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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney Doubles as a Military Man on S&FIM · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Secretary Driscoll and several Republican lawmakers about the current state
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  Speaker 1: of the army, specifically about the departure of so many
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  Speaker 1: generals and other top officials?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, look, Dan is obviously a very
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  Speaker 2: good friend of mine. I think he was a great
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  Speaker 2: secretary of the army. Pete is also a very good
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine, and I think he's an amazing secretary
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  Speaker 2: of war. And, you know, fundamentally, where I look, there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of issues where I agree with Pete on.
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  Speaker 2: The issue where I'm in the most strident agreement with
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  Speaker 2: Pete is that we needed to have a culture shift
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  Speaker 2: at the Department of War. We have to ask ourselves
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  Speaker 2: some very difficult questions, and it has nothing to do,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be clear, this has nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with the amazing troops that we have, the amazing military officers,
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  Speaker 2: non-commissioned officers, and enlisted personnel that we have, but America
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  Speaker 2: has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive,
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  Speaker 2: 42 years, and we have won almost none of them
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  Speaker 2: until Donald J. Trump became the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: What does that say about the culture of military leadership,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we did planning? And what does it
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  Speaker 2: also say, frankly, about the political leadership that we've had
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  Speaker 2: in the White House, at the Department of War for
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  Speaker 2: 40 years of, frankly, military misadventures? What Pete came in
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  Speaker 2: wanting to do was revive the warrior spirit in the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. And I think you see evidence
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  Speaker 2: of that happening in a lot of different ways. Two
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  Speaker 2: important ways is, number one, we have recruitment at all-time highs.
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  Speaker 2: We had real recruitment problems under the Biden administration because
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  Speaker 2: people didn't want to join a woke military. And what
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  Speaker 2: I mean is they didn't want to join any military
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  Speaker 2: that was geared towards a particular political narrative. They just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to join a military that was willing to defend
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  Speaker 2: America's interests and do so at the very highest levels
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  Speaker 2: of professionalism and excellence. That is what the military under
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  Speaker 2: President Trump's leadership is geared towards doing. The second way
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  Speaker 2: that I judge just that esprit de corps, that warrior
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  Speaker 2: spirit that you see at the Pentagon is, When you
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  Speaker 2: go out and talk to troops today, they talk about
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  Speaker 2: how much better it is, how much prouder they are,
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  Speaker 2: how much more they feel supported from Washington as opposed to, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: oppressed by Washington. We're trying to bring the best and
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  Speaker 2: the brightest into the United States military and support them
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  Speaker 2: in every way that we can. If you recall, under
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration, guys were getting fired because they were
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  Speaker 2: making their own health care decisions, and the Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: was treating them like they were convicted criminals. We're not
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  Speaker 2: doing that. We're taking things in a much different direction.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like the military is in a much
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  Speaker 2: better place than it was 18 months ago. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of work still to do. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: some of that work is going to take years.
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  Speaker 3: He is an army guy, as you know, and he's
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  Speaker 3: been very critical on this program for months, Joseph Takapina,
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  Speaker 3: about Pete Hegseth.
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  Speaker 4: So when I saw J.D. yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Actually talk about Hegseth after that question was asked. Of course, Joseph,
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  Speaker 3: I thought about you right away. What did you think
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  Speaker 3: about the vice president's response?
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  Speaker 5: I just mind bogglingly stupid. I mean, really, honestly, just
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  Speaker 5: it's political nonsense. It is all is. I just got
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  Speaker 5: to listen to it again. You know, first of all,
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  Speaker 5: Dan Driscoll wasn't some holdover fighting the Trump agenda. OK,
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  Speaker 5: he was President Trump's own army secretary, J.D. Vance's close friend,
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  Speaker 5: an Iraq war veteran and someone the White House praised
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  Speaker 5: for readiness and lethality. And all of a sudden he resigned.
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  Speaker 5: He quits because he can't take it. the actions of
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  Speaker 5: Pete Hegseth, and now all of a sudden it was
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  Speaker 5: good that he's out because we need a cultural shift.
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about? I mean, he was part
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  Speaker 5: of the cultural shift. Listen, I support getting the politics
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  Speaker 5: and DEI ideology out of the military, but there's a
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  Speaker 5: massive difference between eliminating politics from the military and eliminating
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  Speaker 5: experienced military leaders. So, you know, Pete Hegseth was brought
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  Speaker 5: in to reform the military. I get it. And I
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  Speaker 5: supported reform. But reform is not destruction. Look what's happened, Sid.
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  Speaker 5: Senior military leaders have been fired or pushed out one
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  Speaker 5: after another. The Army lost Randy George, our chief of staff,
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  Speaker 5: who was the most progressive chief of staff in our history.
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  Speaker 5: with drones and AI, and he wrote a book on
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  Speaker 5: this stuff. He was transforming the Army. We lost Chris Donohue,
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  Speaker 5: General Donohue, you know, the best of the best of
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  Speaker 5: the best, the modern-day Patton, actually probably a step even further,
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  Speaker 5: and he's our greatest warfighter. He's gone, pushed out the door.
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  Speaker 5: Now Dan Driscoll's gone, and he's a Trump appointee. J.D.
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  Speaker 5: Vance is a very good friend. So here we are.
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  Speaker 5: We're doing this in the middle of a war. It's
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  Speaker 5: like changing an engine plane in the middle of a flight.
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  Speaker 5: And at the same point, you have to stop blaming
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  Speaker 5: everyone who leaves and look at the man running the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 5: This is the cultural shift anymore. It's a leadership crisis, period,
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  Speaker 5: end of story. So that's what's going on here.
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  Speaker 4: All right, a leadership crisis. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Great job there by Joseph Takapina. Let's get to the
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  Speaker 3: next story. Right before you came on. You heard a
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  Speaker 3: commercial for Barish and McGarry. I'm friends with Mike Barish.
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  Speaker 3: He does a great job. They do support all the
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  Speaker 3: 9-11 victims in those communities that people died and people
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  Speaker 3: are still dying 25 years later. And just about every
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  Speaker 3: month for 25 years, Joseph, as you know, just about
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  Speaker 3: every month for 25 years, More and more people who
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  Speaker 3: are down in that area are actually applying for the
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  Speaker 3: victim funds, really, again, just about every month for 25 years.
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  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 5: It's shocking. I mean, the death toll from September 11th
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  Speaker 5: is still rising, right? I mean, we all think September 11th,
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  Speaker 5: you know, 9-11 is an event that happened 25 years ago. Medically,
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  Speaker 5: it's still happening today. It still happens every day. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: every month, hundreds more people are coming forward with illnesses
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  Speaker 5: connected to exposure, right? So these are casualties of war,
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  Speaker 5: just as surely as the people we lost that morning.
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  Speaker 5: And the most shocking number, Sid, is 6,000. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9-11. But according to
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  Speaker 5: recent numbers, medical numbers, more than 6,000 additional deaths have
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  Speaker 5: now been attributed to 9-11-related illnesses. So the aftermath has
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  Speaker 5: actually killed more people than the attack itself. So it is,
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  Speaker 5: we have to take care of these people. America made
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  Speaker 5: a promise to those people. Those first responders, those people
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  Speaker 5: who were there, they ran towards ground zero. They cleaned
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  Speaker 5: it up, rebuilt New York, went back to work, helped
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  Speaker 5: the country recover. So paying for the medical consequences is
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  Speaker 5: a no brainer. It isn't charity. It's keeping a national obligation. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's Really, it's crazy to see this. This
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  Speaker 5: story made me sick. I did not realize the enormity
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  Speaker 5: of the ongoing death toll from 9-11. And just it's
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  Speaker 5: it's it's unbelievable. We all love to say, oh, never forget.
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  Speaker 5: Never forget. That's the big 9-11 slogan. And I get it.
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  Speaker 5: And it has to be more than a ceremony once
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  Speaker 5: a year.
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  Speaker 3: This will make you sick. This just came out. I
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  Speaker 3: think Chris Somerville broke this story. and Phyllis Insuella broke
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  Speaker 3: it on my show hours ago. Mayor Zoran Mamdani, Mr. Takapina,
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  Speaker 3: is expected to sign an executive order today that will
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  Speaker 3: designate 9-11 as an official day of remembrance and service
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  Speaker 3: in New York City. The solemn day already holds similar
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  Speaker 3: designations at the federal and state levels, but Mamdani said
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  Speaker 3: in a statement yesterday, that his order is the first
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  Speaker 3: such municipal action.
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  Speaker 4: Now, again, the order is great. This is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Anything you can do, like you just talked about, to
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  Speaker 3: honor The victims of 9-11.
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  Speaker 4: Anything special.
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  Speaker 3: Make the World Trade Center a national monument. Do what
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  Speaker 3: the mayor is doing today.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got a guy who buddies up to people, still, still,
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  Speaker 3: who said we deserve 9-11 and never apologized, you talk
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  Speaker 3: about pandering.
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  Speaker 4: This should be a great thing the mayor is doing.
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  Speaker 4: And instead, I want to punch him across the face.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm with you on this, Sid. I'm with you
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  Speaker 5: on this. I mean, him, that Hassan Piker, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he's a pretty big dude, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I've seen pictures of him. I'd love to take him down.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, give me, I challenge him right now. Any
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  Speaker 5: form of combat sport, boxing, bare knuckle fighting, UFC, hand-to-hand combat, whatever.
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  Speaker 5: He sickens me because anyone who could ever, look, I
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  Speaker 5: lost relatives. You lost relatives. I lost friends at 9-11.
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  Speaker 5: The country was brought to its knees because Today, I'll
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  Speaker 5: never forget. I can't even watch the shows on it.
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  Speaker 5: Once I watched the show, I'm talking about a few
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  Speaker 5: years ago, Sid, like 20 years later, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 5: make it through. I couldn't make it through. I don't
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  Speaker 5: have a tear duct, really, except I had one that
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  Speaker 5: day when I watched the show 20 years later. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to be in Fort Bragg. On September 11th with,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the military and the army and this this
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  Speaker 5: this remembrance day, you know, really with our leaders there.
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  Speaker 5: And it's it's not a day that I'm looking forward to, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: because it's it's just the most solemn day ever. So
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  Speaker 5: when you see someone say America deserved 9-11, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about now we have 9000 deaths related to
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  Speaker 5: 9-11 that we know of. It is the most despicable
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  Speaker 5: thing a human being could say, really. And the fact
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  Speaker 5: that he has a microphone and an audience and a following,
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  Speaker 5: and the fact that this mayor... is friends with someone
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  Speaker 5: who could say, and here's the greatest part, hasn't denounced
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  Speaker 5: it yet. So denounce that before you go and do
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  Speaker 5: some political thing. I'm going to make today's list. Who
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  Speaker 5: cares what you do?
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  Speaker 4: Nobody cares.
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  Speaker 5: Because you're a phony and a fraud, and you don't
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  Speaker 5: care about the victims of 9-11, nor do you care
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  Speaker 5: about this country. I mean, again, anyone who says what
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  Speaker 5: that guy said, what Hassan Piper said, deserves, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 5: to be summarily executed. I mean, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 5: It's disgusting, disgusting. Let's do it. And so, you know, the...
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  Speaker 5: The mayor of our city supports a guy who says that.
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  Speaker 5: The mayor of our city heard him say that to
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  Speaker 5: his face and didn't say, don't you dare say that.
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  Speaker 4: Said nothing.
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  Speaker 5: And he's our mayor.
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  Speaker 4: He's our mayor.
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  Speaker 5: Anything he does that tends to do about 9-11, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be there with that stupid smirk on
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  Speaker 5: September 11th. And it's going to make me sick. It
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  Speaker 5: really is. And forget me, Sid.
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  Speaker 4: Who am I?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, whatever. I'm just a guy, right? The people
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  Speaker 5: who lost their immediate family members are going to be there.
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  Speaker 5: And they don't want him there.
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  Speaker 4: No. For the most part, they don't. There's a few liberals.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay. But they, meaning the majority, the overwhelming majority.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: They don't want him there.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, have a little decency, show a little class,
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  Speaker 5: and bow out and don't come. But that's, of course,
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  Speaker 5: not happening. This is a political platform for him.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: He'll use this.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You know, well, believe it or not, I thought I'd
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  Speaker 3: tell him this a couple days ago, 11 poly prep
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  Speaker 3: people died that day. Talking to Danny Fagliano last night,
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  Speaker 3: the San General FISA is coming up next week, and
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  Speaker 3: they want to put together a dinner with Danny and
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  Speaker 3: Greg Scaglione and John Cameriano and Robert Anderson.
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  Speaker 4: And they asked about me and you, and I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we'd love to do that. Go to Tommy Leonard's place,
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  Speaker 4: O'Court Teal, in Little Italy at the San Gennaro Feast.
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  Speaker 4: But I know you knew you were friendly with Joe Hassan, right?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, yeah, Joe's family, the dad. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 5: Joe Hassan, you know, Chris Delpitch's brother. I mean, it's just,
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  Speaker 5: it was a whole group of poly guys that fell there.
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  Speaker 5: Like I mentioned, my cousins, some friends, people I knew well. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the craziest thing is I was there. I said,
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  Speaker 5: we're New Yorkers. How many times have you gone to
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  Speaker 5: World Trade? center.
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  Speaker 4: Never, right?
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  Speaker 5: Unless you have something to do there. You don't go
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  Speaker 5: look at the top of the trade center. New Yorkers
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  Speaker 5: don't do that. We don't go to the top of
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  Speaker 5: the Empire State Building. We don't go to the Statue
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  Speaker 5: of Liberty. I mean, we live our lives in New York.
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  Speaker 5: It's not something we do regularly, right? I was on
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  Speaker 5: September 10th, I was in the World Trade Center. And
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  Speaker 5: the day before, because I had a meeting at Canada Fitzgerald,
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  Speaker 5: the first time ever, ever in I've been there since
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  Speaker 5: I was a kid. Wow. So I just think about
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  Speaker 5: that sometimes. I'd like to wake up thinking like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and me, if you know anything about me, I'm the
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  Speaker 5: first to be like, yeah, can we reschedule today till tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my God. Thank God. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Thank God for that. I just, that whole thing is just,
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  Speaker 5: and I can't believe here we are 25 years later.
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  Speaker 4: A week away.
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  Speaker 5: 25 years later. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A week away. A week from today. A week from
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  Speaker 3: today will be exactly that. 25 years. I want to
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  Speaker 3: get this in here, too, during this amazing conversation. This
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Clancy trial today will be day seven of jury deliberations.
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  Speaker 3: And there seems to be one juror that is holding
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  Speaker 3: this thing up and deadlocked. And they're even talking about
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  Speaker 3: a mistrial at this point. What are your thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: this wacky trial?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what's coming. We talked about last week the
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  Speaker 5: possible five verdicts. I said, don't forget there's one more thing,
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  Speaker 5: a hung jury, and that looks like where this is going.
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  Speaker 5: We've had the judges already given this jury what they
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  Speaker 5: call a dynamite charge. A dynamite charge is– Basically, essentially,
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  Speaker 5: the judge tells the deadlock jurors to reconsider their positions,
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  Speaker 5: like really push them to get to a verdict. But
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  Speaker 5: they'll say, well, not surrendering, you're honestly held conviction to
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  Speaker 5: reach a verdict, right? So it's a big charge that
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  Speaker 5: says almost nothing. And so they've sent out two deadlock notes.
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  Speaker 5: They sent out a third one today. It's over. And
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  Speaker 5: it's a hung jury. And a hung jury means they're
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  Speaker 5: going to do it all over again. So, so it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't mean she gets off. It doesn't mean, you know,
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  Speaker 5: she goes and it means it's like this trial never
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  Speaker 5: happened and the trial is going to start all over again.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not an acquittal. It's, it's nothing. It's just saying,
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  Speaker 5: and this happens. It's just a jury saying we can't
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  Speaker 5: unanimously decide this case. Even if it's one juror, it's
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  Speaker 5: one juror.
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  Speaker 3: But they do the trial all over again, but now
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  Speaker 3: they have to replace the whole jury, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Brand new jury.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the problem with it. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: for defense, like a new trial is like putting on
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  Speaker 5: a wet bathing suit. It's like, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 5: you know, all your little tricks are coming out already
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  Speaker 5: that all the things that you were going to do,
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  Speaker 5: all your defense strategies out, you know, you sort of
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  Speaker 5: know what the prosecution is going to say from the
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  Speaker 5: beginning from discovery. You know, that they're going to argue
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  Speaker 5: that she was not mentally incapable or insane.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And, and so, but now the defense is experts, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the prosecution now has, clear path to where they're going,
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  Speaker 5: their testimony. So remember, you know, mental illness isn't a
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  Speaker 5: legal question. Criminal responsibility is. And so Wanderer is simply saying,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not letting her off the hook on this. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not letting her. It looks like she was going to
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  Speaker 5: get convicted of the crime. The accounts that included the
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  Speaker 5: mental defect, right? So she'd be acquitted and not criminally
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  Speaker 5: responsible because she had this mental defect, right? She was insane. So,
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  Speaker 5: but it looks like now you're never going to get
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  Speaker 5: there unless this one juror somehow flips. And by the way, again, remember,
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  Speaker 5: if that happens, she doesn't get to go home and
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  Speaker 5: commence her life. She gets to go into a mental institution.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And could spend the rest of her life there, by
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  Speaker 5: the way.
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  Speaker 4: She's paralyzed, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Terrible.
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  Speaker 4: 60 seconds to go. I'd be remiss if I didn't
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  Speaker 4: mention this.
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  Speaker 3: Our Miami Hurricanes lost a national championship game to Indiana
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  Speaker 3: last year, but the Mensa era starts tonight at Stanford.
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  Speaker 3: Miami is like a 25-point favorite. On the road, Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 3: Stanford later on tonight. How pumped up were you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm so pumped up. I mean, I spoke to the
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  Speaker 5: staff a few days ago and Chris DeBall and these guys.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, look, we're only like seven, but that's cool.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, they don't know a lot of our players,
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  Speaker 5: but this defense is going to be ferocious. The defensive
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  Speaker 5: backfield is the best we've had in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: Then you have Ments, of course. You have Mark Fletcher.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Coming back, one of the best running backs in the country. And,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: of course, I think you have the best wide receiver
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: room in the country, led by Malachi Toney. You have
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Josh Moore, this five-star that was a freshman last year.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: You have, of course, the kid that came over, I
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: forget his name, but the kid from Duke that came
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: over with Mensah, who also has 1,000 yards. little white guy,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: shifty little white receiver. So, you know, you have a
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: really great, great, great team. And my request of all
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: to me and my coaching staff, Shannon Dawson, they're as
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: good as it gets. And this really should be the year,
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: but you know, We have to play the game.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: No, we got to play. And is Jason Taylor still there,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: coaching the defense? Yeah, of course. No, right, JT. Come on.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: He's awesome.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: He's a great guy. Great guy.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: And they love him there. And, you know, he's explosive there.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: So it's just the feeling is really good there. It's
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: a really– the morale is really, really high. And they believe.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: And they really believe that this is the year. You know,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: last year– No one really believed that they were going
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: to be a good team. Of course, Beck was a
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: big drop from Camp Ward. People were thinking, okay, they'll
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: be competitive. They had to start believing in themselves. That
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: started happening midway through that season. Starting off the season
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: by beating Notre Dame was a great way to start.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: It just kept going. You're going to have a quarterback that...
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Boris sees Carson Beck as.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: A college quarterback. Mets is very good.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: He's real good. Yeah, so this is exciting, bro.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: It's going to be fun. I'll be watching. I'll be
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: texting you later, I promise. Okay, buddy?
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: All about the U.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: All about the U. I love you, Joseph Takapina. As always,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: amazing job. Thank you.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Thank you, my brother.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: The best.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Joseph Takapina right there. Great defense attorney, Army guy. Knows
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: that stuff up and down. And he does not agree
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: with J.D.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Vance.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: He thinks Pete Hexeth is actually hurting him. the armed
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: services rather than helping. That's Joseph Takapina.
• 17:23
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  Speaker 4: Going on here?