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Scott LoBaido | Artist & Activist Rises from the Dead to Combat Mamdani · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, we all know the news, the activist, the amazing artist,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend. I'm just a great guy and a
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  Speaker 1: great fighter for this city. I mean Scott Lobato. He
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  Speaker 1: was at a rally last week, so I mean for
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  Speaker 1: the Cops night out. Ma'm donnie was there. People saw
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  Speaker 1: Scott going nuts on the mayor. He went so nuts
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  Speaker 1: the mayor even mentioned him during the speech. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: speech was supposed to be relatively long. It was over
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  Speaker 1: in like ten seconds because Scott and the people of
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island literally booed this mother effort off the stage.
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  Speaker 1: But he did get Libto's name in there. And then
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  Speaker 1: long after that, my friend Scott collapsed and he died
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  Speaker 1: for two minutes. He actually flatlined for two minutes. He
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  Speaker 1: was dead. Thank god, ems brought him back to life,
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  Speaker 1: and only a couple of hours after that he was
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  Speaker 1: giving the finger and a picture. But through this he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't doing all that great. I don't know how bad
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  Speaker 1: it got. I know that he go he went home
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, but he didn't feel well on Friday. So
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  Speaker 1: let's get all the particulars right now with the legitim
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  Speaker 1: a hero and all my listeners that are fans of
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  Speaker 1: mine are bans of his, and they've been really worried.
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  Speaker 1: I get messages every day. I mean it. I love
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  Speaker 1: this guy. Scott Lobato, Scottie, good morning, pal. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with this right off the boat. How you feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay? Uh. I like that you, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: all nice and lovely. Dev to me now And when
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  Speaker 2: two days ago you called me a loser and had
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  Speaker 2: my blood pressure up again while I'm laying in bad dying.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't because I was angry, because I was
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  Speaker 2: laughing my ass off, because I know what you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I really got so upset. I started
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  Speaker 1: to cry. When Frank Morano called me and Tobacco texted me,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, I gotta have fun. Thank god you alive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if God forbid it was worse, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have done that. But I said, he's got such a
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  Speaker 1: great sense of humor. He said, what kind of loser?
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  Speaker 1: I was a autotime from that guy. But to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I was frightfully worried. I'm glad you've got a great
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  Speaker 1: sense of him or I knew you would take it
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  Speaker 1: that way, but I was only kidding.
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  Speaker 2: The best was the crew. The crew that's there. They
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  Speaker 2: were like, you were like, don't you agree? And everybody
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  Speaker 2: just hesitated, and then eventually they did because they don't
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  Speaker 2: get paid they don't agree with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, initially they were horrified. They're like, said, you can't
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  Speaker 1: say he's a loser. Will tell me this when you
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  Speaker 1: arrived that night, At any point during that day or
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  Speaker 1: even moments before you collapse, did you feel ill? Did
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  Speaker 1: you feel anything.
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  Speaker 2: In the last couple of weeks. I wasn't feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently I found out this was a long time coming. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I had some issues in the past, and I think
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  Speaker 2: I remember a couple of years ago. Uh, even when
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  Speaker 2: I was on your show, I mentioned something. But anyway, but.
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  Speaker 1: Buddy, but you never had a heart attack before. You
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  Speaker 1: had some issues.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently I did. Oh they did, but I didn't really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I wasn't it was, but it wasn't. But
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  Speaker 2: it was. I found out now, my god.
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  Speaker 1: So you know me. But you didn't even realize it
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  Speaker 1: at the time. So this was your second heart attack
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of. Yeah, this one was the one.
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  Speaker 2: This was the big one. But it was common. And again,
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  Speaker 2: everything is like clear, I don't need any stunts my audience,
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  Speaker 2: even with all the stuff I put in my body
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  Speaker 2: over these years. I quit smoking two years ago. But
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  Speaker 2: everything is good. My heart is perfect. Everything the muscles
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  Speaker 2: accept this one scar that just keeps the electricity from
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  Speaker 2: crossing over.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, long story, but thank god I was where I
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  Speaker 2: was right.
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  Speaker 1: Because there were people there.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So do you remember, Scott, like a second before you collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: did you feel bad, did you feel anything or you
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  Speaker 1: just went from yelling and screaming to going unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just kept screaming and yelling soil. He was
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  Speaker 2: even off the stage, he was heading to his car.
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  Speaker 2: And then I just felt, wait a minute, I'm the saint, right,
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  Speaker 2: let me go take a little breather. And then I
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  Speaker 2: went to the grass and I told a buddy of
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  Speaker 2: mine and I was there. I said, I don't feel good.
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  Speaker 2: So you felt to hit the ground and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. And then so you did feel something
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  Speaker 1: and then you hit the ground. You're unconscious now, I
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  Speaker 1: was told by witnesses, Scott, because you're a tough guy,
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  Speaker 1: you really are, that you actually kind of lifted yourself
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  Speaker 1: up onto the gurney, even though the MS guys like
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  Speaker 1: take it easy, take it easy, Scott. You You're like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I got this. So you remember doing all that?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I don't. I don't remember not waking up,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So you just remember waking up in the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Was that it? Yeah? I mean a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: in the ambulance, but I don't, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: remember in the hospital, surrounded by six beautiful nurses, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, all right, Heaven's okay, Heaven's okay. You know,
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  Speaker 2: North well as the great hospital they tried, honestly, they
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna individually, personally in person thank you know, the
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  Speaker 2: NYPD medics and Ariy Weiss actually nice Jewish man, everybody
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  Speaker 2: who likes the Jews saved my life, helped save my life,
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  Speaker 2: and the people at the hospital were He's going to
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  Speaker 2: get individually thank for me. But irony is you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would have been wherever he came. But this was
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  Speaker 2: a pro cop evening. And this guy hates cops, as
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  Speaker 2: we know, more than the last two mayors who hated cops.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he cuts them, he cuts the funding, he
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  Speaker 2: aumiliates them, he puts them in danger, and he has
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  Speaker 2: the audacity, and that's what he is. He has the
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  Speaker 2: audacity to come to these events. So I got a
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  Speaker 2: group of my friends and I said, listen, all I
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure we do is an old time,
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  Speaker 2: old school bronch chair. I want him booed so loudly
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  Speaker 2: that he does not get to speak, and that way
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  Speaker 2: you humiliate him. And that's exactly what we did. It
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  Speaker 2: really really worked. It was an old school It's awesome,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, and you know, and then there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody you were Scott's nova. He's hanging up his sword.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next day I called my manager and
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  Speaker 2: I charted a plane to fly a banner over the city.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome too. Yeah. I mean everybody put that
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  Speaker 1: up on their Instagram page and they go, look at
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  Speaker 1: this guy Scott, even on a hospital bed, he's still fighting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is going to sound crazy, I know
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  Speaker 1: what is. But yeah, no, look, you know, he knows
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  Speaker 1: you don't like him, and he doesn't like you, even
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  Speaker 1: though he called you his buddy in that speech. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you you really did have a very
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  Speaker 1: scary event. So it sounds like a crazy question, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not haw's the mayor reached out to you, see
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  Speaker 1: if you're okay?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. There was some funny memes, AI memes
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  Speaker 2: going around a lot of hate too. Man, It's amazing
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  Speaker 2: how much people are evil. I remember when I think
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  Speaker 2: he even wrote it up on your show here when
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  Speaker 2: uh President Biden was diagnosed answer or whatever, and I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: I hate this guy. He's destroying this country, but I
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  Speaker 2: wish no ill, I will help his health gets you know, fine,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not that guy. You know, I'll hate you and
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  Speaker 2: I'll disagree with you, but I'll never wish. But it's
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  Speaker 2: amazing that people like Scotch should have died and all
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: But there were some cool memes with the mayor in
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  Speaker 2: my hospital room where to get well called and then
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  Speaker 2: he teach it, you know, funny shit, funny shit.
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  Speaker 1: What if he actually did I know what, He'd never
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  Speaker 1: happened because he hates you, he hates me, and then
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  Speaker 1: we that in common, which is you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: in common. But if he actually did reach out to you,
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  Speaker 1: would you take the call?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would take the call. And then I would
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  Speaker 2: give him my you know, we would give him a
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  Speaker 2: piece of my mind and tell him number one, number one,
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  Speaker 2: the first and most important thing, stay the f away
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  Speaker 2: from ground zero. And I want to move into that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I I disagree with Blakeman. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: he shows up, no, he can't show up. He cannot
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  Speaker 2: show up. And what I want to do is I
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  Speaker 2: know he's listening. If not, the mayor is listening, his
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  Speaker 2: people are listening. Every day I want to take I
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  Speaker 2: want to take this. I want to take this moment
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  Speaker 2: to reach out to the mayor. And you know he's
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to joy this, destroy the city. Guys
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  Speaker 2: like you and me and some others are going to
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  Speaker 2: be the resilience, constantly be the resilience to save the
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  Speaker 2: city against him. But I would like to call on
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  Speaker 2: a cease fire for one day, one tiny day, and
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  Speaker 2: that day is September eleventh, because I got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heat and I don't care, you know, for promising
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  Speaker 2: to show up on nine to eleven if he shows up,
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  Speaker 2: to humiliate him, and if it has to be a
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  Speaker 2: scene made, it has to be a scene made. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing because it's not about me. And people said, Scott,
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  Speaker 2: don't make this about you. It's not about me, So
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  Speaker 2: I will be the first one to start this cease
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  Speaker 2: fire for that one day and the next day we
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  Speaker 2: could start this war again. But one day I won't.
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  Speaker 2: I am not showing up on September eleventh, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell my people not to show up on September eleventh.
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  Speaker 2: If that guy, this Maya comes out in the next
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  Speaker 2: few days and makes an announcement and just says I'm
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  Speaker 2: not showing up because it'll put everybody at ease. It'll
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  Speaker 2: show that he's got some aspect of humanity and honor
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  Speaker 2: for these people on nine to eleven. That's all he
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  Speaker 2: needs to do, because if he doesn't, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a horror show.
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  Speaker 1: So sobe he doesn't do that, because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do it, because he doesn't even have
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  Speaker 1: a spec of h amount of d He's a real
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  Speaker 1: low life and a horrible person. If he does show up,
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  Speaker 1: then you are going to be there. You are going
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  Speaker 1: to be there.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, he's not going to show up
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  Speaker 2: because what the last guests discussed, more people need to
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  Speaker 2: get on board every single day, bigger and more powerful people.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not even meaning Donald Trump. I'm meeting part
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  Speaker 2: of these families, these organizations, these city people, politicians, and
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  Speaker 2: stop saying if he shows up, we turn our backs,
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  Speaker 2: we keep him whatever it takes to keep him from going.
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  Speaker 2: But the message they need to reach out to him.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to just step up and be that person.
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  Speaker 2: That's what needs to happen. He cannot show up. He'll
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  Speaker 2: put everybody at ease just for the next couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks so we could build up to this very special moment,
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  Speaker 2: this very special twenty fifth anniversary. And the museum. We
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  Speaker 2: need to put more pressure on the museum because they're
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  Speaker 2: not putting my flag up that they promised it was
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  Speaker 2: going to go up. Now I think it's too offensive,
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  Speaker 2: But are they going to have this guy there? The
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  Speaker 2: museum needs to be held responsible and more pressure on
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  Speaker 2: the museum.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with all that too, man. I agree with
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  Speaker 1: that your flag should be there, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: allow this guy to show up, and look, I'm with you,
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  Speaker 1: he shouldn't be there. He won't be there, that's the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. We're gonna move on as if the
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  Speaker 1: mayor is not going to be there, and we'll take
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  Speaker 1: it from there. You know, one thing I did see
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  Speaker 1: the last week, Scott and I know you're a tough
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  Speaker 1: guy and all that, but you know you're a sweet guy.
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  Speaker 1: I know you really well at this point. And to
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  Speaker 1: see the I guess the love that came your way
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  Speaker 1: over the leeds last couple of days. I know you're
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  Speaker 1: not looking for that. I get it. But when you're
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  Speaker 1: laying in the hospital bed at home this morning, for example,
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  Speaker 1: and you see thousands and maybe one hundreds of thousands,
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  Speaker 1: maybe millions, I don't know at this point worried about
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  Speaker 1: you and loving you, how good is that feel?
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  Speaker 2: It's It helped me a lot, helped me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get a nice call from Rudy Giuliani left me,
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  Speaker 2: just long message.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: So many, so many awesome people. Man, Really, it was
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  Speaker 2: a special thing to know. You know, you don't think
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  Speaker 2: about it. You just your brain just keeps going and
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  Speaker 2: going and going, and your heart keeps going and going
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  Speaker 2: and going, and you just keep doing and doing. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have time to think about you know what you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: but you know you have no choice but to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and finally read the comments and read the well
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  Speaker 2: wishes and stuff and pretty tremendous stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Making a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Event, apologize to all those people who own my artwork
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  Speaker 2: and thought for a few minutes that they were a millionaires.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. God not yet, not yet, God forbid.
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  Speaker 1: I've got three pieces of your art, so I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to keep you around again a fourth, if you wouldn't mind.
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  Speaker 1: That's how great you are, and how important you want,
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  Speaker 1: and the difference that you do make here on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis. So the other question to keep getting asked
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  Speaker 1: is what can Scott not do anymore? We used to
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  Speaker 1: seeing Scott walk up to the campus sometimes with a
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  Speaker 1: glass of Scotch. People thought you did will smoke. So
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's that's out for two years. What about
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  Speaker 1: the drinking? How the doctor said you can't do certain
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  Speaker 1: things that you like to do?
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  Speaker 2: Nope, I mean I like I said, everybody, you know
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  Speaker 2: you'll see me once in a while chewing on this
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  Speaker 2: little switch of sweet cigar that I do not inhale
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  Speaker 2: once in a blue moon. That's just a fix that
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  Speaker 2: you hold, just a whole something. But now I quit
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  Speaker 2: smoking two weeks two years ago, and all those people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, tell me how to you know you live
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  Speaker 2: your life? You're doing this wrong, you know. Meanwhile, I
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  Speaker 2: know they're eating sauceage and peppercal zone with a side
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  Speaker 2: stick of butter. You know, do as I say, not
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  Speaker 2: as I do. It had nothing to do with this
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  Speaker 2: was just something that was coming stressed. As a killer.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of energy, a lot of passion
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  Speaker 2: and it you know, it's I just got to the
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  Speaker 2: beauty about me is as an artist is that I
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  Speaker 2: have the creativity to do the same, if not more,
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  Speaker 2: without jumping and screen things popping out like I did
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  Speaker 2: with that charted that said ma'am dandy staying away from
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  Speaker 2: ground zero. So they're gonna have a lot more to come. Reevaluate,
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  Speaker 2: but just re re redo everything, recharge. I'm already again.
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  Speaker 2: Another week to get back to normal.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, cal won't be able to swing a golf
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  Speaker 2: club because I got this flex capacitated thing inside me here.
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  Speaker 2: Mmmuh but it's a it's amazing. It's amazing how how
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  Speaker 2: things are. But now I'm not going anywhere. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: hanging up my sword. Just gonna take a little rest
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  Speaker 2: and keep fighting. But I'm going to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: this guy does not coming to ground zero. And I
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  Speaker 2: will be at that press conference on the eighth, even
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  Speaker 2: if I'm in the background. That's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: big day. I think that will be. If he still
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  Speaker 2: says he's coming, that would be the day to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: You will not be in the background. You'll be standing
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  Speaker 1: right up up with me and Bruce. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the background. You're never the background. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to be there. Well, Alliston, I you sound great
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You do. I know you're a little tired obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and you you know your body is not going letely
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  Speaker 1: healed yet. This is only about a week ago, less
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  Speaker 1: than a week ago. But I love you, Scott Lebato.
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  Speaker 1: When New York loves you and America loves you, like
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  Speaker 1: I said to the last two guys, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people really really upset that you that you got
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  Speaker 1: that ill and he almost lost you. So I would
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  Speaker 1: just say stick around for a little bit. You and
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot more work dough together. Paula. I
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  Speaker 1: love you, Thank you so much. Indeed, ill bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Scott.
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  Speaker 1: All right, feel better. Scott Lobato right there, the amazing artist,
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  Speaker 1: the activist, and he sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: He's tired, he.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds tired obviously, and he's a lot of breath. He
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  Speaker 1: can tell but he sounds pretty good and he'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back out there, Scott Loberto. No, no, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't want him to. We want him to take it
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  Speaker 1: easy because you know, God forbid, we don't want another
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  Speaker 1: health situation. But Scott Lobato, you're great. You really needed
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  Speaker 1: pot in a big, big way. Yeah. Thinky Palladino's out
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  Speaker 1: there listening. She's great. Bodda will be on tomorrow. He's great.
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  Speaker 1: There's a host of others, but that's a big one
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  Speaker 1: right there. Scott Lobato, thanks for listening to Sit In
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