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Sid & Friends In The Morning Celebrates Columbus Day in New York City! · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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  Speaker 4: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe he didn't make it years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Today, Sid forever joins a roll call of some of
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  Speaker 4: the greatest legends in the history of New York broadcasting
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  Speaker 4: and talk radio.
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  Speaker 5: The best in the business, and he's the best in
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  Speaker 5: the business.
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  Speaker 4: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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  Speaker 4: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
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  Speaker 4: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
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  Speaker 4: to be one of those people in the audience. And
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  Speaker 4: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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  Speaker 6: The Manhattan Columbus Day festivities start with a 9.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: mass here at St. Patrick's Cathedral. And then the official
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  Speaker 6: parade steps off at 44th and 5th Avenue at 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: And chief among those missing will be Mayor Mamdani. It
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  Speaker 6: is billed as the world's largest celebration of Italian-American heritage.
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  Speaker 6: The 82nd annual Columbus Day Parade. Tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 6: participants and one million spectators are expected to turn out.
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  Speaker 6: But according to his official schedule, Mayor Mamdani won't be there,
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  Speaker 6: despite the organizers saying they invited him to march. Italian-American
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  Speaker 6: leaders like Andre Domino, the president of the Italian-American One
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  Speaker 6: Voice Coalition, say that is upsetting.
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  Speaker 7: I'm actually not surprised. After all, before he was elected mayor,
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  Speaker 7: we know that he gave the finger to the Columbus
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  Speaker 7: statue and said, take it down. And then again, he
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  Speaker 7: came out with the ethnic map and left little Italy
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  Speaker 7: as well as Irish and Jewish areas off. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: not surprised that he did this, but it's still a
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  Speaker 7: disgrace because he's supposed to be the mayor of all people.
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  Speaker 6: Mayor Mamdani was already a no-show for three events honoring
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  Speaker 6: Christopher Columbus this weekend. He was not at the wreath-laying
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  Speaker 6: ceremony at Columbus Circle and two Columbus Day parades. The
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  Speaker 6: one in Astoria marched past the Christopher Columbus statue targeted
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  Speaker 6: by the mayor when he was running for state assembly
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  Speaker 6: in 2020. Back then, he famously posted a picture of
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  Speaker 6: himself making an obscene gesture to the statue with the words,'
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  Speaker 6: Take it down.' The other parade was in Bensonhurst, where
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  Speaker 6: City Council President Julie Menon served as Grand Marshal. Menon
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  Speaker 6: posted these pictures on X saying she was proud to honor...
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  Speaker 6: the 800,000 Italian-American New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 7: We want to bring the attention to the fact that
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  Speaker 7: Italian-Americans shouldn't be snubbed like this by anyone, and especially
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  Speaker 7: with someone in such a position of prominence like the
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  Speaker 7: mayor of one of the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: Cities in the world. He shouldn't do this.
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  Speaker 7: Italian-Americans helped build this country and helped build New York,
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  Speaker 7: and to snub Italian-Americans is not the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 6: And this year's parade will actually take place on the
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  Speaker 6: day that Christopher Columbus actually landed in America in 1492.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Be talking a little bit about a man named Christopher Columbus.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason I get all of the Italian vote,
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  Speaker 4: I really believe I didn't do it for this reason.
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  Speaker 4: I resurrected Christopher Columbus. They were taking a statue down,
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  Speaker 4: everything all over the place. And I put up a statue,
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful statue of Christopher Columbus right in front of
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  Speaker 4: the main office building and the Eisenhower building right across
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  Speaker 4: the street. That's the office building essentially for the White
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  Speaker 4: House and other very important agencies. So we have people
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  Speaker 4: that these lunatics that are running, they're all against Christopher Columbus.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, we're going to be here
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  Speaker 2: almost two and a half years.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be so protected like nobody's ever been
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  Speaker 4: protected before because they want to Tear down the history
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  Speaker 4: and heritage that makes us who we are.
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  Speaker 2: Not only Columbus.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we had a time when they wanted to
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  Speaker 4: rip down the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
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  Speaker 2: That was about the end.
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  Speaker 4: Now we've had pay dirt, you know. New York City
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  Speaker 4: officials recently released a map showing ethnic communities in our
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  Speaker 4: nation's largest city. And their map includes little Senegal, little Guyana,
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  Speaker 4: little Haiti, little Yemen, But it does not include a
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  Speaker 4: place called Little Italy, an unthinkable omission for New York City.
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  Speaker 8: Think of that.
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  Speaker 4: So you have Yemen covered, Haiti covered, Guyana covered, Senegal covered.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a disgrace. We are going to work
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  Speaker 2: on that immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Our heroes of ICE apprehended a man with a criminal
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  Speaker 4: record a mile long who was wanted for possible murder
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  Speaker 4: and murder in a gang.
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  Speaker 5: In other words, a gang murdered somebody. Very nice person.
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  Speaker 5: He's a very dangerous man. And they got him.
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  Speaker 4: But instead of being praised, ICE was scorned by New
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  Speaker 4: York politicians who set him loose.
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  Speaker 5: They want to set him loose. We want him to
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  Speaker 5: be loose. Guys wanted for murder. They want him to
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  Speaker 5: be loose. And then they're surprised when they see your
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  Speaker 5: crime stats.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to stop illegal alien criminals from being
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  Speaker 4: released into your communities, you must elect Bruce Blakeman and
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  Speaker 4: the Republican Congress. And we will ban sanctuary cities and
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  Speaker 4: sanctuary states at long last.
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  Speaker 9: I want to know more about this call because you said,
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  Speaker 9: you know, you spoke with the president and Secretary Mullen,
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  Speaker 9: I think for two hours, according to our reporting, you
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  Speaker 9: pressed them to turn the investigation over to the NYPD
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  Speaker 9: and for Bergal to be released from federal custody. And
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  Speaker 9: then Trump and Mullen said they would do this, according
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  Speaker 9: to our reporting, only if the police department detained Bergal
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  Speaker 9: and you would not accept that. Is that an accurate
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  Speaker 9: account of what happened? Take us further into those phone calls.
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  Speaker 10: So it begins with calls to the president and then
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  Speaker 10: to the secretary. And in those calls, I make very clear,
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  Speaker 10: as I've shared with the president before, which is that
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  Speaker 10: I'm immensely concerned about public safety in our city. It
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  Speaker 10: is one of our top priorities. And it is from
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  Speaker 10: that concern that I believe that I should not be
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  Speaker 10: in this city at all, that I should frankly not
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  Speaker 10: even be an agency that exists because what we see
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  Speaker 10: from their actions is is an agency that terrorizes, one
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  Speaker 10: that creates a sense of fear as opposed to any
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  Speaker 10: idea of safety. And I made it very clear that
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  Speaker 10: the longer that ICE agents were engaging in their operations
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  Speaker 10: in the city, the less safe the city was becoming.
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  Speaker 10: I implored both of them as to looking at the footage,
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  Speaker 10: you're talking about agents who are opening fire And broad daylight. Again,
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  Speaker 10: we're talking about around 4 p.m. on a Thursday. We're
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  Speaker 10: talking about people carrying their shopping bags, walking by a bodega,
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  Speaker 10: thinking they're on their way home. Then they hear shots
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  Speaker 10: ring out and they don't even know whether this is
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  Speaker 10: from someone who is supposed to be a law enforcement
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  Speaker 10: agent or just someone who is terrorizing the city. And
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  Speaker 10: when it comes to ICE, there is no difference between
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  Speaker 10: those two things.
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  Speaker 11: The mayor yesterday did a press conference and, by the way,
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  Speaker 11: only took one question. I can assure you I'll take questions.
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  Speaker 11: It'll be more than one. He said that ICE, quote,
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  Speaker 11: has killed more of our neighbors than they claim to save.
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  Speaker 11: That's a direct quote from the mayor last night. ICE
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  Speaker 11: has killed more of our neighbors than they claim to save.
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  Speaker 11: Just for a record here, right now ICE has in
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  Speaker 11: detention 258 illegals that are wanted for murder charges. Just
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  Speaker 11: in New York alone. I'm speaking facts. The mayor speaks
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  Speaker 11: with political tone. His words are dangerous and incite hostility.
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  Speaker 12: It doesn't help.
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  Speaker 11: I spoke to the mayor several times last night. He
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  Speaker 11: was wanting us to release this individual back onto the streets.
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  Speaker 11: President Trump actually got involved, and said that we would
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  Speaker 11: release him to New York's finest. If NYPD wants to
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  Speaker 11: take the charges and pursue the charges, we'll be happy
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  Speaker 11: to release him into the custody of NYPD. I shared
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  Speaker 11: that with the mayor. The mayor once again said we
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  Speaker 11: will not be detaining him. Wanted us to walk away
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  Speaker 11: and allow this dangerous criminal back onto the streets. Once again,
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  Speaker 11: The mayor was completely silent last week when his own
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  Speaker 11: NYPD officer was stabbed seven times by two criminals that
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  Speaker 11: they had released back into the streets.
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  Speaker 12: You didn't see the.
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  Speaker 11: Outrage that he spoke from a podium last night from,
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  Speaker 11: but he wants to go after ICE for enforcing our
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  Speaker 11: nation's laws. He used words like New Yorkers by describing
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  Speaker 11: Oscar as a New Yorker. I'm sorry, he's from the
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  Speaker 11: Dominican Republic. He came to this country legally a few
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  Speaker 11: years ago. And ever since he's come in, he's committed
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  Speaker 11: crime and crime after crime. Our records show that he
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  Speaker 11: may only have been in the country for three years.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, he came under the Biden administration. And he
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  Speaker 11: has three years of extensive criminal activity. You're going to
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  Speaker 11: call that a New Yorker? I think that's a far cry.
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  Speaker 2: He said that ICE is rotten to the core.
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  Speaker 13: Really?
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  Speaker 11: Men and women at ICE each day are enforcing the
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  Speaker 11: laws that he refuses to enforce.
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  Speaker 14: Mike Ditka, the man and the myth. One of the
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  Speaker 14: most recognizable personalities in NFL history.
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  Speaker 13: Died at 86.
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  Speaker 14: He was a Hall of Fame player, a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 14: winning coach, and a pitch man for just about everything.
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  Speaker 14: Our Mark Strassman remembers an icon.
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  Speaker 13: Ah, shut up. He was the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: A beloved tough guy.
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  Speaker 13: See that?
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  Speaker 2: That's your IQ, buddy.
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  Speaker 15: Zero.
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  Speaker 16: All morning, Chicagoans reached out to grieve.
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  Speaker 13: Did you hear?
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  Speaker 17: Ditka. He is considered a Bears sports legend and a
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  Speaker 17: Chicago sports legend.
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  Speaker 4: Ditka smacks into a host of dark jerseys and simply
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  Speaker 4: pulls his way through a maze of tacklers.
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  Speaker 16: As number 89, a Hall of Fame player, as a
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  Speaker 16: Super Bowl winning coach, as a personality, Mike Ditka was
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  Speaker 16: all Bear.
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  Speaker 15: Mike, why are you in such a bad mood?
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  Speaker 13: What do you care?
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  Speaker 16: Iron Mike was forged in a tough mill town, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 16: Football got him out, but its fiery, proudly blue-collar spirit
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  Speaker 16: never left him.
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  Speaker 2: We like our people. For those who don't like our people,
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  Speaker 2: that's tough. We like them.
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  Speaker 16: On SNL, the coach of Starbursts became comic gold. Ditka
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  Speaker 16: believed everyone has a destiny, and Chicago was his.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you, thank you, and go Bears!
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  Speaker 16: Number 89... was 86.
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  Speaker 13: He was a great guy. He was with me all
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  Speaker 13: the way. He was tough.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Ditka, that's a sad one. You just tell me
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  Speaker 4: that now for the first time they heard about it.
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  Speaker 18: Wow.
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  Speaker 13: He was great.
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  Speaker 4: He was great.
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  Speaker 5: He was a big supporter of mine.
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  Speaker 13: Won the Super Bowl in 86.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, now he was a winner.
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  Speaker 13: He was a tough cookie.
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  Speaker 8: He was great.
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  Speaker 13: Indigenous People Day, and no disrespect to the indigenous people,
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  Speaker 13: but if you're actually celebrating indigenous people today, you're a traitor.
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  Speaker 13: That's it. See, I make it very simple on Sitting
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  Speaker 13: Friends in the morning. I don't mince words. I don't
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  Speaker 13: give you the whole gray area thing. Well, we can
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  Speaker 13: do both. No, we can't. Let me make it very,
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  Speaker 13: very clear. If you are celebrating indigenous people today, even
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  Speaker 13: if you are an indigenous person, you're a traitor. You're
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  Speaker 13: not American. We are Columbus Day today in New York City.
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  Speaker 13: We are Columbus Day today across this country. He may
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  Speaker 13: not have been perfect to understand that. Who was? My God,
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  Speaker 13: who was? Could you imagine these Democrats have become the
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  Speaker 13: arbiter of who's morally okay, or the mayor whose wife
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  Speaker 13: liked images of young girls being raped and babies being murdered,
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  Speaker 13: walked past the Columbus statue, which is now in Astoria,
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  Speaker 13: gave it the finger years ago. He's the arbiter of
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  Speaker 13: what's okay and what's not. Whatever Columbus did back in
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  Speaker 13: those 1400s, I'm sure it wasn't such an eye-opener back then.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care.
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  Speaker 13: That man went on a courageous mission, and he found America,
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  Speaker 13: and we celebrate Columbus Day every year. When did this
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  Speaker 13: ridiculous Indigenous People Day thing start, Norm? Do you know?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 13: You know what year they started that nonsense?
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to look it up. Probably over the last
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  Speaker 1: decade or so.
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  Speaker 13: No, of course. Yeah, of course. Never before. Never before. Well,
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  Speaker 13: the other thing that's brand new is the, what's the
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  Speaker 13: other slavery holiday now? Oh, 19th? Juneteenth. Whatever that is.
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  Speaker 13: Give me a break. That was Texas, not even slavery.
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  Speaker 13: So the liberals, they got a whole bunch of holidays.
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  Speaker 13: The Muslims have about 10, I think, now, besides Ramadan.
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  Speaker 13: You poor Christians. You're supposed to go to work on
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  Speaker 13: Good Friday. Catholics, you're not even off on Good Friday.
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  Speaker 13: And Easter falls on a Sunday. So really the only
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  Speaker 13: day you guys have off is Christmas.
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 13: That's it.
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  Speaker 8: Unless it falls on a weekend, too.
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  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 13: Which is possible.
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  Speaker 8: It's possible.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: It happens.
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  Speaker 13: So you get nothing. I mean, even the Jews, we
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  Speaker 13: get a whole bunch of stuff. We get Rosh Hashanah.
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  Speaker 13: We get Yom Kippur. You know, if your boss is
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  Speaker 13: not an anti-Semite, he'll give you a Passover. Maybe even
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  Speaker 13: so caught, which we do here, because John's a great guy.
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  Speaker 13: But the Christians really get screwed. But, I mean, my God,
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  Speaker 13: I used to tell Bernie every year, take off on
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  Speaker 13: Friday for Good Friday. You know, talking about Bernard, again,
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  Speaker 13: his daughter Melanie got married Saturday. But the very end
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  Speaker 13: of that Open, we played a whole bunch of audio
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  Speaker 13: about the passing of the NFL Hall of Famer, Coach Ditka.
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  Speaker 13: Chicago Bears, he died, I think he was 86. He
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  Speaker 13: won number 89. And, of course, he coached maybe the
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  Speaker 13: most dominant defensive team in the history of the NFL.
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  Speaker 13: Not maybe they were. The 85 Bears, you remember that
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  Speaker 13: great team, Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, and that unbelievable defense.
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  Speaker 13: Richard Dent, Mike Singletary, Wilbur Marshall, Steve McMichael, Dan Hampton.
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  Speaker 13: It goes on and on. over one season, that was
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  Speaker 13: the best defense the NFL has ever seen, ever. You know,
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  Speaker 13: you've got some great defenses, the Steel Curtain for the Steelers, and,
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  Speaker 13: you know, even the Dallas Doomsday defenses, even the Broncos
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  Speaker 13: with Randy Gratishaw, the Orange Crush, that Ravens defense with
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  Speaker 13: Ray Lewis. But the best defense for one year in
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  Speaker 13: the history of the league was Mike Ditka's 85 Bears,
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  Speaker 13: and they bludgeoned the Patriots and won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 13: But Ditka... actually got himself into trouble right here on WABC.
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  Speaker 13: Did you know that, Noam?
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  Speaker 1: I did not, no.
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  Speaker 13: So I had this great relationship with Mike Ditka for
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  Speaker 13: many years. Back in the late 1990s, when I was
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  Speaker 13: doing radio with Scott Kaplan, we were invited every year,
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  Speaker 13: and we did it three straight years. We did our
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  Speaker 13: show live from the golf course at that amazing celebrity
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  Speaker 13: event in Lake Tahoe on NBC every summer. You know
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  Speaker 13: that one, Noam. It's the biggest one of the year.
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  Speaker 13: The politicians, Michael Jordan. We'd be out at night with
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  Speaker 13: Charles Barkley and Mario Lemieux and all these huge names.
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  Speaker 13: Three straight years in Lake Tahoe. And Ditka was there
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  Speaker 13: every year. Back then I was still drinking, drinking a lot.
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  Speaker 13: So we show up one morning to do the show.
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  Speaker 13: And the sun's beating and I'm sweating. I feel like hell.
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  Speaker 13: And Ditka comes over to do the show with me
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  Speaker 13: and Scott. And he goes, Sid, you okay? I go,
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  Speaker 13: not really. And you can just smell the vodka. I
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  Speaker 13: think I was doing shots until about 7 in the
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  Speaker 13: morning with Johnny Mosley. It's a guy that actually appeared
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  Speaker 13: in the Olympics for the United States. I said, not really, coach.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not feeling all that well. So he starts yelling
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  Speaker 13: at his wife, Diane. Diane, come here. He goes, my
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  Speaker 13: wife is a walking pharmacy. She has whatever you need.
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  Speaker 13: He's like, Diane. Sid's hungover. What do you got for him?
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  Speaker 13: Sure enough, she gave me a couple of pills that
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  Speaker 13: day and saved my life. So for years, I used
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  Speaker 13: to joke around with Coach Ditka that you saved my
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  Speaker 13: life because I was hungover in Lake Tahoe. So when
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  Speaker 13: I left Miami and came to New York to work
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  Speaker 13: with Bernard, I still had this great relationship with Coach Ditka.
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  Speaker 13: So one day I say to Bernie, I go, I
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  Speaker 13: want to bring on Mike Ditka. He didn't know much
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  Speaker 13: about Mike, but he knew they won the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 13: the Bears, back in 85. So Bernie said, sure. So
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  Speaker 13: I bring on Mike Ditka with Bernie. This is March
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  Speaker 13: of 2016. Mind you, I've only been in New York
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  Speaker 13: now at this point for two months because I came
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  Speaker 13: back in January of 2016. And Ditka comes on the show,
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  Speaker 13: and here's how it goes. Mike Ditka goes, and I quote...
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  Speaker 13: Barack Obama is the worst president we've ever had. Now,
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  Speaker 13: he did say that Obama is a fine man, he'd
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  Speaker 13: be great to play golf with, but he's not a leader.
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  Speaker 13: Some of you guys know this, but at the time,
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  Speaker 13: Mike Ditka was a prominent analyst for ESPN's Sunday NFL countdown,
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  Speaker 13: and less than a week after making these comments with
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  Speaker 13: me and Bernard, ESPN moved Ditka out of his main
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  Speaker 13: studio panelist role, And they pretty much blamed it on
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  Speaker 13: his appearance with me and Bernie. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 13: He wasn't done. Ditka came back the following year with
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  Speaker 13: me and Bernard. February of 2017. And here's how it went.
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  Speaker 13: He defended Tom Brady. He said, here's what it was.
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  Speaker 13: Ditka returned to Bernie and Sid ahead of the Super
• 19:06
  Speaker 13: Bowl and took aim at sports journalists and political protests
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: in the NFL. He defended Brady. He said he blasted
• 19:13
  Speaker 13: reporters who were aggressively questioning Tom Brady over his relationship
• 19:17
  Speaker 13: with Donald Trump, calling those journalists assholes. Then he targeted Kaepernick.
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: He said when asked about Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protests,
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: Ditka told Sid and Bernie that if Kaepernick had played
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: for him, he would have, quote, never played again. He
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: added that without football, Kaepernick would be a complete unknown,
• 19:39
  Speaker 13: a complete nobody. So in a matter of a year,
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: in two appearances with me and Bernard, Mike Ditka managed
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: to get himself into trouble.
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: Twice.
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: Well, how about that?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: No, that's pretty good.
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: It's not great.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't remember either.
• 19:55
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that was 2016 and 2017. Brady, Kaepernick and Obama,
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: the worst president ever, which I don't disagree with at all.
• 20:05
  Speaker 13: So ESPN can fire me, too. But the good news
• 20:07
  Speaker 13: is I don't work for them. You know, once I
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: got into trouble at ESPN, Linda Cohen. Remember that great,
• 20:14
  Speaker 13: the SportsCenter anchor?
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: She's awesome.
• 20:16
  Speaker 13: She also was suspended because of something she said on
• 20:19
  Speaker 13: my show.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: That one I kind of remember.
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: What was it? John Skipper suspended her. And I don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: remember exactly what it was. It may have been the
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: running back who knocked out his girlfriend in the elevator
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: in Atlantic City. I don't remember. The NFL being woke.
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: But she was suspended from ESPN because of this show. Well,
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: not this show, but me and Bernie. So I got
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: a whole bunch of people into trouble. That's why Melissa
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: DeRosa never comes on this show.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe she's smart.
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: Yeah, maybe. Cowardly, but smart, I guess. I happen to
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: like her, so maybe cowardly is a bit strong. Anyway,
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: that is the Mike Ditka News. It is Columbus Day,
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: and the station will be out there, I guess, today, right?
• 21:00
  Speaker 13: What are we doing today, Noel?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: We do this every year. It's a lot of fun.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So we set up at 59th and 5th Avenue.
• 21:06
  Speaker 19: And we hand out cannolis and Italian cookies to all
• 21:10
  Speaker 19: the parade goers.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: You know, the people marching, I should say.
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: That's nice. You mean the marchers or the spectators?
• 21:16
  Speaker 19: Well, we give them to the marchers. If you come
• 21:18
  Speaker 19: up to the booth, we'll feed you. And then if
• 21:20
  Speaker 19: the marchers come by, I don't know what's going to
• 21:23
  Speaker 19: be there this year. But in the past, it's been
• 21:25
  Speaker 19: pizza and cannolis and cookies. And it's a good time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: So I'm usually driving by. Not usually. Six consecutive years.
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: Today will be the 6th. that I'm in a convertible car.
• 21:37
  Speaker 13: They make me part of the procession, even though I'm Jewish.
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: I'm the only Jew who's part of the procession, I believe,
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: every year. In fact, we're going to talk to my
• 21:44
  Speaker 13: man Joe Piscopo, who leads the television broadcast starting on
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: Channel 7 ABC later on this morning. And usually I'll
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: jump out of the car about a block away so
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: the car can kind of inch his way back to
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: me and make my way to the booth. And in
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: the past, I've seen John Katsimatidis, Dominic Horner, Greg Kelly,
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: backstabbing Curtis Sliwa. I imagine the same group will be
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: there this year, of course, not Curtis.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Minus Curtis, yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 13: Right. And then we finish the parade, and usually I
• 22:18
  Speaker 13: go to Serafina. Which is a very good Italian restaurant.
• 22:22
  Speaker 13: And if not there, really my first choice is Bella Blue.
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: You know that place, no? I don't. Lexington Avenue. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: believe it's on Lex. And like 71st Street. Great Italian restaurant.
• 22:34
  Speaker 13: And I'm going there thanks to Lauren Conlon for many,
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: many years. So I'll do a nice little lunch. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 13: then I'll go home.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a great day.
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: It's a great day. So, you know, the mayor... The
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: mayor did not go to the Israeli Day Parade. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 13: I remember there were Jewish leaders who were upset. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: you guys remember, Lou and Noam, I was like, what
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: in God's name are you upset about? The last person
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: I wanted to see that day at the Israeli Day
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: Parade was Mayor Mamdani because he hates us. It doesn't
• 23:11
  Speaker 13: matter what videos he does or what that idiot militia
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: wisdom says or Brad Lander. He hates Jewish people. Bottom line, okay?
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: He's the last person I wanted to see there. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: said that to NBC's Melissa Russo, who now may be
• 23:27
  Speaker 13: the second last person I want to see there. Boy,
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: she has really annoyed me. I got to tell you,
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: this local media, they suck. They really suck. And she's
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: right there at the top of the list. I am
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: so pissed at Melissa Russo. And she's another coward. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: text her. She never answers me back. She sees the text.
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: Answer me back. Tell me to shut up. Do something.
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: Don't just sit there and take it. But you know
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: why they take it? No, because they know I'm right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: They know I'm right. So I remember saying, I don't
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: want them there. So when I hear some of these
• 23:59
  Speaker 13: big shots at the Italian clubs or organizations saying it's
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: disappointing the mayor is not going to be there today,
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: shut up. No decent Italian wants Mamdani anywhere near that parade.
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: The person who actually said it's disappointing the mayor is
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: not coming in that little newscast we played was the
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: same person who said Mamdani walked by a statue of
• 24:24
  Speaker 13: Christopher Columbus and gave it the finger and said, take
• 24:28
  Speaker 13: it down. The statue that's in Astoria, Queens. So if
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: you're one of these organizers or a big shot Italian,
• 24:35
  Speaker 13: why would you want that guy there today? Then, of course,
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: his biggest sin was he drew these ridiculous ethnic immigration
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: maps a couple of months ago and left off not one,
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: but both little Italys. There were two, you know. One
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: down by Mulberry Street, where I was last week at
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: El Cortil. And the one, of course, on Arthur Avenue
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: in the Bronx. He left them both off. Both. So
• 24:58
  Speaker 13: if you're even a decent Italian, forget about being a
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: great Italian like Piscopo or Vivalo or Chaz Palminteri. Just
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: a decent Italian. Why would you want the mayor, this disgusting, racist,
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: biased mayor, anywhere near that parade thing? Now, he's not
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: going because he's a pussy. And somebody there will punch
• 25:21
  Speaker 13: him out across the face. They really will. I'm not
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: encouraging it. I'm telling you it would happen. So he's
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: not going to go. But why would you want him
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: there anyway, Noam?
• 25:30
  Speaker 19: Well, I think there's a thought that the Mamdani we
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: saw give the finger to Christopher Columbus was the guy
• 25:37
  Speaker 19: he was. This is the thought, not mine, that he
• 25:40
  Speaker 19: was the guy that was before he was mayor.
• 25:42
  Speaker 13: Well, hold on, hold on.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Can I finish my thought, though?
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: No, no, because since he's mayor, let's say I buy that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: That was before he was mayor. Right. Just like when
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: he used to protest his really deep parade before he
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: was mayor.
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: Just a couple of months ago, he was mayor. That's
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: when he drew the new immigration maps and left off
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: with little. Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 19: I don't disagree with him, but I'm just saying there's
• 26:03
  Speaker 19: a hope that when somebody becomes mayor, that he no
• 26:06
  Speaker 19: longer is that radical demonstrator, that he's a guy that
• 26:10
  Speaker 19: unites the city and says, you know what? Part of
• 26:12
  Speaker 19: my job and really a fun part of the job
• 26:14
  Speaker 19: actually is marching in these ethnic pride parades. But this
• 26:18
  Speaker 19: guy doesn't seem to get that that's a big part
• 26:20
  Speaker 19: of the job. And a fun part, you talk to
• 26:22
  Speaker 19: any ex-mayor, they said, you know, one of the great
• 26:25
  Speaker 19: part of the jobs is like, like for a day
• 26:27
  Speaker 19: I'm Ethiopian, next week I'm Colombian. You know, they happily
• 26:31
  Speaker 19: glad hand and hug people along a parade route to
• 26:34
  Speaker 19: show that they're united. The New York City is like
• 26:37
  Speaker 19: this great melting pot. But not this guy. He wants
• 26:39
  Speaker 19: to pit one group against another.
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: President Trump talked about it. This is Friday night in Syracuse.
• 26:47
  Speaker 13: You know, All week long, I was going, I was going.
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: Bruce Blakeman even said, it ain't no party without Sid.
• 26:53
  Speaker 13: I didn't go, and I got a text message from
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: one of Bruce's, well, maybe his main security guys, guys
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: as good as it gets, Finton McCormack. I love Finton.
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: And he said, man, did we miss you last night
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: in Syracuse? He actually said that. In the text, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: I quote, this was a perfect night. It was missing
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: just one thing. And both me and the Nassau County
• 27:17
  Speaker 13: executive said it late Friday night. All we were missing
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: was Sid. They had President Trump. They had Mike Tyson.
• 27:24
  Speaker 13: I mean, what a great night it was. And Trump
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: brought up Columbus Day at this amazing Syracuse rally with
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: Bruce Blakeman on Friday night. And here's what he had
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: to say, Lewis. President Trump cut number two.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: We're going to be talking a little bit about a
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: man named Christopher Columbus.
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: And the reason I get all of the Italian vote,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I really believe, I didn't do it for this reason,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I resurrected Christopher Columbus. They were taking his statue down,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: everything all over the place. And I put up a statue,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: a beautiful statue of Christopher Columbus right in front of
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the main office building, the Eisenhower building right across the street.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: That's the office building essentially for the White House and
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: other very important agencies. So we have people that, these
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: lunatics that are running, they're all against Christopher Columbus, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, we're going.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: To be here almost two and a half years.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: He's going to be so protected like nobody's ever been
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: protected before because they want to tear down the history
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and heritage that makes us who we are.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Not only Columbus.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, we had a time when they wanted to
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: rip down the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: That was about the end. Now we've had pay dirt,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: you know. And New York City officials recently.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Released a map showing ethnic communities in our nation's largest city,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and the map includes little Senegal, little Guyana, little Haiti,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: little Yemen, but it does not include a place called
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Little Italy, an unthinkable omission for New York City.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Think of that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: So you have Yemen covered, Haiti covered, Guyana covered, Senegal covered.
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: I think it's a disgrace.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: We are going to work on that immediately.
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Mr. President. I'll be there once again in
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: my convertible. Can't wait to hit that route later on today.
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: So early Saturday morning, I tweet this, Noam, at SidRosenberg19.
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: That's my Twitter account. Not at SidRosenberg, at SidRosenberg19. I go,
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: I know ICE is doing heroic work and literally saving
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: our country in different cities every day. But when you
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: are dealing with criminals and anarchist lunatics, there is the
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: possibility that something bad can happen. With that said, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: can count those incidents on less than two hands compared
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: to the thousands and thousands of murderers, rapists, drug dealers,
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: and pedophiles removed from our country. So let's get to
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: the crappy New York City mayor here in New York.
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: Time and time again, this a-hole sympathizes with the criminals.
• 30:07
  Speaker 13: He visits perps in the hospital and watches sporting events
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: with criminals on Rikers Island. Two days ago, he begged
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: POTUS and Mark Wayne Mullen to release a reported gang
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: member with a long rap sheet back to the streets
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: here in New York. What kind of mayor is obsessed
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: with making the people in his city less safe? I'll
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: tell you what kind. The kind that hates the Trump
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: administration and wants chaos in the streets. I continue to
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: expose this guy as the anti-American traitor he is. So
• 30:44
  Speaker 13: I will tell you, and I show this to you
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: guys at Lou's Great Party on Saturday, which I'll get
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: to later, I got a text, and you guys saw it,
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: from President Trump, right? I'm not going to tell you
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: exactly what he said, but I came on the air
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: a couple days ago, and I couldn't understand for the
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: life of me Even if you're out there raging against ICE,
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: which is really stupid, right? There's been like, I guess,
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: five or six people shot. You don't want one shot.
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: You don't want one. I understand that. But compared to
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: the thousands and thousands of all these hardened criminals they've
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: removed from our streets, 258 people in New York charged
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: with murder alone. So you're going to talk about this
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: shooting and how ICE is rotten to the core and
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: is making us unsafe? It's the complete opposite. I mean,
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: I deal with facts. I deal with numbers. Eight compared
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: to thousands. Which side wins, Noam?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, it's easy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: That's easy. So even if you want to continue to
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: rage about ICE because you're making it a political point
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: like that idiot Kathy Hochul does or the un-American mayor,
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: Why in a million years would you want Oscar Belgao
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: back on the streets? This guy's got a long rap sheet.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: He's got alleged gang-tie associations. He's been involved in everything
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: from drugs to grand larceny to very violent crimes. So
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: regardless of how you felt Ice dealt with him the
• 32:21
  Speaker 13: other day, why would you want him back on the streets?
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: And when I sent that to both President Trump and
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: Tom Holman, you both saw that on Saturday morning, they
• 32:32
  Speaker 13: both came back and said, great job, Sid. You saw that, right, Norm?
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: I did.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: You showed it to me.
• 32:38
  Speaker 13: Because the truth is, again, the anti-ice stuff is just
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: a political statement from the left, even though, again, Chris
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: Cuomo's another moron. The numbers don't bode well for those guys.
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: They just don't. Sorry, Rene Goode. Sorry, Alex Preddy. Sorry
• 32:58
  Speaker 13: those people died. They weren't dragged from their homes on
• 33:01
  Speaker 13: the way to church. They were out there causing chaos,
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: which they shouldn't have died, but you don't do that.
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: Same thing with this guy. This guy, Belgog, the other
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: day started to drive away, drive his car towards the
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: cops or the ICE agents.
• 33:17
  Speaker 17: You know what?
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: When you do that, when you don't comply, you may die.
• 33:20
  Speaker 13: Not right, but that may happen. But regardless, look at
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: the numbers of really violent criminals ICE has removed from
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: our streets all over the country. And why are we
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: even having this debate? No. Why? And why would the
• 33:36
  Speaker 13: mayor want this animal, this Oscar Belgeau, back on the streets?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: It's beyond. I don't understand.
• 33:42
  Speaker 19: But, you know, when you hear from Tom Holman, he's
• 33:46
  Speaker 19: more upset than anybody when There are incidents like this
• 33:49
  Speaker 19: one in the Bronx. He doesn't want to hear that
• 33:50
  Speaker 19: there's a five-year-old in the backseat of a car of
• 33:52
  Speaker 19: somebody they're going after. He'd be the first one to
• 33:55
  Speaker 19: tell you those are mistakes that ICE cannot make.
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: But the five-year-old didn't get shot. No.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 19: But you don't want incidents like that happening in front
• 34:03
  Speaker 19: of someone's kid. It doesn't matter what it is. But
• 34:06
  Speaker 19: he'll be the first to tell you, no, that can't happen.
• 34:08
  Speaker 19: But the truth is then you can go to thousands
• 34:11
  Speaker 19: of more incidents where where they're taking people who should
• 34:13
  Speaker 19: not be on the streets of this country off safely
• 34:17
  Speaker 19: and putting them where they should be.
• 34:18
  Speaker 13: Numbers again. Again, this guy got shot. He's going to survive.
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: And the kid didn't get shot. And you're right. God
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: forbid the kid did get shot. Forget about what this
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: would be. They'd be burning down buildings all over Manhattan
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: because that's what they do. We don't do that. That's
• 34:32
  Speaker 13: what they do. They're animals. The left, the Democrats, the DSA,
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: all these anti-ice people, they're animals. That's what they are.
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: So we survived that, thank God. But again, what, six
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: or seven people that have come harm's way because most
• 34:49
  Speaker 13: of them were either resisting arrest or out there doing
• 34:53
  Speaker 13: something they should not have been doing. They're not being
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: dragged out of churches and being shot in the streets.
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: You know that. They're anarchists. That's what they are. And
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: they shouldn't be there. Again, should they get shot?
• 35:05
  Speaker 16: No.
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: But compared to the thousands and thousands of murderers and
• 35:11
  Speaker 13: rapists and drug dealers and pedophiles that ICE has taken
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: off the streets, I would say it's an easy win
• 35:18
  Speaker 13: for ICE. Easy win. And yet these politicians led by
• 35:23
  Speaker 13: the big mouth jihad mayor, all he wants to do
• 35:27
  Speaker 13: is let these criminals. Trump said no. Mark Wayne Mullen
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: said no. Take it up with Jessica Tisch. Now, you
• 35:34
  Speaker 13: know that there has been a huge outcry over this
• 35:38
  Speaker 13: weekend by these lunatic DSA people from Umdani to fire
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: Jessica Tisch. You know that, right? Yeah. I don't think
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: he's going to do it, but I don't even know
• 35:48
  Speaker 13: he may.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: No, he's not going to do it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 13: How much longer can she stay with this lowlife? That's
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: my question.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Well, she loves the job.
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: That's number one.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I know she does. She's really good at the job.
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: I talk to her every week.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's great at it, so why should she leave?
• 36:02
  Speaker 13: Because he's a piece of garbage.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Well, she's doing her job separate from whatever the hell
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: he says, and she's doing good at it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: Yeah, she is. You're right. All right, so those are
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: the big, big stories, but I'm sure I'm missing a
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: whole bunch of other good stuff, Noam, so what's going on?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Let's see, from Mom Donnie to.
• 36:21
  Speaker 19: So i think what's the biggest stories of the days
• 36:22
  Speaker 19: i mean the stupid dot bridge thing out to skip
• 36:25
  Speaker 19: over that i'm just looking what's in front which thing
• 36:27
  Speaker 19: is that you this is the well that's a big
• 36:28
  Speaker 19: deal of your new jersey transit they're changing out there's
• 36:31
  Speaker 19: a bridge it's a hundred and ten years old and
• 36:33
  Speaker 19: they're finally changing out this thing it's always been an
• 36:36
  Speaker 19: issue whenever there's a marine traffic they have to open
• 36:38
  Speaker 19: this bridge and then new jersey transit uh... riders have
• 36:42
  Speaker 19: enjoyed these incredibly long delay so finally after a hundred
• 36:46
  Speaker 19: and ten years their chain trading out that bridge where
• 36:48
  Speaker 19: is it do it so over it since a caucus
• 36:51
  Speaker 19: So to do it, but it's a main thoroughfare.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It's the thoroughfare to get into the city.
• 36:55
  Speaker 19: So for the next five weeks, it's going to be
• 36:56
  Speaker 19: tough for New Jersey transit riders to get in. They're
• 36:59
  Speaker 19: going to have to either go through Hoboken or just
• 37:01
  Speaker 19: work from home. So that's a big story. Locally, then
• 37:05
  Speaker 19: you had the president out on the campaign trail over
• 37:08
  Speaker 19: the weekend.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: He was in Tennessee.
• 37:10
  Speaker 19: He's been going to some pretty red states where some
• 37:13
  Speaker 19: of these races are just a little too close for comfort.
• 37:15
  Speaker 19: He's hoping he can drag some of these Republicans that
• 37:18
  Speaker 19: are in tough races across the finish line. He's going
• 37:20
  Speaker 19: to continue to do this right up until Election Day.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: He's got J.D. Vance out there as well.
• 37:25
  Speaker 19: That is the Democrats have been putting out Barack Obama.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: No doubt you've seen him.
• 37:29
  Speaker 19: He's been all over the place as well, doing the
• 37:31
  Speaker 19: same for Democrats in places like Michigan, where he was
• 37:34
  Speaker 19: there for Al-Sayed in.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: A race, by the way, that's become awfully close.
• 37:39
  Speaker 19: The latest polls between Mike Rogers and Al-Sayed show the
• 37:42
  Speaker 19: race basically dead even. And El Sayed had a lead
• 37:46
  Speaker 19: as of like... He had a three-point lead, yeah.
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: You know, talking about El Sayed, stop texting me. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: don't own the station. That's Don Katsimatidis. He's a great owner.
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: I don't run the station. That's Chad Lopez. I know
• 37:59
  Speaker 13: that my show is far and away the biggest thing here.
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: I get all that, okay? And I'm a major star.
• 38:05
  Speaker 13: But I don't run the station. So I must have
• 38:08
  Speaker 13: gotten a thousand complaints that Mateo interviewed Hasan Piker. I
• 38:13
  Speaker 13: didn't listen. I like Fernando Mateo. I like him. But
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: I would never do something like that. You know that.
• 38:20
  Speaker 13: I would never interview Kathy Hochul on this show. I
• 38:23
  Speaker 13: would never interview Mamdani on this show. I would never, ever, ever,
• 38:27
  Speaker 13: ever interview Hasan Piker on this show. These are people
• 38:31
  Speaker 13: outside of Hochul I want to physically harm, let alone
• 38:35
  Speaker 13: put them on the radio show. Okay? I'm not putting
• 38:37
  Speaker 13: them on. I'm not interested in being down the middle here. Okay?
• 38:42
  Speaker 13: That's not why I'm here. You know, there are people
• 38:45
  Speaker 13: who claim they're down the middle, the liars. You know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 13: there are Republicans like Sean Hannity. He interviews Bill de Blasio.
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: That's ridiculous. And then there are Democrats who interview Republicans
• 38:56
  Speaker 13: but don't claim they're Republican. You know what I am
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: every morning, okay? Occasionally, I've got a Democrat on the show.
• 39:03
  Speaker 13: I wanted Mamdani to lose so badly that I put
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: Cuomo on a couple of times during the mayor run.
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: I've had a couple of other people, a few. But
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: I'm a Republican. I'm a MAGA Republican to the core.
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: You will never, ever in a million years hear somebody
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: like Hasan Piker on this show. Nor am I interested
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: in hearing what he has to say. So I can
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: promise you, I didn't tune in to Mateo this weekend.
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: But that's his show. He can do whatever he wants,
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: God bless him. He's a good guy like Fernando. But
• 39:32
  Speaker 13: don't complain to me. I got nothing to do with it. Sid,
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: how do you let that happen on your station? What
• 39:37
  Speaker 13: do you mean my station? The hell are you talking about?
• 39:41
  Speaker 13: Not my station, okay? So if you're mad about it, good.
• 39:45
  Speaker 13: I wasn't mad about it. I just wouldn't put it on.
• 39:49
  Speaker 13: You know, I wouldn't put John on when he's got
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: Kathy Hochul. Not in a million years. I'm being honest.
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: I'm just being honest. And I'm sure there are guests
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: that I put on that those people wouldn't listen to either.
• 40:00
  Speaker 13: That's okay. It's one of the reasons why this station
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: does well is that it's diverse. I'm not. I'm a
• 40:07
  Speaker 13: MAGA Trump loyalist, and that's the end of it. That's it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: Hassan Piker will never be anywhere near this show. There
• 40:15
  Speaker 13: is a rumor that I heard that One of the
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: guys that works in the back, you know who he is,
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: I don't know. When Piker realized this was the station
• 40:25
  Speaker 13: where I worked, he said to this person, he never
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: would have come. Now, that's just a rumor. I don't know.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: I'm not going to mention names, Elias.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Believable.
• 40:37
  Speaker 19: You know, if you want to blame anybody, you know
• 40:39
  Speaker 19: who you should blame for letting him in. is Justin Ehrlich.
• 40:41
  Speaker 19: Justin Ehrlich was the one who let him get him.
• 40:43
  Speaker 13: He had no idea. Justin had no idea.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: He let him in past security.
• 40:47
  Speaker 13: He didn't even know what it was, Justin. I can't
• 40:50
  Speaker 13: blame anybody. I'm not blaming anybody. I'm not even blaming Fernand.
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: It's his show. He can do whatever he wants. It's
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: just not going to happen here. I am not putting
• 40:59
  Speaker 13: Democrats and DSA guys on my show.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Justin wandered him into the front door.
• 41:03
  Speaker 13: I mean, I took Martha McCallum to task. I killed
• 41:06
  Speaker 13: her on Twitter for interviewing El Sayed. And the same day,
• 41:09
  Speaker 13: Trump killed her, too. What is it, Justin? What happened?
• 41:11
  Speaker 20: I just need to set the record straight. He's got
• 41:13
  Speaker 20: the story completely wrong.
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: Well, of course he does.
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: Good luck with this.
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: My fob gets into doors in this building.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 41:21
  Speaker 20: Because I've been able to hold on to the same ID,
• 41:25
  Speaker 20: which not everybody else here is too irresponsible to do that.
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: So I.
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, hold on.
• 41:32
  Speaker 13: Hey, listen.
• 41:32
  Speaker 20: Okay, excuse me. Let me actually direct that at Noam.
• 41:35
  Speaker 20: Noam is too irresponsible.
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: He came at me. He came at me.
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: Let me be clear.
• 41:40
  Speaker 20: So I had the scan, the back door to the stage.
• 41:43
  Speaker 20: They needed access to get in there. I thought he
• 41:45
  Speaker 20: was already gone and had kicked rocks.
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: Sounds feasible.
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: And then I opened the door, and as I'm opening
• 41:51
  Speaker 12: the door, he pops out of the bathroom. It was him.
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: It was him, and he walks right by me.
• 41:55
  Speaker 13: Why don't you just say, hey, I'm Sid's producer. That
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: would have been great.
• 41:59
  Speaker 20: Because I didn't realize it was him until I was
• 42:01
  Speaker 20: already looking at his ass.
• 42:03
  Speaker 13: Ew, that's gross.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Are you told by his ass?
• 42:04
  Speaker 13: I didn't tell by his ass.
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: Excuse me, his backside.
• 42:07
  Speaker 13: He's got a great ass. You don't know this. Somebody
• 42:10
  Speaker 13: call the president. I said Piker's got a great ass.
• 42:14
  Speaker 12: But anyway, yeah, let me just set the record straight.
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: The rumor was that he said to somebody, if I
• 42:18
  Speaker 13: knew that I was coming to this station with Sidworks,
• 42:21
  Speaker 13: I would not have come. Is that a correct rumor?
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: I don't know. You told me that.
• 42:25
  Speaker 13: You told me that. I did not tell you that. Oh,
• 42:27
  Speaker 13: wasn't you?
• 42:27
  Speaker 18: No.
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: No, well, you gave him up already.
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: You said who it was.
• 42:30
  Speaker 13: Oh, no, it was Blaze. I'm sorry.
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
• 42:33
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: You've given everybody up on this Monday morning.
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: What are you, just nobody to ever talk to you again?
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: Is that what you're going for?
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: Fernando's safe, but these guys.
• 42:46
  Speaker 13: I like Fernando. He's got to do what he's got
• 42:48
  Speaker 13: to do.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: What's that S?
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: Let's figure this out!
• 42:53
  Speaker 13: No, what else we have today?
• 42:54
  Speaker 19: This is a crazy story out of Amityville, Long Island.
• 42:57
  Speaker 19: This is like a new thing, a wrinkle in these
• 43:00
  Speaker 19: scams where normally if a bank, they have these phony
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: guys call you when they say they're from your bank
• 43:05
  Speaker 19: and they need you to move money over and it's
• 43:07
  Speaker 19: all digitally done. You don't know if some guy in
• 43:09
  Speaker 19: Africa is collecting your cash.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: This is a new wrinkle.
• 43:12
  Speaker 19: This Amityville Capitol says that they had this close call
• 43:16
  Speaker 19: with a bank scam. The number looked like it was
• 43:18
  Speaker 19: the same number on the back of their TD Bank
• 43:20
  Speaker 19: card calling in. And they said that they needed to
• 43:22
  Speaker 19: look at his ATM card because it was being used
• 43:25
  Speaker 19: as a skimming device. And they actually had someone show
• 43:28
  Speaker 19: up at their door to collect the ATM card. Now,
• 43:31
  Speaker 19: police said they haven't heard of that one before.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Thankfully, this couple.
• 43:34
  Speaker 19: sort of solve something was wrong with that they didn't
• 43:36
  Speaker 19: hand over the card but there was actually somewhat outside
• 43:39
  Speaker 19: the door hoping to take their card and then probably
• 43:42
  Speaker 19: obviously empty their bank account they play their smart enough
• 43:44
  Speaker 19: to realize he wasn't legit and they didn't let him
• 43:46
  Speaker 19: in the front door.
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: Norm do you know what team has the third pretty
• 43:53
  Speaker 13: good year third best record inside the.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Nfc that would be the giants That's correct.
• 43:59
  Speaker 13: You've got three undefeated teams left. The Chiefs are still undefeated.
• 44:03
  Speaker 13: They're 4-0. They're bye week this week, I guess. Or
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: did they play tonight, maybe? I don't know. They didn't
• 44:08
  Speaker 13: play yesterday. They're still 4-0, Kansas City. Minnesota beat the Saints.
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: They improved to 5-0. They're an NFC team. The 49ers
• 44:17
  Speaker 13: got a big win on the road, beat the Super
• 44:18
  Speaker 13: Bowl champion Seahawks. They improved to 5-0. So inside the NFC,
• 44:23
  Speaker 13: Vikings are 5-0. The 49ers are 5-0, and the team
• 44:28
  Speaker 13: with the next best record, with a record of 3-1-1,
• 44:32
  Speaker 13: you heard me correct, 3-1-1, the New York football giants.
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: They were down by two touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
• 44:41
  Speaker 13: I said to Gabe, we're done. And Jameis Winston led
• 44:44
  Speaker 13: the team all the way back. They had a chance
• 44:47
  Speaker 13: to win it in overtime. Scadaboo fumbled deep in Redskins territory. Yes,
• 44:52
  Speaker 13: I still call them the Redskins. Even on Indigenous People Day,
• 44:55
  Speaker 13: get over it, Bill Sims. And then the Redskins drove
• 44:58
  Speaker 13: the ball back the other way. They had a chance
• 45:00
  Speaker 13: to win. And for some reason, Jaden Daniels, not paying
• 45:04
  Speaker 13: attention to the clock, ran, ran, ran, hit the turf.
• 45:10
  Speaker 13: And in field goal possession, a very makeable field goal
• 45:13
  Speaker 13: for the Redskins who would have won the game, the
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: clock ran out. And so the Giants escaped without a loss.
• 45:21
  Speaker 13: So there it is again. You know, the Eagles lost
• 45:23
  Speaker 13: this weekend. Tragic loss to the Jaguars. Dallas got beat
• 45:27
  Speaker 13: up on Thursday. Giants beat the Redskins. So the Giants,
• 45:31
  Speaker 13: or they tied them, I should say. So the Giants
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: actually have a bigger lead atop the NFC East. Third
• 45:38
  Speaker 13: best record at 3-1-1. How about that, Noah?
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty great. They don't look so great, but
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: somehow they're able to win.
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: Well, they're not playing the best teams in football either.
• 45:49
  Speaker 13: KC is on the bye.
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's Buffalo and the Rams tonight.
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure the Giants have beat
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: either one of those teams, you know, or Kansas City
• 45:57
  Speaker 13: or San Francisco or Minnesota. You know, they played the Redskins.
• 46:00
  Speaker 13: They did beat Dallas week one, but Dallas stinks, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: that was Jackson Dart. They played the Rams. They lost,
• 46:06
  Speaker 13: and Dart got knocked out for the season. Since then,
• 46:09
  Speaker 13: they've beaten who? They beat the Titans, I think, right?
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: They're winless still. That team with Robert Selle, the former
• 46:17
  Speaker 13: Jet coach, and the offensive coordinator, the former Giant coach,
• 46:20
  Speaker 13: Brian Dable, they're winless. They're 0-5. So the Giants have
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: played bad teams. It doesn't matter. You've got to beat
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: who's on your schedule. And right now the football Giants
• 46:30
  Speaker 13: are 3-1-1. Unbelievable, though.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that.
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: We'll take it. And the Dodgers lost last night to Milwaukee,
• 46:38
  Speaker 13: and I think the Guardians and Rays, who beat the Yankees,
• 46:43
  Speaker 13: start their series later on tonight. Big guest list today.
• 46:47
  Speaker 13: It is Columbus Day every year. It's traditional. Joe Piscopo,
• 46:51
  Speaker 13: who's on here Saturday nights, and he is the lead
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: on Channel 7 ABC Columbus Day Parade. Later on today,
• 46:59
  Speaker 13: Joe Piscopo will join me. Another amazing Italian. I always
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: screw up this guy's title. I got to get it right.
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: He's the chairman of the board of the Columbus Citizens Foundation,
• 47:11
  Speaker 13: Columbus Heritage Coalition. My dear friend, Angelo Vivalo.
• 47:16
  Speaker 16: Wow.
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: It's a lot there, right? Yeah, I think so.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: There's like ten plates of pasta.
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: He's just a great actor. Exactly right, yes. Making his
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: return to Sid and Friends in the morning. He'll be
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: in Paris, but he's back today. Roger Stone is a
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: big one. John Katsimatidis, Nicole Maliotakis, who actually took somebody
• 47:36
  Speaker 13: to the Columbus Day dinner on Saturday night. It's always
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: that big celebration two days before the parade. She took
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: a guy there who's 105 years old. a World War
• 47:47
  Speaker 13: II veteran, Italian guy, who played the Star Spangled Banner
• 47:51
  Speaker 13: on his saxophone. How cool is that?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I've seen this guy. He plays the Islanders games.
• 47:56
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, that guy.
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: That guy, yes.
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: Guy's amazing. So we'll talk to Nicole, and then this
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: guy's Italian, now works for President Trump's Labor Department, but
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: at one point was one of our valued congressmen out
• 48:07
  Speaker 13: on Long Island, the great Anthony D'Esposito.
• 48:11
  Speaker 21: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 48:14
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
• 48:17
  Speaker 13: Katie Zachariah. Is that how you say her name, Noam?
• 48:20
  Speaker 13: Do you know?
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: It is, Zachariah.
• 48:23
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Or no, I think it's Zachariah.
• 48:24
  Speaker 13: Zachariah.
• 48:25
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 48:25
  Speaker 13: Well, I sent a text to President Trump, who reads
• 48:29
  Speaker 13: all my texts, and he does acknowledge them, like he
• 48:32
  Speaker 13: did on Saturday. He answered me every now and then.
• 48:34
  Speaker 13: And I made it very, very clear that I thought
• 48:36
  Speaker 13: Elizabeth Pipko should have been the White House press secretary.
• 48:39
  Speaker 13: Liz has been loyal to President Trump for over a decade.
• 48:43
  Speaker 13: Her husband, Darren... basically runs Eric and Laura Trump's operation.
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: And Pipko gave up all kinds of TV dreams and
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: other big-time jobs hoping to land this gig. And I
• 48:59
  Speaker 13: had heard that a week or two ago that she
• 49:02
  Speaker 13: was the favorite to get it. And I don't know where,
• 49:07
  Speaker 13: how do you say this lady's name?
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Which one, Zakaria?
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: Zakaria got this. but uh... she gets a job and
• 49:14
  Speaker 13: i'm not happy about it i don't dislike her again
• 49:16
  Speaker 13: katie i don't know her. Don't know her from a
• 49:18
  Speaker 13: hole in the wall. But I really thought Liz Pipko
• 49:21
  Speaker 13: should have gotten that job. And talking about jobs, a
• 49:25
  Speaker 13: lady that's been a friend of mine for years is
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: about to lose hers. I think it's maybe the safest
• 49:31
  Speaker 13: bet of the weekend that after this federal holiday today
• 49:36
  Speaker 13: that the ambassador to Greece... Our good friend Kimberly Guilfoyle
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: will be fired. I just don't see how they can't
• 49:43
  Speaker 13: fire her. You know, I know that, for example, Marco
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: Rubio made that epic speech. Just magnificent. And him and
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: I spoke. When he came back, he was on the
• 49:53
  Speaker 13: airplane back to the United States from Athens. You guys
• 49:54
  Speaker 13: know he was texting me. He's invited me Wednesday, him
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: and Howard Lutnick, to the State Department. And I still
• 50:01
  Speaker 13: haven't figured out the details yet. Either John and Mike
• 50:04
  Speaker 13: have to work, or we've got to figure something out.
• 50:07
  Speaker 13: But regardless... Rubio was in Athens last week, Greece. Katsimatidis,
• 50:11
  Speaker 13: the greatest Greek ever, making this big speech. And Guilfoyle,
• 50:16
  Speaker 13: according to all reports, ran up to him at every event.
• 50:19
  Speaker 13: She was at every event. She hugged him. She kissed him.
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: That's Kimberly. She's a nice girl. But there are some
• 50:26
  Speaker 13: salacious rumors out there that she's been selling influence and
• 50:31
  Speaker 13: even had some guy, and they've got the text messages,
• 50:35
  Speaker 13: which are really damning, pay her credit card bill for
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: like $ 100, 000. Do you have all the details, Norm, why
• 50:43
  Speaker 13: exactly she's about to get fired?
• 50:44
  Speaker 19: Yeah, what we know is mostly from the Wall Street Journal,
• 50:47
  Speaker 19: which has done a pretty in-depth piece on this, but
• 50:49
  Speaker 19: they say she allegedly solicited this $ 100, 000 payment from a
• 50:55
  Speaker 19: Republican donor to pay off that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: American Express bill.
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: She was like, come on, baby, I need it today.
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: Come on, baby, I need it today.
• 51:02
  Speaker 19: And then she promised in return that influence inside the
• 51:06
  Speaker 19: Trump administration, allegedly, to this donor whose name is Eric Dieters.
• 51:11
  Speaker 19: And then they have audio recordings of her boasting about
• 51:15
  Speaker 19: being on these high-rolling luxury trips, private travel that was
• 51:20
  Speaker 19: all financed by some.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Greek-type business tycoons.
• 51:24
  Speaker 13: Oh, boy.
• 51:24
  Speaker 19: So none of that is good if it's true. Again,
• 51:26
  Speaker 19: all this is from the Wall Street Journal. But, yeah,
• 51:29
  Speaker 19: there are rumors abound that just a matter of time
• 51:32
  Speaker 19: until they kick her out of her job.
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 51:34
  Speaker 13: Supposedly, Marco Rubio is furious. Trump is pissed, too. And
• 51:38
  Speaker 13: Trump has no loyalty to her now because his son,
• 51:41
  Speaker 13: Donald Trump, Trump Jr., has moved on and married somebody else.
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: But Trump was upset. But I heard Marco Rubio was furious.
• 51:50
  Speaker 13: Did you hear that, Norm?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I did not. I only heard that from you.
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: Yeah. Al Volpe loves it when I say something and
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  Speaker 13: then I look for your confirmation.
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  Speaker 8: He loves that.
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  Speaker 13: He loves that.
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  Speaker 8: He told me, yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Aren't I great, Noam? Yeah, you're great.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Volpe loves that. Well, it is true that often throughout
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  Speaker 13: the news and every morning I will say something and
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  Speaker 13: then I will ask for some reason as if I care.
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  Speaker 13: I don't really care. I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think you do.
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  Speaker 13: Whether Noam agrees or doesn't. No, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I think you do care.
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  Speaker 13: No, no, not even a little.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't ask if you didn't care.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I just like it every now and then.
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  Speaker 1: I think you care immensely, actually.
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  Speaker 13: No, I don't care at all. No? No, not even
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  Speaker 13: a little.
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  Speaker 1: Then why do you ask? Every single day you ask.
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: It's just good to have somebody, I guess, how would
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: you phrase this? Yeah, you want.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody like me to confirm that you are.
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: Right or wrong. Well, it's not somebody like you. You
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: have to be on the air.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: No, then you would ask somebody else.
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: It could be Scott Stanford. It could be Janice Cookelle.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: Two great examples right there.
• 52:45
  Speaker 13: It could be, what's his name? Jake Novak.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Well, you could ask all those people and you don't.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: It's me.
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: Well, because you're sitting there. That's why, you dumbass. But
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: we can make that change too. I've done it once before.
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: You want to go there again?
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Please do. Do me a favor.
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  Speaker 13: You're such a liar. You love this show. You love
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: working on it. And you're great at it.
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  Speaker 23: Great.
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  Speaker 13: You are great.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I met Al Vopi this week.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, you never met him before?
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: No, that was the first time.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, he's a sweet guy, isn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: He's a great guy and his beautiful wife.
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  Speaker 19: And his first question was, why do you always... Why
• 53:16
  Speaker 19: does he always come to you and say... And you
• 53:18
  Speaker 19: always seem to say yes. But I don't always say yes.
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  Speaker 13: No. Every now and then you say no.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe if I disagree with you.
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  Speaker 13: Because you're stupid.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: And then we have a fight. Well, you're just stupid.
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: What do you think he says yes for?
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I told Al that the day I say, go F yourself, Sid,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: you'll know it's my last day. That'll be it.
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: That'll be it. Well, it was such a great party.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: I want to get to Lou's party, Lou and MJ. Boy,
• 53:42
  Speaker 13: they did a great job. Adrian's did a great job,
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: but Lou and MJ really did a magnificent job. What
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: a fun day on Saturday. We'll get to that next
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: hour because we've got to take a break here. Coming
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: up next, it is Columbus Day. This is Sid Rosenberg tradition.
• 53:56
  Speaker 13: I have two people on every Columbus Day, no matter what.
• 53:59
  Speaker 13: Angelo Vivalo, he'll be here later on this hour. And
• 54:02
  Speaker 13: of course, the great Joe Piscopo. So coming up next.
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  Speaker 13: to kick off our Columbus Day guests, the great Joe Piscopo,
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  Speaker 13: on the Columbus Day edition of Sid and Friends in
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  Speaker 22: Poi d'improvviso ottenido dal veretto rapito E incominciavo a volare
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  Speaker 22: nel cielo infinito Volare, oh oh oh E cantare, oh
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  Speaker 22: oh oh.
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  Speaker 24: Nel blu, dipinto di blu E chiedigi di stare lassù
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  Speaker 24: E volavo, volavo, venigi Pun alte del sole con coro
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  Speaker 24: più su.
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  Speaker 20: in Washington. Jim Daniels took off on an ill-advised scramble
• 55:52
  Speaker 20: in the closing seconds, costing Washington a chance at victory
• 55:55
  Speaker 20: over the Giants and ending yesterday's game in a 27-27 tie.
• 55:59
  Speaker 20: 12 seconds left and the ball at the Giants. 24,
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  Speaker 20: Washington called a pass play, but Daniels held onto the
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  Speaker 20: ball and went down for no gain. Washington had no
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  Speaker 20: timeouts left. and couldn't spike the ball before the clock
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  Speaker 20: hit zero. Got the ball with two minutes left in
• 56:12
  Speaker 20: OT when Darren Payne stripped the ball from Cam Scadimo
• 56:15
  Speaker 20: with New York in range for a game-ending field goal.
• 56:18
  Speaker 20: How about this for a little tidbit over the weekend?
• 56:21
  Speaker 20: No teams in the NFC East won a football game
• 56:24
  Speaker 20: this week. Cowboys lost on Thursday night football, the Eagles
• 56:29
  Speaker 20: lost on Sunday morning, and of course the Giants and
• 56:32
  Speaker 20: Redskins went head-to-head in a tie.
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  Speaker 12: So you had no winners this week in the lowly, lowly,
• 56:38
  Speaker 12: lowly NFC, least is what people are calling it. Up
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  Speaker 12: next for the Giants, they'll host the New Orleans Saints.
• 56:44
  Speaker 12: come next Sunday.
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  Speaker 20: At MetLife, Braylon Allen ran 22 yards for the go-ahead
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  Speaker 20: touchdown late in the fourth quarter after New York recovered
• 56:49
  Speaker 20: a fumble punt snap, and the Jets ended a three-game
• 56:52
  Speaker 20: skid with a 17-12 victory over the Cleveland Browns on
• 56:54
  Speaker 20: a rain-soaked Sunday. Up next for the Jets, they'll play
• 56:58
  Speaker 20: at New England next Sunday. Tonight, Monday night football, 8.15 p.m. kickoff,
• 57:02
  Speaker 20: as always, at a wrap-out week five in the NFL,
• 57:04
  Speaker 20: 3-1 Bills at the 2-2 Rams.
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  Speaker 12: Good contest there, Rams, 3.5 points. home favorites.
• 57:10
  Speaker 20: On the diamond in Milwaukee, Brewers edged out the Dodgers
• 57:12
  Speaker 20: 2-1 in an LCS Game 1, taking a 1-0 series
• 57:15
  Speaker 20: lead there. Game 2 scheduled for tonight. from Milwaukee. Also tonight,
• 57:18
  Speaker 20: the ALCS will get underway down in Tampa Bay between
• 57:20
  Speaker 20: the Cleveland Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays. On the
• 57:23
  Speaker 20: ice at the Garden, Ty Carty and Will Cooley scored
• 57:27
  Speaker 20: two goals each, and Dylan Garan made 19 saves. The
• 57:30
  Speaker 20: Rangers beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-2 in their first game
• 57:32
  Speaker 20: since losing goaltender Igor Shosturkin for the season with a
• 57:35
  Speaker 20: knee injury. If they score six goals a game, they'll
• 57:37
  Speaker 20: be all right without him. Alexi Lafreniere and Gabe Perreault
• 57:40
  Speaker 20: also scored for the Rangers, while JT Miller and Mika
• 57:42
  Speaker 20: Zibenejad each had two assists. Chesterkin did injure his right
• 57:45
  Speaker 20: knee Friday night in that loss at Washington. The 24-year-old
• 57:49
  Speaker 20: Garan was placed on waivers by the Rangers before the season,
• 57:51
  Speaker 20: but not claimed. He's now the presumptive starter. Up next
• 57:54
  Speaker 20: for the Blue Shirts, they'll host the Tampa Bay Lightning
• 57:57
  Speaker 20: tomorrow night. Devils back on the ice tonight at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 21: Sid and friends in the morning. On the Red Apple
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  Speaker 18: Saw her dancing there by the record machine.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 13: She could not have been more than 17. 17.
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  Speaker 2: Played my favorite tune.
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  Speaker 13: I knew pretty soon that broad, she would dance with me.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me.
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  Speaker 15: I love rock and roll.
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  Speaker 13: Put a dime in the jukebox, baby. Be that rock
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  Speaker 13: and roll.
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  Speaker 15: Come on and.
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  Speaker 1: Dance with me.
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  Speaker 13: Today is Columbus Day, a tradition on my program to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 13: speak to one of the greatest Italians God ever created.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 13: No one's going to argue that. Has his own big-time
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 13: morning show on 970, but of course, kills it here
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 13: every Saturday night between 10 p.m. and midnight, Frank Sinatra.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 13: And that is the very, very talented, handsome, rugged Joe Piscopo,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 13: Columbus Day Piscopo. And I'll tell you this, Joseph, my
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 13: son Gabriel, who is now a senior in high school...
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 13: He's going to go to college in Florida next year.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 13: He's home today, and he's home today because in New
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 13: York City, they are recognizing Indigenous People Day, not Columbus Day.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 13: Do you believe that crap?
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  Speaker 18: You know, it makes me upset because I think of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 18: my grandparents coming over. I think of my great-grandparents coming over.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 18: I was just in Italy all last week. We spent
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 18: a beautiful Italy. They went to JFK. They went on
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 18: a steerage in the East Fray. Sydney, it was like freighters,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 18: you know, and they came over and they came with
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 18: American flags in their hands, my friend, with American flags
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 18: in their hands because they wanted to be American. Talk
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  Speaker 18: to me about any other day. This is Columbus Day
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  Speaker 18: in the name of my parents, grandparents and all the Italian-Americans,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 18: especially in New York, Sid, right?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, 100 percent. Come on. We've got so many great
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 13: Italians here in New York and I'm Jewish. I always
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 13: wanted to be Italian. So I love this day as well.
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  Speaker 13: You know, I got to tell you, you know, last year,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 13: people forget we got rained out. They very rarely cancel
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 13: or postpone a parade. But the rain was so bad,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 13: it was rained out. And about last Wednesday or Thursday.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 13: The forecast had big rain coming on Monday. I said, no, no,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 13: we can't rain this thing out two years in a row.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 13: But of course, the gods of Columbus Day, we're going
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: to have a beautiful day this afternoon.
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  Speaker 18: I know that was political last year. I don't think
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 18: Governor Hochul wanted it. I mean, we were ready to go.
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  Speaker 15: We're Italian.
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  Speaker 18: We're Italian. We dug the subways of New York. We
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 18: built the skyscrapers.
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  Speaker 15: Of New York.
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  Speaker 18: That's what we did. They treated us like dogs and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 18: we still fought it. We didn't want anything. We didn't
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 18: want some kind of entitlement program. We work for what
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 18: we wish. A little rain, they canceled it yesterday. It
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 18: ain't going to happen today. Last year when they canceled it,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 18: that was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 13: So we're going in.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be great.
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  Speaker 18: We want this to be the biggest, the best parade ever.
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  Speaker 18: I want to thank you, Sid Rosenberg, my dear friend,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 18: honorary Italian-American. And I also want to thank President Donald J.
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  Speaker 13: Trump.
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  Speaker 18: I was down there Friday with the Italians.
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  Speaker 16: You know.
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  Speaker 18: And, you know, Sid, I never get preferential treatment. It's
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 18: never like, oh, here's Joe. But I work to get
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 18: everybody together. I want to make sure we're all even
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 18: keeled and we're all committed to the Italian American cause.
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  Speaker 18: The man that led the cause, since I talked to
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 18: him on my show, and I know he's your best
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 18: friend and he's always reduced it, Donald Trump is, but
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 18: he comes on my show and goes, we're going to
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 18: save Columbus State. I love the Italian Americans. He talked,
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  Speaker 18: if I may, Sidney, he talked That statue that was
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 18: thrown into the Maryland Harbor and they got it. We
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 18: got the Italians got it out and he put it
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 18: right smack dab in the front of the executive office building.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 18: That's on White House grounds. Do you understand how important
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 18: that is?
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 18: And then and then and then and then he goes
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 18: to there is another statue that he has that he's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 18: putting on in.
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  Speaker 15: The Rose Garden, in the Rose Garden.
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  Speaker 18: That stands for the Italian-American community. I was down there
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  Speaker 18: Friday and the president said Columbus Day is Columbus Day.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 18: This is my day. And I want to tell you something.
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  Speaker 18: We appreciate that because when did the president do that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 18: since Ronald Reagan?
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  Speaker 13: No, of course not. Listen, he loves you and he
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 13: loves Columbus Day. I had a chance to actually text
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 13: back and forth with President Trump on Saturday about something else.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 13: But it was about the mayor and talking about this mayor.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 13: President Trump came out and he talked about the mayor
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  Speaker 13: leaving Little Italy really twice because you've got Mulberry Street
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 13: down there by Lower Manhattan and you've got Arthur Avenue
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 13: in the Bronx. So he really left Little Italy off
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: twice of his nonsense enclave immigration maps. And Trump took
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 13: him out this weekend for it. You and I took
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 13: him out months ago when he first did it. So
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 13: he will not be at the parade today. And I
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 13: got to tell you, it's a smart move for him
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 13: because physically, I mean this, he may be in trouble.
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  Speaker 13: That man should be nowhere near my Italian friends on
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 13: Columbus Day Parade because somebody, Joe, somebody's going to get
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 13: pissed off and punch him right across the face.
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  Speaker 18: No, no, no. No violence, Sid.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: No violence, man.
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  Speaker 18: And I love that you're going to be in the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 18: parade today, aren't.
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  Speaker 13: You, man?
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  Speaker 15: I am.
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  Speaker 13: It'll be my sixth consecutive year in a convertible car.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 13: It's a big deal. I think I'm the only Jew
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 13: in a convertible car. But again, the Italians... what you
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 13: guys have done for New York, you know, you talked
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 13: about the subways and skyscrapers and you guys have built
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 13: more stuff in New York than any other ethnic group.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 13: And the fact that the mayor left you off, I mean,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 13: you may not encourage violence, but Joe, you gotta be
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 13: pissed off.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: It's a little, you know what? I don't understand it.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 18: It's because you know why, when you sit down on
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 18: Sunday dinner, and when I sit down and I, my
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 18: parents would always have Sunday dinner at 2 PM on
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 18: a Sunday, man always rain and shine no matter what
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 18: we were doing we would always have just that Sunday
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 18: dinner we'd get together the fabric of the of the
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 18: Italian American community it's just family man it's a lot
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 18: familiar it's family and this is what we want to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 18: get and this guy this mayor has no clue he
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 18: has no clue what it's he hasn't been here long
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 18: enough he hasn't even been in the country long enough
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 18: to understand the strength and the foundation of the italian
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 18: american community you know what along with the chinese along
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 18: with the jewish community along the black community and the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 18: latino community but don't throw us under the bus and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 18: you know what he said we're italian we ain't going
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 18: nowhere statues ain't coming down. We got a president that's
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 18: sticking up for us. And onward and forward, we're going
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 18: to have the best single parade ever in the history
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 18: at the Columbus Citizens Foundation, my brother. And thank you, Sid,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 18: for being that. I know I support Israel. You're such
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 18: a thought supporter of Israel. And we appreciate that so much. Today,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 18: we're going to support the Italians. And you're always there
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 18: with us, Sid. Front and center. We appreciate that, my brother,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 18: you know?
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  Speaker 13: No, I love you guys. I love you. So when
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 13: can people expect to see you, the great Joe Piscopo?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 13: When can they expect to see you on television, I guess,
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  Speaker 13: channel seven later on this afternoon.
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  Speaker 18: It's channel seven. It's ABC. And it's like, you know what?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 18: It's going to be, it's going to be three hours
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  Speaker 18: and we're going to be on channel seven, WABC. You could,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 18: you could actually, you can stream it on abc7. com. And
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 18: if you're listening to this in around the country and
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 18: you know what, it's going to be three hours and
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 18: we're going to get a jam it down everybody's throat
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 18: on live television. How great the Italian Americans are.
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  Speaker 13: I love that. Now, In the past, we've had wonderful
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 13: people like my friend and yours, Maria Bartiromo. I know
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 13: she was at the big dinner on Saturday and Kenny Rosado.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 13: They're both gone. So who sits next to the great
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 13: Joe Piscopo on television today?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 18: I think we got that. We got Mike and we
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 18: got Sandra. We got the people from from ABC seven
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 18: are going to be there. And, you know, it's like that.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 18: So I'm going to be like a just, you know,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 18: I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to like
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 18: a supply the color as it You know what I mean?
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 18: So it's like, I'm going to be there on the
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  Speaker 18: side and I'm going to make sure we stay online
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 18: that we're talking about how great the Italians are. But
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 18: you know what? I applaud WABC television in New York.
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  Speaker 15: Or at least have the courage.
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  Speaker 18: So it's going to be exciting. It's going to be fun.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 18: Put the hate aside. Just enjoy the Italian-American community. Think
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 18: about Rosario Piscopo. Think about Francesco Speranza, Carmela, my grandparents, Vitaliano,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 18: the people that worked so hard to come here to America.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 18: That's what we're celebrating today. And I'm just pumped up
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  Speaker 18: about it today, Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 13: Last one. It's probably a silly question being you do
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 13: this amazing show every week here on WABC every Saturday
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 13: night for Frank Sinatra. So that's probably the answer. answer
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 13: but I'll ask you anyway do you have one I
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 13: know it's hard so many great ones Do you have
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 13: one favorite Italian?
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 18: I was going to say, with great respect to my father,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 18: who was really my role model, but my mother, rest
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 18: in peace, Edith Ida La Magna Piscopo. She is my
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 18: role model. And the older I got, the more I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 18: realized How influential my mom was and how strong the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 18: Italian-American women are in the family. The guys we always
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 18: think were the boss of the family, Sid, you know?
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  Speaker 23: No, no.
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  Speaker 18: It's the Italian-American women. And I remember Edith Piscopo, rest
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 18: her brilliant soul. I miss her so much on this day, Sid,
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  Speaker 18: you know?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 13: So the Jews are the same, by the way. Danielle
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 13: runs my household, not me. All right. So when I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 13: drive by later, I know the network people here in
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: New York hate my guts.
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  Speaker 18: They do.
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  Speaker 13: They hate me. That's fine. But you got to find
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 13: a way, Joe, to mention me. They go, that's my guy,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 13: Sid Rosenberg, W.A.B.C. in that convertible. Come on, Joe Biscopo.
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  Speaker 15: Truly noted, Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 18: You got to get the director right on your front
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  Speaker 18: and center, brother.
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  Speaker 13: Joe, I love you. Can't wait to see you later
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  Speaker 13: on this afternoon. You're a great Italian, a great American,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 13: and we love you at WABC. Thank you so much.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 23: Love you back, Sid. Love you back, my brother.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, man.
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  Speaker 13: We'll see you today. Joe Piscopo right there, Saturday nights,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 13: 10 to midnight, right here on WABC, his own morning
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 13: show on 970. He is Mr. Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 21: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 13: Italian restaurants on this Columbus Day that we frequent. And
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  Speaker 13: it's like, Lou, the list is like the whole page here.
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  Speaker 13: Of course. Now, I know I'm probably going to be
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 13: missing a couple, so don't be offended, but we love
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 13: Bill Cortile, Tommy Leonard's Place. I was there last week
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 13: with Danny Pagliano and Joseph Takapina, John Behrens and John Camerianos.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 13: We love it there. Michael's, Michael's Restaurant, Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 13: Amazing Italian food. We have a couple in our own neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 13: John Mazzola, Joseph, La Sorrentina.
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  Speaker 8: Amazing place.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 13: Vinnie and Vinnie Rocco's. That's a great place, too. Then
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 13: you've got my buddy Danny Potash. When we used to
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 13: live down by Wall Street, Danielle and I, with the kids,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 13: we went to this place every week. Harry's Italian on
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 13: Gold Street. And it was actually suggested to me by
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 13: the great Stephen Chirrippa, Italian actor. Bobby Bacala and Anthony, yeah.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 13: You've got two places on the east side I like,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 13: Promola and up by John and Margo's house. I've been
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 13: to this place with John and Margo and Bruce Blakeman
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 13: and others, Elio's. Then, of course, you've got the Bo
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 13: Deedle Hangout, Rayo's. That's a classic. Let's see. You've got
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 13: Mateo's in Boca Raton, Peter Kramer, and Mateo's in Howard Beach.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 13: My buddy Anthony Amoroso, he's a terrific guy. You've got... Well,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 13: the place you like, is it Barossa?
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 8: Barossa is in, I think it's Rego Park.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 13: Is that Rego Park?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 13: It's on Woodhaven Boulevard.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: It's on Woodhaven.
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  Speaker 13: All the way at the end.
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  Speaker 8: Right before you hit the L.A.A.
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  Speaker 13: Right. That's right.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: And then you've got, what's the place on Arthur Avenue
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 13: you really like?
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  Speaker 8: Zero Auto Nova.
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  Speaker 13: Now, how do you say that again?
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  Speaker 8: Zero Auto Nova.
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  Speaker 13: Zero Auto Nova.
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  Speaker 8: No, Nova. It's fantastic. Among, like, you know, ten great places.
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  Speaker 13: On Arthur Avenue.
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 13: I think we got all of them right. Am I
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  Speaker 13: missing anything?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you're going to get bombarded now.
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  Speaker 13: Of course I am.
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  Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 13: You forgot this place. First of all, I don't go
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  Speaker 13: to Staten Island, so don't get me. I did shoot
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 13: a scene once for Gravesend and Butchies, but I don't
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 13: go to Staten Island, so I don't know Staten Island.
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  Speaker 13: And I don't really go to the Bronx outside of
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 13: Arthur Avenue. So most of my Italian food eating is Queens, Brooklyn,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 13: and Manhattan.
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  Speaker 8: It covers a lot of restaurants.
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  Speaker 13: A lot. Chaz Palminteri's got a great Italian restaurant. Great.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 13: Chaz's place in the theater district. In fact, I'll be
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 13: going to my car today. My convertible to be a
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 13: part of this parade is right by Chaz's restaurant.
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  Speaker 8: Nice.
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  Speaker 13: He's got a great place. He's got more than one.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 13: He's got one in Westchester, too, I think, on Main Street.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 13: So talking about great Italian restaurants and great Italians, we
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 13: had Joe Piscopo on the show earlier. When we get back,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 13: this is just one of the nicest people. I mean,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 13: anybody who has anything bad to say about Angelo Vivalo
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 13: must be a terrible person. I always say this about
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 13: people I really love. If you love Angelo, how about this?
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 13: Even better. If you don't love Angelo, you don't love Jesus.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 23: You like that, Alec?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 13: You like that, Lou?
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 8: Well said.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, if you don't love Angelo, you don't love Jesus.
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  Speaker 13: Angelo Bivolo, like he shows up every year on Columbus Day,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 13: he's coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: In the Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 13: Mark Oranger, Anthony Caron, Mike Kemper, Al Volpe. Andrew Alpstein,
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  Speaker 13: the whole crew, and that's Il Minello, which is right
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  Speaker 13: down the street on 49th and 1st. They got a
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  Speaker 13: great place, Eddie. And then also talk about Al Bopi,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 13: his buddy Ronnie's place, which is a great Italian restaurant, which,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 13: believe it or not, was Bernard McGurk's favorite all the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 13: way out in the highlands, Atlantic highlands. It's called Christine's.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 8: How did they get him there?
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 13: I have no idea. Bernie actually, Carol loved it there too.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 13: It loves it there. I should say so. Anyway, let's
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  Speaker 13: get to one more man, Angelo Vivalo. He is the
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 13: face of Columbus day. One of the nicest people you'll
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 13: ever meet. Angelo, happy Columbus day, my friend. How are you?
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  Speaker 23: I'm great and happy Columbus day to you. And I
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  Speaker 23: won't attempt to mention any restaurants because I leave out
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  Speaker 23: too many good friends. You really put together a great group, uh,
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  Speaker 23: I don't even want to comment because, as I said,
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  Speaker 23: I have too many enemies. Great group of restaurants. My goodness.
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  Speaker 23: Have you been to all of them?
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  Speaker 13: Basically. I've been to like just about every Italian restaurant, pizzeria,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 13: you name it. It's my favorite food. I've been very
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 13: clear about that for years. I could eat Italian food.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 13: And what's funny about me is I've been to Italy.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 13: It doesn't matter if I'm in Italy. It doesn't matter
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 13: if I'm at the most expensive Italian restaurant in New
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 13: York City or a place like Pronto, you know, a pizzeria.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 13: I get the same thing every time. Chicken parmesan and penne.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 13: That's it. Really? If I really want to get kinky,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 13: I'll get like a, you know, like a, uh, Milanese
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 13: or something like that. But otherwise, no matter where I am,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 13: no matter how good the restaurant is, I'm a chicken
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 13: palm guy, Angelo.
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  Speaker 23: Got to eat what you like. That's, that's, that's what
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 23: it's all about.
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  Speaker 13: Well, what do you do? What's your favorite Italian dish?
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 13: The salt and vodka.
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  Speaker 23: You're not going to get me on that. Oh, favorite dish. No,
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  Speaker 23: I'm kind of eclectic. I like them all because I
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 23: was in the business for 42 years, made a lot of,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 23: you know, made a lot of good friends over the years. And, uh,
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  Speaker 23: As I said, you named pretty much the hit parade
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 23: of Italian restaurants.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I had them all. I think I did. When
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 13: you say in the business, I didn't know this about you.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 13: So you were in the Italian food business?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 23: For 42 years, I had several restaurants. My flagship was
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 23: on 74th Street between Lexington and Park. It was my
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 23: last name. Wow. I was blessed, actually, in my career,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 23: and hopefully it'll happen again. to serve two popes. I
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 23: served Pope Benedict when he was in New York for
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 23: three years, three days, and Pope Francis for three days.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 15: Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: At the home of the Nuncio on 72nd Street between
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 23: Fifth Avenue and Madison.
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  Speaker 13: I love that.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 23: It was the greatest honor of my life. Of course.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 13: I actually saw today that Pope Leo was not feeling well.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 13: There's something with his lung?
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 23: Yeah. Well, let's hope and pray that it's something that
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 23: if caught, boy, have time and he'll be fine. I mean,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 23: He's not a holy man, but privileged to talk to
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  Speaker 23: you always, and especially on Columbus Day. You've been the
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 23: supporter of Italian-Americans your whole career, and I can't thank
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 23: you enough for your friendship. Your kind words about me,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 23: a little exaggerated, but.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 13: I don't think so. I think I underdid it, to
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 13: be honest. That's how much I love you. But listen,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 13: I go back years and years ago when I first
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 13: came back to New York with Bernard. And, you know,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 13: I'm very, very close over the years with Chaz Palminteri,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 13: as you are. And he contacted me and he said, listen,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 13: me and my buddy Phil Foglia, who, of course, yeah,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 13: he died. So sad, COVID. We want to come into
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 13: the studio because at that point it was Bill de Blasio,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 13: another creep mayor, that son of a bitch. He also
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 13: wanted to take down the statues, Columbus, and get rid
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 13: of Columbus Day. And Chance and Phil came into the studio.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 13: We had this huge event in Central Park. You were there.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 13: The Columbus statue, I should say. And it was all
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 13: of us. Me, you, Piscopo, Bo Deedle, Arthur Aydala. And
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 13: we thwarted all their efforts. This is going back like
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 13: 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 23: Yep. At that time, I had made an application to
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 23: the Landmark Preservation Commission to have the statue at the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 23: Columbus Circle. a landmark and you know the city works
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 23: very slowly well i got to know in one week
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 23: i gotta i gotta i gotta answer no what happened
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 23: but look we're here and uh we're uh we're looking
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 23: forward to celebrating a great day it's it's you know
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 23: it's not only celebrating columbus it's celebrating the great heritage
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 23: and culture of italian uh of italian people and you
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 23: know we believe in god Family, God, and country. And
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 23: I couldn't be more proud to do my little part
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 23: to represent our great community. And you, you're the best.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 23: I mean, you're always there for us.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 13: You're always there. I love this day. I do. I
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 13: love this day, Get my convertible.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 23: That convertible Cadillac again, coming up Thursday. And I have
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 23: to do a big, big thank you to John and
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 23: Mongo because, you know, they broadcast the parade for three hours.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 23: lives on Chester Avenue. And, you know, I'm getting a
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 23: little bit older and a little more difficult walking up
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 23: Chester Avenue. And I'm very fortunate that I'm going to
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 23: be co-anchoring that coverage with Ray Kelly, with Chris Kelly. Yeah,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 23: I'll be okay.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 13: Ray Kelly.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 23: Ray Kelly.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 13: Yeah. That's great. You're going to be there for three hours.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 13: That's good. John and Margo do a great job. Everything
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 13: in the city. I know John and Margo were there
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 13: Saturday night for the big Columbus Day dinner. Maria Bartiromo
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 13: and A whole bunch of other very famous Italians are there.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 13: They do a great job. John will join me, in fact,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 13: in about a half hour. You did mention the Cadillac.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 13: I must mention La Familia Cadillac Club. That's the guys
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 13: that drive me down in that car every year. I've
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 13: got my own driver. He's a great guy, Frankie D'Amour.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 13: So Frankie and La Familia will be taking care of
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 13: me today. I don't want to make this political. I
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 13: have to make one point. We know about the mayor
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 13: giving the finger to the Columbus statue and leaving off...
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 13: obviously Mulberry Street and Arthur Avenue office enclave immigrant map.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 13: And again, this is not a political day. This is
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 13: a day to celebrate Columbus Day. But there are people
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 13: that are upset the mayor is not going to be there.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 13: I got to tell you, Angelo, I was so happy.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 13: I was so happy that the mayor did not show
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 13: up at the Israeli Day Parade. Why would I want
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 13: somebody who hates Jews at my parade? Clearly, Mamdani has
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 13: no respect, none for the Italians. So why are people complaining?
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 13: I would think you people don't want him there.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 23: Well, you know, it just emphasizes the point that he
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 23: has no respect for it. And and we, you know,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 23: all the things you said, he didn't put literally or
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 23: or off having you on the map. It was totally ridiculous.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 23: And the fact that, I mean, he gave the finger
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 23: to the Columbus statue.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 23: And the story, unbelievable and proud of it. I mean,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 23: it's just, it's unfortunate. Look, like you, I love the city.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 23: I root for the city. And I wish we had
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 23: a mayor who felt the same way. But unfortunately, in
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 23: my personal view, I don't think that that's happened.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 13: No, it's not. That's why, Angela, you got to jump
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 13: on right now. Rosenborough, 2029. You like the sign of that?
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 23: I love it.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 15: Sign me up. Sign me up.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 13: I tell you this, I will be at the Columbus
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 13: State Parade every year, make a very, very big deal
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 13: about it. I do anyway, do now, even just as
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 13: a radio host. So what are you most proud of, Angelo?
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 13: All the work you've done over the years, Italian restaurants,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 13: now you help with this day and you've got the foundation.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 13: What are you most proud of?
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 23: Well, I'll tell you, you know, I'm the first Italian-American
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 23: on the CUNY board, you know, CUNY University of New York.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 23: And I feel like I could I can make a
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 23: difference being on that board on behalf of my community.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 23: It's it's a big honor. You know, I'm like you,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 23: a Brooklyn boy at heart. So, you know, I that's
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 23: one of my I'm very proud of that and proud
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 23: of being appointed.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 13: You're nominated.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 23: And I've been on the board for about five years
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 23: now and will continue, I believe, next year. Until next year. And,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 23: I mean, there's so many things I can say. You know,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 23: I believe that just keeping the message alive, and I
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 23: think we've made a tremendous headway, about the truth about
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 23: Christopher Columbus. And, you know, people say, you know what
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 23: they say a lot enough times that people believe it.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 23: And unfortunately we have a woke community that, that just
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 23: loves to keep lying about things. I have to, I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 23: was in Washington the other day when the God bless
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 23: president Trump, when he did the proclamation, uh, for, uh,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 23: for Columbus day. And I tell you, he put us
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 23: back on the map with his endorsement, uh, when he,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 23: with the, uh, with the proclamation. It meant so much.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 23: It really meant so much. And the tide is turning.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 23: There's not as many people going crazy about taking down
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 23: statues and being negative. Sure, there are people across the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 23: country who, unfortunately, are misinformed, uneducated, and do not and
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 23: do not.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 13: Say the truth.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 23: You know, they just believe the lie.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 13: They're called Democrats.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 13: They're called Democrats. If God forbid Trump loses, it'll go
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 13: right back where it was. Trust me.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 23: But, but, you know, God bless people like you. I look,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 23: who sing the praises of Italian Americans. And that's what
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 23: it's all about. You know, look, we can talk about everything,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 23: you know, politics, entertainment, sports, and so forth. But the
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 23: bottom line is, As I said earlier, you know, Italian-Americans,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 23: basic people, we believe in our families, we believe in God,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 23: and we believe in this great country that we're fortunate.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 23: My dad came here as a teenager from Italy, and
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 23: he feels that he was blessed every minute to be here,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 23: to raise a family, and to live the American dream,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 23: and that's what it's all about, the American dream.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 13: 100%, plus you're good-looking people, you can cook, and, you know,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 13: all that good stuff. But are you aggravated like I am?
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 13: I said this to Joe Piscopo earlier. My son, Gabriel,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 13: who also loves the Italians, he's home from school today. Oh,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 13: he's not home for Columbus Day.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 13: He's home today for Indigenous People Day. Now, no disrespect
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 13: to the indigenous people. God bless them. Okay. Are you
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 13: angry that they couldn't find another day? They had a
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 13: crap on Columbus Day?
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 23: Well, I've been making that fight for I don't know
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 23: how many years. And you were there. Like you said earlier,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 23: you were there when we were at the Columbus Circle
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 23: and when they took away the holiday from the public schools,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 23: the Department of Education, during de Blasio's time. And he
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 23: didn't know about it, by the way. He said he
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 23: didn't know about it. And they did away with Columbus
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 23: Day and brought in Indigenous Peoples Day. And it's just horrific.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 23: I mean, 800,000 Italian-Americans in New York City alone. And
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 23: they did that. And, you know, I've been fighting that
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 23: cause forever, and I'll continue to fight it. you know,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 23: and try to have that turned around. I think we're
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 23: making progress. I think that things are going well for us.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 23: I think, you know, I think that we can, you know,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 23: if we stick together, unity and good friends like you, look,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 23: anything's possible. We're in a great country. God bless America.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 23: And I think that we can achieve that goal at
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 23: some point going forward.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 13: I love your optimism. Last one. I asked Episcopal the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 13: same question. He gave me his mom and dad. That's
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 13: too easy. Maybe it'll be Joe DiMaggio. Maybe it'll be
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 13: Frank Sinatra. I don't know. Angelo Vivalo, who's your favorite Italian?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 23: I think you said it. Joe DiMaggio.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 13: Really?
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 23: Well, I had the privilege of knowing him for the
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 23: 10 years of his life. You know, he was an icon.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 23: He was a great guy. My experience with him, he
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 23: was just a... down to earth, the terrific human being. And, uh, so, and, uh,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 23: you know, I'm a big Yankee fan. I mean, obviously, uh, and, uh,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 23: you know, I, Joe DiMaggio is really an incredible person
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 23: for me to meet. I met many, many, I, you know, I,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 23: I met, I've been very blessed. I've met many, many people, uh,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 23: great Italian Americans in my career. And, uh, but, uh,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 23: Joe DiMaggio, you know, I remember when we would come in,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 23: I'd call everybody I knew. I'd say, you can't believe it,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 23: Joe DiMaggio. I can't believe it. I pinched myself. And
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 23: he was just a terrific guy, and I got to
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 23: know him really well. Actually, he was a grand marshal
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 23: at the Columbus Day Parade.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 13: Oh, he was?
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 23: Yes, he was.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 13: That's pretty cool. Yeah, well, clearly you're a Yankee fan
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 13: because you would have said Johnny Franco or Mike Piazza
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 13: if you were a Met fan.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 23: Yeah, right. Now, who would Joe say?
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 13: Joe said his mother and father. That's too easy, though.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 13: We all feel that way, right?
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 23: We all feel that way. My mother and father were
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 23: incredible people. You know, I always say that you don't
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 23: learn by what they tell you. You learn by what
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 23: they do. And, you know, that was my experience in life.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 23: So I've been blessed to know you and all the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 23: things that you do for our country and, of course,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 23: for New York. Thank you.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 13: I feel the same way. The love is mutual. Thank you.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 13: The love is mutual, Angelo Bivolo. I can't wait to
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 13: see you at the parade later on this afternoon. Co-anchoring
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 13: with Greg Kelly. I love it. Noon to three. All right.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 13: All right, Angelo. Great job as always here today. We'll
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 13: see you later on this afternoon. Thank you so much.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 23: Thank you. Thank you so much.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 13: God bless you. God bless you. Angelo Bivolo right there,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 13: and he'll be co-anchoring, as he told you, with Greg
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 13: Kelly from noon to three. We'll take a short break.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 13: Still lots more to do. I think Nicole Malliotakis is
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 13: stopping by. She had a big... Italian night on Saturday.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 13: Another Italian. He is now working for President Trump's Labor Department.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 13: He was a valued congressman. Anthony D. Esposito. He's going
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 13: to stop by. And I think I'm missing one guest.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 13: I'm not sure. Either way, John Katsimatidis.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 23: Mr.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 13: Apple Media himself. He's going to stop by. So, a
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 13: lot more to do on this Columbus Day edition.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 21: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 13: But I wanted to talk about this all morning long.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 13: What happened Saturday afternoon in Broad Channel, not far from
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 13: my house, at a place we love, Adrian's, Marty Beeney,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 13: we love Marty Beeney, retired cop, and his whole family, right?
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 13: Chris and Frank and Leo, everybody. And they hosted a
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 13: party that was titled 204060. Why is that? Well, 20 years,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 13: Lou and his lovely, significant other, MJ, have been together.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 13: And I love them as a couple. 40 years is
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 13: the amount of time Lou has been in the radio business.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 15: What?
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 13: I know. I'm going on 30. And 60 years is
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 13: none of your business. But the party was 20, 40, 60.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 13: And it was Saturday afternoon. And it was an amazing party.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 13: Lou and MJ were great hosts. And they invited... The
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 13: people that we work with now, so Justin Alec was there,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 13: and Norm Layden was there, and Chris Libertini was there,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 13: and his lovely girlfriend, and Doug. But then, Lewis also
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 13: invited some of our good buddies from WFAN, people I
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 13: worked with 20-plus years ago, like the Eddie Scazzeri, who
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 13: was amazing on Saturday. He was so great and funny.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 13: I love that guy. And Chris Magikowski. Yep. Every Giant game,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 13: every Met game, every Yankee game, every St. John's game,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 13: he's the guy in charge of running the board for
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 13: all of those. Who's the other guy? Traffic, sports.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 8: That I just told you about?
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 8: Larry Fonseca.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 13: Larry Fonseca, another double-decker. So you had all these new
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 13: guys and old guys, and then you had a lot of,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 13: you know, good friends and Gene, who drives us, and
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 13: his beautiful wife, and Al Bolpe and his beautiful wife,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 13: and then... Here's where I wasn't sure about the crowd. Clearly,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 13: I misjudged it.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you did. A little bit.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 13: A little bit. I made a speech. Because there was
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 13: a microphone and people spoke. It was very nice. Father
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 13: Jim was great. He spoke. Lou was great. MJ was great.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 13: That's some other lady. I guess she's her cousin. She
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 13: was funny.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 8: Trish, she was good.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 13: Trish.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, she had something all planned.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 13: So they gave me the mic. And at some point
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 13: during the speech, I said something about President Trump. Oh,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 13: I go, Eddie hates President Trump. And then what I
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 13: heard next, I never would have counted on a bunch
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 13: of applause agreeing with Eddie. I'm like, what kind of
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 13: terrible party is this? Everybody hates Trump.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: It was a majority of the people at the party.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Like it was the craziest.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 13: And I was just arguing with Eddie like an hour before,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 13: like what a loser he is. I love him. I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 13: love him to pieces. But what kind of loser doesn't
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 13: love President Trump? And the next thing you know, the
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 13: whole party is clapping for Eddie. I'm like, who are
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 13: these horrible people? Who were those horrible people, Lou?
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 8: Well, there's... Clear they, some of them were my, a
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 8: lot of them were my friends from college.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 13: Idiots.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 13: And who else?
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 8: MJ's family.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 13: Oh, MJ's family. Come on. You got to be better
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 13: than that. I'm sorry. Come on. Come on.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: By the way, they didn't hand you the mic to speak.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: You took the mic.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 13: No, no, no. They mentioned, they said, maybe Sid will speak,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 13: and then I did make my way towards. They did
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 13: say that. I wasn't going to speak.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: I was standing next to you, and you said, did
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: they just say my name?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 13: Right, and they did.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: And I said, they did.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so then I walked up. So then you walked up.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 13: They said, maybe Sid will speak. It was not even Louis.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 13: MJ said, maybe Sid will say something. So then I
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 13: did walk up and take the mic. I was not
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 13: intending on speaking. But either way, it was such a
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 13: magnificent party. Noam, you were there.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: How great was it?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 13: It was great.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 19: Yeah, well, first of all, I met so many people
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 19: that are friends of Lou and MJ for years, and
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 19: they're such nice people.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: So that was fun.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 19: And then to meet Gene, the driver, who I've never
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 19: met before, that was the highlight for me.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 13: Wasn't that great?
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really great.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 13: He looks like Morgan Freeman. His wife is so lovely, too.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 23: They're great people.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 13: He's fantastic.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 8: How can you not love Gene? He's great.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 13: Well, it was your party. What did you think, Lou?
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 8: I was overwhelmed that these different groups were all there.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 8: I was looking at the invite list, and I went,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 8: if a lot of these people come, this is going
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 8: to be nuts. It would be crazy. Of course, Ed
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 8: Scazzeri there. A lot of my former friends from Fordham, FUV,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 8: were there, who I hang out with on a semi-regular basis.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 8: Good friends, and then family members of them, and her family,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 8: and then neighbors of ours. And John Blum was there.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 13: John Blum.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 8: So there was a lot of different groupings of people.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 13: It was awesome. It really was.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 8: But what was great was just seeing everybody so happy
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 8: and having a great time.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it was.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 8: That was all it was.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 13: The vibe was perfect. And I got to tell you,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 13: yesterday was such a crappy weather day. And the weather
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 13: on Saturday... And you have to understand, this place... Adrian's,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 13: is right on the water. And they open up. They
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 13: literally open up all the windows. All of them.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 8: It looks great.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 13: It's gorgeous. It's airy. But on a rainy day, it
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 13: ain't a lot of fun.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 8: It wouldn't be.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 13: And you had a perfect weather day.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we were very blessed with the weather. It was great.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 13: I couldn't believe it.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 8: Loading stuff in there that morning. I went, what is this?
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 8: It's going to be insanely bad tomorrow, but we are lucky.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 22: Yep.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 8: And everybody loved the place, of course.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 13: We go there every weekend, and we see you there
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 13: quite a bit, Danielle and I and the kids, quite
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 13: a bit.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you'll see me more probably now.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 8: But it was, everybody loved the food. Everybody loved it.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 13: The food was great. And great choices you made, Lou.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 13: You went with the steak. I couldn't get enough. The
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 13: linguine with shrimp and the chicken.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 8: Every time I wanted to eat something, somebody pulled me.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 13: Oh, I ate like three plates. I kept going back.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 13: And I had a lot of the hors d'oeuvres. I
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 13: had a lot of those, too.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: Those were good, yeah.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 13: Those were real good. And then the cake. Who bought
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 13: the cake?
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 8: I think MJ ordered that.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 13: Great cake. And they had cannolis, and they had coffee.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 13: It was just... It was the... Perfect event. So congratulations
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 13: to both you guys. I love you both very much.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 8: I still love your speech, whatever. I should have previewed
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 8: it maybe for you, but I didn't have a chance.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 13: Eddie was so happy. Eddie was like smiling and fist pumping. Look,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 13: they all hate Trump like I do.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 8: Of course. He wanted to see you like fall down
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 8: or something. I mean, as happy as I was that
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 8: you spoke, I'm like, this is cool. Sid's going to speak.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 8: Some nice things. But then you turned him around to
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 8: me and looked at me, and I put my hands
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 8: up like, can't help you.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 13: Can't help you here. Can't help you here.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 8: I don't have a big hook.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 13: And Eddie said to me later on the party, he goes,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 13: does Lou like Trump? I'm like, yeah, he likes him.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 13: He doesn't love him. He's not like me. He's not
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 13: a sycophant MAGA like I am. But yeah, he likes him.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 13: Most good Americans like him, Eddie. Not people at this party.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 13: I said, most good Americans, Eddie.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 8: Like, okay, everybody, who wants some more cannoli?
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 13: Great view out there. Thanks, Sid. That was great. Great job, MJ.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 13: Great job. Thank you for having all of us. We
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 13: already did love the event and the beautiful people.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 21: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 13: Then I went out to Truth Social, and what do
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 13: I see? President Trump re-truthed John Katz and Mattiti's appearance
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 13: on Fox News on Friday. Trump loves John, too. John
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 13: does an amazing job at this station. He has saved WABC, him, Margo,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 13: and Chad, the three of them. Really done an amazing job.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 13: He's part of two amazing shows here every weekday afternoon
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 13: at 5 o'clock alongside Rita Cosby. It's the Katz and
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 13: Cosby Show and his own masterpiece Sunday mornings at 8,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 13: The Katz Show. Roundtable Mr. Red Apple Media himself, my
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 13: dear friend John Katzmatidis. John, happy Columbus Day, buddy.
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  Speaker 15: Well, happy Columbus Day, but Sid, you contributed to that
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 15: success too. It's Sid, it's Greg Kelly, Dominic Carter, all
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 15: of us. You know, Roger Stone, Rita. We all work
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 15: together to tell the American people the truth. And that
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 15: is so important. And the interview I did on Friday,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 15: I guess President Trump liked it because he retweeted it,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 15: is that America is under attack in so many different directions.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 15: I mean, we're under attack by our enemies. You know,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 15: what we jokingly called Spectre under the James Bond movies,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 15: and now Spectre is China and North Korea and Russia
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 15: and Iran. I mean, the American people have to realize
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 15: that the only way The only way we keep the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 15: free world free, the only way is through strength. Any
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 15: time any of those dictators detect weakness, we lose. If
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 15: they detect it, don't forget Putin's words. Putin's words were
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 15: that I would not have invaded Ukraine If President Trump
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 15: was still president.
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  Speaker 13: Well, listen, there's proof of that because right before Trump,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 13: you had Obama and they invaded. The Russians invaded Crimea
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 13: when Obama was president. President Trump comes along, John, for
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 13: four years. Putin does nothing. And as soon as Trump
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 13: is done, here comes Biden. They invade Ukraine. So the
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 13: two Democrat presidents before and after Trump Both times, Putin
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 13: invaded somewhere. He did not do it under Trump. So
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 13: Trump must be telling the truth, right?
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 15: Well, Trump, they are scared of Trump. And the only
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 15: thing dictators are scared of is people that have the
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 15: courage to stop them. That's the only thing they respect. Look,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 15: I want to tell every American person out there that
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 15: the only thing those dictators respect is strength. And that's true.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 15: You know, the other thing that Putin said, when President
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 15: Biden gave away Afghanistan, gave away our base in Afghanistan
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 15: to the Chinese. I mean, what could be worse than that?
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 15: And then Putin scratches his head and says, well. You know,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 15: China got Afghanistan. I might as well take Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 15: That's what happened.
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  Speaker 13: And by the way, don't forget, not only did we
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 13: give away the base and we ended up shutting down
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 13: that base, as you know, but, but. 13 beautiful, brave
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 13: Americans were murdered. Murdered. Those 13 deaths, the blood is
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 13: on Biden's hands. And yes, if Trump was president, that
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 13: never would have happened. I got news for you. If
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 13: Trump was president, you know what else wouldn't have happened?
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 13: The awful October 7th. That never would have happened if
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 13: President Trump was president.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 15: Never would have happened. You know what would lead to
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 15: October 7th? We made, Biden made the Iranians so rich,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 15: they had extra money to piss away.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 13: That's right.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 15: And that's what made, that's what happened. The Iranians, Trump
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 15: had the Iranians under 300,000.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 18: Barrels a day maximum.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 15: We want you to feed your people and that's it.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 13: That's it.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 15: And then at $ 50 a barrel. And then Biden comes in,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 15: allows them to go to 3 million barrels a day.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 15: And then at $ 100 a barrel, it made Russia so wealthy.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 15: It made Iran so wealthy. And you know what happens
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 15: if we lose these elections on November 3rd? You know
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 15: what's going to happen, Sid? You're going to see $ 150 oil.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 13: No question. No question.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 15: Because there's no checks and balances at that point.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 13: Well, I do want to ask you about this, talking
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 13: about fuel, because nobody knows this better than you, John.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 13: The diesel fuel deal with Russia, how does that look
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 13: to you?
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 15: Well, I'm going to tell you the way I feel
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 15: about it.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 13: Putin.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 15: is a tough dictator. And you know what Putin wants?
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 15: Putin wants to expand Russia into what the USSR used
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 15: to be. That's his mission. Now, Zelensky has a different mission.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 15: I don't trust him. I think all the excess money
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 15: that they can That he has a lot of what
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 15: the intelligence agencies were telling me. And my opinion is
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 15: that he has a lot of friends that promoted him
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 15: to being the president. And a lot of money is
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 15: going to Switzerland. So all the excess money. So pick
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 15: your poison. That's what it comes down to. Interesting.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you're right.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 18: Pick your poison.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 15: That's right. You know what Trump's mission is?
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: The American people.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 13: That's it.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 15: We want the price of diesel to come down. And
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 15: that's what's going to bring diesel down.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 13: But he did sign the EO a couple of days ago.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 13: See how that goes. Now, look, I'm not patronizing you, John.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 13: You know I mean what I say. Sometimes I say
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 13: something I'm sure you're not thrilled about because I'm honest.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 13: You are my favorite.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 15: I'll always be honest.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 13: You're my favorite Greek person.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 15: You are.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 13: You're my favorite Greek, okay?
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 15: I'm 28%. I'm 28% Italian, you know.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 13: All right. All right. But, you know, today I got
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 13: to give it to the Italians, you know. But in
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 13: terms of Greece, you're the guy. To me, you're the guy.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 13: And I know that you, like me, we both like very,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 13: very much Greece. have great relationships with Kimberly Guilfoyle. You
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 13: don't have to answer if you don't want to, but
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 13: she's going to get fired this week. That's money in
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 13: the bank. Rubio's furious. Trump isn't very happy either. Do
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 13: you have any opinion on Kimberly and what at least
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 13: the allegations are, what she did?
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 15: Well, I've talked to her a few times. She claims
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 15: that she never, ever got the $ 100, 000 in the American
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 15: Express account. And I told her lawyer, why don't you
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 15: check with American Express and find out if that's the truth?
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 15: We have to determine if this is just an attack
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 15: or reality. And I always, you know, when it comes
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 15: to a friend especially, I always give a friend a
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 15: You know, time for the doctor to find out what
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 15: the truth is.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 13: Yep.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 15: Did she get it? Did she get a ride on
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 15: somebody's airplane? Probably. But everybody else does, too. I mean,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 15: I don't want to tell you how many politicians who
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 15: want to borrow my.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 23: OK, yeah.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 15: I mean, yeah, you know, a lot. But that happens.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 15: That's normal course of business. You know what the law is?
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 15: The law is they have to pay you whatever first
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 15: class fare would have been. In other words, if a
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 15: politician wants to go from New York to Cleveland and
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 15: I lend them my airplane, they have to pay with
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 15: the fair cost of it. I think that's the law.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 13: Right, it is.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 15: And we always follow the law because we always have
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 15: hands above the tables. Now, she also claims that she
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 15: was owed this money. She was owed this money from
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 15: this guy that wanted to be governor of Kentucky. And
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 15: I hear the person is attacking everybody and he's a
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 15: little bit of a nut job. So I'm saying let
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 15: the FBI finish their investigation. Let everything come through and
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 15: find out if this is political crap for the three
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 15: weeks before the election, or is it real?
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 13: Fair enough. I like that.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 15: That's the only thing.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's it.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 15: That's the only thing you can do for a friend.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 15: I would do that for you if you were in trouble.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 13: I know you would. I know you would. And she
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 13: is a friend of both of ours, and we both
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 13: like her very, very much. So I do wish Kimberly
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 13: the best in this. So I did see all your videos.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: You were kind enough to send them to me on
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 13: Sunday morning. I love when you do that. the big
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 13: dinner on Saturday night, and I saw you and the
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 13: family and Maria Bartiromo. You know, I had Joe Piscopo
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 13: and Angelo Bivolo on earlier today. So you guys started
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 13: celebrating Columbus Day with that big, beautiful dinner, John, on
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 13: Saturday night.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 15: Well, Margo got up and was dancing with Nicole Mayotakis
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 15: and dancing with Maria Bartiromo.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 13: Love it.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 15: You know, her back hurts, and boy, she had to
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 15: rest a lot on Sunday.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 13: She's been unbelievable, dating back to the dinner we shared
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 13: together when you guys celebrated your anniversary, and she was
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 13: honored with the Franciscans last Friday night. She delivered the
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 13: best speech of the night. She's been on fire, Margot Katzmatidis,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 13: on fire.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 15: Well, she's learned not to read speeches, and I hate
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 15: the people that read speeches. You have to speak from
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 15: the heart, and that's it. And she's learned that now.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 15: So she just says it the way it is, speaks
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 15: from the heart. And that's what we all should do.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 15: Don't read prepared speeches. You know what prepared speeches mean?
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 15: That means that you don't know what.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 13: The heck you're talking about. So Trump, Katsimatidis, and Sid,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 13: we all do it from the lips. So on the
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 13: way out, John, big day today for our station. Nobody
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 13: does it better. This does go directly to you and Margo.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 13: All these big days, whether it's St. Patrick's Day or
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 13: Israeli Independence Day or you name it, there's always a
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 13: big party and the station does a great job. So
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 13: let the listeners know what's going on today.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 15: Well, we are celebrating Columbus Day. Greg Kelly and Angelo
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 15: Vibolo are co-hosting the booth on 59th Street right on
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 15: 5th Avenue. And I guess everybody every, uh, important Italian
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 15: that walks by, they're going to grab and they're going
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 15: to interview and, and said, I think you're going to
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 15: be around too. And you're going to be in the,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 15: in the big, big convertible. And it's a beautiful day.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 15: It's going to be, you know, in the, in the
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 15: sixties and, and, uh, it's not raining. You know, God
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 15: shined over, uh, uh, the Italians today. It's going to
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 15: be a beautiful day. And I look forward to it. Uh, and, uh,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 15: God bless America, and I am so happy what President
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 15: Trump did with the Italians on Friday, giving them a
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 15: big celebration. There was 300 of them at the White House.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 15: And he really honored them. And Trump is a New Yorker.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 15: He's a New Yorker. He loves New York. He loves
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 15: the Italian people. He loves all the people. He loves
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 15: the Jewish people. He loves the Italian people. He loves
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 15: the Irish people. He loves the Greeks. He loves everybody.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 15: And that is the difference. And, you know, one of
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 15: the things I tell the mayor, Zorhan, you look, you
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 15: have 185 people. uh, different, uh, people in New York city,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 15: the biggest melting pot, the biggest melting pot in the world.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 15: And you have to, you have to support all of them.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 15: You can't, you can't go and hate anybody. Hey, hate
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 15: should not be in the American language. Uh, as far
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 15: as our politicians are concerned. And, and there's, and that's
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 15: the one big item that, uh, that, I don't know,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 15: and I tell you the truth when I say I
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 15: don't know. I don't know if he's doing that that
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 15: if he feels it deep down inside, or that he's
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 15: just playing the violin. The old Italian expression, the old
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 15: Greek expression, that he's playing the violin. In other words,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 15: he's trying to say that to his supporters. See, I
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 15: support you. But I understand last week, His supporters were
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 15: mad at him.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 13: They were.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 15: And everybody else was mad at him.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 18: So both sides are mad at him.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 13: They were. After October 7th, last 60 seconds, and I
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 13: talked about this earlier. I got a lot of complaints.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 13: I said, don't complain to me. I don't own this station.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 13: I'm not John. I'm not Chad. When Hasan Piker was on,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 13: and I said, first of all, I like Fernando Mateo
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 13: a lot. I like him a lot. Second of all,
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 13: it's his show. He can do whatever the hell he wants.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 13: I wouldn't put Hasan Piker on my show.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 15: Sorry.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 13: But I also wouldn't put Kathy Hochul on my show.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 13: Did you hear that interview, and what did you think?
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 15: I did not hear the interview. I was out to dinner,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 15: and I'll play it back later on. Look, everybody has
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 15: the right. On WABC, we made the decision. Everybody has
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 15: the right to speak. You know, I even had Hunter
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 15: Biden on, and he was, hey, he wasn't bad. I
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 15: don't know if you heard that interview.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 13: I did hear it, yes.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 23: Yeah, it wasn't that bad.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 15: You know, I think it was better than his father.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 15: You know, does he have problems? Cocaine? Yes. But so
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 15: did Sidney. You know, you said that Rosenberg had problems
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 15: in the past. I hope the kid straightens out. That's
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 15: all I can say. Yeah.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 13: No, I had bad problems, too. And I did that interview.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 13: I did hear that that was good. And I said
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 13: the same thing. I said, look, when you have your show,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 13: you do what you want. And you are encouraging people
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 13: to bring people on from all walks of life. And
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 13: you want to hear all the voices. Again, it's up
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 13: to the host. So I'm not upset with Fernando. You know,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 13: God bless him.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 15: Fernando's a smart guy.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 13: Yes, I like Fernando a lot. Happy Columbus Day. I
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 13: look forward to seeing you out on the route later
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 13: on today. Great job, as always.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 15: I will see you on the streets of New York.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 13: You got it, my man. All right. All the love.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 13: All the love, John Katsimatidis. Love you. John Katsimatidis right
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 13: there on this Columbus Day. And him and Margo do
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 13: a tremendous job with this holiday in New York City.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 13: They really do. And they'll be out there on the
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 13: street later on today, as I will. He did mention
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 13: the fact that on Saturday night at that Columbus dinner.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 13: that Margot was dancing with Maria Bartiromo and Nicole Maliotakis. So,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 13: coming up next, the amazing congresswoman out of Staten Island
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 13: and Brooklyn, the aforementioned Nicole Maliotakis.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 21: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: We'll be in your show plenty because you have a
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: great show and you have big ratings.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 18: I don't even know if you know how good your
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 18: show is, okay?
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 4: But you have big ratings and you have a great
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 4: show and you've been my friend for a long.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 18: Time and I appreciate it. Because you're the best guy,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 18: you're an incredible guy in New York, you are really,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 18: you've become the go-to guy.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 13: So hopefully I'll see him. If not, we'll see him
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 13: some other time. I've seen him quite a bit. He
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 13: had a big night in Syracuse with Bruce Blakeman on
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 13: Friday night. He hosted all the Italians. Friday afternoon, Joe
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 13: Piscopo was there, Angelo Vivalo, and many others. Chris Oliveira
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 13: was Italian. My buddy over there at, what's it called now?
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 13: It's not Entercom. Odyssey? Is that what it's called?
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: It's Odyssey, yes.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 13: Yeah, he's Italian. Chuck Zito and Peter Gordio. Chris Marmando,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 13: all my buddies that star with me on Gravesend. William DeMeo,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 13: not Italian. Italian last name, but I think his mother
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 13: is Jewish. I think.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 8: Are you trying to make an Italian song like Adam
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 8: Sandler or something?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 13: Yes, right. Rod Carew, hamper Jew. Good looking Vin, Vin Campiarelli.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 13: From my old days in college, he's Italian and very,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 13: very easy. Not a Jew, not Italian. You have any
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 13: Italian friends you want to shout out quick, Lewis?
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 8: I don't know. Outside of members of my family, just
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 8: happy Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 13: You're 50-50 Italian-Irish, right?
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: And, Justin, you've got one Italian friend, right?
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 13: You have no Italian friends?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 12: I have one or two.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 13: That's so weird.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 8: How do you get things done?
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know. Happy Columbus Day to all my
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 12: Italian friends out there.
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  Speaker 13: Or two of them.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I don't even know who I'm saying that to.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 13: Nicole Melotakis is not Italian. She's Greek and Cuban, I think.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 13: But she'll claim she's like 5%. They got this... You know,
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 13: people do this thing. I've never done it. I won't
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 13: do it. They go online and it tells you the
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 13: percentage of all the different... ethnicities that you belong to
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 13: and like everybody belongs to everybody. You notice that? Remember
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 13: when Tiger Woods was first designated as Cablan Asian and
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 13: that was a huge deal. Cablan Asian. What is that?
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 13: He's a black golfer. No, he's not. No, he's not.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 13: He's part Caucasian. He's part black and he's part Asian.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 13: He went around telling people he was Cablan Asian. Now
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 13: everybody's everything.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 15: Wow. Yeah.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 13: You didn't know that?
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 8: I forgot.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 13: That was a big deal. Like John, for example, this
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 13: morning just said I'm 20% Italian. He's already told me
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 13: he's 6% Jewish. Next he's going to tell me he's
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 13: 4% Kenyan. You're not going to be able to sell
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 13: that one, John Katzmatidis. No way. Nicole Maliotakis is our
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 13: great congresswoman out of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Good morning, Nicole.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 13: How are you?
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 15: Good morning, Sid.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 27: How are you?
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 13: I'm good. Happy Columbus Day.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 15: You too.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 13: You got Italian in you?
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 17: You know, no.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 27: I'm Greek and Cuban.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 18: Right.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 27: And the Cubans are actually from Spain. But, you know,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 27: Greece and Italy are so close and so similar. And,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 27: you know, I grew up, obviously, with a lot of
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 27: Italian-American friends, being that I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn,
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 27: which is the largest population of Italian-Americans outside of Italy
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 27: or Italians outside of Italy.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 27: We have one of the largest populations, the largest, supposedly,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 27: in the country. And that's very exciting. So, you know, obviously,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 27: you come to my district. I take you to a
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 27: great Italian restaurant. We have so many of them.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 23: No, you don't.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 13: You don't have some. No, you don't.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 15: Well, we do.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 27: A lot of them are owned by Albanians, believe it
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 27: or not.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 13: I love the Albanians. They're my favorite people.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 27: And they run some of the best Italian restaurants in
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 27: the district.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 13: Give me one. Give me the name of one great
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 13: Italian restaurant.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 27: Don't make me choose here, but look, Bocelli has always
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 27: been one of my favorites. we have so many of them,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 27: but like on Highland Boulevard, New York lane, you can
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 27: go anywhere. But what I will say is this, I
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 27: guarantee that I have the best panini in, in the America,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 27: in my district. And I would say that would be
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 27: Royal crown, best panini in America.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 8: The paninis are amazing.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 15: You should come and try one.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: No, not true.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 13: Panino Rustico in my neighborhood, Robbie Sestito's place is the
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 13: best panini and it's in Rockaway. So that's not true.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 27: I think we should do a taste off.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 15: What do you think?
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 13: I'd love to do that. By the way, Nicole, I
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 13: heard you ripped up the dance floor on Saturday night
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 13: at the Columbus Day dinner, like you and Maria Bartiromo
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 13: doing the worm and Margot Katzenmattini's. What went on there?
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 27: Well, of course, you know, Maria wanted to get the
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 27: dance floor started at the Columbus Citizen Foundation dinner. I
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 27: was proud to be her guest. And we went and
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 27: had a fantastic time. And we roped in Margot Katsimatidis.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 27: So here was Maria at the Columbus Citizen Foundation dancing
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 27: with two Greeks.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 13: I love that. I actually texted her.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 27: Well, Margot's not Greek, but Greek by marriage.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 15: That's right.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 13: That's right. I texted Maria yesterday morning. I did. And
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 13: I said... Man, I miss you. I can't watch TV
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 13: on Sundays. I'm sorry. I won't watch Campo Stuffy and what's-her-else,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 13: Hurt and Jenkins, because they banned me for calling Mom
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 13: Donnie a terrorist. I'm done with them. And nobody else
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 13: is really that good. I mean, Maria Bartiromo was so
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 13: far and away. I mean this. The best on Sunday mornings.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 13: There's nobody close. Maybe Shannon Bream is a distant second,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 13: but my whole Sunday morning news shows, since she's gone,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 13: I don't watch.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 27: Well, not only that, but I had the routine of
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 27: waking up in the morning. Of course, when I wasn't
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 27: listening to Sid, I was watching Mornings with Maria.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 27: But what I loved about her show is she covered everything.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 27: She covered politics. She covered the financial markets. She covered
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 27: foreign affairs. She covered what was going on in D.C.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 27: I mean, she just was the best briefing you could
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 27: get in the morning was Maria Bartiromo. And so I
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 27: think a lot of us are... Real sad that we
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 27: don't have her on TV anymore. But look, I know
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 27: her and I know that she's going to do just fine.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 27: And there's a lot of good stuff that'll be coming down.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 27: And she'll be continuing to be a real voice, important
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 27: voice in this country and a great journalist.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 13: She's going to be the lead anchor for 60 Minutes
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 13: and work for Barry Weiss. She's going to be great.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 27: Well, we'll see.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 13: You're good. You see, name, rank, serial number, Malleotakis gives
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 13: you nothing. She knows all the answers. She gives you nothing.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 13: I love that. So let me ask you this, Nicole,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 13: because you're about as smart as they get. Let's say
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 13: you don't like ice. It's dumb, okay? Six or seven people.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 13: And look, when one person gets shot or murdered, it's
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 13: a terrible thing. I don't want to minimize anybody getting
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 13: shot or murdered. But whoever was injured or shot or murdered,
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 13: if you want to use that term, in terms of
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 13: the ICE situation, they were all there. They were anarchist lunatics.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 13: They weren't dragged out of their homes. They weren't dragged
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 13: out of churches or schools. You know, pretty and good.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 13: This creep in New York a couple days ago, he
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 13: tried to ram the police car. So they're all doing
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 13: things that they should not have been doing. Again, doesn't
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 13: mean you shoot them or kill them, but that's the fact.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 13: When you compare that six or seven people. To the thousands,
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 13: you know this is true, Nicole, to the thousands of murderers, rapists, pedophiles,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 13: drug addicts that we've removed from our country, why would
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 13: anybody have a problem with ICE? And if you... do,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 13: why does that mean you want to put a dangerous
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 13: criminal with a long rap sheet like Oscar Belgell back
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 13: on the streets, which the mayor tried to convince Trump
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 13: and Mark Wayne Boland to do? And they said no.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 13: Why would the mayor do that, making our streets less safe?
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 27: It's clear that our mayor and our governor, Kathy Hochul,
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 27: are putting criminals before law-abiding citizens, illegal immigrants before law-abiding citizens.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 27: And what they don't tell you in these press conferences
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 27: and news briefings that they have is that the guy
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 27: was a convicted criminal. He was associated with a real
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 27: dangerous gang, a gang that has attacked police in the past.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 27: He had multiple arrests on his record. He was in custody,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 27: by the way, New York City custody, in 2023 and 2025.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 27: They could have peacefully just transferred him over to ICE,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 27: but they chose to release him back onto the streets
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 27: so he can commit more crimes, including peddling poison to
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 27: our children. And that is what they failed.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 15: To tell you.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 27: Because of the bail laws, because of the sanctuary policies,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 27: he was on our streets to commit more crime.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 15: Just like... We saw illegal.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 27: Immigrants stab an NYPD detective last week. And they were also,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 27: he was also in our custody. One of them had
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 27: a detainer out for his arrest. And what happened? New
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 27: York released him back onto our streets.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 13: By the way, they released him and he stabbed the
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 13: cop seven times. I don't remember. I don't remember Mayor
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 13: Mamdani holding a press conference. I don't remember Hassan Piker
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 13: or Chevalier or the rest of these lowlives and losers
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 13: coming out and worrying about the cop.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 15: Isn't that interesting?
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 13: You know, the bad guy stabs a cop. They said nothing.
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 15: Not a word. Right.
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 18: Nothing.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 15: Nothing.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 27: And they said nothing, Sid. You remember 80-year-old Air Force
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 27: veteran Richard Williams shoved on a subway track.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 15: That guy who shoved him.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 27: On a track and killed him was also somebody who
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 27: had prior arrest and was released. So these are who
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 27: our Democrats here in New York are protecting. There's no
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 27: way they can prove.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 15: Me wrong here.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 13: They can't. And by the way, let me remind you
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 13: that she doesn't live in the city. It's not Mamdani's territory,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 13: but he's Mr. New York. He's the mayor, Sheridan Gorman.
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 13: She's in Lawler's District, shot in the back in Chicago.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 13: They live in New York. Not a word from the mayor,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 13: Richard Williams, Sheridan Gorman. But, oh, my God, some gang
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 13: member gets shot. He survived. And the five-year-old, thank God,
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 13: wasn't injured. And they're making this like it's the worst
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 13: thing ever. Abolish ICE. And now the DSA wants the
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 13: police commissioner, who I love and think is doing a
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 13: great job, they want them to fire Jessica Tisch.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 27: Yeah, and let's not also forget that Lake and Riley
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 27: killed in Georgia. That murderer was actually released from a
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 27: New York City prison as well.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 13: That was Eric Adams.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 15: We can go on and on, Sid.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 27: I could be on the whole four hours with you,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 27: and we could talk about all these American citizens who
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 27: were killed by illegal immigrants, led in by Joe Biden,
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 27: and housed by sanctuary cities across the country. But the
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 27: fact is, is you're right. Now, they also want, you know,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 27: my opponent was just on CBS yesterday calling for ICE
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 27: to be abolished. And just so we're clear, over the
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 27: last few months, ICE has removed convicted murderers, rapists, sex offenders,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 27: drug traffickers, violent offenders off our streets. And yet the
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 27: city and state has denied thousands of detainer requests for
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 27: convicted criminals. And so ICE has to go out and
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 27: find these people now. I mean, if they don't want
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 27: ICE on the street, all they need to do is
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 27: turn over the criminals. Just turn them over when you
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 27: have them in your custody. Don't release them back on
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 27: the street.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 13: Nice and easy. You said your competitor? I remember when
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 13: Max Rose ran against you and actually sat with Max
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 13: at a Teddy Atlas event and whatever. But you have
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 13: a competitor? Like, whoever this is, you're going to kill them. Like,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 13: who is this?
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 27: Well, look, I think people need to not take any
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 27: election for granted. We lost this seat in the last
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 27: midterm in 2018. That's when Max Rose snuck in. And
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 27: that's when AOC and the Socialist Squad snuck in. So
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 27: let's make sure everyone votes. I think for Staten Island
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 27: and Brooklyn, it is so incredibly important for two reasons.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 27: You have to vote.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 18: Why?
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 27: Because we really have a chance to get Bruce Blakeman
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 27: in there. Last time, Staten Island did not perform as
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 27: much as they should have for Lee Zeldin. We need
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 27: to maximize the vote out of this district. That's number one.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 27: And then number two, they are always trying to redistrict
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 27: and steal our district. And they're going to try again
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 27: next year. So we need to win by such a
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 27: large margin that they recognize that they can't just gerrymander
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 27: and play with the lines to steal this seat because
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 27: we are going to continue to vote in a Republican
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 27: member of Congress from the city, from Staten Island and Brooklyn.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 27: So I think there's two important things. Number three, we
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 27: want to keep.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 18: The House, right?
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 27: I mean, that is probably maybe even more important than
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 27: the other thing. I think electing Bruce Blakeman is probably
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 27: the most important out of all this, and we don't
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 27: want to continue down this ridiculous path we're on with
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 27: Kathy Hochul.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 13: Right, that's true. And you know, Lawler's got his big
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 13: race in Rockland County, and you've got... Mike Lepetri and
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 13: Janine Driscoll on Long Island. And I'm not going to
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 13: mention every single race, obviously. But, you know, listen, Nicole,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 13: the people I talk to on this show, the very
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 13: smart people and some do lean right. Some, in fact,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 13: are just outright Republicans and they are not very confident
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 13: we're going to retain the House. They think we got
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 13: a shot to retain the Senate, but they're not very
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 13: confident we're going to retain the House. I hate that,
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 13: but that's how they feel. What do you think?
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 27: Well, there's no doubt that it's tough. I mean, I've
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 27: been supporting many of my colleagues around the country who
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 27: are in really tough races. I think that we need
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 27: to do a better job of reminding people what things
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 27: were like just two years ago.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 15: With Joe Biden.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 27: Look, you had the five dollar gas prices, but you
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 27: also had the nine percent inflation. You had the open border.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 27: You had millions of people coming into this country unchecked
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 27: that were wreaking havoc on streets everywhere. of New York
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 27: and other cities across the country. Let's not forget thousands
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 27: of crimes, 16,000 crimes as a matter of fact, where
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 27: the perpetrator traced back to the shelter that they were
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 27: forcing us to house. Do we want to go back
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 27: to that? And not only that, the Republicans delivered Middle
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 27: class tax cuts. We refunded 88% of seniors in America,
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 27: got the taxes they paid on Social Security, refunded to them.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 27: And that was a provision that I actually wrote. It
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 27: was my law that was part of that working families
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 27: tax package. We were able to expand the child tax credit,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 27: the standard deduction. Those things would have been cut in
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 27: half had the Democrats taken control. They wanted to have
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 27: a $ 4 to $ 5 trillion tax increase. Every bracket across
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 27: the income levels would have been increased. That's what would
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 27: have happened. So we not only were able to stop
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 27: that and provide actual relief and deliver on the tips
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 27: and the overtime deductions as well, but we secured the border.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 27: We stopped the craziness that was going on. America's cities
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 27: right now are seeing a real decline in crime. Murder
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 27: rate is at a record low.
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 15: Why?
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 27: Because of the work that President Trump has done in
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 27: getting rid of criminals and taking them off our streets
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 27: and out of our country. That is a Indisputable. So
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 27: I think that we just need to get out there
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 27: and continue.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 18: To talk about that.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 27: The trillions in private investment that are coming to this country,
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 27: repatriating manufacturing, pharmaceutical, automobile, tech industry. We're seeing that return
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 27: because of President Trump and the work that we've done
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 27: in the tax package as well. And look, I think
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 27: that we know that the GDP is growing as a
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 27: result of that package as well.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 15: So we just got to give it a little time.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 27: It takes a while to undo the mess that Joe
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 27: Biden left us with. I think if we tell people, look,
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 27: this is where we're at and this is we're moving
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 27: in the right direction, they should vote Republican unless they
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 27: want to go back to the chaos we had under
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 27: Joe Biden.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 13: Yeah, some do. That's how much they hate Trump. Final
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 13: 60 seconds. The DOJ this morning, this is great news,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 13: raided the Washington, D.C. residence of Ilan Omar because she is, well,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 13: they suspect she committed fraud. She married her brother. Sorry, Omar, baby.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 13: Not legal here in the United States. Maybe that's okay
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 13: in Somalia. What are your thoughts on the raid on
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 13: Omar's residence?
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 27: Well, I think these members of Congress need to be
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 27: held accountable. I mean, there's a lot of bad things
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 27: that have been going on from these trips to Cuba,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 27: siding with the communist regime against the United States of America.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 27: What you've just mentioned here, which is obviously an immigration-related crime,
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 27: there is a lot of shadiness that's happening. And I
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 27: am concerned about the next crop that's going to be
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 27: coming in. We're going to Have somebody from the Bronx
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 27: who calls for no cops, no borders, wipes her hands
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 27: with the American flag. We're going to have a guy
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 27: who's a character witness for the blind sheik who was
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 27: convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. I mean,
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 27: I'm very concerned about these people having access to American
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 27: intelligence and what they could do with that information. Because
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 27: these are not people that love this country. And it's really,
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 27: really concerning. So if you live in these districts, obviously
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 27: get out and vote. At the end of the.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 15: Day, we get the government we elect, and.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 27: Unfortunately, we may elect some of these really dangerous people
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 27: to the United States House of Representatives.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 15: True story.
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 13: Nicole Maliotakis, I love you. You're great. You know you're great,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 13: and I love you, and thank you for hopping on
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 13: this morning. and you're going to win and continue to
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 13: do a great job for Staten Island, Brooklyn, all of
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 13: New York and this whole country. God bless you, Nicole.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 13: Thank you.
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  Speaker 27: Thank you, my friend.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 15: Take care.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 13: Bye sweetheart. I got a text here from Janine Vidello.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 13: She's from Panino Rustico and Louie is over there too.
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 13: I mentioned Rob Sestito, but Louie is there too. And
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 13: all the guys are, She said, thank you for the shout-out.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 13: Let Nicole know we are ready for the panini taste-off
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 13: anytime she wants. All right. We'll take a break. We
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 13: still have one more great Italian to come. He was
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 13: a valued congressman out on Long Island. He's now doing
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 13: a great job as the General Inspector for President Trump's
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 13: Labor Department. My good friend Anthony D'Esposito still to stop by.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 13: And before you know it, folks, in about two hours,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 13: I'll be on Fifth Avenue in a convertible Cadillac with
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 13: my buddy Frankie.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 3: In the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 13: Lisa Ganji, proud Italian, loves our program, loves the Mets.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 13: And my friend Jim Wynott, not Italian. But he is
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 13: 64 years old today, Jim, so happy birthday to you.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 13: You know, it's funny. You play that song, and there
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 13: are so many Italians. Takapina's one of these guys. He
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 13: hates it that Italians are stereotyped as mobsters.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 8: I have a couple of friends like that.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 13: Yeah, and I say to Joe, and I still say
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 13: it to this day, get over it, because the truth
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 13: is every Italian, all of them, are either mobsters or
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 13: wannabe mobsters. All of them. I don't care who they are.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 13: You know, they all, they're either mobsters or wannabe mobsters,
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 13: but they're my favorite people. I say that even with
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 13: the Jews. But stop, stop the nonsense. Without the Sopranos,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 13: without Goodfellas, without The Godfather and nine million other mob movies,
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 13: you'd lose basically half of what you are. Stop it.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 13: Just accept it and Hug it and move on. It's
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 13: no big deal.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 8: They're serious.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 5: They just.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 8: It's silly. I don't get into mob movies. I don't
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 8: like the glorifying of.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 13: In the meantime, they go to all these Italian restaurants
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 13: with Jimmy Gandolfini on the wall and, you know, Joe
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 13: Pesci on the wall. They go eat there, no problem.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 13: But they get all... You know what it is? It's
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 13: a little bit... It's a little bit of pandering. I'm sorry.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 13: A little bit.
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  Speaker 24: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Just.
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  Speaker 8: Who cares? Embrace it.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 13: Who cares?
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 8: That's... History is history.
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 18: And look.
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 13: And look, I checked for Italians.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 8: And it happened. This is how the Italians came into this.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 8: Now everybody's going to scream. But in the 1900s, coming
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 8: over and things were not so easy in lower New
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 8: York City.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 15: What?
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 27: What?
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 13: I'm with you, bro. I went to Sparks a couple
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 13: of weeks ago, and all they did was talk about
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 13: Castellano getting gunned down outside the restaurant.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 8: And these things happened. These things happen. This stuff exists.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 8: It still happens.
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 13: I love when they go, there's no mob. Are you stupid?
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 13: Of course there is. I love those people. I love them.
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 13: I do. I actually will make the argument that John
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 13: Gotti kept our streets safer. I know occasionally the neighbor
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 13: ran over his kid Frankie and ended up dead. I
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 13: get that. And that's not right. That's not right, but
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 13: When the mob is at their best, we're safer. Does
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 13: that make any sense? Oh, sure.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 8: If you're a law-abiding person, if you're... Yeah.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 13: You don't get involved with them. They're not going to
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 13: come kill you.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no one's killed.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 13: I mean, they will shake you down, Rocco. That's not right,
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 13: I guess. They're going to come to your store and
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 13: they're like, you got to pay us.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 8: Well, that's not good.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 15: Yeah. No.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 13: Well, they allow all these Muslims to come to the
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 13: neighborhoods and take over Bay Ridge and even Bensonhurst to
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 13: a certain extent, but they'll shake down a guy for $ 2, 000
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 13: because he put their you know, the Browns yesterday. I'm
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 13: not into that either, but I still think they're the
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 13: amazing people, and I don't mind the mob stuff. I
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 13: think it's great. I'm in a mob show right now, Gravesend.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I'm offended by it, so I'll never mention
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 8: it again.
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 13: Well, next time we go to Rocco, stop begging Vinny
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 13: to put the thing on the damn TV.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know. I don't know what's going on in
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 8: my head.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 13: Why do you do that every time?
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 8: Hey, Vinny, get over here! I'm enjoying my food too much.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 8: Would you please sit on the screen so I can
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 8: see him?
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 13: Have you gone to the Columbus Day Parade in many years?
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 13: Probably not, because you're working all the time.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 8: I'm usually working.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 13: You're here. You can't do it, right?
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, here, definitely.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 13: And you're the only member of this cast that has
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 13: any Italian, because Noam's Jewish, Alec is Jewish, and Nolan's Irish.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 13: You're the only one with some Italian. Yes.
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 8: I did ask my family a while ago. I asked
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 8: my aunt, who is no longer with us, but She
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 8: told me a little story that she thinks a cousin,
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 8: like four down the line, was mob-related.
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 13: Oh, cool.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think that's cool.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 8: And I thought it was hilarious that the name was
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 8: Sal the Golfer.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 13: Sal the Golfer?
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I knew you'd like that.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 13: I like that.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 8: So when the story goes, I mean, I don't know, but.
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 8: If there had to be a problem solved.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 13: He hit him with a golf club.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 8: Very good. You can't get anything by him.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 13: I love this guy.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 8: You know exactly what I only used her. I know
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 8: sometimes it depended on the weather that day. A 7-iron
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 8: could get the guy higher.
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 12: Was he going into the wind? Was the wind coming
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 12: into him?
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 13: Who knows?
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 8: He had a big slice problem, so it was not
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 8: always pretty when he went.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 13: I got to send a shout-out to my buddy Tom Mango.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 13: He converted. He's now Jewish, of course, married to Cheryl Cline.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 13: But Mango was once Italian. I love Thomas. So send
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 13: him a shout out.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 8: What do you mean once Italian?
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 13: He converted. He's Jewish.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 12: Yeah, but you could still be of Italian descent.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 13: Stop it, okay? Save that for Michael and Julia. You know,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 13: you can hate the Jews and still be Jewish. Anyway.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 12: That is not what I said.
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 20: I'm sure there are a good slew of Italian Jews
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 20: out there, maybe.
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 13: No, there's not. There could be. You never know.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 8: I don't know of any.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 13: What are you talking about? They're Christians. They're Catholic. They
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 13: believe in Jesus Christ.
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 12: Well, you know, but they could, you know, convert.
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 13: You can do that, yes.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 8: You can't change where you came from.
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 13: No, you can't.
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 12: That's what I'm saying.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 13: This is some genius conversation. We'll take a break.
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 8: I just hope my car starts okay when I get back.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 21: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 21: Podcast Network.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 13: Trying to figure out some Italian politicians. Yes, he was
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 13: about to join me locally. I couldn't find many. We
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 13: got two on the council, Frank Morano and Vicky Palladino.
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 13: And then we've got the Staten Island borough president, Vito Bocella.
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 13: Otherwise you couldn't figure out another Italian local politician. Then
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 13: I went to Trump's administration and all I could find
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 13: was the Esposito. I must be missing somebody. So here
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 13: he is the former great Long Island politician, Congressman, now
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 13: the General Inspector for President Trump's Labor Department, my brother
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 13: Anthony D'Esposito. Despo, good morning. How are you?
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 27: What's up, brother?
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 17: Happy Columbus Day, my man. You too.
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 13: Any other Italians? In the administration? I can't think of any.
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 27: I'm trying to think.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 13: I mean, you got.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 23: There's got to be. Come on.
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 13: I couldn't think. I don't know.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 15: Yeah, no, you're right.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 13: There's other ones in the.
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 15: In the five boroughs, there's two.
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 18: That's the scary part.
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 13: Wait, who are the two in the five boroughs?
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 17: Well, you said you got Marano, right?
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 23: And you got Vito Fussolla.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 13: And Vicky Palladino.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you got three. Okay.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 13: There's another guy who I happen to like, but he
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 13: doesn't vote the right way all the time. His name
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 13: is Jim Gennaro. You know him?
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 23: I know him well.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 17: He actually, he's a Chaminade guy, and his family owned
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 17: a jewelry store on Long Island in Belmore many, many
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 17: years ago, and they sold it to a guy by
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 17: the name of Gary Hughes, who owns Gennaro Jewelers, who
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 17: used to be on the town board with myself and
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 17: Bruce Blakeman.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 13: Well, how about that? So I've met him a couple
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 13: of times at the shul in, um, in, uh, Queens,
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 13: Jamaica Estates. He's a very nice guy, but for some reason,
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 13: he's not on the Italian caucus. How does that make sense?
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, that is.
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 17: Interesting, but he seems like, for the most part, he
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 17: seems like a pretty common-sense type of guy.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think so, too. I think he is, too. So,
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 13: congratulations to you, because I'm watching Fox News last night.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 13: Joanna Areola. What do we think of Joanna Areola? She's Italian, obviously.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Tony. My city council lady in Howard Beach
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 13: in Queens, Joanna Areola. So, I'm proud of you, bro.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 13: See you on TV last week. You're standing there with
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 13: your buddy, Keith, and the vice president... of the United States, J.D. Vance.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 13: So over the last couple of weeks, I've had Lee
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 13: Zeldin on. He's uncovered a ton of fraud, billions from
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 13: the EPA. Dr. Oz is on this show all the time.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 13: He's doing it with Medicare and Medicaid. And here you are.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 13: You've uncovered also like billions of dollars. Congratulations, Ant.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 18: Thank you.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 17: Yeah, listen, I don't want to say it's easy to do,
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 17: but when you're surrounded by a great team, as I
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 17: am at the Inspector General's office, but more importantly, when
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 17: you are surrounded by an administration, when you have a
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 17: president and a vice president who are committed and are
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 17: providing the resources that you need to really root out
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 17: this fraud and waste, it is refreshing. And the fact
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 17: is that President Trump When he signed this executive order
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 17: back in March, and he, you know, very thankful to
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 17: be placed on this fraud task force that's led by
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 17: JD Vance. Um, he made it very clear that this
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 17: was a whole of government approach. He doesn't want, uh,
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 17: individual departments doing their own thing. He wants everyone working together.
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 17: He wants information shared, uh, and he really wants to
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 17: crush the fraud issue in America. And, uh, like you said,
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 17: whether it's, uh, Dr. Oz and secretary Kennedy at, uh,
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 17: HHS and CMS, I mean, Medicaid, Medicare, health care fraud,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 17: all the stuff that's going on in California, whether it's
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 17: the work that they're doing, you know, in the in
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 17: the SBA or even in the Treasury and elsewhere. But
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 17: the Department of Labor, we've you know, we've we started
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 17: with unemployment insurance, which we've talked about this before, but
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 17: it's in the billions of dollars. I mean, the state
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 17: of California and Gavin Newsom, they owe twenty two billion
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 17: dollars to the unemployment insurance trust fund. Kathy Hochul blows
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 17: about $ 2 million a day in improper payments and fraud
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 17: when it comes to unemployment insurance.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 15: But now the focus.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 17: And what really has not just the United States of
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 17: America fired up, but I will tell you that I'm
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 17: probably one of the least popular people in India right now.
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 17: is this H-1B visa fraud. Yeah, my threat level is
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 17: through the roof right now, but that's all right, because
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 17: that's how you know you're over the target. The fact
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 17: is that when we calculate it, there's about... $ 21 billion
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 17: in fraud to our foreign labor visa program. And what
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 17: that means very simply is that your kids, my nieces,
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 17: other people's kids, grandkids, when they go to school and
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 17: they go out to try to get jobs, so many
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 17: of these fields, whether it's medicine, tech, And others, they're
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 17: being taken by foreign labor. And why? Because they get
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 17: paid 25 to 35 percent cheaper. And these H-1B visas
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 17: were only put in place originally to be temporary. It's
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 17: not a business model. And last week, we said we
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 17: had enough. And I've launched investigations over the last couple
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 17: of weeks. We've issued subpoenas. We've executed search warrants. And
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 17: we were able to do two things. First, we suspended
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 17: some of the biggest companies across the world, including Adobe
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 17: and Microsoft, so they can no longer apply for these visas,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 17: which obviously, if that's part of your business model, it's crushing.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 17: So it was them two in addition to seven others.
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 17: And we also launched an investigation into nine major universities,
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 17: most of them You know, pretty, and I'm putting this
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 17: in air quotes, pretty prestigious.
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 23: But me and you have dealt with them in the past.
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 17: Because they're also petri dishes of hate. And they are
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 17: completely extorting and exporting the J-1 visas, which, you know,
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 17: once we get through this investigation, it'll be revealed to
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 17: the American people that not only are they taking billions
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 17: of dollars in federal grants, But some of that money
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 17: is being shipped back to Communist Party China, as well
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 17: as leaking some, you know, very important information. Remember, these
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  Speaker 17: people are hired on these J-1 visas to conduct research,
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  Speaker 17: research that's supposed to be provided to American medicine, American technology,
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  Speaker 17: American superintelligence, not information that's supposed to be shipped over
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  Speaker 17: to the Chinese Communist Party to.
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  Speaker 23: You know, to be our adversary.
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  Speaker 13: Exactly. But two minutes to go. You're doing a great
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  Speaker 13: job for Trump Labor Department. You had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 13: go back and run again. You decided not to because
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  Speaker 13: you're doing such important work and doing such a great
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  Speaker 13: job and Trump loves you. But is there a part
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  Speaker 13: of you that's a little envious or maybe not at all?
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  Speaker 13: Janine Driscoll running against Laura Gill in a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 23: It's in my blood.
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  Speaker 17: I talk to Janine every single day. Obviously, I'm always
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  Speaker 17: in touch with Chairman Cairo and Bruce. I'll be back
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  Speaker 17: this weekend to be boots on the ground and knocking
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  Speaker 17: on doors and campaigning with my friends online. because it matters.
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  Speaker 17: It matters to the future of America. It matters to
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  Speaker 17: Long Island. You know, like Nicole mentioned a little while ago,
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  Speaker 17: it's about make sure we maintain and hopefully grow the
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  Speaker 17: majority so that Mike Johnson can continue to do the
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  Speaker 17: great work that he's doing and also make sure we
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  Speaker 17: keep the Senate so that President Trump's agenda can keep
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  Speaker 17: moving forward both in the House and the Senate. But
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  Speaker 17: really what it comes down to is common sense versus crazy.
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  Speaker 17: And we've talked about it, you and I, for years. Um,
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  Speaker 17: and every year since, you know, I've been involved in
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  Speaker 17: politics since.
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  Speaker 23: As long as I could remember.
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  Speaker 17: And every year people say, uh, just around this time
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  Speaker 17: of the year, you know, this is the most important
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  Speaker 17: election of our lifetime. Uh, and I can honestly say,
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  Speaker 17: you know, I was speaking to chairman Cairo the other day,
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  Speaker 17: and this really may be the most important election of
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  Speaker 17: our lifetime because common sense and crazy are on the ballot.
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  Speaker 17: The future of New York is, It is scary the
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  Speaker 17: things that Zohra Mandani and Kathy Hochul are going to
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  Speaker 17: do to the state of New York. And it's even
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  Speaker 17: scarier when you see some of the people that are
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  Speaker 17: going to be coming in to serve in the House
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  Speaker 17: of Representatives, one of the most storied institutions in the world.
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  Speaker 17: And they are coming in like the people who won
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  Speaker 17: in New York City primary races. I mean, they're going
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  Speaker 17: to serve in Congress after being elected by six and
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 17: a half percent of the Democrats in New York City.
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  Speaker 17: Not even 6.5% of the whole population, 6.5% of the Democrats.
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  Speaker 17: And that is scary. And that's why we need... common sense,
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  Speaker 17: strong Republican conservatives in those seats. We need people like
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 17: Janine Driscoll. We need people like Mike Lalo. We need
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 17: people like Mike Lepetri. We need to make sure that
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  Speaker 17: these races remain in our favor because President Trump needs them.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 17: Mike Johnson needs them. The Senate needs them. And more importantly,
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  Speaker 17: the United States of America needs them because We need
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  Speaker 17: to keep fighting this fight because these Democratic Socialists of America,
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  Speaker 17: I mean, you know, me and you look at, I'm
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 17: sure I look at polls, a lot of polls, I
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 17: look at polls every day, and the places where we
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 17: should be crushing it, it is very scary how tight
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 17: it is. And it's happening because of these lunatics that
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 17: completely want to destroy the very fabric of our democracy
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 17: and how much they hate America. When you're running on
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 17: your hatred of America... that's how you know that this
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  Speaker 17: election is the most important one of our lifetime.
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  Speaker 13: The great Anthony D'Esposito, general inspector for President Trump's Labor Department,
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 13: doing an unbelievable job exposing and uncovering billions and billions
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  Speaker 13: of dollars of fraud, was a great congressman. Something tells
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 13: me he'll be back there one day as well. Either way,
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  Speaker 13: I love the guy. Anthony, happy Columbus Day. Great job today,
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  Speaker 13: as always.
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  Speaker 17: Happy Columbus Day, brother.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 13: All right. Love you. Anthony D'Esposito right there on Sid
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  Speaker 13: and Friends. In the morning, I guess we'll come back
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 13: and close shop. We have time or we don't. So
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 13: let me just give my happy Columbus Day goodbyes right now.
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 13: If you're out there on Fifth Avenue at some point today,
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 13: I'll be in a familiar Cadillac. Frankie, my driver. On
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 13: that route every year, six consecutive years, convertible Cadillac. And
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 13: I'll be there probably about 1130 this morning. I'm not
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 13: sure the exact time. Either way, Lou Ruffino, as always,
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 13: amazing job. And once again, congratulations to you and MJ
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 13: for an unbelievable party last Saturday, and thank you for
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 13: having us. We really loved it.
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• 2:25:26
  Speaker 8: What the heck is going on here?