How Far Do You Want To Go-Lessons From A Common Sense Billionaire

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FORCY Radio. Well, good to
have you with us, Bill Martinez here

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you can check it out Bill martinshow dot

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com got a real treat for you
today, We've got John Katzimatidas with us.

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Among many things, John is a
media mogul, He's involved in baseball,

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he's an owner, a franchise owner, an incredible, incredible success story.

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But for six months, John could
be running for president. And you

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know what, But for the six
months, let me tell you, John,

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if anybody could win the presidency,
even in today's triggered environment that it

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is, I believe John could win. He's just an incredible personality and you're

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gonna hear more about his personal story. Johns new book is how Far do

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You Want to Go? Lessons from
a common sense billionaire, And he's all

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of that. He's common sense,
he's very wealthy, and you know,

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it's really an honor to have John
with us to talk about his background.

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I've often told, you know,
my staff and others that I've had the

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honor to, you know, to
mentor along the way. I've often said

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that, look at if you want
to be successful, do what's successful people

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do. And you're going to get
it from the horse's mouth as to what

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made John Casimity is so successful.
In fact, the final chapter and departation

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of his book for all of us
to read as like fifteen key topics.

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I mean, this is something that
you would want to give to your kids,

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and you could take credit for it, and John wouldn't mind. It

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wouldn't mind if you took credit for
it. And because they are such solid,

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solid gold nuggets of wisdom that you
could pass on to your kids.

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And I'm sure a lot of them
are things that your parents taught you and

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your grandparents along the way. But
John has taken the time to kind of

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sit down and lay it out and
as he says in the book, you

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can take these golden nuggets and extrapolate, make them your own. And of

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course that's what makes them so special, because when you make them your own.

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This is about why we tell stories, because the stories are our own

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stories. And as I said,
but for six months, John could have

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been a president of the United States
because he came here here in America,

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ends up in New York with his
family six months after his birth, and

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a small Greek island that has just
such rich history and story all about it.

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Now I'm talking a little bit more
as we're waiting for John, because

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John's one of those personalities that everybody
loves him. And he I knew he

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was going to take a lunch break
before he came to the show, but

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he's the kind of personality that he
doesn't go unnoticed. And he's also so

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congenial that he'll talk to everybody.
And I'm sure his people are just going

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nuts trying to get him. It's
almost like this is a scene from broadcast

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News, and you remember that movie
where you know people are just running to

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get you get the story on the
air, and you know, bending under

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a file, cabinets and everything like
that, and I could imagine this is

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probably a little bit of what's happening
in John's office right now. But he'll

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join us in just a few moments, and you'll be able to hear the

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great wisdom and stories and look at
just like that, he comes on and

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he pops up like that. John, they finally let you go, right.

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I'll tell you I ran across the
street. Don't forget. It's lunchtime

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in New York. I know,
yeah, I was eating breakfast. I

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meet you. I was eating lunch, and I took the last bite and

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I ran across the street from that
famous Smith and Wileski steakhouse. Oh yeah,

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So I owe you a makeup lunch, John, I'll take It'll be

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on me next time we get we
get together in New York, because I

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tell you, you know, I
never lived in New York. Always wanted

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to. Years ago in my broadcast
career, had an opportunity to, uh,

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you know, to work at w
NBC TV, and I was looking

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forward to it. But we just
go a building. Yep, yep,

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exactly. Couldn't land. Couldn't land
on the right money deal, you know

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how that works, John, And
so I stayed in Los Angeles. But

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uh, but I my heart always
been in I love New York. It

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saddens me right now where in New
York is at. But I'm like you,

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I'm very optimistic about New York.
Well, New York. We love

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New York. It's the greatest city
in the world. And everybody's been through

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New York. One out of eight
Americans when you say the word Brooklyn,

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one out of eight Americans are connected
to Brooklyn in some way. Everybody knows

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the Statue of Liberty, Everybody knows
that George Washington Bridge. Everybody knows Christides

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is the place to shop in New
York. And and and look, I

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hate to see New York guy.
And New York is on the verge of

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dying. Look at what happened in
San Francisco. Yes, San Francisco is

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dead. Oh my god, I
mean it's so sad. I look,

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I love that song. I left
my heart in San Francisco. And every

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time I was in San Francisco,
I had a great time. Chicago is

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dying. They're killing Chicago, Philadelphia. I talked to Edward Eddie Rendell,

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the old coming in there the other
day. It's dying Baltimore. They're rolling

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up, rolling up the sidewalks.
And when when Mayor Adams became mayor of

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New York and he's a black mayor, a good guy. Used to be

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an NYPD, used to be uh
work in the Transit Police Department. And

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you know, you know what I
said. I said, if you straighten

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out, if you straighten out New
York and show him how big city has

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to be run and and and give
the leadership to the democratics in the other

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big cities Chicago, Uh, you
know, San Francisco. You know,

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maybe you can make it up the
president some day, you know, but

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everybody needs to something to hope for
exactly they gave him hope. But right

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now there's fifty one city council seats
coming up for election. There's November fifty

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one, at a fifty one what
does that mean? Everybody's up for election?

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That's right. If New Yorkers don't
get up and vote, then they

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could blame themselves for telling New York. And if you look at the you

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know, you know what they play
on my five o'clock show, Exodus,

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everybody's leaving New York. Hey,
they're coming down, They're coming down,

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They're coming down to my hood down
in Florida, John and Big. I

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spoke to my friend Jimmy Petronius,
who's the CFO of Florida. Their revenues

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are straight up, yes, New
York City, straight down. They're gonna

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be off by twenty percent. They're
arguing about the budget. How are you

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gonna pay for the budget if your
revenuees are gonna be down twenty percent?

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Exactly? Well, but John c. This is the thing that we're seeing

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across the country. The blue states
are getting pulverized because they've embraced this blue

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state mentality and it's chasing businesses away. I left California fifteen years ago.

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I was born and raised in California. You know, it makes me sad.

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Like I said, I love New
York. Every year, around Christmas

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time, as or to do a
tradition, our family would go there.

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We would see you know, in
seven days, we'd see ten Broadway plays.

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And I look forward to the Christmas
Tree at Rockefeller Center. Right part

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Christmas has begun when you see the
decorations at Rockefeller Center, in the Christmas

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Tree going up, and I got
tears in my eyes that right now New

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York is struggling and we better fix
it. It's now or never. But

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John, you know as well as
I do, it requires leadership. This

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is why people like yourself are so
key to this, because you can do

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this because for you, it's not
about a Republican party. It's not about

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the Democrats. It's about the America
that you and your family came to when

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you were six months old, one
hundred ten percent. And you know who

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loves America even more than some of
the people that were born here is the

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immigrants that came from the other side. It's the Venezuelans, the Russians that

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left Russia that were lived under communism, the Venezuelans that lived under socialism.

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In the last twenty years, the
Cubans are looking to escape, but they

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love New York even better. You
know the difference, John, There's a

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clear difference from where they came.
You know, as I was talking with

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your friend Mayor Suarez down from Miami, who has met with you and you

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connected us. And I've been insisting
for years that you know, we have

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spring break down at South Beach in
Miami. Every year. I'm saying,

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hey, look at take those kids, go to Caya Ocho down there and

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have them meet up with the Cubans
that are exiled from you know, from

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Cuba. They'll give you a history
lesson that you'll never be able to get

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at any of the top notch Uni
versities in the country. Absolutely correct,

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And you know, people have to
realize and they don't realize that they're they're

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just walking around saying everything is gonna
be okay. No, it's not gonna

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be okay. America is under attack
the fetenil problem from the from from the

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Mexican coast. The Chinese gangs are
giving fetanol to the Mexican gangs and they're

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just walking over the border like there's
no border. They're just walking over.

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Listen, uh Bill, ten thousand
Americans are dying a month from those Mexican

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drugs from the well and and Communist
CCP. It's it's part of their uh

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you know, they're lying, you
know, bringing bringing fetanol into this country.

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It starts in China. It's it's
manufactured in Mexico. You're exactly right,

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John, and then it comes here
into our country, killing our kids.

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And now the borders being opened the
way besides the fett nor I understand

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that there could be people that were
in jails in South America coming through the

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border. The people that that possibly
terrorists coming through the border. I mean,

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sooner or later, we're gonna have
a problem. Oh and what are

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we gonna do. Why is the
president of the United States not protecting all

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borders? You know, they're just
walking over the borders exactly, And then

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the Department of Homeland Security is telling
people, Oh, that's not true.

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Yeah, everybody knows it's true.
Exactly. Yeah, we're talking with John

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Cantimatitis. We're gonna be getting in
deeper dive into his new book, How

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far do you want to go?
Lessons from a common sense billionaire, And

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you're getting a sense of John's heart
here is we're talking America and all that

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that he's been able to experience,
and this is just common sense sort of

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stuff. Is that you've got to
run this country like a business, and

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you cannot go and allow your boundaries
to be violated to the degree. John.

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It's like America and our government right
now, the bureaucracy are on two

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different agendas. And as you know
from business, as you set up a

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system, you set up an infrastructure
to give you a desired result. If

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that desired result doesn't happen. Well, you change here in America. It's

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like craziness. It's that old saying, you know, of of insanity doing

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the same thing expecting different results.
And this is where we are running,

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right, You're running our businesses.
If we're running our companies the way Washington

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is trying to run our country,
we'd be broke. Yes, and we're

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how did that direction? Right now? I mean America is under attack in

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so many directions. I mean,
the Open Nations hate us for some reason.

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Well, well you got you got
a president talking ill of one of

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their treasured elements, oil, and
he shuts down our pipelines. He talks

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ill of them, and he's uh, you know, he's really distanced himself.

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I mean, he's not very charming
when it comes, you know,

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to to the Saudis or people overseas. Uh, you know, like this.

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But he's doing the same thing that
Barack Obama did, and and Donald

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Trump came in. He healed up
and he did some you know, some

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curing of the damage. But then
now here we are, we're back to

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the old management again. Uh.
And and so it's no, it shouldn't

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be any big surprise. Well,
let me tell you, America's under attack

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in many directions. The other direction
we're under attack is our universities. Yes,

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I mean the the when I went
to the university. The purpose of

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going to the university is to learn
what's going on in the world, learned

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both sides of it. Elected kids
make their own decisions what's right and wrong.

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Right now, the our universities,
the Chinese are putting a lot of

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money into them. They are buying
loyalty to the Chinese versus loyalty to America.

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Yeah, well, John, I
know you know this. I mean,

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you know what China has done overseas
with the Belton Road Initiative. In

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a sense, they're doing the same
thing here in America in a little bit

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different way. Whether it's what the
forty sum Confucius centers at these universities that

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you're talking about, it's capturing elected
officials in our government that are beholding the

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NBA, is beholding to the CCP. I mean, we saw that quite

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clearly when you saw Lebron James make
a statement about Taiwan, and boy that

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vapored real quick, didn't it.
Well, you know, and I don't

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understand. I'm trying to get Robert
Kennedy on the phone to see what he

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meant by the statement he made that
day that they put out the vaccine in

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such a way where it favors the
Jews versus UH in the Chinese. I

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don't understand what he meant by that, I said, I said to him,

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because I know the family for forty
years, fifty years, I said,

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Tom, you have to explain what
you mean by that, right exactly.

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Well, this is the problem whenever
you go down that road, it's

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a it's a deep rabbit hole,
John, as you know when we talk

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about COVID, because we in fact, I just had a meeting with my

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doctor this afternoon or this morning,
and I said, look at Uh,

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there's so much misinformation out there that
we don't know who to trust things that

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you know, we thought doctor Faucci
knew everything. Then we find out that

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he doesn't. And then we start
seeing that just as the Chinese have elite

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captured our elected officials, doctor Fauci
is elites, elite captured. He's not

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captured to the American people in looking
out for their best entry. In my

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humble opinion, based on the actions
that he's done, John Well, the

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question with doctor Fauci is and I'm
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show, like three years ago,
four years ago. I know that they

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were playing it all over the internet
about my interview with him. That found

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did doctor Fauci know and he lied
to the American people or did doctor fauch

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he trusted Chinese and they lied to
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But because the American people did not
know. My biggest question is when

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when when COVID became uh we knew
about it, Chinese stopped flying their airplanes

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within China. In other words,
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and did not They flew zero airplanes
other provinces in Canada from that city.

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But what did they do? They
kept the airplanes coming to New York,

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They kept the airplanes going to that
place in Italy, knowing that the people

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on those airplanes of COVID. Yeah, well they were like guilty of murder

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because they spread those germs to New
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And that's wrong. Yes, absolutely. Why did the Chinese stop flying

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it within China because they knew?
See that's that is plane plane American truth.

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Yeah, and where's the who to
figure this out. But the who

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is captured by the CCP, and
they're not interested. They're not curious about

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it. Our mainstream media is not
curious about it. John, somebody killed

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a million Americans, Yes, and
that Chinese. Those airplanes kept flying,

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and the Chinese knew those people were
sick coming to America. Well, and

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and here earlier point, you didn't
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only because I was aware that doctor
Fauci knew there was problems in wu Hunt.

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They had invested money against the direction
the directive of then President Barack Obama.

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Barack Obama says, I don't want
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doctor Fauci was interested in the topic, and so he went ahead and invested

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invested money in there, into the
Wan laboratory. He had to have an

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idea, if nothing else, even
a distant idea, that there was a

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possibility that it came out of there, because his own people came back to

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the United States and said, these
guys are a bunch of cowboys. They're

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going to make a mistake here because
they're reckless. Well, the American people

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suffered. A million Americans died in
so many families suffered. Yes, because

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either doctor Fauci was conned, or
he was stupid, or he knew about

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it and let it happen. Yeah, one of those. It's got to

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be true. Exactly. Well,
it's the same thing with your former governor.

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What did he do with fifteen thousand
elderly in putting them all in uh,

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you know, in the homes there
in the senior homes. Uh,

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you know killing you know, thousands, over fifteen thousand seniors were killed.

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Uh. And look at I get
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and you don't have a lot of
information, you do the best you can.

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I get that. John, the
governor Cuomo, he has to find

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out, give give everybody the proper
response on why those people went to those

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homes. Now, I know we
have a we have a law firm advertising

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on WABC right now saying that,
uh, it wasn't mandatory to go to

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those homes, So it wasn't X
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people New Yorkers walked a truth exactly. We've got to get downs in the

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bottom of the truth. You're exactly
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Katzimatidis is with us, and of
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can tell between both John and I, both the immigrants in his sense,

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just an incredible story that we're going
to get into right now, and just

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an awesome success story on There are
so many success stories like yours, but

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yours is your story alone. I
mean, here you were as I was

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reading your book. I guess you
were conceived as Italian but born a Greek

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because of where we were in World
War two. Yes, those islands along

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the Turkish coast were part of Italy
from nineteen oh five oh six to nineteen

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forty seven forty eight. I was
when I was conceived. I was conceived

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as Italian, and the Italians want
to give me an Italian passport, you

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see passport. And I'm a member
of the famous Columbus Club in New York,

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which is the famous Italian club,
and the I'm twenty eight percent of

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Italian according to my DNA. But
when I was born, I was born

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in Greek because the bricks were upset
Italy. Italy was on the wrong side

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in World War Two. They on
the German side. So to punish Italy,

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they took all those islands away from
Greece, from from illegally. Yeah,

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having back to Greece. Yeah,
So let me tell you the Greek

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food Italian food. I love it
both. Yes, you're only you're only

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partially conflicted, But what a great
story. Tell our audience what it was

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like, you know, for you, I mean it's it's like the movies.

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I mean I'm reading this and it's
uh, you know, Greek weddings,

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uh, passion, small islands,
just lovely, lovely people. I

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mean it's uh, I love romance. I mean they know how to live,

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they know how to eat. Yeah, and that's the point. You

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know. My father spoke flu in
Italian, worked for the Italian government for

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seventeen years to earn a few lira
defeat his three sisters and his mom.

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Yeah, and well, and and
my my mother, there's a long story

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about getting married and were going to
ride. The sequel to the book that

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we have now is going to be
about my mom and how she was raised

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and how she came to marry my
father. Who you remember the song if

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I was a carpenter and you were
a lady, would you marry me?

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Anyway? Right? Exactly is the
story. My father was a laborer.

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He worked working the the the lighthouse. He was a lighthouse worker with a

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ghost. He had got he's my
kind of guy. He's got guns in

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the lighthouse's and and my mother was
supposed to was from Constantinople, a sophisticated

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lady, an educated lady, but
her brothers could not get married unless she

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was married. She was jolketed by
this guy. Her family sent to Athens

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to become a lawyer, so to
release her brothers to get married. She

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married my father. If I was
a lady and you were a carpenter,

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would you marry me anyway? Which
you have my baby? Well just what,

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I'm the baby there, you are
exactly, But you know the deal.

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The other the option that your mom
had was because of being jilted.

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And this was tough. You know, he can't blame her. I mean,

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here she's investing in the guy and
she's you know, earning money to

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get him through law school, and
and leaves her at the altar. I

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mean, he doesn't even have the
nervous sense letter. He never shown up,

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but sends a letter. The ferry
boat comes and he's waiting on the

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dock for him, and there's no
cell phones, there's no regular phones,

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there's no telegraphs. There's an old
island in the middle of the agnc right

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next to the island of cuss And, and there's the captain. The captain

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gives her a letter from the from
the guy. He says, I fell

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in love with somebody else I'm not
coming. Yeah. Well see, John,

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maybe that was God's way of protecting
you, because otherwise you'd have been

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an attorney. I would non existed. No, My two grandfathers came to

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America in nineteen thirteen looking for the
streets paved with gold. They didn't tell

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anybody. It took me a hundred
years to find it. They knew somewhere

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underneath there was gold, that he
had gold someplace exactly exactly. So,

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but your grandmother gives your mother the
choice because here she's depressed. It's a

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year, you say in your book, it held up like ten different weddings.

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And the Greeks when they get when
they have weddings, they have weddings.

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I mean it's like, I mean
they're painting that the problem is there

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was only one suit, so every
every week they would adjust the suit so

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they can have a wedding. And
everywhere there was like eight or ten people

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stuck that couldn't got get married.
So they only had one suit. Every

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week. Every week they had one
wedding, and he adjusted to suit.

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The victor groom and and ten people
my mother by getting married to my father,

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freed like nine other couples, of
ten other couples, so they can

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get married too. It was a
tsunami of weddings, of Greek weddings going

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on there. The deal, John, go back to your what your grandmother's

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told her, because says, look
at you're holding up all these weddings,

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and you got a choice. If
you become a nun, you'll be liberated

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from the tradition of the oldest has
to be married before and you do it

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down line right, yes, And
so that's why all the weddings were being

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held up, because she either had
to get married or your mom said you

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could be a nun, and she
thought not. And then we find out

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here you're soon to be father,
who's a lighthouseman, a very simple man

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with goats, and I mean he's
living, he's living life and providing for

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him. Helf on this small little
island that handles the lighthouse, right,

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and it's the island of Nisitos and
i s y Ros. There's only two

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volcanic islands in Greece, Santorini that
everybody knows and Nissitos. Those are the

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two, and a lot of successful
people. But there's only about six hundred

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and seven hundred people left on the
island of Nissitos. And in the society

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club they have in New York,
there's six thousand. Everybody left. They

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came to New York, they came
to New York, they came to Toronto,

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they came to h Saint Petersburg,
Tampa, and Florida. I mean

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they But the island is a beautiful
island. Whenever I'm there, I feel

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it in my heart and I smile
and I look up in the sky to

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my forefathers. Anyway, Bill,
you know who's buying most of these books,

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The books of being brought by grandfathers, grandmothers. Uh, they're being

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brought by fathers, mothers, and
they give it to their kids in hope

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that getting to find a couple of
sentences, a couple of things of how

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to become successful exactly, and and
and they're hoping that their kids or grandkids

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become successful too. And that's what
I'm doing, and that's what we're pushing,

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and that's what I'm pushing the kids
in the inner cities. And I'm

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giving away a lot of books to
the universities and police athletic leagues because we

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want them to to to aspire to
uh, inspire them to to to to

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become winners, exactly. And that's
what we need to do in our inner

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cities. The kids are not are
suffering, that's suffering. You know.

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When I ran from mayor in New
York, I ran a uh you know,

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I was a Bill Clinton Democrat.
Then I ran. Then my my

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daughter married President Nixon's grandson. So
to keep peace on the Thanksgiving table,

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I proverted to becoming like Ronald Reagan. Sure, exactly, why not Republican?

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But I ran like that Rudy Giuliani, like John Lindsay, I ran

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as a Republican liberal? Why why
liberal? Because our kids, our own

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American kids in the inner cities are
suffering and there's nobody beet helping them,

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exactly. And that's the difference between
a liberal helping the American kids of our

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inner cities and a socialist that wants
to destroy America exactly. And John,

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you know the potential that's in these
kids. You saw it in yourself.

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You've seen it in family members throughout
your whole life. You know, before

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we connected in the first segment of
the show, I shared with people that

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a lot of people get your book
and they go to the final chapter because

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you've got those fifteen golden nuggets.
And I told you, I said,

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you know, even John invites you
to rewrite them, own them yourself,

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sharing because a lot of these things
that you share, I'm sure they're grandparents.

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I'm sure as parents they shared with
their kids, but it's something special

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to hear it from somebody like yourself
and they can rewrite and own these some

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you know, Moses had the ted
combadments. Yes, I'm having the sixteen

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tips. Some people are putting in
them in a frame and putting it up

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on their office. And we looked
at it often and say, well,

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refer to clip number one. Okay. The first one was if you're skied

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of losing, losing when that's right, Yeah, you have to. And

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that's why when I became most successful
is before I was had children. Because

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when you have children and you have
a higher authority to then you gotta take

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care of those children. Right.
So so if I was going to lose

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at the age of thirty with no
children, so I'd start over again,

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and I'll make it again. That's
right. We went ahead children that became

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a little more responsible. The entrepreneur. The entrepreneur lives at the edge,

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the edge of the cliff. You
want to you want to climb that next

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mountain, and I want to climb
that next map. And now that we

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want to take over, we'd love
to get involved with CNN. We'd love

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to get it. And you know, John, that's perfect because I want

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to talk to you about that and
your future dreams. Because it ain't over.

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John Cassimatina is with us. We're
going to quick break. We've got

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I would say thank you as I
say thank you to John Catsimatidis for

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being with us. And we're talking
about his new book, How far do

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you want to go? Lessons from
a common sense billionaire? John, I

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00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:17.400
love you your two symbols about truth
and liberty. You know how we sign

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off our radio show every day at
six o'clock in New York Truth, justice

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in the American way? Oh wow? Yeah. And you know, when

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I want to be funny, you
know what I say, reporting here from

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the Daily Planet building, I was
gonna say, do you show yourself with

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a cape, you know, with
it blowing in the back when you open

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the window. So if Superman flies
in, he doesn't break the window.

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Hey, if anybody could do it, John, it could be you.

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There's no doubt about it, because
as we talked about, it's all about

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vision. And you've got vision.
You have you know from your family.

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You know, you started in the
grocery business. You built that up,

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00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.039
as you say in your book.
Really state for you has been a very

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00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:07.239
very good thing. You own baseball, You own a baseball team. And

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now we're talking about CNN. When
I read about that, I said,

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well, if anybody could straighten out
the ship at CNN, it would be

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00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:21.280
John Katsimatidas. It's so sad.
Ted Turner started about what forty years ago

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00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:25.760
maybe more? And Ted Turner,
he's not well right now. I understand,

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but but you know they have four
one hundred thousand viewers a day.

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Yeah, and that company should have
two million, exactly. And I certified

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to them. I said, how
pay you the difference if I don't get

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it up to two million win in
the year's time exactly. I mean,

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you got to tell the truth,
truth, justice in the American way exactly.

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Next the way, Ted Turner was
a left leaning guy, which is

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okay, yeah, you know,
everybody has the right to be whatever he

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wants in America, but but give
him a chance to talk give out the

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truth to the American people. And
that's all the American people want, the

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truth. We want to balance conversation, John, because you know, as

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00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:21.239
Jordan Peterson would say, is that
when you're so siloed and you're talking your

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echo chamber, you really render yourself
stupid. You limit your intellect. We

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need the full intellectual capacity of three
hundred and what fifty million people now in

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this country. I mean, why
not tap into the totality of that of

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that intellect, intellectual reservoir. Two
hundred and eighty five countries that listen to

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CNN deserve to know the truth exactly. Don't lie to them. And how

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hard, how hard you're hard?
How hard is the truth? Very hey,

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00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:58.880
very easy? And if people think
there's two truths, tell both stories

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00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.960
and let the listeners that the viewers
decide exactly. Yeah, because they deserve

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00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.360
that and they're smarter than that.
We definitely saw this, as you mentioned

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with COVID, we had all this
information, misinformation. You got this current

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00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:17.199
government that's so sensitive about misinformation,
and they're the ones, I mean,

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just on the latest Supreme Court decisions, John, they're putting out misinformation,

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whether it's that or even on the
indictment of President Biden's son. What I

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can't believe. You know, the
Department of Justice runs the FBI. Ninety

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nine and a half percent of the
FBI agents are honest, hardworking Americans that

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love America. Yeah, but who
are the ones that it was sent by

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certain people, certain people at the
Department of Justice, to the to the

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00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.800
twitters of the world, to the
facebooks in the world, demanding them that

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they can't put certain allows certain news
on on Twitter, or allow certain news

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on Facebook. And they would say
to chop it off, you can't put

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it on. I mean, who
the heck are they to decide with your

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American people view. They suppressed the
vote, John, they suppressed. It's

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00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:22.280
very very sad. It's very sad. Yeah, exactly. But but there's

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00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:24.800
so many ways in which the left
is doing it. John. They're doing

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00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:29.880
it by force, like utilizing the
FBI. They do it by uh,

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you know, the NIH having researchers
right up. You know these these faults

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I say, they're faults. So
they're unscientific reports about anything, whatever it

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00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:44.559
is, if it's COVID or some
other issue that they want, They get

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00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:49.519
these scientists, they pay them with
our money to write up these bogus reports,

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and then they quote it as if
it's it's doctrine. I mean,

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you can't live this way. Very
sad. And you know my other problem

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00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:06.400
with education, our education system.
Our kids are now number fifty eight in

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the world in education, and we're
spending in New York, we're spending twenty

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00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:15.079
eight thousand dollars per child to try
to educate them. And guess what there

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are kids that are not getting educated. Yes, you know, John,

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if you get if you gave me, you gave me a semester with those

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kids, I turn it around from
night and day. I guarantee you because

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I know exactly what to do.
In one semester, I don't care.

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00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.119
Give me the poorest kids, Give
me the worst kids that you got there

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00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.480
in New York, and all turn
them around in one semester. I'll guarantee.

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00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.840
You. Got to save our kids. We have to save our kids

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00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:45.519
from the Look, there was one
guy running in where we live out on

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00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:51.840
Long Island in the weekends. One
guy is running for office and he's being

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00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:55.519
supported you ready, you're sitting down, is being supported by the governor of

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00:43:55.719 --> 00:44:02.119
Colorado who was pushing drugs to all
everybody in Colorado. I just said,

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because I said to them before,
because you're being supported by the governor in

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Colorado. Are you're gonna bring drugs
the Long Island? Yeah? I mean

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I said drugs are killing our kids. Yeah, And I said enough is

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00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:22.800
enough. You're you're gonna dumb down
America. How do you say it in

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00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:29.280
nice and simple? Dumb down our
kids? Because if they take marijuana,

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which is a Gateway drug two at
the age of twelve, fourteen to the

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age of twenty six when the mind
is developing, Exactly, they're gonna they're

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00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.400
they're gonna lose fifteen percent of their
intellect. You know what that means.

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00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.920
They'll never be millionaires, They'll never
be billionaires. There will be failures in

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life. And those drugs are are
are doing it. I said, if

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you're fifty years old, sixty years
old, seventy years old, you want

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to do drugs, have a good
time, have a good time. But

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00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:07.480
how do you keep it away from
the kids? Exactly? Dumbing down of

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America. And you know what's happening
in New York. They they legalized eight

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00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:20.840
stories to be drugs for marijuana in
New York City. Eight you know,

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00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:28.239
eight legal stores have opened the lock
Are they locking the drugs up there?

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00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:30.840
They're locking up toothpaste, But are
they locking up the marijuana. No,

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00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:36.360
because there's people, they have guns
watching out for the marijuana. And they

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00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:43.039
opened up two thousand illegal stories.
And guess what they wanted to get all

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00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:47.400
this tax money from the eight legal
stories. Nobody's paying. They're going for

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the illegal stores and buying it.
I mean, the dumbing down of America.

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00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.440
I think these people will make these
laws and rules. Sometimes they've been

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00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.880
dumbed down with all the marijuana and
there in your system. Well, they

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00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.960
operate in all these theories, abandoning
the things that brought this country to greatness.

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John, And that's the deal,
you know, Like you know the

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00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:15.280
subtitle of your book. You know
you're a common sense billionaire. You're not

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00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:19.679
trying to reinvent the wheel. You've
learned a lot over the years. Then

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00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:23.719
you share with us in your book
just from you know, common sense experience.

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00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.679
You know, you and I've been
in business all our lives, and

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00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:32.360
we understand that experience defines preference.
That which works, we keep doing more

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00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.679
of right. If it doesn't work, we go on to plan B.

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00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:42.320
Absolutely right. If I ran one
of my companies, if I ran one

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00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:46.679
of my stories the way they want
to run government, you know it will

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00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:51.599
be all over. I'd be out
of business exactly. John. Let me

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00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:57.760
ask you, Donald Trump, he
was such a figure in our government.

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00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:04.119
And when I look over the landscape
of possibilities and those that are aspiring to

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00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:09.400
run for president, I think it
needs somebody like a Donald Trump, who

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00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:14.559
is fearless, who is independent,
who can really do something. I know

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00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:16.920
Mike pen says, well, he
promised to you know, to drain the

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00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.199
swamp, but he didn't. He
didn't do it well, like what,

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00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:24.480
he can't do it by himself.
He needs help. But he knows better

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00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:30.079
now than he did before. And
I just don't have the confidence of the

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00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:34.400
other candidates who can go in and
straighten, you know, straighten the ship

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00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.880
out, because you need somebody who
can go in and you know, just

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00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.000
kick butt, get it cleaned up, and let's get this country back on

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00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:46.079
track. And I don't I don't
agree with everything Donald Trump does. I

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00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:53.000
know him for forty five years.
We want on charities together. I don't

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00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.480
Nobody quotes Donald Trump and said let's
go out to dinner tonight. So he's

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00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:02.000
nobody's real friend like that. But
he does have the courage to stand up

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00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:08.159
against the bad guys. Yea.
And what I'm afraid of is that they're

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00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:14.639
going to find a way to get
him one way or another in the in

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00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:19.679
the courts. Why are they chasing
the former president in the United States?

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00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:24.159
I mean, who do you think
is more likely that was on Russia's side?

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00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:30.159
President Biden or President Trump? Just
ask that question, go to the

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00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:36.159
mirror, look at yourself and ask
that question. Right. Well, and

595
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.760
look look what Hillary and the Obama
campaign did before even that came into question.

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00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.039
Right. So it's not even clear. I mean, I mean,

597
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:47.119
it's I mean, it's it's not
even dubious. You know exactly who kept

598
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:52.159
him under check check It was Donald
Trump's leadership that did so. He quieted

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00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:55.639
the North Koreans, he quieted China. We were getting money. We're getting

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four hundred billion dollars. When I
was Agether with him a couple of weeks

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00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.000
ago, I went to dinner.
They asked me to go to h and

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00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:09.199
you know the story he told.
He told, you know, no Americans

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00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:15.960
died in Afghanistan during it when he
was and you know how he did it.

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00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:21.639
He called in the Taliban leader and
said, is this a picture of

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00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:24.360
your house? He showed him again, Oh yes, that's my picture of

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00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:29.320
my house. As he said to
him, does your family? Does your

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00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.880
kids and wife live there? He
says yes, yes, yes. He

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00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.119
says, if one American dies,
that house is going to be blown to

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smithereens. You know how to say
smithereens in California, smithereens. That's what

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No Americans died because they knew he
meant business. Sometimes you need a tough

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guy in the active to solve problems. Well, John, we really do

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right now. If we're gonna get
this country back on track, we do

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have to return to greatness the things, the seeds, the foundation, and

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I say first principles. We go
back to first principles, re embrace the

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constitutions. That document, for two
hundred and forty seven years has been our

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roadmap to greatness. It's what brought
you and your family to this country,

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and other immigrants who have come to
this country that have contributed beyond measure.

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And this is what has made our
country great, and may it continue to

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be so. John, we got
about a minute left. I'm gonna let

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you summarize everything and again remind everybody
about your book and the sixteen golden nuggets

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that you shared with us at the
end. Well, I told, I

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told everybody, buy my book.
If you buy from WABC radio dot com

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and I signed it, it's worth
twice as much if you want to resell

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it on eBay. Otherwise you can
buy it from Amazon, or you can

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buy it from from Bonds and Nobles. And you know, me and Len

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Richio founded Bonds and Mobile. We
raise ten million dollars for Brooklyn Tech High

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School, our school that we went
to because we wanted to help the future

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graduates of Brooklyn Tech, buying them
new computers when the board of Education can't

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afford it. What it's all about, saving America, saving our city,

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saving our states, saving our country, and saving the world. And and

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help with your kids and grandkids,
help the poor kids. We're willing to

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donate books to universities. We're willing
to donate books to the high schools.

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Bill Bill. They can send you
a letter, they can send you an

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email if they need a donation of
a hundred one hundred two hundred books to

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any university. I will pay for
them. I will send it. As

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long as we can educate our kids. God please you, John, I

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like number sixteen. Gotta have fun. We can have fun again, right

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absolutely. I look forward to it. I enjoy talking to you, and

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we're both looking to save them.
John Cassimatidis, You're awesome, buddy.

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Thank you so much for being with
us stake here. God bless you.

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I'm gonna go back to look you
got John Cassimontidas's book, How Far do

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you want to Go? Lessons from
a common sense billionaire. Our thanks to

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John for coming on today for more
information and to be a part of getting

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America back on track and making America
great again. And I mean that in

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every sense of the word, not
just a political slogan. You know that

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we can be great again. We
got to return to God and to save

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our country. Go to Bill Martin
and Show dot com. May God bless

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you and keep you, make His
face shine upon you. Go and be

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blessed beyond your imagination. Thanks for
being with us.