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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator | 07-14-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, John, I was waiting for you.
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  Speaker 1: Last week. I had Angelo Vivolo on the show. He
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  Speaker 1: was furious. I spoke to Joe Piscopal, he was furious.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not forget that was the Italians also left
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  Speaker 1: out Borough Park and all the Jewish neighborhoods in Williamsburg
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  Speaker 1: also left out, you know, like Hell's Kitchen for the Irish.
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  Speaker 1: This mayor left out a storia your people, the Greeks.
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  Speaker 2: Were you angry? You didn't care?
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  Speaker 3: You know, uh, they can't, they can't torture us. You
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  Speaker 3: know why why we don't give a crap. We don't care. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, you know what happens. The Jews
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  Speaker 3: care to most.
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  Speaker 2: Were Italians because we take the biggest beating.
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  Speaker 3: That's why, you know why. But then then they give
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  Speaker 3: you a bigger beating because when they see you react,
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  Speaker 3: I know, they say, well and they laugh and they
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  Speaker 3: go and let's beat him up some more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, No, I know, not what about that?
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  Speaker 3: You want to you want to beat up me? Hysteria.
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  Speaker 3: I don't give a crap because you know, no, I
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  Speaker 3: go I love a story. Nice people, nice people, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know, the great people, you know and I have
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  Speaker 3: some great Greek restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: Yes they do.
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  Speaker 3: And uh uh it's a plain good food.
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  Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Yeah, week Greek food every week. My place
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  Speaker 1: is tell you who's on the Upper west Side. They
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  Speaker 1: do a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You know. My my big problem is, you know, with
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  Speaker 3: Italian food. If I go to Brooklyn and I order
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  Speaker 3: checking parmesan or veal parmasan, they give me five pieces
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  Speaker 3: of cheese on top, and then you end up dying
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  Speaker 3: from coronary from coronary disease. I once one guy, a
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  Speaker 3: good friend of mine that worked for Fox, and we
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  Speaker 3: went out to lunch. He would love good veal parmesan
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  Speaker 3: with five pieces of cheese on top. I took them
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  Speaker 3: to an east Side restaurant. I took him an east
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  Speaker 3: Side restaurant. In the east Side restaurant, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: are more careful what they eat, yes, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: they had the viio parmesan with one that was it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And he was so disappointed. I mean it was so
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  Speaker 3: but it was so good, of course, but he was
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  Speaker 3: so disappointed. Well you got that.
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  Speaker 2: I want up by your place.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom line, you're ready. Yeah, it's very sad. He died
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  Speaker 3: at the age of fifty three. He did, and his father,
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  Speaker 3: who worked for US as a as a meat supervisor,
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  Speaker 3: died at the age of forty eight. If you eat wrong,
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  Speaker 3: sid you know. Now, one of the things with Senator
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham, I'm trying to confirm it. I was talking
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  Speaker 3: to Greg Kelly yesterday. He and he had Trump on
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he I was talking to Greg Kelly yesterday. I
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  Speaker 3: think most of those senators flight Oh, C seventeen's and
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  Speaker 3: seventy one years old. Uh, it's not a healthy thing
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  Speaker 3: to do. You know. Those C seventeens are meant for
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  Speaker 3: twenty two years old, thirty three year olds, forty four
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  Speaker 3: year olds, not necessarily for seventy because the atmosphere in
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  Speaker 3: those airplanes. I'll give you an example. I'm gonna move
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  Speaker 3: up on an airplane now, my G four. My G four,
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy with it. I've owned it for twenty years
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  Speaker 3: and it's a great interior. I'm happy with it. But
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  Speaker 3: at forty five thousand feet, it has a seven thousand
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  Speaker 3: foot atmosphere. Now, the new joint G five fifty or
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  Speaker 3: G five six fifty has an atmosphere of four thousand feet.
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  Speaker 2: But Why are you're going forty five thousand feet anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's where we go? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is that usually thirty five thousand?
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  Speaker 3: No, that's for commercial craft? Gotcha and my G two
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  Speaker 3: I had originally my Gulf Streap two had the old
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  Speaker 3: rocket engines are sealing with fifty one thousand feet and
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  Speaker 3: when we used to fly to Concord, the concord was
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  Speaker 3: sixty one to sixty three thousand. It was that much
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  Speaker 3: you could see you could see the curvature of the earth.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we owned half the British Airways terminal was ours,
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  Speaker 3: so we had inter you know, inter relationships flying the plane.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you get? Are you getting a new
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  Speaker 2: plane sooner?
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  Speaker 3: Ye? I want to get it? Well, you know why.
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  Speaker 3: You know I'm seventy seven years old. You know why?
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  Speaker 3: And why not?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: I'll leave an extra twenty thirty million lesson might inherited
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  Speaker 3: your funny.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to ask you though about Lindsey and
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  Speaker 1: your personal relationship.
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  Speaker 2: I think you guys had you guys know each other
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  Speaker 2: pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: We knew each other pretty well. I remember the last
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  Speaker 3: party I went to, Margot can go with me, So
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  Speaker 3: I took Lolly Weymouth from the Washington Post up and
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  Speaker 3: choose to to his party, Lindsay Graham's party, and we
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  Speaker 3: had a very good time. And you know, the sad
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  Speaker 3: thing is Lalie's gone. Oh and you know he's gone,
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  Speaker 3: and he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: But you know President Trump, who obviously you and I
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  Speaker 1: are both very friendly with him. And again great job
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  Speaker 1: by Greg Kelly had him on TV last night and
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  Speaker 1: I'll see the boss on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: You're the boss, the president.
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  Speaker 2: But what he does?
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  Speaker 3: He right away says, let's put his sister, who.
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  Speaker 1: Was zero political experience but yet plenty because she was
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  Speaker 1: with Lindsay so often.
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  Speaker 2: How nice of a gesture was that by the president.
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  Speaker 3: You want to know something, all you need is common sense.
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  Speaker 3: That's all you need, you know. I think I had
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  Speaker 3: a common sense audio going around the station. They said,
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  Speaker 3: what happened to mister Smith goes to Washington?
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  Speaker 2: I heard that.
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  Speaker 3: Great. Yeah, you know, we need more doctors, we need
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  Speaker 3: more you know, accountants, we need more you know, common
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  Speaker 3: sense business people. I mean, how many lawyers can you
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  Speaker 3: have in Congress? I don't know. And then the thing
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  Speaker 3: I'm really annoyed about is that we can't listen to
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  Speaker 3: all these lobbyists, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, and in terms of what though what exactly?
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  Speaker 3: You know? You know, we can't control our Congress, we
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  Speaker 3: can't control our country because of lobbyists. We got to
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  Speaker 3: we have to use more common sense.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Now the problem with the common sense
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  Speaker 1: people are I agree with that. I'm with you with
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  Speaker 1: the losses. The common sense people are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our common listen, folks. Common sense people.
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  Speaker 2: Are the successful people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, they're the millionaires or the billionaires like John John
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  Speaker 1: they're leaving. Not only is money leaving New York City,
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  Speaker 1: there was an Ottoman census.
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  Speaker 3: Well there was an article on the New York Post
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and they said, with all the people that have
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  Speaker 3: leaving New York City alone, it's going to affect the
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  Speaker 3: budget by leven big eleven billion. Now that's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money. You know. Why when you have a budget
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  Speaker 3: of one hundred and twenty seven and you're already borrowing
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  Speaker 3: eight billion from the state, another eleven billion, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be short twenty billion, that's right, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: somebody has to come to a reality check, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are knowledgeable. I usually have on my
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  Speaker 3: show on Sunday, Uh the you know, people from North
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  Speaker 3: or City that the Citizen's budget commissioned and people like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know why, because you need the pulse of the situation,
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  Speaker 3: Paul Zuba from the state, and you get the pulse
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  Speaker 3: of what's really going on. Look, I'm concerned about the
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  Speaker 3: way the state has surrendered to the mayor. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: have nothing, you know me, I have nothing against the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: If you ask me, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to school you with the supermarkets he's doing now
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  Speaker 1: with the supermarkets.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, John, No.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, but he might be screwing himself. Don't forget that.
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  Speaker 3: How oh well, when you're shot twenty billion dollars, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know listen, I said don Fox last week.
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  Speaker 3: When they're gonna spend seventy seventy million dollars to create
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  Speaker 3: five supermarkets, that's not a good economic situation. No, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I could probably open fifteen stores for seventy million dollars
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  Speaker 3: and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not even gonna be seventy I heard it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: more like one hundred and fifty million.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you know what to peace.
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  Speaker 3: When you give out contracts in New York City, what happens?
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a contract given out the New
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  Speaker 3: York City contractors that doesn't come back. It's double never,
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  Speaker 3: double coopon never.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got to meet with some of those contractors
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  Speaker 1: and union people this week. I do want to get
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  Speaker 1: to one other things, though. Go ahead, you know everything,
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  Speaker 1: and you're interesting. You might We talked about the Greeks, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You love Trumplock, Eyeland, Trump and I
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  Speaker 1: you know, I criticized Trump and I still love them.
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  Speaker 1: But this deal with Turkey F thirty five's that turn
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  Speaker 1: never happened. It will never happen.
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  Speaker 3: It will never happen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and if it does happen, because you know
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  Speaker 2: hurda Wan is trying to kill the.
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  Speaker 3: Greeks, it will never happen.
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  Speaker 2: Now what and why do you say that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you there's no way, no way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, then there's don't to worry about BBS. Pretty worried.
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  Speaker 3: Uh listen, bb Uh you had a great interview with him.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. BB does a great job for his people. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, whatever he does, Trump doesn't say, don't do it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but BB is doing a great job. And
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  Speaker 3: they Israeli forces are there. They you know, the surrounding
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  Speaker 3: people worry about them. Yeah, because they take no prisoners.
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  Speaker 3: They take no prisoners, so good good for them, But
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  Speaker 3: so what for them even if they if we don't
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  Speaker 3: provide oragon with the five? The F thirty five's U
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  Speaker 3: And I know that Trump always has a plan. Was
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  Speaker 3: it still a little uncomfortable for you being Greek? Anyway?
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  Speaker 3: What happened last week? Yeah? Uh? And I was a
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  Speaker 3: part of it. It happened on Saturday night. Uh. The
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  Speaker 3: Greeks put out a phony. Uh A. I created a
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  Speaker 3: video of President Clinton criticizing President.
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  Speaker 2: Trump, and I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 3: I will send it here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then I sent it to because I didn't believe
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  Speaker 3: it because I know President Clinton very well. He would
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  Speaker 3: never criticize a sitting president. Never. And I sent it
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  Speaker 3: to President Clinton and he says, this is phonny. And
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  Speaker 3: then I called the Prime Minister of Mitcha Takis in
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  Speaker 3: Greece and I talked to H. I filled in President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and this is all happened Saturday night. Uh and
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  Speaker 3: uh and then uh, I talked to President Clinton Monday
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  Speaker 3: morning or Sunday night, and he's got the Secret Service
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  Speaker 3: on it. And not only did they create a phony,
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  Speaker 3: a I audio phony, phony phony. They hacked it into
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  Speaker 3: his Facebook to make it look legitimate. Wow, so somebody,
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  Speaker 3: somebody is going to go to jail.
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  Speaker 1: But Trump always thought it was fake then, right, Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think Trump and Bill kind of get along.
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  Speaker 2: Not Hillary, but Trump and Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean, you know, look, they're
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  Speaker 3: both regular guys, you know. I mean, I think I
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  Speaker 3: think what Clinton went to Trump's wedding?
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  Speaker 1: He did, yes, And Trump went to theirs and I
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  Speaker 1: heard gave one of the biggest gifts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, whatever it is, it is. Look, I think we
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  Speaker 3: have to have a civilization and civilized and and the
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  Speaker 3: problem we have right now we have no civilization. No.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what I get an emotional about the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has to stand up and fight, fight,
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  Speaker 3: fight the Socialist Party because because they are taking over
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, and you know how they're taking it over.
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  Speaker 3: Foreign money, all this money coming in for some of
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  Speaker 3: these US citizens, the one in China, the one in
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  Speaker 3: New York. You know what's happening. It's not their money,
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  Speaker 3: they are just they are the how do you call it?
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  Speaker 3: Consuit for other countries and getting they're getting the reputation.
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  Speaker 3: They feel like they have a big one. They don't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and but it's foreign money coming in influencing. And that's
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  Speaker 3: how they use the foreign money for the socialists to
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  Speaker 3: take over the Democratic Party because if they're running on
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  Speaker 3: their own, they'll get two percent. That's it. Three. They
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  Speaker 3: took over the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Going PC gon kats Ma Titi's because you're right, they
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  Speaker 1: took it over. There is fearm money involved. Very simple question,
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  Speaker 1: how do we stop it?
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  Speaker 3: The FBI is finally on top of it, and somebody
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  Speaker 3: has to go to jail. That's it, because if nobody
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  Speaker 3: goes to jail, it's just gonna keep going. That Act
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  Speaker 3: Blue situation, they had the Democratic part hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars, hundreds and millions of dollars came in like
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  Speaker 3: under ninety nine dollars or something, so that nobody could
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  Speaker 3: reckon no name required. It's like the jokers told one
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  Speaker 3: of the freshman congresswomen in Florida that got like forty
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  Speaker 3: million dollars from where, how that's blue? And they all
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  Speaker 3: went to Congress and they all took the Fifth Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy, that's a fascinating segment. Excellent job, John,
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  Speaker 1: great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That was great.
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  Speaker 3: Fight for America. I fight every day.
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  Speaker 2: I know you do every day.
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