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Recorded live from outside the Gambino Family Memorial Congressional balcony.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gow.

And so it turns out that the reporter who got threatened by that congressman who said he was going to throw him off a balcony.

Michael Grimm?

Michael Grimm.

I'm going to break in half like a little boy because you're not man enough.

Who's going to, who apparently is going to hook up with Anthony Wiener for their own show,

The Grimm-Wiener hour.

Turns out that that little guy who is a little reporter for New York One, turns out he's a nephew of the Gambino family.

Oh, see, that's a good thing right there.

Yeah. Look for the flack jacket with the fish in it to show up at your doorstep, Congressman Grimm.

I'm not saying anything bad's going to happen.

I'm just saying maybe you don't want to take any rides in New Jersey with people you don't know.

Man.

I'm not saying that's a good thing or bad thing, but I'm saying that's a thing.

It's a thing, and I wouldn't be walking by any balconies either. Yeah. So it was Barzini all along. I was going to say, ah, apology accepted, Congressman.

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