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Bill O'Reilly | WABC Radio Correspondent Makes His Triumphant Return to S&FIM · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: He was the best. He still is the best. He'll
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  Speaker 1: always be the best, whether it's every Thursday here with us,
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  Speaker 1: Mondays with John and Rita, his own amazing website, BillOReilly.com.
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  Speaker 1: He's got great interviews and great stories. It's great TV,
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  Speaker 1: the No Spin. He's an amazing author, 13 books into
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  Speaker 1: the Killing Series, Confronting Evil, Confronting the Presidents, and now
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  Speaker 1: there's a new one coming out right around Danielle's birthday
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  Speaker 1: later on this month, literally in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: His books are always great. He's got his amazing podcast,
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  Speaker 1: We'll Do It Live, which comes your way with big-time guests.
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  Speaker 1: And he's on News Nation. In fact, the last time
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  Speaker 1: he was on, because Bill's been off the show the
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  Speaker 1: last two weeks, he's been on vacation. During his vacation...
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  Speaker 1: I saw him do a guest spot with Chris Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: on a different show on News Nation. And Cuomo, unprovoked,
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  Speaker 1: brought me up. He said, oh, you're MAGA friends. And
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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly goes, what MAGA friends? And Cuomo goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: what about your friend on radio? And O'Reilly goes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I defend you on that show. And Cuomo goes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: sure you do. So I did see that, Bill, even
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  Speaker 1: on your vacation, that Cuomo was upset that you're friends
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  Speaker 1: with me. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of try to rise above all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing that I think I got across, though,
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  Speaker 2: in the debate with Cuomo was that he himself should
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  Speaker 2: give himself a little bit more credit for actually coming
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  Speaker 2: on to debate. You know how difficult it is to
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  Speaker 2: get guests who disagree with you. And they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to come on anymore. They don't want to joust. And
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo's always there for that. And I respect that. Look,
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  Speaker 2: he's a Democrat. That's it. And you have to accept it.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't like him, you don't like him.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like me. Only about six
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  Speaker 2: people that I know don't like you. And they're all
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  Speaker 2: living great, Nick. But, you know, the guy stands up
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  Speaker 2: and he puts himself out there. That's all I care about.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about this ideological stuff. It doesn't bother
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  Speaker 2: me at all. But I'll tell you an interesting story.
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  Speaker 2: My book, Confronting America, What Has to Change, comes out
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday, just about five days away. So I sent
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  Speaker 2: the book, and you got an advance copy. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: read it, but I'm going to hire somebody to read
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  Speaker 2: it to you. All right, so you'll have somebody on
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  Speaker 2: the plane coming back. And what is it, 110 degrees
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  Speaker 2: down there in Dallas?
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  Speaker 1: It is. It's not even the heat, because I was
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas last week. It was hotter. It was 108.
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  Speaker 1: The humidity here is unbearable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I lived in Dallas for two years working
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  Speaker 2: local news. And I would come out in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have a garage. And I just couldn't touch
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  Speaker 2: my car.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know. And that's how hot it was. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I sent out three copies of the book to my
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  Speaker 2: moderate conservative friends and three copies to moderate liberals. Not
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  Speaker 2: crazy people. And I said, just do me a solid,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to read the whole book, but read
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  Speaker 2: part of it and let me know. Well, the moderate
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  Speaker 2: conservative people read it all in one day. Okay? Because
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  Speaker 2: it's eyewitness history. It's what I've seen. from Levittown on up. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: The three liberal guys hated it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they did.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they did. And that took, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: an ideological book. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's his, here's O'Reilly, a little thug from Levittown. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been to 90 countries. He's covered every story
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  Speaker 2: he could possibly cover. And this is his historical reportage.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing to hate. Right, there's nothing to hate about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you why they hated it. Because after
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  Speaker 2: I got through hitting them with garbage can covers, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and beating them, I said, why didn't you like the book?
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  Speaker 2: And they didn't like the book because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the problems that I bring up, and something has to change,
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  Speaker 2: things have to change. are individual behavior. Individuals, not the parties,
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  Speaker 2: both of them, are not going to make it for you.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to do the right. A party is
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  Speaker 2: not going to do that. You have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And the left does not want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: They've got every excuse in the world why people can't
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  Speaker 2: make it in this country, why it's a bad country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden the Democratic Party is going
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  Speaker 2: to come in and going to solve affordability. You've been
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  Speaker 2: to California?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You see a lot of affordability in California?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's interesting about that is, and this is,
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  Speaker 1: you can't argue this, I'd love to I'll argue this
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  Speaker 1: with Chris Cormor, I really will, but he'll never invite
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  Speaker 1: me on. The affordability crisis, which does exist, there's no question,
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  Speaker 1: was actually brought on by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a combination of COVID pricing, which never
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  Speaker 2: went down, and greedy corporations that are gouging us with
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  Speaker 2: insurance deals. particularly health insurance premiums, and inefficient government in
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  Speaker 2: the sense that there was no oversight about people exploiting
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  Speaker 2: the COVID stuff. If you think back, in my town
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  Speaker 2: on Long Island, prices went through the roof when COVID
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  Speaker 2: hit because they couldn't get personnel, they couldn't ship, they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't do this, they couldn't do that. Those prices had
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  Speaker 2: not come down. And no matter what, They stay there
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  Speaker 2: because the retailers say, hey, they paid it before. Why
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  Speaker 2: am I going to drop my prices? So there should
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  Speaker 2: be some government oversight, particularly in the oil companies, that
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  Speaker 2: will drop the prices at the pump. Even when the
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  Speaker 2: price of world oil goes down, they will drop it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Trump said he was going to do something. He has
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  Speaker 2: not done it yet. Maybe he will. I hope he does.
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  Speaker 2: which is very complicated. But the bottom line on my
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  Speaker 2: book is, if you want a good life, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 2: Not some party apparatchik. Even though Trump is charismatic, he
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  Speaker 2: has set up a lot of things that are going
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  Speaker 2: to help the American economy in the future. He's absolutely
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  Speaker 2: done that. OK, he can't come to your house and
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  Speaker 2: make you work hard.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was surprised because these are smart guys.
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  Speaker 2: And no, no, no, no, no. The government has to help.
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  Speaker 2: The government has to do this. It just frightens me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. The great Bill O'Reilly. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to get your feel on this convention. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you watched the president last night. I was standing
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  Speaker 1: there right in front of him. But I am about
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  Speaker 1: to talk to the president as soon as this show
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  Speaker 1: is over. I'm going to tape an interview. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play it tomorrow because tomorrow is the big day
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  Speaker 1: in New York. It's 9-11. And even though President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be in New York, J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: will be here. He'll be at the Pentagon. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be on my show on this day tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it, which I'm honored that he wants
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So I'm going to talk to President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: At 10 o'clock Eastern Time, 9 o'clock Dallas Time, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as I'm done, and if it was you sitting
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  Speaker 1: here talking to President Trump at 10 o'clock today, what
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  Speaker 1: would be the one thing you feel like you have
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  Speaker 1: to ask Trump? Because you're the best at this. What
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  Speaker 1: is the one thing you need to know from President
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  Speaker 1: Trump today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, number one, tell him I said hello. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: spoken to him in a long time, which, you know, fine.
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  Speaker 2: He's busy. He doesn't have time to, you know, chat.
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  Speaker 2: But Tom, I say it alone. I'm watching him very
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  Speaker 2: closely as I do. So I would start off the
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  Speaker 2: interview saying this way. Why do people on the left
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  Speaker 2: and some independents despise you so much? Why? That's how
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  Speaker 2: I'd start it. Because that causes him to think. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And from that answer, your whole interview will unfold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll just get all fired up. He'll go nuts.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he'll go nuts, but he's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to bring in policy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he's going to have to bring in personality.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, part of the reason that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people don't like President Trump is that he's bombastic
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  Speaker 2: in a New York tradition. You and I are bombastic.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: There's no excuse for him being bombastic, but that's what
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers are. And I want to make one point
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  Speaker 2: about 9-11, if I might. So, Mamdani is not a
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  Speaker 2: New Yorker. All right? And now that statement might get,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people's heads coming up. New Yorkers are not
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  Speaker 2: just a card registration at the voting office. New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: are people who are inbred with the culture of the area.
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  Speaker 2: So you are Brooklyn. I am Levittown. We have grown
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  Speaker 2: up in the New York culture. And we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different things here than they say have in
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  Speaker 2: Des Moines, Iowa. And even in Dallas where you're sitting there. Yep. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: If you behave the way you do in Dallas the
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  Speaker 2: way you do in New York, you're going to go
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  Speaker 2: to prison, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: Forget about that. You're not going to prison. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to shoot you here. They're going to shoot you here.
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  Speaker 2: So don't let any Comanches grab you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because before they shoot you, they do terrible things.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know. So New Yorkers are a special breed of people.
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  Speaker 2: Boston has it. God help me, but Philadelphia has a
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  Speaker 2: bit of it, where we see the world because of
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  Speaker 2: the crowded nature of our lives, because there are so
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  Speaker 2: many people here that we have to interact with, and
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  Speaker 2: so many options, themes and culture. We see the world differently.
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani is not a New Yorker. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: he is. Maybe he's a Kenyan. Maybe he's a Ugandan.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he is. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: he is. And I'm going to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. He's a radical Islamist. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. But his culture is not New York. No.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? It's not.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't here. He was in Uganda, I believe, in
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  Speaker 1: Africa on 9-11. I believe.
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  Speaker 2: So, when he... starts to intrude himself, what Mandani should
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  Speaker 2: do is respectfully step back from the ceremonies tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not a political thing. It's, look, I wasn't here.
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  Speaker 2: You guys went through this. Unbelievable amounts of pain that's
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  Speaker 2: sustained to this day. And I'm going to be humble
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  Speaker 2: enough not to intrude because many of the families don't
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  Speaker 2: want me there. I'm going to respect those wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the problem with what you just said because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you 100%. And you're just being a
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  Speaker 1: decent person when you say that. But the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly, the overwhelming majority of these families don't want
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  Speaker 1: him there. But, but, and you talk about this all
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  Speaker 1: the time, you were the first. You did fake news
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  Speaker 1: before Trump. If you watch Sade Baranwad on Channel 7,
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  Speaker 1: she says... A select amount of families. If you listen
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  Speaker 1: to Kathy Hochul yesterday, she said a minimal amount of families.
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  Speaker 1: They're lying. The overwhelming majority of families don't want him there.
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  Speaker 1: But the local politicians and the local fake news say, nah,
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  Speaker 1: it's only a couple of families he should come.
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  Speaker 2: But they always do that. I mean, that's what they
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  Speaker 2: call politics. And I'm going to inject Governor Hochul into it.
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  Speaker 2: She is not a New Yorker. She's from Erie, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: which could be South Dakota. Look at the map.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: If you think you're going to get a good hot
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  Speaker 2: dog in Erie, you're out of your blanking mind. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she has no idea of the rhythm of
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  Speaker 2: this city or how people who were raised here think
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  Speaker 2: or live. That's why Blakeman, I think, is going to
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  Speaker 2: beat her.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. Okay? Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not a lot. Don't go to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some betting thing and give your money to Jamie Foxx.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? But she is detached from the mass of people, 8.5 million,
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  Speaker 3: almost half born overseas now, which is.
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  Speaker 2: Eroding the culture. I go by my old Levittown neighborhood,
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  Speaker 2: and an Indian family owns my house where I was
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  Speaker 2: growing up. And they're nice people.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And they're here legally, and they're this and they're that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but it's not what it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. That's a bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: So we all have to adjust, and because this is
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  Speaker 2: our country. But if you really want to understand the passion...
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  Speaker 2: of 9-11, you have to be a New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And it would help if you were there on
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  Speaker 1: that day like we both were. I was on the
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  Speaker 1: air with Imus, and you were here, too. I have
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  Speaker 1: about two minutes to go. I've got to ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching Major Garrett do an interview on CBS
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  Speaker 1: about this convention, which I've been at the last two days,
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  Speaker 1: and I've enjoyed it. And he asked a very good
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  Speaker 1: question of one of his guests. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there were two schools of thought about this convention. One is...
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  Speaker 1: This is President Trump mobilizing his base and showing independents
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  Speaker 1: and even some disgruntled Democrats that voting for his candidates
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  Speaker 1: is the way to go. The other one is, this
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  Speaker 1: is a desperate cry for help. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this convention?
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans need to restart their engines, okay, to use
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  Speaker 2: a term that Donald Trump would identify with. Because the
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  Speaker 2: situation in the country is not very good for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, although the good things are not reported.
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  Speaker 2: For example, more people without college degrees are working now
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  Speaker 2: than any other time, I think, in 20 years. You'll
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  Speaker 2: never hear that story. Because Trump has created this manufacturing
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  Speaker 2: economy all right that gives people without college a chance
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  Speaker 2: to make a very good living okay they were never
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  Speaker 2: going to hear that but the perception is that we're
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  Speaker 2: living in dire times that um... herbert hoover is really
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  Speaker 2: donald trump you know that country's collapsed none of that
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  Speaker 2: is true but when you have a media as powerful
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  Speaker 2: an anti-trump media as we have in the united states
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  Speaker 2: That's a message that has gotten through because the gas
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  Speaker 2: does cost more. But if you're going to vote for
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  Speaker 2: a person, no matter who it is, based on your
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  Speaker 2: gasoline consumption.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, stop it.
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  Speaker 2: You got to vote on a movement. Do you want
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  Speaker 2: the Mamdani movement? Because every Democrat is going to follow that.
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  Speaker 2: Every single one that you vote for. including my district
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  Speaker 2: out here on Long Island, because if they don't follow it,
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  Speaker 2: they cut the money off. And the same thing happens
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  Speaker 2: in the Republican precincts. Paxson should not be the senatorial
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  Speaker 2: candidate out there. Cornyn would have waxed this nut, Tallarico.
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  Speaker 2: who recanted on the six genders now. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: down to three. I'm not sure. Okay. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's a tough clothing buy for a Telerico. That's a
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  Speaker 2: very tough buy. You go into, you know, May season,
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  Speaker 2: you go, where is the fourth gender section?
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  Speaker 1: He is a lunatic. He is a complete lunatic.
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  Speaker 2: But he's competitive there.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah. What do you mean? He's up a point
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  Speaker 1: right now. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because they don't like Paxson.
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  Speaker 1: I know. They don't like Paxson. Trump spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time talking about Paxson last night. He goes, may
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  Speaker 1: not be the best looking guy. Doesn't dress all that good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the way he talks. But the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: he's a better candidate. I have to run. I promise you, though,
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  Speaker 1: when I talk to the president in exactly 38 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give him your best. And this was another Bill
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  Speaker 1: O'Reilly interview. Another spectacular appearance. I love you, pal. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. What do you mean, thank me? Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The all-time best every Thursday right here on Sid and
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  Speaker 1: Friends in the Morning. That's a great segment by Bill O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?