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Scott LoBaido | Artist & Activist Has Dedicated His Life & Career to Remembering 9/11 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: There's one guy we have to talk to this week because,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean this, I'm not patronizing him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need anybody, okay? I'm a pretty big star.
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  Speaker 1: But this guy, to me, epitomizes the red, white, and blue.
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  Speaker 1: And he's so passionate that he suffered a heart attack
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  Speaker 1: going after the mayor about a month ago. And he's beloved, man.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's got millions of followers and everybody loves him.
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  Speaker 1: He's been trying for years to get a big, big
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  Speaker 1: flag down there by the Freedom Tower, that sacred ground
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  Speaker 1: zero site. He's an amazing artist. I've got about four
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  Speaker 1: of his paintings in my house right now. He's a
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  Speaker 1: great activist. He's a great friend and just a great American.
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  Speaker 1: Back on Sid and Friends in the morning, my good buddy,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Lobato. Scotty, good morning, pal. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Sid. How are you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 2: The question is, how are you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Just taking it slow,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm out there. I was out there yesterday. I
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  Speaker 3: was out there Last week at Ground Zero with my message,
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  Speaker 3: just trying to add my security detail with me to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that they kept me quiet so my ticket
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't go off. So I'm coming along great. I'm coming
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  Speaker 3: along great. You know, I'd like to say something on
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  Speaker 3: this day, which we're approaching 9-11. America deserved 9-11. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine I really meant that. How exiled I would be
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  Speaker 3: thrown off of this Staten Island in a heartbeat. I'd
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  Speaker 3: be on my way off over the bridge right now
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  Speaker 3: being escorted out of here. And all I've done for
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  Speaker 3: this 9-11 community in this country with my, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with my activism and patriotic artwork and raising money and
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  Speaker 3: all this and awareness. Imagine I actually said those words.
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  Speaker 3: What would happen to me? But here we are. The
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  Speaker 3: man who is best friends. I mean, you people are
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  Speaker 3: sick of hearing this with Hassan Piker. Everybody's sick of
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  Speaker 3: hearing it, which really makes me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And you.
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  Speaker 3: I know how crazy it makes you. And this guy's
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  Speaker 3: going to sit there on 9-11 at Ground Zero with
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  Speaker 3: that smile that you only see on guests on Sesame Street.
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  Speaker 3: That fake smile. You know, and he's going to sit
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  Speaker 3: there and humiliate these family members, and they are going
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  Speaker 3: to allow it. That'll top it off. I just found
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  Speaker 3: out that he's coming to Staten Island.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to ask you about this. You got
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  Speaker 2: the postcard memorial dinner on Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look.
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  Speaker 1: I've been loud about this, okay? I endorse Frank Marano.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't regret that even a little. He's a
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  Speaker 1: great city council member.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 1: And I endorsed him over Griffin Pacella. Not because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like Griffin. Griffin's a wonderful kid. And I was
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  Speaker 1: friends with his father. But anybody that endorsed Frank Morano,
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  Speaker 1: Vito Bocella has basically decided, I'm never going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you again. He hasn't returned any of my texts,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't talk to me anymore, and I love the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But am I to believe that Vito invited Mamdani to
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island on Friday night?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if there was a problem with
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  Speaker 3: this conversation. I almost cursed with this guy, is that
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  Speaker 3: he is pushing himself into every nook and cranny of
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  Speaker 3: this 9-11 ceremony. I mean, look what he did yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I was, you know, announcing about the 200,000 pages with this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody knew the ground was bad. Everybody knew
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  Speaker 3: the air was bad. I know a lot of firemen.
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  Speaker 3: Believe me, this is Staten Island. Staten Island lost more
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  Speaker 3: people than any other county in this country. And it's
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  Speaker 3: all firemen, cops, and, you know, you name it. And
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  Speaker 3: to bring that out, And to try to humiliate Giuliani
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  Speaker 3: and other commissioners and so on was the most disgusting
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  Speaker 3: thing he could have done. I agree. This is a
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  Speaker 3: horrible thing. People are dying. But why couldn't he wait
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  Speaker 3: a few days? He's doing everything. He's infiltrating. And what
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  Speaker 3: sickens me is that people are falling for that shit-eating
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  Speaker 3: grin and his fake compassion. This is the problem. This
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  Speaker 3: is the problem with everything in this country. Everybody's afraid.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's walking on eggshells. I don't want to be called
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  Speaker 3: a homophobe. I don't want to be called an Islamophobe.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be called a bigot. It is
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  Speaker 3: the pacification of this nation. I've been saying it for
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  Speaker 3: 30 years. And here's another example of it, dude. This
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  Speaker 3: guy is laughing in our faces. Look what he did
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  Speaker 3: passing that pen. Poor Trish. She had to be right
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  Speaker 3: smack in the middle of that. You know, you sort
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  Speaker 3: of look on her face. when he handed her the
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  Speaker 3: pen to give to that effing terrorist. What more can
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  Speaker 3: I say?
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  Speaker 1: No, he's done it twice this week. You mentioned passing
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  Speaker 1: the pen to the Al-Qaeda attorney and Jessica Tisch being
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  Speaker 1: put in a tough spot. You talked about exposing all
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  Speaker 1: these documents yesterday with that idiot Jon Stewart. Now, like
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  Speaker 1: you were about to say, I'm sorry to cut you off,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to show up Friday at that sacred site
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  Speaker 1: for 9-11, and there's nothing... Scott Lobato, Sid Rosenberg, or
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  Speaker 1: anybody can do about it, and he smiles the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the show that Ashton Kutcher did years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Lobato. It was called Punk'd, and really, Mamdani spends
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  Speaker 1: his days and nights punking New Yorkers, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them... are so stupid, or they hate our city,
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  Speaker 1: or they hate our country, or they hate our president
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  Speaker 1: so much that they're.
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  Speaker 2: Okay with it. What in the name of God, Scott Lobato,
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  Speaker 2: is going on?
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired of hearing this never forget bullshit. Never forget,
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  Speaker 3: never forget. It's bull. How it's 25 years later, everybody,
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  Speaker 3: more offensive, well, Scott, you shouldn't be, you know, let
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  Speaker 3: the families have their say. You know, this is, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But yet this guy, radical Islam, destroyed that building. They
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  Speaker 3: made the air bad in that area. But people are
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  Speaker 3: effing wussies that they can't even acknowledge that. We deserve
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  Speaker 3: what we get. We deserve this piece of garbage. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God. How much more absurd can we be? You know,
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  Speaker 3: if he shows up at Ground Zero this Friday... We lose.
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  Speaker 3: This is a major lose. I'm telling you, in four years,
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  Speaker 3: that museum, they're going to be washing their feet in
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  Speaker 3: those footprints. and that the CEO of the 9-11 Memorial,
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  Speaker 3: who rakes in $ 900, 000 a year when that museum is
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  Speaker 3: in the red, and she would say knew all along
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  Speaker 3: that they were ghost-lit-ness about this giant flag that should
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  Speaker 3: have been put up there by this year. No, but
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  Speaker 3: they could light up the building green on Muslim Day,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't... I love everybody. You know me, Sid.
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  Speaker 3: I know you don't, but there are good Muslims, there's
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  Speaker 3: bad Muslims, but the good Muslims ain't getting anywhere because
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  Speaker 3: they're sitting on the sidelines. They're not saying a damn word.
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  Speaker 3: And this is not offensive for him to show up
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  Speaker 3: with that shit-eating grin to those families, and this CEO,
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  Speaker 3: Elizabeth Hillman, is letting that happen. But yet we can't
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  Speaker 3: put a flag up because it might offend somebody from
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  Speaker 3: another country. But this guy showing up is not offensive.
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  Speaker 3: We lose. He shows up. We lose for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could argue anything you just said, Scott,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right. And we are going to lose because
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  Speaker 1: he is going to show up. It's not if.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be there. He's been adamant about it.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter that Giovanni Galante, who lives on
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island, got over 100,000 signatures.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't matter. They stood up yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Were you there for that, Scott?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was there. We marched in. We walked right in,
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  Speaker 3: handed him the letter, and And obviously he didn't come out.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't have the balls to come out. He sent
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  Speaker 3: some two dweebs that were shaking in their pants, handed
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  Speaker 3: them the letter, you know, and then we left. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's– I don't know, man. You know, it's like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I literally gave my life. I literally died for this
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  Speaker 3: city all these years that I've been fighting for this city.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what? I'm tired of dying for people
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  Speaker 3: who are not effing listening. The hell with you. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Let them be there. Go ahead. You take it. You win.
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  Speaker 3: When you call me because you got some illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 3: marching up your street with their penises out in front
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  Speaker 3: of your little schoolgirl.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go?
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  Speaker 3: Because you know what? I forgot. You forgot.
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  Speaker 1: Scott, I love you to pieces. What will you be
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  Speaker 1: doing on Friday? I'm just curious on that day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I called off going there and, you know, approaching
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  Speaker 3: him and the 9-11 ceremonies because realistically it's not about me.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about us soldiers, the resilience for this communist,
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  Speaker 3: radical Islamic takeover. That day is off, gloves off on
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  Speaker 3: our side. That's why I reached out to him as well.
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  Speaker 3: Take one day for a ceasefire and just don't go there,
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  Speaker 3: man dandy. Don't. Then the next day we can go
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  Speaker 3: back to battle. But just don't do it. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going. I'm telling people not to go. Leave it
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  Speaker 3: for the families. We are going to be at the
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn Courthouse on 45 Monroe Street at 10 o'clock because
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  Speaker 3: a fireman, Tim Revici, is going to be dragged into
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  Speaker 3: court on 9-11 by the city. Think about that. September 11th,
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  Speaker 3: they're dragging this fireman into court because they refused to
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  Speaker 3: give him his back pay, because he refused the jab.
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  Speaker 3: and he lost his job. He got everything back, and
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  Speaker 3: now they... don't want to give him his back pay.
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  Speaker 3: It's disgusting, and he's doing it on purpose, this city,
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  Speaker 3: so the fireman can't show up because it's 9-11. The
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  Speaker 3: media's not going to show up, so I'm going there
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  Speaker 3: with a bunch of people, teacher's choice folks. And we
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  Speaker 3: are going to support this guy. That, to me, is
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  Speaker 3: something powerful to do on 9-11 for a hero.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had Phyllis Insarella on this show a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago. She works with Joanne Areola, my councilwoman,
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  Speaker 1: and she told us about this story.
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  Speaker 2: This was maybe Monday, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So we are aware of Mr. Avicii and what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing to him that day. And I'm glad you're going
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  Speaker 1: to show up for that because that is amazing. a very,
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  Speaker 1: very important day and a very important event, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the right place at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you look great. I see you on Instagram every day, Scott.
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  Speaker 2: You look great. You sound great.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Friday in the end is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a loss for you and me and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us, but not because of effort. So it's a shame, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, listen, you just got to hope and pray
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  Speaker 1: that if enough bad things happen, Maybe these people will
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  Speaker 1: wake up. Even then, there's no guarantee. But you've been
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  Speaker 1: nothing short of amazing this whole time. So thank you
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  Speaker 1: for hopping on this morning, and thank God you're feeling well, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Enjoy yourself down there. I hope that turns out
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  Speaker 3: to be a success because we need to come November.
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  Speaker 3: That's another big loss if that happens, dude. Whoa. So
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  Speaker 3: keep doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You too, buddy. I wish you were here, actually. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see you up on stage here, like you
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  Speaker 1: do at every arena, do that fast paint.
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  Speaker 3: I don't fly, so I'd never get down there in
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  Speaker 3: time to get back here for 9-11. Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, listen, bro, thanks for coming on this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You were great today. Thank you so much, Scotty. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, brother. Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. Scott Lobato right there, the amazing artist
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  Speaker 1: and activist, and he's all.
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  Speaker 2: Fired up, and he's right.
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  Speaker 1: If the mayor, when the mayor keeps, I'm sorry, when
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  Speaker 1: the mayor shows up on Friday... That's a loss for
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  Speaker 1: all New Yorkers.
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