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Frank Morano | New York City Councilman | 07-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Believe the NYPD when they put forward their numbers. What
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Speaker 1: we're seeing are some of the lowest numbers that New
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Speaker 1: York City has seen in recorded history, especially when it
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Speaker 1: comes to murders and shootings. These are the lowest we've
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Speaker 1: ever seen. And what I think is important to know
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Speaker 1: is a lot of the increase in rape also comes
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Speaker 1: from an expanded definition of what counts as rape, as
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Speaker 1: well as survivors coming forward for acts that took place
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Speaker 1: years prior.
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Speaker 2: Rape is up exponentially, and the mayor says, well, it
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Speaker 2: really depends on how you define rape. Maybe he should
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Speaker 2: ask his wife. She seems to enjoy it. When Israeli
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Speaker 2: girls get raped, maybe five at a time, gang bang
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Speaker 2: by a bunch of terrorists and hamask guys, maybe he
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Speaker 2: should ask his wife what constitutes rape. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He is the most disgusting person God ever created. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how any of these media members get angry
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Speaker 2: with me, but over this a million times Errol Lewis,
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Speaker 2: Katie Honan, even some of the real Mainstays people I respect,
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Speaker 2: the Marshall Ramers, the Morgan McKay's. They never asked this
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Speaker 2: guy a real question. Melissa Russo maybe every now and then,
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Speaker 2: not often. You know, Michael Rappaport was very funny on
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Speaker 2: this show yesterday. Let me go down there. I want
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Speaker 2: to go down there. I want one of these stations
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Speaker 2: to employ Sid Rosenberg for one day, one day. Let
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Speaker 2: that communist run New York one Spectrum instead of Errol Lewis,
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Speaker 2: that fat, stupid black racist sitting there with Mam Donnie
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Speaker 2: every Thursday. Let me do it once. Your business is
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Speaker 2: all about ratings, You do realize that, right, You're done? Bastards?
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Speaker 2: Don't you think that sid Rosenberg and Mam Donnie would
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Speaker 2: generate bigger ratings than Lewis and Mom Donnie. Now, look,
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Speaker 2: I don't think I would even do it, because I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure I could sit in the same room with
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Speaker 2: that guy without beating him to a pulp. And yes,
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Speaker 2: that was just a physical, violent statement. I don't care.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I can do it. I really don't.
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Speaker 2: Frank Morano is one of our five Republican City Council members,
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Speaker 2: you know the story, one of the two, along with
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Speaker 2: the great David Carr out of Staten Island and a
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Speaker 2: tremendous radio guy as well. A former colleague, he joins
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Speaker 2: us this morning. He's outraged about the mayor trying to
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Speaker 2: redefine rape as well. So what do set rank does
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Speaker 2: take it away? Mamdanie's latest personal.
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Speaker 3: Said, I watched that answer three times because I genuinely
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Speaker 3: couldn't believe that that was the answer the mayor of
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Speaker 3: New York City chose to give, not on a subject
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Speaker 3: like city SEPs or welfare reform or something that maybe
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Speaker 3: requires a little nuance or some depth. It was a
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Speaker 3: pretty cut and dry issue of rape in a post
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Speaker 3: Me Too era. And he's ostensibly the leader of a
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Speaker 3: political movement that is very down with being woke and
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Speaker 3: women's rights and everything like that, not a movement that
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Speaker 3: necessarily sees a lot of gray area when it comes
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Speaker 3: to rape. I mean, this was excusing. If this was
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Speaker 3: a Republican mayor or a politician of any type that
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Speaker 3: gave this answer, forget about it. If that was Rudy
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Speaker 3: Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg, they would have fulleyed him.
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Speaker 2: This was forgot about a politician. I gotta tell you.
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Speaker 2: By went on the air and said that I'd be
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Speaker 2: in trouble.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've said a lot less severe things and gotten
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Speaker 3: fullayd for that. But I'll tell you if more survivors
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Speaker 3: are coming forward, that's a good thing, But the current
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Speaker 3: that happened to them is not a good thing. And
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Speaker 3: that's what the mayor totally failed to highlight. You don't
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Speaker 3: spin rape statistics, you don't misoden them, you don't look
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Speaker 3: for the sunny side. A survivor coming forward years later
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Speaker 3: doesn't mean the rape didn't happen. It means we learned
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Speaker 3: about it later. The proper answer is, and this is
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Speaker 3: not an answer that puts him in a bad light
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Speaker 3: at all. If he would have given it is I'm
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Speaker 3: deeply concerned. We're examining the numbers. We're going to protect
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Speaker 3: women and bring predators to justice. Period, done, end of story. Instead,
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Speaker 3: we got a sociology seminar this administration, and I think
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Speaker 3: you know me said, and I said this even before
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Speaker 3: he was elected. I'm not looking to beat the guy up.
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Speaker 3: Just to beat the guy up, right. I have no
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Speaker 3: problem working with someone that I disagree with ninety nine
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Speaker 3: percent of the time on the one issue that maybe
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Speaker 3: we agree on. But this administration has this strange instinct.
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Speaker 3: Whenever New Yorkers identify disorder or crime, the first response
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Speaker 3: is to explain why we're interpreting it incorrectly. Me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well, really, the first response really is to beat
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Speaker 2: their chest and give out a couple of really favorable numbers.
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Speaker 2: Which also I can go into those numbers like he
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Speaker 2: did with the rape me and do the same thing,
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Speaker 2: but I choose not to. When it comes to shootings
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Speaker 2: and murderers, that's their first response, right, heyke a, look
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Speaker 2: at it. We're doing great except transit crime. Right, except
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Speaker 2: when somebody gets punched in the face on the subway,
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Speaker 2: except when a Jewish person gets punched across the face,
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Speaker 2: except when a young girl gets raped in a stairwell.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise we're doing great.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The reporter there asked a very simple, very fair question,
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Speaker 3: and the mayor gave what can only be described as
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Speaker 3: a bizarre answer. So I don't need the mayor.
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Speaker 2: I think bizarre is the wrong word I would go.
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Speaker 2: I would even say insensitive and downright grotesque.
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Speaker 3: So I don't need a mayor or any politician to
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Speaker 3: find the silver lining in rape statistics. I need him
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Speaker 3: to find the rapist fight. This is crazy, is an
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Speaker 3: absolutely crazy situation, and I was glad the speaker called
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Speaker 3: called him out on her you could tell that. You know,
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Speaker 3: she is getting she is getting his goat to some extent.
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Speaker 2: No, there's no question about it. You know, when when
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Speaker 2: hard and I had all difficulties, she was really and
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Speaker 2: i'll say this, pending over backwards to appease him. She
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Speaker 2: has not been doing that as of late, whether it
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Speaker 2: was me Vicky, she has not been doing that as
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Speaker 2: of late. I mean, it seems like and you too,
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Speaker 2: you know, you guys are kind of instantly from the
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Speaker 2: budget to the lack of cops, no cops on the budget,
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Speaker 2: no fifth bierfighter, to this thing with the rape, to
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Speaker 2: the horses. It seems like almost every day now Julie
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Speaker 2: Mennon has an issue with the mayor. Now I didn't
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Speaker 2: play her response, but he can give me the monarch
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Speaker 2: note version. What exactly did she say in response to
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Speaker 2: that awful, awful description of rape by the mayor.
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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, that question came about and Dan
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Speaker 3: Mannerino from Picks asked it because she was making such
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Speaker 3: a big deal over the uptick in rape crimes as
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Speaker 3: a reason we need more cops. And then he asked
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Speaker 3: the questions. She gave that a bizarre response. Not only
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Speaker 3: did she and by the way, not just her, but
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Speaker 3: many of our colleagues. You have I know you you
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Speaker 3: and not without reason, have said there's really not much
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Speaker 3: not no such thing as a conservative Democrat these days,
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Speaker 3: one at least as one in the city. Phil Wong,
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Speaker 3: who represents Bob Holden's old district, he certainly is a
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Speaker 3: conservative Democrat.
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Speaker 2: And Bob Holden, but that matter. Bob Holden who I
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Speaker 2: talked to when I watched his tweets every day, because
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Speaker 2: I think he's a brilliant guy. He had our issues
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Speaker 2: during the Purtis rue, but I really loved the guy.
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Speaker 2: Bob Holden was that guy. So it looks like Bill
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Speaker 2: one has continued Holden's legacy is the Mantle.
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Speaker 3: But he decried the mayor's response, and so did more
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Speaker 3: conventional establishment Democrats like Lynn Shulman and even some of
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Speaker 3: the Liberal Democrats. There is nobody standing up for what
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Speaker 3: the mayor said. But basically Julie said that in words
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Speaker 3: or substance, in not quoting herreet, but that it defies
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Speaker 3: any reasonable logic that the mayor would choose to characterize
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Speaker 3: Rapes that way, and like you could almost give him
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Speaker 3: a gimme if he was handling every other aspect of
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Speaker 3: his job well, but honestly, everything that he is handling
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Speaker 3: in this city is turning to pot And you know,
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Speaker 3: I heard you, and maybe it was with Joe Bignigno
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Speaker 3: the other day, or maybe it was one of your monologues,
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Speaker 3: talk about how it takes time for the city to
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Speaker 3: turn around in both directions, on a positive level and
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Speaker 3: in a negative direction. We are setting this city up
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Speaker 3: for failure in so many different areas. I heard you know,
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Speaker 3: you know, your terrific interview with Vicky yesterday and they
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Speaker 3: talked about the you guys talked about the little Italy debacle.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's just one, one minor example, which ultimately
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Speaker 3: doesn't affect many people's lives, but it says a lot
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Speaker 3: about the mayor's character. He doesn't view himself as a
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Speaker 3: cheerleader for New York City. He doesn't view himself as
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Speaker 3: a mayor that represents all New Yorkers. And if you
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Speaker 3: look at how he's handling homelessness, the way that he's
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Speaker 3: handling homelessness, whether it's in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Staten Island,
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Speaker 3: that has the opportunity to set us back to the
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Speaker 3: pre Giuliani era. More than almost anything any mayor's ever done.
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Speaker 3: Take a look at what's going on at the Intrepid.
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Speaker 3: If you walk outside of the Intrepid, there's this homeless encampment.
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Speaker 3: The Post has been covering it. It stretches twelve blocks
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Speaker 3: on the west side, twelve blocks. There's tense, this open drugs.
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Speaker 2: That's like Los Angeles. That's Los Angeles, Frank, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And police had to intervene yesterday over an illegal electricity hookup.
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Speaker 3: The homeless are setting up camps and with electricity. And
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Speaker 3: this is what happens when compassion gets divorced from common.
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Speaker 2: Listen enough with the compassion, I'm sorry, not on this show.
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Speaker 2: Save it for other shows on this station. Or they
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Speaker 2: talk about that. I put my son on a subway.
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Speaker 2: We had just moved back from Boca Raton, Florida, and
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Speaker 2: New York is scary enough, and we had to take
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Speaker 2: Gabriel to school one day on the subway. He was
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Speaker 2: about seven years old, and some guy pushed him, tried
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Speaker 2: to physically harm him. Some other guy was naked, and
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Speaker 2: you know, he didn't get he didn't. There wasn't a
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Speaker 2: crime committed necessarily, but it scored that kid for life.
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Speaker 2: And when you walk past some crazy homeless guy in
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Speaker 2: New York City and he starts yelling and screaming or cursing,
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Speaker 2: and he smells and looks terrible. That is not just
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Speaker 2: some you know, some innocent guy. I know some of
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Speaker 2: them were with service people Vietnam and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: I get it. But it has gotten to the point
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Speaker 2: where these people on the streets of New York City
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Speaker 2: absolutely play a role in lessening the quality of life.
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Speaker 2: It's enough with compassion, get with people up the goddamn
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Speaker 2: streets well, and.
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Speaker 3: You know what, it's also for that former serviceman that's
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Speaker 3: now homeless because he's dealing with drug issues or mental illness.
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Speaker 3: It's not compassionate to the homeless person living in a
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Speaker 3: tent surrounded by drugs and filth. It's also to your
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Speaker 3: point about quality of life for everybody else. It's not
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Speaker 3: compassionate to the bus driver who's got to work there,
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Speaker 3: or the family taking their kids to the intrepid. And
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Speaker 3: it's especially absurd to the taxpayers who are spending billions,
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Speaker 3: billions with a b of dollars on a shelter and
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Speaker 3: social services, only to be told that a twelve block
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Speaker 3: encampment is somehow inevitable, right.
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Speaker 2: But that's Manhattan. So that's the twelve block in Manhattan.
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Speaker 2: I know you listen to the very beginning of the
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Speaker 2: show because you love that. You said that all these
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Speaker 2: and all the big thank you, thank you. So I
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Speaker 2: did play the video of Eno Vernacov out of Brooklyn
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Speaker 2: and her car talking about what's going on in Sheep
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Speaker 2: said Bay in this company, I guess that's behind this
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Speaker 2: potential shelter. They're being investigated and Mamdannie still game a
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Speaker 2: couple one hundred million dollars. Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Well, more or less? Yeah, I mean, Ina is totally right.
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Speaker 3: And this story ought to terrify every neighborhood in New
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Speaker 3: York City because the issue isn't whether homeless people deserve help.
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Speaker 3: Of course they do, right where combastment of the city,
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Speaker 3: even if even if we won't be when you're mayor.
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Speaker 3: But the issue is whether city hall can fundamentally transform
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Speaker 3: a residential neighborhood, which is what Sheep said, Bay is
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Speaker 3: with virtually no meaningful community input. They're taking out families
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Speaker 3: and bringing in one hundred and ten single adult men.
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Speaker 3: The city says it's not even conducting criminal background vetting
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Speaker 3: across the street from where that shelter is going to be,
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Speaker 3: where the gold Star in or the yeah, the gold
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Speaker 3: Star in the city. Across the street is a park
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Speaker 3: that's used by children. How does a government look parents
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Speaker 3: in the eye and say, don't worry, we deliberately chose
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Speaker 3: not to find out who we're placing here. Vetting isn't
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Speaker 3: demonizing the homeless or anybody. Vetting is just basic competence.
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Speaker 3: And I keep saying this because in our district, in
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Speaker 3: Staten Island, they're doing the same thing. We're living version
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Speaker 3: of it on arthur Kill Road. Communities learn about these
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Speaker 3: decisions after this bureaucracy has already decided what it's going
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Speaker 3: to do.
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Speaker 2: You know what I would do. I would not only
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Speaker 2: not close Rikers Island, I'd build new housing on Rikers Island.
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Speaker 2: And I'd put three groups of people on Rikers Island.
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Speaker 2: I mean this Obviously, the criminals they need to be there, Okay,
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Speaker 2: not in my neighborhood. Secondly, I would put illegals somewhere
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Speaker 2: else on Rikers Island, and the homeless. You got acres
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Speaker 2: and acres and acres and acres of land. Take all
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Speaker 2: three of those groups. The criminals, the illegals, and the homeless,
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Speaker 2: and build more housing and put them on Rikers Island.
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Speaker 2: Keep all those people away from law abiding citizens like us.
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Speaker 2: Let me get to the minorities. This battle over specialty
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Speaker 2: programs in schools. Both of my kids went through the
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Speaker 2: public school system in New York and it nearly ruined
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Speaker 2: both of them, thank God, even Gabriel, the smart kids.
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Speaker 2: I've got great parents, but it really did nearly ruin
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Speaker 2: both of them. Here's another issue with this mayor education.
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Speaker 2: What's going on with that brank Well?
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Speaker 3: So yesterday and numbers came out. So New York City
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Speaker 3: has a few of the very best public schools, not
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Speaker 3: just in the country, but the world. Stuyvesant Bronxigh School
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Speaker 3: of Science, Brooklyn Tech, Rights for the World, right, And
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Speaker 3: I think John katzin Matids went to Brooklyn Tech. So
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Speaker 3: my dad said to my brother, great school Sodi, Peter King,
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Speaker 3: I think no, I think he went to Fordham Prep.
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Speaker 3: Sure he didn't make it to Brooklyn Tech. I mean, okay,
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Speaker 3: but so now you have to take a test to
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Speaker 3: get in there. And the numbers came out yesterday that
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Speaker 3: there's a very small portion of black New Yorkers that
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Speaker 3: were admitted right, and instead of saying, all right, how
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Speaker 3: do we get more black and Hispanic students to get
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Speaker 3: to a point where they can pass the test? Now
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Speaker 3: mam Donni and all of the social justice advocates are
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Speaker 3: talking about how can we again dismantle this test? So
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Speaker 3: this is crazy. The most interesting person in the time
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Speaker 3: story on this today wasn't Mamdani, but it was a
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Speaker 3: retired black math and engineering teacher from Brooklyn Tech named
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Speaker 3: sam Atawoomi. He went to Brooklyn Tech himself in the eighties.
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Speaker 3: He grew up in the South Bronx, and he said
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Speaker 3: his middle school teachers told him about the specialized high schools.
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Speaker 3: They prepared him for the test, and three other kids
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Speaker 3: from his eighth grade class went to Brooklyn Tech with him.
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Speaker 3: His explanation today in the papers is that middle schools
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Speaker 3: don't make that a priority anymore because many of them
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Speaker 3: are ruggling just to get kids to pass the state test.
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Speaker 3: That's the whole debate. So the New York City school
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Speaker 3: system is failing to prepare black and Hispanic kids for
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Speaker 3: a rigorous exam, and the solution is to get rid
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Speaker 3: of the exam. That's what the mayor in these advocates
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Speaker 3: want the sahsat, which is what they call that test,
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Speaker 3: the specialized high school you know exam. They may be
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Speaker 3: revealing inequality, but that doesn't mean the test created the inequality.
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Speaker 3: Markbody says, one test doesn't measure apptitude. Okay, I agree,
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Speaker 3: but no test measures the totality of a human being.
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Speaker 3: The question is whether this test measures the academic skills
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Speaker 3: necessary to succeed in some of the most rigorous high
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Speaker 3: schools in America. These schools are able to take one
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Speaker 3: generation of immigrants who come here impoverished and turn them
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Speaker 3: into wealthy lawyers, doctors, generals, radio station owners like John
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Speaker 3: Katzimatide's health insurance executives like my dad. These were people
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Speaker 3: that who are poor, working class and because of the
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Speaker 3: education that they got at these specialized high schools, they're
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Speaker 3: able to be really successful people. And to the mayor
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Speaker 3: to say, we want to destroy these schools by destroying
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Speaker 3: the test, why because too many Chinese people get in. Sorry,
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Speaker 3: help these kids, help these Blacknessipanic kids pass the test.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how about competing with the Asian kids who are
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Speaker 2: home doing math and science while our kids are doing
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Speaker 2: half naked dances on TikTok is that the Asians fault.
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Speaker 2: Let's dump down all of our tests. We're can make
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Speaker 2: sure that our moronic kids can compete. M Donnie's an asshole.
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Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. I can't say it any better
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Speaker 2: than that. But you, I'm going to say to you
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Speaker 2: the same thing I said to Vicki Patadino yesterday. You
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Speaker 2: are too smart and too good. You've already you've already
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Speaker 2: outlived the city council. I need you to run with
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Speaker 2: something bigger. What do you mean that, Frank, I think
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Speaker 2: I think you're brilliant. I think you're brilliant. I really do.
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Speaker 3: And Staten Island, we're very blessed to have a lot
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Speaker 3: of very good elected officials queens. You know, Vicky would
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Speaker 3: be a much more, a greater improvement over John lou
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Speaker 3: the state senator there, and obviously she and the borough
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Speaker 3: president of term limited there. She'd be great there. But
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Speaker 3: you know, we're very lucky to have a great congress
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Speaker 3: person and Nicole Maya Taka is a great senator in
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Speaker 3: Andy Lanza. But honestly, if you could see the crazy
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Speaker 3: bills that some of my colleagues in the city council,
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Speaker 3: you know, bring up on a regular basis, and some
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Speaker 3: of the things that the Mayor's office is doing we
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Speaker 3: didn't even get into. Maybe we do it next time.
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Speaker 3: The Department of Education contracting scandal where this school's chancellor,
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Speaker 3: Kamar Samuel Samuels. He may turn out to be the
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Speaker 3: shortest tenured schools chancellor since Mike Bloomberg hit Kathy Black
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Speaker 3: because the amount of stone walling and lack of transparency
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Speaker 3: about how these contracts are given out. I'm sure you
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Speaker 3: saw the story, but maybe your aludience might have missed it.
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Speaker 3: They had a vendor that they had in schools that
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Speaker 3: basically they encouraged the vendor to break the rules or
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Speaker 3: at least bend the rules about how they were billing
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Speaker 3: the city so that they could get paid. And on
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Speaker 3: top of that, they found that a school that was
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Speaker 3: a teacher that was dismissed for doing all sorts of
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Speaker 3: wacky things with students was back in a school through
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Speaker 3: the vendor, no vetting and anything at all. And we've
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Speaker 3: asked Julie Mennon and the council have asked repeatedly about
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Speaker 3: how these contracts are awarded, how the procurement process has
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Speaker 3: been given out and we've gotten no answers at all,
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Speaker 3: And only yesterday when the mayor was threatened with a
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Speaker 3: subpoena did he say that they're going to be looking
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Speaker 3: into it. So there's a lot going wrong with the city.
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Speaker 3: And I think it may sound silly to people that
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Speaker 3: think that the city Council is just, you know, a
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Speaker 3: silly place to be, but there's a lot of need
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Speaker 3: for oversight and there's a lot of need for fighting
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Speaker 3: the good fight on the city council. You know, you
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Speaker 3: were kind of enough to mention my radio career, and
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Speaker 3: I missed being on the radio very much, and that's
18:51
Speaker 3: why I'm so grateful when you give me these opportunities.
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Speaker 3: But you know, it was a very difficult decision to
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Speaker 3: walk away from a show that I really enjoyed doing.
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Speaker 3: Number One was really growing in the ratings and affiliates
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Speaker 3: and revenue and all the ways that we measure radio success.
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Speaker 3: And I wouldn't be doing this and working eighteen hours
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Speaker 3: a day, literally maybe more if I didn't think that
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Speaker 3: I could move the needle forward and move the ball
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Speaker 3: forward in a positive way. And we're trying to deliver
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Speaker 3: for veterans I'm doing that as the chair of the
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Speaker 3: Veterans Committee and try to do a lot of other
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Speaker 3: good things. So I appreciate the endorsement for a future office,
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Speaker 3: but I'm very content to stay here and battle the
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Speaker 3: battle the crazies as best as we can.
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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you, and no disrespect to anybody on
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Speaker 2: the air now or prior, but we've never really replaced you.
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Speaker 3: That.
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Speaker 2: No one can. We You know, they're all nice people,
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Speaker 2: but they don't they don't come close to what you
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Speaker 2: accomplished here. I appreciate that, true, true live Listen, I
19:44
Speaker 2: don't listen. I tell the truth, and you know John
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Speaker 2: can't yell at me if I tell the truth. I
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Speaker 2: tell the truth. We've tried and we have some nice people.
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Speaker 2: As a guy here now, he's very nice, but he
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Speaker 2: ain't you, So listen. Continued success, keep up the fight.
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Speaker 2: Frank Morano, You're great and this is a great appearance
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Speaker 2: as always, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me said congratulations again. On the
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Speaker 3: interview with Benjamin Netton Yahoo, you know some of the
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Speaker 3: people took issue with the clip that you played this
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Speaker 3: morning and yesterday about me saying that you're maybe the
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Speaker 3: most influential New York radio host since Bob Grant. I
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Speaker 3: stand by that I don't know that there's another local
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Speaker 3: radio show that to talk about the biggest story in
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Speaker 3: the country, the Lindsey Graham situation, could get the second
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Speaker 3: most newsworthy person on the planet, which is Benjamin Netton Yahoo,
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Speaker 3: to come on that show and talk about it and
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Speaker 3: do so with a level of candor that I haven't
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Speaker 3: really heard him express anywhere else. You know, this is
20:41
Speaker 3: the only show where on any given day you could
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Speaker 3: hear the President or Erdawan or Joe Benigno or you know,
20:51
Speaker 3: or like Darryl Strawberry. Like, there's just no tell us
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Speaker 3: what will happen on this show any given the day.
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Speaker 3: And it's one of the reasons that I think people
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Speaker 3: are afraid.
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Speaker 2: To to thank you. Buddy, Strawberry will be on this show,
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Speaker 2: Potty just see. You know, ear one is going to
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Speaker 2: be a tough one, but we'll see what we can do. Frank,
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Speaker 2: great job, Bildy, terrific. Thank you so much. Pot I
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Speaker 2: love you, Thank.
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Speaker 3: You, thank you, I love you. Thanks for the support
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Speaker 3: and allowing me on.
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Speaker 2: That great Frank Morano right there, City Council.
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Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here