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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 10-15-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a Oh man, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Larry. Oh, by the way, gotta mention,
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  Speaker 1: Natalie's away today, but in her stead is Chris the
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  Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, on loan from Mark Simone, producer extraordinaire. You
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  Speaker 1: wanna get at least one word out before we get
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  Speaker 1: started here, Chris? If you were in politics, you would
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  Speaker 1: be a disaster. It's a good thing I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: politics then. I'm glad I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. How many words was that?
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 2: More than one or two. You're feeling good today. A
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  Speaker 2: little bit, yeah. You're a little spunky today. I went
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  Speaker 2: to bed early last night, so. Wow. He may not
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  Speaker 2: be quiet today.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine when he's texting or responding? You're probably
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys who just uses simple acronyms.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: No explanations. No, I actually do like putting, like, correct
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  Speaker 1: grammar in my text messages.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I put commas and, you know, do you really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This is more than you have talked and I've worked
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  Speaker 2: with you for a year and this is more than
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  Speaker 2: you've talked any other time. Did you take a shot
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  Speaker 2: of something?
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  Speaker 1: No. Did you use the Larry Menti remedy of 15
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  Speaker 1: caffeinated cups of coffee?
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a coffee guy. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into it momentarily. Kathy Hochul could
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  Speaker 1: have used that coffee in her debate against Blakeman. And
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  Speaker 1: Tish James against Saritha, the AG debate, we didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to talk about because of all the
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  Speaker 1: news last week. But yesterday, I was taking a victory
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  Speaker 1: lap to Central Park. It's like 150 horses. That are
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  Speaker 1: involved in a horse carriage industry with the drivers and
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  Speaker 1: the drivers are used to me heckling them. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're all screaming to me, you'll never be mayor. You'll
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  Speaker 1: never be mayor. You're a bum. Go get a job.
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  Speaker 1: Go get a real job. So I take all that
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  Speaker 1: abuse and I walk up to the horses and I'm
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  Speaker 1: patting their mane and I'm saying, hey, buddy, hang on.
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  Speaker 1: You got two years. If you can make it through
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  Speaker 1: two years of this torture, you'll be able to frolic
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  Speaker 1: with your buddies out there at some horse sanctuary. So
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  Speaker 1: it's great. And then as I'm making the rounds and
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  Speaker 1: trying to answer some of the questions of the horse
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  Speaker 1: carriage drivers who would actually talk to me about how
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  Speaker 1: they can segue into a career so they can pay
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  Speaker 1: their bills and not get evicted, I passed a statue.
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  Speaker 1: You got to look at it, ladies and gentlemen, right
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  Speaker 1: before you hit Strawberry Fields. right before the spot at
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  Speaker 1: the Dakota where John Lennon was assassinated back in 1980.
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  Speaker 1: There is this huge statue in Central Park. Almost nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows who it is. I do because my dad told
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  Speaker 1: me and educated me. It's the former Senator Stephen Douglas,
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  Speaker 1: who had the greatest debates of all time, Larry, with
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  Speaker 1: then Abraham Lincoln, 1858. They were running for the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Douglas was assumed to be the winner, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in advance. But he allowed for seven debates. He was
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat. The Republican Party was just being formed. That
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  Speaker 1: came about for the presidential election, and Lincoln won in 1860. And, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: these were three-hour debates all over Illinois, as my dad explained.
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  Speaker 1: People came from everywhere. Reporters covered it for newspapers everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: all across the nation. And that's really how Lincoln established
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  Speaker 1: himself as the anti-slavery guy. And Stephen Douglas was pro-slavery,
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  Speaker 1: but there were so many other issues they discussed.
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  Speaker 2: It was slavery for the most part. Almost all of
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  Speaker 2: it was about slavery. But listen to the format and
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  Speaker 2: compare it to the debates of today. One hour opening address.
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  Speaker 2: One hour opening address. I love that. Then an hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half counter address. So you give the other
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  Speaker 2: guy 30 more minutes, I guess, to talk about what
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  Speaker 2: you just said. Then on top of that, a 30
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  Speaker 2: minute rebuttal. And so they allowed Douglas to open four
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  Speaker 2: times and Lincoln to open three times. So they had
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  Speaker 2: seven debates, but this was the format. So do they
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  Speaker 2: ever go back and forth at all?
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  Speaker 1: Not sure. My dad never explained that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that till I just read it.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is, Larry, there was no audio back then.
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  Speaker 1: There was no amplification. It's not like today. You get
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  Speaker 1: a microphone in front of you. So even if you're
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  Speaker 1: soft spoken, you could be heard by a crowd. And
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  Speaker 1: these people came from everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Huge crowds.
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  Speaker 1: Journalists from all over the country who then teletype their
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  Speaker 1: stories in the next day. which were carried on the
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  Speaker 1: front pages of the major periodicals. And that's really how
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln established himself as a great orator. But I give
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  Speaker 1: credit to Stephen Douglas. He could have said, I'm way ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the established U.S. senator. You know, there's nobody that's
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  Speaker 1: going to beat me. Why do I have to submit
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  Speaker 1: myself to seven debates? There is no rules. There were
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  Speaker 1: no rules back then that you had to do seven debates.
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  Speaker 2: And three hours. There had to be a bathroom break, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my God, three hours. And do you think?
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  Speaker 2: You said there's huge crowds. There's no way a crowd
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  Speaker 2: stuck around for three hours. But then again, maybe because
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing better to do back then.
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  Speaker 1: But they were great orators, both of them.
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  Speaker 2: But three hours? I don't care how great of an
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  Speaker 2: orator you are.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, wasn't that, wait a second, the three-hour tour, right? Remember?
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  Speaker 2: What was that? Gilligan's Island.
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  Speaker 1: Gilligan's Island, right? But they came from everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: The way his mind works. All of a sudden, a
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  Speaker 2: sitcom from the 60s and 70s comes back.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, you know how people show up for Trump rallies?
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  Speaker 1: They'll show up a day or two early. They showed
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  Speaker 1: up early to be able to get into a position
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  Speaker 1: where they could hear the debate. Again, no amplification whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: And I say there should have been established long ago
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  Speaker 1: a prerequisite that if you're running for political office, that
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  Speaker 1: you have to submit yourself to a minimum of two debates.
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  Speaker 1: I want to turn to your state of New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you a fact here, though, to add
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  Speaker 2: to what you were just saying. More than 70,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: Back then. Back then. 70,000 is a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: More than 70,000 people attended the seven joint debates in total.
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  Speaker 2: And they averaged 10,000 to 12,000 spectators at a time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no arena. There's no microphones. They were
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  Speaker 2: probably telling each other what was said.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you, in fact, I had this discussion with
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cuddy the other day, you know, in the recovery
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  Speaker 1: of my voice. I used to blow out my voices,
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  Speaker 1: going to rallies, raising my voice, and then you bruise
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  Speaker 1: your vocal cords. You couldn't do that. If they bruise
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  Speaker 1: their vocal cords, there's no voice specialist you could go to.
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  Speaker 1: There's no special medication. That's it. Other than maybe knocking
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  Speaker 1: back some Jack Daniels and hoping that would work, which
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  Speaker 1: all of them did back then. This is amazing. 10,000
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  Speaker 1: to 12,000 people. Again, like you said, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: they could hear what Douglas and Lincoln were saying unless
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  Speaker 1: they had come early, you know, like days early and
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  Speaker 1: they got a good position. It was word of mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the funny thing is, the reason I was saying
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  Speaker 2: is word of mouth is because during the Gettysburg Address,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember, they had people sitting on other people's
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  Speaker 2: shoulders and then repeating what he said. And they just
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  Speaker 2: keep going back in the crowd to repeat what he
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  Speaker 2: just said. So it must have been the same thing
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  Speaker 2: there or something similar.
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  Speaker 1: So I pay homage in Central Park to the statue
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  Speaker 1: of Stephen Douglas because he submitted to allow for that.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have to. Now, think of all the people
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  Speaker 1: who are ahead in the polls or an incumbent, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of these states. Oh, no, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to do a debate. Oh, I'll do one debate
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  Speaker 1: at like three o'clock in the morning on some UHF
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  Speaker 1: station just to say I did it. I use New
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  Speaker 1: York as an example. Let's compare it with New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You had great debates in New Jersey leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter pilot, Shirell, winning over Jack Cittarelli.
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  Speaker 2: See, I got it right. Yeah. He's been saying Cittarelli.
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  Speaker 1: So remember, Cittarelli goes through a primary. He has debates.
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  Speaker 1: Shirell goes to a primary. She has debates. And then
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  Speaker 1: in the final, they're the two finalists. They had two debates.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's because it was close and there was no incumbent.
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  Speaker 2: And the problem is if one person says no, they
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  Speaker 2: can't have a debate. And to your point, I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you. I think debates are healthy. I think debates
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  Speaker 2: are important because how else are you going to make
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  Speaker 2: up your mind? You want to see how they're going
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  Speaker 2: to handle things on their feet. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we do need a law. I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get federal money, if you want to accept
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  Speaker 2: federal money, you have to accept debates. And I said debates,
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  Speaker 2: at least two debates. That would be wonderful. Or another
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  Speaker 2: way to do it is if someone says, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to show up to the debate, still give
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  Speaker 2: the other guy the airtime. Give the other guy the airtime.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be an hour or two hours.
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  Speaker 2: It could be 15 minutes or half an hour. But
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  Speaker 2: he gets free airtime because you said no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to talk about it later. Tallarico versus Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: He had a town hall meeting at CNN last night. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: that was hopefully for CNN.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted a debate.
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  Speaker 1: Paxton has yet to agree with 20 days to go.
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  Speaker 2: So exactly what I was talking about. That would be wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing that town hall is the way to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you could do that over and over again. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is many of the races... Don't get as much publicity. Right,
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  Speaker 2: but let me applaud you.
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  Speaker 1: You chose yesterday, and please go to our Instagram account,
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  Speaker 1: Facebook account. You'll see Larry talking about a guy I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know about. Justin Murphy. I learned from you
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  Speaker 1: he had great hair. But I actually started looking at
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  Speaker 1: the clips based on your commentary of he smoked Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 1: He's running for the U.S. Senate. He's a Republican candidate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: just imagine he has one debate under his belt. Cory
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  Speaker 1: Booker wasn't aired really anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But if there were two mandatory debates on network.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Then Cory would have to buckle down for a second
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  Speaker 1: debate because word would get out. Whoa, this guy smoked
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  Speaker 1: Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, if you go on social media and
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  Speaker 2: just search his name, he's all over the place because
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  Speaker 2: his answer on Iran was especially great. And if If
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  Speaker 2: you're a conservative, you're really going to love him, too,
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  Speaker 2: because he espouses all conservative issues. I mean, seriously, he
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  Speaker 2: was a placeholder. He was a sacrificial lamb in this race.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody thought he was going to do anything. And he
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  Speaker 2: got up there, man, and he made a name for himself.
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  Speaker 2: So Justin Murphy, he will be a name you're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear running for Congress. He's going to run for
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  Speaker 2: something else. This is not the last we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear of him.
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  Speaker 1: We would never have known that, most of us, if
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  Speaker 1: not for your commentary on our Instagram and Facebook account,
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  Speaker 1: which caused me, who didn't know him, I am pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about some Jersey politics, to start looking at the
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  Speaker 1: clips and say, damn, this guy's good. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: like Larry said, man, he's got one thick mane of
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  Speaker 1: hair that every politician running would definitely want. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to get your feedback on this on our
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  Speaker 1: talkback because it's hit and miss. Maine, they've had five
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  Speaker 1: debates in nine days for the U.S. Senate position.
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  Speaker 2: That's a close race. You can see why everyone that
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  Speaker 2: has has debates is a close race, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: can we also talk about Cory Booker? That was great
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  Speaker 2: that he had a debate. He didn't have to have
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  Speaker 2: that debate. But I think he thought he was going
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  Speaker 2: to really trounce him. I think he went into it going,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Cory Booker. I'm going to take care of him.
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  Speaker 2: Just like Hochul thought. She had an easy pass with Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: He did a smackdown. And the one we couldn't talk about, Saritha.
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  Speaker 2: I can't pronounce her last name. Shame on me. She's
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  Speaker 2: the Attorney General candidate, Republican Parliamentary, former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District.
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  Speaker 1: She ripped Tish James. She killed her in that debate.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine? People would hear the buzz. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: got to look at this woman, Saritha. She tore up
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  Speaker 1: Tish James if there were a second debate. Shame, shame
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  Speaker 1: that we don't have that in honor of Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: and Stephen Douglas, who had seven debates.
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  Speaker 2: We, uh, we want to hear your talkbacks by the way,
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  Speaker 2: on all of this, how important are debates to you?
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree with us? Everybody should hold debates. If
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  Speaker 2: they're going to run for office, go to the I
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  Speaker 2: your mind because of a debate? That would be interesting.
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