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The overwhelming majority, not even the overwhelming majority of 9-11 families, don't want this anti-American mayor there. So I'm not asking you whether you think he'll come or not, or if you were governor, if you would stop him from coming or not. I want, as a guy that worked with a Port Authority, who lost people that day, I want you to tell me, do you think the mayor should show up? Well, first of all said, I don't know if you know this or not, but my nephew was murdered on that day. Oh, no. No. Sergeant Tommy Juergens, my sister Linder's older boy, oldest boy. I'm sorry. 26 years old, Army veteran, volunteer firefighter, New York State Court officer was giving first aid to a woman who was severely burned. in Tower 2 when it collapsed on him. We never got a body or DNA. We only got his sidearm and his badge. So it's very personal to me. I am a family member. And I don't think Zohran Mamdani should go. It's as if, you know, someone's having a wake and they asked you not to go to the wake for personal reasons. You wouldn't go. So, I mean, I don't think he should go. But here's where I'm going to say. If he's hell-bent on going, I think people have a way to respectfully protest that. Turn your back on him. Don't say anything to him. Don't make a ruckus. Be solemn because it is a solemn day. Just turn your back on it. Much like the cops did to build the Blasio years ago, right? Same thing. Same thing. And you do that. You go through squalor and add the word again, filth. Crime, death, destruction, embarrassment. You lose your home. You lose your apartment. And that's where the communists will take us 100%. When I watch Abdul, he's full of shit. This guy hates Jews. Somebody said, oh, that's a little strong. No, he hates Jews and he hates Israel. Abdul al-Sead. Can you believe this? Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman. He's a man of hate. And now he's going around saying, no, I love everybody. He doesn't love everybody. Put him in office. You're going to find out what he loves. He doesn't love Israel. He doesn't love Jewish people. He hates him. He hates him with a passion that burns in his heart, and there's not a frickin' thing he can do about it. There's not a thing he can do about it, because he hates him. I'll tell you what, if I were ever, I'd be the greatest woman's basketball coach at Hush. Because I don't like LeBron James. I like Michael Jim Jordan much better. But I... But I'd go up to LeBron James. It doesn't matter. I say LeBron, did you ever have any desire to be a woman? Watch out future WMBA expansion teams because President Trump is apparently eyeing a new head coaching job. The president was clearly joking while taking a jab at one of the biggest controversies in sports today, whether transgender women should be allowed to compete in women's sports, particularly the WMBA.

This debate has gained national attention after Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham voiced her opposition to transgender women playing in the league, saying her stances about protecting biological women and girls from competing against biological males. Since then, the issue has sparked protests outside WMBA arenas mixed reactions from coaches and players and signs both supporting and criticizing Cunningham. This is a debate that isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but what do you guys think about this? Clay Travis. Look, I think sometimes you have to respond to idiots by taking the logic of their idiocy and pushing it even further. And to your point, humor, hyperbole, satire. They cut through in a way that me sitting down with a scientist and discussing overall muscle mass averages for men and oxygen capacity in the lungs and all these things that are indisputably true, right, from a biological perspective. We all know men are bigger, stronger, faster than women. So I could sit and argue till I'm blue in the face on the factual aspect of this, or I could just put $10 million out on the table. and say, hey, Las Vegas Aces, you're the WNBA defending champions. You've been arguing for years you're underpaid. This is the most lucrative single basketball game offered to win a game in the history of the sports. Since James Naismith hung up the peach baskets, there never has anybody offered more money to win a basketball game. All these high school boys teams, state champs, their coaches are reaching out. The players are reaching out like crazy. They say, we want to play. We want to play Clay. We want to play Clay. You know, I can find one in every state that would want to play a state champion for sure. And meanwhile, the WNBA and the Las Vegas Aces won't respond. Why won't they? Because they knew that they know they would lose by 50 points. And look, this doesn't mean. that women's athletics is not important. To me, it just reinforces the most important reason for women's athletics to be able to exist is not having to compete against men. Right. Because if we just had unisex sports, that is, no gender differences at all, virtually no women would make any teams, and we would just have male sports. Will the Giants make the playoffs in John Harbaugh's first season as head coach? Shreger. I think they very well... Can. And I look at last year when, if at this time in the season we were saying, will the Patriots make the playoffs first time with Mike Vrable? You would have said absolutely not. Remember, the Seahawks didn't make the playoffs two years ago. The playoffs, the way the NFL is built is built for parody and it's built for teams to come from nowhere in one year's time. Harbaugh brings a professionalism. Harbaugh brings a toughness that this giant's organization hasn't had. I believe this is the best, the Giants. Vives are going into a season since the Tom Coughlin era, since Eli Manning was their quarterback. And...

You go down the roster, they've been collecting all these top 10 picks over the years. So, an Abdul-Carter, an Arvel Reese, Mauanoa, and then it's neighbors. All these guys are there, and they're all under contract, and now they have someone to lead the way and to be the steward of this ship. I don't think it's crazy to say the Giants fans should be looking at a division title. I don't think it's crazy to say the Giants fans should be looking at a playoff berth. To me, it's the NFL. Every year, there's four new playoff teams. Giants made serious upgrades everywhere across the field, and most importantly, in their coaching staff. To me, that's the expectation of the NFL right now. Sid Rosenberg, last month at the Amy Coney Barrett Media Conference. For me, I think one of the reasons why I've had success, people say to me all the time, the transition from sports talk to political talk, you make it look really easy. And the truth is, it's the same. Whether we're talking about the Redskins happen to be a giant fan, but we're talking about the Yankees. For me right now, President Trump, who I love dearly, he's the Giants. I love him like I love my football team. And for me, Harris and the six Democrats that just left the room moments ago, I saw you. They're the Jets. They're the Islanders. So we treat our politicians like we treat our sports teams. People love that. It's the same exact passion. 618 on what now at least is a rainy kind of gloomy Thursday. That may change. Another great edition of Sid and Friends in the morning. Bob Seeger is still the same. Pick that song because they made the point at Amy Coney Barrett's media conference about a month ago. that doing sports talk, which I did for, God, the better part of 17 years, at the biggest station in the history of the business, WFAN, they still love me there, to a whole bunch of stations in Florida. At one point, I was syndicated by Westwood Radio, Joel Hollander, and sports fan radio network in over 70 markets. I was a big deal in sports. Very, very big. Very big. So, you know, I did that for all those years, and then, you know, something happened. I guess I grew up. This is no disrespect to my other friends and colleagues in sports talk. But, you know, when, I don't know, when ISIS goes crazy in Paris and starts gunning down people in the street, I had a very difficult time the next day talking about the Dolphins and the Bills. We're about to commemorate 25 years of 9-11. And working at the fan, And Lou, you remember this. They stopped all the sports talk. Did you know that, Noam? I did not. Yeah, they actually stopped it. So Amos, for example, was on hours and hours and hours a day every day. And they didn't use me because I was a sports guy. Mike and Chris, Mike and the mad dog, no sports. In fact, at one point, Frances has said if they hit us again, they'll never be sports.

So even W up there were no sports, none. Zero. How long did that last for it? That last did, I want to say about two weeks. I didn't come back for two weeks. Yeah, I just remember. I was on until the early afternoon for a number of days. It was like two weeks. There was no sports. And then they brought back baseball. They brought back football. I think the Giants played the Chiefs and the Mets, the Braves, all that. There's no sport. So, you know, I mean. You have all these issues going on around the country. And what am I supposed to do? Talk all morning long about Anthony Volpe? I mean, listen, I still have a lot of great friends at the fan. Craig Carton, one of my best friends. Love them. Great talent, great talent. And I love Evan John Roberts, Antiqui, and all those guys. But, you know, I was in the shuttle the other day. I take the shuttle home every day from the ferry to my house. It's only about a 10-minute shuttle. And somebody on the band was going on and on about why yesterday, why George Joe Lombardo is going to be like the greatest shortstop ever. Kids got two games under his belt. I have to know his parents very well from down in Florida. And I think he is going to be great. But at one point, I was like, what am I listening to? So I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. And I had program directors and station owners and station managers really scold me. Steve Lapper, your old buddy, Norm, he was the last one to do it. I remember, like yesterday, he called me in his office. I was talking about Obama, and he said, what are you doing? I've told this story a million times. We are an Italian restaurant. We don't serve Chinese food. I said, no, that may be the station. This station's the same way, for the most part. I said, I'm BJs. I'm Sam's. You can buy everything Costco. You can buy everything you want. That's my show. Sports, politics, news, music, family, lifestyle. That's my show. I never told you I was going to come here and talk all sports. And on this station, I'm never going to talk all politics. And I said to the guy, I said, Lapa. It's working. You say, I'll tell you what. You have a year. You know this story, Noam. You have one year. If the ratings don't come in, you're gone. You want to do it your way? Okay, tough guy. We'll do it your way. And the ratings were great. Great. Best by a mile, just like it is here right now. By a mile. No one on this station comes close. Nobody across the street comes close. But I had a fight for years and years, and I just couldn't do it anymore. I still love sports. We talk about sports every day. Every day there were two different sports stories in that open. Love sports. Watch baseball last night. I'm going to watch a stupid NFL exhibition game tonight. But I love Trump. I love this city. And it's okay to actually have more interests than just one. Don't you think, no? It's okay. I think you should. Otherwise, you're kind of boring. Right. Kind of boring, yeah. Like I said at Amy Coney Barrett Media's conference a couple of weeks ago, for me, I just substitute President Trump for the Giants, right? Or I substitute Marco Rubio for the Knicks. I don't have to do that because I still talk about the Giants and the Knicks, but in terms of people that make that transition, and there are some of us around the country today, I did it first before some of the guys I'm about to mention.

But there are some talents around the country that are great. And you know what's funny? Almost all of them are on this show regularly. You think that's an accident, Noam? It is not. Who's the number one or maybe number two, if you're like Pat McAfee? At ESPN, who's the one or two guy? Oh, it's, what's his name? I bet you have one all the time. God, you're such a racist because he's black. You forgot his name. Yes, that's 100% why. Stephen A. Smith. There we go. Stephen A. Yeah. Who does a podcast on politics. He gets better guests than I get to be honest. He made the transition. He does them both, right? He doesn't both. I don't do that. I'm not on a sports talk station, but he's terrific. How about the guy that was on this show yesterday that has been on every box news show and every sport show around the country of the last two days, Clay Travis? This guy was at Outkick.com. He was doing sports in Tennessee. Look at him now. I mean, when I started doing this, the only guy that I could really think of that did what I did. Because I've been doing this now for a long time, 11 years, was Keith Oberman. That's it. Oberman, who's a complete asshole, he went from doing ESPN to doing all politics on MSNBC. And now he's hated to see you know. But back then, that was about it. You know, Rush Limbaugh tried it. Don't forget he went, and he did Monday night football, which I thought he was great at. But then he said something about Donovan McNabb, the black quarterback for the Eagles. And that was over. You know, Dennis Miller went from doing, you know, kind of dry comedy. Bill O'Reilly stopping by today, he can tell you this, to doing Monday Night Football as well. But there's only a few examples way back when. Now it seems like more and more people are doing what I did. And they're having pretty good success. And I've always been right about this. Again, I'm always right, always right. These program directors would say, no, no, no, that's not how we do it. What does that mean? That's not how we do it. What does that mean? Like all of a sudden the norms are always successful? What if you find something better? Just about everything in life gets amended at some point. Everything, right? Even the best things. Heck, they added playoff teams and major league baseball. So we can certainly amend what we do on the air. When I was asked about the transition, I said it's the same. And Norm is a guy that appreciates sports and does news talk. You can see that, yes? Oh, you know, I think you could probably do the same thing with Craig Carton. If you brought him here and you said, okay. He's already done it. You know, I forgot him very good. Before he was a star at WFAN, he worked for many years to Craig's credit at New Jersey 101.5. I forgot about that. He did the afternoon show with Ray Rossi. And at one point, In some New Jersey publication, they were talking about political influence, not sports. Political influence in the state of Jersey, top 50 people, and Craig was like number nine. And if they did a real honest poll in New York, I'd be number one or two. They leave me out of every poll because they hate me because I like Trump and I curse. Who knows? I'm Jewish. I don't know.

But Craig did that already, to your point. No. Yeah, you could stick him right here right after you, and he'd probably do great. Look at Beningo. Joe Beningo is the craziest in terms of sports enthusiasm. I've been around sports talk radio forever. I don't know anybody as enthusiastic as Joe Beningo. Jets, Mets, Nicks, Rangers, especially Jets and Mets. He's a psycho. Psycho. All he wants to talk about is President Trump. I don't want to hear it anymore. I know. But I got to be honest with you, Joe. Let's be honest. You ever say that? He's never said that, has he? But he's another one. I'm with you. I'm with you. Come on now. But he's another one. You know, that's just the way it is. I tell people, I said this on the show yesterday. For all the people that want to do this show, you know. Maybe he'll leave. Maybe he'll fire him. Maybe he won't resign. Maybe I'll take his show. Okay, great. My advice to you would be, if you don't do sports on a morning show, you will fail. That's it. There's the reason why Imus had Mike Breen and Sid Rosenberg and Warner Wolpe and Mike Brancessa, Chris Russo, Iron Eagle, the guy that did Notre Dame football. What was his name again? Your buddy there? He was great. Oh, Don Cricky. Don Cricky. Sports was a major part of my missus's success. Every morning show's got to do it. You've got to do it. You can't give me the old, well, I kind of like sports, you know, but not really. You're not going to get the numbers I get. You disagree with that, Dome? No, I think you absolutely 100% have to do sports because the people are listening. They're not all politics. They want to hear about other stuff going on in the world. Not in this town. You know, there are certain cities, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston. They love their sports. Even Miami. Miami is a horrible sports town. Why is it horrible? Because there's nobody from Miami anymore. You go down to maybe Kendall or Miami Beach. Yeah, you get these old Jewish people, Cuban people. But the truth is Palm Beach, which is thriving, Broward County. They're all from someplace else. So you have Chicago people there, Philadelphia people, Boston people, New York people. The reason why they love me is because there are so many New Yorkers down in South Florida, and I brought them the Knicks, the Giants, the Rangers. They didn't grow up watching the Dolphins. There weren't no Mawlins. There weren't no Panthers. There weren't no heat. All they had was the Dalpins and Miami Hurricane football. That was it. So that's your lesson for you folks out there that want to do this. Don't give it to you all. I don't care because you'll never really have great success. And that is my lesson for the morning. Thank you for tuning in. Brian Kilmeade is coming up next. Well, very nice. We'll see you tomorrow, folks. Peace. I guess not, huh, Lou? Got a lot more to do. Got so many great guests coming up today. I'm actually excited about this show. And one of the big stories... is, even though Fox News is taking credit for it this morning, because I guess my buddy Bruce Blakeman told Fox Digital, the same thing he told me, but he said it here first. You know that, Norm, on the air yesterday. I asked Bruce at 8.30 in the morning before he talked to Fox News about whether he thought Zohran Mamdani should be at the site on 9-11. I was the first to ask him that.

And he gave me an answer. He gave Fox News the same exact answer. They could have just used my interview and quoted me, but of course they didn't do that. That's fine. But I love Bruce's answer. He's not the first to say it on this show. I had no idea that Bruce Blakeman lost a nephew. I felt terrible. His nephew was murdered there. I didn't know that. But he gave the answer that has been given on this show before. And an answer I love because I was here when the cops did it to Bill de Blasio. And that is, turn your backs on this mayor. Told me that, told Fox News that. So if you missed it, I know it was in the open, we'll play it again here, Lewis. This is our next governor, the esteem Bruce Blakeman. I love what he had to say. If you're a 9-11 family member, do this to Zohran Mamdani. Cut number two. Bruce Blakeman. Did you not work for the Port Authority at one point? I know you did. I was a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for eight years. Eight years is the Port Authority. So this is going to hit close to home for you. We're about to commemorate 25 years. I know you listen to me every day. I am beating this drum. I had Bill Donnie from the Catholic League. He's written a long letter urging Zohran Mamdani not to come 9-11. I brought on survivors, victims, the families. I brought on the guy that started the petition. I'm bringing on another lady. I am on a mission to keep this mayor away. Now, I know I can't do it, and I know the odds are stacked against me. But I also know that... The overwhelming majority, not even the overwhelming majority of 9-11 families, don't want this anti-American mayor there. So I'm not asking you whether you think he'll come or not, or if you were governor, if you would stop him from coming or not. I want, as a guy that worked with a Port Authority, who lost people that day, I want you to tell me, do you think the mayor should show up? Well, first of all, said, I don't know if you know this or not, but my nephew was murdered on that day. Oh, no. No. Sergeant Tommy Juergens, my sister Linder's older boy, oldest boy. I'm sorry. 26 years old, Army veteran, volunteer firefighter, New York State Court officer, was giving first aid to a woman who was severely burned in Tower 2 when it collapsed on him. We never got a body or DNA. We only got his sidearm and his badge. So it's very personal to me. I am a family member. And I don't think Zohran Mamdani should go. It's as if, you know, someone is having a wake and they asked you not to go to the wake for personal reasons. You wouldn't go. So, I mean, I don't think he should go. But here's where I'm going to say. If he's hell-bent on going, I think people have a way to respectfully protest that. Turn your back on him. Don't say anything to him. Don't make a ruckus. Be solemn because it is a solemn day. Just turn your back on. Much like the cops did to build the Blasio years ago, right? Same thing.

Same thing. So what do you think about that, Norma? That was a pretty courageous statement by Bruce, and I love it. Now, look, I don't expect my friend Donnie Muscali to do that. Dear friend of mine from Polly Prep, I don't expect Elizabeth Miller, who's going to join me coming up in the 9 o'clock hour this morning. I'd love to get Miller's quotes. that I think we played a couple days ago, at least the Worldwide News Network did, where she's like, he can come. He can come. So not everybody's going to do it, but I would imagine the overwhelming majority of people will. By the way, good morning, Stuart Samuels, listening right now, my good buddy, Stuart, Mr. Diamonds. What do you think about that statement by Bruce Blakeman? It was huge. I mean, it was everywhere yesterday after he made it. And so I think people were surprised that he was so forceful about it telling the mayor to stay away. Do we know anything else about maybe the petition, I think it was up to about $85,000? That's right. Yeah, it's in the 80s. Still? Yeah, so I need to make this distinction because some people have asked me about this. So anybody can sign this petition, but three, a little more over 309-11 families have signed it. And then the rest of them are just, you know, everyday New Yorkers or people across the country. Well, you know that because only 3,000 people died here. Yeah, well, I say only, that's a huge number. I'm sorry. Let me think that that. That's 763. Right, because people died in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon as well. This is going to eclipse that number maybe a hundred times, maybe a thousand times. So clearly broken New Yorkers are getting involved. And I never compare myself to the victims' families. I never do. No matter how much pain I was in that day or even 25 years later, I didn't lose a love when I did lose friends. Two really good buddies, Windows of the World that morning. Didn't even work there. They worked on Bond Street, but there was a huge breakfast that morning for the traders all over the city, stock traders. And I lost, I knew cops, and it doesn't matter. But I didn't lose any family members, so I never want to compare myself to those people. But I'm broken. I've never been the same since that day. And I make a lot of New Yorkers feel that way. So it's not that we want to I guess, um, call the shots. It's not that we want to control the narrative. We're all very, very sympathetic and sensitive to the families. But that was a terrible day for New Yorkers and all Americans, unless, of course, your Zohran Mamdani, Chevalier, Hasan Piker, El-Sayed. And the other people that Lou and I saw are celebrating in their driveways from Astoria Queens to New Jersey. Every American was broken. And some of us, and I can't speak for all of you because a lot of you have moved on, clearly. How else would you vote for this creep? Although a lot of you were probably not even born, I've never moved on.

And you guys know that because, and I say this, not to pat myself on the back, but no one talks about 9-11 as much as me. It's not even close. It's not, as every year. This year has been particularly long because I started this on July 6th. But every year I do this, you guys know that. And I did it down in Florida. I remember I had a program director. His name was Steve White. And I went on the air one year. Maybe in the five-year anniversary. I don't remember the executive. And I made the point. that here I am in South Florida, and I have like FOMO, if you guys know what that means, because I'm not up there in New York, and I'm not down by Lower Manhattan, and I made it very, very clear on a South Florida radio station that although, like I just talked about, I just said it, right? Here I go. Every American was broken. It was much more difficult on New Yorkers. 99.999% of the people that were murdered that day were in New York. I was on the air in New York. I saw it. I saw the burning towers. My beautiful wife, Danielle, saw the towers come down. So I'm sorry, but even though you watch it on TV in Phoenix, Arizona, which actually motivated the NFL player Pat Tillman to fight for the country, he was eventually killed by Friendly Fire, but what a hero he was. Or Boca Raton or Nashville, not the same. And I remember my program director, Steve White, got angry with me. He said, then why would you do that? He goes, it's the same for every American. I go, no, it's not. So I guess, um... I guess I'm kind of going back a little bit on what I just said. I said, no, Steve, I agree that every American felt broken that day and even now. But don't tell me it's not more harder for New Yorkers. You know, that smoke billowed through my Chelsea apartment at the time we lived on 21st and 8th for weeks. I had bloodshot eyes at WFAN for two weeks. I could hear the beepers from all the firefighters. blocks and blocks away. I stood on the West Side Highway every day and cheered with thousands holding signs waiting for the cops and firefighters and first responders to find the victims. And for the most part, they never did. So, yeah, it's a little different, right, when you're living it rather than watching it. Is that fair to say no? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I mean, it was obviously deeply personal for people who were alive and who saw it. Yeah. But, you know, it's time. You know, time, unfortunately, you know, our generation will move on at some point. I mean, look at all the other events in American history where they don't get the same commemoration that they once did, like Pearl Harbor Day. I mean, it's just a footnote at this point. And it's hard to believe, but at some point, the 9-11 attacks will be the same because there'll be nobody alive that's connected to it. Oh my God, don't say that. Is that true? But it's true. Yeah. I mean, there are far more Americans that are been born before 9-11 attacks now than after. True, true. So.

If you think of that way. What were you doing that day? Were you on the air? I was. Yeah. What terrible station were you on? Yeah, I was on it. Well, it was a tiny little dinky station in New Jersey. What station? WGHT. Oh, I know it well. I know it well. Really? Yeah, it's in Rumson. No. Huh? Told you. Yeah. You're all over. Shut up, Lou. Where was it? It's in downtown Wayne, New Jersey. Oh, my old agent, Mark Love South. They used to live in Wayne, New Jersey, a very fancy place. And what were you doing there? Was that news talk? Well, you know, it's funny. I was doing a morning show, and you know who my sports guy was? Who's that? Kevin Burkart. No kidding. Yeah. You know, Kevin Burkort just won some. Pat Summerall Award. The Pat Summerall Award is like the greatest play-by-play guy on television in the country. And just about the nicest guy you ever wanted to. He's a very nice guy. Of course, Kevin, I got to know him like most people did when he was doing the stuff for the Mets on SNY. He was the guy that went into the stands and talked to the fans. No, that joke he worked. And now he's got on to become the guy. He's the guy for Fox, Channel 5. He works with Tom Brady. He does. Kevin Burkart, good for him. All right, so you're doing that show, and Lou I knew where you were. Yep, it was right here. No, not here. No, not. We were in Astoria, Queens, actually, at WFAN. And it was a crazy morning because talking about Zohran Mamdani, there was a primary that day for mayor. So Bernard, my late great partner, God rest his soul, Bernie McGirk. He was not in the studio that day. See, the setup was like this. He had one studio with Amos McCord and me. The three of us were always in the studio. Even though I tried to leave, Amos would come get me every time. And across the glass was Lou and Bernie. But that morning, Bernie wasn't there. He was on 96th Street and Broadway, which for some reason smells like a dirty ass. Still to this day, I don't get it. It's outside. It stinks. And I live right there in 104th and West End for many years. So Bernie was on the streets talking to people about the mayor primary. And filling in for Bernie that day was the boss of the station Mark Chernoff. So as you know, I was talking about the Giants and Broncos the night before, blah, blah, me, Charles and Imus. And Chernoff was the one, you know, he was the types up on the screen that Imos would read while he was on the air. and turn off typed on the screen, a plane has hit the World Trade Center. We all thought it was like Corey Lytle, you know, like a little plane, some guy lost control, hit the World Trade Center. Nobody at that point, imagine nobody, unless you saw it. Some did. Most of us didn't. A commercial jet. And it was, we thought it was not that big of a deal. We actually moved on back to the same conversation. until the second plane hit. Water Wolf called in, and then the whole world changed. And really hasn't gotten back to where it was. I mean, all those years you had to take off shoes off at the airport, that son of a bitch Richard Reed. Remember that? That idiot, try to set his sneakers on fire or blow up an airplane doing that and all these long lines. And now every time I fly, and I'm the only guy with the balls to admit this, and people will get mad at me again,

If I'm on the way to Israel, especially Israel, and I see a bunch of Muslims on my plight, I don't want to fly. Sorry. Might be the greatest people in the whole world, the nicest people. I'm like, oh, my God, they're here to kill us. Now, again, people will get angry. Oh, Sid Rosenberg, there he is, Islamophobic. F you! I forget who was the guest yesterday. He said, a phobia is an irrational fear. Okay? There's nothing irrational about that, what I just said. It may not be great or comfortable. You may not love it. But I'm just being honest. And the truth is, about 99% of you listening right now feel the same exact way. Would you admit it, Norm, or are you too much of a pussy to admit it? No, of course I look around, you know. You get, of course. And there's a certain looking person. And it ain't a guy with, you know, wearing a, uh, uh, with payas and citsis and that guy's not scaring you, is he? No. No. Not a guy looking like, uh, the guys I'll see at Rayos tomorrow night, right? No. Okay. You, Lou, same way? I'm always looking around, yes. Okay, so why do people get mad at me when I say stuff? I don't understand. You won't feel the same exact way. Why am I such the bad guy? Like, I don't think Fox is going to have me back on for a long time. That's fine. You know me. I don't care. I really don't. I love that TV station. My best friends worked there. I mean, I talked to Sean Hannity for 40 minutes two days ago. Levine, they're all my best friends. But people get so upset for saying what the majority believes because we don't do that anymore because, but we do do that. Remember John Katzumatiti said, I want the truth on my station. I give you the goddamn truth. And sometimes it's uncomfortable and offensive, but it's the truth. When you beat around the bush, that's not the truth. You know, I went, I got married four weeks after the 9-11 attacks, which was, of course, a strange time to be married. But, you know, you had Mayor Giuliani at the time saying you should go ahead with ceremonies like that. You know, remember he walked. You got married because Mayor Giuliani said you should do. No, but remember he was walking brides down the aisle like in the weeks afterwards, right? No, listen, you had to do everything. You had to go to ball games and dinner because if not, here was the quote, and I still use it today, if you didn't. The terrorist won. Of course. And I remember we took our honeymoon in Italy and on the way back. So now this is four weeks after the attacks. We get on the plane. And there were some Muslim people that got on the plane. And the plane got held up for, I don't know, two or three hours until they convinced those people to get off the plane and then we took off. They'll never forget that. They'll never forget that. Yeah. Because you remember the week before 9-11, the actor James Woods. maybe there's a couple of weeks, I don't know, maybe the month before, but he was on an airplane. And he saw a bunch of folks that he actually came back and said, well, this doesn't look right. This looks like some type of exhibition run for something bad. He knew it. James Woods knew it. So the world has changed. There's no question. Every year it gets a little better until we get attacked again. And if you listen to people like Bo Dietl and Peter King, they say it's not

if it's when, which is pretty depressing. And now you get a guy like Abdul El-Sayed. I'm not going to lie. When President Trump talked about him last night, don't ever ask me again why I love President Trump. Please don't ask me. I don't care what happens with this Iran thing. It's a mess. I'm the first to admit it, but I know he did the right thing. His heart's on the right place. He's just getting bad advice. I don't care about a whole bunch of stuff that Trump has said or did in the past. I love this guy so much. And I love him because of things like this. What he said about El Syed last night, he's me or I'm him. Either way, neither one of us have a filter. Neither one of us cares. What he said about El Syed was 100% true. Everybody should be saying it. You know, part of the reason why, Noam and Lou. People like El-Sayed become household names, it's all fault. It's the media's fault. Fox News, and I love Fox News. I love them. It's all I watch. If I watch news, it's Fox News. And I love coming on. But the truth is, they turn horrible people into household names. Do they not? Oh, they pounded him to no end. Oh, he's on every two seconds. But they made him a star in the process. That's my point. That is my point. You can pound somebody and still make him a household name. Fox is more guilty of that than anybody. You know, I always say when somebody goes and shoots up a school, don't tell us his name because he died wanting that. Just say some scumbag and then tell us what happened. So Trump goes off on Abdul El-Sayed last night. It was so good. What cut is this here? Seven. Seven. Play it again. I'm going to get naked first. Hold on. Now play it. And you do that. You go through squalor. And add the word again, filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment. You lose your home. You lose your apartment. And that's where the communist will take us 100%. When I watch Abdul, he's full of shit. This guy hates Jews. Somebody said, oh, that's a little strong. No, he hates Jews and he hates Israel. Abdul El-Sayed. You believe this? Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman. He's a man of hate. And now he's going around saying, no, I love everybody. He doesn't love everybody. Put him in office. You're going to find out what he loves. He doesn't love Israel. He doesn't love Jewish people. He hates him. He hates him with a passion that burns in his heart, and there's not a freaking thing he can do about it. There's not a thing he can do about it because he hates him. You don't love that, Noam? Yeah. He hates the Jews. He hates Israel. He hates everybody. He's full of shizzle. All right, the next five minutes or so, Kristi Noem, give me all the other headlines that we haven't covered yet. There'll be a Senate vote today on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. This is the Senate Homeland Security Committee vote. And, you know, I've had Joe Tocopina on last week. I had Greg Jarrett on this week. And even if they get that, which they probably won't, but even if they do, it's not like he's going to jail.

Well, this is what Rand Paul. He's ahead of this committee. What he's going to try to do is circumvent a vote in Congress because he doesn't think he can win that. And he'll try to take the vote that happens today, which will go along party lines that'll gut through like eight to seven probably and take it right to directly to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and ask as a criminal referral and say, hey, you handle this. He will. do what he can anyway to skip a full Senate vote where it would probably face a pretty steep 60 vote threshold. He knows he probably won't get that. So whether this ends up with Anthony Fauci behind bars, I think that's a stretch. But who knows? I mean, if he can get the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, that's Janine Piro, right? On board, then maybe something happens. Gene Piro needs to, well, make nice for Trump anyway. So a lot of people are very upset with the way my friend Trump. She treated my friend, Janine Piro, treated her. Well, listen, that's their business. Oh, back to 9-11 for one second. So it turns out our courageous, good word for her, our brave counselwoman from my borough. Now, I've lived in every borough except with Staten Island. Vicki Palladino. I didn't know this either. You know, Bruce Blakeman told me on the air yesterday. His nephew was murdered on 9-11. It turns out that Vicki Palladino's brother passed away from 9-11 lung disease. We know that was not a one-day event. 25 years later, people are still getting sick and dying, and Vicki Palladino is a victim of that. What else you got known? This new act, the medical aid and dying act, took effect yesterday here in New York, which allows terminally ill adults an option to end their lives with the help of a doctor. And there's a... bunch of hurdles you have to cross, but essentially if you have less than six months to live and you've been incredibly sick, and you can convince a doctor through some mental health meetings with them that you want to die, you'll be given this medication. There'll be a waiting period of five days between when a prescription is written and filled. You'll have to record a video. But you have lots of people on the other side. They say this is immoral. And other people say they're worried about people killing themselves because they can't afford the medications to keep them alive and that they'll go to family members and say, well, you know, I'd like to live on the medications for me to do so are so incredibly expensive. I don't want to bankrupt the family, so give me the medicine that is going to make me pass away. What a mess. Yeah. Jeez. I mean, it's a slippery slope, but it was the governor who signed off on this bill last year. She said she witnessed her own mother suffer from ALS, and it took years of intimate discussions. with Bill sponsors and health experts, advocates for her to sign off on it. And yesterday it began, so we'll have to see how this whole thing plays out. I mean, New York is not the first day to do this. No. But it took a long time coming. All right, Nomi. Great job, as always. The amazing, Noam-Laden. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. We'll be in your show plenty because you have a great show and you have big ratings. I don't even know if you know how good your show is, okay? But you have big ratings and you have a great show and you've been my friend for a long time and I appreciate it. Because you're the best guy, you're an incredible guy in New York. You are really, you become the go-to guy. I did some fight in Vegas because it was a time in my career when I covered boxing and HBO used to put me on radio role for all the big Mike Tyson fights.

Not just Tyson. I was also out there for, you know, Delaware and Pachow and Mayweather and all these people, Jay Jones. So I'm out there and Suki and Bill was at Wolfgangs. I think that's the MGM Hotel in Vegas, but I forget. It's been a while since I've been out there. It was there last year at the Venetian, and I'm going back. The end of this month, August 31st, back in Vegas, once again for the Republican Jewish Coalition, the RJC, which is a big deal run, of course, by my first cousin, Norm Coleman, and Matt Brooks out of Philadelphia. And it's three days they get huge people, everybody from President Trump to Marco Rubio to Lee Zeldin, you name it, Brandon Tatum, Scott Jennings, all the big names. And they honor me every year by allowing me to speak like they do with J&S in Jerusalem. So that's coming up the end of this month. And it's back at the Venetian Hotel. You go to Vegas, no member? I actually did a trip out west and we went to Vegas as part of that trip. Only one time? No, I've been there a bunch of times. Okay. I've been there like 50 times. That many, wow. Yeah. Well, there was a time when I was going four, five times a year. And I had this buddy. And her name was Tracy Bowden. And a lot of folks who worked here know she is because when I first came to New York, Chad Lopez said to me, can you bring some of that Miami business here? And I said, sure. And I think it was Glenn Tachanelli who made a call to HBO. And he ended up speaking with Tracy Bowden a couple of times. I think you remember this, Norm. Lou, you will. Maybe you won't hear, actually. I'm not sure you will. So Tracy and another lady by the name of Sandy Ortiz, they were in charge of putting together Radio Road with all these major fights. It was me. It was Max Kellerman. He was doing a show at the time. It was a few other people you never heard of. A few out of Los Angeles, too. And it came to New York, and it stopped. Plus, HBO really stopped doing boxing because Floyd Mayweather moved to Showtime. So they never spent money on this station, Tracy, Sandy, and HBO. But on a very tragic note, a couple years ago, Tracy's still a very young woman. Her daughter was having her prom that night. And she took her daughter to the salon, and mommy and daughter were both getting their hair done and getting all made up for her daughter's. I think it was a prom. Maybe even a junior prom. Young girl, you know. Tracy got up and said, I don't feel all that well. So she went to like this deli next door, I guess, and had a... protein bar or something. I don't know exactly. All the details are sketchy. And eventually she collapsed. And she died. I can't imagine Tracy was more than 40, 45, something like that. And just the sweetest, nicest girl. And I heard from her mother and her sister for a long time, long time. And every... year on the anniversary, which is a horrible word of Tracy's passing, I usually post something on Facebook or Instagram or something to that. But man, that was a horrible loss. I'm not sure if the Boudens are still listening. They used to listen every day, but I do miss Tracy. And that was my boxing career.

Tonight we start the National Football League, the Hall of Fame game. It'll be the Arizona Cardinals taking on the Carolina Panthers. And if you didn't know this, they always play the Hall of Fame football game two days before they actually induct the next class of football players into the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. And I said to Justin this morning, I said, when I was a young guy, and they would announce a Hall of Fame inductions. I heard of their names. Obviously, I knew the name, Jim Brown. I never saw Jim Brown play, you know, or Otto Graham or Bobby Lane or Dot Dale. I'm so old now that not only do I know and remember all these guys playing in the NFL. I remember Larry Fitzgerald playing at the University of Pittsburgh. I remember Drew Brees playing at Purdue. I mean, I remember Roger Craig playing at Nebraska. That's how old I am. Now they announce the Hall of Famers. I remember the days in college. It's horrible, no. It really is. So coming up this Saturday, the former great quarterback to Breeze, the former great wide receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, the linebacker Luke Cookely, the kicker Adam Venetary. How many big kicks did he make between New England and Indianapolis? What an amazing kicker. I think he becomes only the second kicker to get in. I think there's only one, Jan Stennerud. I could be wrong. Ray guy, no. He's a punter. He's a punter. So I think military becomes a second kicker, but I'm not sure. And the senior class voted in Roger Craig and Roger Craig, I don't know if he was the second or third running back ever to rush for a thousand yards and have a thousand yards receiving at the running back position in the same season. I think Joe Washington did it in Baltimore. John Stennerud. Morton Anderson. Oh, Morton Anderson is in. That's right. So he's a third kicker. I was close. But Craig did that, and Jim Washington did it. Marshall Falk did it. Not a lot of running backs have had 1,000 yards watching and receiving in the same season. Well, two others act. Lou Groza. Oh, he was a kicker, but he was also a position player. Alignment. Right. And the best kicker in college football every year wins the Lou Groza Award. Very nice. And George Blanda. Also a quarterback. He was a punter, but he was a quarterback for the Raiders and the Oilers. So, yes, they all did kick or punt at some point in their careers. Nicely done, Lewis. We'll take a break. Big time guests coming your way today. Thomas Kinnif, Caroline Schinkle, Bill O'Reilly, Elizabeth Miller. This is Sid on Sports. Oh, my goodness. Sponsored by Peerless Boilers on 77 WABC. Justin Oleg here with the sports update sponsored by Pete Morgan and Peerless Spoilers. Go to Peerless Spoilers.com to find a deal under you. Peerler Spoilers, the world's best built boilers. Out in the Bronx, the Bronx. Out in the Bronx, Yankees lost three to one in the rubber game finale of a three games in a three games. And following four and a half games behind, first place, Tampa Bay in the A, at least in the process. Minus standard sluggers Aaron Judge there, John Kohlostin, Cody Bellinger. He can't score. They still can't score. They picked up Barsia. You've been home on a couple nights ago. They picked up rainbows from the Giants, but they still can't score. Yeah. I mean, come on. This is the Cardinals. Yeah, two runs are fewer six times in the past seven games. So that one game where they exploded for seven runs, still lost 13 to 7 in that game. Right. But, yeah, that was the lone game where they scored more than two runs here. You know, George Joe Lombardo had another hit last night, though. And I'm going Tuesday night. Oh, how about that? Who are we playing? I don't even know. Oh, let's look that up. Pete Cantowitz is inviting about eight of us.

To the legend seats, I spoke to Stephanie from Randy Levine's office yesterday. Yeah. Who do we got? The Seattle Mariners coming up. Oh, that's right. Because the Braves come to town tomorrow. Yes, sir. Rainiervers is going to see the Braves and Yankees on Saturday. The NLES. They get rained out. Yeah. Yeah. What do I mean? They lead the NLEs. Yeah, yeah. Not the best record. No, no, no, just the NLEs leaders there. I think the Dodgers still on that. Uh-huh. Yeah, you got that right. So I'll update a day for the Yanks before they do welcome in the Braves tomorrow. You're not going to any of these guys. games? Well, no, actually. Maybe I could find your ticket on Tuesday night. I would love to come on Tuesday night. Yeah, that'd be great. Only if you cry again like you did last time. It was so sweet. No, I will. Yeah, I'll shut a tear. All right. Yeah. I would. You really did. And we had your livin's. It was so cute. I was getting very much. You were choked up. Yeah, it was nice. Well, you know, the little kid in me. There's it, Rosenberg. I get it. I think we all have that still in us. I don't know about you, but me. Oh, no, I got it. Yeah, I'm a moron. What are you nuts? Cleveland Bobichette singled off Matt Festa scored the automatic runner Francisco Lindor in the 10th inning in the Mets. They go to a wild 6 to 5 victory over the Indians and a series clinching win as well. Up next form, Nolan McLean will start this afternoon series finale. That's going for the sweep here. First pitch from Cleveland scheduled for 110 p.m. And you heard Sid mention it previously. Your Hall of Fame game tonight from Tom Guy Benson Hall of Fame Stadium out in Canton, Ohio. and the Cardinals getting preseason football under away. And if you are a degenerate and want to gamble on this preseason football game tonight, the Panthers are one and a half point favorites. That is your sport sponsored by Pete Morgan and Peerlo's Spoilers. Go to Peelotspoilers.com to find a deal under you. Peerloosporal, the world's best bill boilers. I'm Justin Ellick on 77. W.A.B.S. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. So when I was a little kid, I was a real mama's boy, okay. I was. And I love my father, too, and he's gone six years, and we've been over this. It hurts every day. So I didn't really want to go to sleep away camp. I was afraid, you know. First time I really slept out for an extended period of time was when I went to one of my four colleges, University of Miami and Coral Gables, went after Bernie Kosar and the Cains beat Nebraska, beat Turner Gill and... Irving Friar and Mike Rozier and won the national championship. That was really my first taste of not being home and I screwed it up. I was so scared to death. So I went to this little camp and it was called Winston Day Camp. It was pretty popular. Up in the Catskills, very popular actually. A lot of campers and a lot of folks at my bungalow colonies and... My community where my mom still has a home, we still go, went to Winston Day Camp. There's a lot of great sleepway camps there, too. My cousin Scott Arbuse, he's over at, I forgot the name, but it's with a K. It's a big one. Oh, man. It's like one of the most popular sleepway camps in upstate New York. But it doesn't matter. Either way... It's one of those... It's a big one. It's like one of the Jewish sleepaway camps. No, it's not Jewish. Oh, it's not? I mean, a lot of Jews go there because Jews are up there, but it's not like a Jewish sleepaway camp. They've got those. In fact, my buddy John Battash, who was in Israel with me last trip, his daughter Naomi goes to a camp like that, and he was there last Sunday to visit her, and he walked right into Ivanka and Jared Kushner.

Oh, how about that? Wow. Yeah. Was it Kiowa? Keowah sleeping? No, it's not. It's, uh, Kenny, uh... Kenny Brooke. There you go. Woo! Thank you. Scott Robbies. So anyway, I, um, I went to a little camp Winston. And a lot of our kids go to camp. What do you do at camp, guys? When you go to sleep awake, it's still going on now, day camp, sleepaway camp. Sure, yeah. What do you guys do? Sports, lake activities, swimming, you know. Swimming, lake activities. Hiking. Yeah. For a lot of us, that was the first time we hung out with a member of the opposite sex. Right, I was a badminton champion. You were a what? What? I was a badminton. No, you weren't. Yeah, I was the badminton champion. You were not the badminton champion. Yes, I was. I beat everybody in badminton one summer, yeah. Yeah? A big deal, because one time I scored 54 points against Kaupman's bungalow colony. Well, the next summer I got bullied and had to leave camp, so whatever. Well, I got fired because I killed frogs. True story. What is this? A pissing contest? Yeah. Me and my partner decided to, the kids went out of nature, a nature run, you know, up there in the mountains, and this one little prick, a little bastard, he didn't stop complaining, and his parents would complain, I hated the kid. So I took his frog. that he caught in the woods there, you know, and I use it in paddleball. All right. I got fired for that. I don't know why. I killed the frog. I killed the frog, yeah. And the little kid went nuts. I think I ruined this whole life. But I make this point because, well, a lot of us went to these camps and did all these great activities. Here's good news for you, folks. If you'd like to, you can still enroll. You ready with this, Lewis? I'm ready. Hezbollah day camp. I swear to God, Hezbollah has a camp. They are actually trying to get all these young Shiites to come to this camp. and they teach them how to kill Jews. I mean, this is unbelievable. Hezbollah camp. Arts and crafts? I guess. I mean, could you imagine what the arts and crafts are? That's why I opened it up. Yeah? Could you just imagine? I'm giving that one to you. I'm not even kidding, you folks. I'm being completely honest. Hasbola, it's a big story in today's New York Post. The author's name is David Shanker, and he writes a whole story on how Hezbollah's summer camps for junior jihadis. pose a mortal threat for peace. No kidding. So when you call us whiny Jews and Israel advocates, Sid Rosenberg, Israel First, Israel First, they have camps. Hezbollah for little kids. She'll be playing dodgeball. She'll be playing nukem. She'll be eating ice cream and doing arts and crafts. Instead, they teach them out of fire guns and kill Jews. And I'm the crazy one. I'm the paranoid one. Hasbola camp. Newcoms. I used to love Newcomb. Well, that was volleyball, but you just caught it. You got to catch the ball. You didn't hit it with your hands. That's volleyball, right? You caught the ball. You threw it over the net, and if you dropped it, that's how the other team got the point. So, nuke him. Okay. You didn't play that? Yeah, but it was a dodge ball. Spin the pickle. Seven minutes in heaven. I do that now. Post office. Spin the pickle. Spin the pickle. One of the great games ever. Play that. What camp did you go to again, Justin?

Camp Walt Whitman. Really? Yeah. Was that in New Jersey? No, it was up in New Hampshire. Oh, wow. Yeah. I think there's a Walt Whitman rest up in New Jersey, right? For sure. I believe there is, yes. All right, so just in case you're looking for something for the kids to do, there is still some room at the Hezbollah day camp. Make sure you call today and use my name, Sid. Insha Allah. What did he say? Insha Allah. Oh, that's good. I'm willing. Inshallah. All right. We've got to take a break. We've got a lot of great guests coming up like five or six of them. All you guests. Promocco to Akbar. We'll start with the amazing attorney Thomas Kinnip. He leads us off on this Thursday morning. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. Thomas Kinnip is one of our great attorneys. We have them all on this show, you know. Alan Dershowitz, Joseph Takapina, author Idaala, even my buddy Jose Baez down in Miami. But Knapp is as good as it gets. Remember, he served as an assistant district attorney under Janine Piro. He was a nominee for the Manhattan District Attorney. He got screwed by the Republican Party, so the fat, stupid racist Alvin Bragg won. He also served in our Army National Guard, the judge advocate, the general, in that corps, a veteran of the Iraq War. He's a hero. He earned the Army Commendation Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Medal. Look at this. He's the recipient of the Ronald Reagan Award for the Advancement of Individual Liberty, the Marine Corps League Appreciation Award. And as an inductee, this is the biggest one of all. You ready for this? The Massapequa High School Hall of Fame! Come on now! Undergrad University of Rochester law work at Hofstra also swore in Vicki Palladino. This guy does it all. And he works with Steve Razor, a pretty good guy as well. And he's an author. And he's got a new book out. The name of the book is Toxedo Park. And I'm excited to talk to him about it. Here is my good friend Tom Keneff. Thomas, good morning, buddy. How are you? Good morning, Sid. And as always, thank you for your overly gracious introduction. I don't know who that guy was you were talking about. I'll take it. Did you really do all that? Is that true? All that stuff? I mean, you blow me away. I thought I was a big deal. From one of my favorite hockey movies slap shot. That's what said in your book. And of course, you know, on top of all that, most people really do know you because. You took on that Daniel Penny case, you and Razor, and every decent human being, every decent human being knew that Daniel Penny was a hero that day on the subways, and the guy was not, the guy that died. It's unfortunate he died. We do this all the time, right? Whether it's pretty or good in Minnesota or this guy on the train. We don't want to see people die, but sometimes they do. And in this case, Daniel Penny was a hero. But for some reason, you and Razor, how to convince this moron Alvin Bragg and, you know, after he indicted him, that that was the truth. And you did do it. So I would say that of all the great things you've done, the Daniel Penny verdict is probably at the very top of your list, yes?

I, you know, that's certainly, uh, that's certainly what I'm known for. You know, it's funny. It was on, uh, I was on John Katzman's his show last weekend. He brought me on to talk about the book very graciously. And he was kind of going through my resume like you did. And then I start talking about the book. And he goes, uh, but tell what you're really known for. Ah, okay. Well, you know, yeah, I guess the Daniel Petty thing, but hey, I want to talk about the book. Well, it's true. The Daniel Penny thing was a big deal. Now, this book, is this the first time you've written a book? I should know this. I don't. No, yeah, absolutely. Finally, you don't know that. And it absolutely is my first time writing a book. I've written a lot as an attorney. But this is, you know, my first delve into the fiction genre, if you will. And, you know, it's something that I conceived of in concept many, many years ago. Actually, I was still working for Janine. And, you know, I did a little, I put it aside, life happens, kids happen, marriage happens, and big trials like Daniel Penny. But I never, you know, I never walked away from it. And then in the last few years, I said, you know what, I really think I have something here. I had some very preeminent authors and a couple of very preeminent publishers who I knew through professional circles that kind of were willing to do me a favor. I said, like, you take a look at this. Be brutally honest. I have a day job. And it was just resounding. Everyone, you know, looked at it, said, this is fantastic. You've got to finish this. I did. And it looks great. I saw the video and we'll discuss the book in a second. But you aren't talking about the very real possibility of making this great book, Tuxedo Park, into a movie. And somebody said to me, Mab and you, that there may be a part available for you, Sid, in this movie. Is that, oh, no, in all seriousness, is that something you guys are really looking at? Yeah. Well, I'm serious on both counts because the one thing I get from everybody who's got an advanced copy of the book and read it. I know you looked over it and so forth is that this is a cinematic story. This is like made for the big screen. And what the publishing company did, which has gotten kind of popular now because you can now do things a lot more cost-efficiently in the world of AI as far as putting together with their book trailers, which is like a movie trailer for a book. So they engaged a company, and I know you saw the trailer. Oh, my God, what a great trailer. It came out great, Tom. I'm like, this is incredible. Yeah.

And the good thing is between you and me, well, you and me and your audience, the million people. I retain the movie rights in that contract. Wow. So, you know, we've had some very casual kind of conversations with people. It's very early. The book, you know, first has to make it make its mark, and I think it will. But to your second point. I could never be part of a movie without trying to find a part for Sid Rosenberg, and I think I got one for you, Eddie. He's a little bit of a villain full disclosure. I can do that. I play a mobster in every movie I'm in. Do you play a mobster and all that? So this guy, you know, you wouldn't be playing the protagonist, but who's, you know, the kind of imperfect hero of the book. But I got a character for you. I love that. And most heroes are imperfect. And the protagonist, I guess. People will read the book and say, maybe that's you, Thomas Kinnif. His name in the book is John Palmer, but he's in Manhattan ADA. I wonder where you got that from. So it says it fair to assume that John Palmer, the star of this book, is Thomas Kinnif in print. Well, look, I think any, you know, what I've learned about writing from speaking with some of the really the best people out there is that, you know, good writers always put a little bit of their own experiences. You know, he's a term lived experience. I hate that term, but, you know, into their work because it creates the reality of it. And... You know, I think that this is going to be a breakout hit. I think it's going to be a great novel. But, you know, not everyone's going to love your work. And you've got to have thick skin and you've got to be willing to accept criticism. But one thing I will not accept is someone telling me that, oh, yeah, this book isn't realistic. This isn't real because there's so much in it that I take in from. A bit for my personal life. My uncle built houses in Tuxedo Park when I was a kid. My grandmother lived up there. I'd be schlepped up there every weekend. That's why I thought it would be a great place to set a murder, conspiracy, a conspiracy case, a very sort of surreal place. But, you know, the legal stuff that's in there, so much of that has been taken from, you know, what I've experienced in 25 years, prosecuting, defending in Manhattan, New York City, and other places being in the jag corn, the military, there's touches of that and there. So the realism thing can't be criticized, in my opinion. No, not the realism, but what you've never done, no disrespect to Daniel Penny. is, at least I don't think you have, is represent the president or the president-elect of the United States in a criminal trial. So this character in the book, this guy, Kent Dawson, who at least in the AI video, looks every bit apart, without giving away too much, this will turn out to be a criminal investigation for the president. Now, Joe Takapina, dear friends of both the bars, one of my best friends. He represented President Trump twice.

But it wasn't for murder, for kidnapping. So in terms of realism, is that realistic in a book like this? Yeah, well, look, I mean, no question that this is a work of fiction. You know, there were people who approached me and said, hey, why don't you do a book on the Daniel Penny case and this and that? And I said, yeah, I'm not really ready to do that. So it's a work of fiction. But the means and the methods I describe are very much anchored in what this would look like if something like this occurred. So in other words, the plot is, you know, John Palmer is a young prosecutor who gets. sort of drawn into an investigation of the kidnapping of his teenage girlfriend from, you know, his teenage girlfriend from 20 years ago. And as he gets further into the investigation, he starts discovering a theory that evidence that leads back to the president of the left of the United States. as being the person who perpetrated or conspired to do this in order to get his pregnant mistress out of the way. I mean pregnancy. Yeah. I mean, geez. And it's this race against five because it starts out, and he's just, you know, put a quick quote, he's, he's just the nominee or is about to become the nominee. Just seeing you know, well, what you just told me is not only thrilling, but it's not out of the realm of possibility, any of that. It's not another of a possibility. And one of the things why I personally think that this book was kind of meant to be is I first conceived, write the book, but it conceived of the concept and wrote a bit about it, you know, before even Trump won, before anyone had ever, you know, talked seriously about indicting a president or a former president or president to be. And then, you know, through the years, as I'm going back to this, these things are happening. And, you know, it's interesting. I mean, the book I finished. writing it a couple of years ago, but the editing process, finding an agent, the agent shopping to a publisher, that takes years in of itself, believe it or not. And I just look at the things that happened in the last year, you know, tragically, you know, the Nancy Gunther case, you know, there's elements of, of, you know, that sort of thing in this book, the Eric Swalwell, you know, this is, you know, philandering politicians. There's a lot of things, again, a work of fiction, no question, but there's a lot of things that themes in the book that are kind of like very of the moment as far as what's going on in reality or what has been going on in the public sphere, political sphere, over the last months and years. So, in fact, there was some push. to, you know, change the name of the book from Tuxedo Park to indictment because, you know, I would just jump off the page. Right. Trump was indicted and all that. And, you know, I pushed back a little bit because the book did have personal meaning to me. And I said, lucky, I'd really like to call it Tuxedo Park. I dedicated it to my late mother and, you know, history there. And ultimately, I won that battle with publisher. You won the battle. Tuxedo Park behind every great candidate is a greater cover-up.

by my dear friend, the amazing attorney, Thomas Kinnip, you kind of just glossed over it. You dedicated the book to your mother. I love your father-in-law, by the way. He's one of my favorite people. I love him. George, yeah, he's the best. I'm sure he's listening right now because, as you know, he has, like, four different radio. I know. I saw him recently at Bobby Hartman's golf tournament out on Long Island. He presented me with this beautiful picture of me, you, him, and Andrew Giuliani. That was from the Penny Gal. Yes. I think it was the first night you guys met. It was, and he's a wonderful guy, your father-in-law, George. But you did dedicate this book to your mom. What's that all about? The next one will be my father. No, I mean, look, you know, mom was mom. My mother passed when I was, you know, a young assistant DA working for Janine. It was way too early. I mean, I know you know what, you know, I know you're talking about, you know, your late father all the time. So, you know, and I was basically, you know, for most of my life, I was raised by my mom. You know, my dad died when I was 18, and even before that, they had a, you know, not a great marriage. So, you know, mom was everything. And she did, you know, she did what she did with nothing. I mean, I don't know how she did, frankly, because I have, you know, I'm blessed with a wonderful wife. And, you know, we're both lawyers and we do okay financially. And it's still a struggle to raise kids. And mom didn't have any of those resources. But somehow she made it work and, you know, she gave me opportunities that she never had herself. And, you know, but for that, I wouldn't be doing anything I'm doing. It certainly wouldn't be this, you know, well-known lawyer. I wouldn't be writing books. So I had to dedicate it to her memory. And like I said, maybe next time we'll get the in-laws in there. And can people buy Toxedo Park today on Amazon? Is it available now? Not only is it available, but it's in pre-sales right now. The official publishing date is August 18th, so it'll probably ship a couple of days before that. But if you go order it, order it now, because pre-sales are a big thing, you get free shipping and you get 25% off because it's pre-sales. So you can go to Amazon.com, Toxedo Park, Thomas Keneff. We also have a website, Toxedo Park Book. You can go on there. It'll link you right to Amazon or, you know, Target or Walmart or Simon & Schuster Barnes and whoever you want to buy it, although Amazon I think is the best place because it helps your ratings. And I think they have the best skills. I think you're right. You know, last one, and this is going to be a little uncomfortable for you because you like both people, but I think you like one and you love the other one. I know you like President Trump. I know you do, but you love Janine Piro, right? I mean, you were her assistant and, you know, throughout the Daniel Penny trial, she was there all the time. She celebrated with you guys on Stone Street after Daniel Penny was acquitted. She was there the whole way, and she's been there really the whole way most of your life. And the president...

came down pretty hard on her a couple of days ago. He said not once but twice she choked and also said she folded like an umbrella. So you know that Janine Piro must have been very upset because like me and she loves and adores President Trump. When you heard that, Trump said that about Piro. What did you think? Yeah, I didn't like hearing it because, you know, I, of course, I have the greatest admiration for President Trump. I don't know him personally like you do, but I think that, you know, the only reason we have a country right now is because of him. You know, I also, from what I know of his personality, you know, he can be mercurial, but he a lot of times he says things and he doesn't really mean it and he doesn't. Doesn't hold a grudge, so to speak. Well, that's the thing. You know, he means it at the time. He means it, but he never holds... He snaps back very, very quickly. He doesn't hold the grudge. I mean, he also hammered Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week, let's not forget. Right. And I'm hoping, you know, like you said exactly, that he snaps back because... I do. I have a very personal relationship with Janine, but that's not what's motivating me to say any of this because it's just reality. He is blessed to have her in D.C. She's turned that city around. There is no one, you know, with all due respect to Todd Blanche, who, you know, I've also known and many other people, as far as I'm concerned, there is no one better in the entire Justice Department than Janine Piro. And the thing that, you know, you want to talk about selfless service. You know, if you offered me the position of, you know, U.S. attorney for D.C., wow, you know, that's really something, you know, the district attorney, the U.S. attorney, and the pay would be hard to get by on. But it would be something that I have to really, really think about because it's such a prestigious thing. But if you're Janine Piro, and you've done what you've done, what she's done, she's one of the, you know, first elected district attorneys in the country, she was in New York State Supreme Court judge. She had this, you know, television career. plenty of money. And, you know, that came with her success, rightfully so. And at this stage of her life where she could just be sitting in front of a television camera on a set in Manhattan to go down to disrupt her life, to go to D.C., in the most hostile place she could try to do that job. You know, she's got, she can't. trust anyone down that. I've had these conversations with her without reveal. I mean, we all know this. Oh, of course. And, you know, it's just absolutely she did it selflessly. In fact, she, you know, I know from conversation with her, her entire salary goes to taking an apartment, you know, her home in D.C., which she doesn't need. She's New Yorker and her commuting class. So she is basically working, you know, she's basically doing this, you know, as a volunteer almost. you know, for love of country. So.

You know, and the other thing I'll just add real quickly is, you know, prosecutors, the standard that a prosecutor has to use in evaluating cases, not whether the person did it. It's whether we can prove this beyond a reasonable doubt. I mean, do you know how many instances I've had in my time as a prosecutor, all the other attorneys you named Idala, so forth, Takapita? They've all been prosecutors at one, we all started as young assistant district attorneys at one point in our career where I've had a case and I said, you know, I know this son of a bitch didn't. I know it. But I can't prove it because I don't have this and I don't have that. And you're obligated. You're ethically obligated. You're legally. You're obligated at that point to say, you know, yeah, it sucks, but I got to walk away from it. You know, and if that's what happened here, and it probably is, you know, Janine's hands were tied. So anyway, my point is I hate seeing it. I know Janine is a tough gal with 15 and, you know, she can handle, you know, the criticism. But I hope it blows over, you know, for the good of everyone, for the country, really. And certainly for the people in D.C. because they need her. Me too. I love her too. Love her desperately. Janine Piro. The book is Tuxedo Park, Bokes. Behind every great candidate is a greater cover-up and behind every great book. is a great author, and he's my friend, The Amazing Attorney. Thomas Kinnip, Thomas, good luck. It looks great. I think the movie's going to be great, too. You've got a winner here again, Thomas. Congratulations. Sid, thanks for having me on. I hope everybody checks it out. Tuxedo Park. We will do that. Take care of Tom. Tom. Tom Knapp right there, the amazing attorney. We'll take a short break when we get back. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. Caroline Schenkel, she's running for that seat again that Jerry Nadler and his badass occupied for many years in Manhattan. But a few weeks ago, I went out to Bedminster. You guys know this. And it was another time when President Trump, hundreds of people in the crowd saw me and made a big deal about it. Outside of Trump doing that that night, my second favorite part of that night was not only seeing Carolyn Schenkel, But meeting a mother. Oh, my God, what a beautiful, elegant, smart woman. Now, I go back and forth with Caroline's mother when it comes to Caroline's events and booking Caroline for the radio show. So Caroline is here again for the second time. But just so you know, sweetheart, you're here because of your mother. You know that, right? I know that said. Good morning. Good morning. By the way, I loved your prior segment. And when you say that behind every successful book is a great author, I think behind every successful political candidate is their mother. So this is great. This is so fitting. You're right. You're right. You guys are a heck of a one-two team. I got to tell you that night, you were both terrific. I know you had a big event last night. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it. But all I heard was great things about it this morning. So tell the folks about what went down for Ms. Schenkel. last night. Well, thank you, Sid. It's great to be back with you. We had an amazing event last night with former Congressman Peter King, who of course represented New York for many years in Congress. He was on this show just yesterday. Pete King was there.

He was there. Nice. He was our guest of honor. Nice. Love that. Great. And he's he's been such a supporter of mindset and he sees the vision and the importance of this election and getting people like me into office at this critical time in history because. As you know, this path that we're on, Zohran Mamdani is trying to turn Manhattan into Moscow on the Hudson. And we're not going to let that happen. We're not going to stand for it. And so this is the time to wake up. And I think people are seeing the light. What Zohran Mamdani is doing from eroding our tax base to tripling down on the anti-Semitic rhetoric, which is leading to anti-Semitic violence. to the government run grocery stores. Hello, Soviet Union. I mean, this is really scary stuff. The public doxing of all the property owners in New York City who are going to be subject to this piettaire tax. People are very scared about the future said, but it doesn't have to be that way. And I think this is the time. If ever there were a time to cross party lines and vote for common sense over crazy, this is it. You know, I don't want to, I guess, say bad things about any other Republican in the city because, again, I try to help everybody. I really do. But you're the most impressive. I don't know where you went to school. I know you told me this at one point, but every time you speak, I mean this, I have no reason to patronize you. I'm not to like you. You're a nice person, but you're so impressive. When I hear you on the radio, when I see you speak at events like Joe Hernandez's event last week. Where did you go to school? What did you do? You're a lawyer, obviously, right? I am said, yes. I'm a graduate of MIT, actually, where I studied economics. And then I went to Harvard Law School and became a corporate attorney. I've been practicing here in New York City. But before all that, I had a career in central banking. So I worked at the Federal Reserve down in Washington. also lived in Jerusalem when I was working at the Bank of Israel, spend time at the European Central Bank in Germany, and also the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Ayah, y'all. I mean, this is an incredibly impressive resume, and it does involve the question, Caroline. Why would you want to do this? Because we have to sit. This is a now or never moment. And I think if we allow somebody like my opponent to get into this office, he's going to bend the need of Zohran Mamdani. He already has. He endorsed Zohran Mamdani. He supports Zohran Mamdani. And so he is enabling Zohran Mamdani in the DSA's radical agenda. And we know what the DSA wants to do. They've told us as much. They want to eliminate the Senate. eliminate the Supreme Court, eliminate the presidency, eliminate national borders, eliminate private property, eliminate prisons, eliminate Israel, and eliminate our country. And we cannot allow that to happen. Otherwise, Sid, why did we win World War II? Why did we win the Cold War? That's right. I mean, if we allow New York City to be taken over by these radical people, it's almost as if we've lost the Cold War, but we're not going to let that happen. So we have a chance on November 3rd to take our city back.

to really take back our country. This is a fight to preserve Western civilization. And I would invite all your listeners to check out my website, Caroline, for New York.com, to learn more. Is that the number four or F-O-R? F-O-R. Yeah, we sell it all out. Yeah. So I guess you keep saying my opponent, you really should say this bastard's name so people know not to vote for this guy. What's his name? His name is Michael Lashor. Michael Lash. Michael Lashor. That's the guy you're running against? I should know this. I apologize. He is one of the... He is disgusting. Michael Lashor is disgusting. He's one of those people. Look, he's right there. This is my opinion. Just my opinion. But he's right there with people like Brad Lander, that idiot. Michael Lashor, this is a guy you got to beat. You better beat this guy's ass. We're going to do it, Sid. And don't forget, he has been consistently asked to defend Israel against the false and absurd charge of genocide. He won't do it. He won't give an answer. He says he's a Zionist, but he's not. He's completely caved in on Israel. He's gotten visibly upset in debates and forums when he's been asked about Israel saying. you know, exasperatedly, why do we care about Israel so much here in New York City? Or he calls it, you know, a plot of land the size of New Jersey. So unlike me, he finds speaking on behalf of the Jewish community to be tiring. And don't forget, he's also working with the disgraced media consultant Morris Katz, the guy who was a top advisor to Zohran Mamdani. Yeah, and who was running the campaign of the Nazi up in Maine, Graham Platner. So this is very radical stuff. And he doubled down on that not too long ago. He was asked if he was going to continue to work with cats. And he basically snapped and said the question was ridiculous. And anybody who dared to question his association with this guy need to have their priorities reexamined. Well, I think he's the one who needs to have his priorities reexamined. Oh, my God, he's a loser. Just trust me, okay? I mean, President Trump could basically insert Lashers' name into his comments about El Sayed out of Michigan last night. Just insert that name. So are you going to have an opportunity to debate this loser or not? Well, I've challenged him to a series of debates. I doubt he'll step up. I don't think he has the courage. I don't think he has the character. He definitely can't defend any of what he's saying from abolishing ICE to free universal health care, free this, free that. By the way, when we say universal, whatever, that just means universal bankruptcy for everybody. So no conception as to how to build up New York City and build up our tax base. He spent his career as a political bureaucrat or as I call him said a political apparatchik with no understanding of how the real world works. I've built my career in the private sector, building businesses, building value, understanding what it means.

to leverage these global economic systems to work for the benefit of New York City and the American people. My opponent knows none of that. He only knows failure. He's only ever worked as a failed aid to other failed politicians. So if we hope to change the trajectory of New York City, we have to do something differently this November, and the choice could not be more stark. Caroline Schenkel, if you are running in South Florida, you're a shoeing. If you are running in Nashville, Tennessee, you're assuring. If you are running in Texas, most of Texas, not all of it. Telluriko's winning. You're a shoeing. But you know these people in this city are nuts. I'm sorry. You come at this. You're common sense. You're smart. You're pointing out all the real problems, which really, really, really do exist. And he's on the side of every one of them. You've got an economic background that can put you right there in the White House next to President Trump at Larry Kudlow. I mean, you've got it all. You're beautiful. Your mom's great. But this city, these people are nuts. I am starting to lose faith in New York more and more every day. So the question is, are you somewhat nervous, maybe intimidated by the New York voter that they don't want common sense? They don't want things to get better, that they are perfectly okay living on the Upper East Side where you live with the city run like this. I'm not intimidated, Sid. I know that New Yorkers are going to do the right thing because what we're doing right now is unsustainable and they know it. And I think the Jewish community is going to be key to all of this. They are scared for their lives. They're scared for their future, for their children's future. We cannot continue down this path. Not when we have people like my opponent who are ratifying Zohran Mamdani's behavior and anti-Semitism by supporting this guy by enabling him. We've got to send a serious message to the world. and to the left that we're not going to tolerate the complete takeover of their party by the DSA and these delusional socialists of America, as I call them, and really this communist thinking. Yesterday I had Bruce Blakeman on the show. He's on every week. You know how close. You and your mom know how close Bruce and I are. And it's interesting because he's running against Kathy Hochul, but really, really he's running against two people. You know this. He's running against Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani. And thank God he's the perfect antidote for both. Same thing with you. You know, I get the feeling talking to you when I do that you're running against Michael Lashor and Zohran Mamdani. I get the feeling that every decent person, decent common sense Republican candidate is running against whoever they're running against and Zohran Mamdani. Is that a fair assumption? It's 100% correct, Sid. We're running against people who quite literally want to destroy our country and destroy the values upon which our country was founded. And we find that cycle after cycle here in New York City, we keep electing the same kinds of people with the same failed thinking. So there's really no difference here versus the politics of the Soviet Union. We basically have a Politburo here.

And we live in a one-party system. So it's a bunch of apparatchiks, like my opponent, taking control from the citizens and the people. It's all wrong. It's got to change. But we've got a chance to course correct this November. This is critical. And again, I would invite all your listeners to take a look at my website, Caroline for New York.com to learn more. We're saving this city with common sense. We're going to take it back. Ted, I'm going to do for you because I really do love you guys, you and your mother. And I'll do this for everybody. We'll do it for you. We're going to do an event. It's got to be at David Goodside's Beach Cafe because, you know, he's Mr. Upper East Side the whole thing. Everybody loves. Eric Trump was just there a couple of days ago. We'll do an event for you. I'll host it. And we'll make sure that New Yorkers everywhere know that Caroline Schenkel is running and is the answer to what has become a depraved New York City. How about that? I love it, said, you're the best. I'm going to tell my mother. She's going to be over the moon. And by the way, I appreciate all the shoutouts to her. She loves you back. She's so great. You're both great. Caroline, you're a great, great candidate. And I hope that New York wises up and puts you where you belong in that old Jerry Nadler. Siebel. We'll do this a bunch of times before it comes November. We'll do that event, I just promise you. We'll try our best to get you when. You deserve it. Caroline, great job as always. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Sid. You're the best. You are. God bless you. Caroline Schenko right there, running for that old Jerry Nadler seat, Upper East Side, New York City. Folks, save the damn city. It's enough. You like this? I know you're not listening to me, unfortunately. The folks that listen to me already love me and they're going to vote Republican anyway. It's not like Zohran Mamdani's going to blast this in his office for those DSA losers, those communist, those Democrat dirtbags. But if it gets out there, maybe some cabbies playing it right now. And you just came back and you're a Democrat. You like seeing junkies in the street. You like seeing homeless everywhere. You're sympathetic to the homeless. Stop it. A lot of those people are criminals. You like paying exorbitant taxes. You like not knowing if you go on the subway to get home alive that day. You like all that. You like that. You like the fact that if you're Jewish, you have to hide your chai. Well, take your Yamika off because some kid's going to punch you across the face and the mayor's going to celebrate that kid. You like all that? That's good. I don't care, like Arthur Adela always tells me, he's right, that the city's packed every night. It is. Every restaurant is packed. People are having a great time. All that is true. All that is true. Pound per pound, we are still the biggest, baddest, greatest, most entertaining city in the world. And I've been all over the world and travel still all the time. And you don't see cities like we've got at 2 o'clock in the morning like New York City. So yeah, there's a lot of great stuff. But, but don't just overlook it and just not look at all the bad stuff. And it's really, really bad stuff. Really bad stuff. I believe 450,000 New Yorkers left last year. I think that's the number. They've had enough. And every day it gets worse. So the question is, what is the definition of insanity? The definition is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results. If you keep voting in Democrats, you're going to get the same results.

And the results are not pretty. Caroline Schenkel, that's your answer come November. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. Making their opening remarks, Rand Paul making the argument today, and he's right that they should hold this lying, thieving criminal, Anthony Fauci, in contempt of court. And Bill O'Reilly, I know you're listening. You owe me an apology. You do. You know, nobody loves Bill more than me. Nobody respects Bill more than me. All the things I say about Bill every week, I really mean it. I think he's the best ever, ever. But he did say that he thought Chris Andrew Cuomo would not defend Anthony Fauci, and he did. Now he went back on it on his TV show on Friday night. He said, well, the more I look at it, he did look like he had something to hide. Really, jerk off? He just figured that out? But his initial Instagram video the next morning was very angry Chris Andrew Cuomo. Very angry. How could they do that to quote, my friend Anthony Fauci, calls him Tony. It was horrible. He used the word bullshizzle three times what they did to my friend Anthony Fauci. So I don't care what Andrew Cuomo did on his stupid TV show Friday night. The real Chris Andrew Cuomo came out Thursday or Friday morning on Instagram. So Bill promised me last week that if Andrew Cuomo did that, he would apologize to me. But there's no way Bill will apologize, so I can't wait to hear how Bill frames that. You think I'm right, Lou? What do you think? He'll circumvent his apology. Bill's the best. God, I love Bill. Well... There is an apology coming. However, now let's look at how we came to this point. Yeah. No, I think he just does it. I think you're wrong. I think Bill just does it. We'll see. Okay. Either way, this is called time spent listening. So stick around and see what it's the best segment of the week anyway. I will explain why Anthony Fauci did what he did. Now, let's go back to the year. You know, it must be a bad year for the match now that you're doing Bill O'Reilly because it just occurred to me that... I think I've only done one MET game so far this year with Bill. And remember that one was Steve Cohen's box after I referred to Mr. Met as an anti-Semite. And Cohen invited me and Gabriel, my son, to the box. That's the only MET game we did this year. You think it's been a bad year? Are you sure? Yeah. But they're on fire. They won two straight. The Cleveland Guardians are a very bad baseball team, but they're almost 500. And the Mets beat them two times in a row. Here come the resurgent New York Mets. I'll tell you, the game I went to, courtesy of our friend Pete Morgan. Yes. I went to a couple of years. Was that the Phillies? A couple of weeks ago. It was, uh, uh, let's, I'm trying to remember. It wasn't the Phillies. I thought it was. Marlins, maybe. Oh, maybe the Marlins. Okay. I'm not sure. But either way. It was a bobblehead night. Bobblehead. So we didn't know it, MJ and I walked in handing Bobbolets. It was a pitcher that's already been traded now already. Oh, what's his name? Peralta. Peralta, yes. Yes. It's like, so four days later, he's crazy. That's great. That's hilarious. That is great. There'll be nice auction items in from our trunk. But they didn't trade any of the real big names. You knew Peralta was gone, veteran. He went to Tampa Bay.

You know, your new Clay Holmes would be gone. Veteran he goes to Chicago. And the Cubs, the last two days, beat the Dodgers. Two days in a row. Yep. You come the Cubbies. Ready to sweep. Yeah. So. But the big names, you know, your new Soto was safe. Of course. You knew AJ Ewing was safe. Your new Benji was safe. You knew Nolan McLean will pitch tonight. He was safe. Zach Thornton. Lindor. No. There were a lot of Mets who thought the Mets would trade him. Darrell Strawberry came on this show two weeks ago and made a passion plea to keep him. He's like, hey, when he's right, he's as good as any shortstop in baseball. But there were Mets fans who thought he may go. He did not go. Bobichette. I think of the home on last night. He didn't go. So some of the names, Brett Beatty didn't go, some of those names, the catcher, who Beningo can't stand, Francisco Alvarez. He didn't go. A lot of matches still stuck around, and they're all winning games, which means nothing at this point. They're like 800 games back. Anyway, I'll apologize for how bad the Mets are doing. Right, there you go. We'll get that from Bill. So we'll take a break. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. Now, what was the, didn't we're out of ice? Is that the song? No, it was MC Hammer. Oh, MC Hammer. That's right. That's right. What song was that again? It was the same song. Super Freak? No. What are you talking about? What was the Vanilla Ice? We made what MC Hammer song. Oh, no. Vinyl Ice, the Queen song. Yeah. Pressure. Under pressure, yeah. That's right. That's what it was. I get confused. Rick James. Yeah, MC Hammer samples. Right. That's right. He does on this song. Is MC Hammer dead too? No. Okay. I haven't seen him at years. Him or Tone Loker, all those guys. They were huge. He probably is. He probably is. He probably is. He was the best. He still is the best. He'll always be the best. Whether it's Thursdays right here with me or his own amazing website, Bill O'Reilly.com, great interviews, great stories, great TV. No spin. Just great news. Tremendous author. All those killing series books. A lot of them. He's also written that great book about the president's confronting evil, brand new book coming out again next month. Very excited about that. Weekly appearances on News Nation. And now he's got his podcast, and he's killing it with amazing guests. I mean it. Great guests. In fact, I think Schenkel was on recently. We'll do it live, which I think Bill O'Reilly said once many years ago on Inside Edition. Here he is my hero, the great Bill O'Reilly. Bill, good morning, buddy. How are you? You know, I can't get enough Rick James at 8.45 in the morning. You just have to have it. All right. Eight ball. Wake you up. It'll wake you up. It'll wake you up. It's like a good cup of coffee that Rick James, right?

Yeah, I think he was sentenced to Devil's Island for two lifetimes. He was a rough guy. There's no question about it. He was a rough guy. So right now, Rand Paul and Ron Johnson and all these guys are on the hill making this very impassioned argument that they should hold Anthony Fauci in contempt. What do you think happens if anything with this Rand Paul attempt? I don't know. There's no real reason other than to expose Anthony Fauci as a charlatan and a deceiver to chase him around. And, you know, this has been done by Congress. We have so many more important things to deal with here. I think Anthony Fauci's through, although maybe you can tell me this. So I'm looking for advice. from Sid, which is never a good thing. Never. No. I agree. Why are liberal people continuing to stick up for Anthony Fauci? Now, I got my theory, but I'm saying, look, the guy deceived you. Why are you still touting him as some kind of hero? And they do on television. You see it. I'm going, what do you have to do in this country to get through to people that, you know, I'm not a good guy that I did all this because I wanted to be vain, glorious, word of the day. And that's exactly what he wanted to be. And now I'm exposed and I have to embarrass myself and embarrass the government and embarrass everybody. And you're still sticking up for me. Wait a second. You're telling me that the same people who will never utter the name Lakin Riley or the thousands? Thousands. That's a real number bill of innocent people slaughtered by illegals in this country. They'll never say that name. But they'll say pretty and good a million times over in their attempt to abolish ice. You mean the same people that referred to President Trump as a Nazi and a pedophile? You mean those people? Those? Yeah, but those, I understand the activism and I understand the viciousness. This is the same thing. Same thing. Same thing. Same thing. But when you are exposed and when you see before your eyes what a fraud this Anthony Fauci was, and then it was delighting in his fraudness. I don't know how you can have supper with Jake Tapper once, twice? Twice. Would you get hypnotized people when you went in there? But what these people are saying, because I've got the same curiosity that you've got, and I don't get it either, okay? What they're saying is there's nothing in those diaries that's incriminating enough to tell you that Anthony Fauci was killing people. Was he being dishonest? Sure. Did he love the attention? Sure.

But the Republicans, they're taking it a step further, referring to this guy as a murderer. He didn't do that. He was trying to find answers, just like everybody else was, during a very scary time. That's what they say. It's pathetic, but that's what they say. But his own diaries contradict that. Do they completely? Almost. Almost. I mean, I'll give you one very vivid example. So Anthony Fauci didn't know what the origin of COVID was. So he consulted. And this is according to his own diary. He consulted about a dozen experts all over the world. And overwhelmingly it came back that this had to be a weaponized virus in Wuhan, China. that somehow wind out with $650,000 of U.S. tax money. Okay? Now, Anthony Fauci was told that directly by more than one person. He didn't want that out because he knew that that $650 was going to come back at him. So he continued the charade. No, two bats got together in some cave. Oh, come on. So when you have vivid exam, then you go on CNN or wherever, and you have these people sitting around getting paid, said, oh, no, he's not so bad. Yeah, he's bad. That's bad. Okay? And the lack of outrage. I think Americans got to stop and step out of this ideology and say, look, when we're hosed, when you screw us on our kids, because you're sending kids back to school, you're denying kids school, I should say. They don't have to be denied. They're going to school in Germany and Sweden. Okay? Then you have to get angry and leave the ideology on the shelf. You would think and hope, but they're not. They're actually asking right now the Democrats to table the contempt vote because they don't want to see their good buddy, Anthony Fauci, get into trouble. It really is grotesque. All right, Bill, here it is. This is, in my opinion, the audio of the day, and it speaks to a very, what I think is a very scary story. I'd probably ask you this before, but it's worth asking again. Let me first play what I believe is the audio of the day, President Trump. talking about the latest winner in Michigan. And you do that, you go through squalor, and add the word again, filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment, you lose your home, you lose your apartment, and that's where the communist will take us 100%. When I watch Abdul, he's full of shit. This guy hates Jews. Somebody said, oh, that's a little strong. No, he hates Jews and he hates Israel. Abdul El-Sayed. You believe this? Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman. He's a man of hate. And now he's going around saying, no, I love everybody. He doesn't love everybody. Put him in office. You're going to find out what he loves. He doesn't love Israel.

He doesn't love Jewish people. He hates him. He hates him with a passion that burns in his heart, and there's not a freaking thing he can do about it. There's not a thing he can do about it because he hates him. See, that 63 seconds is exactly why I love and adore my friend. He is my friend, and yours too. President Trump, a great, but on a bigger note, El-Sayed wins, and he tells people one story and they buy it. He's another one, another one of these communists, Jew-hating communists winning somewhere in this country. How scary is that for Bill O'Reilly? I'm not scared of this guy or the others that are under this banner, but I am afraid of the growing ignorance of the American public. That really is disturbing. And there's a lot of that in my book, Confronting America, What Has to Change, which is out in September around Daniel's birthday, okay? That really bothers me. Because, you know, a guy like I said, he's going to lose to Rogers. So you're not going to be a senator. Rogers will wax him. in Michigan. Because there's just too many questions about this guy. I raised them last night on News Nation. They weren't answered, of course. And there'll be a deflection. No, he's not that bad. No, he's changed his mind. Don't believe any of that. There is a hardcore communist element to the Democratic Party. Again, step out, step out of your ideology and just see it because it is there and it is provable. But the American people, the people who voted for us, A.N., what's wrong with them? That's what really bothers me. What is wrong with you? I'm expecting these crazy people to step up because this is their time. This is their moment. Bernie Sanders is the most deliriously happy person on Earth. He never thought he'd get close to the power that he had. I know. He's just, well, he did think he ran for president a couple of times. And he was actually winning. And everybody ignored him and laughed at him. Well, not, not, well, and not initially actually made some noise in that Hillary Clinton year. Yeah, but it was never as serious. No, no, no, I know. The money. No, I know. He didn't. But my question to you is answer your own question, if you would, because you're a very smart guy, the smartest guy. I'm not just patronizing. I mean that. Why are these people doing this, these voters? I think there are two things going on here. One is among the younger voters, 35 down in America, that they are so cynical and detached from the system, the political system. They just don't want anything to do with it. So they're kind of like destroyers. They go, okay, if Zohran Mamdani is going to blow things up, I'll vote for Zohran Mamdani. There's a little bit of that in the Trump vote because the rank and file Democrats, Republicans, I should say, they were shocked that so many Republicans dumped Jeff Bush.

and the others, Tom Cruise and Marco Rubio, and went for a populist with no political experience, but they were fed up. The conservative movement was fed up. They wanted a populist leader. It's the same thing on the other side. They're fed up, and for different reasons. So they're fed up with people like Chuck Schumer. That's what they're fed up. Yes, they want free stuff, all right? And they don't want to talk about it. All right. And that's what it is. If you took all the free stuff away, how many votes you think Bandami would have gotten? But listen, and I do get some free stuff because I'm famous and so do you. But on a serious note, you know what I met, Danielle? I met her in economics class. It's a true story. You mentioned Danielle's birthday, the next book coming out. I met her an economics class in college. I had this wonderful Australian professor. He since died of a brain tumor. And I remember I was half drunk. I was sitting there so many years ago, you know. And the first thing he said, the very first thing he said, he wrote it on the blackboard was, there is no free lunch. First thing he said, economics class. I would imagine teachers still say the same thing or professors, whether it's Michigan or Rutgers or Seton Hall. So that's the first thing you learn in economics 101. Why would these morons who vote for people like El Sayed and Zohran Mamdani believe they really can get free stuff? Because there's another sentence that has been added to that. Oh, there has? Yeah. Uh-oh. There is no free lunch. Yeah. Unless you're a victim. Ah, that's brilliant, Bill O'Reilly. Brilliant! It's true. What the Democrat and liberal progressive movement is selling... is you don't have a chance. You can't live in a nice house. You can't get a good job because the billionaires are going to prevent it. Some insane thing like that. Right. There's no accident that Bernie Sanders never goes on any form that would challenge him because he can't answer the question. All he is is a one-trick pony. that gets out there and fosters discontent among younger people. He's also living a complete lie because he's the one saying that you take money away from rich people. And Bernie Sanders, if you don't know this, I know most of you do. He's very rich, very. Yeah, and if you look into how he got rich, because his wife brought in the big dough, it's pretty sorted. What happened up there in Vermont? Oh, really? I was not a legitimate thing. Oh. My opinion. Now, the second aspect to the why people vote for Said and Zohran Mamdani is they're stupid. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. These are stupid people. I really don't want to insult any of Sid's audience about 30% of whom are stupid. Not my audience. No, no, no, not my audience. I can promise you that. But Andrew Cuomo's audience, that I can't promise you. Honestly. The dumb people are at sports radio.

But I walk out. Everybody knows me in the world, not just in the United States. And I'm nice to be, but they want a picture or they want me to sign something. I'll be happy to do that. But I always ask them questions about where they're from and what they do for a living, whatever they may be. And it used to be that cogent answers were easy to get. Now, not so easy to get. And then they're, you know, people will ask me an example. Give me an example of this because I find this fascinating. So they walk up, you're Bill O'Reilly, yeah, yeah, and you ask, give me an example of a question you may ask, and now the answer that you're not going to get. Okay. So I'm walking around out on Eastern Long Island where I am right now, and somebody would come up and whatever they, you know, they're polite and respectful, you know, be happy to. So I'll say to them, what do you do for living? Mostly men, because, you know, women and got the little kids, and what do you do for a living? Well, I'm this first. I work here. I say, you got any trouble meeting your mortgage? You got any trouble feeding? Now we have food, self, you know, deficiency, you know, whatever crazy thing it is. And the answer comes across, no. Yeah. I said, well, then, you know, what is the... Well, you're friends that vote contrary to you, the way you might, why they think they can't get a house or food or what, what's going on? Never an answer. Never an answer. Right. Okay? Right. And it's like a glaze goes over their eyes. Right. Because people are now starting to create their own worlds on their phones and computers. So you don't have to go into the real world. You don't have to confront what's true and what isn't true. You don't have to seek any knowledge. All you do is hold up this screen and you can then create whatever you want to create. That is really having a tremendous impact on how the USA votes. And they're susceptible to propaganda. If you don't know anything, you'll buy anything, right? That's Lincoln. I've said something like that. You'll buy anything. I don't know. We'll find out. There's enough vehicles where you can take your phone and actually learn something from it. But now I want to play Terminator 8 or whatever they're doing. And that kind of disturbs me because I'm seeing the population dumbing down. I see it too. It's... It's unfortunate, but I see it too. And not just the games you're talking about. I mean, I podcasts, people out there that have no right talking for three or four hours out of time because they're also stupid and hateful and they don't really know anything. And they're trying to make money. They're trying to make money. And they're getting millions of people to buy into their nonsense.

Seriously? Yeah, for about 20 minutes. I don't know. I want to see. I got Ben Shapiro. We're dropping him today. I love Ben Shapiro. He's great. But he's a bad guy, but he's genocidal. What's wrong with you, Bill? He's genocidal. What's the matter with you? So Josh Shapiro comes on the program. And I don't live in this world. I don't live in his internet world. But I know I'm aware of it. And I know the effect that has on my children, on my friends, and I understand that. So I was happening to get Josh Shapiro on so he could define what the deuce he actually does. What do you do? And it's funny, but it's also clarifying. What did he say? Then we run down all the feuds. Yeah, is that a lot? Fudes equate into money. Right. So I'm running down Candace Owens. I'm running down Tucker Carlson Claus, and I'm running down Megyn Kelly. And I'm not disparaging them. I'm saying to Josh Shapiro, why are you fighting with this person? What's the genesis of this? And it's so fascinating to me because, again, I don't live in that world. Right, right, right. Okay. Yeah. But you're absolutely right. People get caught up up to their eyebrows in this stuff. I know. I know. Now, look, Josh Shapiro takes it a step further because forget about his feuds with Tucker Carlson or Candice or those morons. You know that a couple of weeks ago, Iran put out a bunch of pictures and they actually put. Red bullets, you know, the bullseye in the middle of people's foreheads. It was a couple days before Lindsey Graham died. That's why there was all that controversy who really killed Lindsay. And President Trump is on that list. And Laurel Lumer and Marco Rubio, not J.D. Benz, how about that? But Ben Shapiro is on that list of people that Iran wants to assassinate. So, for what it's worth, he's got next level, Bill. That's a big deal. When a country wants to... Obviously, he's an Orthodox Jew who is loyal to Israel. Yeah. I don't see him as a threat. No. No. No. I was happy to talk to him. Did he do it here? Did he come up from Boca Raton and do it in your studios? No, we did it remote. Okay. Yeah, he's in Florida. Yeah. But. You know, my younger staff members are really jazzed. To me, I've interviewed everybody in the world except the Pope who's dodging me, and I keep sending him a letter, look. I'm really a good Catholic. You've got to give me an interview. But I learned a lot from Josh Shapiro in how things work and what the point of view is.

But it has absolutely addicted millions of people all over the world. And when you are side shadow by any addiction, and you know this better than anybody on the planet, you lose all perspective. Yep. It's true. No, you're 100% right. I can't wait to watch Ben Shapiro. He's that Israel first guy like Levine and Rosenberg and all those horrible Jews. Your podcast is great. I get so, I mean, every week, are you doing more than one a week? I feel like I'm seeing faces on there like twice a week. No, we only do one a week. I'm going to be in the grave soon if I don't stop. Oh, you really do got to take some time off. I know. Yeah, I mean, I'm doing the NOSPN News, and that is a news broadcast, so that takes a lot of time. Then we do, we'll do it live. And then we do radio or commentary for you and 300 other stations. And so I'm saying myself, you know, I'm going to be in a jar somewhere. No, God forbid. A News Nation, too. You're doing TV with Chris Andrew Cuomo, too. Every week. Yeah, that's kind of easy. News Nation makes it easy for me to do that. Oh, good. Okay. Although the angst that I have to suffer. You're the best. Do you ever, I mean, if you wrap this, a great conversation, always great. Do you have a chance, Bill, to walk out of your palatial Montauk estate and just walk on the beach, collect your thoughts for an hour, do nothing? Maybe Spencer is there, I don't know, but just do nothing. Nothing. Yeah, everybody's here. And it's no palatial mansion. It's just a beach house. But what I do now is I put my beach chair. right at the tide line. And this is how lazy I am. I used to go in and ride the waves and body surf and do all I, okay? Yeah. So now I don't do that. I sit in a dopey chair and with the waves lap over me. Oh, fantastic. Look at you. Yes. Yeah, and it's very relaxing until the hammerhead comes up and takes one of my toes. Okay? I said to the Hammerhead, can't you go back to Rockaway? We have it. What are you doing out here? We have it. We have a shark problem at Rockaway, too. I know, I know. I know. We got a big issue. If you're a Hammerhead shark, you want to be in Breezy Point Rockaway because of the saloons. But Montauk has always had a shark problem. I mean, I believe... No, it doesn't. Really? Because I believe the made-up town Amity in the movie Jaws with that great white... I thought that was basically Montaul. It was supposed to be, but it was way out. There's never been a shark attack offshore in Montauk. Yeah. We have whales out here. We got dolphins out here. Right. But the currents, because it hits the Long Island sound, the ocean does, make it inconvenient. And the sharks, you know, New Yorkers are just too tough. The meat is too tough. They're going to go up to Martha's Vineyard and get the...

off. All right. Take a bite on a lottery, David. Now my friend, Dershowitz. Bill O'Reilly, this was another fascinating and great, amazing conversation. Seriously, enjoy the beach. Take a little time for yourself, and we'll do it again next week. I love you. You're great. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, Sid. You're the best. You really are, Bill. Thank you. Bill O'Reilly, what an amazing segment every Thursday. We'll take a break. We're now really going to focus the last 55 minutes on 9-11. We're going to talk to a young lady who lost her dad on 9-11. She's going to talk about whether she thinks Zohran Mamdani should be there or not. I think Vicki Palatino may stop by talking about 9-11. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. I still love Little Stevie. He's a wonderful guy and a brilliant musician. And what an actor. What a great actor. Sopranos, Lily Hammer, all of it. So a few years ago, they honored me. And my friend Ron DuGay, he's not doing very well, Ronnie. He, you know, he's got the cancer. And he got the hydrated two weeks ago, fell down, smashed his face on the ground, and knocked out half his veneers. He's hurting. And he could use your help. He's got a GoFundMe page. The Rangers are not doing a very good job with that. I got to be honest. I love Jim Dolan. The Knicks just one, but the Rangers can be doing a better job for my dear friend, the great number 10, Ron Dugay. So they honored us a couple years ago. Today, I believe right now they're in the car with my man Mike Dan Sullivan. Everybody loves Mike Dan Sullivan, Brennan and Carr, the whole Dan Sullivan family. Thomas, he's running for assembly. And of course, Russ, Secret Service there in Virginia. Brian, the former cop, is seven of them. And they're on their way. This is kind of sad to Vinnie Pistor's funeral right now. Vinny Pistore. Vinny Pistory, they pronounce it both ways. And, of course, Stephen was in Sopranos with Vinny. Vinny played Big Pussy, and Steve played Silvio Dante. And Schroeder's a great cop. And I love Schroeder. Shorter thinks I don't like him. I like the guy a lot. I love him. He's a great guy. I think it was his partner, God, rest his soul, they had the issue with. But now he's gone, so I'm not going to say anything bad about him. But shut up, Lou. God, you're no help. You really are no help. I'm just following along. There's a lot going on here, Lou. Now they've got a big golf tournament coming up with the cops. Schroeder and Stephen Van Zant and we're going to go. It is a huge thing, yes. I'm just trying to follow along. There's a lot to follow, I know. Don't worry about it. Fine. You know, I think you were at that dinner a couple years ago with me, you and MJ, right? Yeah, we were there. It was a great night. It was a great night. Every year it's a great night. Yeah. They should really give me an award every year, but I guess they can't do that. I don't know why, but they should. So, Stephen, if you're listening, don't be stupid. I will take a break. We've got two wonderful ladies in a row coming up from the city council in Queens, a very courageous Vicki Palladino, and a young lady who lost her dad, a firefighter on 9-11. Her and I have differing opinions on where Zohran Mamdani should be that day, Elizabeth Miller, Palladino and Miller. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

She's one of our great five. Frank Morano and Ina Vernacov and David Carr and Joanne Areola are the others. But I specifically love Vicky. She's a great fighter. She listens every day. She's so cute. She texts me now. Almost every morning, I'm humbled by that. I really am. And she has been one of the more outspoken mom Donifos. I always say that there's really four that have made a difference. One is Bo Diedel. One is Vicky. One is a guy that just had a heart attack because of Moundy. What a loser he is, Scott Labato. And then me, of course, the four of us. So I'm honored to bring on Vicky talk about whether she thinks Mom Dottie should be down there 9-11. I am on record saying, no way. No way. Vicki Palatino. Good morning, sweetheart. How are you? Good morning, Sid, thanks a lot. Yeah, you know, I agree with you 100%. I don't believe Zohran Mamdani belongs down there for all the same reasons that you say day in and day out and it needs to be repeated day in and day out. But sometimes I feel as though we're in an echo chamber. I'm very curious about the woman you're going to have on after me because I'm very curious to see why and hear why she actually thinks Zohran Mamdani should be there. You know what's interesting about that, Vicky? She says it becomes too much of a distraction if he's not. And I made the point a hundred times this week. Hold on a second. If he's not there, they'll be at least on television for the millions watching around the world. Not the victims that are there that day. They'll make one mention that he's not there. That'll be it. But if that cloud is down there, they're going to show him every two seconds, every facial expression, even for the families, if they turn their backs. So the truth is, and why Miller is so wrong with this, is that if he is there, he becomes the show. No? 100, 100%. That's exactly what's going to happen because you think for one minute, like you said, it'll last maybe a minute or two that he's not there. Nobody's going to care, Sid, but they are going to care when he shows up. Now, you saw he got booed the way he got booed in Staten Island. Poor Scott suffered a heart attack, which I can't believe. I mean, I'm sick to my stomach. Me too. That he got this way. You know, we're all very intense. because we really understand what's going on. And what we try to do each and every day is to make people feel as we do, this understanding that young woman you had on that's running for Congress, Caroline, she was brilliant. These are the points that need to be driven home. And having Zohran Mamdani there is an absolute, do not go. I put out a tweet. It was somewhat civilized. And it said, So, Wren, do the right thing. Yeah, well, you know, I try. Yeah. I try. Right. Well, it must have been okay because I haven't heard Julie Menon call you out yet today. Yeah, no, nobody's called me yet. So all I can say is, like Bruce said yesterday, which was very clear, if you're invited to, if you're not, if the family asks you not to come to a shiver, you don't go. Awake, you don't go. Because it's at a courtesy. So be kind and respect the people's wishes.

And please do not show up. Because, you see, when he was shunned at that soldier, the young girl who was killed in Iran. The soldier, yes. Yeah. Okay. And you see how they placed him four rows back behind Donovan Richards, behind the governor. And he couldn't speak at his iPad already. He said he's going to go up there. And he was all ready to give his one, two, three speech. And rah, rah, rah. They shunned him. That family, very politely, just didn't mention his name as a speaker. He walked out of there, frustrated, infuriated. He was pissed. And he was pissed, okay? I've never seen him look so disheveled. I was told by somebody who was there. He was sweating his staff. Now, imagine if he doesn't get to speak at a 9-11 ceremony. Well, what I've been told he's not going to speak for short. So he may be there, but I've been told 100% he will not be speaking. Not, no. Well, thank God for that. Yes. Let's see what happens. Because what he did last week, all I said was also in a tweet was this is what must happen. Continue to make this guy irrelevant, okay, when it comes to really important stuff because he's everywhere pushing his agenda. And if it's these moments that we could take something away from him, we should take every opportunity to do that because he's a liar, he's a fraud. And I want to say something else, which I mentioned on a Newsmax show. There's a group of radical less wingers who are called the 9-11 Families for Peace. Now, that's a group of people, radical left-wing people. Yes, they are funded. Just, you know, that group is funded by George Soros. That's correct. Yes. I had your teammate on the city council, Joanne Ariola, on a couple days ago, and she was yelling and screaming specifically about this George Soros group you're referring to. This is the group. And they want that mosque down at Ground Zero. Remember right after 9-11? Yes. They talked about it. Oh, my God. I just couldn't even believe it. The buildings had just come down. It was like six months, eight months later, we were reeling still. I mean, we were reeling for years. But the point is that they wanted a mask down there. And you could bet now with who's in office, we may see some movement on this.

If you're in the sound of my voice, stay the hell away. Do what's right for New York. Nobody wants you there. And look at who took the Minnesota primary. I mean, to Bill's point earlier, too, you know, understand this is a wave that's happening. Trump laid it out beautifully. So good. Look, when you're from Queens, there's no filter, okay? Now, you know what I wish Trump would do, though? Yeah. I wish you would say the same thing about Zogra. Well, well, I won't say this because I got it wrong, but I'm going to bring you right back on again this week, Vicki, right back on because Mothers on hold. He did at least come out and rip him for being a communist two nights ago. But you're right, Vicki. I want him to go nuts like you do, like I do, like Lepado does, like Dito. I want him to go nuts on this low life. He won't do it. Vicki, you're great. I'm going to bring you right back, I promise, okay, sweetheart. Thank you, love you, love you more. Love you more. That is the great queen. councilwoman dear dear friend really a great fighter here in New York. Vicki Palladino will take a short break. Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network. I promise you I would divert my attention. Focus on 9-11 and I've done that. And I want to keep this mayor away. And the overwhelming majority of people I speak to in this city, and I'm very famous, I speak to a lot of people. They agree. 9-11 families and just every person walking in the street. But not every single person does. So I was surprised to hear on the news a couple of days ago, this young lady, Elizabeth Miller, God bless her, her father, God rest his soul, was killed on 9-11, a firefighter. I don't know, Mr. Miller, but I can tell you this. I love him. New York loves him, and America loves him. So, I was surprised to hear that she's okay with the mayor being in attendance, even though the mayor hangs out with people, Hasan Piker, Chevalier. clerics who were co-conspirators and the bombing of the Royal Trade Center in 1993 hangs out with them, says nice things about them. This is not just your everyday politician you disagree with. This guy is friendly with, says nice things about people who said America deserved 9-11. I'm sorry. He shouldn't be there. But Liz Miller, who's closer to the situation, she lost her relative. I lost friends. She says it's okay. Let's talk to her. Elizabeth, good morning. How are you? Good morning. How are you? Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. No, no, of course. First of all, what can I say, you know, your father, God rest his soul. I mean this. New Yorkers love him. Americans love him. I didn't know the man personally, but I'm sure he was a wonderful, wonderful guy. So I just want to thank you for the service that your dad gave to this city. He was definitely a true hero, and I always say my mom was an even bigger hero, that she raised three crazy little girls by herself. Is your mom still alive? Is she still with us? Yep. Thank God. My mom's still here. Yep, my three sisters still. I'm one of three. We're all still here and doing well. How old are you now? I am 31. I'll be 32 in December. So you were a baby, Liz. You were like five or six years old.

I was six, yep, turning seven. Do you have any memories at that? Yeah, I mean, you're old enough at that point to remember. Yeah, I actually have a lot. I actually lost a tooth on September 11th. So it's like we like laugh about it now that I brought home a certificate that said, oh, Elizabeth Miller lost the tooth. But little did I know. I was, of course, losing a lot more. But that's like. One thing we laugh about years later. Well, that is kind of cute. It's kind of funny. So you got to find the humor and think sometimes. And where did you live? Where did you guys grow up? I grew up in Port Jervis, New York, which is about an hour, 30, 40 minutes from the city. So kind of removed, very small town, five. I know it well. Everybody knows everybody. Yeah, I know it well. So your dad was part of what ladder, what station, what group, do you remember? He worked. He worked for Rescue 5, which is pretty incredible because he was 34 years old, which is pretty young, you know, as a fireman, and that he was already in a rescue company, was pretty cool. Now, what do you do for living? You sound very bright. I mean, you really do. What do you do for a living? I do run the nonprofit September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrow's. I actually was a council person in the city of Port Jervis in my prior life, but I've actually studied terrorism and Al-Qaeda and all things 9-11. the case at Guantanamo. I've been doing that since I was about 18 years old. Okay, so you know what you're talking about, but you do realize I think I just spoke about this group, and this is where the conversation would get a little contentious. I love you, don't get mad at me, but is that not the group that George Soros funds? So open society foundations was like a funder of peaceful tomorrow's for years past, but not since I've come on. I only joined in 2020 because again, I was six on September 11th. And it wasn't, of course, like we never had direct conversations with the man. It was through the Open Society Foundation. We are not funded by them anymore. There was actually something else in the paper that said that we get like all sorts of money. Like our operating budget is like $150,000 a year, which basically just covers like a Zoom account, a website, like housekeeping, you know. So, and I don't want to put words in your mouth. So you're not okay with George Soros. You're not. To be honest, I don't spend enough time, like, digging into the man. That's one thing I, like, I wouldn't comment on. I just, we maybe will have to have a follow-up conversation about that. Okay, so are you the type, Elizabeth Miller, that doesn't talk politics, because while you're lovely, these are mutually exclusive, I'm getting the feeling that you may be a Democrat, and Democrats would tend to be more open to having this horrible mayor down at that site, then...

Republicans like me. So I'm going to guess. And if you don't want to answer, that's up to you. But it sounds to me like you may be a Democrat. Am I wrong? Oh, that's okay. Yes, I am a Democrat. I usually do vote left. It doesn't mean that I don't have respect for a lot of Republican candidates in years past. And listen, I think disagreement makes the world go around. I think we learn from each other when we're uncomfortable and we have some of these uncomfortable conversations, which I think is why I was so excited for the opportunity to talk to you because, you know, I've heard some of your viewpoints and I'm, you know, I can see where you're coming from. I'm rough, all right? Liz, I'm rough, right? You're a New Yorker. It's nothing I'm not used to. There you go. No, you're right. So if you were living, let's say, in Brooklyn or the city and not Long Island, would you have voted for Zohran Mamdani? I'm not going to hold this against you, I promise. Would you abort it for him? Yes, I would have. You would have. I won't lie to you. Yes, I would have. Now, listen, I'm Jewish and I hate the man. Like, I hate him with a, if you've watched me and listen to me, like, I really hate him. Like, not enough bad things can happen to him and his wife. That's how much I hate his guts. What do you like about him? Why would you vote for him? So, for me, I'm a big believer in, like, neighbor politics. and leading with compassion and kindness. And I don't think leading with, and listen, this isn't just like about him specifically. I think it's just in general. But like leading with compassion shouldn't be a radical concept. And I think unfortunately, like sometimes it is. I'm a, like I said, I'm a big believer. And like I love having conversations across the aisle because I'm not going to discount you based on who you voted for. I want to get to know who you are at your heart. You're not. You're not. But he's not compassionate. His wife. celebrated October the 7th. I mean, I assume you know who Hasan Piker is. So not only did Hasan Piker, his best friend, by his own admission, say America deserved 9-11. Your father deserved to die. Your father deserved to die that day, according to Hasan Piker. Not only did his friend say that, but Mr. Zohran Mamdani was sitting right there as a guest on Hasan Piker's podcast. And Elizabeth, he offered no pushback. Zero pushback. So when the guy says, your father deserved to die, and this mayor sits there and doesn't say a word and hasn't since, how was that okay? From what I know, I think that he has said that it was reprehensible after the fact. And I think the other thing is we're all a little guilty sometimes by association. Like my mother always said, sometimes you lay with dogs, you get fleas. And sometimes we're all a little guilty of laying with a dog from time to time. He lays with a whole pound. It's not just a dog. He's got clerics.

Smiling Selfies in the streets that blew up the World Trade Center. He's got his wife, who's a vile, wretched person. He's got Chevalier. He just endorsed her, who wiped her dirty hands with an American plague. He doesn't associate with one guy. Everybody he associates something. They either hate the Jews, hate Israel, or hate America. All of them, Elizabeth, all of them. Well, and I will say I am not a New Yorker like in the city. So I don't follow all of these things as closely. I don't follow all of his policies as closely. Of course, during the election time, I was interested. Um, but I think for me, the biggest issue is that. Like, I'm not going to sit here and tell you how to feel about the man. I think, you know, how you feel is important and it's valid and I would never discount your feelings. And, you know, I would hope mine wouldn't be discounted. I think that we've just reached a point. Like, there's so much that goes on with 9-11 that, like, we still don't even know some of the, like, who, what, where, when and why. And, like, you just refer to, like, these clerics. They're not. From my research and what I've done, like, they didn't have a hand in 9-11. I've been researching 9-11, again, my whole life to try to get a grip on, like, how did I end up here? Like, how the hell is this my life? And I think that sometimes... Some of this like politics overshadows the real issues, I think, that are still happening 25 years later. Like Gitmo, like everything at Guantanamo, like there's still five men accusing, including the mastermind, Cid Sheikh Mohammed, who isn't sentenced, he's not considered guilty as of this point. Like that breaks my heart. Um, don't, don't break your heart of a Sheikh Mohammed, trust me, okay? He's not deserving of that type of sympathy. No, no, no, I understand. I, you know, the Innocence Project, fantastic. Way to go, Barry Sheck and those types of people, but certain people don't deserve that level of sympathy. And he's one of them. I mean, I'll say this to you. You made the point that you don't want the focus to be on anybody, but the families and the victims, and boy, do I agree. But you realize, but, you know, you realize Elizabeth when that. Punk shows up that day, he's going to get all the attention. Every camera shot, family members will turn their backs, politicians will shun him. All they're going to talk about that day if this guy shows up is him. If he's not there, guess what? At the beginning of the telecast, maybe at the beginning of your ceremony, they'll go, no mayor, that'll be it. If he's there, he's going to demand all the attention. Why would you want that? I think people are a lot of talk. I think people ask like, like, and I'm not saying 9-11 families. I'm saying like politicians. So like you're going to have him come. And I think like think about this when President Trump had individuals.

Like when signed the petition that he didn't want it, they didn't want him there. And again, it wasn't, of course, as large. But he still came and the day wasn't about him. And listen, I'm a firm believer, regardless of who you are as an elected official, I'm grateful that you want to take the opportunity to sit there and honor our loved ones. Whether I like you, whether I don't, whether I agree with all of your policies, whether I don't, I think. The other thing. Oh, hold on. You think that you think you're very smart girl. You are. I'm not just, and I'm not patronizing you. People, you're yelling at you. I don't feel like you are. I'm not, okay. I'm just, I'm a very easy. But do you think that the mayor is honoring your loved ones? He couldn't care less that your father is dead. And I know that sounds really rough. He couldn't care less. He's showing up because he's still trying to snow people that he actually cares about this country, which he doesn't. He's not there to honor your father. He couldn't care less. He would much rather honor Muhammad Atta, who flew the damn plane into the building. I think, well, like, again, this is where we disagree and I think that's okay. I think that he would honor my dad. Again, I didn't vote for for President Trump. I think President Trump would be honoring my dad. I think there's some other individuals. I think that any politician or government, and that's the other thing, he's a government official. So once they become elected, they are the representative, whether we like that or not. What? No, they're not. No, they're not. He makes decisions for the city, but he wasn't even here in the United States when your dad, Godwest his soul, died. He doesn't, you have to earn that. He wasn't even here. So a bunch of silly people voted on him that makes him deserve of being down there at that sacred site. No, I don't believe in that. You got to earn that. He hasn't earned it. What I'm saying is, like, legally, technically, he's the government official of New York at the moment. You know, that's what I'm talking about on the ground level. And so. Like, think about all that Mayor Bloomberg has done for the museum in years past and helping with the financials and everything like that. And so the other thing is, what do you do if the government officials and politicians can't come? So it's like this is like a really big, honest conversation that maybe there should have been from the start about who should be allowed and who shouldn't. What's it going to cost me to have you turn your back on him? How much?

Come on. Or at least, I mean, if I took you up a lunch for dinner and sat with you for an hour because you're also curious, I like that about you. Trust me. You would have a change of heart. You really would because I think you do want to know. You've got a thirst for knowledge. You admitted I'm on Long Island. I'm not paying all that much attention. If you sat with me for an hour, he'd be scared to death. Honestly, I don't think so. I think that we'd have some good conversation. No, not of me. I mean of the mayor. No, not of me of the mayor. No, you and I get along great. You'd be like, oh my God, you're right. I really don't scare easy. We will have to go to lunch so we can chat because I don't scare too easy. No, I can see that. Listen, you're a terrific young lady. You really are. And whether we disagree on this or not, you are forever a victim here in New York. And everybody who was alive and around that day, and I was. And I experienced the whole thing. We love you. And we certainly love your father. So we can get past this conversation. Just know that. All the good, decent New Yorkers and Americans are with you and your mom and your two sisters that day. Okay, sweetheart. Thank you very much. Listen, I appreciate that very much, and I appreciate you taking the time to talk about, you know, the anniversary this year. Since it is 25 years, it's pretty monumental, and I'm grateful that it's being discussed. Absolutely. God bless you and God bless your father. Okay, sweetheart. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, you have a wonderful day. You too, Elizabeth. Thank you. There she is, Elizabeth Miller. We disagree, but it's hard not to like her. And this show is over. And I don't know what else to say. I mean, I laid it all out there, right? Lou, I even talked about Ata flying the plane into the building. What else could I possibly say? You laid out everything. Everything. And that's what makes for a good interchange about it. She has... She's likable, man. Of course. Well, she was great on the other end, of course. Yeah, she was. You need somebody to tangle with it. You're going to have a productive conversation with that. But I knew right away. That's why, yes, you're a Democrat, right? You would vote for Mom Down. She's obviously not offended, though, by stuff. She understands the different point of views. Oh, come on the dinner table tonight when an asshole that guy said it is. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. No, she was great. Are you talking about my dinner table? He did something. He did it. We got to go home, Luke. Come on. Thanks for listening to Sit and Friends in the Morning. You can hear Sid and Friends in the Morning, weekday mornings at six. If you like the podcast, share it with your friends, and listen anytime at wabcradio.com and download the Wabc Radio app. Hit that subscribe button on all major podcast platforms. Plus, follow WABC on social, on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X. See you next time for a new episode, so you never have to wonder. What the... What the heck is going on here?