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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney Plugs New Book Exploring Insurgency in America · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And on the phone right now is another diehard Ranger fan,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend of 49 years, the best defense attorney
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And I think he cried yesterday at
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame luncheon. The very rugged but very,
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  Speaker 1: very sensitive Joseph Takapina.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Tak, good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize how sensitive I was. You know, this,
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  Speaker 3: the peer duct that I had, I thought was malfunctioning.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I was like eight, I remember crying once, but,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, yesterday just about did it. You know, that
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  Speaker 3: was a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. You're, you know, having your
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  Speaker 3: mom there and your mom gave me maybe the, I
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  Speaker 3: just felt like I'd never had in my life. At
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  Speaker 3: one point, I was tapping out on her back, but
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  Speaker 3: she didn't really feel it. But she's like, my tack,
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  Speaker 3: my tack. Obviously, we go back so long. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: at 91 years old, she's as sharp as a tack,
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  Speaker 3: and she looks amazing. Thank you. That whole thing, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it all came together for me. I mean, your success,
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  Speaker 3: what you've done. where we came from, Sid, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you and I, you know, fifth graders in Poly and
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn and all that, sixth graders. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable to see what happened yesterday. And for me to
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  Speaker 3: absorb it, your speech was phenomenal, by the way. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Both funny, gracious, Sid, you know, the way you are.
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  Speaker 3: And really, you know, The whole moment was daunting for me,
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  Speaker 3: and I was never more proud of a friend, a brother,
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  Speaker 3: than I was yesterday. I've got to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday was a day for me. I did tell you
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  Speaker 3: that yesterday because it was true. And I'm getting goosebumps
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  Speaker 3: right now just reliving that. So, yeah, that was a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful day. Seeing Noah, Lou, and Justin and the whole crew, Chad, yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Just everyone there to support you and love you. It
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  Speaker 3: was just a culmination of all that's gone on the
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  Speaker 3: last decade and a half, and it just was really
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  Speaker 3: a special, special day for me.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. And I was happy you were there. And
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  Speaker 2: my daughter, Ava, of course, who before Ava worked with
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  Speaker 2: Authorite Dollar, she worked.
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  Speaker 1: With Joseph Takapini. You guys need to know that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my wife, Danielle, loves you. And Gabby thinks
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  Speaker 1: you're like an action hero or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. So the whole family was happy to
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  Speaker 2: see you. And what a table you guys had, too.
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  Speaker 2: You and Pete and Bo and Arthur and Corey and Rich.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys had the all-star tables.
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  Speaker 3: It was a nice little tale back there. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: were getting in trouble. I mean, I got whistles. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you heard it.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, whoop, whoop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he couldn't believe that President Trump and Bibi Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: actually sent me personalized videos.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I said to him, I go, why is that surprising?
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  Speaker 3: He's a very good friend to both of them. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you can remember, Netanyahu would probably bring you in as
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  Speaker 3: his heir apparent. You know, you could definitely become prime
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  Speaker 3: minister in Israel. I think so. There's no question. You could.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this country would be a little tougher.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, but yeah. And then, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: I saw Trump, I was like, yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: took a little pride in that because I did that.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice.
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  Speaker 1: 90-something seconds. He called me his good friend about three times.
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  Speaker 1: It was so beautiful. He did that. But I did
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  Speaker 1: come in with the Duque stuff because you're a diehard
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  Speaker 1: Ranger fan. And I remember getting into fights at Poly Prep.
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  Speaker 2: We were little kids.
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  Speaker 1: And Danny Fagliano, an Islander fan, other guys, because they
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  Speaker 1: were winning back then. That's when they had Bossy and
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  Speaker 1: Trotty and all that nonsense. But, you know, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: fighting and saying, we got Ron Duguay.
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  Speaker 2: You got Ron Duguay.
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  Speaker 1: He had 40 goals in 81, you bastards, and he's
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  Speaker 1: better looking than anybody on the Islanders.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? But he remained friends with me.
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  Speaker 3: We had Sassoon Jeans.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Sassoon Jeans. How sad was that? He died yesterday
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  Speaker 2: at the age of 16.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's really, really sad. Yeah, and it happened so quickly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was like a year ago, just flying,
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  Speaker 3: and then boom, gone.
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  Speaker 2: A year ago, I spoke to him a month ago. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it was three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out he had some medication, and he
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  Speaker 1: had some negative effect from the medication, and he fell
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  Speaker 1: down and smashed his face, his face tack, on his
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  Speaker 1: floor in his house.
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  Speaker 2: He was in Jacksonville. And he lost teeth. He never
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  Speaker 2: lost teeth playing in the NHL. No one has teeth. Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: He smashed.
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  Speaker 1: He did a face shot, hit the floor, lost some teeth.
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  Speaker 1: He called me from the hospital. And I said, is
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  Speaker 1: it kind of like what the kid from U's from
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey looks like?
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  Speaker 2: Remember when he scored the game winning goal?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, it is like that. He goes, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get my teeth fixed. I said, Ronnie, that makes
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  Speaker 1: me nervous. You just fall and hit your face. He said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling great. He goes, but I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on my way back. That was three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Four days ago. Four days ago. Sarah Palin sent me
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  Speaker 1: a text. She said, we think it hit its liver
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  Speaker 1: and we need some.
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  Speaker 2: Prayer, Sid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Five days ago, I was at the Garden for a
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  Speaker 1: Knick game for a fundraiser preseason with Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Went up to Jim Dolan, swear to God, Tack, and
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  Speaker 2: I go, hey, Jim, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: You've done a lot of great things for New York
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  Speaker 1: with the Knicks, and I love your political stands. But
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  Speaker 1: Ron Duguay, one of the greatest Rangers ever, he's dying.
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  Speaker 1: And the Ranger organization has not done much. As far
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  Speaker 1: as I know, to the day he died, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: do much. So there was a lot of Duguay talk
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  Speaker 1: in my life the last couple of weeks. And as
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  Speaker 1: I said, we lost.
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  Speaker 2: Him yesterday, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's whenever someone leaves early, especially someone who's
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  Speaker 3: a good person, productive, and a fiber of this community,
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  Speaker 3: because Ron Duguay was. I mean, look, he played, what,
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  Speaker 3: 40 years ago, and you still know the name as
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  Speaker 3: if you were on the team now. It's true, yeah. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it's very, very sad.
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  Speaker 2: It is sad. So you sent me this a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: You're really excited about this book, like really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw a lot of books on this show,
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  Speaker 2: just so you know. People write a book. They can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to come on. We're not Oprah. We're not Imus,
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  Speaker 2: but we're close. This new book, American Insurgency. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: about this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah. So a friend of mine, retired Green Beret
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  Speaker 3: Lieutenant Colonel Rob Schaefer, he's an amazing guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he wrote a book called The Green Beret Way, which
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  Speaker 3: is about leading elite teams under extreme conditions. This guy
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  Speaker 3: is brilliant. He's the real, real deal. So he's written
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  Speaker 3: this very provocative book called American Insurgency Here and Now.
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  Speaker 3: And when I read it, I was like, oh, my God. Basically,
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  Speaker 3: his argument is that we're looking at America's turmoil incident
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  Speaker 3: by incident when we should really be asking whether there's
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  Speaker 3: a larger strategy at work. He applies framework that he
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  Speaker 3: learned studying insurgencies to what's happening here at home. It's
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  Speaker 3: pretty insane. His basic argument is that the country can
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  Speaker 3: be weakened from within by destroying competencies in our institutions,
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  Speaker 3: exploiting legitimate grievances, and turning Americans against one another. And
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  Speaker 3: he asks whether we're recognizing those methods when they appear
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  Speaker 3: in our own country, Sid. And I've got to be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you, if you look at that– I mean,
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  Speaker 3: again– He is the real deal. I mean, this guy
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  Speaker 3: has– he's prepared for presidents, heads of state, chiefs of defense,
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  Speaker 3: these intelligence reports. So he is the standard that really
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. Army Special Forces elements use to really evaluate things.
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  Speaker 3: And what he's done, everyone thinks we're fighting this war
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  Speaker 3: on terror, and we are. But the truth is much
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  Speaker 3: bigger because the U.S. is in the middle of a
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  Speaker 3: true insurgency. And most citizens have no idea, okay? Absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no idea. So, you know, look. Their confidence, America's confidence
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  Speaker 3: in our core institutions is at an all-time low. Congress
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  Speaker 3: is 9%. Television news, 14%. Newspaper, 17%. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 3: the outlier. You're 100% confidence. Thank you. It's true. So
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  Speaker 3: the insurgency doctrine that is the soil of everything else
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  Speaker 3: grows in and it just keeps growing, growing. Insurgencies grow
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  Speaker 3: when the populace loses faith in its government and core
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  Speaker 3: institutions like the press. So, you know, the news shows
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  Speaker 3: you the tip of the iceberg, the visible 10 to
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  Speaker 3: 15 percent of an insurgency designed to be seen. So
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  Speaker 3: you don't really look any further. But this book shows
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  Speaker 3: you the rest. And so it's not just what you
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  Speaker 3: saw or heard about. But what really matters is everything else.
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  Speaker 3: What you're reading in the news makes sense. But once
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  Speaker 3: you read the book and understand the framework, everything you've
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  Speaker 3: seen here, it's scary. It is absolutely scary.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Ice agents' homes, addresses, and their kids' schools are posted online.
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  Speaker 3: Auxiliary infrastructure supporting guerrilla operations are there. Face shields for
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  Speaker 3: peaceful protest rallies, logistics. Somebody raised the money, okay, in bulk.
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  Speaker 3: And brought them in in bulk, called these face masks
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  Speaker 3: for these peaceful rallies, right? And rented a truck and
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  Speaker 3: assigned people to hand them out. Spontaneous peaceful protests don't
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  Speaker 3: have logistics beyond signage and water, okay? And then you
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  Speaker 3: have like a sitting mayor, this Ai-Ping Wang, who pled
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  Speaker 3: guilty to acting as a Chinese agent infiltrating our government. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: And she didn't do it after she was elected. She
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  Speaker 3: did it and then became elected. So she wasn't recruited
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  Speaker 3: after she took office. She ran for office as an insurgent.
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  Speaker 3: And it's daunting and it's scary. And we have to
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  Speaker 3: pay attention. That's what this book does. It's an eye-opener.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a fun read by any stretch. It's the
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  Speaker 3: most fascinating read.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Schaefer. The book is American Insurgency. And
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  Speaker 1: Takapina just made it sound incredibly interesting. I mean, incredibly interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So go buy this book today, American Insurgency. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to bring up one. Well, I guess it's law
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  Speaker 1: and order. I know that you, like me, can't stand
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  Speaker 1: Letitia James. You've actually fought against Letitia James in a courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out that Letitia James was aware that
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  Speaker 1: Saritha Komatoredi kicked her ass in that debate two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: that she sent out an email to her people, which
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  Speaker 1: I saw, where she said after the debate last night,
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  Speaker 1: this thing is getting much closer.
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  Speaker 2: My Republican counterpart is actually doing.
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  Speaker 1: Better than we think. She asked for more money. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw a poll a couple of days ago, and
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  Speaker 1: Saritha seems to be right there. Now, look, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: bet against Letitia.
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  Speaker 2: Because she's part of the machine. She's a Democrat machine.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: She stands next to the police commissioner. She stands next
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  Speaker 1: to the mayor. The black people tend to like her.
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  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't bet against her. But it does look
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  Speaker 1: like Sarita at least has a chance.
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  Speaker 2: That makes you happy, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God, yeah. I mean, look, honestly, if Norm, Lou, anyone, Pete, John, Frank,
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  Speaker 3: were running for attorney general, it'd make me happy to
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  Speaker 3: have anyone but Lucretia James. I mean, honestly, the guy
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  Speaker 3: who delivers the coffee in the morning, I'd rather have him.
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  Speaker 2: Any mob guy that you kept out of jail.
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  Speaker 3: Don't kid yourself. A mob guy would put the city back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, listen. I don't know. I say that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you'd be mad at me. This city went
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  Speaker 2: a lot better when John Gotti was alive. I mean that.
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  Speaker 2: I really mean that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah. you know, doing what he did for
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  Speaker 3: the populace. But yes, I understand what you're saying because
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  Speaker 3: we need one or look, go back to Giuliani, go
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  Speaker 3: back to Bloomberg. I mean, that the city was, was
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  Speaker 3: a well-oiled machine, respected, loved people felt safe here. People
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  Speaker 3: want to put money here. People bought homes here. Now,
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  Speaker 3: now the opposite's happening. People don't feel safe. Okay. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't let my daughter on the subway. I honestly, I would, I, I,
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  Speaker 3: Never let that happen. Today's day and age.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, but do you feel
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  Speaker 1: better because you got some beautiful kids about your daughter
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  Speaker 1: and your two grandsons living in London?
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  Speaker 2: That's not exactly Miami either.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dude, that's over.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're coming back. They're back, right?
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  Speaker 3: If they don't come back, her poor husband's going to
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  Speaker 3: have a fatal accident that hasn't happened yet. But he's
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  Speaker 3: accidentally going to get hit by a bus, one of
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  Speaker 3: those big red buses in London, because they're coming back here.
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  Speaker 3: And they promised me that. That was part of the
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  Speaker 3: wedding deal that we made. So they're absolutely coming back
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  Speaker 3: because London is that place. I'm heading there to do
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  Speaker 3: trick-or-treating with you. Where we're going, this is where I go.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like this. But London isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: You've been watching. It's like New York City. But you've
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  Speaker 2: been watching the last couple of days what's happening in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they are still going to play the
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  Speaker 1: first NFL game ever.
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  Speaker 2: They play in London all the time. 26 games in London.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers are going to play the Saints in Paris
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 2: What's that, Tack?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, insane. And that's where you'll get those crackpots, those lunatics,
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  Speaker 3: those America haters will come out there and force. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the French police aren't exactly our police, right?
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  Speaker 3: They don't really have special forces, guys. I mean, they do,
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  Speaker 3: but they're limited and they don't use their military for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, things like this. Honestly, if I were the Steelers,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, yeah, I'm going to pass on this game.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take the L.
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  Speaker 2: They've already said it. The Saint players have already said it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to play there.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous because you're going to put people at risk now.
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  Speaker 3: And don't forget, these countries, England, you know, cops can't
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  Speaker 3: carry guns in England.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe that?
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  Speaker 3: They have batons, like sticks. You've got to be kidding me.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, they do have less crime, though. They do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think they have less crime. It's
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  Speaker 3: more of a cultural thing, honest, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. That is now disappearing. People say how dangerous
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  Speaker 3: London is. Every time I go there, I go, don't
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  Speaker 3: wear your watch on the field. I'm like, oh, yeah, please.
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  Speaker 2: It's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Let someone try to take my watch. It gives me
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  Speaker 3: a reason to be able to employ all my skills
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  Speaker 3: that I never really get to use.
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  Speaker 1: But, Joe, you do understand that not every person has
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  Speaker 1: 22-inch arms and has been trained by the Army like you.
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  Speaker 2: You understand that.
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  Speaker 3: No, I do. I understand that. But it is it
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  Speaker 3: is it is it's scary that that people are afraid
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  Speaker 3: to go out in the streets in London. I can't
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  Speaker 3: speak so much to Paris, but London is a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Paris is just as bad.
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  Speaker 1: I was in both places last summer for Ava and
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  Speaker 1: it's just as bad.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like Pakistan. I don't know what's going on. So.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So on the way out, Joseph, you were beautiful yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was so happy to see you yesterday and.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being there. You're my
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  Speaker 1: longest friend. Almost 50 years you've been friends.
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  Speaker 3: 50 years.
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  Speaker 1: You're like a brother to me and you're great to
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  Speaker 1: me and my family. And I love you to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: And you're great on this show every Friday. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about so many different things from sports to the army
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  Speaker 1: to legal stuff. And then sitting right next to me
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  Speaker 1: is your other gay lover. You got two.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Morgan. You love Joe Takapini. Of course. We had
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  Speaker 2: a great time yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It was Pete's table. Pete was the sponsor of that table.
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  Speaker 3: He brought us all together. So kudos to Pete and Maureen.
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  Speaker 3: That was them. And so, yeah, thank you, Peter. It
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  Speaker 3: was beautiful. And, you know, let's go and let's get Hellebuck, please.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you sound like my wife. She's calling him Hucklebuck.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still happening? Are they still going to get him, maybe?
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  Speaker 2: We've got Kaepernick now.
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  Speaker 3: They're playing well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kaepernick.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, that would be a nice problem to have
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  Speaker 3: next year when we don't know what to do because
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  Speaker 3: we're going to.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Have Hellebuck and Eager. Got to trade one of them. Right. Well,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: He can score better than most of our forwards.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: That's true. Good point. He's got a goal.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: The Rangers are playing well, so we'll see.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: They really are.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Enjoy that trick-or-treating, bro. What are you going as? What
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: are you going as, Joe? A referee. A referee?
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez. Yeah, yeah.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: A referee.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Theo, my grandson, is a Liverpool fanatic. He
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: will wear a Liverpool jersey every morning, noon, and night,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: every single day. My poor daughter Morgan is constantly washing
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: those jerseys, so it's pretty funny. But he's so fanatical
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: about Liverpool, and he's three years old.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Does he know that his grandfather owned championship teams in Italy?
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think he knows that yet.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: He doesn't even know?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I don't think he knows that yet.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's going to grow up. That's my grandfather.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: He was on magazine covers in Italy with those soccer
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: teams all the time.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: That's great. God bless him.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: He's beautiful.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: They're both beautiful. You're beautiful. I love you, Joe Tacopina.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Again, congratulations, brother.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy. I love that guy. 50 years almost.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: You believe that?
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And just as smart and handsome, and he's got everything.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Joseph Takapina, Pride of Bedford Avenue. Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: New York by Bedford Park.
• 15:41
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• 15:45
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• 15:47
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• 16:08
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• 16:10
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?