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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator Begins Countdown to Annual WABC Radio Gala on 9/11 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: John Katmatitis. Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? I am the clean up here of
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  Speaker 2: it today? Yeah, I tell you. You know, Margot's home
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  Speaker 2: from the hospital. She's in good shape, thank god. And
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  Speaker 2: uh we had her in the city all day yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and her daughter was there with her all day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And and she looks like she's in good shape. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's got to stay off her feet for
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  Speaker 2: a week or two, a week or two. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: this comes very close to nine to eleven. Well, she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be there for nine eleven, be there for that.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be there for nine eleven. We're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: spectacular party. Uh and uh uh you know, Lee Greenwood
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  Speaker 2: is gonna lead it off. Cousin Bruce He's gonna be there,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Orlando's coming in, Joe Piscopal's coming in. Uh and
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  Speaker 2: cousin Vinnie Vinnie Vandugo is coming in. And we got
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  Speaker 2: a few other surprises. You know. Cardinal Dolan will be there.
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  Speaker 2: And Governor Pataki is the honoree of the day for
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  Speaker 2: for for for putting together nine to eleven. Uh and
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  Speaker 2: uh uh, well we couldn't have we couldn't have. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani because he's still suing us. Still, he's still sing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what he's for, you know, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what he's suing us. Well, we didn't do anything,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, but look it is he picks it
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  Speaker 2: and whatever. And his uhld friend that he worked with
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  Speaker 2: is suing us, and that that woman that he worked with.
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  Speaker 2: I don't doctor Maria, doctor Maria.
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  Speaker 3: He's not.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotta stop this.
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  Speaker 2: It's not all lawyers. All the lawyers said it's not.
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  Speaker 2: But we never we never fired him right away. I
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  Speaker 2: always say nice things about him.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard you say one nasty thing about Rudy never,
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  Speaker 1: but ever.
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  Speaker 2: I love no, we we love him. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. You know, he creates. He
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's for him to create and not create.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to him. Right and uh uh, but we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a spectacular and we might have some spectacular
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  Speaker 2: other guests, right but for security reasons, the Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: will not allow us to see.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, but we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a sellout crowd. Uh and uh uh,
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  Speaker 2: I tell her people go to w ABC radio dot
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  Speaker 2: com and hit the Yala button and the all the
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  Speaker 2: money goes to the Police Athletic League, goes tunnels to tower,
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  Speaker 2: it comes uh, it goes to uh uh by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a few of the charities, what is it? Three or four? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Does it does last? Yet?
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  Speaker 2: One too?
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  Speaker 1: The kids hospital that uh you got what we guest
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  Speaker 1: does Shiners.
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  Speaker 2: Not involved us here for some reason. Shriners is not involved.
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  Speaker 2: So it's tunneled to towers, the Police Athletic League. There
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  Speaker 2: may be one more. Yeah, if tack you found who's
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  Speaker 2: helping the people of Ukraine. That's what they've been doing.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this was a wild video yesterday. Today
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  Speaker 1: is independence I think in Ukraine. So they've been having
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  Speaker 1: these like parades and parties for days. Yesterday they were
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  Speaker 1: showing on TV the party and you saw explosions going
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  Speaker 1: on behind them because the Russians are still bombing them, obviously, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's the stupidest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get.
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  Speaker 2: So many people are dying, and the Russians are running
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  Speaker 2: out of troops and they they're calling in the Koreans
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  Speaker 2: to send them troops. And you know the Koreans, they
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  Speaker 2: you know it's for them. They're getting paid in oil. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't. They don't care.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care.
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  Speaker 2: But the Russian, like I've been told by intelligences, thirty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand Russians are dying a month. I think more
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  Speaker 2: it could be. Yeah, Putin's not a terrible job, but
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  Speaker 2: that a terrible job. But I don't know why they
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  Speaker 2: just you know, Trump is a man of peace. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to sit down and make peace.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he hasn't bombed the hizzle out of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, he's not bombed the chisel out of Iran. Want
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  Speaker 2: to kill me and uh, look he's trying to get
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  Speaker 2: remember the old expression we had. It's just like the
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  Speaker 2: planet of the Apes, the chimpanzees and the gorillas. The
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  Speaker 2: gorillas being the Iranian guard. Yeah, that's they killed people.
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  Speaker 2: They killed fifty thousand Iranians that had an uprising. And
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  Speaker 2: the chimpanzees are the intellectuals in Iran. The boys, the chimpanzees,
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  Speaker 2: they want they want peace, Yeah, they do, and we
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  Speaker 2: want peace. And Trump doesn't want to destroy anything. No,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Trump is you know, well, today's a big why,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, another reason not wanting to destroy everything. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to pull it back up. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we all we have to pay for it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: today's a big day there because so Scott person's about
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  Speaker 1: to speak your friend Scott there, John, it's economic d
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  Speaker 1: day for Iran. So we're about to levy some very
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  Speaker 1: very serious sanctions against Iran today.
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia their their their job is to keep momand
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  Speaker 2: under control in the home Hostyle and Israel's taking care
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  Speaker 2: of Lebanon and and the Hesbala and Humas who knows
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  Speaker 2: where to.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you, I mean when I I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna build any Trump towers on, not anytime on
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  Speaker 2: the border of the uh you know. But it's great beachland. No,
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  Speaker 2: it is beautiful. I've been there.
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  Speaker 1: So I saw a nice video, John, I had Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Goatspuno on earlier, and we were extolling the virtue Jarlie
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  Speaker 1: is a good guy, great guy. We were extolling the
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  Speaker 1: virtues of Randy Mastro and the job he's doing suing
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  Speaker 1: for you know, running the lawsuit for the folks with
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  Speaker 1: this ridiculous second home tax. And I believe that you
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  Speaker 1: celebrated Randy Mastro's birthday with me.
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  Speaker 2: Now I went out to Friday night. I went straight
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital. Uh and uh. I walked Margo around
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  Speaker 2: the hospital for two hours. I saw the pictures, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the good she was looking good, she felt good. And
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  Speaker 2: they released her on Saturday afternoon. Uh and uh. I
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  Speaker 2: got out of They threw me out of the hospital
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock at night, and I looked at my calendar. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: Randy Mashow's party. It's a half hour from here. So
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  Speaker 2: I went to Randy Mashow's birthday party. I didn't eat
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  Speaker 2: that night, just in time for for for cake. Nice
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  Speaker 2: that's what I really needed. Nice cake, that's good. And
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  Speaker 2: we had a good uh. And I was sitting at
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  Speaker 2: a nice table with the governor. Patterson was there and
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  Speaker 2: and Rudy Washington was there at my table and what's
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  Speaker 2: your show? And Eric Eric Adam and then uh and
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  Speaker 2: then uh uh he came and sat with our table
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  Speaker 2: and we had the birthday cakes.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great Grandy Mashow.
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  Speaker 1: He's turned seventy podcast turned seventy years old.
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  Speaker 2: He looks great. I know, by the way. I owe him. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he sang, I did it my way, Randy, did Randy?
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  Speaker 2: I have it on tape.
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  Speaker 1: Was it good?
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  Speaker 2: He was great? And I promised that his birth day present.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sending you. He's doing it my way.
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  Speaker 1: He is is a rival piscop No, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: We never sing off between Piscopal and Mastro.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, if Piscopal didn't show up for
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, right, I'd bring Randy Masher to sing
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  Speaker 2: my way.
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  Speaker 1: Who was spoke at the breakfast on Saturday morning?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Jessica tesh, Oh she did. Jessica Tish was terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Love her on the scale of one to ten, twelve
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  Speaker 2: and you know twelve, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The night before she spoke at the at the Central Synagogue.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and uh I had her father, James t introducer.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, and see I would have loved to be at
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  Speaker 1: that one that that sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And we had right after Jessica left, we had Brusa
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  Speaker 2: mostly speak because he's you know, he runs the Intrepid.
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  Speaker 2: He has a very high security clearances. Great, and Kat
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  Speaker 2: was there. She yes, and she spoke to she lives
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  Speaker 2: in my house. She lives around the corner. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he was on the scale of up to ten
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  Speaker 2: twelve Scaler was a twelve. Padapast everybody spoke, and who
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  Speaker 2: comes in because he was having lunch at seventy five Main,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Adams. No kidding, So Todd Shapiro grabs him from
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  Speaker 2: the back something to the front and says, you have
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  Speaker 2: turned to speak. After we we we stopped breakfast. We said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you had turned to speak. And it's about eleven fifteen already,
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  Speaker 2: and he spoke, and he spoke. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: I went to seventy five Main last week for the
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  Speaker 1: first time with Bruce Blakeman, and we loved.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman got married at seventy five Man, he did?
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  Speaker 2: You didn't know that? No, say, I give you a secrets.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the lady that is now with Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 2: No, this was one new one, the new one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the lady that's with Paul McCartney. Her dad was a
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  Speaker 2: She was a very nice lady. Her dad was a
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  Speaker 2: good friend of mine at the Friars Club and he
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  Speaker 2: owned then a big national trucking company. Oh, no kidding.
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  Speaker 2: And we used to have lunch with every uh Saturday
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  Speaker 2: at the Friars Club. Isn't it terrible to Friar's Club
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  Speaker 2: was destroyed? Is it? It's destroyed, can't even buy. They sold,
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  Speaker 2: they sold the paintings off the wall. I mean, this is,
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  Speaker 2: this is somebody deserves to go to jail. I go
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  Speaker 2: to jail. Do not collect two hundred dollars. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with this. Terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Now do you want my friend Stupidolski over the house
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  Speaker 1: and you have those big parties?
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  Speaker 2: Stupid? I know Corone was there, Frank Corone was there
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Padowski's house last Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And he loves you.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good, very decent guy. He's a religious guy.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, but whenever I speak at the
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  Speaker 2: other synagogue the couple weeks before that, his brother was
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  Speaker 2: there at the other synagogue, the wonder with the little Bobovitch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh not not Rabbi Schneier, No, no, but Rabbi Schneiders
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  Speaker 2: want my good friend. I know he loves you, and uh, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: his sister, his sister was on our show on and
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  Speaker 2: she made the New York Post. She did, Yes, she's
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  Speaker 2: doing big things. And Leezeldon, who's on your show too.
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  Speaker 2: Lee made the New York Post on the Sunday show
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  Speaker 2: and the General Patres was on and General Patras he's
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  Speaker 2: one smart guy. And uh he told the things. You know.
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  Speaker 2: General Patriz is not a politician. He is just a
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  Speaker 2: straight arrow monary He was the head of the four
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  Speaker 2: star general. He's the uh in the head of the CIA.
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  Speaker 2: But here's something nobody knew. General Patriz died, but I
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  Speaker 2: saved him. You know who saved him, General Keene, No kidding.
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  Speaker 2: He called in the helicopters. He kept his heart going,
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  Speaker 2: Jack Keane. Wow, he kept his heart going. And they
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  Speaker 2: flew him to the hospital and he was dead, but
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  Speaker 2: they kept his heart going. And guess what they brought
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  Speaker 2: him back to And he is one good guy.
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  Speaker 1: Smart before we went out of here because late wasn't
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  Speaker 1: your friend's birthday this weekend too?
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  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton. I talked to Bill Clinton. Then he turned
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  Speaker 2: something or not. He turned eighty years old August nineteenth.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him a few times and and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a party for him. Uh maybe in September October.
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  Speaker 1: He should come nine to eleven. I actually like Bill Clinton, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, came a few times. I like Bill.
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  Speaker 2: You know, see Bill, you know something. Bill Clinton is
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  Speaker 2: a very special guy. And the one thing that was
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  Speaker 2: noted that day that all the past presidents are over
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  Speaker 2: eighty years old. Now except Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only one.
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  Speaker 2: He's the only one. And him, I just I think
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  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden, I'm not gonna blame him all the
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  Speaker 2: crap that went on because I don't think he knew
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  Speaker 2: what was going on. And he his son called me.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter called me and wants to go on w ABC.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, No, I'm serious.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna put him on your breaking weekday show or
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  Speaker 1: Sunday show.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't decided yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big interview.
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  Speaker 2: I texted him.
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  Speaker 1: He's been you know, he's been hanging out with Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: Carl Saying and Nick all the bad people.
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  Speaker 2: I knew his father when his father was sane, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and he he was not a bad senator.
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  Speaker 1: We liked.
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  Speaker 2: But somebody has to go to jail because somebody was
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  Speaker 2: what was the name of that movie when the President
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  Speaker 2: was just the body? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what was the name of that movie?
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  Speaker 2: Ah? Somebody was running the White House. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it was Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was probably Obama or Susande Bomber's third term,
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  Speaker 1: or his wife. I don't know, somebody don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think his wife just wanted to be the continue
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  Speaker 2: to be the first.
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  Speaker 1: She loved it.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted the corporate jet and continue to be first Lady.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think it was Biden himself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree, John. We got to run your beautiful
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  Speaker 1: I love your great job here. It was always that
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  Speaker 1: was fun. I like when you come see me a person, a.
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  Speaker 2: Person you know. I tell you, I fell back asleep.
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  Speaker 2: I'll listened to you for the first ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I'll then you are gone.
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  Speaker 2: And then I fell asleep about six fifteen. I woke
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  Speaker 2: up at eight fifteen because I had to. I had
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  Speaker 2: to talk to Newkingridge at eight thirty. Uh and uh,
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  Speaker 2: Newt is in burn, Switzerland and he's coming on tonight show.
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  Speaker 2: I like, uh, And I to tell him when you
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  Speaker 2: come on tonight show, it's gonna be one o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning for you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He used to call us all the time from Rome
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  Speaker 1: during the COVID day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, his his wife is who's a very smart lady,
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  Speaker 2: a great lady. He's from ambassador of Switzerland.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there you go, there you go, John Green joy
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  Speaker 1: us me too, me too great to see you, John,
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  Speaker 1: and continued the best of luck with Margo two.
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