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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We will be getting to the great meteorologist Ray Stajic
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  Speaker 1: in about two minutes, so he can give an extended
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  Speaker 1: forecast for what you can expect. But most importantly, right
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  Speaker 1: now it is September 25th. That is 925 Dolly Parton Day.
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  Speaker 1: Nine to five, Dolly Parton Day is being celebrated across
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  Speaker 1: the country. You are encouraged to wear pink and rhinestones,
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  Speaker 1: which Curtis is doing right now. Thank you for celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't no damn way I'm wearing pink and rhinestones.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Three snaps up. I mean, you know, what do you think?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be a drag queen today dressed as
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  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe put two soccer balls under your shirt.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 5: We just took the nicest thing and just threw it
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  Speaker 5: down the gutter.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the gutter. She was blessed. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be looking like Christine Noem's husband.
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  Speaker 4: You remember him with the false mammary glands.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: What a freak.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Now he'll look okay today. He'll be celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: The point is, it is a great day. Celebration.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if her extended family and all of her
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  Speaker 4: financial advisors are going to be celebrating because they seem
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  Speaker 4: to be at war already.
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  Speaker 1: They are at war. But let's put that aside for
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  Speaker 1: a second and just celebrate the life of Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: like they're doing across the country. In Nashville, they're making
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  Speaker 1: the lights pink. They're putting up giant posters. In New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing the same thing. In Manhattan, what they are doing,
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  Speaker 1: they called it Dolly Parton Day. The borough president came
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  Speaker 1: out and it's officially Dolly Parton Day. And he is
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  Speaker 1: encouraging people. And this is really a good idea. If
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  Speaker 1: you can't really go out and do anything, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to wear rhinestones today or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: just take a moment to either donate a book or
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  Speaker 1: donate some money to Imagination Library. You can find the
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  Speaker 1: site online. And that's a really nice way to honor
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  Speaker 1: her legacy. In Staten Island. What are they doing in
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 5: There's an organization called Musicians on Call, and they're going
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  Speaker 5: to hospitals all over, including Staten Island University Hospital, to
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  Speaker 5: perform for patients in the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: It is wonderful. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It is wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me almost want to dress up in drag
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  Speaker 4: like Dolly Parton today with pink and rhinestones.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: 925.
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  Speaker 5: To tell you the truth, today is my anniversary, and Oh,
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  Speaker 5: happy anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, I've celebrated for many years. I never
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  Speaker 5: thought of 925 on September 25th.
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  Speaker 2: It never even occurred to me.
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  Speaker 1: Which anniversary is it? Is it an important one?
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  Speaker 2: It's 27.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, coming up on 30.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty damn good. I think all my marriages combined,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think, equals that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: What was your longest anniversary?
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: They end up, you know, seven-year itch, but I never itch.
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  Speaker 2: And then I would say it's like within 10, 11 years.
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  Speaker 1: 10, 11 years?
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  Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden it goes south. But
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  Speaker 4: not this one. This is the keeper with Nancy. But meantime,
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  Speaker 4: speaking of Nancy.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: One more last question.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Most importantly in your relationships, what was the longest on-air relationship?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that was with Lisa in the morning when I
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  Speaker 4: did Angels in the Morning at WABC. So that was
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  Speaker 4: three years until we both got fired together.
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  Speaker 2: Three years. How romantic. Oh, no, that led to the
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  Speaker 2: demise of our relationship. Talk radio will do that.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I had to consummate and make sure this
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  Speaker 4: relationship was solid.
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  Speaker 2: With me and Larry after the shit-off that Tom Cuddy did.
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  Speaker 4: Meantime, Nancy, as you know, loves Central Park, and she
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  Speaker 4: loves going to the iHeart Global Citizen Festival every year
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  Speaker 4: because she lives in Central Park morning, noon, and night.
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  Speaker 4: And even though we're going to hear from Ray Stajic
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  Speaker 4: about the gloomy forecast in the The iHeart Global Citizen
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  Speaker 4: Festival will continue. Bring your ponchos. iHeart is one of
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  Speaker 4: the proud sponsors of what is really a major event.
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  Speaker 4: You've got some of the biggest stars in the business
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  Speaker 4: who will be performing for all the right causes. So
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  Speaker 4: if you were intent on showing up, show up. Just
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  Speaker 4: bring your poncho just in case. So now let's get
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  Speaker 4: to the great Ray Stajic, the best meteorologist. So this
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  Speaker 4: is the forecast you need to listen to. He has
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  Speaker 4: been honing it over the last couple of days. He
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  Speaker 4: hemmed and hawed a couple of times. But now he's
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  Speaker 4: got it down. So, Ray, what can we expect today?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, from where we were yesterday, gang, we are a
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  Speaker 7: little further west. I think everybody's probably heard that. And
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  Speaker 7: it's more of a slow movement and kind of the
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  Speaker 7: retrograde toward the west and kind of sitting around for
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  Speaker 7: a little while out over the western Atlantic that's going
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  Speaker 7: to make this a long duration. I'd go moderate impact event.
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  Speaker 7: That's what the National Weather Service is saying. So we've
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  Speaker 7: kind of ticked up the language a little bit more
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  Speaker 7: from yesterday, thus saying The Weather Service has put out
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  Speaker 7: the wind advisory. That includes all five boroughs, parts of
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  Speaker 7: southeastern New York. You get into Westchester, Rockland County, Long Island.
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  Speaker 7: I'm actually surprised there's not a high wind warning for
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  Speaker 7: eastern Long Island, but we should start seeing the winds
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  Speaker 7: picking up as we head through tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 7: Good gusts, 40 to 45, even here in.
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  Speaker 1: And around the city.
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  Speaker 7: 50, maybe 60 mile per hour winds the further east
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  Speaker 7: you go out onto Long Island. Strongest winds again as
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  Speaker 7: we go through tomorrow and tomorrow night. And then the
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  Speaker 7: rain element, the rain will start picking up again, same
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  Speaker 7: time as about the wind as we go on through
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  Speaker 7: the day. Second half of tomorrow into tomorrow night, winds
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  Speaker 7: could be gusting again or the rain could be falling
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  Speaker 7: a moderate to even heavy at times. And we could
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  Speaker 7: see about one to three inches of rain. There'll be
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  Speaker 7: about three to five as you continue to go east
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  Speaker 7: into Suffolk and Nassau and Suffolk County. So there'll be
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  Speaker 7: heavier rain, maybe a problem with some localized flooding. And
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  Speaker 7: then you've got the coastal flooding. It's already occurring. And
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  Speaker 7: I really think it's going to be the beaches that
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  Speaker 7: are continuing to get chewed up right now down along
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  Speaker 7: the Jersey Shore and the South Asian beaches of Long Island,
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  Speaker 7: Jones Beach, for example, Long Beach. These are all areas
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  Speaker 7: that have already seen flooding, already seen significant beach erosion.
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  Speaker 7: I think we're going to get more of that, too. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's not like it's been any tree even
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  Speaker 7: out ahead of this thing. It's not even been developed
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  Speaker 7: so far. We're seeing numerous areas already underwater down in
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  Speaker 7: the Outer Banks, 12's closed. It's basically washed out. Very
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  Speaker 7: popular highway down there. And the storm's just developing. So
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  Speaker 7: this is going to be a long-duration event battering the shore.
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  Speaker 7: Gusty winds, rainy, probably through Saturday, Saturday night, and even
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  Speaker 7: into a good chunk of Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So wait a second.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying also not only may Saturday get wiped out
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  Speaker 4: with rain and wind, but Sunday too?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Sunday may end up being a little bit worse
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  Speaker 7: than I think it was yesterday because we got this
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  Speaker 7: little retrograde back toward the west. And it's not going
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  Speaker 7: to be a fast moving system, too. Most of the time,
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  Speaker 7: I would say most when you get these nor'easters coming in,
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  Speaker 7: you know, you get maybe a 12 hour event, maybe
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  Speaker 7: 18 hour event that the storm just comes and it
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  Speaker 7: goes and it goes racing up the coast. That will
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  Speaker 7: not be the case with this storm.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to develop. It's going to come in.
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be moving slowly, and then it's going
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  Speaker 7: to move back toward the west and just continue to spin.
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  Speaker 7: So that persistent onshore, northeast, easterly push is going to
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  Speaker 7: continue to push water in. And like I said, even
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  Speaker 7: around areas around New York Harbor, there's going to be inundation.
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  Speaker 7: So the question is going to be, how bad will
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  Speaker 7: it get? There's coastal flood advisories and warnings, all kinds
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  Speaker 7: of advisories on the water, too. But there's no reason, actually,
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  Speaker 7: to be out there, whether it's on a boat or swimming,
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  Speaker 7: unless you've got, you know, unless you're bots or something.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to just stay put. And, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 7: follow what the warnings and the advisors and your local
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  Speaker 7: emergency managers are giving for information. So, you know, going
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  Speaker 7: to be a tough one. Going to be a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first time you said slow moving, I grimaced
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  Speaker 1: because I knew that was going to be a longer event.
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  Speaker 1: But how far west is there going to be rain?
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  Speaker 7: I think it'll get far west is most likely into
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  Speaker 7: northwest Jersey, maybe the Poconos and then As far west
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  Speaker 7: as the Catskills and as you go up the Hudson Valley,
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  Speaker 7: most likely going to see that rain get close to Albany,
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  Speaker 7: maybe into the Mohawk Valley. But the heavier rain is
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  Speaker 7: going to be concentrated on about New York City, southeastern
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  Speaker 7: New York, northeast Jersey, eastern east Jersey and out onto
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  Speaker 7: eastern New England and Long Island. So it will rain even.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you going, Curtis?
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Because each day we talk to you, it gets more dire.
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  Speaker 4: Every time you say it's moving west, it's moving west.
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  Speaker 4: This is not good for me. I got to get
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  Speaker 4: up to Marshall, New York, to rescue the 16,000 beagles.
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  Speaker 4: We're breaking them out out of Marshall, New York. It
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  Speaker 4: is the biggest farm for beagle development that they use
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  Speaker 4: to test and torture and kill. And so I'm already
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  Speaker 4: all geared up, as the crew here has seen. I
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  Speaker 4: got the guardian angel gear on. I look like Senator Fetterman.
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  Speaker 4: I got the hoodie on, man. I'm good to go
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  Speaker 4: right into the eye of the nor'easter.
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  Speaker 1: When are you leaving?
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  Speaker 7: When are you heading out?
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  Speaker 2: Late tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, bad timing. All right, you should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Look at you, bad timing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the later the worse.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: This guy, he's like, come see, come saw, don't worry
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a little bit more concerned today.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit? Not for me. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: My wife is.
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  Speaker 2: She told me to bring my galoshes with me.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't heard that term in a month of Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: Do you even have galoshes? I forgot what a galosh was.
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  Speaker 2: They now call them rain boots.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting that you told him he'd be okay
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  Speaker 1: so when is this going to start hitting.
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  Speaker 7: Um we'll start to see showers probably coming in tonight
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  Speaker 7: it doesn't mean it's not going to be raining but
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  Speaker 7: the worst impacts will be as we go through the
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  Speaker 7: second part of tomorrow tomorrow night and probably into at
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  Speaker 7: least the first half of Sunday, it's going to be showery.
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  Speaker 7: I can't even say that word, but there'll be showers
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  Speaker 7: and the winds have already dusted 20, 30 miles per hour. So,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's not going to be great, but I'm
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  Speaker 7: saying you should be able to get there. I'm not
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  Speaker 7: saying it's not going to be like rainy and a
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  Speaker 7: little breezy, but it'll get... Less rainy and less breezy
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  Speaker 7: the further north and northwest you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting nauseous here. I'm really getting nauseous.
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  Speaker 4: Ray, one favor, please, when you join us later in
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  Speaker 4: the show, because obviously the weather is the primary story,
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  Speaker 4: bar none. I met a whole tour group yesterday in Midtown.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to the Ed Sheeran concert up at
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  Speaker 4: Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Tonight he has one, tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: And apparently, I guess, that New England area is going
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  Speaker 4: to get clobbered bad. They might have to cancel those concerts.
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  Speaker 4: So can you give us an update on that when
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  Speaker 4: you join us later?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, we can do that. All right, thanks a lot,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stajic. We'll talk to you in a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: The conversation continues.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti.
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  Speaker 7: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of hype.
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  Speaker 4: Prime Minister of Israel went inside the General Assembly to
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  Speaker 4: give his annual speech. The demonstrators were outside. Once he
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  Speaker 4: was inside, about 40% of the delegates, which is normal,
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  Speaker 4: get up and leave. And then he got into his
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  Speaker 4: fire and brimstone speech. He's sort of given a preview, Larry,
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  Speaker 4: that he was going to take. a special concern with
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  Speaker 4: the mayor of the city of New York, Zohar Mandami,
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  Speaker 4: who he believes is a supporter of Hamas and stirs
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  Speaker 4: up anti-Semitism. So can we hear some of those bits? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: let's start.
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  Speaker 1: With what you were talking about, because when we talked earlier,
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  Speaker 1: you said you thought this bite was the most dramatic
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  Speaker 1: bite that he gave, this sound.
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  Speaker 8: To the protesters outside, to the hypocritical delegates who left
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  Speaker 8: this hall, I asked, where were you when the Iranian
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  Speaker 8: tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians?
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  Speaker 4: You know, even though I'm not a Bibi fan, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he is a powerful presenter. The voice resonates. And he
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  Speaker 4: is right. There were no protests against. Now, low side,
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  Speaker 4: 40,000 were slaughtered in the streets of Iran. High side, 70,000,
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  Speaker 4: maybe more. We saw the body bags. We saw the
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  Speaker 4: families going through the body bags looking for their loved ones.
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  Speaker 4: They slaughtered their own people.
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  Speaker 2: And he's right.
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  Speaker 4: There was little, if any, protests, and especially at the
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  Speaker 4: United Nations General Assembly, none.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. He is especially good in
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  Speaker 1: these moments. I thought he did a wonderful job in
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  Speaker 1: his speech. And this is how he started. He got
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  Speaker 1: a big laugh with this in the very beginning as
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  Speaker 1: he took to the podium. And when he took to
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  Speaker 1: the podium, dozens of people turned around and walked out.
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  Speaker 8: Mr. President, before I begin, just a quick announcement. If
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  Speaker 8: there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left
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  Speaker 8: this hall, please do so now. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: That was good. That was a good line.
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  Speaker 4: But he's used to it by now because when he
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  Speaker 4: goes there, it's generally a routine.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really good speech. But you were right.
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  Speaker 1: He saved a lot of his ire for Zoran Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: He put out a video warning that this was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And man, did he go after him. Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many
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  Speaker 8: Jews no longer feel safe in New York.
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  Speaker 1: They talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: They tell me.
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  Speaker 8: This isn't the city we remember. It changed so quickly. Now,
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  Speaker 8: it's no wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas.
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  Speaker 8: You count his friends, people like Hassan Piker, who said
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  Speaker 8: America deserved 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: America deserved 9-11. Some friends you have. I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this was about half his speech. He went even, even,
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  Speaker 1: even went after Mamdani's wife.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Your wife liked the post. praising the October 7th massacre.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: She liked another post saying Tel Aviv shouldn't exist. You
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: refuse to condemn any of that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Now we know why he's doing that because he's playing
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: to his domestic base back in Israel where he's in
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: a very tight race for re-election. It's a parliamentary system
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: so there's no popular vote there. You've got to get
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: a number of of electeds into your cabinet in order
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: to have a majority. So that's at the end of October.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Our midterms is in the beginning of November. So he's
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: playing to his base. But you know, Zahra Mandami's loving
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: every second of it because it's putting him on an
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: international scale. Imagine you're the mayor of New York City
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: and maybe six minutes, five minutes, Of BB's time was
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: spent talking about you and your wife. You're loving every second.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It may have been longer than that because he kept
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: going and going and going. Every time you thought he
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: was going to end, he continued.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You tried,
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: you tried to silence me. Well, you can't silence me.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: You can't silence the truth. And here's the simple truth.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: We never got to the simple truth. I cut it
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: off at that point, but I wanted you to hear
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the applause. I'll do one more about Mamdani because it's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: just important to hear because he spent so much of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the speech. And I think that Curtis is exactly right.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of this is at Mamdani. I know he
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: made Bibi Netanyahu mad, but he also saw this as
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. Going after Mamdani is going to play extremely
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: well in Israel and among many in the Jewish community
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in New York.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: The lies you and other anti-Semites spread about the Jews
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: and the Jewish state have real consequences. In New York,
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Jews are threatened on the way to synagogue.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Jews have been stabbed in the streets.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Jews are demonized. They're targeted simply for being Jews.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So he was targeting Mamdani where he lives. He was
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: saying that people are concerned. People feel like they're in
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: danger who are Jewish because you are the mayor right now. Anti-Semitism,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he claimed, was on the rise. And he claims that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: people that are Jewish are afraid for their lives walking
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: down the street because he is mayor. So not only,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I think that was playing extremely well in Israel, but
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: not only that, but he was playing to the Jewish
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: community everywhere.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you see, that's where his problem is. His
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: support in the Jewish community has diminished sizably. So I
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: understand that. I will give him credit. He did a
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: much better presentation than Andrew Cuomo did during the primary
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: where Zoran beat him and in the general election because
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: remember that was the two big issues for them they
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: were back and forth I was pretty much saying this
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: has nothing to do with us guys we're not in
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the Middle East we got so many issues to talk
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: about here and there but they loved going back and
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: forth back and forth back and forth and it was
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to the detriment of Andrew Cuomo um You know, there
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: were so many issues to discuss. But every time Zoran
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: can talk about this, he loves it. What about the homeless,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: the emotionally disturbed? What about the fact that you won't
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: let cops go to a compound?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Of homeless people to give them.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: These are all issues that he doesn't talk about because
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: all these international issues. He's got the prime minister of
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Ireland here, the prime minister of Spain. This is all elevated.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: And it started with Trump on Monday. Trump elevated Zoran Mandami.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: He is now an international figure in the most recent
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: poll that we referred to with Rob Astorino. He is
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the most popular politician in all of New York State,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: more popular than AOC.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he has been for some time. He became popular
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: when he won out of nowhere. He was at 1%
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and then went on to win the mayoral ship. And so, no,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: he's been popular for a long time. I don't think Trump...
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Trump obviously got him more play. There's no question. But
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: both of these men know that. You raised a really
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: important point. You went through all the problems that New
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: York City has that he's not addressing. And there's problems
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that Israel has that he's not addressing. And the reason is,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: is the media. It's because of us. He could, Mamdani
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: could get up and give a speech about homelessness and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: what he's going to do about it. And yet, if
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he were to talk about Netanyahu, that's the only thing
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: that would get covered.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Well, remember, right after he met with President Trump at
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Gracie Mansion, it was another love fest, love fest three.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: He immediately did an interview with CNN. I want Phoebe arrested. Remember,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I thought you gave that up.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I thought you already said, I don't care if I
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: can't do it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I want him.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: And he started that cycle all over again because that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: his shield. The more you can talk about that, the
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: less he has to talk about the issues that a
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: mayor is responsible for.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: But to prove my point, whose fault is that? He
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen. He knows if he says that,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: all the other things in the interview don't even get
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: listened to at that point. So he knows how to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: play the media already very well. Because if you just
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: drop that one bomb, the media is going to come
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and run to it like a dog dish.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: We knew.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: From the moment he said he wanted Beebe arrested, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: nobody really knew him at that time. That was early
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: in the Democratic primary. Don't even spend any time talking
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: about it. It can't be done.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Then what does Cuomo do?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, Dershowitz has appointed me to the legal committee,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: because he is a lawyer, to defend Beebe.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. And they went on and on.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: And obviously, in that case, Zorhan won out unexpectedly. Whoever
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: thought you could be pro-Palestinian and win a citywide election
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: in New York City?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What is that, polymarked? You could have won a lot
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: of money. I would have said, no way.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: No way. No, it was amazing. And I think that's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: what made him a star across the country. If you
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: remember right after that, every Democrat wanted to appear with him.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Some of the ones that were holding him at arm's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: length wanted to appear with him. But B.B. Netanyahu is
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: guilty of the exact same thing. They're both using each
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: other for publicity.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: The conversation continues.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: 710 WOR.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Rob Bassarino, our colleague on the line, you can hear
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: him here at 710 WOR, Saturdays 4 to 5, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I know a lot of what he's going to be
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: talking about. We'll deal with the little hors d'oeuvres that
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: we give him now, Larry. Rob, first up, back-to-back, belly-to-belly,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: two polls that reflected on the gubernatorial race between Bruce
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Blakeman and Governor Hochul.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: One I thought was very good, Sienna.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: The second from Larry's former alumni, Quinnipiac.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: That's where he went. Not so good.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: When you pulled out the tabs and you looked at
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: all the analytics, what conclusions did you come to?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let's throw the Quinnipiac poll out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it was a garbage poll. Never should
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: have even been published.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: And why?
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Because they vastly undersampled Republicans. They had 21% of their
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: respondents are Republicans across the state. That is not a
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: gubernatorial turnout for Republicans.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: It's up in the upper 20s.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly where Siena was. So they have a
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: better snapshot. And I send my money to Quinnipiac. My
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: daughter goes there.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: I should demand a refund if this is what they're doing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: But anyway, so I'm not even going to touch the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Q poll because I think it is garbage. The Siena poll,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I think, is a lot more likely. And there's a
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: lot of good news in there for Bruce Blakeman. The
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: people in this state think we are going in the
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: wrong direction.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: In this state. And that has nothing to do with nationally.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: They just think the state's going in the wrong direction.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: And that's even worse for Hochul than it was in August.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: So that's very, very helpful because that's always a big indicator.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And the suburbs and upstate especially think we're going in
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the wrong direction.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: So that's helpful to Blakeman.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: When you look at the numbers, Hochul is doing very,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: very well. It's what's propping her up with women. She's
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: up 23 points with women. So that's an area that
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Blakeman's got to cut into. And if he does, I
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: think he's sitting in a good spot because he's up
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: with independence. He's getting about 27% right now in New
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: York City. He's got to climb to about 30, a
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: little over 30.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: And he's in a great spot to win. Here's the thing, though.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: This is what drives me nuts about people in New York.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Affordability is their number one issue. And they think.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Hochul and the Democrats who have given us the unaffordability
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: would do a better job.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's insane.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: So the messaging for Blakeman has to keep pounding on
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: this is the woman who has made it completely unaffordable
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: for us. We'll keep going that way if you reelect her.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I'm the guy.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's got to be the message because that's
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: really the biggest issue here.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on point right now. I thought that he
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: wobbled when he first came out, but man, he's really
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: on point now. I've watched a few interviews with him
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and he's doing exactly what you said. You know, anytime
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they bring up anything, AI databases, the war in Iran,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: he goes back to taxes and utility bills, taxes and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: utility bills. So he's really on message right now. I
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: don't know if you were a part of that, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: he's been impressive now for like the last week. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: don't know if his polls inspired him or what. Do
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you agree?
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Totally.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: And, you know, I remember when I was running in
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: 2009 in Westchester, which is a very Democratic county, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: they just kept hitting me on abortion. And I was told,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: you need message discipline, okay? Because you have to get
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: enough Democrats to cross over. And that's not what they
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: want to do, but you have to make them do it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: So when they hit you over the head with abortion,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: you talk taxes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Same thing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: When they hit you over the head with, in this case, Iran,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you talk taxes. And that's exactly what people feel.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: And, you know, so they don't need to be.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Convinced that things are unaffordable or taxes are high.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: They know it. You just got to tell them that's
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: the person who did it in Hochul. And I'm going
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: to do X, Y, and Z about it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: What do you have that dog on your lap?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: She completely agrees with what I'm saying.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: That's right. Now, Rob Astorino, Republicans.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: He doesn't like dogs.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I'm going to rescue beagles up in Marshall, New York,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: fighting the Northeast. You know Republicans in many districts have
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: a tough run in New York State, and they're out there, dude.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: They're going door-knocking, giving out lit. They've raised the money.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: This time, first time statewide, you can get matching funds,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: and it all has Zorhan Mantam. Zoran Mondami attached like
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: a hydra to Kathy Hochul. And I see the president
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: has his first ad Wednesday night.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: He's looking in the camera.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: He goes, together we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism. Rob,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: this was a great week for communists and Trump, starting
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: with Zoran on Monday at Gracie Mansion and President Xi
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: at the White House on Friday. It's a conflicting message.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Well, the Xi thing, okay, I would have had him
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: like later in November, but obviously coming across the globe,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Xi was.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Probably like, hey, I'm going to be there for the
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: General Assembly. Can I just stop by? Maybe we could
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: do it then. I think you have to talk to China.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, the two leaders of the superpowers have
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: to get together.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I have no problem with that. And he's not the
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: first president to do it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Stopping by and meeting with Mamdami at Gracie Mansion and,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you know, saying nice.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Words, I don't think that's helpful. I mean, Mamdami is
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: the boogeyman that Blakeman needs.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Mamdami is the boogeyman and a facelift like El-Sayed and
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: others that Republicans around the country are painting as these
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: are the guys that need to be stopped. So I
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: don't know if I would have sat there with with
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: the smiling bearded one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: But remember, he's very handsome.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: What is it with the president always? saying he's a
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: handsome man? What does that mean, Rob?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I think it kind of– it's like I like him.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: That's his like– I don't know why he does that
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: He's straight out of Central Casting.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, listen, every week I have this talk-me-off-allege moment,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and you haven't done it yet. And certainly the polls
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: haven't done it. I mean, look, Florida? Now Florida? We
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: already had Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas. Florida?
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: No, that's bull. See, these polls are all over the place.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: And what happens, like the Q poll, for instance, the
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Quinnipiac poll was so distorted, and it's going to get
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: thrown into.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: The bloodstream and help.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: You got other polls like that, which are for specifically
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: for candidates or super PACs for a candidate that are skewed,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: that get thrown into the bloodstream.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: There is no way in God's green.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Earth that Byron Daniels is going to lose the governor's
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: race or Ashley Moody is going to lose the Senate
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: race in Florida.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: It's just not happening, period.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: But it's not just him. It's some of the congressional
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: seats in Florida that were considered safe.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Again, there's just no way that's happening. There are some
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: congressional seats that might be in play because, you know,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: they might lean Republican to begin with. But no, I mean,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: but but but Larry, I'm not going to talk you
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: off the ledge yet because it's still bad. You know,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: you've got these Midwestern states like Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas that
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: are in play right now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: And that's that's tariffs. You know, that's unfortunate.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: But those are issues in these kind of states. Do
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I think they're all going to turn blue?
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: No.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: They're going to be a lot closer than they should be.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: And that means Republican money has to go there instead
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: of other places.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Remember the guy in the Titanic that said everything's OK.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Go ahead. Back to your state rooms.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right. All right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: What iceberg? What iceberg?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That's right. You're panicking for nothing. Thanks a lot, Rob. Rob,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: host of the Rob Astorino Show on WOR, Saturdays from
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: 4 to 5, host of Saturday Agenda 1 to 3
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: on Newsmax, and the former Westchester County Executive.