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Opening Segment 10/12/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sliwa. Menti. Morning starts here. Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti
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  Speaker 1: in the morning on 710WOR. Well, Glory Halioski, hallelujah. I
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  Speaker 1: need to give a shout out to Dr. Gil Lederman. Larry, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: I had no voice on Saturday and Sunday, so there
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  Speaker 1: was peace in the Sliwa household. Nancy loved it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And the cats loved it. But I had to get
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  Speaker 1: that voice back to be here, same time, same place
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  Speaker 1: as we are every Monday through Friday. You wake up
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  Speaker 1: with Curtis and Larry until it's time to hand off
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  Speaker 1: the microphone to Mark Simone and I. So I had
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  Speaker 1: to get my special medication.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Lederman came through. So props, great synergy. Try doing that
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday. And we're going to try to get
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  Speaker 1: him on. Is he coming up? Natalie? Natalie? Yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to get him coming up because the Pope,
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  Speaker 1: they've determined he has a nodule on his lung, the
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  Speaker 1: American Pope, and he's going to be going under the knife.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody knows more about those kind of situations than Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman. Yeah, we're going to have him on at 6.50,
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  Speaker 1: so not far away. So he came to my aid
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  Speaker 1: and he'll give us all the information we need to know.
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  Speaker 1: But today is the big Columbus Day Parade up Fifth Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: Now there are the many, many parades in the tri-state area.
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  Speaker 1: It took place over this weekend. Almost everywhere where there's
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  Speaker 1: an Italian-American community, they had a Christopher Columbus parade. But
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  Speaker 1: the mayor decided he wasn't going to attend any of
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  Speaker 1: the parades. The one that took place in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: he lived in for a while, Astoria, small parade. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a statue there right before you hit the air.
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  Speaker 1: Triborough Bridge off the Grand Central Parkway. Back in 2020,
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  Speaker 1: he took a photo in front of when he was
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  Speaker 1: living there with his finger. He was giving the finger
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  Speaker 1: to Christopher Columbus. I saw it.
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  Speaker 2: And he wanted to get rid of that day. So
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  Speaker 2: he's not a real fan of Christopher Columbus. And apparently
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  Speaker 2: he's not a fan of the Italian-American community in New York.
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  Speaker 1: No, they didn't vote for him. You know how he
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  Speaker 1: wagers things. You voted for me or there's some support
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  Speaker 1: for me, I go to your parade. You didn't vote
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  Speaker 1: for me, I'm not going to your parade. But this one...
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  Speaker 1: in particular is he was in favor of pulling that
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  Speaker 1: statue down. Remember the summer of George Floyd, they were
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  Speaker 1: pulling Christopher Columbus statues down everywhere. They beheaded the one
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  Speaker 1: in Camden. They took down the one in Trent. They
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  Speaker 1: put it in a box. Remember in South Philadelphia, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they headed it like a box where you couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: get into it. Yeah. It's back. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there were other statues that were being taken down
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  Speaker 1: and put into storage, but New York city, in addition
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  Speaker 1: to the big one in Columbus Circle, has one in
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn outside the state Supreme Court building, the one in Astoria. Imagine,
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  Speaker 1: Staten Italy, right? The most Italian of worlds. They don't
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  Speaker 1: even have a statue that Christopher Columbus never had.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't he get rid of Little Italy, too? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he really has something against Italian-Americans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, oh, we forgot to put it on
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  Speaker 1: our ethnic map. Little Italy. Look, he just... He don't
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  Speaker 1: get along with Italians and Italians don't get along with him.
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  Speaker 2: Did we promise he was going to be the mayor
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  Speaker 2: for all people at his big speech? He was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the mayor for everybody. It didn't matter if
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  Speaker 2: you voted for me or not. Doesn't seem like he's
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  Speaker 2: been ruling that way.
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  Speaker 1: No. But if you remember that first debate, the NBC
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  Speaker 1: debate with Cuomo, me and Mondami towards the end. Me
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  Speaker 1: and Mondami got into it because I said all parades matter.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that's the lead column in today's New York
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  Speaker 1: Times describing how he's not going to any of the
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  Speaker 1: parades nor festivities is that all parades matter. When you're
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  Speaker 1: the mayor, you go even if you're going to get booed.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect example. Bill de Blasio, who could not hide in
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  Speaker 1: a parade, he was Big Bird. Guy was too tall.
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  Speaker 1: When he first went to the Italian-American parades in his
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  Speaker 1: first four years, they loved him. He spoke Italian, his mother,
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  Speaker 1: he visited Italy. Second four years, he got booed unmercifully
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  Speaker 1: in rightfully so. So all he would do is speedwalk.
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  Speaker 1: He'd speedwalk right through the parade and wave as if,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they were cheering instead of booing. This is
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  Speaker 1: what you do as a mayor.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of mayors across the country. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of mayors do exactly that, but they don't not go there.
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  Speaker 2: What a little wuss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, he doesn't want to go. Instead, he did
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  Speaker 1: a video praising Fiorello LaGuardia, Vito Marcantonio. He was a
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  Speaker 1: socialist congressman from East Harlem for many years. But that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fit the bill. You should go to every parade.
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  Speaker 1: You should go to every festival you can because that's
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  Speaker 1: what New York City is all about. Whether the people
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  Speaker 1: like you or they don't like you, you're the mayor. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Rizzo, by the way, in Philadelphia was loved at
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  Speaker 2: the Columbus Day Parade, as you can imagine. But he
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  Speaker 2: was loved at all the parades because the same people
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  Speaker 2: that went to Columbus Day Parade showed up at the
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  Speaker 2: other parades to make sure that everybody was cheering him.
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  Speaker 2: They were in the crowd actually putting the arm on
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  Speaker 2: people that would dare to boo the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: The only time the mayor did not march in the
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  Speaker 1: parade is he wanted some members of the Sopranos with him, especially,
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  Speaker 1: what was that, Melfi? You know, the female shrink.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Melfi. Yeah, he was hot to trot on her. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this guy. He was always perving on women, Bloomberg. Even
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  Speaker 1: though he had a girlfriend, right? I mean, he insisted
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  Speaker 1: that he march with members of the Sopranos. The Italian-American
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  Speaker 1: coalition that sponsors Bray said, no, no, no, because they
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  Speaker 1: represent the organized crime. So I think he decided to
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  Speaker 1: take a powder, but he was prepared to march.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't march with them because he thought they were
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  Speaker 2: an organized crime? That was the whole reason?
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  Speaker 1: No, no. The committee didn't want members of the Sopranos.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to be holding Melfi. He was so hot
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  Speaker 1: to trot, as a lot of our listeners were when
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  Speaker 1: they would watch the Sopranos. Remember the female shrink to Tony?
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  Speaker 1: That's the only time I think that happened. Did every
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  Speaker 1: other mayor march? I believe so, unless there was something
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  Speaker 1: that they were out of town or out of the country.
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  Speaker 1: I will give credit to a person I never give
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  Speaker 1: credit to. Hold on to your hat. Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: He not only preserved the parades, he preserved the statues.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the summer of 2020, George Floyd, if they weren't
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  Speaker 1: attacking and desecrating the statues, they were taking the statues
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  Speaker 1: down and putting them into storage. He protected all the
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  Speaker 1: statues with state troopers. He said, look, this is to
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  Speaker 1: preserve Italian-American traditions. And when his fellow Supreme Cuisine, de Blasio,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't allow a statue to be put up to Mother
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  Speaker 1: Cabrini because she was pro-life, he took it over for
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  Speaker 1: the state, put up the Mother Cabrini statue. It's right
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  Speaker 1: down there, the Holocaust Museum, which is in the lower
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  Speaker 1: end of Manhattan before you catch the Staten Island Ferry.
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  Speaker 1: So I give props to Cuomo. because he said that
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  Speaker 1: statue represents the work of the Italian-American peoples. And he
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  Speaker 1: did not vacillate. He did not hesitate. He did not blink.
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  Speaker 1: He did not buck. He did not bow. He defended
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  Speaker 1: the tradition of the parade and, most importantly, the many statues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole thing about going back in history and
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  Speaker 2: rating people or deciding on the character of people by
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  Speaker 2: today's standards is ridiculous. is absolutely ridiculous. There's nobody that's pure.
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  Speaker 2: When you go back just a couple hundred years, there's
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  Speaker 2: nobody that's pure. None of our founding fathers are pure.
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  Speaker 2: Not one of them is pure. And certainly the people
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  Speaker 2: that came from Europe back in the 1600s, not one
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  Speaker 2: of them is pure either. So you just can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to, if you want to really besmirch somebody,
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  Speaker 2: then go ahead and hold them to our standards, because
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  Speaker 2: our standards are completely new, and some of them are
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  Speaker 2: kind of outlandish. But That's what's happening, and it's silly.
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  Speaker 2: You just can't do it. You cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, I will not besmirch Columbus. I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that I've said that has gotten
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  Speaker 1: me into tremendous controversy with not only our listeners but
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  Speaker 1: people in general. I said there were four ships, the Nina,
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  Speaker 1: the Pinta, the Santa, and the Maria. The Maria was
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  Speaker 1: sort of like when you have a train, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have a caboose at the end, and people have said,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. The other thing
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  Speaker 1: that I've discussed is how there is this theory that
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  Speaker 1: this young man, Columbus, when he was born in Genoa,
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  Speaker 1: before he went sailing up to England and Ireland, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of young men started to sail at an
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  Speaker 1: early age, was actually born Jewish. Oh, my. Oh, that
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  Speaker 1: starts such a controversy. But the biggest controversy is people
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  Speaker 1: don't know how the day came about. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: you just say to them, how did the Columbus Day
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  Speaker 1: event come about? What in history? precipitated that. It was
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  Speaker 1: a very dark day for Italians. In fact, those who
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  Speaker 1: are knowledgeable talk about the largest mass lynching in the
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  Speaker 1: history of America. Now, obviously, more African Americans were lynched
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  Speaker 1: than all others combined. But on this one day, 11
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  Speaker 1: Italians were taken out of jail after most had been acquitted.
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  Speaker 1: They were accused of killing the police chief in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: And the crowd, which was made of some very esteemed people,
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  Speaker 1: dragged them out, shot them, and then hung them right
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  Speaker 1: in the square where the cathedral is now before you
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  Speaker 1: hit the levee. It was a horrid day. And yet
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people justified it. To give you an idea,
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  Speaker 1: at that time, Teddy Roosevelt was representing the United States
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  Speaker 1: with foreign consulates. He was having dinner with the Italian consulate.
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  Speaker 1: They said, hey, what is America going to do about this?
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  Speaker 1: And Teddy Roosevelt said, the only problem I have with
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  Speaker 1: this gentleman, I'm going to be very direct with you,
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  Speaker 1: is they didn't hang more. And then Italy wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go to war. People don't realize that. They pulled their ambassadors.
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  Speaker 1: They closed their cons. over there. They were threatening war.
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  Speaker 1: And it was President Benjamin Harrison who decided to cast
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  Speaker 1: a day for Christopher Columbus to try to assuage everybody
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  Speaker 1: and say it is to honor the work of the
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  Speaker 1: Italian-American people. But these were the headlines when the 11 Italians,
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  Speaker 1: most were Sicilian, were hung. The Dagos did it. Teach
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  Speaker 1: these people a lesson they will not forget. We need
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of all these Italians. They're vicious. They're idle, worthless, filthy.
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  Speaker 1: They spread disease. I'll give you an idea that Italians
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  Speaker 1: were not welcome in a lot of parts of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. I say they were the equivalent Southern Italians
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  Speaker 1: and Sicilians of the way Mexicans are now. They'll do
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  Speaker 1: any work. A lot of them had, they couldn't read,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't write like my grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino. But you
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  Speaker 1: give them a shovel, ditch digger, like I said, today
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  Speaker 1: is the anniversary of when the Holland Tunnel was first
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  Speaker 1: being dug. It took them about 10 years. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people died. Most of the workers were Italian-Americans like
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of those construction sites. And even Joe DiMaggio,
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  Speaker 1: to give you an idea, Joe DiMaggio, 1942, you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get more popular than Joe DiMaggio. His dad, who had
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  Speaker 1: been here 40 years, was considered an enemy alien. They
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  Speaker 1: took his fishing boat away from him in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: and he had to report because, remember, we were at
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  Speaker 1: war with Benito Mussolini in addition to Adolf Hitler and
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  Speaker 1: the Nazi regime.
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