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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator | 06-29-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let me talk to my main man.
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  Speaker 2: My great buddy John katch Matitis did a phenomenal job
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  Speaker 2: filling in for me last week, him and the whole crew.
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  Speaker 1: About five guys, five of us. You know, you guys
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  Speaker 1: were great.
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  Speaker 3: Took five of us to fill in for your sit.
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  Speaker 2: No, you did great. Thank you so much. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Did you come in this morning from the Hamptons or no?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. I had to go to the I
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  Speaker 3: doctor this morning. I made. I had a seven thirty
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  Speaker 3: meeting and he dilated my eyes and I hate that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you don't get your You don't get your
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  Speaker 3: eyes back until in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Will can you see me right now?
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  Speaker 3: I could see you. Yeah, but don't ask me to
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  Speaker 3: read anything.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I started this morning with Beningo because he's a
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  Speaker 2: big Mets fan. And the Mets fired their manager Carlos
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  Speaker 2: Mendoza last week, and a lot of met bands in
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  Speaker 2: this city said, okay, I want Wally Backman.
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  Speaker 3: Next.
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, there's a problem. Why is got him?
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  Speaker 1: You're you?
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  Speaker 2: You right now are Wally Backman's boss. And you were
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  Speaker 2: with Wally Backman on Staten Island yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we went to Stay Island yesterday. It was a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful day in Staten Island. The stadium was beautiful, the
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  Speaker 3: team was beautiful, and Wally. We spent time with Wally.
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  Speaker 3: We spent time with the team members. And it's a
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  Speaker 3: great venue and we're looking to make it just not
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  Speaker 3: only a baseball. We want to do soccer. We want
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  Speaker 3: to do entertainment facility, We want to do you know, opera, singing,
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  Speaker 3: rock and roll whatever. It is nice. And the one
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  Speaker 3: thing is the city is taking over the stadium the
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  Speaker 3: next four or five days and they're doing soccer and
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  Speaker 3: they're they're inviting. I guess the tickets already given out.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have like seven ten thousand people every day,
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  Speaker 3: wow at the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Is it part of the PEPA deal? No?
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  Speaker 3: No, New York City has done it on their own, believe.
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  Speaker 3: And they took one location in in uh Saaten Island,
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  Speaker 3: which is us right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it took one in Manhattan, one in the Bronx,
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  Speaker 3: one in Brooklyn, one in Queens just to give out
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  Speaker 3: free tickets. Uh. Isn't that way socialism is?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, everything's free but very nice. So I guess the
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  Speaker 2: Perry Holts are on the road.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about Mark Simone before, you know, he's one
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  Speaker 3: of our co hosts on our Police Athletic League lunches.
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  Speaker 3: And we had lunch. We waited till you were out
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  Speaker 3: of town. I noticed that to have a police Athletic
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  Speaker 3: League lunch with the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: There was a day I was leaving.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was that day, and and and and and
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  Speaker 3: and and Mark made a lot of jokes, and it
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  Speaker 3: is it is what.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. You know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to that lunch and with you once before.
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  Speaker 2: You were kind enough to take me with Mark Simone
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  Speaker 2: hosting it. And that day they were honoring Kathy hokeel
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  Speaker 2: Well was just coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I mean, here you are, mister New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being serious.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna smoke up your ass patronizing you. But
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  Speaker 2: past that point, you and I, okay, you're mister New York.
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  Speaker 2: You stay here despite the fact that I.
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  Speaker 3: Love I love New York. I love the people in
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 4: But people are killing us, John, They're killing me. We
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  Speaker 4: gotta New Yorkers have to real We lost three, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And and I talked to our friend in Washington. We
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  Speaker 4: lost three seats to socialism. Uh So what does this mean? Uh,
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  Speaker 4: there's there's there's a fight. First of all, the big
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  Speaker 4: fight is between the regular Democratic Party nationally. How they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: Looked at. Uh, they're gonna be looked at as the
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  Speaker 3: leaders of the pack are gonna be New Yorkers. It
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  Speaker 3: will be Mundamie will be AOC and uh and fetterman
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  Speaker 3: uh is up in arms about it. And Joe Manchin.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to Joe Manchin before. He'll probably come on
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  Speaker 3: my show tonight. Uh. And he's a big Democrat from
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  Speaker 3: or was he West Virginia? West Virginia. And there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a war, a civil war between the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 3: winning itself the socialists that they're socialists, that's a socialists,
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  Speaker 3: they're saying. The Socialists have to run on their own
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  Speaker 3: socialist ticket and the Democrats are Democrats. And let's see
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  Speaker 3: what happens.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Manchin, betterman better switch parties today. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: right now, they're gonna lose. I got news for you.
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  Speaker 2: But hoppened here in New York last week. You just
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  Speaker 2: talked about it. Those three socialists winning. You know that
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  Speaker 2: helps AOC in her run for the presidency. AOC's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Now, AOC will probably run for the Senate first, do
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  Speaker 3: you think so?
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  Speaker 1: Against Schumer right?
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  Speaker 3: Against Schumer right and te Beatle and that's what. But
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  Speaker 3: see what it is the mistake we make and I've
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  Speaker 3: told that the people is we're the ones talking about
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  Speaker 3: him every channel, whether it's CBS, NBC, even Fox. We're
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  Speaker 3: making them more famous every day by contributing to their fame.
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  Speaker 1: But they're winning.
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  Speaker 3: But but we're helpy, Yeah we are.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, you know, you know, you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like when we talk about people will commit horrible crimes, right, the.
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  Speaker 1: Kid who walks into a school, we make it more famous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we do.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Luigi, we make them more famous there, right,
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  Speaker 3: the women are standing online tomean them.
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  Speaker 1: They are all kidding aside, You're right about what do
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  Speaker 1: we do?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, the media has to and I've told this the
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  Speaker 3: a couple of big media executives, the media has to
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  Speaker 3: come to a reality. You know, it comes back down
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  Speaker 3: to you know what, it comes back down to, said
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  Speaker 3: the the the left wing or whatever, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: I never use those words. They hire these two hundred
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  Speaker 3: people paying them one hundred thousand dollars two hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 3: and they end up getting a zillion dollars worth of
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  Speaker 3: publicity because every channel plays it. Okay, every channel plays it,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the reality check. And if we did the
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  Speaker 3: same thing, we gotta do it the other way around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta stop it. Hey, and we got we and
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  Speaker 3: every channel has to play that too. Yeah, No, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about your interview yesterday with the Cuban ambassador,
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  Speaker 2: because we keep waiting for some of this YRN stuff
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  Speaker 2: to stop, because honestly, the country's had enough. Another another
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  Speaker 2: seaspired today, John, I'm telling you the country's had enough enough.
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  Speaker 3: I have always been very friendly with Cuban people ever
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  Speaker 3: since we built that church in Havana. And well, tell
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  Speaker 3: me about this. We who built the church, Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: personally didn't build it. Castro built it for us, gotcha.
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  Speaker 3: But we built it in nineteen ninety and we had
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  Speaker 3: the patriarch come from Constantinople, and we had the archbishop
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  Speaker 3: come and we had two thousand guests went down there
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  Speaker 3: and King Constantine, who was friends with Castro, says, you
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  Speaker 3: burned down our church. So it says Castro says to him,
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  Speaker 3: I'll build you a no one. And he built a
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  Speaker 3: new church for us in nineteen ninety ninety one something
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  Speaker 3: like that, and we went down there to consecrate the church,
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  Speaker 3: and I was there next to Castro when the patriarch
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  Speaker 3: put them across around his neck and Castro accepted it.
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  Speaker 3: So I've been very friendly with the Cuban people. And
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  Speaker 3: so they asked me, well, he's a communist. What do
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  Speaker 3: you mean? He accepted the question across. I said, the
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  Speaker 3: closer than ninety years old you get, the more religion
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  Speaker 3: you gets too, very true God, every God. And the
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  Speaker 3: fact is they came to me and and said that
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  Speaker 3: we want to speak. I said, oh, look, w ABC,
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  Speaker 3: we allow Israeli ambassador to speak. Sure, we allow everybody
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  Speaker 3: to speak. So they there was a very beautiful interview yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: And what they want is they want peace. They want
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  Speaker 3: to do everything that I think in interprety the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: It's on the w ABC website. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They they bottom line, they want to survive as a party,
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  Speaker 3: of course, and cooperate one hundred and ten percent with
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  Speaker 3: President Trump because American people, Yeah, they're dying. He says,
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  Speaker 3: they want to do everything. They want to cooperate, and
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  Speaker 3: they want to survive, and they want to have mutual cooperation.
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  Speaker 3: So look, I you know, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, and the ninety miles off our coast, right,
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  Speaker 3: you're better off having him as friends than his enemies.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, the Cuban people are by and large,
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  Speaker 3: very hard working people, very loving people. And we got
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  Speaker 3: to make peace between the American Cubans and the Cuban
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  Speaker 3: Cubans because the Cuban Cubans did what they did because
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  Speaker 3: they had to survive, had no choice, no one else
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  Speaker 3: did you want to ask? You don't we're talking about Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just people have out enough.
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  Speaker 3: John, That's it. Nobody wants more. But this is this
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  Speaker 3: is what well the venues is Lebanon made a peace
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  Speaker 3: for Israel yesterday. Yeah, and it was a good it
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  Speaker 3: was a good move. The stock market is at an
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  Speaker 3: all time high. Now you think you're right, Other people
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  Speaker 3: think that you're right, other people think you're wrong. Let's
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  Speaker 3: think the big picture. The Dow Jones average is fifty
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and five hundred. I predicted sixty thousand for
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  Speaker 3: the Dow Jones average, Right, I predicted lower interest rates.
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  Speaker 3: Everything I've said about oil has happened, yes, or crude
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  Speaker 3: oil is down there sixty nine. I haven't looked at
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  Speaker 3: it the last hour or so with sixty nine this morning.
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  Speaker 3: So everything I predicted has always happened. So who is right?
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  Speaker 3: The people that investing triggers and triggions of dollars in
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  Speaker 3: the markets or the people yelling in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but the people investing markets. But remember the people.
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  Speaker 2: Look, the stock market is great, fantastic, it's not an Indian.
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  Speaker 3: One K plan is doing well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an indicator of how most Americans are doing.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have money to play in the market. Let's
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  Speaker 2: be honest. The price of oil is going down, that's big.
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  Speaker 2: That's the price of gasoline is going down.
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  Speaker 1: So all this.
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  Speaker 3: Mber, what you have is a couple of criminals. And
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  Speaker 3: I believe that if Trump hits, if the President decides
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  Speaker 3: to hit Iran, he should take out the h what
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  Speaker 3: do we call them? I or take that? You know
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  Speaker 3: you're knocked out a couple of divisions by air. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want our troops there. I don't either, I do not, But.
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  Speaker 2: What if you can't get and what if you can't
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  Speaker 2: get to the re anium uranium without them.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're not there troops. Okay, we're not gonna hold.
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  Speaker 3: We're not gonna put our troops in it. It's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna No, we're not gonna win. No, we're not gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get to the ranium uranium without putting troops
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  Speaker 2: on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Some we have won, and and and the and the
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  Speaker 3: thing would you have to do is make sure the
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  Speaker 3: next president after Trump's thing is good enough to be
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  Speaker 3: as tough as Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's not gonna happen no matter who.
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  Speaker 3: It is, it's gonna be President Trump to help select them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Well, the good news is his daughter
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  Speaker 2: in law, Lara, is on hold right now.
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  Speaker 3: She is a great lady. And uh you know I
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  Speaker 3: saw her Instagram. She had a great family. Uh uh weekend. Yeah, yeah, Larra,
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  Speaker 3: You're you're terrific. Always gonna join us. I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go up, So you should go on.
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  Speaker 1: John, it's great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Great job.
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  Speaker 1: That's an excellent segment. Thank you so much. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: the great.
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  Speaker 2: John katch Matiti's cotch im at five o'clock this afternoon
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  Speaker 2: alongside Rita Cosby HiT's The Great Catch and Cosby Show,
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  Speaker 2: and of course eight am every Sunday morning, The Catch Roundtable.
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