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Charlie Gasparino | Economic Journalist on Trade War with Canada & Economic D-Day Incoming for Iran · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Charlie Gasparino on his Twitter Out of nowhere comes out
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  Speaker 1: and says, Sid's the best. You know, I saw that tweet, Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Truth as a defense. Huh. By the way, I hope,
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  Speaker 2: I hope Curtis stays there, just because I don't wan
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  Speaker 2: him to run again.
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  Speaker 1: He is running again. Though he's running again, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's making such a mockery and people go to me,
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  Speaker 1: he must be making a lot of money because he
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  Speaker 1: was able to tell John Katzimatidi's to go f himself, right,
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  Speaker 1: And we know that that station doesn't pay anybody anybody,
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  Speaker 1: So he keeps running. Why would he keep doing that
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  Speaker 1: if he's not making money?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Charlie. You know, you know I like Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: I've known it forever. He disappointed me by you know,
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  Speaker 2: the problem I had with him is not that he
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  Speaker 2: ran on principle, and maybe he did, but he seemed
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  Speaker 2: to be running against Cuomo and not my comedy daw Right.
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  Speaker 2: And if you and if you're like you know, if
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  Speaker 2: he's just like a sentient human being as much as
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  Speaker 2: you dislike Homa, if you like dislike and go for it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't but I'm just saying, like there's reason, there's
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  Speaker 2: you know, there you can make a good case that
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  Speaker 2: Dadrick Horan wasn't a great governor, particularly that last term.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this choice is easy here, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just so he disappointed me. I don't want to,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't want to engage in sort of nasty
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  Speaker 2: rhetoric with him.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I just hold on, but put the
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo stuff aside because he clearly suffers from Como derangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know last week he actually called the nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven families of the victims sore losers. They should
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  Speaker 1: suck it up, mam Donnie Won, he's the mayor. Don't
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  Speaker 1: listen to sid Rosenberg. He always brings my name up.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was better at the Curtis in six years than me,
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  Speaker 1: not even John. Nobody was better to him than me. Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, he called the nine eleven families last week
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  Speaker 1: sore losers.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, get you know, just stay away from that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, here's what I would say, And this to
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  Speaker 2: your earlier point about ratings. When you're like number two
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  Speaker 2: and buy a list, the numbers don't lie. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know maybe you can shoot a couple of lines,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things, a heroin in your arm and
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  Speaker 2: come out with you know, but I mean, but we
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  Speaker 2: you're that far behind it. I've seen this. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: this being in journalism for as long as and TV
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  Speaker 2: journalism remember I started as a print reporter, Like the
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  Speaker 2: TV news business was different. When people are behind in
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  Speaker 2: ratings and they focus on their ratings and they start
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  Speaker 2: stretching and they start doing stupid things, and I've seen it,
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  Speaker 2: and more often than not, it blows up careers in
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  Speaker 2: broadcast journalism. Maybe you could do that if you have
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  Speaker 2: a podcast and it's a very niche audience, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're playing for the clicks and all that, Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: something like a nikekel Win based gohes nuts and you
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  Speaker 2: know all these crazy people listen to him, so he
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  Speaker 2: gets paid on clicks and stuff like that. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're in the business that were in, which is essentially
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  Speaker 2: mainstream broadcast journalism, it never ends well when you go
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  Speaker 2: out on the limb. And even if you're looking for
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  Speaker 2: for eyeballs and controversy, So I would you know this
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  Speaker 2: is not going to end well if you start criticizing
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven families for being annoyed at justifiably annoyed
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  Speaker 2: four people like, it's not like you're talking about Rudy Giuliani.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about Mandami right believing it's so it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: But I did have a guest on just now, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know this because I don't know everything, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't. His name is Jack Joyce. He was
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  Speaker 1: a firefighter. He's been sick with cancer a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: And he signed, uh, he actually created a petition years
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  Speaker 1: ago on behalf of the nine to eleven families that
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  Speaker 1: to make the World Trade Center the National Museum, and
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  Speaker 1: he said that. President Trump even said he would do
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  Speaker 1: it when he was campaigning at Nasalle Coliseum back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I gotta tell you, Charlie, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was already the case. I'm shocked by this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is private property. That doesn't mean you can't
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  Speaker 2: have a useum there. You know, government taking over private
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  Speaker 2: property is you know, I have to understand the I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's hollowed ground. Trust me, I was there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my dad worked on the Trade Center. My
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  Speaker 2: dad was an iron worker. He took me down there.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy two, we were going to the feast
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  Speaker 2: of Saint Anthony over on Sullivan stry Or Thompson. I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember where it was. And he took me and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, so seventy two, I was like ten
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  Speaker 2: years old, nine years old. We we went. He was
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  Speaker 2: the foreman of the lobby. He was my dad was
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  Speaker 2: an iron worker, was to know as a while after
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  Speaker 2: and I remember him taking me down there. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fast forward to nine to eleven. I worked
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  Speaker 2: at the Wall Street Journal, which was across the street
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  Speaker 2: right and if it wasn't for a doctor's appointment, I
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  Speaker 2: would have been right there. Now I still covered it,
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  Speaker 2: and I covered it to this. I mean I was
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  Speaker 2: there two days later. You know the the you know
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  Speaker 2: dow Jones where it was across the street from Meryll
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  Speaker 2: on Liberty Street. Meryl was, as I remember, it was
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  Speaker 2: a morgue, smelled like death. I was down there a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I got taught State cancer, so yeah, I got Prospect
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  Speaker 2: cancer later on, and you know, I probably from that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, who knows, But I'm just saying. My brother
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  Speaker 2: was was a doctor at Bellevue at the time, was
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  Speaker 2: part of the Bucket Brigade. So my family has I
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  Speaker 2: have an affinity to that place in a in a way,
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  Speaker 2: in a way that I mean, I'm not a firefighter.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't there, you know, but I was there and
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  Speaker 2: it was and to just detegrate the families, it's just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, O a mutual friend, bo Deedle was
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  Speaker 1: also an eyemworoker and helped at the trade center.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he he was a tired worker. My dad
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  Speaker 2: was a laugh which is a little different, gotcha, but
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, they were all down there and they
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  Speaker 2: were very patriotic and to see and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I when bo I did a story about bo Securities
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  Speaker 2: business during nine to eleven, I was and that we
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  Speaker 2: were downtown a lot during that time, breathing that crabit.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Chelsea on twenty first and Ethan I
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  Speaker 1: went to work every day in the story of Clean
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  Speaker 1: to WFN with bloodshot eyes every day because the smoke
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  Speaker 1: was just brutal. And I lived wasn't down the block
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  Speaker 1: was closed, but not down the block, and my eyes
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  Speaker 1: were bloodshot red. You mentioned Mom, Donnie. I did see
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  Speaker 1: one of your stories yesterday. It was great. You're always
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  Speaker 1: you're a great writer. Charlie Gaspuino with me right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know. I think Randy Pastro is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a hero what he's doing with this lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: about the the second home tax here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I love the work that Wendy Mastro is doing.
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  Speaker 2: He's a pick bull listened. Randy Mastro used to yell
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  Speaker 2: at me all the time. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 2: I covered city Hall. I worked for New York news Day.
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  Speaker 2: I worked for something called the Bondbar, where I covered
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  Speaker 2: the finance side of city Hall, and then I worked
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  Speaker 2: in Newsday, and then I went to the Journal. I
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  Speaker 2: still covered, you know, the municipal bonzas related to New
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  Speaker 2: York City. And you know I used to get yelled
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  Speaker 2: at by older Giuliani. But there are my friends now.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Randy Levine needs to me. Randy Master's
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  Speaker 2: yelling me rude. Do you see yell at me Joe Loda,
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  Speaker 2: who's a good friend of mine, You see yell at me.
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  Speaker 2: Joe's now a big wheel over at Langone. These are
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  Speaker 2: all guys I know for years. But you know, here's
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  Speaker 2: what I never mind mind getting yelled at by people
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  Speaker 2: like if they don't like my story, and I think
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  Speaker 2: I screwed something up. I just don't care, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because it's an open line of communications. You can keep talking,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But what I have to admit is that
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  Speaker 2: the Giuliani people and I covered him. We're so hyper comfident.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say this about about a Mandami going
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  Speaker 2: up against Randy Mastro, and I think I quoted someone
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  Speaker 2: in there is like, it's gonna be no fun because
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  Speaker 2: this guy is a dog with a bone, and you
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  Speaker 2: know he's he's gonna and he's smart, and he knows
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  Speaker 2: the law, and you know, he knows the law from
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  Speaker 2: inside because he knows municipal law. So like if he's
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  Speaker 2: suing you over the peditaire attacks, he knows what can
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  Speaker 2: fly and what can't fly from a municipal law standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: he knows it. He knows the ring control guidelines inside
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  Speaker 2: and out. Plus he's a killer litigator. So you put
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  Speaker 2: all that together, and you know, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Randy Mastro versus who's the corporation council for the city blank.
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  Speaker 1: Oh please, that's not even close. Randy saw mad on
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  Speaker 1: a birthday this week, and I think at cats Ma
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  Speaker 1: Teiti's Breaface. I mean, Derek Adams was there on the
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  Speaker 1: whole crew.
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  Speaker 2: That is funny you mention that because at the last
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  Speaker 2: minute I had a change. I had a correct sub
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  Speaker 2: at sixty nine and then I realized, oh shit, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: birthday seven.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, just happened literally like badios. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but happy birthday to Randy Marshall. So, last time you
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  Speaker 1: were on, besides talking about the deal that the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: did with Apollo, which two point six billion coming the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees way, and the twelve billion dollar deal that Jared
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  Speaker 1: Kushner's brother and Eiger did with the Los Angeles Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: you talked about this impending deal, this potential deal, probable
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  Speaker 1: deal between Warner brothers in paramount, but this seems to
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  Speaker 1: be issues with that. Now what's that all about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I tweeted about this last night and lo and behold,
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  Speaker 2: it was foreshadowed what happened this morning, so I started
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  Speaker 2: taking the temperature. So there's gonna be settlement talks. There
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to be settlement talks because there's lots of
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  Speaker 2: pressure on this lefty loon. Rob Bonta, California Attorney General,
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  Speaker 2: still need to break up a deal that is not
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  Speaker 2: even close to anti trust. He just hates it because
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  Speaker 2: the Ellison's of friends with Trump or Larry Elson. At
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  Speaker 2: least David Elson is kind of a non political guy.
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  Speaker 2: That David Elson is the kid, and he's more than
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  Speaker 2: just a kid. You know, a lot of people put
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  Speaker 2: him off with some lucky, superb kid. He's not. He's
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  Speaker 2: really smart. He's a good director, good producer. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he wants to build and build this empire out by
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  Speaker 2: taking these sort of you know, middling companies. Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 2: is very good theatrically, but it's got wicked balance sheet
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  Speaker 2: problems if you just have to look at it. I've
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  Speaker 2: been covering it for a long time. David Zasloff has
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  Speaker 2: done a great job trying to six stack, but still
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  Speaker 2: it's got a long way to go. It needs to
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  Speaker 2: merge Paramount same thing even more so, so he wants
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  Speaker 2: to He wants to do something interest put two struggling
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  Speaker 2: companies together and produce a big company that goes against
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  Speaker 2: the tech Titans and Netflix somehow. You know this guy
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  Speaker 2: Bonta with Kiss James, who's one of the worst public
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  Speaker 2: officials we got in this country. They're sort of could
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  Speaker 2: port in themselves into creating an anti trust case, like
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  Speaker 2: like these companies could do great on their own and
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  Speaker 2: just going to hire everybody because they're not because they're
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  Speaker 2: not swimming in debt and making so much money. It's
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  Speaker 2: so stupid. So they were supposed to do settlement negotiations
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  Speaker 2: because they're under a lot of pressure from some you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to say that that Xavier Psara and News
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  Speaker 2: our mainstream, but they're more mainstream than this clown Bonta.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean right by by the way, right now,
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  Speaker 1: but right now, but Sarah is beating the living daylights
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  Speaker 1: out of Steve Hilton in those polls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that doesn't surprise me in that space
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  Speaker 2: and everybody that was normal right away. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, and I've been there, that place is
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  Speaker 2: the most dysfunctional place in the world in DL and
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  Speaker 2: it's just the big cities and everything. So in any event,
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  Speaker 2: they were gonna they were gonna do this sort of
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  Speaker 2: negotiation or settlement. And you know, I tweeted last night
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  Speaker 2: that sorry, that's my neighbors, bogs. They love me. The
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  Speaker 2: I'm in South Carolina by the way, said yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: had a little place by the way, my backyard. I
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  Speaker 2: gotta I got a tight alligator in my backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, are you able to vote for Darley and
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  Speaker 1: Graham there tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm not a resident just yet, but she's all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. But in any event, they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: have settlement discussions. I reported last night that the peace
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  Speaker 2: guy the people at the els and people were like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not we're not confident. We think he's we think
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  Speaker 2: he's full of you know what, and he's just looking
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  Speaker 2: to play the string here to get as much publicity
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  Speaker 2: to be someday governor. And lo and behold this morning
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  Speaker 2: he pulled. He said, no settlement. So he said something stupid.
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  Speaker 2: He made up an excuse. He said, they leaked the story.
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  Speaker 2: What story did they leaked? Did they lead to me
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  Speaker 2: that they weren't hopeful? I mean, that was the only
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  Speaker 2: story I saw left. I was, yeah, the thing that
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  Speaker 2: I wrote. And maybe he thought that was a leak.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But he said when they when they
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  Speaker 1: when they want to get more serious, they can call
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  Speaker 1: us back and that we'll do something. Only only only
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  Speaker 1: sixty seconds ago. Scott Bessen is going to talk later
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  Speaker 1: on today and it looks like right now President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is trying to win the Iran war by just strangling,
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  Speaker 1: which he's been doing for a while. Just strangling Iran
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  Speaker 1: economically will not get it done, Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to do more than I mean it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's see what Besson said. I mean, if they do,
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  Speaker 2: if they pull the nuclear option, economically, yeah, that could
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  Speaker 2: do it. But I mean, this is about like making
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  Speaker 2: sure nothing moves, no currency moves, anybody that helps them
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  Speaker 2: get stinged. That's where we should be really focusing our
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  Speaker 2: trade wars with anybody right now that helps Iran. We
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  Speaker 2: should be. We should not be like going after Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And as much as I don't like the Canadians, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, trust me, I'm sure, I'm sure they try
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  Speaker 2: to screw us uping right, but we need to be
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  Speaker 2: hyper focused on getting this thing done. And one way
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  Speaker 2: to do that is to build coalitions and to economically
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  Speaker 2: squeez him. You're not gonna do if you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to invade the country, which who wants that? And but
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  Speaker 2: you really got to do it, and you know, let's
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  Speaker 2: see what he says. Scott Besson's a smart guy. If
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  Speaker 2: anybody knows how to do it. It's him.
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  Speaker 1: He's great. Joy smart guy too. I love having you
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  Speaker 1: on this show. Enjoy South Carolina. Thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: loyalty and friendship. Charlie Gaspono your terrific Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Talk to you so much.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, my friend, Charlie Gasparino right there, what
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  Speaker 1: a smart guy.
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