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Sid & Friends In The Morning Bolts to The Rainbow Room for Sid's Induction Into NYSBA HOF · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 2: What's up everybody?
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate my
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  Speaker 4: dear friend Sid Rosenberg on his induction into the Broadcasters
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. They are just solidifying everything that all
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  Speaker 4: his friends and supporters have known all along. Sid Rosenberg
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  Speaker 4: has always been a Hall of Famer. But for me,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just about what he does on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just about fighting the good fight. It's about
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  Speaker 4: the road he's taken. He's had rough times and he's
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  Speaker 4: succeeded thanks to the love and support of his family,
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  Speaker 4: of his friends and his supporters.
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  Speaker 2: Sid, I could not be more proud of you.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you, you are the only person getting inducted
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  Speaker 4: into the Hall of Fame. that has been thrown out
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  Speaker 4: of the State of the Union at the United States
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  Speaker 4: Capitol Building.
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  Speaker 5: From Washington, D.C., congratulations, brother. A hearty Mazel Tov.
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  Speaker 6: We love you. David Donovan.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Sid, look, you deserve it.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry to wake you up in the middle of the
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  Speaker 8: night over in Israel. But the bottom line is, Sid, look,
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  Speaker 8: we recognize as part of the Hall of Fame folks
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  Speaker 8: who have done A terrific job, not only in the career,
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  Speaker 8: but also giving back to the community. And you have
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  Speaker 8: come tremendous success from your days studying in Florida in
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  Speaker 8: the 90s. You know, you've been in a competitive New
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  Speaker 8: York market since 2000 over at NEW. You worked with Imus.
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  Speaker 8: You worked at FAN. You actually did pregame shows for
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  Speaker 8: the Giants, which is fantastic. You know, God love you
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  Speaker 8: for that. And then, frankly, with starting in, I think
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  Speaker 8: it was 2016, with Bernie, God rest his soul, the
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  Speaker 8: Bernie and Sid show, you replaced Dimas. And you have
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  Speaker 8: done a phenomenal job in the morning with Sid and Friends.
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  Speaker 8: And you and John Casimatidis, who owns 77 WABC, have
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  Speaker 8: done a phenomenal job serving the community. I don't want
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  Speaker 8: to go on, but the people that you're in the
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  Speaker 8: Hall of Fame with are the legends of broadcasting. Ernie Anastas,
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  Speaker 8: Craig Carlton, Tom Murphy, who ran ABC, Bill Paley, who
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  Speaker 8: ran CBS, Regis Philbin, Walter Cronkite, Al Roker, Boomer Esiason,
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  Speaker 8: Funk Flex, Mike Francesa, Mr. G over at PICS. Marvin Scott,
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  Speaker 8: Angie Martinez, Mike Wallace. I mean, the names go on
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  Speaker 8: and on.
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  Speaker 6: Barbara Walters.
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  Speaker 7: Barbara Walters, Mike Wallace.
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  Speaker 8: Angie Martinez, Diana Williams. And it really is our highest honor.
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  Speaker 8: And what we try to do, the way it works,
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  Speaker 8: is we have a board of directors, we have a meeting,
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  Speaker 8: and your name came up, and it was a unanimous vote.
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  Speaker 8: And your commitment to New York City, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 8: Brooklyn native, I mean, my God, you've done a great job.
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  Speaker 8: And so you certainly deserve it. And we're happy and
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  Speaker 8: honored that putting you in our Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 9: Satmar endorsed Governor Hochul. Radio host Sid Rosenberg responded on X.
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  Speaker 9: He called the community a threat to the future of
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  Speaker 9: New York. Then crappy Jews.
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  Speaker 6: So also yesterday, I took out the Satmar community again.
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  Speaker 6: That becomes weekly for me at this point.
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  Speaker 9: Satmar's Rebbes had met President Trump at the White House.
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  Speaker 6: But they're losers. They're bad people. You know, they, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know what kind of money deals they've got. And
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  Speaker 6: I know the guys at the top are scumbags. They
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  Speaker 6: enhance every stereotype about the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 10: I was then brought into a room where they gave
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  Speaker 10: me a warning. They told me that what I was
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  Speaker 10: doing was illegal and also wrong. because it was disturbing
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  Speaker 10: the public order. We did not present a security risk
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  Speaker 10: to anyone. We did nothing more provocative than harvest olives.
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  Speaker 10: We were invited by Palestinian farmers. Palestinian farmers, they don't
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  Speaker 10: need and they shouldn't need a permit to harvest olives
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  Speaker 10: on their own land.
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  Speaker 7: And listen.
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  Speaker 11: I tried to go to the cabin in Maine, and
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  Speaker 11: the only reason I extended the olive branch to Tucker
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  Speaker 11: was to try to talk him back from the ledge.
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  Speaker 11: I saw the dark path he was going down. I
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  Speaker 11: saw his rabid anti-Semitism. I identified it. I've seen it
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  Speaker 11: my entire career. Tucker is one of these people like
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  Speaker 11: Paul Nealon, Dan Bilzerian.
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  Speaker 6: He is.
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  Speaker 11: one of these Israel derangement syndrome people. He's completely obsessed.
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  Speaker 11: It's all he can talk about. A true Jew hater.
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  Speaker 11: I tried to go out there and talk some sense
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  Speaker 11: into him and see if I could reach him.
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  Speaker 1: Christian to Christian, it didn't work.
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  Speaker 11: Now we need Vice President Vance to step up and
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  Speaker 11: condemn his noxious hatred. I think he needs to be
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  Speaker 11: asked again. Sunlight is the best disinfectant for this nasty stuff.
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  Speaker 11: We got to really have a conversation. We have to
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  Speaker 11: have a serious conversation about that in this country.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe they told her not to go.
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  Speaker 12: Laura Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, desperately wanted
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  Speaker 12: to be at his rally in North Carolina, but she
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  Speaker 12: was forbidden from attending by her employer.
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  Speaker 6: Laura will tell you the same thing. She said, I mean.
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  Speaker 13: You know, she's now like the television star.
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  Speaker 2: She wants to come out.
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  Speaker 1: Fox won't let her come. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 6: But, you know, I understand that.
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  Speaker 13: She wants to be here so badly with you, you
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  Speaker 13: have no idea. If you're on television, it's a little
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  Speaker 13: hard to be campaigning for somebody, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand that very well. She wants to help
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  Speaker 2: you so much.
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  Speaker 6: She loves you.
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  Speaker 13: She said he's one of the most competent people and
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  Speaker 13: he's strong and he's going to fight for you.
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  Speaker 12: And she would have told you that herself, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 12: except Fox News wouldn't let her go to the rally.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, it's not like it's Hannity or Laura Ingraham
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  Speaker 12: or Gutfeld. Her last name is literally Trump. It's not
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  Speaker 12: really campaigning. It's more like a family reunion.
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  Speaker 14: Jay-Z has picked himself to be the Super Bowl halftime performer.
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  Speaker 14: This has really turned into a no whites allowed situation. Jay-Z, rapper,
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  Speaker 14: Bad Bunny, rapper, Kendrick Lamar. We're going three straight Super
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  Speaker 14: Bowls with rappers? Wouldn't be shocked if Jay-Z came out
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  Speaker 14: in a dress. He's got his female hairstyle. He doesn't
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  Speaker 14: need to do any more than that. We love to
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  Speaker 14: run around talking about diversity, diversity, diversity. And then as
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  Speaker 14: soon as we get in a position of power... We
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  Speaker 14: don't give.
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  Speaker 6: Any diversity, diversity, diversity.
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  Speaker 14: It's Mad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Usher, Rihanna, Dre Snoop, The Weeknd, Shakira, J-Lo.
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  Speaker 14: We've got to be the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
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  Speaker 14: We get in control, and it's no whites allowed sign
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  Speaker 14: hung out front almost immediately.
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  Speaker 15: Honored to be here in front of you guys. Honored
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  Speaker 15: to be a quarterback for the New York football giants
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  Speaker 15: and be able to get an opportunity this weekend against
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  Speaker 15: a great Houston Texan team. And thrilled to get out
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  Speaker 15: there tomorrow, really get in the film room and just
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  Speaker 15: evaluate today's practice and get better and go from there.
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  Speaker 16: I thought Boone, talking about this season, I thought Boone
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  Speaker 16: managed a good season, especially with the pitching staff. You know,
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  Speaker 16: we had a lot of additions and subtractions in the
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  Speaker 16: rotation throughout the course of the season. Our bullpen was
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  Speaker 16: absolutely exhausted by the end of the season. You know,
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  Speaker 16: he got through all that and he got us to
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  Speaker 16: the playoffs. And the bottom line is the players didn't
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  Speaker 16: live up to their end of the bargain in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: So I thought he had a good season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Brian, I'm sure, has his thoughts too, but
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  Speaker 1: that's my take on it. Brian, have you signed a
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  Speaker 1: new contract yet?
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  Speaker 11: We've agreed on a new contract that we just have
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  Speaker 11: to bang out some minor stuff on the back end
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  Speaker 11: of it.
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  Speaker 6: But, yeah, we're locked and loaded. Hey, good afternoon, Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 17: It's your favorite councilwoman, Vicki Palladino, and I'm here outside
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  Speaker 17: City Hall. We just finished a really great press conference yesterday.
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  Speaker 17: up with the horse owners. But this is for you, Sid.
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  Speaker 17: From the bottom of my heart, I want to say congratulations.
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  Speaker 17: You'll be inducted into the New York State Radio Hall
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  Speaker 17: of Fame. Couldn't be more proud of you, but most
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  Speaker 17: of all, couldn't be more proud to call you my friend.
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  Speaker 17: So thanks a lot, Sid, for.
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  Speaker 5: Everything that you do for the city of New York.
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  Speaker 17: And thank you very much for all the time you
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  Speaker 17: give me. Congratulations, Sid Rosenberg.
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  Speaker 6: Yay, you did it.
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  Speaker 17: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't home to celebrate. I came home the next day.
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  Speaker 6: The night before the anniversary, I was asleep in my
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  Speaker 6: hotel room in Jerusalem, in Israel. You guys remember this,
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  Speaker 6: Noam and Lou. And I received a message from David Donovan,
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  Speaker 6: who happens to be the president of of the New
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  Speaker 6: York Broadcasters Association. And he said, congratulations, Sid Rosenberg, you
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  Speaker 6: are heading to the Hall of Fame. And I was like, wow. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I had gotten a little tip. I know a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people in the business, my dear friend Chris Olivero,
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  Speaker 6: who runs a whole bunch of stations for Odyssey, Tim McCarthy,
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  Speaker 6: others have been telling me that you're probably getting in.
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  Speaker 6: But you never want to jump to that conclusion until
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  Speaker 6: you hear it officially. And I did that night, three
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  Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning in Israel, June 24th. I found
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  Speaker 6: out that I was making it into the hall. So
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  Speaker 6: it's surreal if you know me, if you have followed me,
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  Speaker 6: my career, a lot of ups and downs. for the
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  Speaker 6: longest time my career was mostly downs embarrassing terminations suspensions
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  Speaker 6: page two of the New York Post whether it's Serena
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  Speaker 6: and Venus Williams or my drinking and drug difficulties during
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  Speaker 6: the RNC back in 2004. All were very well publicized.
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  Speaker 6: All the stations down in Florida. I worked at three
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  Speaker 6: sports stations. And in a matter of 10 years, in
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  Speaker 6: a 10-year time span, I was fired from all three.
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  Speaker 6: Not because my ratings weren't good. That's never an issue.
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  Speaker 6: Not because the shows weren't good. That's never an issue.
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  Speaker 6: but because of my off-the-field problems, which resulted in losing
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  Speaker 6: jobs at 790 The Ticket, 560 WQAM, and 640 Sports.
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  Speaker 6: So to say that, if you would have asked me
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  Speaker 6: a decade ago, that this day would come is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: That's an understatement, okay? But I got the opportunity, 2016.
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  Speaker 6: Chad Lopez went against a lot of people. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the brass at Cumulus, Mary Berner and WABC. They didn't
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  Speaker 6: want me. They did not want me. They didn't want
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  Speaker 6: to pay Geraldo Rivera anymore. He was making a lot
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  Speaker 6: of money, and his ratings were 0.0. I'm not kidding you, 0.0.
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  Speaker 6: So they were done paying Geraldo. But the powers that be,
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  Speaker 6: and you know this, Noam, They wanted to bring in
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  Speaker 6: Mike Lupica, you know, the little prick, sports guy in
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  Speaker 6: New York Daily News, condescending little schmuck. Imus loved him,
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  Speaker 6: and Imus was still doing the morning show. He actually
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  Speaker 6: wanted to do the show, Lupica, from his house in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 6: He was dictating the terms. I'm not going into the city.
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  Speaker 6: What are you, nuts? But Lopez said, wait a second,
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  Speaker 6: wait a second. I know Sid. I was at WFAN.
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  Speaker 6: I was at CBS when Sid was a rising star
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  Speaker 6: in New York, and I was. For a while there,
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  Speaker 6: I owned a lot of real estate every day on
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  Speaker 6: the fan, doing sports on Imus, hosting the midday show
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  Speaker 6: with both Jody McDonald and Joe Beningo, doing the giant
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  Speaker 6: pregame show in front of 10,000 adoring fans outside of
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  Speaker 6: Gate D every Sunday. I was becoming a star. You
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  Speaker 6: had Mike and you had Imus, number one. Mike and
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  Speaker 6: the Mad Dog were the next, and then me. I
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  Speaker 6: used to complain to Chernoff and Lee Davis, I don't
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  Speaker 6: like being number four. I'll never get to number one,
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  Speaker 6: will I? I am now. And they'd say, just take
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  Speaker 6: your time, Sid. You're on your way. There are big,
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  Speaker 6: big things coming for you. Oh, ironically, Mark Chernoff will
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  Speaker 6: be on this show later on today. Chernoff gave me
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  Speaker 6: my opportunity at WFAN back in 2000, but Chad Lopez.
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  Speaker 6: He was the guy that showed the guts and brought
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  Speaker 6: me back here in 2016. Even the program director. What
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  Speaker 6: happened to, like, a guy by the name of Craig Schwab?
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  Speaker 6: He didn't want me. Nobody wanted me. The only people
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  Speaker 6: that wanted me were Bernard, obviously. God rest his soul,
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  Speaker 6: my late great partner. I love you, Bernie. Ted Lopez,
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  Speaker 6: the most important of all. Curtis Saliba turned out to
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  Speaker 6: be a backstabbing real piece of garbage, Curtis. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: my God, what happened to you? Seriously, garbage. But he
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  Speaker 6: was there for me back in 2016, so thank you
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  Speaker 6: for that, Curtis. Joe Vitale, Pete Morgan, he'll be at
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  Speaker 6: the luncheon. Later on today, all these people said, you
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  Speaker 6: got to bring Sid back. Sid has not been in
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  Speaker 6: New York for a decade. He still has a huge audience.
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  Speaker 6: He goes on Twitter, Instagram, and the New York bands
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  Speaker 6: go nuts. Every now and then, he makes an occasional
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  Speaker 6: appearance on WFAN. They go nuts. And Chad said, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm bringing him back. Very gutty move. They wrote stories.
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  Speaker 6: Is this guy nuts? Sid's not going to show up.
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  Speaker 6: Sid's got this problem. Sid's got that problem. And it
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  Speaker 6: was all true. Highly exaggerated, but all true. And guess what?
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  Speaker 6: Almost 11 years later, I don't miss a show. Not
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  Speaker 6: only do I not miss a show, every show that
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  Speaker 6: I do, that we do, Lou Rapinoe, Noam Layden, Justin Ehrlich,
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  Speaker 6: Joe Nolan, is great. There is not a show in
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  Speaker 6: this market that does a better job on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 6: I mean every day, than us.
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  Speaker 7: And I knew it.
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  Speaker 6: I knew if given the opportunity to have the big show,
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  Speaker 6: I can do this. My Florida show was great. And
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  Speaker 6: there I had Steve Zmack and Eric Lengel, not Hall
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  Speaker 6: of Famers like Lou Ruffino and Noam Layden. So I
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  Speaker 6: knew if given the opportunity, if I could just stay
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  Speaker 6: out of my own way, that we'd be great. And
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  Speaker 6: we are great. I don't care about the assholes on Twitter.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care about message boards and that nonsense. We're great.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you got people in this city, politicians, radio
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  Speaker 6: people that put us in the same sentence. Sorry, Alan Snippin,
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  Speaker 6: as Bob Grant, Don Imus, same sentence. And guess what?
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  Speaker 6: When I get inducted later on today into the Hall
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  Speaker 6: of Fame, those guys are in there. Like it or not,
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  Speaker 6: like it or not, I'll be in the same hall.
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  Speaker 6: as Bob Grant, Don Imus, Stern, and other greats. So today,
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  Speaker 6: to say it's surreal and emotional is an understatement. I
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  Speaker 6: knew we could do it, but I'd be lying if
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  Speaker 6: I said I thought we would. Now, there's more to do.
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  Speaker 6: There's a National Hall of Fame. That is the big, big,
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  Speaker 6: big one in Chicago. We'll get there. There's the Marconi Awards,
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  Speaker 6: which is basically an Oscar, an Academy Award for radio.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure we'll get there because I'm too pro-Trump.
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  Speaker 6: And people hate me. They legitimately hate me because of that.
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  Speaker 6: And there's a lot of politics in radio, too. That's
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  Speaker 6: why I give David Donovan so much credit, because he
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  Speaker 6: knows the haters out there. He knows how they talk
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  Speaker 6: about me. He said, I don't care. This kid's great.
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  Speaker 6: The show's great. He's making a difference. I mean, you
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  Speaker 6: talk about just about every Republican candidate who runs for office,
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  Speaker 6: not just in New York, around the country. They want
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  Speaker 6: to be on this show. Do you guys remember a
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  Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago I had my friend Scott Singer
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  Speaker 6: on the show? No, he was the mayor of Boca Raton.
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  Speaker 6: He's now running for Congress against Moskowitz down in Florida.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: You know, he's up seven points. He sent me a
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  Speaker 6: text yesterday thanking me. He's in Florida thanking me for
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  Speaker 6: helping him get to that position. He wants to come
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  Speaker 6: on one more time next week. I said, you're not
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  Speaker 6: even in New York. Doesn't matter. That's the reach that
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  Speaker 6: this show has. And again, even though the iPhone makes
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  Speaker 6: it easy for us to have listeners all over the world,
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  Speaker 6: and we do, as we're speaking right now, You've got
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  Speaker 6: people in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in California, in Florida,
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  Speaker 6: listening to this show on a daily basis. We are
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  Speaker 6: not a syndicated program. We have one station, this one,
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  Speaker 6: 77 WABC. And I will tell you this, without any
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  Speaker 6: doubt in my mind, you're not going to find any
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  Speaker 6: other show on one station that has the influence and
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  Speaker 6: power that we've got. If that's a fair statement, no.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think we have the influence of a national show,
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  Speaker 19: but we're only on in New York City.
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  Speaker 6: That's exactly right. I mean, there I was last night.
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  Speaker 6: There was a big fundraiser. John Katsimatidis did a great job. John,
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  Speaker 6: I hope you're listening. You were great last night. Ed Cox, A.J.
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  Speaker 6: Katsimatidis helped put it together. Suzanne Miller. Beautiful place. Rooftop
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  Speaker 6: in New York City on 33rd between 5th and Broadway.
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  Speaker 6: And we had a bunch of speakers. John and Ed
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  Speaker 6: had to run out because John had two events last night.
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  Speaker 6: He had an event with Robert Kraft, the owner of
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  Speaker 6: the Patriots. So John handed me the mic. And I
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  Speaker 6: figured I'd speak for five minutes and Bruce would come on.
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  Speaker 6: That would be it. Well, Bruce was late. So I
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  Speaker 6: had to speak for 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 7: 40. Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And then Bruce eventually showed up and did a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, he too, Bruce Blakeman, will be on this
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: show this morning.
• 19:14
  Speaker 20: That is exactly in line with how I thought you
• 19:18
  Speaker 20: were back at the old FAN.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Somebody's not here. Sid, go in.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Sid, go in.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Well, when you say I'm in, you mean I'm in specifically.
• 19:30
  Speaker 20: Yes, but I remember at different day parts there. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 20: that's when it dawned on me how good you were.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: That was it. So I told you that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you did.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Many times.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: It's just funny that that happened last night.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Well, you know what else happened? It also happened the
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: same trip, Lou, where I found out I made the
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame in Israel. My last trip there. You
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: may remember I went to speak at the JNS.org conference.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: I have a good friend, Alex Trayman. And the first night,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: it's a three-night deal. The first night was the big one.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: That's when Bibi Netanyahu was supposed to speak. And he
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: was late. And I was going out for dinner. And
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Trayman said, whoa, whoa, whoa, because I already spoke. You
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: got to come back. I go, I already spoke. He goes,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: doesn't matter. I need you to speak again.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Bibi's late. So Bibi ended up being 90 minutes late. 90.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: And they split the time in Israel with a huge audience,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: a thousand people, between me and Mark Levin.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Isn't that crazy?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty crazy, actually.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: And I just kept rolling and going and going. And
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: I got to tell you this. And I can't run
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: for politics because of Danielle. That's the only reason why.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: That's it. I would do it. I want to do it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: I think I'd be great at it. I've studied President Trump.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: I got it. I know all the issues. I'm a
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Republican guy, and I don't believe there's a candidate anywhere
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: in the country that has more charisma and knows more
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: than I do. I really don't. But Danielle won't let
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: me run. But if I ran, I think people would
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: love it. I think I'd be great. At the very least,
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: debates and rallies.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, forget it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: You know I can do that, right, guys?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Debates would be pay-per-view.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: So I'm up on stage last night on this podium,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: and I'm talking about Bruce Blakeman, and I sound like
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I should be running. And I do that all the time.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: You know, I end up introducing Caroline Schinkel. She's terrific.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: She was there last night.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, she is.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: And remember the other girl, Christina Fontanelli-Lew? She was the
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: opera singer.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: She was there last night.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: She's really... Smart.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, very smart.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's likable.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Nice girl. She was there last night, too. But I'm
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: introducing all these politicians, and I'm going, wait a second.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: I think they want to hear from me. Or is
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: that crazy, Lou? That's crazy, right? Maybe it's not.
• 21:45
  Speaker 20: No, that's what brings the light on why they want
• 21:49
  Speaker 20: you to run for office.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Well, it's funny. One of Blateman's guys said to me
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: last night, I never met this guy before, sweet guy.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: And he said to me, you know... Bruce, and Bruce
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: will be on today. He can confirm or deny this.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Bruce keeps telling everybody that not if, but when he
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: wins and he beats Kathy Hochul, he really wants me
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: to run for mayor. He's dead serious about that. He's
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: not kidding. He thinks a Blakeman-Rosenberg combination would save this city.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: and save the state. He has said it publicly time
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: and time again. He told New York Newsday that. He's
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: not kidding.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Well, that's what he's thinking, probably.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: That's what he's thinking. If I win, I can convince Sid.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: And two of you together would be... Powerful.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: We would save the city, save this state, right?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: And do good things.
• 22:38
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: But it ain't going to happen.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Can you imagine a debate and Errol Lewis.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Is doing the debate?
• 22:46
  Speaker 20: And he's got another moderator there next.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: And Sid is at a podium.
• 22:50
  Speaker 20: And I would pick just pick the other person and
• 22:53
  Speaker 20: him going out like, well, first of all, first.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Of all, Errol, that's a ridiculous.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Well, I probably say, Errol, don't take this the wrong way.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Why would a fat, stupid black racist like you even
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: be on stage with a guy like me?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: That's a good way to begin.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: That would be good, right?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, that would be awesome.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: You know, you say that, but that's five minute debate.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: That's great.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: But that's what Trump did. That's why people love Trump
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: right away.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Let's be honest. Oh, there's my Joe Benningo call today.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Let's be honest. Oh, look, I got messages already from
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Luke Pettigrew. Luke was a great New York football giant player.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Number 77. I really like Luke Pettigrew. He said, you're
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: still a maniac, but congrats on the Hall of Fame.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: How about this guy, Lewis? Dan Mason, Hall of Famer, Mr.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: CBS Radio.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: Big.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Congratulations, Sid. My phone's blowing up. I can't even look
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: at all these right now. I'm trying to do a
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: radio show. Damn it. You know what I'm saying?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: I hear you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Yet someone is looking at them.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Well, I can't help it. I'm addicted to the phone
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: just like all of you are. I love when people,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: they go to me, you're addicted to your phone, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: they're looking at the phone when they tell me that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: My wife is like that. She goes, you're always on
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: your phone. I go, Danielle, I fall asleep 8.30 at night, 10.30.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: You've read the New York Post for the 10th time today.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: What do you mean I'm addicted to the phone? I mean,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: I'm on there, yes. I've got to go on Instagram.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I've got to go on Twitter. I've got to go
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: on Facebook and everything. put up all these pictures and videos,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: and I know it's silly, but part of my job.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: There's a lot going on.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: A lot going on, Lewis.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Let's be honest.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, what is going on today? I mean, all
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I really care about is this Hall of Fame induction.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: But is there anything else going on that's even worth it?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: I know that Hochul is up on Blakeman. According to
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Errol Lewis and the little leprechaun, I happen to like
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: this guy, Pat Kiernan, There's a poll out today that's
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: got Hochul up 14 points. These polls are all, you know, they're.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: All over the place. I mean, yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 19: In this new Quinnipiac one, he or she maintains the
• 24:53
  Speaker 19: lead she's had, you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Know, since the summer.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Well, Quinnipiac. How do you say it?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Quinnipiac.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Quinnipiac.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Their poll had Hochul up 19 points last month. Now
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: it's 14.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: And all they do is talk to Democrats. So if
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: he gained five points on the Quinnipiac poll, which he did.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: And it's a left-leaning, not even left-leaning, it's a left poll.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: That's probably good news for.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Bruce, no? Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 19: You know, 19 to 14 is not huge by any means.
• 25:22
  Speaker 19: I mean, you want it to be a lot closer
• 25:23
  Speaker 19: than that, considering people are going to start voting on Saturday.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Early voting starts Saturday.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Yes, it does, yes.
• 25:29
  Speaker 19: But I will say there's about five or six different
• 25:32
  Speaker 19: polls that are floating around, and it depends on which
• 25:33
  Speaker 19: one you buy into. There's some that show the race
• 25:35
  Speaker 19: a whole lot closer than that. Not 14 points, but
• 25:39
  Speaker 19: two or three points difference.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: The polls are biased on both sides.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: You know, you're not going to see a John McLaughlin
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: poll come out where Booth is down by 20 points,
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: which is fine. So, you know, the polls, look, you
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: go back to Trump. He was down 11 to Hillary
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Clinton that day. And he won. He won, well, almost easily.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: She won New York and California, so she won the
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: popular vote. But he had a big day that day.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Even Harris won. Kamala Harris was beating Trump right before
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: the election, and he won every state. He won the
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: popular vote. He won the electoral vote. So I know
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: it's Trump. I know he's different. I get it. But
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: we do see examples of this where the polls are
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: just not right. So I would say to Bruce, which
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: I did last night, and I'll tell him again this morning,
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: keep going, baby. Keep exposing Kathy Hochul as the wretched
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: woman fraud that she is. And I would use the
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: word fraud because just ask my friend, Dr. Oz, how
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: much money, Medicare, Medicaid, the fraud issue in New York
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: is every bit as bad, in fact, worse than Minnesota, California.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, this governor is a joke. She's a joke. Today,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: the city council will vote on the horse carriage ban.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Did you know that, Norm?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the rule passed.
• 27:06
  Speaker 19: I mean, it's clear that they have enough votes to
• 27:07
  Speaker 19: get this thing across the finish line.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, Julie Menon, this is what she's worried about,
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: her and her boyfriend, Mayor. I'm so down on Menon again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: it's terrible. I like her for like a week or two,
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: and then I get down on her, and now I'm
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: down on her. But, yeah, it'll get voted. And sometime,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: is it 28 when they just wipe out the whole industry?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, what's helped them?
• 27:29
  Speaker 19: And it's so tragic is this teenager who was killed
• 27:32
  Speaker 19: in that carriage accident back in June, the one from India.
• 27:35
  Speaker 19: That has propelled this movement because before it was really
• 27:38
  Speaker 19: just an animal rights issue. And for whatever reason, you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 19: you started with Mayor de Blasio. He made it a
• 27:43
  Speaker 19: campaign promise, a big one. He wasn't able to get
• 27:45
  Speaker 19: it done. And then you had Mayor Adams said the
• 27:47
  Speaker 19: same thing. He wasn't able to get it done. And
• 27:49
  Speaker 19: so these horse and buggy riders say they're using this teenager,
• 27:53
  Speaker 19: this horrible death, this tragic accident to get this across.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And it's awful for them.
• 27:59
  Speaker 19: You know, they're going to lose their livelihood and they
• 28:00
  Speaker 19: don't trust the city council, which they've promised to get
• 28:03
  Speaker 19: them new jobs.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: They don't believe that's going to happen.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: I don't either. You know, and you also got John
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Lieber jumping in.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: We've got opportunities at the MTA, but I don't believe
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: these people. And again, they don't care about the horses.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Maybe Bob Holden does. They don't care about the horses.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: There is a real estate opportunity here. You know that gnome, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: So they are looking at dollar signs, real estate opportunity
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: all over the place because the truth is there is
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: no empirical data. There's no proof that these horses are
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: dying or being treated poorly. One horse died.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: One.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: And then you had that unfortunate incident with the tourist.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: One died. And as we said a million times on
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: this show, how many New Yorkers get killed and maimed
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: and injured? Accidents with bicycles and scooters. And the city
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: never talks about banning them. But one horse dies, one
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: tourist dies, and they're wiping out a whole industry.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Because there's dollars in real estate. So if you're an
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: animal lover, and I would advise you to get a job, okay?
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: I love animals too, but you people are so ridiculous.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, stop it, okay? Just stop. I love animals too.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: But it gets to the point where it's ridiculous. It's
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: not even about the animals. This is about dollar signs.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: So Mamdani's lying. Julie Mennon is lying. They're all lying
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: to you. All these poor people, they're so worried about
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: the immigrants. They're so worried about ICE and the way
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: President Trump treats immigrants. Yet, they're about to whack all
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: these beautiful people who own the horses, who drive the horses. Immigrants.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: They don't seem to care, do they, Noam?
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: No.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: You know what they do? They have a very effective lobby, right?
• 29:52
  Speaker 19: Because if you ask the average New Yorker on the street,
• 29:55
  Speaker 19: whether they wanted to get rid of the horse and carriages,
• 29:57
  Speaker 19: they'd probably say no.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: No way.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: It's part of the ambiance. It's part of our history.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: We like tradition in New York. This mayor, what he
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: wants to do, don't kid yourself, okay? Don't be so naive.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: What he wants to do is wipe out tradition.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: If it's worked in New York for many, many years,
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: he wants to get rid of it. That's part of
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: his sick motivation. I know you guys think I'm crazy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I've got Mamdani derangement syndrome.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: I'm telling you the truth. If it works in New York,
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: he doesn't want it. What else you got, Norm?
• 30:32
  Speaker 19: I was going to say that the horse and carriage
• 30:34
  Speaker 19: people did make some changes when there were some complaints
• 30:37
  Speaker 19: that maybe were legitimate, that they were putting these horses
• 30:40
  Speaker 19: out on days where it was just too hot for them.
• 30:43
  Speaker 19: So they did make changes over the years. But this
• 30:45
  Speaker 19: animal rights lobby, they're throwing all kinds of cash at
• 30:49
  Speaker 19: these lawmakers, and I'm sure that has something to do
• 30:51
  Speaker 19: with why all of a sudden they're on board.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: So.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, no doubt. That's the real motivation. What else is
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: happening today?
• 30:58
  Speaker 19: You have this wild story from this George Washington Bridge
• 31:02
  Speaker 19: road rage incident where this driver was shot and killed
• 31:06
  Speaker 19: as he crossed the bridge on Tuesday night. Well, now
• 31:08
  Speaker 19: they've taken in a former NYPD detective who came in
• 31:12
  Speaker 19: for questioning yesterday, and they arrested him.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And they say he's the individual. His name is Victor Romero.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: He's 62 years old.
• 31:20
  Speaker 19: He's now been accused of shooting and killing this guy,
• 31:23
  Speaker 19: Karan Irvine, who's a 46-year-old, a dad, a guy who
• 31:28
  Speaker 19: worked for PSE & G. And they say he's the
• 31:32
  Speaker 19: one who gunned him down after he cut him off
• 31:35
  Speaker 19: on the bridge.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: They have video, apparently, that just lays this all out.
• 31:38
  Speaker 19: And you can see where this former officer is in
• 31:41
  Speaker 19: a Range Rover, and there was some sort of incident
• 31:44
  Speaker 19: on the bridge. He then drives, speeds up to Karan Irvine,
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: and then shoots him in the car. And so now
• 31:51
  Speaker 19: he's behind bars this morning, and we'll have to at
• 31:54
  Speaker 19: some point answer murder charges.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Similar to the Michael Douglas role, what was that movie
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: when he got out of his car with a rifle?
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: It's gone.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I just blanked on it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Not Walking Tall. Those are the old movies.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: But, you know, he was fed up and everything, traffic
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: and people.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: I always think that's going to be me one day.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: I know. We all do.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Or you especially. Yes, I can see that.
• 32:18
  Speaker 20: It's me because those construction things are nonsense.
• 32:22
  Speaker 22: I know.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: They're not working on anything.
• 32:24
  Speaker 21: I know.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: And the guy goes, no, we're not doing anything. Just
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: run them over. What is the name of that movie? God,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: it's a great movie.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: It's One Word, I think.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: Is it One Word? And maybe Two Words.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: I don't know either. What else you got? Lou will
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: get that for us.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: What else?
• 32:38
  Speaker 19: I'm sorry to be so tragic, but there's this tragic story.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Come on, it's a celebration.
• 32:42
  Speaker 18: I know.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You want me to skip the tragic stories?
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: No, just tell us.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: Falling down.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Falling down. I told you two words. Very good. Very good, Lewis.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: What tragedy have you got now?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to keep doing tragic stories.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: How bad is this one? It's bad. Did a kid die?
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's fine. All right.
• 33:00
  Speaker 19: We've been seeing this out of the Suffolk County Police
• 33:02
  Speaker 19: Department on Long Island.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Two officers have.
• 33:05
  Speaker 19: Died just in the last 10, 12 days, both from suicide.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 33:09
  Speaker 19: And so now you have the PBA of the Suffolk
• 33:12
  Speaker 19: and Nassau County departments, you know, speaking out saying they're
• 33:16
  Speaker 19: afraid that there's this mental health epidemic going on among
• 33:19
  Speaker 19: police officers.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: You know, my friend, he runs that Suffolk PBA, my
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: friend Lou Cervelo. You know Lou, right? Yeah. He's a
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: terrific guy. Great guy. And we know, of course, about
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: the Nassau County police, but clearly there's an epidemic. You
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: got cops and service people. The amount, the numbers, the
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: suicide numbers for cops, service people, are through the roof.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Nobody pays attention. They don't care. They're, you know, got
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: their own thing going on. But it is bad. So
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: that Suffolk County story is bad. Tragic, yes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were both young. And there was a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: study done not that many years ago.
• 33:57
  Speaker 19: That showed that they had a 54% higher incident of
• 34:01
  Speaker 19: suicides than the general public because of the job they're
• 34:03
  Speaker 19: involved in. And so, yeah, the PPA coming out and saying, okay,
• 34:07
  Speaker 19: you've got to put in more health precautions to help
• 34:11
  Speaker 19: these officers deal with the stress of their everyday jobs,
• 34:14
  Speaker 19: which is, of course, incredibly stressful.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Terrible. Yeah, these stories do bother me because you know
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: how much I love the police and All of us
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: here do. John and Margo and me. And this is
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: we back the blue here like nobody else. So our
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: hearts and prayers go out to these officers, families, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: they should be treated better and loved like we love them. And, well,
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: they're just not. Even the people that run this city
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: are the very top of that list of people who
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: should be ashamed of themselves, starting with this mayor. All right.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Got any nice stories? Anything good? What do you got?
• 34:49
  Speaker 19: Well, the president, of course, continues to barnstorm the country.
• 34:52
  Speaker 19: trying to get Republicans across the finish line now with
• 34:54
  Speaker 19: the midterms. What are we at, 12 days away? Last
• 34:57
  Speaker 19: night you had the final debate between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed
• 35:02
  Speaker 19: and Mike Rogers in Michigan.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, that was the last one last night?
• 35:05
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it was a pretty fiery event, as the other
• 35:07
  Speaker 19: ones have been as well. And that race, way too
• 35:10
  Speaker 19: close to call. I mean, the polls show it going
• 35:12
  Speaker 19: both ways, with El-Sayed winning and some others showing Rogers ahead.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Do you have any audio from that? Do I have
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: any audio from that? I may.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Oh, yeah, this looks like I have a bite.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: All right, give me something.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: You're going to hear a form of MAGA bingo because
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the thing about MAGA is whenever they're talking, they are
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: trying to distract you.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: They're going to use buzzwords.
• 35:30
  Speaker 13: The bingo game ought to be how many times can
• 35:32
  Speaker 13: he put the word Trump in any answer, any answer
• 35:35
  Speaker 13: that he has given.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Same what Hochul did with Lakeman.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: Same thing.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. That's all they've got. Bunch
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: of losers.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Seriously. Seriously.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: El Sayed. This guy wins. We got to get the
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: hell out of here. I don't know. I'm looking at
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: property right now in Tel Aviv, I swear to God.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: I'd move there.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Nice city.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: It's very expensive, though.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: It's as expensive as New York.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: New York and San Francisco. Exactly right. But first, I
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: guess I have to become an Israeli citizen, right? How
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: do I do that?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: You're automatically an Israeli citizen.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: Automatically?
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: What, because Bibi likes me?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: No, because you're Jewish.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: Is that true?
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: So there's no process?
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 36:15
  Speaker 19: Yeah, but it's not like you have to wait 10
• 36:17
  Speaker 19: years or 7 years.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: No, you're automatically... I could text.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: But anybody could.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Anybody could, not just you.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: I didn't realize that. It's that easy.
• 36:26
  Speaker 19: Well, again, there's probably some stuff you have to do,
• 36:29
  Speaker 19: but yeah, you don't have.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: To wait years.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Maybe you, but not me. Don't your brothers still live there?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I have a younger brother who grew up there, yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: He's still there, right? Yeah, of course. And, of course,
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: your dad, God rest his soul. I'm sorry he passed
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: away a couple of years ago living in Israel. He
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: was in Haifa, right? He was. Yeah. Well, we'll have
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: to talk about that. If El-Sayed wins and you've got
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Mamdani here in New York, imagine this. It's not going
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: to happen because Angie Nixon is not going to win.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: But imagine if Angie Nixon wins in Florida, El-Sayed wins
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: in Michigan. Hoco beats Blakeman. I don't know what the
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: hell we're going to do. Seriously, what are we going
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: to do?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Well, almost all of those things will likely happen.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Boy, this has been quite a morning so far. No,
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: thank you very much. What a way to celebrate my
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Well, here, I can give you somebody to beat up.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: I always enjoy that.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: You know that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Who is it? Brad Lander. This piece of garbage, Brad Lander.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: So I put on Twitter yesterday... supposedly he was detained
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: by the IDF. First of all, let me just say
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: this to you folks, okay? No Jewish people, no Jewish people,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: real Jews, good Jews, not crappy Jews like Brad Lander
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: and Doug Emhoff, they don't refer to the West Bank
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: as the West Bank. We call it Judea and Samaria, okay?
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Only the non-Jews and the Jew haters refer to that
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: area as the West Bank. Brant Lander is, I guess, Jewish.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: And he talked about his trip to the West Bank.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: That's how you know he's abroad right away. I guess
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: he was doing something with olives. I don't know. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: he got detained by the IDF. So I put on
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: Twitter yesterday.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I hope they torture the bastard. So what do you
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: think I get next? Oh, so you're admitting the IDF
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: and the Israelis torture people. No, I'm not. You dumb bastards.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: I was having some fun. I despise Brad Lander. Brad
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: Lander is no different than the Satmar community. He's a blemish.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: He's a stain on the Jewish community. And I don't
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: know what the hell he's complaining about. What exactly happened there, Noam?
• 38:37
  Speaker 19: I think he's trying to get in the middle of
• 38:40
  Speaker 19: this battle between people who live in Judea and Samaria
• 38:44
  Speaker 19: and the Arabs that live in nearby communities. And so
• 38:47
  Speaker 19: he showed up to support those on the other side,
• 38:51
  Speaker 19: saying he was going to protect these farmers who were
• 38:53
  Speaker 19: going out to pick olives because he claims they were
• 38:55
  Speaker 19: being attacked by people in those settlements.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: That's not true. And all he's doing is furthering, I mean, look,
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: We had this copy put in the open when Nick Fuentes. Now,
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: I know there's a personal issue between these two guys.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: But when Nick Fuentes refers to someone as an anti-Semite,
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: you know that's a problem, right? Nick Fuentes loves Hitler.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Nick Fuentes is like the base of the I'm Not
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: a Big Juke Band movement. He's out there yesterday just hammering.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson, just hammering him.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: I had a laugh.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: Again, I know there's a personal issue, so I'm not
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: sure if you could really, really take Nick Fuentes at
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: his word, but I enjoyed every second of what he
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: said about Tucker Carlson yesterday. Did you hear all that, Noam?
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: I did.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: Was that not fantastic?
• 39:50
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 39:52
  Speaker 19: He has them exactly right. What he said is true
• 39:55
  Speaker 19: and accurate.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: He called them a real Jew hater. That comes from
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: Nick Guentes. And Brad Lander is no different. The only
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: difference is Tucker Carlson's Christian and Brad Lander is Jewish.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: But they are both awful for the Jewish people. Both
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: of them.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: All right. What else? No.
• 40:15
  Speaker 19: We've got this weird scam that's going on. Boy, they're
• 40:17
  Speaker 19: getting more and more sophisticated. But this one isn't even
• 40:20
  Speaker 19: that sophisticated. So some utility customers out on Long Island
• 40:24
  Speaker 19: have been getting calls that look like it's coming from
• 40:27
  Speaker 19: PSE & G, a phone number.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: They answer.
• 40:29
  Speaker 19: They're told they owe a certain amount of money. And
• 40:31
  Speaker 19: even people who question whether this call is legit, they'll
• 40:35
  Speaker 19: find from the person on the other side that they'll
• 40:37
  Speaker 19: be able to tell them exactly how much they owe.
• 40:39
  Speaker 19: So they'll go online and they'll say, oh, wait a minute.
• 40:41
  Speaker 19: They're telling me I own $ 650. I do owe $ 650.
• 40:45
  Speaker 19: And so what they've fallen for is they tell them
• 40:47
  Speaker 19: to go– this is the part I don't get– is
• 40:49
  Speaker 19: they tell them to go to like the local 7-Eleven or.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Walmart and get a card and then give.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: Them the number.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But a ton of people have fallen for it. So
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: now we ask PSE & G, how.
• 40:59
  Speaker 19: Are these people able to not only get their home
• 41:01
  Speaker 19: phone numbers but know exactly how much they owe and
• 41:03
  Speaker 19: be accurate?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Well, what they're doing is they're.
• 41:05
  Speaker 19: Going through mailboxes across Long Island looking for PSE &
• 41:08
  Speaker 19: G bills, ripping them open, looking at the number, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 19: then calling these customers up.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: Got it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: So don't fall for that one.
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: Don't fall for that.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: PSE & G is never going to call you.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: That's what they want you to know. They'll never call you.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: No, you have to call them.
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: So the vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance,
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: you know he's a Cincinnati kid, right? He's a big
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Cincinnati fan. Loves the Reds. So he went to visit
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Cincinnati Bengals practice. Did you know that, Norm?
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I did not know that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: So the superstar quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow,
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: was asked yesterday what it was like having the vice
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: president of the United States show up to watch the
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: Bengals practice.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: J.D.
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: Vance.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: And here is what the big-time quarterback had to say, Lewis.
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: This is cut number 28. President Vance, I was here
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: at practice today.
• 41:57
  Speaker 24: Did you have a chance to interact at all?
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: We did not.
• 41:59
  Speaker 25: We did not. He came with everybody and left with. swiftness,
• 42:05
  Speaker 25: and efficiency before the end of practice, so I didn't
• 42:08
  Speaker 25: get to. What I love about what I do is
• 42:10
  Speaker 25: it brings a lot of people together, and people want
• 42:13
  Speaker 25: to take time out of their day to come and
• 42:14
  Speaker 25: watch what we do, watch what I do, and watch
• 42:18
  Speaker 25: all the work that I've put in to come and
• 42:20
  Speaker 25: watch greatness. Everybody in the locker room, that's why we
• 42:22
  Speaker 25: do what we do, whether it's on the TV, whether
• 42:25
  Speaker 25: it's in person, whether it's on the practice field.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: That's what we do. Rubio, 2028. So, you know, the
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: NFL talking about Joe Burrow and the Bengals. They're going
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: to play a game this Sunday. It'll be the third
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: consecutive week. They play a football game in Europe. They
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: played the last two weeks Sunday morning in London. Jaguars
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: and the Eagles. Jaguars and the Houston Texans. Well, now
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: they move that Europe game from London to Paris. This
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: Sunday will be the first time ever. The National Football
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: League and Woke Roger Goodell play a regular season game
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: in Paris. Gay Paris. It'll be Aaron Rodgers and the
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Saints, who just beat my
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: Giants last week. But I know that the protesters, who
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: have been quiet in Paris the last couple of days, right?
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: There's a curfew, and French police are starting to get
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: very visible with these guys. They don't care. They are
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: planning huge protests again in Paris on Saturday night. And Sunday,
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: and the conventional wisdom is these protests in Paris will
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: take place right outside where the football game is being played.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: And some of these NFL players, particularly a couple of
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: guys on the Saints, have voiced they're uncomfortable with that.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: But the NFL has zero plans, I mean zero, of
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: canceling the game. What do you think about that?
• 43:48
  Speaker 19: Well, it has been interesting that They haven't been able
• 43:51
  Speaker 19: to keep these protesters off the street. They haven't been
• 43:54
  Speaker 19: able to stop them from burning down stores, or at
• 43:56
  Speaker 19: least not effectively.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: So how are they going to stop them from getting
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: near the stadium on Sunday?
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: They can't. There's your answer. They can't. It's going to
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: be a disaster. So you guys know who picks the
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: halftime shows at the Super Bowls, right?
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Jay-Z.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: That's right. Can you tell me the last time you
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: saw a white performer? And don't tell me it doesn't matter.
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: And call me a racist. I don't care. I get
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: called that every day. Sid's a racist. I'm an Islamophobe.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: I really don't care. The truth is the truth. I
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: haven't seen a white performer at the Super Bowl. Every
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: year is another rapper. Except for a couple years ago,
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: you had two Latinos. With Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. That
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: was a great show. Otherwise, every year is a different
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: black rapper.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Kendrick Lamar. And Snoop. And Dre. And Bad Bunny. He's Latino.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: But it's a rapper every year. And not a white person.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: So my friend Jason Whitlock... He's a black guy, very black.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: He does a very popular podcast. The name of his
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: podcast is Fearless. And he is fearless because he's a
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: black guy in the country today who calls out the
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: black community for their nonsense. It's supposed to be diversity.
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: What diversity? It's either a Latino or a black rapper.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: And all these shows suck. Bad Bunny didn't even speak
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: English at Doofus. So here is Jason Whitlock calling out Jay-Z.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: You know what Jay-Z did? You know who he picked
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: this year to be the halftime show?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: He picked himself.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: He picked himself! Jay-Z picked himself. Here's Jason Whitlock, cut
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: number 29.
• 45:30
  Speaker 14: Jay-Z has picked himself to be the Super Bowl halftime performer.
• 45:34
  Speaker 14: This has really turned into a no whites allowed situation. Jay-Z, rapper,
• 45:41
  Speaker 14: Bad Bunny, rapper, Kendrick Lamar. We're going three straight Super
• 45:45
  Speaker 14: Bowls with rappers? Wouldn't be shocked if Jay-Z came out
• 45:48
  Speaker 14: in a dress. He's got his female hairstyle. He doesn't
• 45:51
  Speaker 14: need to do any more than that. We love to
• 45:53
  Speaker 14: run around talking about diversity, diversity, diversity. And then as
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: soon as we get in a position of power, we
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: don't give any diversity, diversity, diversity. It's Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Usher, Rihanna,
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: Dre Snoop, The Weeknd, Shakira, J-Lo. We got to be
• 46:07
  Speaker 14: the biggest hypocrites on the planet. We get in control
• 46:10
  Speaker 14: and it's no whites allowed sign hung out front almost immediately.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: Jason Whitlock telling the truth. Well, that one was really
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: good for me because that was the impetus behind, what's
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: that guy? He's not funny, but you like him, though.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart.
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: Making fun of me that Monday night after the Super
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: Bowl on Comedy Central. Jon Stewart, that's right.
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: Bad bunny.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: I kind of like that. Listen, we've got a lot
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: of great guys stopping by today. John Heyman, the best
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: baseball guy in the country. The World Series starts in
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee tomorrow night. The Milwaukee Brewers taking on the Tampa
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: Bay Rays. Neither one of those organizations have ever won
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: a World Series. That's only happened one other time. Many
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: years ago, I believe in the 80s, when the Phillies
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: beat the Kansas City Royals. So the Brewers will take
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: on the Rays. My old boss at WFAN, the man
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: that hired me, God, 20-plus years ago, Mark Chernoff, he'll
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: be here today. Bruce Blakeman, great job again last night.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Great job by John Katsimatidis. Great job by Suzanne Miller,
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: Ed Cox, the whole crew. We'll talk to Bruce Blakeman
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: coming up today. Bill O'Reilly will be here today. Rich
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: Lowry will be here today. It's a big show.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Also on Facebook, Sid Rosenberg. Instagram, at Rosenberg.Sydney. And I said,
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm going to the Hall of Fame today.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: It's broadcast. Obviously, it's not baseball. Why isn't John Franco
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: in the Hall of Fame? As far as I know,
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: and I'm right, to this day, he has the most
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: saves for a left-handed pitcher in the history of Major
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: League Baseball. You guys know that? 424 saves for John Franco.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: All those big years with Lou Piniella in Cincinnati. And then,
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: of course, his amazing years right here in New York.
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: And you talk about being a New Yorker. Guys, you
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: go back to 9-11. And John Franco was kind of
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: the face. I know Piazza hit the big home run.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: Bobby Valentine was great. And the Yankees ended up in
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: the World Series, losing to Arizona. But Franco was the guy.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: Franco lost so many friends in the World Trade Center
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: that day. He's kind of become the voice, deservedly, over
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: the years, 25 years of New York baseball. He's a
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: New York kid. Still lives down there in the city,
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: down by the Freedom Tower. Lives right there, John Franco.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: So John Franco needs to be in the Hall of Fame.
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: If Billy Wagner's in the Hall of Fame, John Franco
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: should be in the Hall of Fame. Come on. 424 saves.
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: The most for any lefty ever. So if you're listening,
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: John may be walking the dog. right now he'd like
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: to do that by the park I see but if
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: you're listening tell Franco that Sid said John Franco should
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: be in the Hall of Fame if Sid is going
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: to the Radio Hall of Fame John Franco should be
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: in the Baseball Hall of Fame I really do feel
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: that way for John It's so nice, you know, when
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: all these people send videos and call. It's just nice.
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: It's a long road, man. I've been on this road.
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: I can't believe it. I was thinking about this yesterday.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: But next year, Lou, will be 30 years. 30 for
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: me in this business.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: Yep, it's big.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: I remember, like yesterday... not really having a job that
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: I could attach myself to. I tried. I worked for
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: my brother-in-law, Albert, for years in electronics. I worked for
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: my dad for many years. I had all these jobs,
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: but never really had any direction. I had no idea
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: what I was going to do. And in the most
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: improbable of circumstances, I end up in Boca Raton in
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: going to rehab for drugs and alcohol. And I did
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: my three months. I had a job. I used to
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: walk two miles back and forth. The major walk that
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: was part of the humility process when you went to rehab.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: I had to walk two miles back and forth in
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: the scorching summer heat to fold clothing at Marshall's department store.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: My paychecks were somewhere between $ 75 and $ 90. I'm not
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: kidding you. Eventually, I got a job at a place
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: called L & N Seafood in Boca Town Center Mall.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: And even there, if I was lucky, I'd make 200
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: bucks a week, if I was lucky. And I was married.
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: And I left Danielle at Brooklyn College. She was graduating college.
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: Hillary Clinton was the speaker, 1995. And I left, and
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: I never thought I'd see her again. I was so sad.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: And I went to Florida, and she ended up coming,
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: thank God. And we're still together 35 years later. But
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: I had no direction. And one day, I was sitting
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: out by the pool. That's what I did. The loser.
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: And Danielle said, you know, this is company in Fort Lauderdale, Zimbocca.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: And they do sports. They're an internet company. I know
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: nothing about the internet.
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: Nothing.
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: But they do sports. And our next-door neighbor, Elon Vatnin,
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: a New York kid, works there. She goes, I'm going
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: to go to Elon and see if we can get
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: you in. Seems to be like the future. I don't know, internet, sports, whatever.
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: I said, sure, I'm not working anyway. And I did it.
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: And thanks to Danielle. And I ended up getting a
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: job doing internet radio at that company two years later.
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: Internet radio, 1998. No one even knew about it. And
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: less than two years later, I owned Prime Real Estate
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: at WFAN. And I still effed it up. Time and
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: time again, I effed it up.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: Fired.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: Fired. Where's Sid? Can't find him. Where's Sid? Can't find him.
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: And I did that for a long time. Long time.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: I embarrassed my wife. I embarrassed my mother and father.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: My daughter Ava was one when she came to visit
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: me in rehab.
• 52:53
  Speaker 8: One.
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: It hurt. You know, the one thing about addicts and
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: people who have their difficulties is Stupid people call us selfish.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: You're just stupid. You mean nothing to me. You're a moron.
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: We feel it. We know. We know exactly what we've done.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: And most of us are decent, good people. So I
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: have a tremendous amount of remorse. Tremendous amount of remorse
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: for the hurt that I caused over the years. And
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: I caused a lot to the people that love me
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: the most. And even this Radio business, when Mark Chernoff,
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: who'll join me in about 40 minutes, said to me, Sid,
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: I've worked with Howard Stern, Don Imus, Mike and the
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: Mad Dog. You've got it. You could be as good
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: as any one of those guys. When he called and
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: fired me, he had no choice. Well, he gave me
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to resign, which is always very, very nice.
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: Sitting on the George Washington Bridge in tears, my wife
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: Danielle begging him to give us one more chance. He
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: gave me plenty. These were very hurtful times. So when
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: I tell you that the odds of this happening today,
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: some of you are like, ah, enough already, shut up,
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: said we don't care. Then don't listen, okay? You want
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: to get the news? You can listen to Fox News,
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: you know, on the radio. Go get it. I do
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: it for you every day. I've already done some news
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: here this morning. Go get it. I don't care. All
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: Sid does is talk about himself. Well, guess what? When
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: you host a show and you're number one, you can
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: dictate what you want to talk about, stupid. See, if
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: I was... flailing and doing poorly in the ratings, you
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: can make that argument. In fact, my management would. But
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: you know what? No one says a word to me
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: about my content because I'm number one by a mile.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: By a mile. People don't seem to care. They're not
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: bothered when I take a break from talking about Ukraine
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: or Russia or Israel or Mamdani or Trump or J.D.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: Because while all this is going on, folks, life happens.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: Life happens. And the Rosenberg family has been through a lot.
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: So we're going to celebrate today. Louis has been through
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: a lot. Louis was there with me. Those were some
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: of my roughest days. I was doing a lot of cocaine,
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: drinking a lot, a lot. Going out with Louis and
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: blondies and Upper West Side between 2001 and 2005. Nights
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: with Danielle said, don't come home. You're laughing, but you
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: saw all that.
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: Didn't you? I know.
• 55:31
  Speaker 20: I'm only laughing because I was kind of oblivious to
• 55:35
  Speaker 20: what the effect was that was going on because I
• 55:38
  Speaker 20: still saw you getting it done on the air a
• 55:41
  Speaker 20: lot of times.
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: I still showed up. Yeah.
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: You still were doing it. I missed five shows. They
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: made it sound like, and this is why I was
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: angry at WFAN, they made it sound like I never
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: came to work. He was hammered. That's not true. I
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: missed about four or five shows. That's it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 20: It never looked like you were really in a mess
• 55:57
  Speaker 20: or anything. But that's maybe to my naivete.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: No, you're right.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: It just looked like you got in most times.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: And you still performed. I didn't hear you, like, messing up.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: No. I didn't go to work drunk.
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: I didn't go to work drunk or high.
• 56:12
  Speaker 20: That's why when you say all these other jobs and
• 56:15
  Speaker 20: how it started for you, I can't see you doing
• 56:17
  Speaker 20: anything else than what you're doing.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: I really can't see it at all. Thank you.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: Because you're just made for this.
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: Look who's talking. The greatest ever at that position, Lou Ruffino.
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: But you did.
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: You over it.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: Look what you did. You over it a lot that
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: people would not be able to overcome. And this is
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: why you're here.
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, listen. Too passionate. That's why. Well, I
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: am passionate. I do love this job. But to be honest,
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: it is all about the love and support I've received.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: Starting with Danielle. My mother and father. Naomi's going to
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: be there later on today. I'm so excited. My 91-year-old mom.
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: My dad's gone. But hopefully he's watching. And my children,
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: you know. I mean, I say this. I'm not proud
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: of this, but Ava has seen me arrested. She was seven.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: I remember sitting in the backseat of a cop car
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: in Hollywood, Florida. And turning around and seeing my daughter cry.
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: And you know what? I still drank. I still drugged.
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: When she came to me, she was one. And Danielle
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: brought her in to visit me at rehab. I was humiliated.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: I wanted to kill myself. I tried twice to kill myself. Twice.
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: This is all very public knowledge. And I still drank.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: And I still drunk. And I still had my issues.
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: So you bet your ass I'm going to celebrate today.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: You don't want to hear it? Then please do me
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: a favor and go F yourself and listen to something else.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: Go listen to Curtis and his 1.5 or Boomer talk
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: about the Giants for the millionth time. We're going to
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: enjoy this today. It's been a long road. The Beatles,
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: they got that right. It's been a long road. And
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: for a lot of you, you've been with me for
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: a very long time. Some of you, like Pete Morgan,
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: every step of the way for 20 plus years. And
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: I love you for that. So today I say thank you.
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: But what if, and again, this is a crazy hypothetical,
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: what if Mayor Mamdani actually had somebody from his team
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: reach out and say, hey, I know we have different
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: opinions and it's gotten ugly, but congratulations. How would you respond, Sid?
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: And I think I said, I would say, eat shizzle.
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: You radical Islam son of a bitch. What would I do, though?
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: What do you think, Lou?
• 58:58
  Speaker 20: Well, it depends on how they proposed it to you.
• 59:01
  Speaker 20: What if they were just very nice?
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: Seriously, just very nice.
• 59:05
  Speaker 20: Well, I i need a specific thing like hey we
• 59:09
  Speaker 20: maybe we need to talk yeah maybe yeah.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: You know there's no question you've got a big voice
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: in this city and you've got a lot of people
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: that love you maybe we should talk and figure this
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: thing out and congratulations on your big day today.
• 59:21
  Speaker 19: You're really stretching that what what if he gave you
• 59:24
  Speaker 19: a key.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: To the city As part of the celebration.
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: See, he's already, Sid is already like, hmm.
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: He's sick. Key of the City is a big deal.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: That is a big deal because... He gave me the.
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: One that Eric Adams gave to, what's his name? He's
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: in prison. The rapper.
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: Diddy.
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: Diddy, right?
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: Diddy.
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: If Mom Donnie gave me a key to the city....
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: See, we're 70% there.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: We are, yeah.
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: You can see the ice is crumbling right off. I've
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: got to consider that.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: You know, I told you guys, and we played a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: clip of it on this show, every morning for about
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: the last two months, that about two months ago, the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: President of the United States, my friend Donald J. Trump,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: sent me this beautiful video, which they're going to play
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: today at the Hall of Fame luncheon from the Oval Office.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: It's a great video. And he was over the top
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: in his excitement and love for me and getting into
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame. I have not yet released the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: full video. Well, I have now. I did it this morning.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: The last couple of months we played about 40 seconds
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: of it on the show and on the internet. But
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: this morning I did put on Twitter, at SidRosenberg19, Facebook
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: at SidRosenberg, and Instagram at Rosenberg.Sydney, the full 90 plus
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: second video from President Trump. And for the first time ever,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: you are, this lucky radio audience, about to hear that video.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: So here it is, President Donald J. Trump from the
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: Oval Office, congratulating me on this big day today.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 13: Hello to everyone gathered at Rockefeller Center's iconic Rainbow Room,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 13: a room I know very, very well. And congratulations, especially
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 13: to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the New York
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 13: State Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I can't believe he didn't make it years ago.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: Today, Sid forever joins a roll call of some of
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 13: the greatest legends in the history of New York broadcasting
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 13: and talk radio, the best in the business.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: And he's the best in the business.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 13: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 13: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 13: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 13: to be one of those people in the audience. And
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 13: I had for a long time, long before I became president,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 13: He hosts the number one morning radio show in New
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 13: York City by far, and he is consistently among the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 13: highest-rated radio hosts anywhere in America. He has created a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 13: broadcasting legacy like few.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: Others, and I am proud to call him my friend.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 13: So, Sid, congratulations once again on a lifetime of incredible achievement.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 13: You are an amazing man, and you're my friend.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Have a good time, and don't
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: eat too much.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: Don't eat too much. That's for you, Noam. I know
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: you love the food at the Rainbow Room, don't you?
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Well, when it's free like that.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: Right, of course.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: And the drinks flow, are there drinks, too?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: I believe so.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 10: Oh, all right.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, get you a nice hammer today. Better be. Yeah, Justin.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 6: You got to see Justin.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, hello.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: It's going to be noon. There's not enough room on
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: the ledge at Wendy Levine's suite at Yankee Stadium for
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: the beers. If Justin and Lou go together... Literally, it's
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: like a thousand beers. So we've got to get you
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: guys all drunk today, don't we? It's going to be fun.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: It'll be great. Thank you for that, President Trump. We'll
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: play that again one more time in the 9 o'clock hour. And,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: of course, we're going to play that video at the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame luncheon later on today. Tomorrow night, the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: fall classic begins. The Milwaukee Brewers are taking on the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay Rays in the 2026 World Series. We're going
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: to talk to who I believe is the best baseball
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: guy in the country, Write for the New York Post, MLB.com.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: He's a big deal. His name is John Heyman. He's
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: on this show quite a bit during baseball season.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: The best baseball guy in the nation. In the nation.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: whether it's the New York Post, MLB, it doesn't matter,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: is my friend John Heyman. John is great, and what
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: a guy to have on the day before we start
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: the 2026 World Series. John Heyman, welcome back, good buddy.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 22: Hey, thanks for the introduction. Big day in baseball, big
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 22: day for you, Sid, going right to the Hall of Fame. Well-deserved,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 22: my friend, and no controversy about this Hall of Fame induction.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 22: You are the best.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you for saying that.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: That's right. I never would have thought 20 years ago
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: that I'd be in the Hall of Fame and Bonds
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 6: and Alex Rodriguez would not. But of course, it's not
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: the same Hall of Fame. You know what's funny? You
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: and I have talked about this, John, is this inevitable
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: work stoppage in baseball. And maybe it'll be a month.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: Maybe it'll be two months. Maybe the whole season. I
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: think we all agree there'll be some stoppage of work.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: And it all comes down to the big market teams, right?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, baseball needs... a salary cap, the big market
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: teams are spending all this money. And yet, what do
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 6: we have tomorrow? Tampa, small market team. Milwaukee, ranked 19th
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: in payroll, small market team. The irony, as we get
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: ready for a word stoppage, the World Series is Tampa
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: Bay and Milwaukee.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean, this is going to be shocking to
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 22: a lot of people. Baseball aficionados, we love it. Neither
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 22: of these teams has won a World Series. They're two
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 22: of the five teams never to win, so we're going
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 22: to get a First time World Series winner.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: It is great.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 22: They've done a great job in Tampa and Milwaukee building
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 22: a team. And certainly the owners are going to certainly
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 22: stick to their argument that it's very difficult to win
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 22: as a small market team. And they're going to look
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 22: at the history of it. And there is some merit
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 22: to that. But this is a little bit of a
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 22: dent in their argument, I think, that we have Tampa
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 22: and Milwaukee, not just the two teams, World Series teams,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 22: the two teams with the best records and the two
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 22: teams that eliminated the Dodgers and the Yankees.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: Both by sweep.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: Good point. Milwaukee, 103 wins, the most in the NL.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay, 98 wins, most in the AL. They've been
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 6: the two best teams. By the way, only time ever,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: talking about five teams that haven't won, where neither team
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 6: has won the World Series. This is the second time ever,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: I should say. Back in 1980, the Phillies beat the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: Royals in six. And again, one of these two teams
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 6: will win their first World Series. And I got to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: say this. You know, all the great managers that I've
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 6: met over the years working at WFAN, I sat down, John,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: with people like Joe Torre and even Lasorda and La Russa.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: I sat down with all these people, even Earl Weaver.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: The job that Kevin Cash does year in and year out,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: they don't win World Series, but 90-plus wins, first or
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: second place finishes. With that payroll, Kevin Cash, to me,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: is a miracle worker.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 22: Both of them, Pat Murphy of Milwaukee too. Murphy is
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 22: one of the manager of the year, the nationally two
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 22: straight years. Uh, he might be deserving that this year,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 22: although it's probably hard to give it to him a
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 22: third straight year, but I'm with you. Kevin cash is
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 22: a miracle worker. What a great hire. That was, uh,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 22: by Tampa. They must've known something right away. They give
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 22: a five year deal.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 7: Uh, he had been with the.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 22: Cleveland, uh, which seems to, uh, really, uh, do a
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 22: great job, but with executives and coaches and whatever, but, uh,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 22: He's been amazing. He had a five-year, $ 1 million-a-year contract
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 22: at the beginning. Now he makes probably five times that
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 22: or four. So he deserves it. He's amazing. The front
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 22: offices are amazing. They've all done an incredible job to
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 22: get here. Milwaukee, 19th in payroll, and Tampa in the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 22: bottom five. So it's pretty amazing that both of these
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 22: teams are here, but they're proven.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 7: It's not a fluke.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 22: They are the winningest teams in their.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: League, as you said.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: And they do have superstars both offensively, pitching. The Peralta
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: pickup turned out to be very big, leaving the Mets
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: and going to Tampa Bay. And usually when we get
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 6: to the World Series, I got a pretty good feel. Well,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: the last couple of years was easy. It was the Dodgers.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: I don't have a feel here. You know, I know
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee won more regular season games, five more. And like
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: you said, Milwaukee had to beat the Dodgers and Tampa
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: Bay had to beat the Yankees. I don't have a
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 6: real good feel here because they're both so good. They
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: both pitch. They both get timely hitting. They both catch
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: the baseball. So I don't know. You, John, you got
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: a feel about which one of these teams is going
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 6: to win this World Series?
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 22: Well, I don't know about a field, but I am
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 22: saying my in-laws in Milwaukee. So if I say I
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 22: don't know that Tampa's going to win, I could be
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 22: in trouble. Milwaukee has been a little bit better. They're
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 22: in the better league at this point. They did win
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 22: more games. They did win in a sweep in the LCS.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 22: I could see them as a slight favorite, but there's
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 22: a good case to be made for Tampa. It feels
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 22: like their starting pitching is in better shape right now.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 22: Nobody's pitching better than Rasmussen. Peralta was the LCS MVP.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 22: It's hard to even imagine that after what we saw
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 22: him do with the Mets. But, I mean, he's a
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 22: great pitcher. He's just had really basically one bad half
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 22: year in his career in nine years, and that happened
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 22: to be that half year that he was with the Mets.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 22: So I do see a case for Tampa, but I'm
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 22: going to go with a favorite here. I say that
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 22: knowing that the favorite often does not win in the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 22: World Series.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 22: It does seem to be a crapshoot, and oftentimes a
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 22: team that... A big underdog wins. So in this case,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 22: I think Tampa's a slight underdog, although I think their
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 22: starting pitching is in slightly better shape right now.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 6: Although this guy, Mazeroski, for the Brewers, what a year
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: this guy had.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 22: The Miz, amazing. He's incredible. I mean, 1,000 pitches over
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 22: 100 miles an hour. I mean, pitches over 104 miles
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 22: an hour. It's an event when he pitches in Milwaukee.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 22: The Miz is something else. Third-round pick. And really, Milwaukee,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 22: they do a great job drafting, developing. And this guy
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 22: obviously has a gift from God with that arm. It's
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 22: just incredible.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 7: It really is.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 22: And it's something to see. But I got to say,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 22: on Tampa's side, Rasmussen, the Yankee killer, he was a
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 22: Guardian killer as well. And he is a terrific pitcher.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 22: And right now, he's giving more length than Mizorowski. Mizorowski
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 22: is not good, given the six, seven innings that we've
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 22: seen him give throughout the season.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: One thing about baseball, I always have this conversation with you, John,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: and others, is it's a regional sport. What do I
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: mean by that? You know, in the NFL, I'm a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: Giant fan, okay? So I watch the Giants play Dallas
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: at 1 o'clock, but then... You know, 4 o'clock, I'm
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: watching the Raiders play the Chargers, you know, or the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: Niners play the Chiefs. Now, a lot of that is
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: because of the gambling. Everybody knows it. The NFL doesn't
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: like to admit it, but that's a fact. You're either
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: playing fantasy football or you're betting on the games. So
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: people watch Monday Night Football when their team is not
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: even playing. Baseball, that's not the case. When the Mets
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: aren't playing, most baseball guys, not you, I love you, John,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 6: but most baseball guys are not staying up to watch
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: the Padres play the Giants. So when you get a
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: regional sport and you get two small market teams like
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, even though it should be very,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: very competitive games, And they both deserve it. They're both
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 6: number one seeds inside their respective leagues. Is it fair
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: to assume the TV ratings may be awful?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm worried about the ratings. They could be terrible.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 22: They were a couple of years ago when the Rangers
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 22: and the Diamondbacks somehow made it to the World Series.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 22: They were not good. Now we have even smaller markets.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 22: My TV friends tell me that Tampa, for whatever reason,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 22: now that's not such a small market like Milwaukee. Milwaukee
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 22: is the smallest market in baseball tied with Cincinnati, depending
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 22: on how you look at it. But Tampa's not that
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 22: small a market. They're a low-revenue team, but they are, Tampa,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 22: for whatever reason, in any sport, is deaf for rating.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 22: So I am worried, you know, the baseball aficionados are
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 22: going to be tuned in because these are two great
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 22: teams and Very interesting to see how they built their
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 22: teams and see how they do win. I mean, they
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 22: both use bunts. They both put both the ball in play.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 22: It's a more interesting game than the three true outcomes
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 22: of the home run, walk, and strikeout. It should be
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 22: a fun series, but the ratings are– I'm going to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 22: be shocked if the ratings aren't terrible.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 7: I really am.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: One local question for you, John. I know the Steinbrenners
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: and catchmen love him. Yankees have decided to bring back
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 6: Aaron Boone for his 10th season. I was talking to, oh,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 6: it was Beningo yesterday. I said, when I was a kid,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: it was World Series win, not even get in, because
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: Steinbrenner was so embarrassed that his team got their answers
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: kicked by the Reds in 76, that he went out
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: and got Reggie Jackson for 77. It was World Series
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: win or bust. Now with the Yanks, with the kid Howell,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: it seems like, 95 wins. Let me sell out the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: Bronx every night. Just make it to the playoffs. We
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: don't got to get to the World Series. We don't
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 6: got to win. It seems like it's different. and I
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: guess we haven't gone to one of World Series, I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: should say, in 19 years, that would change the way
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 6: your fan base thinks. But it does seem different, yes?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 22: Yeah, it doesn't only seem different.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 7: It is different.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 22: I mean, there's no way that Hal Steinbrenner can claim
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 22: it's World Series or bust. We've had nine straight years now.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 22: I agree that Aaron Boone is a solid manager. He's
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 22: got a 58% winning percentage in the regular season, which
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 22: is excellent. He gets along with ownership. He gets along
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 22: with players. And if they care, he does get along
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 22: with media. But I mean, it doesn't it's clear. It
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 22: doesn't just seem it's clear that they are not adamant
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 22: about winning the World Series, getting to the World Series
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 22: or anything like that. I mean, you wonder how many
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 22: years it would take to actually make a change. I
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 22: do kind of think that the lockout even though they
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 22: won't admit it, probably made it clear to them, why
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 22: do it now? Why hire somebody now? We're going into
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 22: a lockout for sure. And we're going to pay another guy.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 22: And he's not going to be able to talk to
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 22: the players. And it's, you know, Boone's got a year
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 22: to go. So, you know, perhaps if the circumstances were different,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 22: maybe they would have made that change now. But I mean, yeah,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 22: I mean, you know, it's not just Steinbrenner. Anybody in
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 22: old time baseball with a big market team, you're going
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 22: nine years.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 7: You know, even if you.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 22: Are deemed good, and I think he is a pretty
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 22: good manager, usually the time.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: Is up at this point.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 6: Final 30 seconds, whenever the lockout is over, if you're
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: a Met fan, a New York Met fan, any reason
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: some of these young guys and Ewing and the other
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: kid came up big last year, any reason to be
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: optimistic about next season?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, certainly.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 22: I mean, they had... perhaps the best collection of rookies
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 22: in baseball, still counting McLean. He was a rookie technically. Benj, obviously, Ewing,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 22: you mentioned. I would say the Mets and the Guardians
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 22: are the two teams that have the best collection of rookies. Obviously,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 22: they have the wherewithal with Steve Cohen there. And they
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 22: did underachieve last year. They did play better in the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 22: second half. So, You know, I wouldn't give up on
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 22: the Mets completely. I would think that their future is
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 22: not as dim as probably some Mets fans even think
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 22: that it is.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: Well, how about that? And there was Steve Cohen sitting
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: courtside for the Knicks for the ceremony, the first night's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: loss against Philadelphia. John Heyman, I love you. You really
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: are great. I mean this. You're the best baseball guy
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 6: in the country. Keep up the great work, and please
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 6: keep coming on, even if there's a lockout. We'll talk about, like,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: 20 years ago, baseball.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 22: You're the best, and you're the best, and a Hall
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 22: of Famer.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you so much. You're great.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 6: John Heyman right there, for what it's worth. His in-laws
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: are in Milwaukee, so he's picking the Brewers to win
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 6: the World Series. What a super guy and a great
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 6: baseball guy. We'll take a short break. It is Hall
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 6: of Fame Thursday.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 6: People have been very nice all day as we get
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: set to head over to the iconic Rainbow Room. I
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 6: played that beautiful address from President Trump. My next guest
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: hates him, but I love my next guest. I don't
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: think I'd be here today. I wouldn't be here today.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: I can make that definitive statement. I would not be
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 6: here today if Mark Chernoff never gave me a shot.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: And he gave me a lot of shots at WFAN
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: many years ago. Believe it or not, 25 years ago.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 6: So I'll always love Mark Chernoff, me, Danielle, the kids,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: all of us. He's probably the greatest. I'm going to
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: say it. He's the greatest, I guess, front office guy,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 6: if we're talking baseball.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 6: Greatest front office guy in the history of radio.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: Programming.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 6: Programming, all of it. Operations. All of it. And listen,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: you know, Chad Lopez is terrific here, and I'm also
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 6: proud of Chris Olivero, but I'm sorry. It all begins
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: with Mark Chernoff. Chernoff, good morning, my friend. How are you?
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 18: My head is swelling, by the way, after that introduction.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 18: I have to tell you something, Sid.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 18: There is somebody who's not getting into the Hall of
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 18: Fame today who's more deserving than you.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 7: One person.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: Joe Beningo.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: No. No.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: You? You're in the Hall of Fame.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 21: No.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 18: Yes, but that's not me.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: Give me a hint. Give me one hint, Johnny.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 18: You know her very well.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, I know it. You ready for this? Because I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 6: know you so well. And this is part of the
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: reason why I love you. You believe the Rosenberg that
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: should go into the Hall of Fame today is Danielle.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 18: Absolutely.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, God. You know, I told this story this morning,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 6: and it's true, when you had given me so many chances,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: and I love you forever for that, and I really do.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: But finally, you know, nothing you could do anymore. You know,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 6: I kept screwing up. And when That phone call was made.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: We were on the bridge heading to Astoria. Me and
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: Danielle left for the Atlantic City trip, and she was
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: going to beg you to save me one more time,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: and you had done everything you could. And I'll never
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: forget that phone call, because I was sitting in the
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: passenger seat. You and Danielle, the both of you were
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: in tears. It was actually a beautiful phone call at
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: a very, very, very difficult time. I never forgot that.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 18: The fact that she has put up with you for
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 18: all these years She deserves to be in the Hall
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 18: of Fame and deserves medals of all kinds.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: You believe we're going to be married 35 years in June. 35.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 18: As we say, mazel tov.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 7: Congratulations. Thank you. That was great.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 18: And to your beautiful, wonderful kids, Ava and Gabe.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 7: As well.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Charney.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 18: By the way, you're also going to be getting into
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 18: the tanning Hall of Fame, from what I can tell.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: I am very tan. I look good. I got to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 6: say it myself. You're going to die, Sid. You're going
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: to die, Sid. I say, all the stuff I've done
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 6: to my body over the years, and you're familiar with
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: a lot of it, okay? I don't think that tanning
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: is going to kill me, but who knows, Sean? You
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: never know, you know? But I remember... I.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 18: Have to bring up that one baseball thing for you, okay?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 6: Sure, sure.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 18: Because, you know, my son is the general manager of
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 18: the Cleveland Guardians. Did you know that they had the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 18: lowest payroll in baseball at $ 74. 2 million?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 18: The next closest team were the Marlins at $ 83 million.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 18: The Mets were number one, and the Mets had a
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 18: payroll of $ 347 million. The Dodgers, $ 336 million. The Yankees,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 18: $ 304 million. Now, who made it to the ALCS?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 7: Cleveland.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: And they won that division. Listen, your son does a
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: tremendous job. He really does. And I literally just hung
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: up the phone with John Heyman, who is a great
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: baseball guy. We talked about the improbability of two small
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: market teams, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, being in the World Series.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: And your son's baseball team was right there. So the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: irony is, as you know, John, we're about to endure
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: a work stoppage, maybe a month, maybe two, maybe the
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: whole season. And the irony is Cleveland, Milwaukee, Tampa Bay,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 6: those are some of the best teams in baseball.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 18: Well, Tampa Bay was 25th in payroll. It's been $ 98 million.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 18: And the Brewers actually had it. They were in the
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 18: middle of the pack. They were 19th with $ 143 million.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 18: And Cleve, I heard John, you know, John worked for
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 18: us back at FAN for many years, and he is
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 18: a great, absolute writer and guest on the air, and
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 18: even hosted some shows for us.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 7: He's terrific.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 6: I remember, yep.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 18: And like you, I love the guy as well. He's just,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 18: you know, right on top of stuff. He also pointed
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 18: out all the prospects that Cleveland has, you know, Bazana, DeLauder, Messick, Williams,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 18: the pitcher. I mean, they, you know, they got a
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 18: lot to be proud of. Now we'll have to see
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 18: what kind of lockout there is and how long it lasts. But,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 18: you know, the owners, I think, would have preferred to
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 18: have the Dodgers win. Then they could say, well, look,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 18: we really need to have more equality out there.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 7: But you know what?
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 18: Three of the four teams that got to the championship
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 18: series were low-payroll teams. So there you go.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 6: Bottom line. So that didn't work out well for baseball.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: And talking about baseball, Jern, our whole relationship started during baseball.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 6: I was working at WNEW, and the Mets were playing
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: the Yankees in the World Series. And I made my
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 6: way over to Rockefeller Center, where I'll be today, ironically,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: at the Rainbow Room. And you guys, Mike and the
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 6: Mad Dog, were doing this outdoor show. The whole city
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: was wild with this Met Yankee World Series. And I
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 6: was wearing a jersey. I forget whose jersey, but you
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 6: walked over to me.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 18: You were wearing a Ranger jersey.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 6: Ranger jersey.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 6: And you walked over to me, and you were so
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: kind and so sweet. And that was our first conversation,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 6: the beginning of what was quite a marriage, Mark Chernoff.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 18: Well, Sid, you know, it was a treat having you
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 18: work for us at the radio station. It was not
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 18: a treat that you just had so many issues back
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 18: and forth. You know, we put you on wins for
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 18: a while doing sports reports of 15 and 45. And,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 18: you know, that last straw was when you were down
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 18: in Atlantic City and didn't come back for the Giants
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 18: pregame show. And, you know, it was a sad day
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 18: for me. It was a very sad day. And when
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 18: I saw your father watching, he was there to watch
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 18: the pregame show, and I said, where's Sid? And he said, uh-oh.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: He probably turned white, my dad. And that's, you know.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: I'm sure. And that's the one thing about today. You know,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: my mom, who you also know pretty well, she's 91 Naomi,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: and she came to the house last night. She's going
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: to join us. later on today. But that is the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: one thing about today that, um, that makes me sad.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: Otherwise it's a very celebratory great day, but my dad's
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 6: been gone for six years and he would have loved
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: this today.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 7: You know, he would have. Yeah.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 18: Well, look, Sid, the fact that you were able to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 18: turn your life around and, and do all the things
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 18: that you've done, um, has really been amazing because there
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 18: was that low point, you know, many years ago now
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 18: where I said, I just hope you stay alive.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 18: I remember you went up in Sussex County for rehab,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 18: and you were supposed to stay there, I don't.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 7: Know, three weeks, four weeks.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 18: And, you know, after like three days, I'm done. I
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 18: got everything I need out of this. And I said
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 18: to Danielle, we met at the Forum Diner out on
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 18: Route 4.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 7: Yes, we did.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 18: Which isn't there anymore. And it's like, Sid, what are
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 18: you doing? And I'm good. I'm completely clean.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 7: I'm healthy.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 18: Even Danielle's looking at me like, you're nuts. You're my husband,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 18: but you're nuts.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's true. You guys were awfully good to me then.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: You know what, Sid?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 18: You deserve a medal for being able to come back
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 18: from all of that. I mean, that's really amazing that
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 18: you were able to make your way, you know, found
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 18: your way and, you know, do do what you do
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 18: on New York morning radio. And I think it's just
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 18: truly amazing. So it's it's it's well deserved the honors
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 18: that you're getting. Um, if I wasn't under the weather today,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 18: I have a deeper voice, which is nice. I was
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 18: actually planning on being.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, really? Oh, that would have been great. That would
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: have been great. But I will say this, you know,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 6: I I've lost many brothers and sisters in recovery over
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: the years. And every now and then I'll go back
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 6: and take a look at the big book, which a
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: bunch of folks signed when I was in rehab. The
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 6: first time I went to two and a lot of
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: those folks are dead. And the reason why is because
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 6: they never had the support. You know, I, I get
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 6: a lot of credit. You just gave it to me
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: for coming back. And yeah, at the end of the day,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 6: it was me, right? I had to get up in
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: the morning and go to bed at night. But the
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 6: fact that I had Naomi and Harvey and Danielle and
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: Ava and Gabriel and Mark Chernoff and Even when I
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: went to rehab that second time, you guys didn't fire me.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: In fact, what you guys did was you said, go
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: away for 30 days. And when you get back, you're
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 6: going to be back on Imus. You're going to be
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 6: back with Joe Beningo. You're back. And then, of course,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: it took me about four months to blow the whole
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: thing up. But the truth is, I've had so much
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: support between friends and family. And look at this, Charney.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 6: I'm staring right now with Lou Ruffino. You worked with
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 6: that guy for like 30 years. He's still here. That's
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 6: why I'm sober today. I wish I could take all
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 6: the credit, but it's just not true.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 18: By the way, Lou, congrats on the great music you
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 18: still pick.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Mark.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 18: Whether it was, you know, the Beatles, Chicago. I mean,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 18: you know, I love hearing the music.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: You know that.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: I do know.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking of you, actually, a lot of times.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: Are you still doing that? Are you still spinning records, Sherm?
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 18: I am at WFDU, which is Fairleigh Dickinson's commercial-free public
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 18: radio station, 89.1 FM. I do Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 18: 1 p.m. I do some fill-in as well. It's just
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 18: a wonderful place to work. It's retro radio. So it's,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 18: you know, 60s, 70s. And, you know, we can play
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 18: anything we want. I try to come up with themes
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 18: and stuff. And I haven't had this much fun on
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 18: the radio in a million years.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 7: Wow. It's just.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 18: It's just unbelievable. It's a great place. Our program director,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 18: her name is Opie. She's a terrific leader. All the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 18: other jocks, my buddy Lonnie Strum, he and I worked
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 18: together at... uh, WRSU at Rutgers years ago, um, does
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 18: a show on Thursday. So today from nine to one
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 18: and just, I like all the people there. Um, it's,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 18: it's a lot of fun and, um, you know, be
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 18: able to just play the songs that I want to play.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 18: And I think that listeners want to hear.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: So.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: That is great. I'm happy to hear that. I really am. Well,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 6: I got to tell you this.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 18: You know, when Cousin Brucey, you know, needs to fill in.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: I told these guys here, I told Janice, we got
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: to get Cherny on here at Music Weekends. That's the guy.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: We got a bunch of great people here too, but
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: you're amazing. You'd be perfect here. So I'll tell him
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: again today. I think you just told him actually, Cherny,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: good job. Listen, on a serious note, you found me
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 6: way back when and you've been, you know, on my birthday,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: the very first text I get every year is still you.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: It's unbelievable. 26 years. The first text I still get
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: is yours and the holidays and And my family loves you,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: and I love you, and New York loves you. You're
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 6: just an absolute legend. So thank you for all you've
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 6: done for me, and thank you for calling in this morning.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 6: I love you.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 7: Well, congratulations.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 18: Have a great time, and make sure you give Danielle
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 18: plenty of kudos at the luncheon today.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 6: I promise I will. Okay, Johnny, I love you. Thank you, buddy. Y'all,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 6: you're the best. Come on, you're the best. Thank you.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 6: There he is, ladies and gentlemen, the amazing Mark Chernoff.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: When they write the book about the greatest people to ever,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 6: ever program radio, I'm telling you, Chernoff, And no disrespect
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 6: to Chad and Chris, Chernoff is number one. We'll take
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 6: a short break. Lots more to do. Three more great
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 6: guests still to come. Rich Lowry, the editor of the
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 6: National Review, he's going to be there today at this luncheon.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: We love Rich. And a big one-two punch about to
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: come your way with Bruce Blakeman and Bill O'Reilly.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 26: Congratulations, Sid, on your induction into the New York State
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 26: Broadcasters Hall of Fame. So I completely agree with President Trump.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 26: It's unbelievable it took them so long. Sid, you've not
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 26: only become one of the great voices of New York
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 26: and America, you're one of the greatest voices of truth
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 26: for Israel. And there's a reason you have such an
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 26: enormous audience. You don't blabber woke nonsense. You don't tell
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 26: people what the fashionable crowd thinks they should hear. You
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 26: tell them the truth, the hard truth. And you tell
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 26: it with passion.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 7: With humor.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 26: And with absolutely no fear. Sid, I want you to know,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 26: Israel knows who its friends are. You have stood with
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 26: us when it was popular, and more importantly, when it wasn't.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: In his gubernatorial run, he's going to beat Kathy Hochul.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: I don't care about Quinnipiac, Paul. Stop already. God, it's nonsense.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: He's doing great. The current Nassau County executive, my friend
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, good morning, buddy.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 7: How are you? Doing great, Sid. It was great seeing
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 7: you yesterday with great people, the Torkins. Suzanne Miller, so
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 7: many nice people coming together to save our state. What
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 7: a venue that was that we were at. What a
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 7: beautiful view of New York City.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: There's a picture that I sent you last night that
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: you and I took at the end of the night
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 6: when you were leaving of you and I with the
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 6: skyline behind us. Not the skyline, but. Buildings across New York,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: the lights. It is such a gorgeous picture. John Katzmatidis
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: was there early last night, too. So was Ed Cox. Listen,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 6: I can feel it, man. I'm out in the city
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: every day, Bruce. I talk to a lot of people.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 6: A lot of people talk to me. I feel it
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: in the boroughs everywhere that you've got this huge, huge momentum.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 6: I know you feel it, too.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 7: So I was at an Italian deli in Greenwich Village, FICO.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 7: And I get a hero sandwich. They got picnic tables
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 7: out in front of their store. I'm sitting out there
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 7: in Greenwich Village. And people were coming up to me saying,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 7: you got to save our state. We're behind you 100%.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 7: people that you wouldn't expect to be supporting a Republican.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 7: I thought I was in Massapequa, right in the middle
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 7: of Greenwich Village. It was amazing.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you've shown that. Like, we've seen Deborah Messing.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 6: We've seen Bob Holden, Bonnie Lautenberg. You win elections in
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 6: Nassau County, even though that is much bluer than red.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 6: So you have proven that you can win even when
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: Republicans are not the big order in that district, in
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 6: that city, in that state.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 6: Because you're a common sense guy. I mean, even when
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: Kathy Hochul tried to pin Trump all over you at
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: the debate, and you're tight with Trump. You guys are brothers.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 6: He loves you. You love him. You're like, no, I
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 6: don't agree with everything, okay? I'm pro-choice. Let me tell
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 6: you this. Pro-choice Republican in New York? I like that, Bruce.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 6: So am I. I like that.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, the difference between our party and the
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 7: Democratic Party is... The Democratic Party would never let a
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 7: pro-life candidate run in their party. They would ostracize them
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 7: and kick them out. I know there's a lot of
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 7: people that are pro-life in our party, but they have
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 7: agreed to put that aside for now and for them
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 7: to support me because they know what's at stake. It's
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 7: the future of our state. So it's not any one
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 7: issue that's going to decide this campaign. The issue is,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 7: do we want to save our state, the highest taxed
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 7: state in America? utility bills 70% higher than the national average,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 7: and people getting shot in the subways at a record level.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 7: We've got to stop the insanity that's going on in
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 7: our state.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 6: You were on the subway a couple of days ago.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 6: It was great. You and the whole crew. And you said, hey,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 6: let me tell you something, folks. It ain't all that rosy.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 6: You said something last night. You nearly had me in tears.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 6: I'm not just patronizing you. I mean it. You said, listen, folks,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 6: it's really not about me. You're Bruce Blakeman, right? You
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 6: got money. You've had a great career. It's not about you, Sid, okay?
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 6: You're a big-time radio guy. It's our kids. It's Danielle
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 6: and Danielle. It's Gabe and Ava for me. It's your
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 6: beautiful son, Arlen, for you. And eventually our grandchildren. If
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 6: we're going to save this state, our children and our
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 6: grandchildren need to live in a better place. I loved
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: when you said that last night because, Bruce, you're a
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: thousand percent right.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 7: Well, Sid, our parents and our grandparents fought for us
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: to have a better life. That's what every generation in
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 7: America did. They wanted the next generation to do a
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 7: little better. But there's not one of us who could
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: look our kids and grandkids in the eye today and say,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 7: your life in New York is going to be better
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 7: than mine unless we change the leadership of this state
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 7: because we are in a death spiral. Antisemitism rampant. Crime rampant.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 7: You're talking about the highest taxes in America. utility bills
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 7: 70% higher than the national average, jobs are leaving our state.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 7: We need to turn that out, create prosperity, create safe communities,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: have better jobs for our kids so they have a
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 7: better future, jobs with better salaries and better benefits. That's
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 7: what I want to create. I want to create a
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 7: place that is safe and exciting and affordable here in
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 7: New York, and we can do it if we all
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 7: work together.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 6: I know you got a lot to do this morning,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: so I'm not going to keep you too long. You've
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 6: been so great to me on every week throughout this
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 6: whole campaign, which you've done a tremendous job. I love
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: it talking about energy because that's a big, big issue.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: And you talk about it all the time. They're driving
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 6: Lamborghinis and Cadillacs in Pennsylvania. And we've got old pickup
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: trucks brought across the border in New York because Josh
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 6: Shapiro in Pennsylvania, they're getting all the money. We're buying
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 6: our energy from them. How does that make any sense?
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 6: And then this hokal, this wretched hokal bragging about these
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: ridiculous energy rebate checks. They're like a hundred bucks. What
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: good is that when you're 2000 in the hole?
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 7: She raised the annual payment of utility bills for the
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 7: typical New Yorker by $ 4, 000 a year. Wow. And she's
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 7: giving us a check for $ 150 back. Are you kidding me?
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know what? I know it's a campaign ploy.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 7: You know, give the people money right before the election.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 7: But people in New York aren't stupid. As a matter
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 7: of fact, they're going to be incensed when they get
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 7: that check. They're going to say, this is it? My
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 7: bills went up $ 4, 000 a year, and this is it? $ 150?
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 7: It's a joke.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 6: It really is a joke. What's on the docket for today, Bruce?
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 6: Where are you going to be?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to be in Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, Rockland, Manhattan, Queens,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 7: and Long Island. Other than that, I've got nothing to
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 7: do today.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 6: When you're in Rockland, will you be campaigning with Mike Lawler?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 7: I don't know if we're hooking up with Lawler. I
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 7: did last weekend. Look, he's a terrific guy. I feel
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 7: very confident about his campaign. He's got a lot of momentum.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 7: People are rallying around him. Look, his opponent lives and
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 7: pays taxes in Virginia. Are you kidding me? I know.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 7: It's crazy. Come to our state and try to take
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 7: over for what we already have as a great and
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 7: courageous member of Congress. And look, we're going to surprise
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 7: a lot of people, Sid. We're going to win Republican
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 7: congressional races here in New York that people didn't expect
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 7: all over the state. There are good candidates. They're running hard.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 7: And we're going to pick up seats because people don't
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 7: want the nonsense that's going on in Paris and Milan
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 7: and around the world to come to our country. And
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 7: that's exactly what will happen if the DSA, with all
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 7: their candidates, win elections and moves their party further to
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 7: the lunatic left.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 6: It's already here. I mean, we saw some of that
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: during the George Floyd summer. We certainly saw that after
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 6: October the 7th. It's just going to get worse under
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 6: Hochul and Mamdani. Like I keep saying, you know, Bruce Blakeman,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 6: he's got a tough job. All these candidates in New York,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: they got a tough job because, you know, Mike Lawler
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 6: is running against Kate Conley, but he's running against Conley
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: and Mamdani. Blakeman is running against Hochul, but he's running
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 6: against Hochul and Mamdani. All you guys have to be
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 6: two people, basically, because everybody in this state, these cowards,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 6: these Democrat cowards are so scared the death of Mamdani.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 6: All you guys got to run against him, too.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 7: Well, listen, when we win this year, it's not only
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 7: going to be good for the Republican Party, but it's
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 7: going to be good for the Democratic Party. I'd love
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 7: to see the Democratic Party go back to being liberal,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 7: not socialist, philosophical differences, policy differences, but Democrats that love America,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 7: not this crowd who hates America.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: That's the bottom line. And last thing, just so you know,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: you'll get a kick out of this, but I've gone
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 6: to so many Trump rallies, so have you. You know
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 6: how the crowd gets all ginned up, Bruce, as they
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: get ready for Trump, and usually he'll play like Guns
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 6: N' Roses, November Rain, or something, and the crowd gets...
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you something. Last couple of events
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 6: that I did with and for you, the crowd was
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: going nuts. I'm up there talking for 30 minutes. I
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: mentioned your name. I swear to you, I'm not patronizing you.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: I'm not trying to blow you up here. I am
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: telling you, this crowd, the last couple of times I've
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 6: done this, It's like a Trump crowd. That's how excited.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: That is the enthusiasm that is out there right now,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman, for you.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 7: Well, listen, it's not for me. It's for the people
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: of this state. Like I said, Sid, it's for our
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 7: kids and our grandkids. What kind of future do we
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 7: want in New York? It's a movement. It's a campaign.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 7: I'm just the guy who delivers the message. And when
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: I get up there, I'm the guy that has to
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 7: get the job done. but it's all the people that
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 7: are supporting me. Republicans, Democrats, independents, people who love this
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 7: state and love America. That's why we're doing this. It's
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 7: not any one person. And you've been the best. You've
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 7: allowed me a great forum on your radio station. And look,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 7: I want to congratulate you two on the hall of fame.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 7: You're the go baby. Thank you, man.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Bruce. I love you. Keep it up.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 26: All right.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 6: Have a great day today. Thank you for your friendship
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 6: and all the great things you've done for New York
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 6: and that, uh, That nice little comment about the Hall
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 6: of Fame, that means a lot to me. Bruce Blakeman,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: I love you. Thank you so much.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 7: God bless you and God bless America.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 6: You too. There he is, our next governor here in
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 6: New York and the current Nassau County executive. my friend
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: Bruce Blakeman. Love him. Nassau County guy. In fact, my
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: next guest, he's coming up. He's also a Nassau County guy.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 6: And as I've been telling you guys for years, there
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: is no segment on WABC any time of the day,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 6: any show that gets bigger ratings than than when Bill
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 6: O'Reilly stops by Sid and Friends in the morning. So
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 6: let's do it. Let's get a whole bunch of big ratings.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 13: Hello to everyone gathered at Rockefeller Center's iconic.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: Rainbow Room, a room I know very, very well.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 13: And congratulations, especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 13: the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: I can't believe he didn't make it years ago.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 13: Today, Sid forever joins a roll call of some of
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 13: the greatest legends in the history of New York broadcasting
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 13: and talk radio, the best in the business.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: And he's the best in the business.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 13: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 13: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 13: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 13: to be one of those people in the audience. And
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 13: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 13: He hosts the number one morning radio show in New
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 13: York City by far. And he is consistently among the
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 13: highest rated radio hosts anywhere in America. He has created
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 13: a broadcasting legacy like few others.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: And I am proud to call him my friend.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 6: Last year, we walked home together from that big luncheon,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 6: George V and I. So I'm on record. I'm upset
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 6: that George V is not coming.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's one thing.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 6: I'm on record, yeah.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a little bit of a list
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 5: of things you won't be happy about. Oh, I'm sure
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 5: that will be, sure.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 6: Take it easy. For the most part, I've been very
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 6: happy and celebratory today.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you could say that.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 6: Thanking people like Mark Chernoff. He's meant so much to
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 6: my career and President Trump. And how about this guy?
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's no way I'm where I am today
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 6: without Bill O'Reilly. Bill's the best ever. He was the best.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 6: He still is the best. He'll always be the best.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 6: Whether it's Thursday mornings with me or Monday afternoons with
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 6: John and Rita or his morning message, Bill O'Reilly's the best.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 6: He's got his own amazing news site, the best, BillOReilly.com.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 6: Great stories, great interviews. It's just great television. He's a
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 6: tremendous writer. His killing series, he's got about 13 of
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 6: those great books. Now he's got All these confronting books.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 6: You know, he confronts presidents. He confronts evil. Now he's
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 6: confronting America. He has managed to do something that no
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: one else can, and that's made Chris Cuomo relevant on
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 6: that Face the Nation, or what's it called? News Nation.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 6: There you go. And he's got his own amazing podcast,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 6: Do It Live, where he has great guests every week.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 6: And I just love this guy. I can never thank
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 6: him enough for what he's done for me. Bill O'Reilly
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 6: on this big, big day for me. Let me just
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 6: start by saying thank you.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 7: Did I miss the Biden testimonial to you?
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 6: You know, I actually have something from Biden that I
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 6: never play. But I didn't get one from Mom Donnie.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 6: He has not come through yet, but you've been great.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 7: Well, he's working on it, you know. I'm jealous. I'm,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 7: you know, the only award I've ever gotten. in New
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 7: York State was the Your Terrible Award given out by
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 7: The View. The View gave me the Your Terrible Award. Oh, God.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 6: And they kicked you off. You can't get back on
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 6: that show. What's funny is I won't talk.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 22: I know.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 6: And moments ago, our friend Laura Trump was on Fox
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 6: News talking about Stephen A. Smith, your buddy, who actually
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 6: was on The View defending President Trump. And the Trump
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 6: camp is very happy these days with Stephen A. Smith,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 6: who had dinner, as you know, with Kid Rock. And
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 6: who else was there? It was Stephen A., Kid Rock. Oh,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 6: and Bill Maher had dinner with President Trump at the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 6: White House a couple of days ago.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and Stephen A. told me he enjoyed the hero
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 7: sandwich very much. And they had some Nathans, you know,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 7: and all that. I'm sure.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 6: McDonald's, McDonald's. Hey, look, at the end of the day,
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 6: Stephen A. can— he' s critical of President Trump, Iran, all that
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: stuff— He'll never say it like I say it because
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 6: I'm a sycophant. I get that. And you're not that
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 6: way either. You're actually a real journalist. But the truth is,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 6: Stephen A., he likes Trump. I'm sorry. I think he does.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 7: Well, I think he respects that Trump is trying. to
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 7: change America in a way that benefits a lot of people,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 7: and that's never, ever presented to by most of the media.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 7: In fact, The View, Stephen A. was lucky to get
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 7: on because they don't put on anyone that says anything
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 7: good about the President of the United States, which is ridiculous.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 7: You know, you put somebody on, you have a lively debate,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 7: maybe you use some good humor in all this. I
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 7: know it's serious. But these people, the cancel culture and
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 7: their blackballing, as much as they view, it's not just them,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 7: it's the whole network. hierarchy. I used to have no
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 7: trouble getting on these shows to promote all of my books,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 7: which is why we've had 20 number one bestsellers. And
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 7: Confronting America is not a political book. It's here's the problem.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 7: Here's how you solve it. I can't get on these
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 7: shows because I'm fair to Trump. I'm fair to him.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 7: I'm not trying to hurt him. But anyway, let's get
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 7: back to you. So The last time I was at
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 7: the Rainbow was years ago. And it was funny because
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 7: Bruce Blakeman's former wife is married to Paul McCartney. And
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 7: Barbara Walters, the late Barbara Walters, threw a party for her.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 7: And I somehow was invited. I have no idea because
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 7: I'm never invited to anything.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 6: Come on. So you're telling me in the same room
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 6: you had Bill O'Reilly, Barbara Walters, Paul McCartney, and Bruce
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: Blateman's wife.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 7: Yes. So McCartney is the last to arrive. You know,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 7: he's a knight or something. I asked Barbara, I said,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 7: do I have to wear the helmet? When he comes in,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 7: I have a little sword, but not a big one.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 7: Me too. And I'm Irish, and I'm not calling any
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 7: Brit sir. I mean, that's not happening. Not going to happen, no.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 7: So anyway, he comes up in the elevator, and he
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 7: knows who I am, McCartney, because he spends a lot
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 7: of time here in New York, out in the East End,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 7: and he's more in America than in Britain now. So
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 7: he comes off the elevator, and Barber runs right over
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 7: and says, Oh, Sir Paul, this is Bill O'Reilly. And
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 7: he goes, McCartney goes, Hi, Phil. Phil.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 6: He didn't say Phil. He did not say Phil.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 7: Yes, he did.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 6: Hi, Phil.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 7: Whereupon I look down on him. I'm 6'4, and I go,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 7: I'm doing okay, Ringo. How are you doing? That's how
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 7: it started. I thought Barbara Walters was going to have
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 7: to be taken to intensive care.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 6: Well, when you said Ringo, what did he say?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 7: He didn't say anything.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 6: That's funny.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's not going to engage in a punk
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 7: like me. I mean, you know, I was going to
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 7: tell him I like Jerry and the Pacemakers more than
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 7: the Beatles, but I didn't get around to that.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 6: What a great reference, Jerry and the Pacemaker.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, I love Jerry and the Pacemaker. Oh, that's funny.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 7: But in my book, Confronting America, What Has to Change,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 7: there's a big chapter on McCartney and how he, President Obama,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 7: and me, your humble correspondent, were involved with this huge project.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 7: And it's one of the greatest stories, so I hope
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 7: people will check it out. because it's an important story,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 7: and to show you how things work. So the Rainbow Room,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 7: I have not been to in a while. I'm sorry
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 7: I can't be there today. I've got to tape whatever
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 7: I do. I don't even know what I do anymore.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 6: I know you're everywhere.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 7: It's not a podcast. It's a broadcast, and then I.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: Got this and that. Didn't you tell me in a
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: quiet moment a couple of months ago, you said, Sid...
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 6: I got to calm down just a little bit. I
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 6: got to take. I don't see that happening. When did
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 6: you mean? What year? What year was that? Did you
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 6: mean like 2030?
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 7: It's just that I have 60 people, six-year-old working for me. Wow.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 7: And we don't do a podcast where people are sitting
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 7: around smoking pot and sweatshirts.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 7: That's not what we're doing.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 6: That's Joe Rogan. That's not you.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, I'm doing news of the day in
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 7: a way that is very clear. Clarity is everything and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 7: very fair. And it's just taken off. There's almost 10
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 7: years we've been doing this. So I can't be at
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 7: the Rainbow Room, but I would love to be there
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 7: to cause some kind of ruckus. because everybody's going to
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 7: be kissing your tuchus. You know that. And I would
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 7: probably dissent. I'd go, wait, wait, wait.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 6: Slow down.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, if you really knew this guy, I mean, we'd
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 7: all be down at Papaya King. If you really knew him.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 6: Well, the good thing is, the good thing is, it's
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 6: not all about me today. You know, there are seven
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 6: people getting inducted today. Your friend, Rosanna Scotto, Channel 5,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 6: Good Day, New York. Your friend from Channel 7 News,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 6: Bill Ritter. He's going in today.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 7: And he's a good man.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 6: Nice guy.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 7: And he's doing good work with Alzheimer's.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I felt bad for him. I mean, I kill
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 6: him on the air because of his liberal views, but
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 6: he's a nice man. And then you get four people
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 6: from places like Glen Falls and Rochester and those places
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 6: where No one's ever heard of these people, but they're
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: legitimate Hall of Famers from upstate New York. So I'm
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 6: not the only one. There are seven of us going
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 6: in today, but, of course, I'm the biggest name. You
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: know that, Bill.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 7: Right, right. And the reason that this is important is
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 7: because on all of the other inductees, they will behave accordingly.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 7: But anything could happen with you. Anything.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 6: Anything.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're so right. You know, you're right.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 7: So it's, there's a little drama here. Um, I heard
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 7: that Joy Behar is crashing.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 6: Oh God, no, please. Oh my God. I mean, you
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 6: happen to pick the one person. I mean, there's three
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 6: of them on that show that I really despise her whoopie. And, uh, uh,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: what's the other one? She's actually sunny.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 6: She's not horrible looking, but she's stupid. But you picked
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 6: the worst of all three, Bill O'Reilly. The worst.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 7: You know, that show used to be kind of fun.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 7: But now, I don't know. It's all liberal women. I
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 7: understand that. All right?
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 6: They're not just liberal. They're not just liberal. They're really
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 6: hateful people.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they don't like their husband, and he doesn't come home.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of that stuff going on there. You know,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 7: you can just tell.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 6: They don't like their husband. They're not even all married.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it used to be kind of fun. I'd go over.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 7: Those were the days where Jenny McCarthy was there. Yes.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 7: And it wasn't this intense. We hate Trump. We hate
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 7: MAGA people.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: Wasn't Barbara Walters still there, too?
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, that was the key. See, Walters was the
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 7: creator of the program, and when she passed, it just
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: went into chaos.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 6: Even Rosie O'Donnell, that's Liz Hasselbeck, good call, Lewis, but
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 6: even Rosie O'Donnell at the beginning of that show was,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 6: I know I'm going to sound crazy, almost likable, almost.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 7: Well, she's a talented comedian, Rosie, but, you know, she...
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 7: I think, you know, people don't understand. I think they
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 7: get bitten by advocates of Mamdami. It's like a zombie movie. Yeah.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 7: So you're a normal person, and all of a sudden
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 7: you get bitten by Mamdami's friend, and then you turn
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 7: into these people on The View.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 7: Great. Good screenplay. I'm going to start working on that.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 6: You know, I did mean to ask you this many
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: times because... You are the best historical reference that anybody
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 6: will ever speak to.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 7: And I mean that.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 6: I'm just patronizing you. So in all the years that
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 6: you've done this, this new stuff and covered all these politicians,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 6: and there's been a lot of really bad ones, is
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 6: Mamdani the most dangerous, the worst, any of those, the biggest?
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 6: Is he worthy of any of that?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 7: Well, he's certainly the worst as far as New York
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 7: City is concerned.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 6: And you're saying, by the way, that means that you've
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 6: already put him, and I agree with you, by the way,
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 6: I agree with you, you've already put him ahead of
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 6: a guy that did eight years of damage, Bill de Blasio.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, de Blasio was like John the Baptist. Oh, he's coming.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 7: He's coming. Watch out. Okay. And de Blasio, he was bad,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 7: but Mandani is what I call a true believer. Evil.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 7: And if you look at his eyes, that's always the
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 7: key to indicating where people are. If you look at
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 7: his eyes, this is a fanatic. This is a man
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 7: who wants no part of traditional New York. He's not
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 7: spreading the news. He's not coming today. He's not singing
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 7: Frank Sinatra songs. Sorry, Episcopal. This is a guy who,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 7: who wants communism in New York City and in the
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 7: United States. And then you hear, oh, no, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 7: And you look at him and you go, if you
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 7: look at his statements, if a human being says, I
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 7: want to control the means of production, he is a communist. Yeah. Okay?
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 7: That's what that is. There's no debating it. Oh, I'm
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 7: a socialist. Oh, yeah. Okay, fine. So by that measure,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 7: Mamdami is going to do everything he can in the
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 7: next three years, everything he can, to punish achievement. That's
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 7: the hallmark of communism. You punish those who have been successful.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 7: Punish them. take their things, overtax them, let miscreants run
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 7: wild so they can get hurt. That is what communists do.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 7: He fits every single category. So de Blasio would just
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 7: run around, his wife would tell him, I want some bread.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 7: Go get to the store. And the boss would waddle
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 7: down to whatever store was closest. That's not mandami. No.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 6: Would the boss go to the gym?
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 6: So the question then becomes, and you've been saying for
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 6: a long time, you know, you don't really know because
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 6: it's far off. It's not far off, but 12 days away.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 6: Will Mamdani be celebrating in 12 days?
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 7: It's a very tough call because so many people... in
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 7: New York and all across the country don't live in
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 7: the real world anymore. So your parents and my parents,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 7: they lived in the real world. They accepted the fact
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 7: that they were going to have to work hard. They
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 7: were going to have to pay their bills. There was
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 7: an attitude after we defeated the Axis powers in Japan
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 7: that America was and remains the world's guideline, and they
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 7: want to participate in that. That's gone now. It's gone.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 7: And so you have people going to vote, many of
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 7: them cajoled to do so, told who to vote for,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 7: bused to the polls, or their ballot is filled out
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 7: in advance by someone else. You have all of this
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 7: in play. Now, just on the merits, I mean, Blakeman
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 7: has kicked her butt.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm not coming at it from a party point
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 7: of view at all. I'm coming at it from a
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 7: journalist point of view, is that what's your message and
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 7: how are you delivering it? And when the governor of
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 7: New York State is confronted with spending $ 8 billion with
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 7: a B dollars on illegal migrants and has no answer
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 7: to why that happened or where the blanket money is,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 7: I mean, you've got a huge problem here.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 6: But here's the bigger problem.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 7: If you walk in the rainbow room, you walk around
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 7: and say, how much money did Kathy Hochul allot to
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 7: foreign nationals who should not be here? People aren't going
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 7: to know.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 6: That's the point. So you just laid out something that
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 6: should be enough to be a disqualifier for her to lose.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 6: And yet, yet, she's still winning in most polls. And
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 6: she's still the favorite. And odds are, in a state
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 6: that's three to one Democrat, she's going to have a
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 6: pretty good chance. And you're right. Bruce is killing her.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 6: And you just said something again, that is really rough.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 6: And it's one of many bad things she's done, but
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 6: yet there's a chance she wins. And when she does win,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 6: how am I supposed to feel? I know I'm a publican,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 6: I'm magum, all those things, but how am I supposed
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 6: to feel living in a state where they continue, continue
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 6: to vote for people who do nothing but destroy it?
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 6: How am I supposed to feel?
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 7: Well, you kind of just have to hunker down and
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 7: do the best you can do and continue to put
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 7: your message out there. That's all you can do in
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 7: a democracy. You can't force people to see either way.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 7: And these polls, the reason these polls are so skewed
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 7: toward Governor Hochul is because they do take the 3-1
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 7: registration and pull off that. So Quinnipiac, which is a
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 7: good school in Connecticut... Their polling agency, they don't have 40,
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 7: 50 people in there gathering information. They've got three or
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 7: four people, and they're going down the voting rolls, and
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 7: they're seeing most New Yorkers are Democrats, so they poll
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 7: most New Yorkers. Yorkers that way. So you can win.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 7: But I'm going to not predict because I can't do
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 7: that at this point because I don't know about turnout.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 7: But I'm going to tell you there are a lot
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 7: of disenchanted New Yorkers, particularly upstate. And not Manhattan. That's
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 7: a machine. All right. In there, Chester Arthur is responsible
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 7: for that machine.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 7: If we could if we could dig him up, I
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 7: would beat him up.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 6: Although I will tell you that the other very famous
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 6: actress who hates Trump. And as a big-time Democrat, big-time,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 6: Deborah Messing has hopped on the Bruce Blakeman train, very
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 6: public about it, and she says that she's got other
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 6: Democrat friends who live in Manhattan, the worst of the Libs,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 6: the worst of the Dems. They're voting for Bruce.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 7: And they can't let it be known. Because if they
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 7: let it be known, they're going to lose work. And
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 7: Messing is all about Israel, right? That's what tilts her
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 7: into the Blakeman category because she's fed up with the
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 7: anti-Semitism that never should have been allowed to foster the way. Remember,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 7: these are city schools where this stuff is percolating. And
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 7: it goes right down to third, fourth grade now. So
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 7: this is a dangerous situation. But I think I agree
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 7: with you, and you know my legs shake when I
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 7: say those words. I agree with Sid. My legs shake.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 7: I have to sit down. That the enthusiasm meter is
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 7: all Blakeman's way. It's all his way. And so if
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 7: there are enough people outside of New York City, he'll win.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 7: But the block, the voting block in New York City,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 7: the people who want the communism, who want the government
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 7: to control everything they do, to give them money every
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 7: month in many, many different forms, to punish achievement, a
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 7: lot of jealousy. A lot of jealousy. You walk down
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 7: Park Avenue and you're looking at these silver spooners up there.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 7: Don't think that the guy working in the janitorial department...
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 7: I don't think that he's real happy with this. Right.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 6: No, you're right.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 7: He's not.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 6: No, you're right.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 6: You're right. You're always right.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 7: You've got to do what's best for your family. Yeah.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 7: And it's not best to create a family of dependents.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 7: That's not good for the children or your wife or
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 7: your uncle or anyone. Because there are pathways to succeed
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 7: in this country, or else 20 million illegal aliens took
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 7: a wrong left heading to Honduras. I thought we were
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 7: in Texas or Europa. They ain't going there.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 6: No, they're not.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 6: They're coming here.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 7: They're coming here.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 7: It's true. And so all logic and all history... points
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 7: to the fact that if New Yorkers want to get
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 7: back to the things that have made New York and
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 7: city and state strong, they are not going to do
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 7: it with this communist crew. Now, Hochul's not a communist.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 7: She's just weak.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she is weak.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 7: She's just weak.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 6: She's also boy.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 7: But how many times in history have we seen that?
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, do whatever you want. Yeah. You know, she's
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 7: not going to talk to me because, oh, I might
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 7: lose some votes in Elmira. You know, when was the
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 7: last time that Kathy Hochul made a righteous stand on anything?
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 6: Never. Never.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 7: You know, I mean, I'm sitting here. I mean, should
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 7: I root for the Islanders or the Rangers? I don't know.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 7: You know, like, lady, just do something.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 7: You know, but no, she's a machine Democrat. That's what
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 7: she is. The Cuomo machine, Andrew, all right, picked her
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 7: out because they thought this woman's not going to cause
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 7: any trouble. She's going to do exactly what we want
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 7: her to do. And then, boom, she's the governor.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. And maybe the governor again. Listen, again,
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go back to what I said at
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 6: the top of this conversation. I have a lot of
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 6: people to thank. There's no doubt about it. But, man, Bill,
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 6: you're at the top of the list. This show is.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 6: started gaining credibility and started getting big ratings when you
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 6: came on this show every week. And I really believe
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 6: that you are the best of all time. I really
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 6: believe that. And our relationship, which has now gone above
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 6: and beyond radio, we're legitimately good friends, which I know
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 6: is terrifying for you, has been a blessing for me.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 6: So I celebrate this afternoon with you, Bill O'Reilly. You
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 6: mean that much to me. I love you. Thank you
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 7: Well, you should be very proud of yourself, number one.
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 7: And I'm just serious now. You're very proud of yourself
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 7: for overcoming the obstacles that sometimes are self-induced, but you
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 7: overcame them. But you should know, and I know you're
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 7: going to cry up there, and I'd have to come
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 7: up with a stick and hit you. You should be
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 7: very proud of your family. Because it ain't easy getting
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 7: up at 3 in the morning or 2.30 or whatever
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 7: the blank you do and trudge in there to WABC
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 7: five days a week and do four hours of radio.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 7: And your family is about as supportive a family as
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 7: I've ever seen.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 6: Thank you. They are. Yes. Thank you. They are, and
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 6: they love you. Danielle does, for sure.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 7: That doesn't matter in the sense that I don't want
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 7: to get on Danielle's wrong side. That's not a good
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 7: place to be. You know her well. Right, but there's
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 7: an extension of people that are very proud of you
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 7: in this rainbow room thing. And if you don't mind,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 7: I'd like a little silverware if you can on the
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 7: way out.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 6: I'll see what I can swipe for you on the
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 6: way out for sure.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 6: I'm going to silverware something. It'll look great out there
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 6: in Montauk. Bill, you're great. Hilarious again today. Funny, informative.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 6: You're the absolute best ever. I love you. Thank you
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 7: Congrats, Sid.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. The great Bill O'Reilly, everybody.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 6: The best ever. Right here on his Thursday appearance of
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 6: Sid and Friends, which Larry's still to come before we
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 6: head out to the Rainbow Room.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 27: Well, here I am in Israel, and I want to
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 27: say to my buddy, Sid Rosenberg, my God, you deserve
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 27: to be in the Radio Hall of Fame.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 24: You're just fantastic.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 27: You know, Sid and I started out, first of all,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 27: not really knowing each other, then kind.
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 24: Of despising each other. Now we love each other. I
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 24: don't mean in that way. No, we're just dear, dear buddies.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 24: I love talking to him. I love watching him. I
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 24: love him saying words.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 27: That I'm not allowed to say. My wife would just
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 27: kill me. But that's Sid. That's why we love him.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 27: And I'll tell you something else.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 24: He's smart as hell. He really is, sharp as can be.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 27: And it is such a privilege, such a privilege to
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 27: have him join me and so many others in the
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 27: Radio Hall of Fame.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 24: WABC could not have a better morning host.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 27: The biggest city in America, really the.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 6: Biggest host, I mean, I'm hosting a radio show at
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 6: the same time, don't forget, so I can't answer every message,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 6: but I appreciate every one of them. I just got one.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 6: Here you go, Jamie Cerner.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 7: You're in, Jaime.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 6: So thank you for that.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 5: You're exchanging hearts with Mark Levin.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 5: Too much part of the day.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 6: Very gay.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 6: Very gay. What?
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 5: That creeps me out every time we play it.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 26: Why?
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 6: He's whispering. He's in a shul in Jerusalem.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry. I.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 6: You don't like the part where he says, I like
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 6: watching him. Yeah, well, when.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 5: It builds up.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 6: He means on Instagram.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 5: I love talking to him.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 6: Take it easy.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: I love watching him.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 6: Take it easy. He's the great one. Okay.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 20: We're going to play that for a lot of people
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 20: and see what's their response.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't... What people are you going to play
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 6: it for? Play it for Tucker Carlson. They really like
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 6: each other.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 6: Again, I still can't believe I played this. We played
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 6: this in the very first segment. Nick Fuentes. Just think
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 6: about this. Nick Fuentes calling somebody else an anti-Semite. Is
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 6: that not rich, Noam?
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: That's pretty great.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 6: So before I get to Rich Larry, I'm going to
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 6: play it. Here's Nick Fuentes on his podcast going off
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 6: on Tucker Carlson. Nick, who loves Hitler, calling somebody else
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 6: an anti-Semite. Cut number 22, then run to break. Then
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 6: we'll talk to the great Rich Larry.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 11: And listen, I tried to go to the cabin in
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 11: Maine yesterday. And the only reason I extended the olive
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 11: branch to Tucker was to try to talk him back
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 11: from the ledge. I saw the dark path he was
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 11: going down. I saw his rabid anti-Semitism. I identified it.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 11: I've seen it my entire career. Tucker is one of
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 11: these people like Paul Nealon, Dan Bilzerian. He is one
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 11: of these Israel derangement syndrome people. He's completely obsessed. It's
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 11: all he can talk about. A true Jew hater. I
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 11: tried to go out there and talk some sense into
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 11: him and see if I could reach him. Christian to Christian,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 11: it didn't work. Now we need Vice President Vance to
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 11: step up and condemn his noxious hatred. I think he
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 11: needs to be asked again. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 11: for this nasty stuff. We got to really have a conversation.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 11: We have to have a serious conversation about that in
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 11: this country.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 7: Darrell Strawberry here.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 21: I want to say congratulations to my brother, Sid Rosenberg,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 21: being inducted into the New York State Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 21: Long overdue, brother. Keep having that voice. Keep speaking truth,
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 21: no matter what anyone else have to say. The best
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 21: is yet to come. I love you, bro. You are powerful.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 21: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: So, Rich, congratulations. You will be the very last guest.
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  Speaker 6: I had before I made the Hall of Fame. How
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 6: about that? The last guest before Sid goes into the
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame, Rich Lowry.
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  Speaker 28: Yeah, that's why I didn't want to be on Wednesday
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 28: as usual. I maneuvered to get this treasured spot right
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 28: before this exalted event. I'll be there with bells on.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 28: I'll be sitting at the mayor's table. You know, he
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 28: shows up at events where he's not welcome, so I
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 28: expect him to be there.
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  Speaker 6: You are so right, right? Come on, man. If you
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 6: went to the 9-11 memorial service, he should definitely be
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 6: there today, right? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 28: Look, I've said many a time, this is what God
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 28: meant you to do. You're fantastic at it. You've got
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 28: to keep doing it. Don't go into politics. Whatever you do,
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 28: you're more influential this way, and we all love you.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 6: I love you, too, although Bruce Blakeman did say again
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 6: last night, if I win, what I win. You've got
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 6: to run for mayor, but... Danielle won't allow it anyway,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 6: but thank you for all that. And you've been great
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 6: to me, too, and you're a terrific guest every week.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 6: And you know everything, whether it's baseball or politics. And
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 6: we had a lot of fun over the years with
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 6: Biden versus Trump. And, you know, we've been doing this, too,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 6: for months now. We'll do it again today. Now, they're
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 6: just 12 days out. I think you're going to change
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 6: your mind. Now you're going to say to me the
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 6: Republicans are going to retain the House, right?
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  Speaker 28: No, they're losing the House, but I think it's a
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 28: 50-50 shot. The Senate, holding the Senate, I think it looks.
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  Speaker 6: Better, all right?
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  Speaker 28: If the Fox News polls correct that two weeks out,
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  Speaker 28: Texas is tied 49-49, Paxton, Tallarico, Paxton's winning that race,
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  Speaker 28: and that would be huge. I mean, that would more
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 28: or less put a stake in the Democrats' hopes of
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 28: taking the Senate. So, As I said for a while now,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 28: holding down losses in the House and retaining the Senate
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 28: would be a victory for the GOP.
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  Speaker 6: These are crazy races, Rich. You know, you mentioned the
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 6: Texas rate, that lunatic Tallarico against Paxton. You got this
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 6: very dangerous El Sayed, who's another Mamdani, up against Rodgers
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 6: in Michigan. You got some real psychos running out there.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, not only do you lose some of these races,
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 6: but some of these races you lose part of America,
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  Speaker 6: of our tradition, of our history. This is a very
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 6: scary election coming up.
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  Speaker 28: No, and you're absolutely right. The one in Michigan is
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  Speaker 28: the one to watch. I mean, I think he's arguably
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 28: the most radical Senate candidate we've ever had in our history.
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  Speaker 28: We've had a lot of left-wingers in the Senate, Ted Kennedy,
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  Speaker 28: Paul Wellstone, Bernie Sanders now, of course, but El-Sayed represents
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  Speaker 28: this kind of third-worldest ideology that hates the West at
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 28: its foundations. I don't think that's really where Bernie is.
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  Speaker 28: You know, he'll mouth a lot of the same slogans
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  Speaker 28: and the same stuff of these guys, but that's not
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 28: the way he thinks. But this guy, you know, he's
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 28: he's in league with the ideology that supports the writers
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  Speaker 28: in France, you know, and the pro-Hommas protests on campus
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  Speaker 28: and all the rest of it. And that he's getting
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 28: away with this Muslim brotherhood connections of his family, just
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 28: saying it's Islamophobia is shocking.
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  Speaker 6: He's getting away with it. His sister-in-law, funny you mentioned
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  Speaker 6: Paul Wellstone, that poor guy, he died in a, in
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 6: a helicopter crash. It was running against my cousin, Norm Coleman.
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  Speaker 6: So Minnesota had to put Walter Mondale in, just so
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 6: Norm had an opponent, and Norm whacked him. So Wellstone,
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  Speaker 6: his whole family was killed in that helicopter crash. It
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 6: was terrible. Norm felt terrible.
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  Speaker 7: Awful. Terrible.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned Paris. What do you think about the National
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 6: Football League? Because you're a sports guy, too. This is
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 6: where the two worlds meet. The Steelers are going to
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 6: play the Saints. First game ever in Paris. They spent
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 6: the last two weeks playing in London. They're still playing
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 6: that game, even though the protesters have already threatened big
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 6: protests on Saturday and Sunday. Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 28: I hadn't paid any attention to this. We're playing football
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  Speaker 28: in Paris now?
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  Speaker 6: First game ever this Sunday. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers
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  Speaker 6: taking on the Saints, who beat my Giants last week.
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  Speaker 6: And they're still planning on playing the game.
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  Speaker 28: Yeah, I guess it's one of these things where just
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 28: life goes on and you hope that the protests are
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 28: limited somewhere else. But that is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 6: Crazy, right? So this Paris stuff, and again, it's been
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 6: calm the last couple of nights because the French police
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 6: started beating people up, which is great. And they had
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 6: a curfew. But they say they're coming back even stronger
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 6: on Saturday and Sunday. And you've got to love Ro Khanna.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 6: that low life in California, some of these media groups
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  Speaker 6: that are still talking about the students. Yes, it started
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 6: with that. That was weeks ago. Now you got anarchists
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 6: and lunatics and pro-Hamas. They're working on Palestinian flags in Paris.
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  Speaker 6: What does it do with students?
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  Speaker 28: Yeah, so first of all, if you're a student upset
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  Speaker 28: with the state of your school, like burning it down
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  Speaker 28: is not the answer.
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  Speaker 6: Or walking out with a $ 2, 000 Dior bag, right? That's
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 6: not the answer either.
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  Speaker 7: Of course.
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  Speaker 28: So, you know, some of this is typical just anarchism.
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  Speaker 28: People love destruction. They love stealing stuff. But there's a
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 28: real ideological component to it as well. You have a
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 28: lot of immigrants and children of immigrants that don't like France.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 28: And you have the left wing in France that doesn't
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 28: like France. So they've joined together kind of in a
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  Speaker 28: red-green circle.
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  Speaker 2: Alliance.
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  Speaker 28: Now, this is not an unusual event in France. This
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 28: happens fairly often. But that doesn't mean it's not threatening.
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  Speaker 28: It doesn't mean it's not horrible. It doesn't mean it's
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 28: not destructive of civil society. And it's really a warning
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 28: that if they elect Marine Le Pen, the nationalist right-winger,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 28: in reaction to this next spring, they're going to make
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 28: the country ungovernable. And I think that's a warning to
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 28: the rest of Western Europe as well. Don't elect these
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 28: sort of candidates. So that's an intolerable threat for a
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 28: free society to be operating under. So these protests need
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 28: to be crushed. You need to stop them from happening, right?
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 28: Because once the dynamic gets going where they think they
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 28: can do it with impunity, it gets much, much worse.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 28: And that's what we've seen so far.
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  Speaker 6: Great points. Rich, I can't wait to see you later
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 6: on this morning. Thank you for all you.
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  Speaker 28: Congratulations again.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, buddy. I love you, Rich. I really do.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: The great editor of the National Review, who will be
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 6: in attendance later on today, Rich Lowry. We are done.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 6: I want to thank all the folks out there that
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 6: stopped by today with their lovely messages, the thousands and
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 6: thousands of messages I've gotten on social media today, the texts,
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 6: all of it. I will get back to you at
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 6: some point, but we're going to take that walk like
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 6: the Beatles, the four of us, you know. Joe Nolan's
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 6: out today, unfortunately, so. Me and Lou and Justin and Norm,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 6: we're going to walk down the street. We're going to
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 6: stop at some crosswalk and take a picture like the
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 6: Beatles and head to the iconic, as President Trump calls it,
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 6: Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center.
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  Speaker 7: What the heck is going on here?