. You understand?
- 1:46:37Speaker 2: There's no such thing anymore as a moderate Democrat. Outside
- 1:46:41Speaker 2: of John Fetterman, that's it. They are lunatics. They all get,
- 1:46:45Speaker 2: you ready for this? Radicalized.
- 1:46:47Speaker 23: Right?
- 1:46:47Speaker 2: Just like people who want to fly planes into buildings,
- 1:46:50Speaker 2: that's the Democrats. They get radicalized. They start off somewhat sane,
- 1:46:56Speaker 2: worse than Republicans because their policies will destroy this country,
- 1:47:00Speaker 2: but they're not completely crazy, but they all get there
- 1:47:04Speaker 2: because they're scared to death of people like Mamdani who
- 1:47:08Speaker 2: may primary them and end their political careers. They would
- 1:47:11Speaker 2: rather side with an anti-Semite, anti-American, anti-capitalist, Marxist, socialist, communist,
- 1:47:20Speaker 2: than stand for their own principles because they need to win.
- 1:47:23Speaker 2: A sad commentary about the Democrat Party. Mozzie Pillop, I
- 1:47:27Speaker 2: love this lady. Big time Nassau County legislator right there
- 1:47:31Speaker 2: in Bruce Blakeman's corner. Live in studio coming up next,
- 1:47:35Speaker 2: one of our great people in New York.
- 1:47:37Speaker 34: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
- 1:47:41Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 1:47:43Speaker 2: She wears it everywhere. It's the American flag and the
- 1:47:46Speaker 2: Israeli flag. And you, what was your exact job with
- 1:47:51Speaker 2: the IDF again, Mazi?
- 1:47:53Speaker 10: I was part of the paratrooper brigade.
- 1:47:55Speaker 2: Paratrooper, is that right?
- 1:47:56Speaker 10: Brigade. I was in charge of the guns, basically.
- 1:47:59Speaker 2: In charge of the guns.
- 1:48:00Speaker 18: Yeah.
- 1:48:01Speaker 2: Wow, you are one tough lady, huh? So guns don't
- 1:48:04Speaker 2: scare you. Guns don't scare you. No. Now, have you
- 1:48:07Speaker 2: fired every type of gun, a handgun, a rifle, an
- 1:48:12Speaker 2: assault weapon, every type of gun you've fired, right?
- 1:48:15Speaker 10: Definitely. You have to be experts in every type of guns.
- 1:48:19Speaker 2: You know what? It's funny you say that, Marzi, because
- 1:48:21Speaker 2: when people talk about this airplane, for example, that the
- 1:48:25Speaker 2: Israeli passengers literally commandeered, they landed the plane, they took
- 1:48:29Speaker 2: out the bad guy. I say, wait a second. Now, look,
- 1:48:32Speaker 2: Americans are brave, too. United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 9-11.
- 1:48:38Speaker 2: Those were very brave souls. I don't want to discount Americans.
- 1:48:41Speaker 2: I am America first, but I am Israel second. And
- 1:48:43Speaker 2: all you kids at seven years old, men and women
- 1:48:47Speaker 2: like you, you're trained to do things like the passengers
- 1:48:51Speaker 2: did on that Dubai flight. Isn't that correct?
- 1:48:54Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely. The entire nation, the nation of Israel, is
- 1:48:57Speaker 10: really we trained to survive, basically. And what we saw
- 1:49:01Speaker 10: a week ago, those brave guys and women who realize
- 1:49:06Speaker 10: they are in danger and Instead of freaking out, basically,
- 1:49:09Speaker 10: they took an action to control the entire situation. And
- 1:49:12Speaker 10: they were able to save their lives and the people's lives,
- 1:49:15Speaker 10: over 174 passengers. This is incredible. And this is really
- 1:49:20Speaker 10: living in Israel. You know, you're ready all the time.
- 1:49:23Speaker 6: You're ready.
- 1:49:23Speaker 10: Your mind is ready. And it's sad. But at the
- 1:49:27Speaker 10: same time, that's a reality.
- 1:49:28Speaker 2: Yeah. 174 in the air. If, God forbid, this guy
- 1:49:31Speaker 2: crashed into the airport like he wanted to do, they
- 1:49:33Speaker 2: could have killed who knows how many people. So if
- 1:49:35Speaker 2: you were on that plane, I know it's hard to
- 1:49:36Speaker 2: say because you weren't. But my guess is, because you're
- 1:49:39Speaker 2: so courageous and tough, if you were on that plane,
- 1:49:43Speaker 2: you would have been in the cockpit, yes? You would
- 1:49:45Speaker 2: have physically beaten the crap out of that co-pilot.
- 1:49:48Speaker 10: At that point, you don't have nothing to lose. You
- 1:49:51Speaker 10: just have to fight for your lives, and that's all.
- 1:49:54Speaker 10: Especially when you're facing a terrorist. I mean, there's no
- 1:49:56Speaker 10: time to play around.
- 1:49:58Speaker 2: You got to do what you got to do.
- 1:49:59Speaker 10: You have to take them down.
- 1:50:00Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you quickly before we get to
- 1:50:02Speaker 2: the local politics, because you're a big star out on
- 1:50:04Speaker 2: Long Island, big star. Tomorrow is October the 7th, and
- 1:50:07Speaker 2: you and I have gotten very close the last couple
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: of years. I always say I have very few regrets
- 1:50:12Speaker 2: on this radio show, because I'm great at it. But
- 1:50:15Speaker 2: you're one of mine, because the first time you ran
- 1:50:17Speaker 2: against Swazi, I should have been more enthusiastic for you.
- 1:50:20Speaker 2: And I've gotten to know you better since then, and
- 1:50:22Speaker 2: I think you're an amazing lady. And you should have
- 1:50:24Speaker 2: won that, to be honest. But October 7th is coming
- 1:50:27Speaker 2: up tomorrow. What are your thoughts?
- 1:50:30Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just, for me, it's like, It just happened yesterday, basically.
- 1:50:36Speaker 10: October 7 is full of pain for so many of us.
- 1:50:39Speaker 10: A lot of bad memories. I'm personally trying to recover
- 1:50:45Speaker 10: from it. I remember the day that my friend just
- 1:50:48Speaker 10: walked in and telling me, like, on Shabbat, you know,
- 1:50:51Speaker 10: Israel is under attack. And I thought he's joking. And
- 1:50:54Speaker 10: then the next thing you know, it's real. And so
- 1:50:57Speaker 10: many lives got lost that day. So it's a very painful,
- 1:51:01Speaker 10: painful moment. And for three years, you know, you're living this.
- 1:51:06Speaker 10: You're meeting the hostages. You're meeting soldiers or parents who
- 1:51:10Speaker 10: lost their loved one. And then I even last visited
- 1:51:16Speaker 10: Israel this summer. I met a couple of my cousins
- 1:51:20Speaker 10: who fought during the last three years. So when you
- 1:51:24Speaker 10: see it all, it's just hard to believe. It's like
- 1:51:27Speaker 10: it doesn't go away from you. But at the same time,
- 1:51:30Speaker 10: you see a nation, a strong nation, a nation who
- 1:51:34Speaker 10: realized more than ever, listen, you don't trust nobody anymore.
- 1:51:38Speaker 10: You know, if you know that area where the terrorists attack,
- 1:51:42Speaker 10: you know, next to Gaza, the most peaceful people you
- 1:51:45Speaker 10: can imagine, the people who was helping the Gazan people.
- 1:51:48Speaker 23: Yeah.
- 1:51:50Speaker 2: They gave him jobs.
- 1:51:50Speaker 10: Exactly. So how you can even trust going forward?
- 1:51:53Speaker 2: You can't.
- 1:51:54Speaker 10: You cannot.
- 1:51:54Speaker 36: No.
- 1:51:55Speaker 2: And it's not really a one-day event. It's kind of
- 1:51:57Speaker 2: like 9-11 in that respect. We still have people getting
- 1:51:59Speaker 2: sick and dying today, which is really horrible. Same thing.
- 1:52:02Speaker 2: You know, they talk about the 1,300 that died that day.
- 1:52:04Speaker 2: I got news for you. A lot of hostages were
- 1:52:07Speaker 2: murdered after that day. Look at Hearst Goldberg, for example.
- 1:52:11Speaker 2: He was one of six that were executed. That was
- 1:52:14Speaker 2: after October the 7th. And how many terrorist attacks do
- 1:52:16Speaker 2: we see? In Judea and Samaria specifically, which people call
- 1:52:20Speaker 2: the West Bank, just last week somebody was murdered. So
- 1:52:23Speaker 2: that was not a one-day attack either, kind of like 9-11.
- 1:52:27Speaker 2: Three years later, people are still getting killed in Israel.
- 1:52:30Speaker 23: 100%.
- 1:52:30Speaker 10: It's a scary situation. It's really, they're living this tough
- 1:52:34Speaker 10: life of like everywhere you go, you are in danger.
- 1:52:37Speaker 10: And then sometimes, you know, I wonder, those losers, Mamdani,
- 1:52:42Speaker 10: blaming Israel left and right and blaming us for everything.
- 1:52:46Speaker 10: And that's not right because when you have a terrorist
- 1:52:50Speaker 10: want to take you down, okay, you have to protect yourself.
- 1:52:54Speaker 23: Of course.
- 1:52:54Speaker 10: And then if they start the job, one thing I
- 1:52:56Speaker 10: promise you, the Israelis knows how to finish the job.
- 1:52:59Speaker 2: That's right. Mamdani really is a piece of garbage.
- 1:53:02Speaker 10: He is a garbage.
- 1:53:03Speaker 2: Garbage, right?
- 1:53:03Speaker 10: I agree 100%.
- 1:53:04Speaker 2: One big garbage pail that Mamdani. And he's got people
- 1:53:08Speaker 2: walking around in the streets that come up to me
- 1:53:10Speaker 2: at the ferry station On the subway, they recognize me.
- 1:53:12Speaker 2: They go, what is your issue? What is your problem?
- 1:53:15Speaker 2: You're making it worse, Sid. You're making it worse. The
- 1:53:18Speaker 2: mayor doesn't hate Jewish people. Look at the video he
- 1:53:20Speaker 2: put out. I mean, are you being serious?
- 1:53:23Speaker 10: He is a total liar. The entire campaign he ran
- 1:53:28Speaker 10: was all lies. He lies to the New Yorkers. And
- 1:53:31Speaker 10: he keeps lying. He thinks we're going to believe him.
- 1:53:34Speaker 2: People do, though.
- 1:53:36Speaker 10: It's sad. It's really sad. And I am really asking
- 1:53:39Speaker 10: and I'm expecting from New Yorkers to open your eyes.
- 1:53:42Speaker 10: I believe in American people. You are smart. Open your eyes.
- 1:53:47Speaker 10: You have a liar, a liar who lied to you
- 1:53:49Speaker 10: and he continues to lie to you. Time really to
- 1:53:53Speaker 10: get ready for this coming election November. We have opportunity
- 1:53:56Speaker 10: with Bruce Blakeman to kick Governor Hochul because Governor Hochul
- 1:54:01Speaker 10: serving just one person who is Mamdani. And time for
- 1:54:05Speaker 10: us to wake up, to realize what's going on, and
- 1:54:08Speaker 10: stop buying these lies and do something about our lives.
- 1:54:11Speaker 2: You're right. And I know you campaigned with Bruce a
- 1:54:14Speaker 2: couple of days ago. Today he'll be campaigning with Mr.
- 1:54:16Speaker 2: Salt out of Rockland County, Mike Lawler, and our friend
- 1:54:19Speaker 2: Lou Bernadette Castro. We'll be with Blakeman and Mike Lawler today.
- 1:54:22Speaker 2: And Bruce is doing a terrific job, you know. I
- 1:54:26Speaker 2: know there was one poll said he was down 19%.
- 1:54:28Speaker 2: That's going to be up. You can't trust those people, okay? No.
- 1:54:31Speaker 2: Even the other lefty-leaning poll, Sienna, was down to single digits. McLaughlin,
- 1:54:36Speaker 2: you trust him the most. His poll was 4%. And people, Democrats,
- 1:54:41Speaker 2: we've seen three now in the last couple of weeks.
- 1:54:46Speaker 2: Bonnie Lautenberg, Frank Lautenberg, great man, he died. She's with Bruce.
- 1:54:50Speaker 2: Then he got Bob Holden, maybe the best city council
- 1:54:53Speaker 2: member ever. Now he's got Deborah Messing, who hates Trump,
- 1:54:57Speaker 2: hates him, Will and Grace actress. She's with Bruce Blakeman.
- 1:55:00Speaker 2: So you show me a Republican who Democrats like, and
- 1:55:03Speaker 2: I'll show you a guy that can win.
- 1:55:05Speaker 10: 100%. You know, this election is not about Democrats or Republicans.
- 1:55:09Speaker 10: It's really not. It's about what's good for the New Yorkers.
- 1:55:12Speaker 10: And if you see, you know, there is a momentum.
- 1:55:15Speaker 10: People really want a change. And Bruce Blackmun... has been
- 1:55:18Speaker 10: a great leader in Nassau County. He cut taxes. He
- 1:55:22Speaker 10: supports our law enforcement. He turned Nassau County the safest
- 1:55:25Speaker 10: county in the country. There is a proven record of
- 1:55:28Speaker 10: a leader who doesn't just talk the way Mamdani and
- 1:55:33Speaker 10: Hochul is talking. He's a man of action. Now New
- 1:55:36Speaker 10: Yorkers have the chance to elect Bruce Blakeman to be
- 1:55:40Speaker 10: our next governor And somebody who cares about us is
- 1:55:43Speaker 10: not about just cheap politics, about taking an action. This
- 1:55:46Speaker 10: is the man with the proven record. And I do
- 1:55:49Speaker 10: believe New Yorkers will wake up this November and we
- 1:55:52Speaker 10: can elect together Bruce Blakeman to be our next governor.
- 1:55:55Speaker 2: I agree with you. This is the amazing Mozzie Pillop,
- 1:55:58Speaker 2: who's what a beautiful. Morgan David, that is. Now, what
- 1:56:02Speaker 2: is that? Is that diamonds? And what else?
- 1:56:04Speaker 10: It's a diamond. And this is from, I mean, it's
- 1:56:07Speaker 10: not expensive diamond.
- 1:56:08Speaker 2: It looks very expensive. Don't wear that on the train.
- 1:56:11Speaker 2: Give me a favor.
- 1:56:11Speaker 10: I don't go with expensive things at all. But this
- 1:56:14Speaker 10: is for my birthday. My birthday is coming soon.
- 1:56:16Speaker 2: From my husband. When is your birthday?
- 1:56:18Speaker 10: October 14th.
- 1:56:19Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Next week.
- 1:56:20Speaker 23: Yes.
- 1:56:20Speaker 2: Well, happy birthday.
- 1:56:21Speaker 10: Thank you so much.
- 1:56:22Speaker 2: Your husband's a lovely guy. I've met your husband at
- 1:56:23Speaker 2: the National Coliseum. Did you buy that? Did he buy that?
- 1:56:26Speaker 2: Here or in Israel, that piece?
- 1:56:28Speaker 10: This is from here.
- 1:56:29Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Because I buy a lot of my stuff
- 1:56:30Speaker 2: in Israel. There's one store. It's hilarious. I stayed the
- 1:56:34Speaker 2: first time I went. I've been back five times since
- 1:56:35Speaker 2: the war started. But I stayed at this hotel. It's
- 1:56:37Speaker 2: called the Herbert Samuel. You know it? In Jerusalem, you
- 1:56:40Speaker 2: know it. Trust me.
- 1:56:41Speaker 32: Yes, yes.
- 1:56:42Speaker 2: And there's a store right across the street. I call
- 1:56:44Speaker 2: it the Herbie Sammy. Right across the street from the
- 1:56:46Speaker 2: Herbie Sammy. And it's one of those Israeli merchandise stores.
- 1:56:51Speaker 2: And I met this young girl there. She's a Colombian Jew.
- 1:56:54Speaker 2: My wife and I met her. Danielle loves her, too.
- 1:56:57Speaker 2: And we bought a couple of items our first trip.
- 1:56:59Speaker 2: So every time I go back to Israel, and I
- 1:57:01Speaker 2: was back in June this year to speak at JNS.org
- 1:57:03Speaker 2: with Bibi and Mark Levin, I buy something from her
- 1:57:06Speaker 2: every time. So I have a lot of stuff like that.
- 1:57:09Speaker 25: Yeah.
- 1:57:09Speaker 2: That Danielle wears and Ava wears and Gabe wears and
- 1:57:12Speaker 2: I wear.
- 1:57:13Speaker 23: Yes.
- 1:57:13Speaker 2: That I get at that store.
- 1:57:14Speaker 10: You definitely can find unique stuff in Israel.
- 1:57:17Speaker 2: Gorgeous stuff. Tell me about this Senate race too. Scott's
- 1:57:20Speaker 2: high on this guy running. Is that District 7?
- 1:57:24Speaker 10: Yes, Dixie Seven. We have Jake running to be our
- 1:57:28Speaker 10: next state senator. He's an incredible leader. He has been
- 1:57:32Speaker 10: in the state assembly in the last four years. He's
- 1:57:36Speaker 10: fighting anti-Semitism. He's there to cut taxes and to serve
- 1:57:40Speaker 10: New Yorkers, to serve Long Islanders. So he's running with me,
- 1:57:43Speaker 10: having Bruce Blakeman on top of the tickets and the
- 1:57:46Speaker 10: entire Republican team. We're going to have a great victory.
- 1:57:49Speaker 2: Great day. What is his last name again, Scotty? Blumenkrantz.
- 1:57:52Speaker 2: There you go. He's so Jewish. Jake Blumenkrantz.
- 1:57:54Speaker 10: Great leader.
- 1:57:55Speaker 25: I love him.
- 1:57:56Speaker 10: Young and smart.
- 1:57:57Speaker 2: There you go. Tell me about these other two congressional races.
- 1:58:01Speaker 2: These are important, Marzi. Very important. We'll start with Janine Driscoll.
- 1:58:04Speaker 2: I like her a lot. She's running against Gillum. Gillum
- 1:58:07Speaker 2: beat my dear friend, Anthony D'Esposito. I'm still mad about that.
- 1:58:10Speaker 2: But I'm happy Anthony stuck with the Labor Department, even
- 1:58:12Speaker 2: though I think he was a great congressman. And Peter
- 1:58:15Speaker 2: King always tells me that Janine's going to win. What
- 1:58:17Speaker 2: are your thoughts on that race?
- 1:58:18Speaker 10: Janine is incredible. She's really a powerhouse, a strong woman.
- 1:58:22Speaker 10: And again, it's not politics. With her, it's really how
- 1:58:26Speaker 10: to serve better the the resident of Long Island and
- 1:58:31Speaker 10: she's going to win.
- 1:58:32Speaker 2: She's very common sense, right Marzi?
- 1:58:33Speaker 10: Absolutely. It's all about common sense. She's like a mom.
- 1:58:36Speaker 2: She's like a nice mom. You know, a kid's a
- 1:58:38Speaker 2: nice kid. He's friends with my daughter and my son,
- 1:58:40Speaker 2: and he worked, I know for Bruce over the summer
- 1:58:42Speaker 2: as well. I like her. I like her personality.
- 1:58:45Speaker 10: She is smart. She's courageous and she's going to do
- 1:58:47Speaker 10: a great job. She's going to win big time.
- 1:58:49Speaker 2: She's going to win?
- 1:58:50Speaker 10: Big time.
- 1:58:50Speaker 2: She's the other kid running who I like a lot
- 1:58:52Speaker 2: because every time he speaks in a rally, he calls
- 1:58:54Speaker 2: me out. I love that. Bruce always does that. Did
- 1:58:56Speaker 2: it twice with Trump. So does Michael Petri. That's why
- 1:58:59Speaker 2: I like him. But I like him anyway. He's a very,
- 1:59:01Speaker 2: very smart guy and he's got an opportunity like you did.
- 1:59:04Speaker 2: for the second straight time to beat Tom Suozzi. He's
- 1:59:07Speaker 2: got good momentum, too, and the president really likes him.
- 1:59:10Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Mike Lepetri?
- 1:59:12Speaker 10: Mike Lepetri is great, and he was very close last time,
- 1:59:15Speaker 10: and again, time to say goodbye to Suozzi.
- 1:59:19Speaker 2: That's it?
- 1:59:19Speaker 22: Enough.
- 1:59:20Speaker 10: Enough is enough. We need fresh mind. People really care
- 1:59:24Speaker 10: about You know, for Long Islanders.
- 1:59:26Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a lot of money and a
- 1:59:28Speaker 2: lot of friends. I know that. And when you meet Tom,
- 1:59:31Speaker 2: I've seen him a couple of times. He's very nice
- 1:59:33Speaker 2: to me. He actually texted me. Oh, God. Sometime over
- 1:59:36Speaker 2: the summer. He goes, and I never talked to this guy.
- 1:59:39Speaker 23: Never.
- 1:59:39Speaker 2: I get a text. Swazi. I go, what is this about?
- 1:59:42Speaker 2: He goes, I'm at the barber. I'm getting my hair
- 1:59:44Speaker 2: done on Long Island. And the barber loves you. I
- 1:59:47Speaker 2: want you to know that. I said, okay, great, Tom.
- 1:59:48Speaker 2: Thank you very much. So my point is, he's kind
- 1:59:51Speaker 2: of a, when you meet him, he's a nice guy.
- 1:59:53Speaker 2: But what has he really done for Long Islanders? What
- 1:59:55Speaker 2: has he done? Nothing.
- 1:59:56Speaker 25: Nothing.
- 1:59:57Speaker 2: He's made a lot of money.
- 1:59:58Speaker 13: Oh, wow.
- 1:59:59Speaker 10: That's for sure. 100%. You know, it's again, the same talk,
- 2:00:03Speaker 10: cheap politics, empty promises. We don't want empty promises. We
- 2:00:07Speaker 10: want an action. And we have great leaders right now
- 2:00:10Speaker 10: running on Long Island. This is, again, the opportunity for
- 2:00:13Speaker 10: New Yorkers in general, from Bruce Blakeman all the way down, Republicans.
- 2:00:17Speaker 10: and really to have a better chance here.
- 2:00:20Speaker 2: I want my friend, talking about Long Island, he lives
- 2:00:22Speaker 2: in Great Neck. You're the queen of Great Neck. You're
- 2:00:25Speaker 2: the biggest star in Great Neck. That's it. Great Neck
- 2:00:27Speaker 2: begins and ends with Mozzie Pillow. That's it. But my
- 2:00:30Speaker 2: dear friend Abraham Harmer lives there. I told him, go
- 2:00:34Speaker 2: work for Bruce, and I called Bruce, and he's working
- 2:00:36Speaker 2: for Bruce. But I think he should run one day
- 2:00:38Speaker 2: for office. What do you think?
- 2:00:39Speaker 10: Oh, definitely.
- 2:00:40Speaker 2: He's a loudmouth Syrian Jew. That mother effer, he doesn't
- 2:00:42Speaker 2: take crap from anybody. I love him.
- 2:00:45Speaker 10: He's energetic. He's smart. He's a leader.
- 2:00:48Speaker 2: He should do it, right?
- 2:00:49Speaker 10: We're going to convince him.
- 2:00:50Speaker 2: We're going to push him. Yeah, he's a lawyer. He
- 2:00:52Speaker 2: makes a lot of money. He's worried about that. I go,
- 2:00:53Speaker 2: don't worry about it, okay? What about you? What is
- 2:00:56Speaker 2: your future? What are you looking at? What do you think?
- 2:00:58Speaker 10: So, as you know, I'm running for re-election in November
- 2:01:00Speaker 10: again with Bruce. The same seats.
- 2:01:02Speaker 2: So it's a legislating seat.
- 2:01:03Speaker 10: Yes, exactly.
- 2:01:04Speaker 17: Right.
- 2:01:05Speaker 10: For now, you know, I love what I'm doing. And
- 2:01:08Speaker 10: the future, who knows?
- 2:01:09Speaker 2: You're going to win that. But do you have any
- 2:01:10Speaker 2: intention maybe of running for Congress again, something like that?
- 2:01:13Speaker 10: Let's see. The future will show. At this point, as
- 2:01:15Speaker 10: I said, I love what I'm doing, but thank you
- 2:01:17Speaker 10: for being always there for me.
- 2:01:19Speaker 2: I love you. Come on, come on. I mean, I'm
- 2:01:21Speaker 2: telling you, folks, I go to Long Island, she's a
- 2:01:23Speaker 2: big star. No disrespect to Bruce Blakeman or LaPetrie or
- 2:01:26Speaker 2: Driscoll or Joe Cairo or Peter King. Marzi Pillop is
- 2:01:30Speaker 2: the star of Long Island and deservedly so. You're terrific.
- 2:01:32Speaker 2: It's great to see you.
- 2:01:33Speaker 10: The same. Thank you so much.
- 2:01:35Speaker 2: Thank you. And Scott, you look great, too.
- 2:01:36Speaker 23: Mr.
- 2:01:36Speaker 2: Aventura now. Look at this guy. He's friends with the
- 2:01:39Speaker 2: mayor of Howie. He loves everybody.
- 2:01:40Speaker 32: All right.
- 2:01:42Speaker 2: Come meet me at Moe's. No, Howie. I'm here for
- 2:01:45Speaker 2: two days. I'm not going to Moe's. Margie Phillips, great
- 2:01:48Speaker 2: to see you.
- 2:01:48Speaker 25: I love you.
- 2:01:49Speaker 30: Love you, too.
- 2:01:49Speaker 23: Thank you.
- 2:01:49Speaker 2: We'll take a short break. Vicky Palladino is going to
- 2:01:52Speaker 2: stop by. And, again, hoping for BB tomorrow. All that
- 2:01:54Speaker 2: and more. Sitting friends in the morning with the great
- 2:01:57Speaker 2: Margie Phillips.
- 2:01:59Speaker 27: She's got me under fence With that.
- 2:02:03Speaker 2: Little bit of mystery She's.
- 2:02:06Speaker 24: A complex kid And she's always been so hard.
- 2:02:12Speaker 2: To figure out Yeah.
- 2:02:14Speaker 30: She always likes to leave it till the shadows.
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- 2:03:00Speaker 38: Once you get underneath the apartments, apparently an accident there.
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- 2:03:05Speaker 38: of the way. And apparently all lanes right now are
- 2:03:08Speaker 38: going to be blocked as they get this out of there.
- 2:03:10Speaker 38: So this is a big problem, potentially a big problem
- 2:03:13Speaker 38: if they don't get it cleared quickly. So again, inbound
- 2:03:15Speaker 38: George Washington Bridge, you're going to have some big delays.
- 2:03:17Speaker 38: You already do. You're up to about 45 minutes inbound
- 2:03:20Speaker 38: there as well. Now, as you're traveling on the Garden
- 2:03:22Speaker 38: State Parkway, northbound getting up into Passaic Avenue and Clifton, 155B,
- 2:03:27Speaker 38: there is an accident. That's being cleared. You also have
- 2:03:30Speaker 38: Good news, like I told you last time on the
- 2:03:32Speaker 38: Meadowbrook northbound, that earlier accident is now out of the way,
- 2:03:35Speaker 38: so all lanes have been reopened. But still, slow traffic
- 2:03:38Speaker 38: on the LIE Main Street in through Queens Boulevard. We
- 2:03:41Speaker 38: also are going to be looking at delays as you
- 2:03:43Speaker 38: travel inbound on the Gowanus VQE from the Verrazano Bridge
- 2:03:46Speaker 38: all the way up to the Brooklyn Bridge, and then
- 2:03:48Speaker 38: southbound from Queens Boulevard, make it Northern Boulevard now, all
- 2:03:51Speaker 38: the way on down. And mass transit, everybody there looks
- 2:03:54Speaker 38: to be in pretty good shape on or close to schedule.
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- 2:04:17Speaker 34: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
- 2:04:21Speaker 34: Podcast Network.
- 2:04:23Speaker 1: Is Sid and Friends in the Morning.
- 2:04:26Speaker 7: 77 WABC.
- 2:04:28Speaker 28: M5, tie in.
- 2:04:31Speaker 23: M5?
- 2:04:32Speaker 7: This is Captain Kirk. You will be under attack in
- 2:04:35Speaker 7: a moment.
- 2:04:37Speaker 28: Sensors have recorded approach of ships. You have already rendered
- 2:04:40Speaker 28: one starship either dead or hopelessly crippled.
- 2:04:43Speaker 7: Many lives were lost.
- 2:04:45Speaker 28: The ships attacked this unit. This unit must survive.
- 2:04:50Speaker 23: Why?
- 2:04:51Speaker 28: This unit is the ultimate achievement in computer evolution. It
- 2:04:54Speaker 28: will replace man so man may achieve. Man must not
- 2:04:57Speaker 28: risk death in space or other dangerous occupations. This unit
- 2:05:01Speaker 28: must survive so man may be protected.
- 2:05:04Speaker 32: Captain, attack force almost within phaser range.
- 2:05:10Speaker 28: There were many men aboard those ships.
- 2:05:13Speaker 32: They were murdered.
- 2:05:15Speaker 7: All phaser power gone, sir. M5 is leaving itself open
- 2:05:18Speaker 7: to attack.
- 2:05:20Speaker 13: The machine is committing suicide to atone for the sin
- 2:05:23Speaker 13: of murder.
- 2:05:23Speaker 1: Scotty, Spock, before it changes his mind, get down to engineering.
- 2:05:27Speaker 1: Pull out every hookup that makes M5 run.
- 2:05:29Speaker 7: Pull out the plug, Spock.
- 2:06:07Speaker 2: I'm sick of it. You know, I love this song. Bush,
- 2:06:25Speaker 2: Machining Head. This is Gavin, my man Gavin. Used to
- 2:06:28Speaker 2: be married to the lady who's now married to Blake Shelton.
- 2:06:33Speaker 2: What is her name again? That's right. Bush was great.
- 2:06:39Speaker 2: Machine Head was great. And that was the scene we
- 2:06:41Speaker 2: talked about, God, over two hours ago from Star Trek.
- 2:06:46Speaker 2: And it's called The Ultimate Computer. Frank Marano sent us that.
- 2:06:49Speaker 2: He's another one of these retards who, I mean, a
- 2:06:53Speaker 2: grown man walking around New York with spark ears, you know.
- 2:06:56Speaker 29: He should do that.
- 2:06:58Speaker 2: He should do that. He should walk into the city
- 2:07:00Speaker 2: council one day, one of these, you know, ultra-serious meetings.
- 2:07:03Speaker 2: I got Vicky Palladino coming up next. All these Republicans
- 2:07:07Speaker 2: are mad at Barrano because he still likes Curtis. And
- 2:07:09Speaker 2: it is stupid, but it's fine. I still love the guy.
- 2:07:12Speaker 29: What if he walked around the city?
- 2:07:13Speaker 2: Yeah, with Spock ears. It'd be great. Come on, Frank,
- 2:07:15Speaker 2: show some balls.
- 2:07:16Speaker 29: Frank, I'm asking, I'm begging you.
- 2:07:18Speaker 2: We're begging you. You should have done it yesterday at
- 2:07:20Speaker 2: the AI conference. Those geeks would have loved it. They
- 2:07:23Speaker 2: would have been like, hey, where's mine?
- 2:07:25Speaker 29: Wait a second. He's got something to say.
- 2:07:27Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 2:07:28Speaker 29: He's a Vulcan.
- 2:07:28Speaker 2: He's a Vulcan. So this is his fear that these
- 2:07:33Speaker 2: computers are taking over the world.
- 2:07:35Speaker 29: Frank would come in. Live long and prosper, everybody.
- 2:07:40Speaker 2: Oh, you're even doing the Vulcan hand signal. How do
- 2:07:42Speaker 2: you know how to do that? Oh, no, no, no, no.
- 2:07:46Speaker 2: Wait a second.
- 2:07:46Speaker 29: You can't do that?
- 2:07:47Speaker 25: No, no.
- 2:07:48Speaker 2: You actually watched it, too?
- 2:07:49Speaker 29: Star Trek is a great show.
- 2:07:51Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
- 2:07:52Speaker 29: It is a great show.
- 2:07:53Speaker 2: It's not a great show. Everybody knows that. It's not.
- 2:07:55Speaker 2: It was not a great show. It was silly. No,
- 2:07:57Speaker 2: it wasn't. The acting was horrible.
- 2:07:59Speaker 29: What do you think all these other stupid science fiction
- 2:08:01Speaker 29: things come from?
- 2:08:01Speaker 23: They're all stupid.
- 2:08:02Speaker 29: Well, they all come from him, Gene Roddenberry.
- 2:08:04Speaker 2: Gene's a genius.
- 2:08:05Speaker 32: Fine.
- 2:08:05Speaker 2: But there was a, come on. I'm begging you.
- 2:08:07Speaker 23: No, no.
- 2:08:08Speaker 2: That was a great show.
- 2:08:09Speaker 29: Some of it was a little silly.
- 2:08:11Speaker 2: Some of it?
- 2:08:12Speaker 29: 1967.
- 2:08:13Speaker 2: I understand.
- 2:08:13Speaker 23: Okay.
- 2:08:14Speaker 2: I was born that year.
- 2:08:15Speaker 25: Right.
- 2:08:15Speaker 29: Well, I think Spock made reference.
- 2:08:17Speaker 2: To that during the show.
- 2:08:18Speaker 29: I think he did, too.
- 2:08:19Speaker 2: Leonard Nimoy was Jewish.
- 2:08:20Speaker 29: Captain, you do realize that Sidney Rosenberg is being born
- 2:08:25Speaker 29: at this very moment.
- 2:08:26Speaker 2: That's my guy, Lenny. Listen, another way that you get
- 2:08:29Speaker 2: punched across the face from me, and your name is
- 2:08:33Speaker 2: not Mom Donnie, you want to get punched across the face?
- 2:08:37Speaker 2: Walk up to me Monday, I'm serious, and say to me,
- 2:08:41Speaker 2: Happy Indigenous People Day, and I'll punch you across the face.
- 2:08:45Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 2:08:46Speaker 2: I mean it. I was just reminded, of course, by
- 2:08:49Speaker 2: our good friend Renee here, that Monday is Columbus Day,
- 2:08:52Speaker 2: and I have spent the last five years. This is true.
- 2:08:56Speaker 2: I'm a Jew, okay? I am the only Jew that
- 2:08:59Speaker 2: I know of ever that's been honored five straight years.
- 2:09:04Speaker 2: By Angelo Vivalo, who's an amazing Italian man, Joe Piscopo,
- 2:09:10Speaker 2: and the Columbus Day Parade. They put me in a convertible,
- 2:09:14Speaker 2: fancy car every year and make me a part of
- 2:09:17Speaker 2: the procession. I'm not even Italian. I have now been
- 2:09:21Speaker 2: a part of the procession at that amazing parade for
- 2:09:25Speaker 2: five straight years.
- 2:09:26Speaker 29: What a great superhero Angelo could be. Amazing Italian man.
- 2:09:30Speaker 2: Yes! Amazing Italian man. Piscopo, too. And I think when
- 2:09:35Speaker 2: I started, Maria was still doing that.
- 2:09:37Speaker 25: Yeah.
- 2:09:37Speaker 6: Bartiromo.
- 2:09:38Speaker 2: And then they had Kenny Rosado, who they fired for
- 2:09:40Speaker 2: no reason. But I think I'm going back this year.
- 2:09:44Speaker 2: I did, a couple of weeks ago, threaten to not
- 2:09:47Speaker 2: go when I found out the organizers invited Mamdani. And
- 2:09:53Speaker 2: as much as Mamdani hates the Jews, we already know that,
- 2:09:56Speaker 2: he hates the Irish.
- 2:09:58Speaker 26: St.
- 2:09:58Speaker 2: Patrick's Day parade that morning, he found a way to
- 2:10:02Speaker 2: include the Palestinians and Gaza in his St. Patrick's Day speech.
- 2:10:07Speaker 2: This moron, this... Idiot. And he hates the Italians.
- 2:10:11Speaker 29: And Christianity.
- 2:10:12Speaker 2: All of it. He left off Little Italy, both of them,
- 2:10:15Speaker 2: off of his immigration enclave map. Both Mulberry Street and
- 2:10:19Speaker 2: Arthur Avenue. This wonderful guy. He hates everybody. So when
- 2:10:23Speaker 2: I found out he was coming, I texted Angelo and
- 2:10:26Speaker 2: I said, I'm not coming. He said, well, I don't
- 2:10:29Speaker 2: organize the parade. He goes, you know, Sid, if I
- 2:10:31Speaker 2: organized the parade, we never would have invited that guy.
- 2:10:34Speaker 2: That's the truth. Can't blame Angelo Vivalo. But I've heard
- 2:10:37Speaker 2: nothing since. I don't think the mayor is going to come.
- 2:10:41Speaker 2: He didn't come to the feast, the San Gennaro feast. Why?
- 2:10:44Speaker 2: Because we hate him. Italians hate his guts. Just trust me,
- 2:10:49Speaker 2: the Italian community, Justin Brannan, hates the mayor's guts. Just
- 2:10:56Speaker 2: like I do. So, I don't think he's going to come. So,
- 2:10:59Speaker 2: I am planning to be back at the parade on Monday.
- 2:11:02Speaker 2: I'm sure Angelo will call me now because he listens
- 2:11:04Speaker 2: to every second of the show like everybody does. And
- 2:11:07Speaker 2: I'll be more than happy and proud once again to
- 2:11:09Speaker 2: celebrate with my Italian friends. Usually, I put somebody famous
- 2:11:13Speaker 2: in the car. You know that, Justin. Joe Takapina's been
- 2:11:16Speaker 2: in the car and TV stars and all that times.
- 2:11:18Speaker 2: You asked me to ride with you this year, though.
- 2:11:20Speaker 2: Did I do that once?
- 2:11:21Speaker 28: No.
- 2:11:21Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're not Italian. I have to have an
- 2:11:23Speaker 2: Italian in the car. Yeah, you never did that.
- 2:11:24Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 2:11:26Speaker 2: I have to have a famous Italian in the car. Yeah,
- 2:11:27Speaker 2: and I don't really look Italian, you know. There's nothing
- 2:11:30Speaker 2: Italian about you. You can probably pass for an Italian.
- 2:11:32Speaker 2: I'm on Gravesend right now. I play a mobster. That's
- 2:11:34Speaker 2: what I just said. That scene with me and Tony Darrow,
- 2:11:38Speaker 2: when I call out the Russians.
- 2:11:39Speaker 13: Right.
- 2:11:40Speaker 2: Episode 5, Season 3.
- 2:11:42Speaker 6: Yes.
- 2:11:42Speaker 2: Is getting rave reviews. 16 minutes and 14 seconds in.
- 2:11:46Speaker 2: I know exactly when it is, exactly. I'm in three
- 2:11:48Speaker 2: of those episodes in the first six. The club scene
- 2:11:51Speaker 2: with Shaq. Come on now. I play Davey Busco, an
- 2:11:55Speaker 2: Italian mob soldier. So I can do this.
- 2:11:59Speaker 37: I literally never said you couldn't.
- 2:12:01Speaker 29: Hey, we know.
- 2:12:03Speaker 2: Don't start this indigenous people nonsense, okay?
- 2:12:05Speaker 36: All right.
- 2:12:06Speaker 2: Stop it.
- 2:12:06Speaker 37: That's what I'm going to title the show on Monday.
- 2:12:09Speaker 2: Who's coming on Monday? Piscopo? He comes on every year. Yeah,
- 2:12:12Speaker 2: we'll get Piscopo on. We'll get Angelo on. Angelo. Don't
- 2:12:15Speaker 2: we get Chaz Palmintero usually comes on? He saved the
- 2:12:18Speaker 2: Columbus State Statue, Chaz.
- 2:12:20Speaker 25: Mm-hmm.
- 2:12:21Speaker 2: And I always want to get John Travolta, but you
- 2:12:23Speaker 2: never get him. Yeah, I don't know Travolta very well.
- 2:12:26Speaker 2: But William DeMeo is good friends with Travolta. In fact,
- 2:12:28Speaker 2: you ready for this? William DeMeo was in the Gotti movie.
- 2:12:33Speaker 2: This is true. And Travolta, it was terrible, but Travolta
- 2:12:37Speaker 2: played Gotti and William played Sammy the Bull. Do you
- 2:12:41Speaker 2: remember that?
- 2:12:41Speaker 25: Nope.
- 2:12:42Speaker 23: No.
- 2:12:42Speaker 2: You didn't see it? That's fine. Just get Travolta. I mean,
- 2:12:47Speaker 2: he's Tony Manero.
- 2:12:49Speaker 23: Sure.
- 2:12:49Speaker 2: He was my hero for my whole life.
- 2:12:51Speaker 23: Okay.
- 2:12:52Speaker 2: Him and Joseph Iovine, who's a real-life person, who lives
- 2:12:54Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Any other famous Italians I should bring on?
- 2:12:59Speaker 29: Yeah, look my way. That's right.
- 2:13:01Speaker 2: Yeah. You're famous. You're Italian. Sure. But you're more Irish.
- 2:13:04Speaker 29: I would say you should put somebody there all Italian.
- 2:13:08Speaker 2: All Italian.
- 2:13:09Speaker 28: Yeah.
- 2:13:09Speaker 29: So that we can find them later on if we
- 2:13:11Speaker 29: need to in Sicily.
- 2:13:12Speaker 2: Mike Piazza, John Franco, and Cole Franco. Why not?
- 2:13:15Speaker 28: Well. Right.
- 2:13:17Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 2:13:17Speaker 29: If you got an O or an I at the
- 2:13:19Speaker 29: end of your name.
- 2:13:19Speaker 2: Anybody in wheelhouses of New Jersey or wheelhouses of New York,
- 2:13:22Speaker 2: they're all Italian. Anybody I'm missing that's a really bigot
- 2:13:25Speaker 2: that we love in this city, though?
- 2:13:27Speaker 29: Holy Camperino? I know him.
- 2:13:29Speaker 2: He's one of the greats. Yeah, he's great.
- 2:13:30Speaker 29: Chris Cuomo on the program, though.
- 2:13:32Speaker 2: Chris Cuomo would work, except I hate his guts. You
- 2:13:35Speaker 2: want to talk about a dickhead.
- 2:13:36Speaker 29: Let's go with people you like now.
- 2:13:38Speaker 30: Yeah.
- 2:13:38Speaker 2: I got to sit in the car with these people, okay? Yeah.
- 2:13:43Speaker 2: Vicky Palladino's Italian. Sid and Friends in the.
- 2:13:47Speaker 1: Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
- 2:13:51Speaker 2: My friend, Councilwoman Vicki Palladino. Vicki, good morning. How are you?
- 2:13:55Speaker 20: Hi, good morning, Sid. Thanks for having me on. Great song,
- 2:13:59Speaker 20: don't you think?
- 2:14:00Speaker 2: I know you love that song, this song. You get
- 2:14:02Speaker 2: all pumped up. You start dancing. You look so cute
- 2:14:05Speaker 2: out there. Vicki, where do we start? I want to
- 2:14:07Speaker 2: get one quick question about yesterday, then we'll get to
- 2:14:10Speaker 2: the elections. This AI stuff. Do you have any idea
- 2:14:12Speaker 2: what the hell they're talking about?
- 2:14:14Speaker 20: No, neither does the city council. I mean, the city
- 2:14:16Speaker 20: council I represent, they're trying to fry, you know, open AI, Google,
- 2:14:22Speaker 20: the executives. Then you have this 10-year-old kid. He looked
- 2:14:25Speaker 20: about 10 that he called for. It was going to
- 2:14:28Speaker 20: be the end of mankind. It was a four-and-a-half-hour hearing.
- 2:14:34Speaker 20: And the very idea that my council should try to
- 2:14:39Speaker 20: regulate AI in any way, shape, or form is laughable.
- 2:14:44Speaker 20: Absolutely laughable. It's a power play, an absolute power play.
- 2:14:47Speaker 20: We can't trust this left-wing radical council to make any
- 2:14:54Speaker 20: kind of logical decisions when it comes to something I
- 2:14:57Speaker 20: don't know much about, but they know as much as
- 2:15:01Speaker 20: I do, which isn't much. All right, let's be fair here.
- 2:15:06Speaker 20: And their grandstanding, the grandstanding was amazing. I mean, here
- 2:15:10Speaker 20: they are trying to intimidate and pull this power BS
- 2:15:16Speaker 20: on these three.
- 2:15:17Speaker 2: Well, that was, you know, the one who was doing
- 2:15:19Speaker 2: that was specifically the speaker, Julie Menon. Now, you and
- 2:15:21Speaker 2: the speaker have history. She was not nice to you,
- 2:15:25Speaker 2: and I was pissed. And I called her on, I'm serious,
- 2:15:27Speaker 2: the very first meeting, like all you guys together, she
- 2:15:30Speaker 2: literally went out of her way to embarrass you. And
- 2:15:32Speaker 2: then you had to go through all that nonsense and
- 2:15:34Speaker 2: hire a lawyer for doing nothing. I mean, you said
- 2:15:37Speaker 2: bad things about Mom Donnie. That makes you a hero
- 2:15:40Speaker 2: in this town, not a villain. Has that relationship between
- 2:15:43Speaker 2: you and Menon gotten any better, or is there still
- 2:15:45Speaker 2: bad blood there, honestly?
- 2:15:46Speaker 20: Honestly, you know, the communication lines are open, always. And Julie,
- 2:15:57Speaker 20: it's a very cliquish, very, very cliquish council this year
- 2:16:03Speaker 20: since Zoran has taken office. It's frightening because, in my opinion,
- 2:16:08Speaker 20: people who used to be a little bit more fair
- 2:16:12Speaker 20: and open-minded seem to have closed their doors. where I
- 2:16:17Speaker 20: am concerned. And that's okay with me, because what I
- 2:16:21Speaker 20: represent is the people, and I have a duty to do,
- 2:16:25Speaker 20: and that is, like you, to deliver the truth. Now,
- 2:16:28Speaker 20: the truth is difficult. It's a tough pill for people
- 2:16:31Speaker 20: to swallow. But our backs are literally against the wall,
- 2:16:35Speaker 20: to coin the phrase of the song. And I won't
- 2:16:40Speaker 20: back down. And I'm watching a really what I thought
- 2:16:46Speaker 20: would be stronger-minded people take a knee, whereas when Adams,
- 2:16:51Speaker 20: love him or hate him, was in office, his door
- 2:16:54Speaker 20: was open to the people who thought differently than he did.
- 2:16:59Speaker 20: There was no reason to attack Adams violently, yet this
- 2:17:06Speaker 20: mayor isn't being touched at all. We had the migrant
- 2:17:10Speaker 20: crisis with Eric Adams, tens of thousands illegals came in.
- 2:17:16Speaker 20: We're still paying for them today. And when we listen
- 2:17:20Speaker 20: to what Zoan says and his actions that speak louder
- 2:17:26Speaker 20: than his words, if that's even possible, is never criticized
- 2:17:30Speaker 20: ever by this council. And that to me is a
- 2:17:36Speaker 20: real eye-opening, and it should be, to the people of
- 2:17:41Speaker 20: the city of New York.
- 2:17:42Speaker 2: I agree. But here's what I've noticed, Vicki, and again,
- 2:17:45Speaker 2: you can just kind of go past this if you
- 2:17:47Speaker 2: want to. I understand you got... five against 46, and
- 2:17:51Speaker 2: of those 46 Democrats, 25 of them are literally lunatics.
- 2:17:55Speaker 2: These are very sick people. Like this T.O. say, he
- 2:17:58Speaker 2: should be in prison, this guy. He has no right
- 2:18:00Speaker 2: holding a political office, this moron. But what I've noticed
- 2:18:04Speaker 2: is the five Republicans, you, Morano, Carr, Vernikov, and Joanne,
- 2:18:10Speaker 2: without naming specific names, there seems to be a little
- 2:18:13Speaker 2: bit of infighting, a little bit of, maybe not infighting,
- 2:18:16Speaker 2: but certainly criticism of each other. I'm not going to
- 2:18:19Speaker 2: name who names who.
- 2:18:21Speaker 20: No, you don't need to. No, you don't need to.
- 2:18:24Speaker 20: And let me be very, very clear. When it comes
- 2:18:28Speaker 20: down to it, our message will and always be the same. However,
- 2:18:34Speaker 20: I do not like flip-flopping on very important issues, and
- 2:18:40Speaker 20: the important issues being the anti-Semitism that's going on. The
- 2:18:47Speaker 20: general hatred of others that just simply do not agree
- 2:18:51Speaker 20: with this administration is very frightening. So when I see
- 2:18:57Speaker 20: fellow Republicans weaken when they should not weaken at all,
- 2:19:03Speaker 20: there's nothing, nobody here that needs great praise. You just
- 2:19:06Speaker 20: don't say anything if you don't want to be openly
- 2:19:10Speaker 20: critical of someone. I don't like grandstanding and I see
- 2:19:15Speaker 20: a lot of that. And that's what's got me more
- 2:19:19Speaker 20: riled up than ever is that the unity that I'd
- 2:19:23Speaker 20: like to see Uh, is not there. And I'm not mentioning.
- 2:19:28Speaker 2: Any names, but I'll tell you something. No, no, you
- 2:19:31Speaker 2: showed enough courage just now, by the way. I love you, Vicki.
- 2:19:33Speaker 2: You're the best. You show a lot of courage. Now,
- 2:19:35Speaker 2: two years ago, when you invited me to your Whitestone
- 2:19:38Speaker 2: holiday party for the first time. You may have forgotten
- 2:19:41Speaker 2: who I arrived with that night, but I came from
- 2:19:44Speaker 2: a WABC party, and I walked into your party with
- 2:19:48Speaker 2: one Curtis Sliwa. Now, I told you this year, you
- 2:19:51Speaker 2: asked me to host your holiday party, and I said,
- 2:19:54Speaker 2: I'm not coming if Curtis is going to be there
- 2:19:56Speaker 2: because he's a backstabbing. No good son of a bitch bastard.
- 2:19:59Speaker 2: He backstabbed the whole city. And you said, don't worry,
- 2:20:02Speaker 2: he's not coming. Some of your people are very upset
- 2:20:04Speaker 2: with me. When you see Curtis yucking it up at
- 2:20:07Speaker 2: the inner circle or a couple of days ago, yucking
- 2:20:10Speaker 2: it up with the mayor, getting their flu shots together.
- 2:20:12Speaker 2: Does that not make you nauseous that there was a
- 2:20:14Speaker 2: time when you were so loyal to him?
- 2:20:17Speaker 23: Extremely.
- 2:20:17Speaker 20: No, I haven't spoken to Curtis since he lost the election.
- 2:20:23Speaker 20: I sent him a text two days later on that Thursday,
- 2:20:26Speaker 20: the election on Tuesday. And I said to Curtis, you know,
- 2:20:31Speaker 20: my condolences, but I didn't think you had it to
- 2:20:34Speaker 20: start with.
- 2:20:36Speaker 23: But as a.
- 2:20:37Speaker 20: Supporter of mine back in the day, 2018, when I
- 2:20:40Speaker 20: ran for state Senate, And then in 2021, when I
- 2:20:46Speaker 20: was challenged by the Republican Party, he stood by me.
- 2:20:52Speaker 20: So I thought, well, you know what? When he ran
- 2:20:55Speaker 20: in 21 for mayor, that I would do my best.
- 2:20:58Speaker 20: When he ran for mayor in 25, I did not
- 2:21:02Speaker 20: do my best. I stayed quiet.
- 2:21:05Speaker 23: I listened.
- 2:21:05Speaker 20: I threw him one fundraiser at the club. I stayed quiet.
- 2:21:09Speaker 20: There was no what I would normally be doing for
- 2:21:13Speaker 20: a great candidate. I knew we were going to lose
- 2:21:15Speaker 20: that race right out of the gate. It is our fault,
- 2:21:19Speaker 20: and I repeat, exclamation point, our fault that we do
- 2:21:24Speaker 20: not have candidates waiting in the wings, being groomed to
- 2:21:30Speaker 20: take on the Democratic Socialist Party. because that's what's running
- 2:21:35Speaker 20: the city right now, and that's what's running the state
- 2:21:38Speaker 20: right now. Make no mistake, this is no longer the
- 2:21:43Speaker 20: Democratic Party, just to rewind, of the Kennedy era. I
- 2:21:48Speaker 20: was never a Democrat. My family was never Democrats. But
- 2:21:51Speaker 20: in this case, this is no longer the Democratic Party.
- 2:21:54Speaker 20: It's been eaten from within, and it's been going on
- 2:21:57Speaker 20: for decades. If you listen to Ronald Reagan, one of
- 2:22:00Speaker 20: my favorite presidents, of all time is Ronald Reagan, along
- 2:22:06Speaker 20: with Trump and Teddy Roosevelt. But I will say this,
- 2:22:10Speaker 20: there is decades of this going on and they've allowed
- 2:22:14Speaker 20: it to happen. And for the Democrats to take a
- 2:22:17Speaker 20: knee And Julie Menon not to step out all over
- 2:22:21Speaker 20: this mayor or any of my Jewish colleagues in council
- 2:22:25Speaker 20: not to step out against this mayor. The way they
- 2:22:28Speaker 20: did with Eric Adams with everything is is beyond belief. OK,
- 2:22:34Speaker 20: and that needs to set a lot of people straight
- 2:22:36Speaker 20: about how badly we need change up in Albany. We
- 2:22:41Speaker 20: need definite change. Is Bruce going to be faced with
- 2:22:44Speaker 20: a lot of obstacles? Most definitely. But let me tell
- 2:22:47Speaker 20: you this. Bruce can stand on his own and he's
- 2:22:51Speaker 20: got a strong back and he will have strong backing.
- 2:22:56Speaker 20: And that's very, very important. The Senate will still stay, unfortunately.
- 2:23:02Speaker 20: We will still be the minority in the state Senate
- 2:23:05Speaker 20: and we're the super minority in the assembly. But do
- 2:23:09Speaker 20: not be discouraged by that. Everybody must, and it's all
- 2:23:13Speaker 20: about numbers, folks. If you do not get out and vote,
- 2:23:17Speaker 20: and I told this to everybody here, don't come complaining
- 2:23:21Speaker 20: to me about why, how, and what happened. Because simply put,
- 2:23:28Speaker 20: did you vote? Did you bring 10 people with you?
- 2:23:32Speaker 20: Are you manning a phone right now to call 10
- 2:23:36Speaker 20: people and ask those 10 people to call 10 people
- 2:23:39Speaker 20: so they get out and vote for Bruce Blakeman? This
- 2:23:42Speaker 20: is the key. The key is getting people out to vote.
- 2:23:47Speaker 20: And if we don't have that, if we have low
- 2:23:49Speaker 20: voter turnout, oh, because, oh, he can't win.
- 2:23:52Speaker 23: That's a crock.
- 2:23:53Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a crock. I can't stand that either. No,
- 2:23:55Speaker 2: but you're right about one other thing. You're right about that,
- 2:23:57Speaker 2: the low voter turnout. But you talked about our candidates.
- 2:24:01Speaker 2: And when Curtis Sliwa, who's never a Republican, Trump hates
- 2:24:04Speaker 2: his guts. Trump refused to even give him a nice word,
- 2:24:08Speaker 2: let alone an endorsement, okay? When he's your candidate for mayor,
- 2:24:11Speaker 2: you've got problems. And I like Ed Cox. I like
- 2:24:13Speaker 2: all these people. But the truth is, we need better candidates. So,
- 2:24:16Speaker 2: with that said... When will I be voting for Vicky
- 2:24:20Speaker 2: Palladino for borough president or Congress or state Senate? When
- 2:24:26Speaker 2: will Vicky Palladino, who's one of our great voices, I'm
- 2:24:29Speaker 2: not patronizing you, I mean it. When will you make
- 2:24:33Speaker 2: the move to the next elevated level of politics?
- 2:24:36Speaker 20: Well, I have to, I'll tell you, Sid, everybody's asking me,
- 2:24:41Speaker 20: what are you going to do next, Vic? And I'll
- 2:24:43Speaker 20: tell you the truth, I have to do something. I
- 2:24:46Speaker 20: love my job. I am term limited out. If I
- 2:24:49Speaker 20: could be city councilwoman for the next 10 years, I
- 2:24:52Speaker 20: would do.
- 2:24:52Speaker 23: It in a heartbeat.
- 2:24:53Speaker 2: Really? Even after this council?
- 2:24:56Speaker 20: Well, look, you know what? Everything is a fight. I'm
- 2:25:00Speaker 20: up for the fight. I'm up for the battle. So
- 2:25:02Speaker 20: long as the people know that there's some sort of
- 2:25:04Speaker 20: voice that echoes their thoughts and their feelings, I will
- 2:25:09Speaker 20: run for something else. Exactly what that is going to
- 2:25:12Speaker 20: be at this moment, this election is going to decide
- 2:25:15Speaker 20: a lot of things. I'm going to watch very closely
- 2:25:18Speaker 20: the results, the margins, and I'm going to make some
- 2:25:22Speaker 20: strategic moves. In 2027, I have to. My constituents here
- 2:25:31Speaker 20: in District 19 are in panic mode because they don't know.
- 2:25:35Speaker 20: They don't want to lose me and all this other
- 2:25:37Speaker 20: sort of stuff. But I will have somebody that I'll
- 2:25:40Speaker 20: put my hand over and anoint to be to take
- 2:25:44Speaker 20: my place. That yet, too, has got to be decided upon.
- 2:25:48Speaker 20: But to serve the people at any level at this
- 2:25:52Speaker 20: point in time, I'm up for the challenge. I'm up
- 2:25:55Speaker 20: for the job. And I can do it. You mentioned
- 2:25:58Speaker 20: Chai Osei. Chai Osei is going to run for Congress.
- 2:26:02Speaker 20: And that's good for him. He also made a play
- 2:26:07Speaker 20: for United States Senate, which of course is a joke.
- 2:26:11Speaker 20: So I put out a tweet that said, if you
- 2:26:14Speaker 20: do it, I will do it. And I will go
- 2:26:17Speaker 20: toe-to-toe with you. I promise. So look, there's a lot
- 2:26:22Speaker 20: of decisions I have to make, very serious decisions. I'm
- 2:26:26Speaker 20: not satisfied with the status quo. But right now, this
- 2:26:31Speaker 20: is about November the 3rd. This is about making sure
- 2:26:36Speaker 20: that Bruce gets the seat along with the lieutenant governor.
- 2:26:42Speaker 20: And we've got to take this state back. If we
- 2:26:46Speaker 20: do not take this state back, the trickling down into
- 2:26:50Speaker 20: our city will only get worse. Kathy Hochul, everybody knows
- 2:26:54Speaker 20: what she's about. Now, Mozzie was just on. And Mozzie
- 2:26:57Speaker 20: brought up a very good point. And I said this
- 2:27:00Speaker 20: as well. And I'm doing a video today on my
- 2:27:04Speaker 20: own behalf for Bruce. I'm going to walk around my district.
- 2:27:08Speaker 20: And it's all about getting my Democrats here that voted
- 2:27:12Speaker 20: for me because I'm eight to one here to vote
- 2:27:16Speaker 20: for Blakeman. This has got to be the independents must
- 2:27:20Speaker 20: come out strong and do the Democrats must come out strong.
- 2:27:24Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:27:25Speaker 20: And they have got to realize that Hochul is only
- 2:27:28Speaker 20: going to put us, you know. It's a $ 260 billion debt. Uh,
- 2:27:33Speaker 20: we've got budget in, uh, Albany.
- 2:27:37Speaker 23: Yeah.
- 2:27:38Speaker 20: $ 128 billion down here in New York city. So what
- 2:27:41Speaker 20: is causing the state and the city to be run?
- 2:27:44Speaker 20: $ 394 billion said billion.
- 2:27:47Speaker 2: It's insane. I know. Listen, it's more than Florida and
- 2:27:51Speaker 2: Texas combined, combined, combined. Okay. I got one point in
- 2:27:57Speaker 2: the way out. Cause I got it wrong, but you're great. Uh,
- 2:27:59Speaker 2: What about state Senate versus John Liu? You're looking at that?
- 2:28:05Speaker 20: I'm not in John Liu's district. I would be running against,
- 2:28:08Speaker 20: Toby Stavisky is presently running against the Republican candidate here.
- 2:28:14Speaker 20: I would, look, Toby's 87 years old. I have respect
- 2:28:19Speaker 20: for Toby only because she's a trooper, okay? I don't
- 2:28:25Speaker 20: agree with her politics in any way, shape or form.
- 2:28:28Speaker 20: But I do know respect. Hopefully, she will bow out.
- 2:28:34Speaker 20: John Liu, they redistricted my state senate, District 11. They
- 2:28:42Speaker 20: put me down into South Queens. I don't really care
- 2:28:45Speaker 20: much for Albany. Again, things I have to think about.
- 2:28:49Speaker 20: Because the other thing that I hate is running every
- 2:28:53Speaker 20: two years.
- 2:28:55Speaker 2: That sucks.
- 2:28:55Speaker 20: Yeah, it does.
- 2:28:56Speaker 2: That sucks.
- 2:28:57Speaker 20: Once you're secure, though, and you prove yourself to the people,
- 2:29:02Speaker 20: it kind of has a rollover effect.
- 2:29:04Speaker 2: Yeah, you just win.
- 2:29:04Speaker 20: She's been doing this for 30-something years, okay?
- 2:29:07Speaker 26: Yeah.
- 2:29:07Speaker 20: She's got to step away now.
- 2:29:10Speaker 2: I would say so.
- 2:29:10Speaker 20: Hopefully she'll do it gracefully.
- 2:29:12Speaker 2: Finally, 30 seconds. Well, I see you talking about great Italians.
- 2:29:15Speaker 2: I know that tomorrow night, for example, is a very,
- 2:29:18Speaker 2: very big night. I know you're aware of this. I've
- 2:29:21Speaker 2: been invited. I don't know how, but I've been invited.
- 2:29:23Speaker 2: They're going to honor great Italians like Rosanna Scotto, Chaz Palminteri,
- 2:29:28Speaker 2: Andrew Giuliani. But I was invited by Frank. It is
- 2:29:31Speaker 2: the New York City Council Italian Heritage Celebration coming up
- 2:29:36Speaker 2: tomorrow on October the 7th. You guys are going to
- 2:29:39Speaker 2: honor Italians. You're a great Italian. I'm sure you'll be
- 2:29:42Speaker 2: there for that. And will you be at the parade
- 2:29:44Speaker 2: on Monday?
- 2:29:44Speaker 25: Yes. Yes.
- 2:29:45Speaker 20: Yes to both. I serve on the Italian caucus. And,
- 2:29:50Speaker 20: you know, we worked very hard to put that together.
- 2:29:52Speaker 20: Kudos to Joanne Areola and to Frank Marano. Absolutely. Yes,
- 2:29:59Speaker 20: I will be there. It's a very exciting night. I
- 2:30:01Speaker 20: will be bringing rice balls from Mario's here in my neighborhood.
- 2:30:05Speaker 23: Fantastic.
- 2:30:06Speaker 20: And as far as the parade goes, that SOB better
- 2:30:10Speaker 20: not be there.
- 2:30:11Speaker 2: He won't be there.
- 2:30:11Speaker 20: I think he's scared stiff.
- 2:30:12Speaker 2: Yeah, he should be.
- 2:30:13Speaker 20: Yeah, really.
- 2:30:14Speaker 2: He should be. There's a couple of guys in Howard Beach.
- 2:30:16Speaker 2: They'll rearrange his face in 15 seconds. Just trust me.
- 2:30:19Speaker 20: No, that's what I'm saying. He won't be there. He
- 2:30:21Speaker 20: won't make it here. I'll be in a Cadillac.
- 2:30:26Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. Me too.
- 2:30:27Speaker 23: Good.
- 2:30:27Speaker 2: We'll see you there. Vicki, I love you. You're so great.
- 2:30:30Speaker 2: You really are so great. You're great. You listen every
- 2:30:32Speaker 2: morning and I appreciate your loyalty. I love you very much.
- 2:30:35Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. That is the
- 2:30:38Speaker 2: great council lady. I really do think the world of her.
- 2:30:42Speaker 2: I really do. I love her. She is so tough.
- 2:30:45Speaker 2: If every politician in New York and around the country,
- 2:30:50Speaker 2: had the toughness of Vicky Palladino, we'd be in great shape.
- 2:30:53Speaker 2: I mean that. I'm not patronizing her. I'm not going
- 2:30:57Speaker 2: out of my way to extol her virtues. She deserves
- 2:31:00Speaker 2: all of that. She's really a terrific lady and a
- 2:31:02Speaker 2: great politician.
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