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Best Of Sid And Friends In The Morning · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, sports writer Peter King, named National Sports Writer
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  Speaker 2: of the Year three times, joined Sid live in studio
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  Speaker 2: to plug his brand new book on release day, entitled
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  Speaker 2: The Game.
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  Speaker 1: Man in my studio right now, the esteemed Peter King.
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  Speaker 1: His new book is out. The name of the book
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  Speaker 1: is The Game. Forty years in the making tells the
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  Speaker 1: story of how football... in a virtual dead heat in
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  Speaker 1: popularity with baseball in the mid-' 80s, came to dominate the
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  Speaker 1: American landscape. And no one can argue that. Look, baseball's
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  Speaker 1: a regional sport, okay? No one's watching the Brewers and
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in Brooklyn, please, unless you're gambling on it.
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  Speaker 1: No one's watching the Guardians and Rays anywhere, okay? But
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Giant fan or a Jet fan, come
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  Speaker 1: 4 o'clock, you're invested in the Raiders and the Chargers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason for that. If we have an honest conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and it's one word, one, gambling. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: it's fantasy sports or if you've got 5,000 on the game.
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  Speaker 1: Gambling has taken football to a brand-new stratosphere that baseball, basketball,
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  Speaker 1: hockey can never touch. And they know at the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they publish injury reports. It's kind of weird, right?
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  Speaker 1: Why does Irving and Brooklyn need to know who's injured
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  Speaker 1: on the Patriots on a Wednesday? Because they know it.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever the reason is, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Football is America's game, no longer baseball. And I know
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  Speaker 1: the great, great writer and so many great years on NBC,
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  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, my dear friend Peter King, I know you'd
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  Speaker 1: have to agree, right? I mean, gambling has made football
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  Speaker 1: this dynasty.
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  Speaker 3: Well, gambling gives people a reason to watch a game
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  Speaker 3: they don't care about in any way and never would
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  Speaker 3: have any interest in. And that's great for the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not so sure it's good for the young people
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  Speaker 3: of America who in high school and college are getting
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  Speaker 3: addicted to gambling. And it's so easy to gamble now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that would be my biggest fear for this. And, hey, Sid,
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  Speaker 3: 10 years ago, the NFL looked at gambling like it
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  Speaker 3: was the plague. They looked at Vegas like, just keep
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  Speaker 3: away from us. And obviously now things have changed mightily.
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  Speaker 1: Dramatically. I mean, there was a time where you can
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  Speaker 1: do drugs. You can hit your wife. You can smack
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  Speaker 1: her in the face. You can play football. But God
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  Speaker 1: forbid they found out you bet on a game, right?
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  Speaker 1: Paul Warning and all those guys. Alex Karras. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: you committed basically something deserving of capital punishment. Now, that's
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  Speaker 1: still the case. You still can't gamble if you're a player.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. The way they look at it is
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  Speaker 1: completely different. It's money. Let's face it. It's money. Roger Goodell.
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  Speaker 1: who is not liked by most of the people that
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  Speaker 1: like me, because I'm not a woke guy, okay? But
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  Speaker 1: I admit, he does a good job. His job is
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  Speaker 1: to make the owners money. And say what you want
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  Speaker 1: about the woke NFL, Roger Goodell makes the owners money.
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  Speaker 1: Because football, really, Peter, is all about money.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 3: And Sid, listen, you know, you talked about the total
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  Speaker 3: explosion of football. The first year I covered the NFL
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  Speaker 3: was 1984. In 1984, the National Football League on Monday
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  Speaker 3: Night Football, that was the 25th rated show.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Behind, by the way, Scarecrow and Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: King.
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  Speaker 4: Ha!
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  Speaker 3: And it was the 25th rated show. And so you
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  Speaker 3: know what the NFL did? They said, we are going
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  Speaker 3: to have a hot stove league like baseball. They got
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  Speaker 3: free agency. It was forced down their throat in 93.
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  Speaker 3: Rupert Murdoch comes in. He makes it a far better show.
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  Speaker 3: television product, Rupert Murdoch and David Hill. I wrote a
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  Speaker 3: chapter about David Hill in my book. These are people
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  Speaker 3: who changed the landscape of pro football. Paul Tagliabue takes
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  Speaker 3: it from being a five-month sport, six-month sport. He starts
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  Speaker 3: expanding it. Roger Goodell has gone crazy with it, mostly
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  Speaker 3: in a good way. But now, Sid, instead of being
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  Speaker 3: in a dead heat with baseball, the last Gallup poll 2025, football,
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  Speaker 3: asked about your favorite sport in America, football, 41%, baseball, 10%.
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  Speaker 1: Not even close.
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  Speaker 3: And so that is what has happened by the NFL
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  Speaker 3: making it a year-round sport, embracing gambling, embracing streaming, and
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  Speaker 3: all the different ways of watching football. and everybody else
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  Speaker 3: is in the rearview mirror.
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  Speaker 1: No, I lived in South Florida for many years. You
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  Speaker 1: know that Peter King, I did radio down there. All
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  Speaker 1: they care about is football. You know, he can win
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  Speaker 1: championships in the Marlins, could be good. The Panthers won
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  Speaker 1: two Stanley Cups under Vinny Viola. They don't care. They
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  Speaker 1: want the Hurricanes. They want the Dolphins. You got guys
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  Speaker 1: down there that would call my radio station and complain
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  Speaker 1: to my program director that I wasn't covering the combine.
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  Speaker 1: I said, these men or these boys are wearing shorts.
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  Speaker 1: And they're jumping over, I don't know what, what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean, obstacle courses? You want me to cover that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And they actually sit there by the millions and watch it,
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  Speaker 1: Peter King, by the millions. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got a chapter in my book that explained the
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  Speaker 3: phenomenon of the Combine, but the greatest thing in there,
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  Speaker 3: Mike Mayock, who was one of the people who made
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  Speaker 3: the Combine so big, Mike Mayock said that the first
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  Speaker 3: year they did it, he called his dad, who's a
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  Speaker 3: high school football coach, and he said, Dad, what did
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  Speaker 3: you think of our coverage of the Combine? And he goes,
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  Speaker 3: nobody's ever going to watch that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
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  Speaker 3: Who wants to watch people running around and practicing football?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to watch that. And then, you know, now
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  Speaker 3: it's just one of those tentpole events. Sid, the NFL
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  Speaker 3: has invented things and shoved them down America's throats.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: America says, more, please.
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  Speaker 1: You're 100% right. So if you want to take one person,
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  Speaker 1: this is very difficult. I know that. You've got Steve Sable.
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  Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine over the years who did
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  Speaker 1: all those great NFL films. You've got Paul Tagliabue. You
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  Speaker 1: talked about the great police commissioner, the great NFL commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Cosell. Let's go back to Monday Night Football, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they had a huge impact on the popularity,
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  Speaker 1: even though back then it wasn't. Who would be the
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  Speaker 1: person that you would say was really the one that
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  Speaker 1: started this craze?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the person who started it, and who's the most
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  Speaker 3: significant person in pro football history is George Halas. He
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  Speaker 3: was one of the 10 people who invented the league.
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  Speaker 3: He played for the Bears. He coached the Bears. He
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  Speaker 3: did everything with the Bears, scouted, drafted. And Sid, he
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  Speaker 3: lasted 60 years. He was one of the guys who
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  Speaker 3: founded the league, and then he drafted Jim McMahon. That's
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  Speaker 3: how long George Halas was in it. So he's huge.
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  Speaker 3: But as far as people who've changed it today, and
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  Speaker 3: who made it incredible today, I have to say it's
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  Speaker 3: Roger Goodell. Because he basically said, like, give me an example, 2014.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to take the draft out of New York.
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  Speaker 3: I said, huge mistake. Every player wants to come and
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  Speaker 3: walk on the red carpet at Radio City Music Hall.
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  Speaker 3: They feel like big stars. And then, I mean, four
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  Speaker 3: years later, they're in Nashville with 600,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 3: In downtown Nashville watching the draft. They closed schools in
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh for two days this year because the draft overwhelmed
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  Speaker 3: the city. And so he realized everything, that it could
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  Speaker 3: be a 24-7, 365 sport and business. So I think
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  Speaker 3: he's the guy right now in a modern sense who's
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  Speaker 3: done the most.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have these arguments on Sports Talk Radio
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  Speaker 1: all the time. It's one of the reasons why I quit.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand it anymore. It's actually got silly after
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  Speaker 1: a while. Is Carmelo Anthony a great player, a good player,
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic player, a Hall of Fame player? I don't care.
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  Speaker 6: Who's elite?
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 3: Is Joe Flacco elite?
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  Speaker 1: Right, is Eli Manning, so he made the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame on the first time? Truth is, no. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Giant fan. You know that. I covered the Giants. I
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  Speaker 1: did their pregame show for years. I love Eli. I
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  Speaker 1: will forever love Eli. He won me two Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: But at no point in his career, outside of those
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  Speaker 1: two amazing runs, did I think he was a great quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: His brother, totally different story. So we argue all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But I think of all the sports, when guys go
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Russo does. Hard to talk about. It's a
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  Speaker 1: different era. And I think you're right. You know, football,
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  Speaker 1: you had 14 games and you had 16 games. Now
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  Speaker 1: you have 17 games. Football, we saw those bruising running
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  Speaker 1: backs over the years. Jim Brown, O.J. Simpson, they ran
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  Speaker 1: the football mostly, did not throw the football much, and
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  Speaker 1: they still won Super Bowls. Now every quarterback is, he
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  Speaker 1: starts off on first down. He's already in a transformation.
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  Speaker 1: So of all the games, I think the one that
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  Speaker 1: has changed most dramatically, I think, is the NFL, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, because look, even though, for instance,
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  Speaker 3: baseball now has the ABS challenge, you know, and everybody
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  Speaker 3: has replay now, football has fundamentally changed because, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: first 50 years of the NFL, 1920 to 1970, absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no question that you can't say, that a quarterback was
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  Speaker 3: the best player, most important player in the game. It
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  Speaker 3: was Jim Brown, okay? But the last 50 years, the
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  Speaker 3: most important players are almost all quarterbacks, probably LT as well.
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  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review.
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  Speaker 1: This is Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, running for
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  Speaker 2: governor of New York State against incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul,
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  Speaker 2: joined Sid the morning after his evisceration. of the sitting
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  Speaker 2: governor during the first and only scheduled debate between the
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  Speaker 2: two candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, Bruce, congratulations. That was a whooping you put
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  Speaker 1: on that lady last night. How do you feel today?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I feel great because I was able to articulate
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  Speaker 5: the issues that everyday people face in New York State.
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  Speaker 5: It's really sad. The once great empire state, people feel helpless.
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  Speaker 5: They feel like they have a state that doesn't listen
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  Speaker 5: to them, that doesn't address their needs. Our taxes are
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  Speaker 5: out of control. Our utility bills are out of control.
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  Speaker 5: Jobs are leaving our state. People feel less safe in
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  Speaker 5: their homes, in their communities. You know, we can turn
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  Speaker 5: that around and make this, again, the once great empire state,
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  Speaker 5: where people feel safe in their communities, where there's good
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  Speaker 5: jobs with good benefits, good pay, and people feel good
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  Speaker 5: about being New Yorkers, not the way they feel now.
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  Speaker 5: So I want to make people happy. Kathy Hochul has
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  Speaker 5: made them miserable. it's time for a change.
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  Speaker 1: Time for a change. You know, I'm very, very critical
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  Speaker 1: on this show. I know you've heard it. Bruce Alvaro Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like him. I think he's a bad guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Democrat. He sides with people like Mamdani, AOC,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul. Don't like him. I don't know anything about
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  Speaker 1: this Susan lady that was out there last night, too.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going to say something right now that's going
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  Speaker 1: to shock my listening audience. I thought they were pretty
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  Speaker 1: fair last night. In fact, I thought some of their
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  Speaker 1: more difficult questions were posed at Hochul. What did you
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  Speaker 1: think of the mediators last night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, I had no problem with the moderators. I
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  Speaker 5: thought they did a good job. Yes, I know their
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  Speaker 5: political persuasion, but I thought they tried to be fair.
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  Speaker 5: The only the only quibble I have is they never
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  Speaker 5: addressed Kathy Hochul and her asinine and quite frankly, racist
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  Speaker 5: statement that black kids in the Bronx don't know what
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  Speaker 5: a computer is. If a Republican had said that, it
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  Speaker 5: would have been front page news. They would have harped
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  Speaker 5: on it. What was Kathy Hochul thinking when she said that?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know that Kathy Hochul even understands
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  Speaker 5: her own education system because in New York in sixth grade,
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  Speaker 5: they get computers in the school and they have one-on-one
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  Speaker 5: training on computers. So why did she single out black kids?
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to know that. I was hoping the moderators
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  Speaker 5: would probe her on that. Why did you say that
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  Speaker 5: about black kids? Why did you say that upstate voters
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  Speaker 5: were unsophisticated? I mean, Kathy Hochul is an elitist and
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  Speaker 5: maybe a racist because she thinks she knows better than
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  Speaker 5: everybody else. And she looks down upon people. And that's
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  Speaker 5: what I think was the only thing that was lacking
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  Speaker 5: from the moderators. They didn't press her on that. As
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  Speaker 5: a matter of fact, they tried to cut me off
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  Speaker 5: when I talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You did bring it up. Both of those issues
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  Speaker 1: that upstaters are stupid and black kids are stupid. You
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  Speaker 1: did bring it up to your credit, but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: They did not move any further with that. Now look,
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  Speaker 1: We all knew you and I talked about this. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday with Pataki and Bob Holden and others.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that she was going to play the Trump card. OK,
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  Speaker 1: we knew it. But I'm sorry I was watching your
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  Speaker 1: face and you kept smiling because you couldn't believe it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody, anybody, Bruce Blakeman could have predicted
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  Speaker 1: she would utter Trump as many times as she did. One,
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  Speaker 1: it says she wasn't prepared. She was completely lost. That's one. Two,
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  Speaker 1: nobody in this world suffers from TDS more than her.
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  Speaker 1: But were you shocked, as I was, how many times
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  Speaker 1: she actually said President Trump's name?
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  Speaker 5: You know, one of my friends said to me after
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  Speaker 5: the debate last night, she should be grateful that Trump
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  Speaker 5: is president. Otherwise, she would have had nothing to say
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  Speaker 5: last night. So, I mean, Trump, Trump, Trump. Listen, Trump
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  Speaker 5: didn't raise our taxes. Trump didn't make our utility bills
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  Speaker 5: 70% higher than national average. Kathy Hochul approved 48 rate hikes.
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  Speaker 5: And for those of you who live in the city
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  Speaker 5: or the suburbs, it was Kathy Hochul that raised your
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  Speaker 5: fares 21 times in four years. It wasn't Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: You can talk about Trump all she wants. And as
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  Speaker 5: I said in the debate, She talks about Trump because
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  Speaker 5: she won't be able to defend her record because it's
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  Speaker 5: a record of failure and misery.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you did also say, and I got to give
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  Speaker 1: you some credit for this because you may get yelled
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  Speaker 1: out later, that, you know, you have differences with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you talked about being pro-choice. So am I.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also pro-choice. You talk about other policies that you like,
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  Speaker 1: including immigrants that have been, you know, migrants that have
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  Speaker 1: been good and law-abiding migrants which have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: stay here and not get kicked out.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of differences. You had a philosophy
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump. And at one point you even said
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  Speaker 1: that you thought that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the best
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  Speaker 1: president ever. Are you worried that Trump may text you
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, Bruce, I love you. What was that?
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  Speaker 5: No, what I said was his term isn't over. He's
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  Speaker 5: got two more years. So the report card, I believe,
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  Speaker 5: is an A. I give him an A. But his
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  Speaker 5: term isn't over. He can do even greater things going forward.
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  Speaker 5: But Dwight D. Eisenhower's report card is in. And I
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  Speaker 5: think by all accounts, he's probably one of the top
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  Speaker 5: eight presidents ever. So the question was asked, who is
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  Speaker 5: the greatest president in my lifetime? Well, the first president
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  Speaker 5: in my lifetime was Dwight D. Eisenhower. And I've said
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  Speaker 5: over and over again, you know, that I support President Trump.
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  Speaker 5: I support him. I endorse him. I worked hard for him.
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  Speaker 5: But again, this race is not about Donald Trump. This
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  Speaker 5: is about Kathy Hochul and her record. And it's about
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  Speaker 5: my record of cutting taxes, making a more prosperous county,
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  Speaker 5: and having the safest county in America. I'll put my
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  Speaker 5: record next to Kathy Hochul's, compare the two, and any
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  Speaker 5: fair-minded person that compared my record with her record is
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  Speaker 5: going to vote for me.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. So Mark Wayne Mullen's going to join me in
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  Speaker 1: about 30 minutes, Bruce. And he's been railing at Mom
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  Speaker 1: Donnie that Mom Donnie's going on and on about this
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Bellagal creep. You know, he's like a George Floyd
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  Speaker 1: type of guy. Same creep, you know. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to talk about last night. You did a
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  Speaker 1: great job pointing out. Wait a second. I had two
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  Speaker 1: ladies in my community, two different homes. Their throats were slashed.
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  Speaker 1: They were murdered, okay? You brought up Sheridan Gorman, the
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  Speaker 1: lovely young lady, Mike Lawler's neighborhood, shot to death in Chicago. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Williams, Vietnam vet, he survived cancer. He survived World
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  Speaker 1: War II, excuse me, and he was thrown to his
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  Speaker 1: death on the subway tracks. You brought up all these
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  Speaker 1: great examples, Bruce. of beautiful Americans that were cut down,
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  Speaker 1: lives cut short by illegal aliens, and she's out there, her, Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: and others, trying to protect Oscar Belgal. She don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear it. All she wanted to talk about was
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  Speaker 1: the five-year-old that, by the way, was unharmed in the
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  Speaker 1: backseat of the car. I thought you killed her on
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  Speaker 1: that policy last night.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what about the 14-year-old girl who was raped by
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  Speaker 5: a legal migrant? Sid, That girl's life is changed forever.
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  Speaker 5: And Kathy Hochul couldn't even apologize to that girl or
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  Speaker 5: her family. She hasn't returned Sheridan Gorman's calls. She never
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  Speaker 5: said anything about the two women who were murdered by
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  Speaker 5: an illegal migrant in my county on the same day.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: You know, I just have to wonder, why is she
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: protecting these criminals? What is the basis of her wanting
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: illegal migrants in our communities? And I think the answer
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: is you just have to see the position of her
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: lieutenant governor candidate, Adrian Adams, who says illegal migrants should
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: be able to vote in our elections. So let's bring
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: as many illegal migrants in because they know that at
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: some point Democrats are going to wake up. Independent voters
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: are going to wake up. And Republicans are going to
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: get out to vote and they're going to change fundamentally
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: the politics of this state because the left wing of
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party, the socialist wing, is out of control.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: It's being controlled by people who hate America and hate
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: our values.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: You know, you also did a terrific job, Bruce Blakeman,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: with the energy argument. He said, hey, look, in Pennsylvania, Democrats,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro, right? They're driving around by the border because
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: they take advantage of their own energy in fancy Mercedes
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: or Cadillacs. Here, you go right over the border to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: New York, and they're driving 25-year-old beat-up pickup trucks because
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: we're paying Pennsylvania when we've got it right here in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: New York. Now, maybe I'm wrong. I thought I watched
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: every second very, very closely. I did not hear at
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: any point her make an argument for her stance or
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: beat your argument. Did you?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: She was blaming Trump. What does Trump have to do
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: with the fact that she approved 48 rate hikes But
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: she takes money out of your utility bill payment every
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: month to put in a slush fund, the green energy scam,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: to invest in science projects like wind turbines in the
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: middle of the ocean or solar farms under snow in
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: upstate New York. And we're not extracting the natural gas
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: that we have over 100 years supply of here in
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: New York state. I mean, it's just bizarre what her
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: energy policy is. And then she says there's not enough
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: energy for data centers. So that's why she banned it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You've created a situation in our state and atmosphere where
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: we are going to have rolling blackouts, we're not going
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: to be able to produce enough energy to support the grid,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: and just do the right thing. We have natural gas
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in abundance. Just let them extract that natural gas like
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: they do in Pennsylvania. We'll reduce our energy bills in half,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: and we will have energy security And we will create
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: prosperity in jobs. That's exactly what I'm going to do
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: when I become governor.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Following Blakeman's Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen made
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: his return to the morning show to speak on the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: fallout that's come in the aftermath of that ICE-involved shooting
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: in the Big Apple a couple of weeks ago.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne just got to know me, but he loves
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: me already. I know he does. Isn't that true, Mark
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Wayne Mullen?
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: This is true.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: You got me laughing. I will say that I got
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: a little bit of humbleness today because I went.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: And rode with our.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: uh, with our, one of our competition combative teams with
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: the national guard this morning.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: There's a bunch of meatheads in there and my head
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: and my neck filled it. Um, I I've definitely felt
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: my age. So while you were working your arms, making
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: yourself look good, I was taking a piece of humble
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: pie down the throat.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you did great. You're being humble. You're, you're,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you're in phenomenal shape. God bless you. You really are.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: But not with a bunch of 20 year olds in
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: the sport.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I'd love to do that though. That sounds like fun.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. So Saturday morning, I send out
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: this tweet and I take you and I tag president
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Trump and I'm going on and on about Oscar Bell. God,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I go, listen, There are people critical of ICE. They're idiots.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: What can I tell you? They're stupid people. But in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the end, whether you're critical of ICE or not, if
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you're the mayor of New York City, Why would you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: want a gang-banging, drug-dealing, convicted felon who's had some violent history?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Why would you want that guy on the streets? You
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: can be critical of ICE all day long. Again, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: think you're stupid. That's one thing. But why would you
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: want to put this animal back on the streets of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: New York? So I tagged you and Trump. You know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Trump texted me in five minutes. I swear to God, Mark.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He texted me. Tom Holman texted me. He saw the tweet.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But that's the truth. What in God's name is wrong
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: with this mayor?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: It's true. But when I was talking to the mayor,
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: the president talked to the mayor Thursday night. I talked
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: to the guy Thursday night. And to be fair, he
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: was cordial, but unrealistic. He wanted us to walk away.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Because what the president wanted to do is he wanted
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: to hand the guy over to the NYPD's finest.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Is that what he says?
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: He says NYPD's finest. And because the guys are on
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: probation for, forget this, I'll give you his record. Four
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: charges of felony robbery, two charges of felony assault, felony larceny,
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor assault, weapons possession, stolen property, and two
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: felony charges for drugs. And by the way, this is
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: since 23, and he's only been in the country since 23.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: So he was on probation for, For three years, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: this is obviously a probation violation that he had because
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: he had already ran from us in September.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: We knew that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: And so now we're detaining him and he weaponized his
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: weapon or his vehicle and tried to assault police officers.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: And she thinks she knows better than everybody else. And
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: she looks down upon people. And that's what I think.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: was the only thing that was lacking from the moderators.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: They didn't press her on that. As a matter of fact,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: they tried to cut me off when I talked about it. Right.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: You did bring it up, both of those issues that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: upstaters are stupid and black kids are stupid. You did
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: bring it up, to your credit. But you're right, they
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: did not move any further with that. Now, look, we
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: all knew, you and I talked about this. I talked
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: about it yesterday with Pataki and Bob Holden and others.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: We knew that she was going to play the trump card. Okay,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we knew it. But I'm sorry I was watching your
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: face and you kept smiling because you couldn't believe it yourself.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody, anybody, Bruce Blakeman could have predicted
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: she would utter Trump as many times as she did. One,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it says she wasn't prepared. She was completely lost. That's one. Two,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: nobody in this world suffers from TDS more than her.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But were you shocked, as I was, how many times
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: she actually said President Trump's name?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: You know, one of my friends said to me after
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: the debate last night, she should be grateful that Trump
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: is president, otherwise she would have had nothing to say
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: last night. So, I mean, Trump, Trump, Trump. Listen, Trump
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: didn't raise our taxes. Trump didn't make our utility bills
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: 70% higher than the national average. Kathy Hochul approved 48
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: rate hikes. And for those of you who live in
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: the city or the suburbs, it was Kathy Hochul that
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: raised your fares 21 times in four years. It wasn't
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump. You can talk about Trump all she wants.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: And as I said in the debate, she talks about
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Trump because she won't be able to defend her record
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: because it's a record of failure and misery.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you did also say, and I got to give
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you some credit for this because you may get yelled
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: out later, that, you know, you have differences with Trump.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You know, you talked about being pro-choice. So am I.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I'm also pro-choice. You talk about other policies that you like,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: including immigrants that have been, you know, migrants that have
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: been good and law-abiding migrants which have an opportunity to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: stay here and not get kicked out. So you mentioned
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a couple of differences you had philosophically with President Trump.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And at one point you even said that you thought
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the best president ever. Are
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you worried that Trump may text you and say, hey, Bruce,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I love you. What was that?
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: No, what I said was his term isn't over. He's
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: got two more years. So the report card, I believe,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: is an A. I give him an A. But his
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: term isn't over. He can do even greater things going forward.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: But Dwight D. Eisenhower's report card is in. And I
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: think by all accounts, he's probably one of the top
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: eight presidents ever. So the question was asked, who is
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: the greatest president in my lifetime? Well, the first president
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: in my lifetime was Dwight D. Eisenhower. And I've said
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: over and over again, you know, that I support President Trump.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I support him. I endorse him. I worked hard for him.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: But again, this race is not about Donald Trump. This
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: is about Kathy Hochul and her record. And it's about
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: my record of cutting taxes making a more prosperous county
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: and having the safest county in America. I'll put my
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: record next to Kathy Hochul's, compare the two, and any
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: fair-minded person that compared my record with her record is
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: going to vote for me.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So Mark Wayne Mullen's going to join me in about
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: 30 minutes, Bruce, and he's been railing at Mamdani that
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Mamdani's going on and on about this Oscar Bellagal creep.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You know, he's like a George Floyd type of guy,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: same creep, you know. And that's all she wanted to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: talk about last night. You did a great job pointing out.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. I had two ladies in my community,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: two different homes. Their throats were slashed. They were murdered.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: You brought up Sheridan Gorman. The lovely young lady, Mike
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Lawler's neighborhood, shot to death in Chicago. Nothing. Richard Williams,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Vietnam vet. He survived cancer. He survived World War II,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: excuse me. And he was thrown to his death on
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the subway tracks. You put up all these great examples, Bruce,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of beautiful Americans that were cut down. Lives cut short
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: by illegal aliens. And she's out there, her mom, Donnie,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and others trying to protect Oscar Belgal. She don't want
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to hear it. All she wanted to talk about was
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the five-year-old that, by the way, was unharmed in the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: backseat of the car. I thought you killed her on
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that policy last night.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Well, what about the 14-year-old girl who was raped by
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: a legal migrant? Sid, that girl's life is changed forever.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: And Kathy Hochul couldn't even apologize to that girl or
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: her family. She hasn't returned Sheridan Gorman's calls. She never
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: said anything about the two women who were murdered by
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: an illegal migrant in my county on the same day.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: You know, I just have to wonder, why is she
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: protecting these criminals? What is the basis of her wanting
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: illegal migrants in our communities? And I think the answer
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: is you just have to see the position of her
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: lieutenant governor candidate, Adrienne Adams, who says illegal migrants should
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: be able to vote in our elections. So let's bring
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: as many illegal migrants in because they know that at
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: some point, Democrats are going to wake up, independent voters
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: are going to wake up, and Republicans are going to
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: get out to vote And they're going to change fundamentally
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: the politics of this state because the left wing of
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party, the socialist wing, is out of control.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: It's being controlled by people who hate America and hate
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: our values.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You know, you also did a terrific job, Bruce Blakeman,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: with the energy argument. You said, hey, look, in Pennsylvania, Democrats,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro, right? They're driving around by the border because
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: they take advantage of their own energy in fancy Mercedes
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: or Cadillacs. Here, you go right over the border to
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: New York, and they're driving 25-year-old beat-up pickup trucks because
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: we're paying Pennsylvania when we've got it right here in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: New York. Now, maybe I'm wrong. I thought I watched
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: every second very, very closely. I did not hear at
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: any point her make an argument for her stance or
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: beat your argument. Did you?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: She was blaming Trump. What does Trump have to do
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: with the fact that she approved 48 rate hikes that
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: she takes money out of your utility bill payment every
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: month to put in a slush fund, the green energy scam,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: to invest in science projects like wind turbines in the
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: middle of the ocean or solar farms under snow in
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: upstate New York. And we're not extracting the natural gas
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: that we have over 100 years supply of here in
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: New York State. I mean, it's just bizarre what her
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: energy policy is. And then she says there's not enough
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: energy for data centers. So that's why she banned it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: You've created a situation in our state, in atmosphere, where
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: we are going to have rolling blackouts. We're not going
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: to be able to produce enough energy to support the grid.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: And just do the right thing. We have natural gas
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: in abundance. Just let them extract that natural gas like
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: they do in Pennsylvania. We'll reduce our energy bills in half,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: and we will have energy security. And we will create
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: prosperity in jobs. That's exactly what I'm going to do
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: when I become governor.
• 31:38
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• 32:43
  Speaker 7: This is Sittin' Friends in the Morning. Week in Review.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Following Blakeman's Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen made
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: his return to the morning show to speak on the
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: fallout that's come in the aftermath of that ICE-involved shooting
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: in the Big Apple a couple of weeks ago.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne just got to know me, but he loves
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: me already. I know he does. Isn't that true, Mark
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Wayne Mullen?
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: This is true. You got me laughing. I will say that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: I will say those that I got a little bit
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: of humbleness today because I went and rolled with our, uh, uh,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: with our, one of our competition combative teams with the
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: national guard this morning. There was a bunch of meatheads
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: in there and my head and my neck filled it. Um,
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I've definitely felt my age. So while you were working
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: your arms, making yourself look good, I was taking a
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: piece of humble pie down the throat.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you did great. You're being humble. You're in
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: phenomenal shape. God bless you. You really are.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but not with a bunch of 20-year-olds in the sport.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I'd love to do that, though. That sounds like fun.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I got to be honest. So Saturday morning, I send
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: out this tweet, and I tag you, and I tag
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: President Trump, and I'm going on and on about Oscar Belgal.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I go, listen, There are people critical of ICE. How
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: could I tell you? They're stupid people. But in the end,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: whether you're critical of ICE or not, if you're the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: mayor of New York City, Why would you want a gang-banging, drug-dealing,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: convicted felon who's had some violent history? Why would you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: want that guy on the streets? You can be critical
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: of ICE all day long. Again, I think you're stupid.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: That's one thing. But why would you want to put
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: this animal back on the streets of New York? So
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I tagged you and Trump. You know, Trump texted me
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in five minutes. I swear to God, Mark. He texted me.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Tom Holman texted me. He saw the tweet. But that's
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the truth. What in God's name is wrong with this mayor?
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: It's true. But when I was talking to the mayor,
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: the president talked to the mayor Thursday night. I talked
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: to the guy Thursday night. And to be fair, he
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: was cordial but unrealistic. He wanted us to walk away.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Because what the president wanted to do is he wanted
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: to hand the guy over to the NYPD's finest. Is
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: that what he says? He says NYPD's finest. And because
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: the guys are on probation for– forget this. I'll give
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: you his record. Four charges of felony robbery, two charges
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: of felony assault, felony larceny, misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor assault, weapons possession,
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: stolen property, and two felony charges for drugs. And by
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: the way, this is since 23, and he's only been
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: in the country since 23.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: So he was on probation– For three years, and this
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: is obviously a probation violation that he had because he
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: had already ran for office in September. We knew that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: And so now we're detaining him and he weaponized his
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: vehicle and tried to assault police officers and rammed a
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: couple of federal vehicles. So we were saying, listen, we'll
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: turn him over to, and this is President Trump. President
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: Trump told the mayor this and he asked me to
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: see if I could negotiate it. And I said, well, okay, Mayor,
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: we'll turn him over to you, but you have to
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: keep him in custody while the investigation is going. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: once the investigation goes, then we get him back and
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: we put press federal charges. And he said, no, he
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: wants us to walk, quote, walk out of the hospital
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: and leave him. So you're wanting us to return this thug,
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: this dangerous criminal, back to the streets. And he says,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid for your safety, for your ICE agent's safety,
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: there's going to be mass chaos when you try to
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: leave the hospital with him. And I was like, sir,
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: we'll take care of ourselves. We can flex with HSI.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: If you're telling me that you're not going to allow
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: NYPD to get us to our vehicles, we will get
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: to our vehicles. I promise you that won't be a problem.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: I'm not afraid for our safety, but I appreciate your
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: gesture there. And so I called the president back and
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: I said, president, he's wanting us to release the prisoner altogether.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: and NYPD is not going to take him. They're going
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: to release him immediately back on bail again, which he's
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: already on probation for. Breyer's like, absolutely not. And then
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: when the mayor went and did the podium charade and
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: tried to do the press conference and just was throwing
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: ice underneath the bus and throwing everybody under the bus,
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I was sitting there listening to this, and I was going, wait,
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: where was this a week ago? Now it's been a little,
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: it's been over a week. When the NYPD officer, by
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: the way, in the Bronx, so the same area, was
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: stabbed seven times by also two individuals from the Dominican
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: Republic who was also here illegally, who also have extensive
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: long criminal backgrounds, who was also released and put on
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: probation back on the streets. And we also had a
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: detainer on. And the New York City wouldn't authorize it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Where was all this outcry at that time?
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: It didn't exist. I mean, if you think that the
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: public would be upset, they would be upset at criminals
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: walking their streets and attacking NYPD's finest, yet you didn't
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: see it. And you definitely didn't see the mayor or
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: the governor coming out in support of the officers.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And I don't care that he was
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: cordial to you. He's a devil. OK, he's a very,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: very bad man. He's a devil.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Hey, listen, the devil can be very sweet and nice. Remember,
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: the devil can show up in all types of different entities.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: So you can see you can see right through it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: I just didn't want to say the guy was hateful.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Fair words.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: No, of course.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: But that doesn't mean and logically in him. And I
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: told him this. I said, listen, we just adamantly disagree
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: on what law enforcement looks like. And and we spoke
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: multiple times over a two hour period. And the president
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: honestly was trying to work with him too. But here's
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: a bigger number that people need to understand. In the
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: state of New York, as you and I speak, we
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: have 16,070 detainers, 16,070 detainers on individuals that are illegally
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: in this country that are currently arrested and charged or
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: either have already picked up felony charges. and they are
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: serving their time in New York State penitentiaries. And none
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: of them have been honored. It represents 52,503 criminal charges.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: And yet they will not, and these are all illegals.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: This means there are 16,770 people that the taxpayers in
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: New York City is paying to house that we could
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: ship out right now and ship them to another country
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: where they came from because they have no right to
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: be in this country. And they are criminals. I'm talking
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: about murderers, child molesters, drug traffickers, gangbangers, the worst of
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: the worst. And New York State and New York City
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: won't turn them over to us.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Tom Holman comes here a lot. He's so frustrated. And look,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I put this in the tweet, too. Belgao gets shot.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: He doesn't die, okay? The five-year-old in the back of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the car, he's okay, thank God. We've had a couple
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: of incidents. Pretty was killed, but pretty to never have
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: been there in the first place. Same thing with good.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: You can count on less than two hands. Less than
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: two hands. The incidents where people ended up injured or dead.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: And in none of those cases, none of those cases
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: were those people dragged from church, dragged from school, dragged
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: from their homes. They were out there causing trouble. In
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the meantime, you just talked about it. There are thousands
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands of examples of murderers, rapists, pedophiles,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: drug dealers that were removed from our country because of
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: your heroic work. I mean, the numbers aren't even close.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Why isn't this an easy argument for us?
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: We have 250. I think it's 58, but I'm using that.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: I don't see the number in front of me, but
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: I think it's 258, but it's over 250 people. illegal
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: aliens right now in detention that have murder charges on them.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: That's in the state of New York, by the way.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: That's in the state of New York. Not one single
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: time has the mayor came out or the governor come
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: out and said, hey, thanks for getting these people off
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: our streets. Because guess what? Who didn't get them off
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: the streets was New York.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: We did it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: It's not that the law enforcement doesn't want to. From
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: state to city and county, they want to do their job.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: They just arrest these individuals and they're released immediately, and
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: we have to go by and pick them up. If
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: they don't want to see us having this type of
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: activity on their streets, then they should cooperate with us.
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: And one thing we should all agree on is these
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: individuals that have been convicted of crimes, and that have
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: committed crimes that are here in this country legally, there
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: should be no argument that they should not be released
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: back into our streets because they're illegal to begin with.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: It is absolutely absurd. And then let's talk about the
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: five-year-old that the mayor and the governor and everybody wants
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: to talk about. Listen, we had no idea the five-year-old
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: was in the vehicle. But as a father of six kids,
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: I would do anything to protect my children. I would
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: never put my children in harm's way. But who did
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: know who was in that, the five-year-old was in that
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: vehicle was Oscar. And Oscar was clearly given clear instructions
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: and we identified ourselves to exit the vehicle. He knew
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: we were looking for him because he had just ran
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: a month before. And he chose to accelerate. He chose
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: to put his self and his five-year-old son, at least
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: they say it's his son.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: In danger.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: That tells you enough about how selfish of an individual
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: Oscar was because you and I and any other dad
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: or mother would have never put our kids in that position.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, God, no. I'm a tough guy. I would have
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: started to cry and walked outside the car. I would
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: have been like this.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: I would have immediately started saying, hey, my kids are
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: in the car.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: My kids are in the car.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Right, don't do anything. Right, you got me.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: This is Sitting Friends in the Morning.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Week in Review.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Finally, Vincent Vallelong, president of the Surgeons Benevolent Association, joined
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Sid to explain why morale among his NYPD sergeants is
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: plummeting under the leadership, or lack thereof, of New York
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: He's the SBA president, the sergeants, and that is the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: great Vincent Vallelong. Vinny, good morning, buddy. How are you?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: You tell me. How are you?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I mean, you know, listen, I've got a
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: charmed life. I've got a beautiful wife and great healthy children.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the Hall of Fame and I got
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: a good job. Hopefully still have a new contract, hopefully.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Yeah, but I'm pissed because I hate the mayor.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I hate the governor. I hate the way they treat
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you guys, cops specifically, and I know you feel the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: same way.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: You do. That's the bottom line. I remember when Mamdani started, Vin,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: and you were a little more careful with your words.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: You're like, hey, listen, I got to give the guy
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a chance. I do have some sergeants that actually... like them.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: So I got to be more careful. But it seems
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to me, Vincent, that the longer this guy stays in
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: office and the more times you're on this radio program
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: that you personally have lost your patience.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Ten months in and you can't have it both ways.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: You can't take credit for the drop in crime every
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: month when you sit with the PC and then scapegoat
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: the men and women of this department who risk their
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: lives every single day upholding the law. So you can't
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: tell me that you side with one part of this city,
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: the DSA, who bring nothing to the table and want
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: nothing but destruction, and they want to destroy our way
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: of life. They want to destroy the way our kids
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: grow up. And at the same time, we're keeping things
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: safe in the city regardless of the way that they
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: try and change the laws. And you know what? I'm
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: sick and tired of this nonsense. I'm sick and tired
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: of the parties. I don't care if you're a Republican
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: or a Democrat. If you're not doing what's right by
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: our families and by the citizens of New York, you
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: can go take a– for me to try and catch
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: my words.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you almost cursed. I love it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: You can go take a hike, all right? I'm sick
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: and tired of this nonsense. This guy has done nothing
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: for this city 10 months in.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Not only has he done nothing, but don't forget, when
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: he got his budget passed– and he had to borrow
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: like $ 8 billion from the governor, that moron, to do it,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and he was still taking a victory tour like he
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: did something great. At the very last hour, after midnight,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: giving the city council basically no chance to do anything
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: about it, he decided not to add about 600 cops
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: that he promised to add the day before. You know that, right?
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but 600 cops are dropping the bucket, okay? Because
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: they're going to say they added 600 cops, and then
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: you're going to lose 700 cops to retirement. So you can't, again,
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: you can't have it both ways.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: And when Albany.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: gives him this money, they know what his agenda is.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: So they're just as responsible as what, you know, for
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: everything that he presents to the city.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: And, you know, and when people, when people are complicit
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: over this stuff, you know, what happens? We all suffer
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: from it, not them, because they're still fundraising. True.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: So as a union president, the mayor did come out
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago and and he's getting a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: lot of pressure, I guess. Tensions are high at City
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Hall because a lot of those creeps in and around him,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and he's the biggest creep of all, of course, but
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: They want him to fire Jessica Tisch, and he says,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I won't do it. And look, he may be a
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: bad guy. He is a bad guy, but he's not stupid, okay?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: And the truth is, yes, he does boast about those
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: crime numbers because Jessica Tisch does a good job. I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: think you'd agree. And secondly, she's a Jew, okay? He's
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: got enough to worry about with everybody calling him an
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: anti-Semite from me every day to Bruce Blankman. He doesn't
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: need more of that. But I don't think he loves her.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think he really cares about her. She, you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: she serves a purpose for him. And so she sticks around.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: You're not upset with Jessica Tisch, are you? Absolutely not.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: You know I'm not.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: You think she's great at her job, right?
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm telling you that I work with her. So,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't care what anybody else says. You know,
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: my job is to make sure that my men and
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: women are taken care of. And she has done everything
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: she possibly can to make sure that that's the job
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: that she does. And you know what? What he does,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: he's a politician. And he's done nothing. I don't understand
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: how people don't realize that, you know, from day one,
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: 10 months in, he should have totally corrected the city.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: He's letting these politicians stand in front of demonstrations and
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: then blame the cops later on because an individual fell
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: to the floor during a demonstration. Well, you know what?
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: If you're running for office, you shouldn't be in those situations.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't be that person that's sitting there and yelling
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: at the cops and screaming at the cops when you
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: want to represent those cops.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: So this is SBA President Vincent Vallelong. So we've been
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: talking for days about Oscar. I forgot his last name already.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: He's a lowlife.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: Who cares?
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Right, right. And instead of the mayor coming out and saying, listen,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want this guy on the streets. Look, you
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: want to be critical of ICE because you're stupid? Go ahead.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Go for it, okay? Even though we know you can
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: count on two hands, two hands, two hands, the amount
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of incidents that occurred with people that tried to confront
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: or resist ICE compared to the thousands and thousands and
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: thousands of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, pedophiles that they've taken
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: off the streets. The numbers aren't even close.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: You might not like my opinion on this, not you,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: meaning the general public, but ICE itself is doing a job.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: They're trying to protect the people within the community. And
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: our politicians are keeping them from doing their job, and
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: they're demonizing them. ICE is not the demon here. You
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: can easily have them show up in the court, show
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: up in corrections, pick the people up.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Guess what?
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: There's never an incident. There's no gunfire. There's no little
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: kid in the backseat. You know, that kid in the backseat,
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: I didn't know he was there. The father did. And
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: I can tell you this, and I know you that
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: you feel the same way. I would never, ever put
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: my kids in that same situation.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Because the father knew they were looking for him. They knew.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: So what did he do? He's the one. He's not
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a parent.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: He put that kid's life in danger because he thought, oh,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: maybe they won't mess with me because my kid's in
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the backseat. That's on the father. And then for the mayor.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I had Mark Wayne Mullen on the show yesterday. I
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: hope you heard it. Mr. DHS secretary for the mayor
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to spend two hours going back and forth on phone
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: calls with Mark Wayne Mullen and President Trump to release
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: this guy who's got a rap sheet that's long, long, long.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: What kind of mayor wants an animal like that back
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: on our streets?
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing how he takes forever to actually promote
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: the cops when they do a good job, when there's bombings? Apparently,
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: there could be bombings up by Gracie Mansion. It takes days.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: But then if it's a perp, immediately he gets up
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: there and talks about it and says, oh, this shouldn't
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: be done because ICE is doing this and they're not
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: doing a good job. They're putting everybody's life in danger.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: That's not true. You know, he picks and chooses what
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: he wants to say and when he says it to
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: appease his base.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: That's it. Totally does.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: And the DSA, they're not the friends of New York City.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: They're not the friends of the United States of America.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: And people need to wake up and realize this.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Well, just to emphasize what you just talked about, okay,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: talking about the cops. He had an opportunity two weeks ago.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: And we all saw this guy speak publicly for the
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: first time yesterday. And thank God he's alive. Because two illegals.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I love that word. I know it pisses off the Democrats.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Don't dehumanize him. Two illegals stabbed Jose Mercedes eight times.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: He survived. Not one word from Namdani. He goes on
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and on about Oscar Belgal, who's a gang-banging lifelong criminal,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: on and on. Not a word about Jose Mercedes.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: Sid, justice reform, right? He's looking now to review our
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: use of force. So where's your call for justice reform
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: when a career criminal stalked an off-duty detective in broad daylight?
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: There's no word on that, is there? No, there's not.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, when you talk about justice reform, when you
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: talk about the use of force and you're going to
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: review it, maybe we should change the wording to response
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: to resisting. Because that's what we do. We respond to resistance.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: When you go out there and you commit a crime,
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: you should be locked up. We have politicians in Target
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: that are sitting there in the middle of the store
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: screaming and yelling. And I'm not going to say who
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: the politician is. I think everybody knows at this point.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: We're going after big business that feeds our community. And
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: you're in the middle of a store screaming and yelling
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: because they had ice set up in a parking lot.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: They didn't know they were setting up there. But you're
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: going to demonize the– now the businesses that pretty much
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: hire the people in the community. This is really– this
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: is absurd. This is like Bizarro World, to be honest
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: It is.