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Angelo Vivolo | Chairman of the Board of the Columbus Citizen's Foundation Columbus Heritage Coalition | 07-10-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: If you love the Columbus State Parade like I do,
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  Speaker 1: we got rained out last year. But if you love
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  Speaker 1: it like I do, he's a guy, and again he's
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  Speaker 1: bestowed this honor on me for years of being able to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know any march. I sit in a convertible
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  Speaker 1: Cadillact most years and I am part of the procession,
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  Speaker 1: which is great Joe Episcopole. For years it was Maria Bartiromo,
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Rizzato. I'm not sure who's doing it this year,
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  Speaker 1: but at any rate, I love the Italian people, I
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  Speaker 1: love the parade. And as if I needed any more
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  Speaker 1: evidence that this mayor is a terrible person, terrible look
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  Speaker 1: what he did with the immigrant enclave maps yesterday. So
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  Speaker 1: here's my friend Angelo. Angelo, Good Friday morning, buddy. How
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. You are an Italian and the Italian
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  Speaker 2: American community recognizes you as an Italian for your support,
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  Speaker 2: and this show today has been incredible. You know, as
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  Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned, you're a hall the same as
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  Speaker 2: for the country. You don't have to wait until October.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: All the support that you give everyone a tiny American
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  Speaker 2: comunity especially but everyone, and I can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm honored to be your friend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you Angelo. I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 2: What about I'm only saying the truth. Thank you only
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  Speaker 2: saying the truth. I just got to say that this
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  Speaker 2: marriage just incredible. I mean, we knew back before he
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  Speaker 2: was elected, when he put the singer up in the
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  Speaker 2: story of Queen's the Columbus Statue. We knew Ben that
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  Speaker 2: he was anti Italian, anti anti Italian, anti Israel. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't watch in the Israeli Day parade. He didn't, he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He's anti Semitic. I can't I can't tell you how
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  Speaker 2: disappointed I am in the electorate to him to elect
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  Speaker 2: this guy. It's just incredible. Every day I say, how
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  Speaker 2: could this guy be your mayor? It's just impossible. But
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that what he did, the
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  Speaker 2: latest move with not including UH. The iconic UH place
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  Speaker 2: is like Author Avenue in the Bronx and Little Italy
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. These are places that are indispensal cultural assets
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  Speaker 2: of New York. You know, these are places where Italian
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  Speaker 2: American Italians came to and they developed those areas and
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  Speaker 2: just because and there there's still economic UH strongholds toward
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  Speaker 2: the Italian community that work and live there. So I
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  Speaker 2: just don't understand what he's doing. Maybe I should understand
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  Speaker 2: he's just anti everybody and and and and that's that's
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  Speaker 2: basically it. I don't know, you know, what's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen going forward. I just God willing he does not
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  Speaker 2: become re elected in four In four years, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what else to say, Sid, but God bless you
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  Speaker 2: for everything you're doing. And everyone that's been on your
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  Speaker 2: show today, they've all spoke so well, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: thank them enough as well. So on behalf of the
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  Speaker 2: Italian American community. You are Italian and you are the best.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. You're the best. And you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the Italians you mentioned, you know, the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: He loved out Williamsburg on this Immigrant on Clay Mapp,
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  Speaker 1: he left out Crown Hows, he left out Borough Park,
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  Speaker 1: the Germans, he left out Yorkville, the Irish, he left
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  Speaker 1: out the Bronx and the Rockaways and Woodlawn Heights, the Greeks.
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  Speaker 1: John Katzimatidi's I hope you're listening. He left out a Storia.
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  Speaker 1: This guy, Hey, you know what's funny. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that me and Bernie we took on another challenge
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  Speaker 1: for the Italians years ago when both the Blasio was mayor,
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  Speaker 1: when they wanted to whipped down the Columbus statues, and
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  Speaker 1: I had chance palmonary, who's gonna join me coming up
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  Speaker 1: in about an hour and a half in studio with
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  Speaker 1: the late great Phil Folio God rest his soul and
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  Speaker 1: great guy. And I showed up at at the park
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  Speaker 1: with Bo Diedel and author Right Dolla and Joe Piscoppol
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  Speaker 1: other Italian greats, and we actually saved it. We did
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  Speaker 1: a good job, and we saved the day Columbus Day
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  Speaker 1: instead of Indigenous People Day everywhere. So we just we
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  Speaker 1: just got over this with the Blasio and here we
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  Speaker 1: go again. Angelo.
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  Speaker 2: This is worse. I can't you know, I can't. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying this. This guy is makes Volagio, uh the Plazio
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  Speaker 2: look like a saint. I mean, compared to what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's just incredible, the destruction disrespect that he has. It's
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  Speaker 2: and I, like I said, I can't believe that he's
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  Speaker 2: our mayor. It's just amazing that the people actually voted
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  Speaker 2: for this guy. And the kind of hateful person that
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  Speaker 2: he is.
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  Speaker 1: But you still got to feel pretty good about the
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  Speaker 1: future of you know, the Columbus Day and and I
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  Speaker 1: know Indigenous People Day at the public schools. It's a
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  Speaker 1: whole other story. But where we were a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago, you still you still feel pretty good about it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: are you really really nervous again?
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  Speaker 2: No? I got to say you. You know, I know
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  Speaker 2: he's a differend of your God bless President Trump. He supports,
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  Speaker 2: he supports Columbus. He he brought it back. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: his uh, his declaration brought back Columbus last year, and
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  Speaker 2: then he also had a statue put on the White
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  Speaker 2: House lawn. I mean, you know, with his support, we
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  Speaker 2: will we will be victorious and we will be back.
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  Speaker 2: But with the guy we have as the mayor of
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  Speaker 2: New York City, well we just got to keep up.
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  Speaker 2: Like I always say, the Italian Americans believe in family, God,
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  Speaker 2: and country. But they've been too complacent over the years
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  Speaker 2: and not had their voice heard and not have spoken up.
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  Speaker 2: But now is the time. Cannot be complacent any longer.
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  Speaker 2: We must speak up for our community. We can't be
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  Speaker 2: marginalized by a guy like Mandabi. It's just cannot happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right about speaking up because as much
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  Speaker 1: as I love the Italian people and you've called me
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  Speaker 1: honorary Italian, the truth is, you know these people are
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem. I mean, you know Little Palestine
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  Speaker 1: exists in Bay Ridge. I'm sorry. When I was going
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  Speaker 1: to Polyprep in the nineteen eighties, early nineteen eighties, there
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  Speaker 1: was no Little Palestine and Howard Beach, which is right
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  Speaker 1: where I live. I live in Belle Harbor. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're building mosques. So I don't know what these Italian people,
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  Speaker 1: whether they're going to Boca and just getting out of here.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact is in some of these really rich
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  Speaker 1: traditional Italian communities, they marched five six thousand Pohamas people
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  Speaker 1: in Bayridge Angol a couple of years ago. How is
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  Speaker 1: that possible?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Look like you're in a Brooklyn boy
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  Speaker 2: at heart. Even though I live in Hattan, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: born and raised in Bensonhurst, Italian and Jewish neighborhood. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I feel as much Jewish as I do Catholics because
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  Speaker 2: I support I support Israel, I support the Jewish community,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't believe that we have an anti semi
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  Speaker 2: in this city as the mayor. How could that happen?
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  Speaker 1: It really is shocking, all right, So what do you
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  Speaker 1: do now? You know you've got the Columbus Heritage Coalition Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: what do you guys do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm been in conversation with every major
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  Speaker 2: Italian American organization and they're all outraged, outraged at what
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  Speaker 2: this mayor did. And there's going to kit and we
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  Speaker 2: are going to join together and and protest this action
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  Speaker 2: by the mayor. We haven't got the exact plans yet,
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  Speaker 2: but we are moving together with there's unity within the
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  Speaker 2: Italian American community especially it's what happened this week with
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  Speaker 2: this crazy mayor's map and excluding the Bronx, excluding Austin Avenue,
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  Speaker 2: and excluding Manhattan's to Italy. So that's what we're doing. Personally,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on six different boards. I'm on the Comunity Board,
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  Speaker 2: which is a very I'm very active there, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: on a bunch of other Titian American boards. So I
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  Speaker 2: keep I keep myself busy at this stage of my life.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't thank you enough. I mean it most slantly.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm not trying to be U show you praise.
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  Speaker 2: Its just that. But you, God bless you for everything
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  Speaker 2: you do every day, not only for Oximunity, but for
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  Speaker 2: all all all Americans, but especially for the Titian American community.
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  Speaker 2: So God bless you and keep keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to hear the rest of your
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  Speaker 2: show today and all the other tangs have on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, You've been great. Last one quickly. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think a lot of the balls to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be nuts to show up with the Columbus State parade.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, especially if chugs Edo was there.
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  Speaker 2: But in my in my personal view, okay, not representing
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  Speaker 2: the Clumbus Foundation, but my personal view, I do not
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  Speaker 2: believe he's going to show up.
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  Speaker 1: But can you But can you actually? I know he's
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of New York City, so this may be
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  Speaker 1: a very very stupid question. I apologize if it is.
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  Speaker 1: Can you actually ban him from showing up?
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  Speaker 2: No? Right, well, we did we believe it or not?
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  Speaker 2: We did years ago with belief or not with with
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  Speaker 2: the mayor. Oh my god, I'm having a senior moment. Bloomberg. Well, Bloomberg,
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  Speaker 2: because because he wanted to bring the cast of the
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  Speaker 2: sopranos to the parade, and so we told him he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't do it, and we took him to court and
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  Speaker 2: we won, and he didn't watch that year. But after
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  Speaker 2: that he was terrific. He came to every parade and
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  Speaker 2: he was great. So but it was just it was
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  Speaker 2: just that one year got it. Can be done, can
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  Speaker 2: be done.
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  Speaker 1: The precedent's has been set with Bloomberg. Angelo, you're a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful person. You're one of the few people in this
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  Speaker 1: city that I know a lot of people that know you,
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  Speaker 1: and they all love you like I do. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you for hopping on this morning. Keep fighting for the Italians.
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  Speaker 2: You're great, so bless you. Thank you so much too.
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  Speaker 1: There it is a great Angelo v below and he's
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  Speaker 1: out there every day, great Italian American.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here