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Rob Shuter | Gossip Columnist | 05-11-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: So the next EU sign it I will set a
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  Speaker 2: new direction for Britain. The last gum was defined by
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  Speaker 2: breaking our relationship with Europe. This labor government will be
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  Speaker 2: defined by rebuilding our relationship with Europe, by putting Britain
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  Speaker 2: at the heart of Europe. Because saving shoulder to shoulder
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  Speaker 2: with the countries that most ure our interests, our values, stupid,
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  Speaker 2: that is the right choice for Britain.
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  Speaker 3: Let me get to the great Rob Shooter, who of
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  Speaker 3: course got a brand new book out. He's all about gossip,
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  Speaker 3: but he's also very, very in tuned to what's going
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  Speaker 3: on in his hometown back there in the UK and
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  Speaker 3: across America as well politically. Rob, Good Monday morning, buddy,
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  Speaker 3: how are you hey?
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  Speaker 4: Great? I'm even better now I heard that scene song
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  Speaker 4: I want to get it as a single. I could
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  Speaker 4: rock out to.
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  Speaker 5: That or getting aside. That was actually really good, right.
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  Speaker 4: It's really good. I'm married to a Grammy winning songwriter.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna play it for him today. It's a great song.
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  Speaker 4: I now, you cannot enter a room any restaurant unless
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  Speaker 4: that song is playing.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, tell your husband about country. Yes see, he's one
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  Speaker 5: of the greats now. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you did say to me this weekend, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a big statement, Rob, it's a big statement. Look, I've
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  Speaker 3: taken a special interest in the UK, spending a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time there the last three years with Avagon to
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  Speaker 3: school in Wales. So we love London. We loving and
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  Speaker 3: I can see myself living there one day, but not
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  Speaker 3: the London that is right now. But you said to
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  Speaker 3: me this weekend you said, and I quote, these elections
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  Speaker 3: the most important in the history of the UK.
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  Speaker 5: Did you mean that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm want to stand by it. So as well
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  Speaker 4: as being a silly gossip columnist, and I get it,
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  Speaker 4: I get what I do. I talk about King Kardashian's
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  Speaker 4: bottom for a living. But as well as doing that,
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  Speaker 4: are a master's in political science from the University of Edinburgh.
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  Speaker 4: I started out wanting to go to London and work
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  Speaker 4: for a member of Parliament. I did not have the
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  Speaker 4: hutzburg of balls to go and be a member myself,
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  Speaker 4: but I usually loved a future in politics. So it's
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  Speaker 4: really dear and near to my heart. The reason I
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  Speaker 4: made that statement is for my lifetime and my parents'
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  Speaker 4: lifetimes and their parents. There was two parties in Britain,
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  Speaker 4: Labor and Conservative, and a long time Nigel for our
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  Speaker 4: and has done something that I just never thought would
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  Speaker 4: be possible, to go up against the system, whether you
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  Speaker 4: are Labor or Conservative, to go up against them and
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  Speaker 4: to be playing with the big boys who winning is
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  Speaker 4: absolutely star and correct me.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm wrong. His party is the Reform Party, Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Reform Party. They started as the Brexit party. So he
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  Speaker 4: was the one that really got Britain excited about leaving Europe.
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  Speaker 4: Then after they did leave Europe, he figured out, Nigel,
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  Speaker 4: you know there's something here that he's more than just
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  Speaker 4: one issue. It's not just Europe, it's not just immigration,
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  Speaker 4: it's taxes, it's security, it's law enforcement. And he figured
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  Speaker 4: there's a place yet nobody thought he could do it.
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  Speaker 4: There's a place in Britain for a third party. For years,
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  Speaker 4: the Green Party and all week parties try to create
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  Speaker 4: a third party and it never really took off. Nigel
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  Speaker 4: has changed that and now there is a viable, in
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  Speaker 4: fact are really wrong third party in Britain and it
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  Speaker 4: has shocked Conservatives and also to the Labor Party. It
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  Speaker 4: shocked them that now he's up there with the big boys.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, he really is.
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  Speaker 3: And you go back to Stormer, who of course is
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  Speaker 3: part of that Labor Party, and no really put it well.
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  Speaker 3: For Americans that don't pay attention, it was kind of
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  Speaker 3: like the midterms for you guys in the UK last week,
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  Speaker 3: and Starmer's party took an absolute beating. I know they
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  Speaker 3: were in trouble, and I've been hearing Nigel's name for
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  Speaker 3: months because I do keep up with it, But I
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  Speaker 3: had no idea that England was going to speak that
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  Speaker 3: loudly against Stormer. Were you surprised to see how bad
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  Speaker 3: a beating he actually took?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was? Everybody was he really wasn't going to do well.
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  Speaker 4: The midterms are a rough period for whatever party is
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  Speaker 4: in power, whether it be America or Britain, so there's
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  Speaker 4: always a rough time. They're always frightened of losing seas.
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  Speaker 4: Now the question is going to be is will they
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  Speaker 4: sit up and pay attention. A smart politician had several
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  Speaker 4: years before the general election, and if they sit up
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  Speaker 4: and listen and change directions, they've got a shot. But
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  Speaker 4: often we see this, don't we They don't they dig in,
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  Speaker 4: they don't listen to the public. This is a great barometer.
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  Speaker 4: I think of midterms as like a lighthouse showing showing
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  Speaker 4: politicians the way. Clearly what they're doing isn't working. People
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  Speaker 4: are really angry, rightfully so us back in Britain in January,
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  Speaker 4: and I've got to say it, I see was a
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  Speaker 4: little frightened there for the first time ever in my
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  Speaker 4: home town, and I didn't feel so great walking around
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  Speaker 4: later at night. I felt much safer here in New
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  Speaker 4: York because the public is faring this. They are feeling this,
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  Speaker 4: and Starmer should sit up and listen. I fear his arrogance.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to tell him not to. But they could
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  Speaker 4: change courts here. The public is angry, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 4: Crime over there, it is dirty over there. It's not
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  Speaker 4: great Britain anymore. It's a different place.
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  Speaker 5: No, it looks more like Pakistan to.
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  Speaker 4: Be honest, So he takes a massive change in composition.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I get what you're saying is and Paris
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  Speaker 3: looks the same to us in both places last summer. So,
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  Speaker 3: but what is the biggest issue. You talk about crime
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  Speaker 3: in London being roughed, you talk about it's dirty. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that for any London folks that love America
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  Speaker 3: that Stormer did himself any any real favors by going
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  Speaker 3: against President Trump and not helping America in this latest
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  Speaker 3: effort against Iran. But what are the biggest issues you
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  Speaker 3: think were the folks where you are, from where you
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  Speaker 3: are back home, that are against Stormer?
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  Speaker 4: Good question. First of all, let's just say when the
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  Speaker 4: bride saw King Charles with President Trump just a few
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, that's what they want. They want that special
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  Speaker 4: relationship with America. In many ways, I think Britain is
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  Speaker 4: more closely aligned with America than you in values, in
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  Speaker 4: what they want out of the world. They want of
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  Speaker 4: Britain that is a fair shot to people, where everybody
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  Speaker 4: has a chance, that the crime rate is low, the
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  Speaker 4: immigration is legal. They want a country that works. When
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  Speaker 4: you are the head of a political party or a government,
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  Speaker 4: it's a CEO job. They want a well organized machine,
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  Speaker 4: and Britain feels like the wheels are coming off. They're
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  Speaker 4: very proud of their healthcare system except trying to get
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  Speaker 4: an appointment. They're very proud. But they have an immigration policy,
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  Speaker 4: except nobody seems to be going by the rules. They're
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  Speaker 4: very proud of their bobby as, that's what they call
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  Speaker 4: policemen over there, except when you walk around the streets now,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the police feel safe. So everything that
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  Speaker 4: they really really valued is changing. And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: the same sentiment that got Trump elected in America. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: thought Trump could pull this off. He did it. He
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  Speaker 4: did it twice, maybe three. But he's done this, and
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  Speaker 4: the bridge are feeling it. The world is changing really quickly.
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  Speaker 4: I think technology is part of that, and I think
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  Speaker 4: people want it to just slow down a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And so at the minute, people in Britain the array
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  Speaker 4: of array of hope here this has been celebrated. There's
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  Speaker 4: some people over there who are very upset by these results.
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  Speaker 4: But the people have spoken and now you have to
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  Speaker 4: listen to them. And if you don't, in two three
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  Speaker 4: years when Starma called that general election, he doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: to call it until twenty twenty nine, so he's got
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  Speaker 4: a few years. If he cracks, course, he's got a shot.
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  Speaker 4: He's not done yet. But if he doesn't, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he will, it's over.
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  Speaker 3: It's over tomorrow. Let you run, Rob Shu, are doing
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  Speaker 3: a great job here. One of the issues too in
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  Speaker 3: London is anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 5: It's huge.
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  Speaker 3: You may remember two Jewish people were knife to death,
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  Speaker 3: not shut stay up to death outside of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: showl I believe in London on Yom Kapoor two weeks ago. Again,
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  Speaker 3: two Jewish people outside of a shawl, stabbed to death,
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  Speaker 3: murdered in London. Stalmer always comes out hours later with
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  Speaker 3: the relatively incense here, you know, kind of like mom, Danny, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying I'm sorry, but we did see something this
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  Speaker 3: weekend that I did not see in the three years
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  Speaker 3: I was there with my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: And that is this.
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  Speaker 3: Huge rally huge in London, pro Israel, pro Jewish in London.
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  Speaker 5: So they may be turning the page there too, Rob Shooter.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hope. So it's really bad over there. The Rabbi
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  Speaker 4: of London, the head rabbi in London, is telling Jewish
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  Speaker 4: folks to not identify as Jewish when they walk in
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  Speaker 4: the streets, don't wear Yama cars, don't give any indication
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  Speaker 4: that you're Jewish. You're not safe in London. That's safe.
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  Speaker 4: That's outrageous. Most Brits are really decent, decent, smart people.
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  Speaker 4: You have spugs everywhere, but most Brits are a grick
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  Speaker 4: against this anti Semitism. But the leaders have to stand up.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that they want to be pro Palestine
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  Speaker 4: and I get what they're saying, but they can't throw
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  Speaker 4: the Jewish people under the buds. It's become really cool
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  Speaker 4: throughout Europe, and in some ways in America has the
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  Speaker 4: hate on Israel. It's got to stop. Benjamin Netanyahu was
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  Speaker 4: on sixty Minutes on Sunday night and he was talking
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  Speaker 4: about how it's time for Israel to stand on their own.
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  Speaker 4: They don't want to have the funding from America any more,
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  Speaker 4: the billions of dollars. I think that's a really smart
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  Speaker 4: move too. Americans people don't want to feel like they're
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  Speaker 4: paying for another country. And so Israel's trying really hard
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  Speaker 4: to reset this and I think to leaders have to
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  Speaker 4: stand uple. What's going on to Jews in London. In Paris,
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  Speaker 4: it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 5: Terrible here in New York. Two is you said one more?
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of quolks will you believe? And
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  Speaker 5: I do too. That part of the reason why Nigel,
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  Speaker 5: the Reform Party formerly Bredgit.
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  Speaker 3: Is now the darling of the week ahead of the
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  Speaker 3: Labor Party, like you said, a conservative party. The reason
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  Speaker 3: why that's the case is because he is very similar
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  Speaker 3: in his philosophies, in his policies, in his demeanor to
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  Speaker 3: one Donald J. Trump, that he inspires the London people
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  Speaker 3: because watching Nigel is like watching Trump.
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  Speaker 5: Your thoughts on that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's even bigger than that. And I think
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  Speaker 4: I'm known Trump for twenty years. What his skill is.
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  Speaker 4: He talks like us, he talks like my mom, my dad.
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  Speaker 4: He's got this common sense there. So I don't think
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  Speaker 4: Nigel is getting rewarded because he sounds like Trump. I
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  Speaker 4: think Nigel's getting rewarded because he sounds like Brits. What
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  Speaker 4: he is saying is reflecting what the public says. Trump
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  Speaker 4: reflects what America thinks, and I think that's what you
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  Speaker 4: run in a politician here. I want somebody who doesn't
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  Speaker 4: make any sense to me. I want someone that said
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  Speaker 4: it as it is, has some common sense. We just
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  Speaker 4: got so so out of whack here and we just
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of common sense. You know, people something
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  Speaker 4: Some people think it's radical, it's not. It's common sense.
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  Speaker 4: And so Nigel talks like the every man every woman
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  Speaker 4: and how can that not connect when you hear somebody
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  Speaker 4: talking like your friends talk like you talk your success
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  Speaker 4: on your show. You say it as it is. Remember
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  Speaker 4: our friend Wendy, she used to just say it. And
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people are scared of saying stuff these days,
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  Speaker 4: and Nigel's not that guy. He's not scared.
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  Speaker 5: Nigel a radio guy like I am.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, maybe when he becomes prime minister though, oh
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  Speaker 3: maybe he put my show on.
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  Speaker 5: I think I would kill it mornings in London, don't
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  Speaker 5: you rap?
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  Speaker 4: I think it should be TV though, is that faced?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's wasted on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need the BBC, you got sid You're right
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  Speaker 3: to put me on television and put me on radio.
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  Speaker 3: Bit that'd be great. I'd move there tomorrow anyway. What
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  Speaker 3: a great, great segment, and you have now congratulations, you've
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  Speaker 3: earned the to be our new europe correspondent.
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  Speaker 4: Get a theme song. I want to than well.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta reach out to the country, yussie.
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  Speaker 3: He'll put that together. Fine, right, Wait a second, your
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  Speaker 3: husband is best friends with Barry Manilone.
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  Speaker 4: No, he is. Maybe I'll send you a theme next appearance.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have a little theme song. I'll get Barry to
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  Speaker 4: sing it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, if you do that, honestly, I will make sure
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  Speaker 3: Justin provides you with oral in front of Macy's on
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  Speaker 3: New Year's Eve?
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  Speaker 5: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Than what more could a boy want? Good news for person?
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  Speaker 4: My friend? Are really seriously good news?
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  Speaker 3: Yes it is, and you were great this morning. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much. Rob Shooter. Will do it again, very
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  Speaker 3: very soon. Thank you so much, my friend.
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  Speaker 4: I love it a regular regular.
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  Speaker 3: You are regular Rob Shooter right there filling in this
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  Speaker 3: on the latest, which is PM Stormer and his party,
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  Speaker 3: which of course is the labor party in England. Took
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  Speaker 3: it on the chin last week they got hammered and
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  Speaker 3: that does seem to pave the way hopefully in a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years.
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