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Bill O'Reilly | WABC Radio Correspondent Makes Weekly Thursday Morning S&FIM Appearance · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly.com. Great interviews, great stories. It's just great television.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about TV, what he does every week, he actually
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  Speaker 1: finds a way to make Chris Cuomo watchable. That's not easy.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Maher tried it last night. Good luck with that.
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  Speaker 1: He's a brilliant author. He's got books all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: killing series and confronting books. He confronts presidents. He confronts evil.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's confronting America. That book is doing great. And
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  Speaker 1: he's got the podcast. We'll do it live. Going back
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  Speaker 1: to his days on, I guess, Inside Edition, right? That
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  Speaker 1: was the one. Bill O'Reilly, the best ever. Bill, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? Thank you for that nice lead-in. I'm okay.
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  Speaker 2: We got Stephen A. Smith on the We'll Do It Live. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: love that. Long form.
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  Speaker 1: Love it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you do it yet?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, did you do that yet? Or are
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  Speaker 1: you first doing it?
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  Speaker 2: No, we taped it Tuesday. It drops today.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, it's worth watching. It is worth watching.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you guys, look, you're both great anyway. You really are.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got the relationship because the two of you
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  Speaker 1: often appear together with Chris Cuomo. So you guys are
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  Speaker 1: good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but, you know, you can bounce around with Stephen A.
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  Speaker 2: between sports and politics. But I want to get his story, too,
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  Speaker 2: which we were able to pry out of him. But
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  Speaker 2: the big thing in this is that in confronting America,
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  Speaker 2: what has to change? One of the most provocative chapters
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  Speaker 2: is my saga to try to help Barack Obama in
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  Speaker 2: the mentoring program called Brothers Keeper. And a very famous
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  Speaker 2: person killed it. um, the program. I had it. I
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  Speaker 2: had it. And it would have raised more than a
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars for kids at risk. And I basically started
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  Speaker 2: off with Stephen A. going, is a white guy like me, okay,
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  Speaker 2: raised in Levittown, which is segregated back then because the
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  Speaker 2: Levitt brothers wouldn't sell to blacks. Am I... or can
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  Speaker 2: I help the African-American community? Will that be accepted? And
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  Speaker 2: that discussion is very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: You go to BillO'Reilly.com. If I can get on the
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  Speaker 2: damn thing, anybody can. It's easy.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy. No, it's easy. See, occasionally I have differences
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  Speaker 1: with Steve. I love the guy, too. He's on this
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  Speaker 1: show all the time. You know that you've heard him here.
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  Speaker 2: But that's good.
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  Speaker 1: No, I love him. But occasionally... In his enthusiasm, and
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  Speaker 1: I do the same thing with the Jews, okay? I do.
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  Speaker 1: But in his enthusiasm to support African Americans, he interviews
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  Speaker 1: and says nice things about people that are terrible people,
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  Speaker 1: that are racist. Joy Reid, for example. Who's the other one?
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  Speaker 1: Jemele Hill. All Jemele Hill did on ESPN for years
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  Speaker 1: was badmouth white people and protect black people. And I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen A., you've got to be better than that. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, that's what makes America robust, and all of
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  Speaker 2: that discussion is a positive. What we have now, and
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  Speaker 2: who pointed it out earlier on the program? Oh, Dershowitz
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  Speaker 2: just pointed it out. Censorship. You've got censorship across the board. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm promoting this book, Confirming America, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting my bookings read. you know, up to my eyebrows.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't get on the networks. They will not
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  Speaker 2: book me because I'm not a Trump hater. It's as
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  Speaker 2: simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: The view, too. You can't get on The View either.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I was on all of those shows. You'll
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  Speaker 2: remember when I was doing a Fox gig, that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a problem. But once Trump came in and I said
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  Speaker 2: to my audience, look, I know the guy 35 years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be fair to him. Okay, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be fair. I'm going to try to
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  Speaker 2: explain what he does, why he does it, and then
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  Speaker 2: you can make a decision. That's my job. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I do. Well, as soon as you say that, you
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  Speaker 2: are disqualified from going on CNN. or any of the networks.
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  Speaker 2: You can't get on there.
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  Speaker 1: Which is ridiculous for you because, I admit this, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a sucker fan. Now, now, lately... I find myself
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  Speaker 1: criticizing Trump a lot. When I say lately, I mean
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  Speaker 1: for months. The Iran stuff I criticize him for. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like this new press secretary, okay? He should have
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  Speaker 1: hired my friend Liz Pipko. But almost every week, there's
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  Speaker 1: something I don't love about Trump. I still love him,
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  Speaker 1: love him to pieces, think he's a phenomenal president, but
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  Speaker 1: I am critical. But I'm still a sycophant. You, you
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  Speaker 1: in all fairness, and you get along well with President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: he loves and respects you, You're tough on them. And
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  Speaker 1: you were that way back in 2016. That's when I
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's my job. I mean, I'm not a flack.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hire me to be in your pocket. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why I've been successful for more than 50 years
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  Speaker 2: in the media. And I've had to leave jobs. I've
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  Speaker 2: had to walk out of work. And I have a
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  Speaker 2: great story in Confirming America. about me and Dan Rather.
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  Speaker 2: Eye to eye. And I couldn't stay there with what
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  Speaker 2: he was doing and his acolytes. But now we're at
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  Speaker 2: a level never seen in my lifetime. Vietnam was rough. Rough.
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  Speaker 2: This is worse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is worse. I'll tell you why, though,
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  Speaker 1: and then you'll make your points, and you're much smarter
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  Speaker 1: and a lot more. Vietnam was terrible, Nixon, all that.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason why all this has gotten exponentially worse
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  Speaker 1: is two words, social media.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't disagree with that because there's so much
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  Speaker 2: propaganda around on the computer and phone, and people don't
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  Speaker 2: have the time to run it all down. And your
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  Speaker 2: point dovetails right into my point. So you got Benigno
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  Speaker 2: on earlier in Sid and Friends. I think you had
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  Speaker 2: all of your friends on today, all six of them. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Benigno says the polling is bogus. OK, and that the
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  Speaker 2: networks and the cable, the anti-Trump cables are always going
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  Speaker 2: to spin the poll so that their people, the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 2: their allies now look better. Let me just give you
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  Speaker 2: a stark example. There's an outfit called the Cook Report.
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  Speaker 2: And they came out this week and said the 65
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  Speaker 2: percent chance. of the Democrats taking Congress, both houses. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going, that's pretty risky. Let's track that down. So
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  Speaker 2: when Trump was elected in 2024, the Cook Report couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been more wrong. They got everything wrong. Everything. Okay? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they made a New York Jets coach, and there's
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  Speaker 2: 50 of them, all right, look like geniuses, look like
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  Speaker 2: Vince Lombardi, all right? Yeah. And nobody mentions, well, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the Cook Report got some problems in there. I have
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  Speaker 2: to go to Brazil to get an honest pollster to
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  Speaker 2: use on the no-spin news on my– on my newscast.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go all the way to Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't use any of the American polling.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, you could use one. No, you could use one.
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  Speaker 1: I know you love them, too. John McLaughlin.
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  Speaker 2: I knew you were going to say that. But he's
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  Speaker 2: polling for a political party, the Republicans. So he's not objective.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get into the Democrats have their pollsters. John
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  Speaker 2: has been accurate. Let's give John his due.
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  Speaker 1: And Jim is both great, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Okay, so if John puts out a poll, I
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  Speaker 2: read it. But John's working for Republicans. I want somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's not working for anybody who's just going to get
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  Speaker 2: the data. But the data is almost impossible to get now.
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  Speaker 2: Because people don't answer the telephone in their homes. They
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  Speaker 2: are on the computer, on the cell phones. If your
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  Speaker 2: number comes up on the cell phone and you don't
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  Speaker 2: know the number, you don't answer it.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yes. Okay, so how can you poll?
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing? No one's answering.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, it's true. The number pops up. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it. I don't pick it up.
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  Speaker 2: You'd have to be insane. Right. To pick it up.
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  Speaker 2: It might be some guy from Kazakhstan trying to drain
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  Speaker 2: your bank account.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, that happens a lot. And these elderly people,
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  Speaker 1: to your point, they do pick up and they rob
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  Speaker 1: them of hundreds of thousands. of dollars. They do it
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  Speaker 1: every time. But what you're saying then, Bill, this is important.
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  Speaker 1: Because we are 19 days away from the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: And I speak to Republicans and Democrats. This is both.
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  Speaker 1: Not just Democrats. And their prediction for Election Day, for
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans... In the house is pain. What you're saying is, well,
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  Speaker 1: how do we really know? Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying that the data used to back that
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  Speaker 2: up is faulty. So I don't want to get on Mr.
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  Speaker 2: T's wrong side with the pain thing. All right. That
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  Speaker 2: was in Rocky three or four.
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  Speaker 1: Rocky three. Rocky three. Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Very good.
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  Speaker 1: Very good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that the data that's being put out by
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  Speaker 2: the media is faulty. And let me give you the
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  Speaker 2: best example I could possibly give WABC listeners around the
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  Speaker 2: country and in New York City. The main reason that
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans and President Trump are not polling well and
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  Speaker 2: are unpopular in some precincts is the Iranian war. And
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  Speaker 2: you and I discussed this. When it first happened, and
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  Speaker 2: I said to you, as I've said to my audience,
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  Speaker 2: biggest gamble of Trump's life. Because I know the region.
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  Speaker 2: Been to the region. I know how this plays. All right?
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  Speaker 2: They'll tell you one thing, and then they're going to
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  Speaker 2: steal everything in your tent. Okay? Generalizing. But this is
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  Speaker 2: what the culture is. You're not going to get anything
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  Speaker 2: solid out of these people. So the American voter, according
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  Speaker 2: to government statistics released this week, is paying $ 2, 000 more
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  Speaker 2: per household than it did this time last year for energy. $ 2, 000 more.
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  Speaker 2: And my question is a very simple one, because you
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  Speaker 2: know I'm a simple man. All right. Is it worth,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're a New Yorker, this is on steroids,
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  Speaker 2: is it worth the $ 2, 000? What the deuce do you
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  Speaker 2: think is going to happen if the Democratic Party and
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  Speaker 2: the radical left seize power? Do you not understand? They're
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  Speaker 2: going to raise your taxes so high, you'll be lucky
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  Speaker 2: if you have a covered wagon in the driveway. It's true. Okay? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you're bitching about $ 2, 000. Well, that's just energy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, wait a second. That's just energy. You got gas
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  Speaker 1: prices are up.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the driver. Okay? If you didn't have the $ 2, 000
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  Speaker 2: in energy, people would be grousing about food, and the
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  Speaker 2: food would be less because the trucks and the transportation
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  Speaker 2: jacked the prices up of the food. But if Trump
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  Speaker 2: had not gone into Iran... the Republicans would be well
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  Speaker 2: ahead because who wants to vote for Tallarico?
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  Speaker 1: Right. Or El Sayed for that. But I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: When I get in conversations with Republicans and Democrats, I go, listen,
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  Speaker 1: he did this because he wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians didn't have a nuclear weapon, okay, because they
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  Speaker 1: would use it against Israel. Now, odds are you don't
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  Speaker 1: like Israel, not you. and you don't care. But guess what?
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  Speaker 1: They would use it against the United States. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the answer, Bill O'Reilly, that I always get.
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  Speaker 2: You ready?
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  Speaker 1: I've been hearing Iran is close to a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 1: for 30 years. Why am I supposed to believe that
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago they were any closer? We
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  Speaker 1: didn't need this. We didn't want this. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: new wars. I've been hearing Iran is close for 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I hear all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, because people believe what they want to believe. So
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  Speaker 2: if you look up the IEA UN Weapons Organization, their
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  Speaker 2: last dispatch was in July of this year. And it
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  Speaker 2: clearly says that Iran could put together a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 2: within weeks. This is the United Nations. Not Trump, not
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  Speaker 2: anybody with a vested interest, because certainly the United Nations
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  Speaker 2: is No fan of Israel or the United States. This
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  Speaker 2: is their latest report. So people, they're going to believe
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  Speaker 2: what they want to believe. But the timing of this
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  Speaker 2: hurt President Trump and the Republican Party. If he had
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  Speaker 2: cruised through the year and then after he wins the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: and I do believe that would have happened, Then you
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  Speaker 2: go in, you got two years of clear, you can
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  Speaker 2: do what you want. Then you go in. Okay. But
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  Speaker 2: what the president was sold was we can knock these
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  Speaker 2: guys out like we did with Maduro.
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  Speaker 1: He misjudged it. You did.
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  Speaker 2: You can get them. They're all in a garage. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Smoking weed. All we got to do is drop the
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  Speaker 2: bomb on them, which we did.
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  Speaker 1: We wiped out all of them.
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  Speaker 2: But like ants, there's so many of them that two
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  Speaker 2: seconds later, there's another guy in a turbine going, I
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  Speaker 2: want to kill everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, that's it. That's that region.
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  Speaker 2: That was the miscalculation. Now, Trump, he's doing the right
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  Speaker 2: thing by confronting Trump. um, enemies destroy the earth. He's
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  Speaker 2: doing the right thing, but the timing of it hurt Americans.
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  Speaker 2: 50% of whom don't pay attention. All they know is
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  Speaker 2: I got to fill the truck up and it's costing
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  Speaker 2: me a lot more than it used to.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to vote for Al Saeed. Does that
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  Speaker 2: make any sense? No. No. It doesn't make any sense
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  Speaker 2: at all. It's like betting on the Miami Dolphins. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead. You want to vote on it? You want
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  Speaker 2: to bet on the Miami Dolphins? I'll take your cash. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: It's so ridiculous. It is. But that is where we are.
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  Speaker 2: The Constitution gives every single American one very stark right.
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  Speaker 2: you have the right to be a moron. Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin Franklin was the best. If you read him, he knew,
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  Speaker 2: he knew that this was going to become a problem,
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  Speaker 2: that an ill-informed electorate, people who don't know anything, who
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  Speaker 2: are swayed by propaganda, who vote their wallet above everything else,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, God, I'm saying to myself, Cala Rico? Cala Rico? Look,
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  Speaker 2: the other guy, Paxton, I mean, you and I, if
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  Speaker 2: he were in New York, we'd bring him down to
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  Speaker 2: the battery and push him in the Hudson, okay? Let's
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  Speaker 2: be honest. The guy is just a nebbish.
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  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 2: He is. But Cala Rico?
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  Speaker 1: He's a lunatic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, he disappears for two weeks. No one on his
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  Speaker 2: staff can text. That Jimmy's got the sniffles? Nobody can
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  Speaker 2: do that? No.
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  Speaker 1: He had the flu. He was gone for weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Who's buying this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Americans. People in Texas clearly are buying
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  Speaker 1: it because he's winning as of this morning. Although, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's very close. I'm a couple of weeks away. So
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  Speaker 1: I got to run, but I got to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that this was another unbelievable appearance. And next week is
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  Speaker 1: a very important appearance, Bill, because a week from today,
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  Speaker 1: next Thursday... As soon as my show is over, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to walk over to the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be inducted into the New York State Broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And I couldn't think of a better
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  Speaker 1: person to speak to last on my radio show that
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  Speaker 1: day than you. Because I mean this when I look
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  Speaker 1: at my success over these last couple of years at
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  Speaker 1: ABC and where my career has gone, whether it's President
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  Speaker 1: Trump or other famous people that are on this show
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit. There was nobody ahead of you. So
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, you did it on your own. I mean, somehow,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere between Brooklyn and New York City is Christopher Cross
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  Speaker 2: one side.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You emerged as an authentic voice. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just happy. that this broadcast outfit, which usually gives
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of awards to an NPR woman who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: even know how to open her car door, okay? That's
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  Speaker 2: who usually gets these awards. I'm just happy they're giving
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  Speaker 2: you an award. Thank you. I mean, can you melt
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  Speaker 2: it down for some cash? I mean, what can you
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  Speaker 2: do with it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. You know, things are tough these days, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: We may have to do that. I don't know. I know.
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  Speaker 2: But if I know you, that award will be pasted
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  Speaker 2: on the outside of your house.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. Right.
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  Speaker 2: With streetlights and spotlights on it. Maybe a disco ball.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. If I can do it. Why not? Well, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be here next week on that special day, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't wait. But you were magnificent today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Congrats on the award. and it's always fun
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  Speaker 2: talking to you, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: You too, Bill. You're an amazing guy. You really are
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  Speaker 1: smart and funny and just terrific. I love you. Bill
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  Speaker 1: O'Reilly right there. Thanks for listening to Sid and Friends
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning. You can hear Sid and Friends in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning weekday mornings at 6. What the heck is
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  Speaker 1: going on here?