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Randy Sutton | Retired Police Lieutenant & Founder of The Wounded Blue | 04-24-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: Avenue studios in Midtown Manhattan, and I see this race car,
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  Speaker 2: the car.
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  Speaker 3: So this gentleman who's sitting right in front of me
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  Speaker 3: has been on my show a few times in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Cat Lieutenant out.
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  Speaker 3: In Las Vegas for many years, but he started this
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  Speaker 3: organization called the Wounded Blue. And you guys know how
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  Speaker 3: much I care about and love our courageous men and
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  Speaker 3: women in bloom was is honored again less than two
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago with Frankie Russo's place, Russo's on the Bay
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  Speaker 3: with Paul Morrow and Bo Diedle.
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  Speaker 2: Why the retired deea.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a big event coming up with Scott Monroe
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  Speaker 3: and the active dea coming up in October. But my
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  Speaker 3: relationships with the sergeants, with Vincent Ballalan obviously the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the all the attention we paid to this Eric the
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  Speaker 3: Ran case in New York City, So you know, listen
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  Speaker 3: to me long enough that the cops I love.
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  Speaker 2: The cops love him.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the reason why I hate this mayor is
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  Speaker 3: because he doesn't like the police. But Randy Sutton is
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  Speaker 3: a great cop, has been a great cop. Attired now, Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 3: And are you still living Randy in Las Vegas? I
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  Speaker 3: am you are, But you're from New Jersey Originally.
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  Speaker 2: I was a cop of New Jersey for ten years
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  Speaker 2: before I went to Vegas and did twenty four years there. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So where in Jersey were you? Princeton?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: I was a Princeton Yeah, now Princeton University, you weren't. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: the real town of Princeton, that was my hometown. Now
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  Speaker 2: he was a cop there for ten years. There's a
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  Speaker 2: patrolman for six and a detective for four and then
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  Speaker 2: started my career all over again in Vegas, where I
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  Speaker 2: was no longer bored as a police officer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure not, because I have to imagine the mean
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  Speaker 3: streets of Princeton, New Jersey, not exactly nowark, but in Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: even though it's a lovely area, and those residential areas
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  Speaker 3: in and around the Strip where you probably lived or live,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, or very very nice. I've worked with
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  Speaker 3: many people over the years in both New York and
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  Speaker 3: Florida who now live in Vegas, and they love it.
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  Speaker 3: They love it, But there's a lot of tawdry stuff
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  Speaker 3: going on in and around not city, which you've seen firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't you injured at one point? I am a survivor
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  Speaker 2: of five shootings, five and right, So you know what.
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  Speaker 2: I left Princeton because I was bored as a cop. Right,
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  Speaker 2: And I was still on probation in Vegas when I
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  Speaker 2: was in my first shooting, when a fifteen year old
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  Speaker 2: tried to ambush me. Why would you want probation? I
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  Speaker 2: was on probation as a brand new right. Yeah right, No,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't not right. What did you do? So a
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  Speaker 2: fifteen year old kid in Vegas tried to kill you? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And how did you respond to that? I So, I
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  Speaker 2: was in a foot pursuit with him. He was in
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  Speaker 2: a stolen car as a gang banger. And as I
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  Speaker 2: came around the corner of the building that I was
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  Speaker 2: chasing him, he was laying in wait for me. And
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  Speaker 2: as I came around, he was pointing his gun at me,
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  Speaker 2: and he was right next to a building. I fired
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  Speaker 2: and my bullet zinged right by his ear and hit
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  Speaker 2: the building behind him in a piece of stucco, hit
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  Speaker 2: him in the head, and he thought he was shot,
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  Speaker 2: and he couldn't throw that gun down fast at us. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I realized that you're not in Kansas anymore, Sodo.
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  Speaker 2: But in one of these five shootings, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a couple of years since you've been here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he sustained some some pretty serious injuries. So no,
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  Speaker 2: is that? Is that? Not? No? But what ended my
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  Speaker 2: police career was I suffered a stroke in my police
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  Speaker 2: car on Las Vegas Boulevard. And that was the scariest
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  Speaker 2: moment of my life. I literally was laying on the pavement,
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  Speaker 2: unable to move, unable to talk, as tourists are walking
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  Speaker 2: by me taking pictures of me laying there helpless in
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  Speaker 2: my uniform. What happened? Did you find out what happened medically? Yeah? Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I did twenty four years with the
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas Metro. I loved. I loved being a cop,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at my old entire adult life and being
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  Speaker 2: a Vegas cop man. It was fun, I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 2: but it had its challenges. And three weeks before the stroke,
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  Speaker 2: my mother died my arms and I'm sorry. Two months
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  Speaker 2: before that, I was in another fatal shooting, so there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot going on. But I was literally driving
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  Speaker 2: down Las Vegas Boulevard. I had a young patrol officer
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  Speaker 2: with me, and I'm talking to him like I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to you, and suddenly I felt my brain slowing down.
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  Speaker 2: I felt it, and I started talking slower, and I
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  Speaker 2: realized I was having a stroke. So I ran out
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  Speaker 2: of the car. I said, you know, get me medical.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having a stroke. And I got out of the
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  Speaker 2: car and then collapsed to the pavement, speaking gibberish and
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  Speaker 2: then unable to speak and move all together. And I
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  Speaker 2: got to tell you I've been in some frightening stuff,
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  Speaker 2: as you might well imagine, But I was never more
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  Speaker 2: scared than that. I wasn't afraid of dying, said, I
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  Speaker 2: was afraid of living like that. Oh, but once again,
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  Speaker 2: that that angel that's been on my shoulder my entire
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  Speaker 2: career was with me again. The clot went through my brain,
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  Speaker 2: did its damage, and I thought I was going to
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  Speaker 2: go back to work. And then I'm in the hospital
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  Speaker 2: for a week. The doctor comes in and I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. He says, how are you feeling, Randy? I said,
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  Speaker 2: I feel pretty good, man, I'm ready to go back
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  Speaker 2: to work. And he said, I have to tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that we did here is going to preclude you
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  Speaker 2: from walking out of here and having a heart attack
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  Speaker 2: or a stroke, because you have a very serious heart
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  Speaker 2: condition and you need to prepare for your own mortality.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't expect that, said, and I realized that
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  Speaker 2: I was never going to be a cop again. How
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  Speaker 2: many games? How long ago was this? I'm sorry? This
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  Speaker 2: is I did thirty four years total. Now, when did
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  Speaker 2: the cop tell you this? How many years ago? I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 2: I said again? When did you find out this information
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  Speaker 2: from the doctor? Oh? About a week after the How
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  Speaker 2: long ago was it? Twenty ten?
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  Speaker 3: So okay, so he said, you've got so I thought
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  Speaker 3: condition last I checked it my Memphis pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: That's sixteen years ago. Yeah, I did well. I had
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  Speaker 2: I had quadruple bypass surgery a couple of years on
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  Speaker 2: you did. So it's been but you know what, I
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  Speaker 2: was given a great gift. Said, but what happened after
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  Speaker 2: my stroke is what changed the trajectory of my life.
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  Speaker 2: That my own department turned its back on me and
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  Speaker 2: said we're not paying your medical bills or not giving
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  Speaker 2: you your benefits. And I said, wait a minute, you
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  Speaker 2: can't do that there. There's there's a law about that.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually fought me every step of the way.
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  Speaker 2: And I and I got to tell you, man, feeling
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  Speaker 2: that betrayal really changed the changed my life entirely. And
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  Speaker 2: I went to go see the sheriff, who I worked
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  Speaker 2: for for twenty four years. I said, how do you
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  Speaker 2: treat me like this? He said, Rady, it's not personal,
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  Speaker 2: it's just business. Sounds to me. And but you don't
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  Speaker 2: hate the cops. Yeah, it was. It was shocking to me.
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  Speaker 2: And they fought me every way. They spent tens of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of dollars of taxpayers money to fight me. I
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  Speaker 2: eventually won. They had to give me my benefits, but
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  Speaker 2: they ruined my credit and you know the dark of
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  Speaker 2: being betrayed like that. So then I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you probably might be aware of this, but I was
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  Speaker 2: the most featured officer on the TV show Cops. I've
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  Speaker 2: written a number of books and been in the movies
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  Speaker 2: like Casino and such. So cops started reaching out to
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  Speaker 2: me from around the country. Randy, I know you don't
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  Speaker 2: know me, but I was shot in the line of duty.
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  Speaker 2: My chief is abandoned me. Randy, I was paralyzed when
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  Speaker 2: my police car was hit. They've thrown me away, and
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  Speaker 2: I realized that this is not me. This is happening
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  Speaker 2: to cops all over the United States. And I realized
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  Speaker 2: that all he asked they said, I feel forgotten. I
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  Speaker 2: feel alone. I just handed you a challenge coin. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you on that. It says, never forgotten, never alone, And
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  Speaker 2: that is what the Wounded Blue is. My entire team
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  Speaker 2: are heroes. Everybody on my team has been shot, stead beaten,
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  Speaker 2: run over, screwed up, and screwed over, and yet they
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  Speaker 2: continue to serve. They serve their brothers and sisters in
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  Speaker 2: amazing ways. We're saving lives. We're saving careers, we're saving marriages,
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  Speaker 2: and the Wounded Blue is touching lives in ways that
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  Speaker 2: you can't even imagine. I'll tell you one quick story
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  Speaker 2: because it's a happy ending. I'm not telling any non
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  Speaker 2: happy endings right now. Police officer in Texas severely injured
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  Speaker 2: in the line of duty during a fight with a
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  Speaker 2: suspect and uh and uh. He was abandoned by his department,
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  Speaker 2: lost the ability to walk. When we met him through
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  Speaker 2: an incredible donor, we got him three major surgeries. He
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  Speaker 2: danced with his daughter at her wedding. Beautiful. Yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: doing amazing works. So you have chapters in despite all
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  Speaker 2: over the country, all over the country. I have people
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  Speaker 2: here in New York. Uh. In fact, one of my
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  Speaker 2: one of my people has been featured on the news.
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  Speaker 2: He was recently really screwed over by a court. He
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  Speaker 2: was a lieutenant Richie Mack and he was the officer
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  Speaker 2: who was attacked on the bridge during the George Floyd
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  Speaker 2: in remember, of course, and and they they gave the
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  Speaker 2: guy a misdemeanor. They gave the suspect the misdemeanor. And
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  Speaker 2: talk about an injustice.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, you would believe what happens in this city. We
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  Speaker 3: have a story just a couple of weeks old. I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned his name, Eric Duran. This is a cop, very
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  Speaker 3: familiar with it. You know the whole story, sure doo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the guy was stopping a drug dealer traveling
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  Speaker 3: at high speeds, putting literally three people's lives in danger.
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  Speaker 3: And the prick judge Guy Mitchell in New York gave
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  Speaker 3: this hero cop three to nine years.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. But this is happening across the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my last book, which came out six months ago,
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  Speaker 2: rescuing nine to one to one the fight for America's safety,
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  Speaker 2: and I talked about how we got here and what
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  Speaker 2: we need to do. We all need to become activists, said,
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  Speaker 2: and even if that means just going to the polls
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  Speaker 2: and putting people in positions of authority that need to
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  Speaker 2: be there, not idiots like Mondami, who is about as
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  Speaker 2: anti law enforcement as they get. I can't. I can't
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  Speaker 2: stand to see what he's doing to this city. Terrible, terrible.
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  Speaker 3: You love this city and again you weird you major
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  Speaker 3: bones in Princeton, New Jersey. Your year often, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you be on this show now four or five times.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be in the city all weekend long. Explain to
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  Speaker 3: me this beautiful race car. It's not it's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: race at Talladego, but explain to me why it's out there,
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  Speaker 3: looks great?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with all that? So Insurance King is
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  Speaker 2: owned by Dan Block. Dan's father was a disabled police officer,
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  Speaker 2: and so Dan saw me on Fox News reached out
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  Speaker 2: to me. This is a number of years ago, been
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  Speaker 2: a huge supporter of the Wounded Blue ever since. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Blicky is the driver, and Josh is an amazing driver. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Dan Block, who owns Insurance King, he's the sponsor of
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  Speaker 2: this race car that's going to be racing in Talladega
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. So it is racing, but not that specific
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  Speaker 2: specific car's sister car. So what they did is they
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  Speaker 2: are adorning their car with the Wounded Blue colors to
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  Speaker 2: bring attention to the Wounded Blue and injured officers. And
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  Speaker 2: so we have the car here. They they've put the
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  Speaker 2: Wounded Blue logos all over it. It is amazing, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're celebrating the fact that that they're supporting us
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  Speaker 2: and and everybody who NASCAR. Of course fans.
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  Speaker 3: They love the cops on NASCAR is real Americans, real Americas.
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  Speaker 3: They love the cops, they love the country, they love Trump,
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  Speaker 3: they love all the values that we hold near and
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  Speaker 3: dear to us, not these psycho lunatic democrats who want
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  Speaker 3: to destroy all of us. So in that respect, I've
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  Speaker 3: never been a huge NASCAR guy. Covered for many years
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  Speaker 3: on CBS, and I got to know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the drivers when Jeff Gordon was winning those Winston Cup
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  Speaker 3: series every year. Interviewed him many times. He used to
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  Speaker 3: like this guy named Dick Trickle. That was his real name,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But after a while, I can only watch
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  Speaker 3: the cargo on the track so many times. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not at any here minimizing the athletic ability of these guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing. But in terms of just being good people,
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  Speaker 3: I think of all the sports in the world today,
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  Speaker 3: NASCAR is number one.
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  Speaker 2: I have to agree with you. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: not the first time they've adorned their car, but this
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  Speaker 2: is the biggest race yet. Dega is talent, baby, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and so millions of people are going to see the
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  Speaker 2: Wounded Blue. And of course money is so important, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everything that we do is everybody's a volunteer except for
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  Speaker 2: one person. And I don't take a salary. I live
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  Speaker 2: on my pension and everything that we do is funded
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  Speaker 2: by people who care about their police. So what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing is asking this go to the Wounded Blue dot org,
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  Speaker 2: see who we are, see what we do. We're asking
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  Speaker 2: for people to donate nine dollars and eleven cents a month.
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  Speaker 2: And what we say is this, When you need help,
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  Speaker 2: you call nine one one, But when the police need help,
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  Speaker 2: they call the Wounded Blue. That's awesome. God, bless you.
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  Speaker 2: I made that up, but I love that. I can't
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  Speaker 2: be chills just now. God, I got chills.
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  Speaker 3: You may want to ask the newest Las Vegas resident.
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  Speaker 3: He was picked number one overall last night by your
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  Speaker 3: football team, the Raiders, for Nando Mendozo, who won the
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  Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy and the national championship. But Indiana hit him
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  Speaker 3: up for donation one of these days because he's about
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  Speaker 3: to make a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: You got his number. I'll give him a call right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'll got it. Randy.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to see you. You're a true hero, and
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  Speaker 3: you're great at this. You're great on television, great on
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  Speaker 3: the right, great cop. It's a great American and it's
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  Speaker 3: nice to see you pal.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate sir. Thank you for supporting my
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  Speaker 2: brothers in blue.
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  Speaker 3: The wounded Blue ladies and gentlemen. Find it reach out
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  Speaker 3: help Randy Sutton and our amazing cops all over the
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  Speaker 3: country who do need your help. And you go to Noome,
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna give you the news. I'm gonna go downstairs.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit myself in this amazing Nascar take some
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  Speaker 3: very cool pictures. You can see them on my Twitter
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  Speaker 3: account coming up at Sid Rosenberg nineteen, my Instagram at
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  Speaker 3: Rosenberg dot Sydney, my Facebook Sid Rosenberg, and my truth
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  Speaker 3: social account sid So me and Randy. I'm gonna walk
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  Speaker 3: downstairs take some very cool pictures in this Nascar heading
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  Speaker 3: to Talladega.
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