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John Ondrasik | Five For Fighting Voice Makes His Return to Sid & Friends in the Morning · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here he is, John Andrzejczyk. Johnny, let's roll. Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Sid, great to be with you. Before we start, let
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  Speaker 2: me congratulate you on your world champion New York Knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that unbelievable? No one said that for 50 plus years, John.
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  Speaker 1: Is that unbelievable?
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  Speaker 2: You've earned it, buddy. You all did. Oh, you Knicks fan.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a long, rough run. So thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It's funny because I had the Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State, Marco Rubio, on about an hour ago. And
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  Speaker 1: before I got into China or Ukraine or Greenland or
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  Speaker 1: any of these other subjects, I said, I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, between what I saw against the Raiders two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago and the 49ers yesterday, your team may not
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  Speaker 1: win a game this year. So I started with the
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins with Rubio. Boy, they look terrible. They look terrible. Um, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: What city are you wanting again, John?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we're on tour. We're running to the Northeast. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're heading to Vermont today. Uh, we were in Jersey, uh, yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So we're, we're watching the fall turn playing some shows and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: certainly we're, we're all around New York city as well.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, uh, it's a beautiful run for five for
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  Speaker 2: fighting right now.
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  Speaker 1: I want four at the city winery for October 11th.
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  Speaker 1: Can you make it happen?
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  Speaker 2: Make it happen for you. We're sold out, buddy, but
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  Speaker 2: you're always on the guest list.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, thank you. Of course you're sold out.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever played that venue before?
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  Speaker 2: We have, yeah, we have. I mean, I think we've
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  Speaker 2: played pretty much every venue in New York City. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's very fun, very intimate. I have my string quartet
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  Speaker 2: with me, all Broadway players, so it should be a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful night.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, it's a great place. I love it there, and
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  Speaker 1: I love you. And, you know, we played so far
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  Speaker 1: this morning, just so you know, not just to the
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  Speaker 1: Superman show, We also played 100 Years, The Riddle. We
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  Speaker 1: played all your stuff. I'm serious. You're an amazing, amazing talent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious. You're kind of bigger now than you
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  Speaker 1: were as just an artist because if you're a patriot,
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  Speaker 1: which I am. You're on Twitter. You're everywhere. You showed
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  Speaker 1: up at 9-11 here in New York City. You performed
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  Speaker 1: with Paul McCartney that Monday before. So now you've got
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  Speaker 1: a brand new bunch of bands that go above and
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  Speaker 1: beyond the fight for fighting music. Do you feel bigger
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  Speaker 1: now than ever?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. You know, I would say Superman in
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  Speaker 2: some ways is still as relevant as it was after
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 when I was honored to play the concert for
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  Speaker 2: New York. Certainly on 9-11, the 25th anniversary to perform
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  Speaker 2: between the two concerts. Light Beams to the Heaven, also
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  Speaker 2: sharing the stage with our New York firefighters, our NYPD,
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  Speaker 2: Port Authority. This song certainly resonates, but also resonates with
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  Speaker 2: our Jewish community because we did a new version for
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  Speaker 2: the hostages. And I was honored to play on Freedom
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  Speaker 2: 250 with former hostage Alon O.L. playing piano on the
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  Speaker 2: USS Nimitz. It's amazing how, you know, the songs still
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  Speaker 2: find relevancy. And I'm glad because they shine the spotlight
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  Speaker 2: on our heroes, you know, our first responders and as
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  Speaker 2: well as the Jewish hostages. So that's the nice thing
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  Speaker 2: about music. You know, it does things in ways nothing
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  Speaker 2: else can. And I'm honored to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm honored to have you on our side, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's an impossible fight sometimes. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in New York City and you know how much I
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  Speaker 1: love President Trump. You do, too. You know how much
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  Speaker 1: I love him. I was so angry with him yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I told him. I texted him that he took that
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  Speaker 1: time to be with the mayor. I understand he loves
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  Speaker 1: New York City. I get it. He wants to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: He wants it to be great. I get all that, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But you got to draw the line at certain people.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor in this city is a horrible human being.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And even after he met with Trump, he was talking
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  Speaker 1: again about arresting Netanyahu, who I'm going to be with
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday at the UN, when he knows full well
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  Speaker 1: he can't even do it. I mean, it's enough, John, no?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I stood next to the mayor, basically two feet
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  Speaker 2: from him. On September 9th, I performed in Staten Island
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  Speaker 2: for the 25th Memorial Ceremony for the New York firefighters
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  Speaker 2: with many of those firefighters that were with me at
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  Speaker 2: the concert for New York. And I stood with them
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  Speaker 2: and I wished, you know, I didn't want to make
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  Speaker 2: a scene. But what I really wanted to do, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to walk him and said, you know, Mr. Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you spout this genocide law. You claim to
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  Speaker 2: care about Gazans. But, you know, somehow you never criticize
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  Speaker 2: Hamas for murdering gays, using innocents as human shields, executing
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  Speaker 2: gods in the street after the ceasefire, forced child marriages,
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  Speaker 2: indoctrination of kids into a death cult. And also you
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  Speaker 2: never mentioned this thing called October 7th. Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: If you truly cared about the Gazans, wouldn't you be
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  Speaker 2: calling for Hamas to end these atrocities? But they never do, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: We know why they never do, because it's not about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the welfare of the Gazans. And I
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  Speaker 2: wish somebody would ask the mayor that, and maybe somebody
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  Speaker 2: at the UN. Let's call our buddy Mike Walsh. He'll
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  Speaker 2: do it. He's got a lot of guts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike does. Yeah, that's a good one. I like that. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: we'll ask him that. And you just laid that out
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  Speaker 1: so perfectly, John. I just said bye for fighting. You
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  Speaker 1: really did. A laundry list of things that he never
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  Speaker 1: talks about. Never, ever. And all these genocides that are
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  Speaker 1: going on, Africa, other places around the world, all he does, him, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: all these losers, is find a way to mention Israel.
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  Speaker 1: In every sentence, Israel in every single sentence. And people go, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're not being anti-Semitic. They don't dislike the Jews. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're just anti-Zionist. They're just anti-Bibi. They're just anti-Israel government.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to mention Israel in every single segment,
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  Speaker 1: odds are you're an anti-Semite. Is that a stretch?
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  Speaker 2: Look, free Palestine, unless you use the words from Hamas
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  Speaker 2: after that, is the definition of anti-Semitism. It's basically saying
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  Speaker 2: Israel's an apartheid state. What people don't talk about are
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  Speaker 2: the two million Arab Muslims that live in Israel. You
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  Speaker 2: know where they don't want to go?
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  Speaker 1: Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: So again, it's truly, yeah, it is, you know, Macklemore, Mondami,
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  Speaker 2: it is anti-Semitism. And look, we know this is not
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  Speaker 2: just about the Jews. It's about The Democratic Socialists wants
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  Speaker 2: to tear down America. We have Democratic candidates who hang
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  Speaker 2: out with folks that say America deserve 9-11. So look,
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  Speaker 2: it's about civilization and they want to destroy civilization. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the fight we're fighting. And look, you had on today,
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  Speaker 2: I believe the number one warrior against this kind of
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  Speaker 2: evil that's attacking just not just America, but the world.
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is fantastic. What he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: as a secretary of state is like something I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen before. His moral clarity, his way he speaks, and
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  Speaker 2: he was saying all this stuff long before he was
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  Speaker 2: secretary of state. So I'd like to shout out to
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio. I actually campaigned for him when he ran
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  Speaker 2: for president. I sat with him in living rooms, and
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  Speaker 2: we did talk about the Miami Dolphins. And so thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, for being the voice of clarity for America,
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  Speaker 2: certainly President Trump. It's his boss. But look, I look
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  Speaker 2: forward to the day when we're calling Marco Rubio Mr. President.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to send you that interview today too. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Macklemore. Are you disappointed with Ed Sheeran? You're both entertainers.
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  Speaker 1: You're in that little fraternity of rock superstars. Are you
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  Speaker 1: disappointed with Ed Sheeran?
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  Speaker 2: I would say disappointed, but not surprised. And you look,
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  Speaker 2: I look at Ed Sheeran, he seems like a nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants to sing his songs. He made a
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  Speaker 2: huge mistake inviting an anti-Semite to open for him that
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  Speaker 2: opened the door of the hell stake to this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: free Palestine insanity that's infected the music business. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wish he would have had a little more clarity,
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  Speaker 2: a little more guts, but I understand he didn't really
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  Speaker 2: want to be part of this. Look, Macklemore, Mondami, they
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  Speaker 2: all come from that same kind of you know, as
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  Speaker 2: we just spoke about, the genocide lie. And the whole
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  Speaker 2: music business, in my mind, has been shamed historically for
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  Speaker 2: their silence after October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: The whole entertainment business, music, acting, I mean, they're all losers.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings me to your column. And it was
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  Speaker 1: great because you talked about what we could never have
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  Speaker 1: imagined 25 years ago being the case now, John Andrzejczyk,
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  Speaker 1: in America, when Mamdani wins and El-Sayed, at least this morning,
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  Speaker 1: is beating Mike Rogers in Michigan, when all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: radical Islam, people who took our buildings down and murdered 3,000
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  Speaker 1: innocent Americans that day, all of a sudden, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: not that bad. Who could have thunk that would have
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  Speaker 1: been the case 25 years ago?
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  Speaker 2: It is shocking. And, you know, you look around the world,
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  Speaker 2: you look what's happened to Europe. You certainly look at
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  Speaker 2: what's happened on our universities, our media, and members of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that spout Hamas propaganda, the Rashida Tlaibs of
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  Speaker 2: the world. And that's why I think, look, it's not
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  Speaker 2: too late for America, I think. And obviously, Israel is
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  Speaker 2: kind of leading this fight against those who want to
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  Speaker 2: tear down Western civilization. But we have to stand up.
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  Speaker 2: We can't be quiet anymore. It's for our kids, our grandchildren,
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  Speaker 2: and the soul of the nation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually going with Bibi on Thursday when he speaks
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  Speaker 1: at the UN. And I'm proud that I was invited
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  Speaker 1: by the prime minister. And I only hope the mayor
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  Speaker 1: tries to arrest both of us because that'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: So you're you're traveling the other country right now by providing.
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  Speaker 1: And again, you got shows in New York coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And and when you do these shows, I'm interested in this.
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  Speaker 1: We wrap this great conversation up. You know, I can't
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  Speaker 1: listen to Bruce Springsteen anymore. He was my favorite. Just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think he's a punk. I like to
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  Speaker 1: punch Bruce Springsteen across the face. Yeah, I said it. OK, tough.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of bands out there where these people
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  Speaker 1: now disgust me. They do, because all they do is
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  Speaker 1: talk about politics, and it's all negative about our country,
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  Speaker 1: our president and our country. During your shows, do you
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  Speaker 1: take time to talk about what you believe in?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I despise, you know, celebrities who stand on
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  Speaker 2: a soapbox and lecture people. At the same time, we
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  Speaker 2: always do a song that recognizes our troops. I do
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  Speaker 2: talk about performing with the loan on the Nimitz. But look,
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  Speaker 2: most of my audience, frankly, are Democrats up in the Northeast.
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  Speaker 2: The beautiful thing about my career is I go through
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  Speaker 2: red states, blue states, purple states, and I find out that,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, whatever the media tells us, we have
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  Speaker 2: much more in common than what divides us. So my
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  Speaker 2: show is are something for everybody, for kids, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for grandparents, for Democrats, Republicans, independents. Democratic socialists may not
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  Speaker 2: love my shows, but, you know, come on anyways. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you'll learn something. But, yeah, I do not lecture people.
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  Speaker 2: I find that, frankly, off-putting. And what's happened to Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Springsteen is very sad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, you're the best. And your music is great.
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  Speaker 1: And do me a favor. When you do come to
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  Speaker 1: New York City the second week of October, come into
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  Speaker 1: the studio. We'd love to have you come in here
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  Speaker 1: to do a live interview. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to it, buddy. I'll wear my Knicks
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  Speaker 2: shirt even though I'm a Laker fan.
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  Speaker 1: John Andrzejczyk, you really are a great man, a great patriot,
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  Speaker 1: a terrific artist, talented and beautiful. I love you to pieces,
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  Speaker 1: John Andrzejczyk. We'll see you in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: God bless.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. There he is, Mr. Pfeiffer fighting John Andrzejczyk,
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  Speaker 1: making his second appearance on Sid and Friends in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: A new episode so you never have to wonder. What
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  Speaker 1: the heck is going on here?