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I want to go live to Israel. This is one
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of my best buddies, and he's a major star here.
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Major?
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He's a big-time actor, big-time comedian, and he's a big-time
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New Yorker. Big time. And it's my dear friend Michael Rappaport.
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Michael just did a documentary. I saw it over the summer.
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In fact, I sat right behind Debra... What is her
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name again? I keep thinking about Debra Winger for some reason.
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The one who just joined Bruce Blakeman's campaign. Deborah Messing, right.
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I posted the picture yesterday of me and Deborah at
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Michael Rappaport's screening of his amazing documentary, Am I Cancelled Yet?
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And Deborah hopped on board, as I just said, with
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Bruce Blakeman a couple of days ago. But you have
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to see Mike's documentary because Rappaport, who is loud like
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me all over Instagram and social media, doing documentaries and
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speaking all over the world, he's lost a lot of opportunities.
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A lot of jobs and doesn't do nearly the amount
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of movies. And in his documentary, him and his beautiful wife, man,
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I love her. She's great. They're going, you know, they
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had some serious conversations and were nervous. Like, what are
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we going to do? Nobody wants to hire me because
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I'm on the right side of history. But that didn't
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stop Michael, just like nothing stops me. So I'm proud
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to call him a friend. And again, he's in Israel
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this morning. the great Mike Rappaport. Michael, good morning, buddy.
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How are you?
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Sid, thanks for having me. What an introduction. Can you
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record that so in the morning I don't need an
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alarm playing music? I just have, you know, like maybe
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just like a little bit like a lower volume, but
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you just say all those fantastic things about me. What
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a way to wake up.
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Well, it's all true. And although Kibi probably wouldn't love
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it so much, she loves you too. But it's all true.
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In fact, where are you this morning in Israel? Where
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exactly are you?
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I just came back inside the hotel. I've been out
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all morning in Tel Aviv. I've been in Jerusalem. I'm
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in Tel Aviv today. And, you know, it's very melancholy.
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There's a lot of sadness. There's a lot of hope.
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A lot of teary-eyed smiles. A lot of contemplation. Obviously,
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so many people have been through the worst of the
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worst of the worst times. of times and families have
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been destroyed and loved ones have been murdered and never
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came back. And, um, you know, from, from, from the
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most horrible to the idea of soldiers that have fought
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and risked everything who've come back, uh, with, with so
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many injuries, um, either physical or, or mentally, emotionally, um,
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you know, everybody's been through something, you know, there, I
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think everybody has, uh, a Netflix series. Every single person
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you talk to that's lived through October 7th has a
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story where your mouth is a gate and you know,
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the ones that are more dramatic to just the families
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who spent the last three years running in and out
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of bomb shelters with their kids. Um, that being said,
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you know, similar to New York and nine 11 life
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goes on. Um, And, you know, you must keep stepping forward.
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You must keep shining. And this is the Jewish state
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of Israel and the light will never go out. And
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you've been here. The people of Israel to me are
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very much like the bread and butter people of Israel.
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New York, the working class people from mostly from the boroughs,
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the hardworking people, the gritty people, the ham and eggers,
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the people that like are just humble and, you know, just,
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you know, appreciate their family and appreciate, you know, watching
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a game with their family. Like that to me is
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very much akin of the Israeli people. We're very similar
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to the best of the best of New Yorkers. and
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especially the kinds of people that listen to your show.
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But unfortunately, Michael, and thank you for saying that, and
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you're right about that, I'm not sure they're the majority
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of people anymore. I mean, you're in Israel today, but
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if you were home and sitting outside by your Upper
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East Side apartment, by Gracie Mansion, maybe having a cup
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of coffee at Starbucks, which you do occasionally, and New
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Yorkers love to meet and greet you, you would notice
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that today, this is unbelievable, there are pro-Hamas rallies and
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protests everywhere. Pro-Hamas. People celebrating what happened on October the
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7th will be roaming our streets in New York today.
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The mayor won't do anything about it because he's with them.
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The police commissioner has to chalk it up to the
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First Amendment. So you talk about a sad day becoming
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exponentially more sad. Your New York, which you just talked
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about in such glowing terms, these animals are going to
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be up and down the streets in big numbers.
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Well, I'm aware of that, and I'm glad you don't
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call them protesters. Call them celebrators. They're celebrating death. They're
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celebrating rape. They're celebrating kidnappers. They're celebrating arsonists. And they're
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not protesting anything. This is like a year later for
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them after when the Knicks won the championship. You'll kind
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of feel like that. That day of October 7, three
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years ago, was the greatest accomplishment that the doctors... the dentists,
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the school teachers, the civilians, the fathers of Daza ever did.
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That's why they celebrated like they won the championship. And
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that's why these scum bums... in our city, and these
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are mostly elitist pigs or fake refugees that grew up here,
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that have status because of the corrupt UNRWA, which is
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connected to the corrupt United Nations. These are people that
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if you can spend the day celebrating anything, On a
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random Thursday, on a random Wednesday, how could you afford
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that lifestyle? Why aren't you at work, pig? Why aren't
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you at work, scumbum? So these are people that are
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getting paid. They're the disenfranchised. They're the miserable. These are
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the same people that complain about everything. And more than
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they hate the Jews, they hate themselves. And they hate
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themselves because most of their mothers and their fathers, they
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didn't give them the attention and nurturing that they yearn for.
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So I understand what's going on. It's going to be
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happening all over the world. It's a scar and a
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stain on still the greatest city in the world. And
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we know what we have in Gracie Mansion. And can
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you imagine, Sid, three years ago on October 7th, when
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the animals, the terrorists, We're live broadcasting, not hiding it
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like most criminals, most criminals, arsonists, rapists. They don't want
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to get caught. These people broadcast it in real time
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for the world to see. They wanted us to see it.
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They showed the world that the mayor of New York's
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wife was watching that. and liking tweet after post after
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video after video. Can you imagine seeing anything as horrible
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as that footage of those photographs from that day and
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in real time? And this is a female. This is
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a woman.
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She's liking it. And this is why I'm so fed
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up with the New York media. I know her last
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name sounds Italian, Russo. I've been killing this lady, Melissa Russo,
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NBC locally. She's Jewish, okay? Her dad, Italian, but her mother, Jewish.
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She saw me at the Israeli Day Parade. She was
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very angry with me because I said that Mamdani wants
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to see dead Jews. And I said, well, wait a second.
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Until he demonizes the Intifada, that's what that word means.
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What did he get mad at me for? And just
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last week, when the mayor made that ridiculous video, he's
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going to combat anti-Semitism. Melissa Russo was right. She was gushing.
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She was gushing. So she's despicable. Melissa Russo at NBC,
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Marsha Kramer, CBS. She's not a heck of a lot better.
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You've got a New York media that fawns over this
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guy when the truth is he's an anti-Semite, jihad, racist scumbag.
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Period. Period. I concur. And his wife is also. Period.
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I concur.
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And his father, who sat there, his father was one
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of the guys that helped construct the Columbia stuff.
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They're dogs. They're dogs. Corroded dogs. Sick puppies. So, yes,
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we know this, but let's not talk about them. Let's
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talk about us. And let's talk about, and to really
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emphasize what happened that day should never be forgotten. I
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will say, Sid, that, you know, when I'm here in
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Israel and I contemplate, you know, my trips, your trips,
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everything I've seen, you know, all the people that I've met,
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all the hostage families who had loved ones that never returned,
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some who had the great miracle of having them returned.
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You know, I just, you know, I just, it's just...
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So many lives were destroyed and there was so much destruction.
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And I really would urge everybody in New York with
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a heart to give a beat, to give a prayer,
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to give a meditation, to just give a thought, to
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make sure that those people, their memory may forever.
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Be a blessing.
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Yes. Yes. Of the most important because, you know, we
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could we could talk about, you know, the Yankees. You
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could talk about the Giants. But but today is it's
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a sad day. This is one of the historic day.
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And the fact that it it's mutated into scum bums
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in our city that will be dancing without jobs, jobless
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scum bums. It's crazy that this has somehow been okayed
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and they could.
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Do it under the guidance of free speech and all this.
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They're also physically repulsive. I don't know why, but I've
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seen these people. Many rallies. I've walked right in the
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middle of them. And they're all ugly. I don't know
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what it is. But then this is part of the
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reason why. They've got, like you said, their parents never
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cared about them. They're ugly. They're not hooking up with
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good-looking people getting great jobs. So this is what they've
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decided to do with their lives, which is really pathetic.
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I do want to ask about you, though, Mike, because
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your documentary, Am I Cancelled Yet? I mentioned this at
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the top of the conversation. It goes into the conversation
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you and your wife had a couple of times, serious conversations.
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Here you are a big time actor. You've acted with
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everybody from Robert De Niro to Jimmy Gandolfini to you
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name it. You've made unbelievable movies from higher learning to amazing,
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amazing cable shows like Atypical. You've had an unbelievable career.
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And now the last couple of years, you've hit the
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scene on the comedy side with big, big shows at
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the biggest comedy clubs all over the country. But your
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career has taken a bit of a beating the last
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couple of years because, oh, my God, you decided you
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were going to be on the right side of history.
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Do you regret, Mike Rappaport, do you regret at any
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point sticking up for the victims here, not the genocide people,
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the victims because of what's happened in your personal life?
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Not a regret. I will continue taking steps forward. I have...
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I will do it all again. I'll continue doing it.
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I have nothing to apologize for.
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I am... It.
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Nothing I did, nothing I said, how I behaved, everything
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I've seen, it all came extremely natural. And it was
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like drinking water and like breathing to me. And, you know,
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as far as the frustrations that I've suffered and deal
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with with my career, it sucks. But I do believe
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that it'll come around. I do believe that I'm talented.
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I do believe that, you know, what I do as
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an actor, I'm professional. I'm on time. I kick butt professionally.
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On every show, every movie, every set, every day, every take,
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I give blood every single time I go to work.
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And it'll turn around because I know I've done nothing wrong.
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I've broken the laws. And, you know, I have to
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explain nothing to nobody. And I'm looking forward. And I promise,
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you know, in the next couple of probably maybe next week, Sid,
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I'm going to come in. To the station. If you'll
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allow me. I know you're busy. You got a lot
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of friends. A lot of people calling. And announce where
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everybody can see the documentary Am I Cancelled Yet? Which
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I'm very proud of. Which is very funny.
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I can't wait.
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Very emotional. Very inspiring.
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So good.
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And super honest.
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So good.
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And I think a lot of people will be able
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to relate to it.
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They're going to love it. And now, I think I
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saw this. I was so happy for you. I guess
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you're at a screening somewhere in Israel, and the crowd
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actually broke a record. Believe it or not, we actually
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have data that backs this up. After the documentary was completed,
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did you get a record-breaking, and deservedly so, 26-minute standing ovation?
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Now, we're fact-checking it, Sid, and we're sending the numbers,
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we're crunching the numbers and the data to the Guinness
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Book of World Records. But yes, and I had heard
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one of these documentaries at the Venice Film Festival once
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got 25 minutes. which is absurd to me. Because, I mean, listen,
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I love my kids. You love Gabriel, your beautiful son,
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your daughter. I wouldn't clap. There's nothing my kids could
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this is... So, yes, it was a great night. And,
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you know, the people here, like you know, the people
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of Israel are... incredibly spirited, gorgeous, fun, unique, just human beings.
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everything in New York, you know, from the people. And
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I'm just a guy, man. I'm just a guy. My
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wife is just, you know, a woman, you know, and
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I'm just a regular guy. And I'm just, you know, like,
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you know, I'm just a dude. I'm just a dude from...
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Yeah, more than that, man. And I love when people
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go crazy when they see you in Israel. It's all deserved, man.
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I mean, you've been amazing. I mean, you and I
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were friends before, and we've had some fun times on
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the radio. But what you've done the last three years,
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let me say it because you're a humble guy. What
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you've done the last three years is nothing short of magnificent.
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You've become one of the great, and I mean great,
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Jewish people, fighters for Israel everywhere. in the history of
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that country. And I know how it goes when you
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walk the streets there, Mike. They go nuts. And that
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makes me very, very happy. Enjoy your day there today.
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I know, again, it is a solemn day. Are you
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planning to go to any other, I don't know, rallies?
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meetings or vigils.
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There's some, some memorials and some get togethers and, and, and, uh,
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you know, I'm, um, I'm going to be there. And,
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and I mean, it's like the whole state of Israel,
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it's one big memorial going on all over the place. Uh,
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you know, even, you know, the businesses, I think everybody
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is very, very aware of it. And, and, uh, you know,
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but yes, I'm going to something later on this evening
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It's been a great trip. And, you know, and like
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I said, hopefully I can come see you in the
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flesh because you dress fantastically. Have you ever made like
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one of the radio's best dressed list? This is one
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of the things that I feel like you, I mean,
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you got that face, that gorgeous face and that beautiful,
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beautiful bald head. But you dress, you are, no, Sid,
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you are a finely dressed man. Like you don't play around.
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And you come in there when it's, 3.30 in the
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morning in the winter, sharp as a tack.
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Well, thank you very much. I do take that seriously, Joe.
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I'm serious.
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I mean, people, this is what you should, I mean,
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you post the clips on the radio, you know, from
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the radio, but I'm like, every time I come in there,
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I mean, the guy, the suits fit fantastic.
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You smell good. You look good. But the clothing, the linen,
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the cotton, you.
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Do it all.
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Mike, I couldn't love you more than I do. Joseph
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Abu taught me many, many years ago, you can never
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be overdressed, but you can certainly be underdressed. And I
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can actually point to the day where I stopped wearing
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shorts and T-shirts to do my radio show when my
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credibility went through the roof and people like presidents and
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prime ministers started paying attention. Did it help you? Oh,
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it helped me tremendously. Tremendously. It really did.
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All right. All right.
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Thank you for taking notice, Mike. Have a safe trip home.
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I love you so much. Thank you for this great conversation.
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Thank you, Michael.
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Thank you. I love your family. I send love, and
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I'm sending love to everybody in New York City.
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We all love you, too. The amazing comedic actor alive
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in Israel this morning, the very talented Michael Rappaport.
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What the heck is going on here?
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I want to go live to Israel. This is one
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of my best buddies, and he's a major star here.
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Major?
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He's a big-time actor, big-time comedian, and he's a big-time
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New Yorker. Big time. And it's my dear friend Michael Rappaport.
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Michael just did a documentary. I saw it over the summer.
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In fact, I sat right behind Debra... What is her
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name again? I keep thinking about Debra Winger for some reason.
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The one who just joined Bruce Blakeman's campaign. Deborah Messing, right.
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I posted the picture yesterday of me and Deborah at
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Michael Rappaport's screening of his amazing documentary, Am I Cancelled Yet?
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And Deborah hopped on board, as I just said, with
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Bruce Blakeman a couple of days ago. But you have
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to see Mike's documentary because Rappaport, who is loud like
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me all over Instagram and social media, doing documentaries and
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speaking all over the world, he's lost a lot of opportunities.
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A lot of jobs and doesn't do nearly the amount
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of movies. And in his documentary, him and his beautiful wife, man,
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I love her. She's great. They're going, you know, they
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had some serious conversations and were nervous. Like, what are
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we going to do? Nobody wants to hire me because
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I'm on the right side of history. But that didn't
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stop Michael, just like nothing stops me. So I'm proud
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to call him a friend. And again, he's in Israel
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this morning. the great Mike Rappaport. Michael, good morning, buddy.
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How are you?
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Sid, thanks for having me. What an introduction. Can you
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record that so in the morning I don't need an
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alarm playing music? I just have, you know, like maybe
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just like a little bit like a lower volume, but
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you just say all those fantastic things about me. What
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a way to wake up.
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Well, it's all true. And although Kibi probably wouldn't love
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it so much, she loves you too. But it's all true.
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In fact, where are you this morning in Israel? Where
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exactly are you?
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I just came back inside the hotel. I've been out
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all morning in Tel Aviv. I've been in Jerusalem. I'm
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in Tel Aviv today. And, you know, it's very melancholy.
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There's a lot of sadness. There's a lot of hope.
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so many people have been through the worst of the
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worst of the worst times. of times and families have
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been destroyed and loved ones have been murdered and never
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came back. And, um, you know, from, from, from the
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most horrible to the idea of soldiers that have fought
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and risked everything who've come back, uh, with, with so
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many injuries, um, either physical or, or mentally, emotionally, um,
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you know, everybody's been through something, you know, there, I
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think everybody has, uh, a Netflix series. Every single person
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you talk to that's lived through October 7th has a
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story where your mouth is a gate and you know,
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the ones that are more dramatic to just the families
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who spent the last three years running in and out
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of bomb shelters with their kids. Um, that being said,
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you know, similar to New York and nine 11 life
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goes on. Um, And, you know, you must keep stepping forward.
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You must keep shining. And this is the Jewish state
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of Israel and the light will never go out. And
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you've been here. The people of Israel to me are
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very much like the bread and butter people of Israel.
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New York, the working class people from mostly from the boroughs,
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the hardworking people, the gritty people, the ham and eggers,
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the people that like are just humble and, you know, just,
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you know, appreciate their family and appreciate, you know, watching
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a game with their family. Like that to me is
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very much akin of the Israeli people. We're very similar
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to the best of the best of New Yorkers. and
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especially the kinds of people that listen to your show.
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you're right about that, I'm not sure they're the majority
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of people anymore. I mean, you're in Israel today, but
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if you were home and sitting outside by your Upper
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East Side apartment, by Gracie Mansion, maybe having a cup
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of coffee at Starbucks, which you do occasionally, and New
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Yorkers love to meet and greet you, you would notice
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that today, this is unbelievable, there are pro-Hamas rallies and
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protests everywhere. Pro-Hamas. People celebrating what happened on October the
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7th will be roaming our streets in New York today.
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The mayor won't do anything about it because he's with them.
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The police commissioner has to chalk it up to the
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First Amendment. So you talk about a sad day becoming
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exponentially more sad. Your New York, which you just talked
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about in such glowing terms, these animals are going to
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be up and down the streets in big numbers.
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call them protesters. Call them celebrators. They're celebrating death. They're
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celebrating rape. They're celebrating kidnappers. They're celebrating arsonists. And they're
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not protesting anything. This is like a year later for
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them after when the Knicks won the championship. You'll kind
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of feel like that. That day of October 7, three
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years ago, was the greatest accomplishment that the doctors... the dentists,
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the school teachers, the civilians, the fathers of Daza ever did.
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that's why these scum bums... in our city, and these
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are mostly elitist pigs or fake refugees that grew up here,
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that have status because of the corrupt UNRWA, which is
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connected to the corrupt United Nations. These are people that
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if you can spend the day celebrating anything, On a
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random Thursday, on a random Wednesday, how could you afford
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that lifestyle? Why aren't you at work, pig? Why aren't
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you at work, scumbum? So these are people that are
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getting paid. They're the disenfranchised. They're the miserable. These are
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the same people that complain about everything. And more than
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they hate the Jews, they hate themselves. And they hate
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themselves because most of their mothers and their fathers, they
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didn't give them the attention and nurturing that they yearn for.
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So I understand what's going on. It's going to be
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happening all over the world. It's a scar and a
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stain on still the greatest city in the world. And
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we know what we have in Gracie Mansion. And can
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you imagine, Sid, three years ago on October 7th, when
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the animals, the terrorists, We're live broadcasting, not hiding it
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like most criminals, most criminals, arsonists, rapists. They don't want
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to get caught. These people broadcast it in real time
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for the world to see. They wanted us to see it.
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They showed the world that the mayor of New York's
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wife was watching that. and liking tweet after post after
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video after video. Can you imagine seeing anything as horrible
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as that footage of those photographs from that day and
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in real time? And this is a female. This is
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a woman.
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She's liking it. And this is why I'm so fed
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up with the New York media. I know her last
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name sounds Italian, Russo. I've been killing this lady, Melissa Russo,
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NBC locally. She's Jewish, okay? Her dad, Italian, but her mother, Jewish.
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She saw me at the Israeli Day Parade. She was
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very angry with me because I said that Mamdani wants
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to see dead Jews. And I said, well, wait a second.
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Until he demonizes the Intifada, that's what that word means.
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What did he get mad at me for? And just
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last week, when the mayor made that ridiculous video, he's
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going to combat anti-Semitism. Melissa Russo was right. She was gushing.
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She was gushing. So she's despicable. Melissa Russo at NBC,
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Marsha Kramer, CBS. She's not a heck of a lot better.
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You've got a New York media that fawns over this
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guy when the truth is he's an anti-Semite, jihad, racist scumbag.
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Period. Period. I concur. And his wife is also. Period.
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And his father, who sat there, his father was one
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of the guys that helped construct the Columbia stuff.
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They're dogs. They're dogs. Corroded dogs. Sick puppies. So, yes,
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we know this, but let's not talk about them. Let's
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talk about us. And let's talk about, and to really
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emphasize what happened that day should never be forgotten. I
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will say, Sid, that, you know, when I'm here in
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Israel and I contemplate, you know, my trips, your trips,
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everything I've seen, you know, all the people that I've met,
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all the hostage families who had loved ones that never returned,
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some who had the great miracle of having them returned.
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You know, I just, you know, I just, it's just...
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So many lives were destroyed and there was so much destruction.
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a heart to give a beat, to give a prayer,
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to give a meditation, to just give a thought, to
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make sure that those people, their memory may forever.
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Be a blessing.
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Yes. Yes. Of the most important because, you know, we
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could we could talk about, you know, the Yankees. You
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could talk about the Giants. But but today is it's
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a sad day. This is one of the historic day.
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And the fact that it it's mutated into scum bums
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in our city that will be dancing without jobs, jobless
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scum bums. It's crazy that this has somehow been okayed
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and they could.
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Do it under the guidance of free speech and all this.
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They're also physically repulsive. I don't know why, but I've
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seen these people. Many rallies. I've walked right in the
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middle of them. And they're all ugly. I don't know
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what it is. But then this is part of the
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reason why. They've got, like you said, their parents never
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cared about them. They're ugly. They're not hooking up with
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good-looking people getting great jobs. So this is what they've
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decided to do with their lives, which is really pathetic.
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I do want to ask about you, though, Mike, because
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your documentary, Am I Cancelled Yet? I mentioned this at
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the top of the conversation. It goes into the conversation
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you and your wife had a couple of times, serious conversations.
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Here you are a big time actor. You've acted with
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everybody from Robert De Niro to Jimmy Gandolfini to you
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name it. You've made unbelievable movies from higher learning to amazing,
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amazing cable shows like Atypical. You've had an unbelievable career.
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And now the last couple of years, you've hit the
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scene on the comedy side with big, big shows at
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the biggest comedy clubs all over the country. But your
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career has taken a bit of a beating the last
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couple of years because, oh, my God, you decided you
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were going to be on the right side of history.
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Do you regret, Mike Rappaport, do you regret at any
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point sticking up for the victims here, not the genocide people,
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the victims because of what's happened in your personal life?
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Not a regret. I will continue taking steps forward. I have...
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I will do it all again. I'll continue doing it.
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I have nothing to apologize for.
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I am... It.
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Nothing I did, nothing I said, how I behaved, everything
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I've seen, it all came extremely natural. And it was
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like drinking water and like breathing to me. And, you know,
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as far as the frustrations that I've suffered and deal
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with with my career, it sucks. But I do believe
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that it'll come around. I do believe that I'm talented.
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I do believe that, you know, what I do as
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an actor, I'm professional. I'm on time. I kick butt professionally.
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On every show, every movie, every set, every day, every take,
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I give blood every single time I go to work.
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And it'll turn around because I know I've done nothing wrong.
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I've broken the laws. And, you know, I have to
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explain nothing to nobody. And I'm looking forward. And I promise,
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you know, in the next couple of probably maybe next week, Sid,
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I'm going to come in. To the station. If you'll
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allow me. I know you're busy. You got a lot
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of friends. A lot of people calling. And announce where
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everybody can see the documentary Am I Cancelled Yet? Which
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I'm very proud of. Which is very funny.
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I can't wait.
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Very emotional. Very inspiring.
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So good.
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And super honest.
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So good.
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And I think a lot of people will be able
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to relate to it.
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They're going to love it. And now, I think I
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saw this. I was so happy for you. I guess
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you're at a screening somewhere in Israel, and the crowd
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actually broke a record. Believe it or not, we actually
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have data that backs this up. After the documentary was completed,
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did you get a record-breaking, and deservedly so, 26-minute standing ovation?
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Now, we're fact-checking it, Sid, and we're sending the numbers,
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we're crunching the numbers and the data to the Guinness
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Book of World Records. But yes, and I had heard
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one of these documentaries at the Venice Film Festival once
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got 25 minutes. which is absurd to me. Because, I mean, listen,
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I love my kids. You love Gabriel, your beautiful son,
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your daughter. I wouldn't clap. There's nothing my kids could
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do that I would clap more than 90 seconds. I mean,
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this is... So, yes, it was a great night. And,
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you know, the people here, like you know, the people
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of Israel are... incredibly spirited, gorgeous, fun, unique, just human beings.
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And I appreciate my timing. I appreciate all the trips here.
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I appreciate the love here. And I appreciate, you know,
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everything in New York, you know, from the people. And
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I'm just a guy, man. I'm just a guy. My
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wife is just, you know, a woman, you know, and
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I'm just a regular guy. And I'm just, you know, like,
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you know, I'm just a dude. I'm just a dude from...
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From New York City.
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Yeah, more than that, man. And I love when people
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go crazy when they see you in Israel. It's all deserved, man.
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I mean, you've been amazing. I mean, you and I
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were friends before, and we've had some fun times on
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the radio. But what you've done the last three years,
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let me say it because you're a humble guy. What
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you've done the last three years is nothing short of magnificent.
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You've become one of the great, and I mean great,
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Jewish people, fighters for Israel everywhere. in the history of
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that country. And I know how it goes when you
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walk the streets there, Mike. They go nuts. And that
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makes me very, very happy. Enjoy your day there today.
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I know, again, it is a solemn day. Are you
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planning to go to any other, I don't know, rallies?
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meetings or vigils.
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There's some, some memorials and some get togethers and, and, and, uh,
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you know, I'm, um, I'm going to be there. And,
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and I mean, it's like the whole state of Israel,
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it's one big memorial going on all over the place. Uh,
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you know, even, you know, the businesses, I think everybody
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is very, very aware of it. And, and, uh, you know,
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but yes, I'm going to something later on this evening
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and then I'll be on my way back to New York.
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It's been a great trip. And, you know, and like
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I said, hopefully I can come see you in the
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flesh because you dress fantastically. Have you ever made like
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one of the radio's best dressed list? This is one
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of the things that I feel like you, I mean,
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you got that face, that gorgeous face and that beautiful,
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beautiful bald head. But you dress, you are, no, Sid,
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you are a finely dressed man. Like you don't play around.
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And you come in there when it's, 3.30 in the
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morning in the winter, sharp as a tack.
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Well, thank you very much. I do take that seriously, Joe.
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I'm serious.
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I mean, people, this is what you should, I mean,
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you post the clips on the radio, you know, from
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the radio, but I'm like, every time I come in there,
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I mean, the guy, the suits fit fantastic.
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You smell good. You look good. But the clothing, the linen,
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the cotton, you.
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Do it all.
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Mike, I couldn't love you more than I do. Joseph
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Abu taught me many, many years ago, you can never
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be overdressed, but you can certainly be underdressed. And I
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can actually point to the day where I stopped wearing
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shorts and T-shirts to do my radio show when my
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credibility went through the roof and people like presidents and
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prime ministers started paying attention. Did it help you? Oh,
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it helped me tremendously. Tremendously. It really did.
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All right. All right.
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Thank you for taking notice, Mike. Have a safe trip home.
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I love you so much. Thank you for this great conversation.
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Thank you, Michael.
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Thank you. I love your family. I send love, and
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I'm sending love to everybody in New York City.
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We all love you, too. The amazing comedic actor alive
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in Israel this morning, the very talented Michael Rappaport.
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Thanks for listening to Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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