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Hour 1: J.D. Vance on James Talarico · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh man, let me tell you something. I gotta tell you, Larry. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, gotta mention, Natalie's away today, but in
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  Speaker 1: her stead is Chris the Quiet Storm, on loan from
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, producer extraordinaire. You wanna get at least one
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  Speaker 1: word out before we get started here, Chris? If you
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  Speaker 1: were in politics, you would be a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good thing I'm not in politics, then.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Wow how many words was that a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: one or two you're feeling good today a little bit
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  Speaker 2: yeah you're a little spunky today i went to bed
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  Speaker 2: early last night so wow he may not be quiet
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  Speaker 2: today can you imagine when he's texting or responding you're
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  Speaker 2: probably one of these guys who just.
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  Speaker 1: Uses simple acronyms sometimes sometimes no explanations so no i
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  Speaker 1: actually do like.
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  Speaker 2: Putting like correct grammar in my text messages oh i
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  Speaker 2: put commas and you know do you really yeah wow
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  Speaker 2: yeah i don't know this is more than you have
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  Speaker 2: talked and i've worked with you for a year and
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  Speaker 2: this is more than you've talked any other time did
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  Speaker 2: you take a shot of something No.
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  Speaker 1: Did you use the Larry Menti remedy of 15 caffeinated
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  Speaker 1: cups of coffee? No, no. I'm not a coffee guy.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. We're going to get into
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  Speaker 1: it momentarily. Kathy Hochul could have used that coffee in
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  Speaker 1: her debate against Blakeman and Tish James against Saritha, the
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  Speaker 1: AG debate. We didn't even have a chance to talk
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  Speaker 1: about because of all the news last week. But yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I was taking a victory lap to Central Park. It's
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  Speaker 1: like 150 horses. That are involved in a horse carriage
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  Speaker 1: industry with the drivers and the drivers are used to
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  Speaker 1: me heckling them. And, you know, they're all screaming to me,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never be mayor. You'll never be mayor. You're a bum.
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  Speaker 1: Go get a job. Go get a real job. So
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  Speaker 1: I take all that abuse and I walk up to
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  Speaker 1: the horses and I'm patting their mane and I'm saying, hey, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: hang on. You got two years. If you can make
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  Speaker 1: it through two years of this torture, you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to frolic with your buddies out there at some horse sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great. And then as I'm making the rounds
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  Speaker 1: and trying to answer some of the questions of the
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  Speaker 1: horse carriage drivers who would actually talk to me about
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  Speaker 1: how they can segue into a career so they can
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  Speaker 1: pay 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.
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  Speaker 3: 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.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Then an hour and a half counter address. So you
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  Speaker 2: give the other guy 30 more minutes, I guess, to
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  Speaker 2: talk about what you just said. Then on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: a 30 minute rebuttal. And so they allowed Douglas to
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  Speaker 2: open four times and Lincoln to open three times. So
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  Speaker 2: they had seven debates, but this was the format. So
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  Speaker 2: do they ever go back and forth at all?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. My dad never explained that. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that until I just read it. But the point is, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: there was no audio back then. There was no amplification.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like today. You get a microphone in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, so even if you're soft-spoken, you could be
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  Speaker 1: heard by a crowd. And 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 came. who then teletyped
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  Speaker 1: their stories in the next day, which were carried on
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  Speaker 1: the front pages of the major periodicals. And that's really
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  Speaker 1: how Lincoln established himself as a great orator. But I
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  Speaker 1: give credit to Stephen Douglas. He could have said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: way ahead. I'm the established U.S. senator. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody's going to beat me. Why do I have to
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  Speaker 1: submit myself to seven debates? There is no rules. There
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  Speaker 1: were no rules back then that you had to do
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  Speaker 1: seven debates. In 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. But three hours?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how great of an orator you are. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that, wait a second, the three-hour tour, right?
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  Speaker 4: Remember?
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  Speaker 1: What was that? Gilligan's Island. Gilligan's Island, right? But they
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  Speaker 1: came from everywhere. This is the way his mind works.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, a sitcom from the 60s and
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  Speaker 2: 70s comes out.
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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.
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: 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. That's amazing. Yeah, because you, in fact, I had
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  Speaker 1: this discussion with Tom Cuddy the other day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the recovery of my voice. I used to blow
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  Speaker 1: out my voices going to rallies, raising my voice, and
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  Speaker 1: then you bruise your vocal cords. You couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: If they bruise their vocal cords, there's no voice specialist
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  Speaker 1: you could go to. There's no special medication. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Other than maybe knocking back some Jack Daniels and hoping
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  Speaker 1: that would work, which all of them did back then.
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  Speaker 1: This is amazing. 10,000 to 12,000 people. Again, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way they could hear what Douglas and Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: were saying unless they had come early, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: days early and they got a good position. It was
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  Speaker 1: 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 in incumbent slurry
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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. See, I
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  Speaker 1: got it right. Yeah. Cittarelli. He's been saying Cittarelli. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: Cittarelli goes through a primary. He has debates. Shirell goes
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  Speaker 1: through a primary. She has debates. And then in the final,
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  Speaker 1: they're the two finalists. They had two debates. 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.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if we do need a law.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going to get federal money, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to accept federal money, you have to accept debates.
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  Speaker 2: And I said debates, at least two debates. That would
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  Speaker 2: be wonderful. Or another way to do it is if
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  Speaker 2: someone says, no, we're not going to show up to
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  Speaker 2: the debate, still give them the other guy the airtime.
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  Speaker 2: Give the other guy the airtime. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: be an hour or two hours. It could be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: 15 minutes or half an hour. But he gets free
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  Speaker 2: 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. They wanted a debate. Paxton
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  Speaker 1: has yet to agree with 20 days to go. So
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 2: Senate.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Republican candidate. Now, just imagine he has one
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  Speaker 1: debate under his belt. Cory Booker... That wasn't aired really anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But if there were two mandatory debates on network, then
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  Speaker 1: Cory would have to buckle down for a second debate
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  Speaker 1: because word would get out, whoa, this guy smoked 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.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hear of him. We would never have
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  Speaker 1: known that, most of us, if not for your commentary
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  Speaker 1: on our Instagram and Facebook account, which caused me, who
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  Speaker 1: didn't know him, I am pretty good about some Jersey politics,
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  Speaker 1: to start looking at the clips and say, damn, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's good. Not only that, like Larry said, man, he's
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  Speaker 1: got one thick mane of hair that every politician running
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  Speaker 1: would definitely want. By the way, we'd love to get
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  Speaker 1: your feedback on this on our talkback because it's hit
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  Speaker 1: and miss. Maine, they've had five debates in nine days
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  Speaker 1: for the U.S. Senate position. That's a close race.
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  Speaker 2: You can see why everyone that has debates is a
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  Speaker 2: close race, which, by the way, can we also talk
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  Speaker 2: about Cory Booker? That was great that he had a debate.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have to have that debate. But I think
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  Speaker 2: he thought he was going to really trounce him. I
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  Speaker 2: think he went into it going, I'm Cory Booker. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take care of him.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Hochul thought. She had an easy pass with Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: He did a smackdown. And the one we couldn't talk about, Saritha.
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  Speaker 1: I can't pronounce her last name. Shame on me. She's
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  Speaker 1: the Attorney General candidate, Republican Party, 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: heart radio app. And is it ever, you ever changed
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  Speaker 2: your mind because of a debate? That would be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the I heart radio app and leave us
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  Speaker 2: a talk back. You could win a Curtis Lee, when
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  Speaker 2: awarded every day to our favorite talk back in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget the best talk back of the week
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  Speaker 2: takes home a C crane radio. When we come back, well,
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  Speaker 2: we did a, uh, A lost cat that was gone
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  Speaker 2: for a year and a half the other day. How
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  Speaker 2: about a small dog lost in Yellowstone with all those
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  Speaker 2: wild animals and survives? Plus a chance to see Journey
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  Speaker 2: at 825. Well, this is a huge story in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's a big national story. I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: a hint of what happened. In the Casper Star Tribune,
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  Speaker 2: which is the biggest paper in Wyoming, and in the
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  Speaker 2: Wyoming Tribune Eagle, both had the exact same headline yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Luna's alive. Now, Luna is an 18-pound dog.
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  Speaker 2: And Luna was on a trip to Yellowstone. He shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been. You're not supposed to take bets. You're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to take bets there. But they took a pet
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  Speaker 2: and they left it in the resort next to Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 2: And when the maid showed up, Luna ran. Now, there
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  Speaker 2: are wolves in Yellowstone. There are bears in Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 1: Coyotes.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody assumed Luna was dead. But guess what? After
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  Speaker 2: 34 days, they found Luna.
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  Speaker 2: We've had some variable weather and Luna has been seen
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  Speaker 2: off and on throughout the canyon area. And very, very fortunately,
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  Speaker 2: he was found. He was found. He was found down
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  Speaker 2: drinking water. Now, he's only 18 pounds. He lost half
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  Speaker 2: his body weight in that time. So apparently he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: eating well. He took your advice and he didn't eat
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  Speaker 2: the rats in Yellowstone. But they now are saying... Please, please,
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  Speaker 2: please don't bring any animals at all to Yellowstone. People
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  Speaker 2: try to sneak them in all the time because they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to get a dog sitter. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: to pay for a kennel. And they bring them to
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  Speaker 2: the resort. But the maid comes in. Dog runs out.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to lose your dog.
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  Speaker 1: That's an amazing story. Let me give you an update
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  Speaker 1: on the story you brought to our attention a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Barn Owls, who have flocked over to the Water
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  Speaker 1: Tower on 76th. Between Columbus and Central Park West, it's
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  Speaker 1: the papa, the mama, and the three little outlets. So yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: as I was making the victory laps around Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: talking to all my horse friends, as the drivers were
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  Speaker 1: casting aspersions against me, because in 2028, the horse carriage
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  Speaker 1: industry is over. I said, look, on my way home,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop there. Larry, traffic congestion, birders everywhere, telescopes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, binoculars, guys with the safari hats on and
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  Speaker 1: the shorts, whoop-a-woo, whoop-a-woo, making sounds, trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: attention of the birds. It was incredible. How are the
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  Speaker 1: birds reacting to all this? Well, I only saw the
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  Speaker 1: one head of one of the adults. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: the other adult or the three because, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: mostly nocturnal. They're up. They're wide awake like I am
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  Speaker 1: late at night roaming through the skies looking for food,
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  Speaker 1: which are the rats on the ground. And unfortunately, like
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  Speaker 1: Flacco found out, you eat the rats. If they've ingested poison,
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  Speaker 1: it could affect your neurological ability to stay alive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big fear right now. Let's get to
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  Speaker 2: some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: It's really frustrating and really disheartening, disheartening even more, knowing
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  Speaker 5: that Democrats are always going to win in elections in
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  Speaker 5: New York. They could have the worst candidates and put
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  Speaker 5: the best on, like that woman, Saritha, against Tish James.
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  Speaker 6: She absolutely roasted her. Tish James looked like a deer
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  Speaker 6: in headlights. She was like totally outclassed. She didn't know
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  Speaker 6: what to do. That woman is so smart, intelligent, bright.
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  Speaker 6: She would make a great attorney general.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she would.
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  Speaker 2: Agree with you a thousand percent. The problem is you're
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  Speaker 2: probably the two percent of people, the voters, that saw
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  Speaker 2: that debate. Everybody saw clips of it on social media.
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  Speaker 2: At least I hope they looked at it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: nobody saw that.
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  Speaker 1: But see, if networks had to put it on statewide elections,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. If you knew there was a
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  Speaker 1: second one, you would have heard the buzzing. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: missed the first, but I ain't going to miss the
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  Speaker 1: second one. Because people hate this, James. Think of all
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  Speaker 1: the people who hate this, James. No, I agree with you.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Larry and Curtis, thank you so much for talking about
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: debates and the importance in history. One of the most
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: famous debates in my parents' era was the JFK-Nixon debate
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: on camera, where Nixon was sweating profusely, looked really uncomfortable,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: changed the course of the election and the course of history.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Thanks for all you do.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people that heard it on the radio thought Nixon won.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: People that saw it in television thought JFK won. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: used to work there at WBBM. That's where they had
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: that debate. Now, let's get the news at 6.30 with
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Morning, guys.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Sunny and much cooler today. You'll notice it when you
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: step outside. 62 degrees will be the high. Showers likely
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: light tonight. The City Council is expected to vote next
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: week to end the carriage horse rides in Central Park,
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: but Mayor Mamdani says they won't forget the men and
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: women who make a living that way.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Over the course of this entire conversation, I have always
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: spoken about the importance of taking care of the workers
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: in this industry because they have earned their livelihoods from
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: this work. They should not be ones that are simply
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: left as an afterthought of what comes after this.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: MTA CEO Janne Lieber says many of the drivers could
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: be a good fit for city transit jobs. We get
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: the second of this week's two reports on inflation today.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: The producer price index reflects costs on the wholesale level
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: before they reach consumers. They are expected to show that
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: inflation is running hotter than usual, like yesterday's Consumer Price Index. Meanwhile,
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: a new survey of New Jersey residents finds it's harder
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: than ever for residents to make ends meet.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: New numbers out suggest the struggle to afford basic necessities
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: is intensifying in the Garden State. According to a new
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Rutgers-Eagleton poll, two-thirds of residents found it difficult to afford
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: gas and transportation costs. That's up about 10 percentage points
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: from the same poll in March. About 60% say they
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: have difficulty affording health care and medical costs. That's a 5%
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: increase over the past several months. Ashley Koenig with the
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: poll says what we're seeing is less about how many
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: New Jerseyans are struggling and more about how intense the
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: struggle is.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Liz Warner, WOR News.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: If you stop online at Stop and Shop, check your
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: credit or debit card statements. The chain's website's been hacked.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Stop and Shop's Dutch parent company has pulled the sign
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: offline for the time being. Some in-store shoppers say they
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: were affected, too. Yesterday, some of them say they couldn't
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: access their rewards. The Devils host the Rangers tonight. The
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Islanders skate in Ottawa. Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's got all the drama. The U.S. Senate race,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: $ 500 million already spent, more pouring in each day, either
• 20:04
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• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Now with all the great elections around the country, many
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of them neck and neck. And we've seen some of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the debates and the public appearances. None is better than
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the race for the U.S. Senate seat that Cornyn has
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to give up because he lost the primary to Paxton
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: because of the support that Trump gave Paxton, not Cornyn.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And the emergence of somebody we didn't know, Tallarico, a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: state legislator from Austin. And.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: $ 500 million combination, both sides, poured into this campaign so
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: far with 20 days left.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: That's like at a presidential level. Larry, $ 9 million a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: day for Paxton from that special fund that Trump has
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and the RNC. They will not lose. They said, we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: cannot lose Texas. And so they're pulling out all the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: stops to try to stop this guy, Tallarico. He's not
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: man enough. He's not Christian enough. He's not a meat eater.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He's not Texas enough. And then the other day in Tyler, Texas,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he can't get any more Texan than that. J.D. Vance
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: gets off Air Force Two. He does the rally right
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there at the airport. And they start warming up the crowd.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you know, there are
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: people in the crowd. And we love you, J.D. We
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: love you. That happens at every rally. And this was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: his response, which really, if you listen strongly, was directed
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: at supporters and Palo Rico. Oh, the crowd got it. Oh,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the crowd. What do you hear? The crowd got it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Never.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Started.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I love you too, sir. In a totally platonic way.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: To be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Tallarico.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But I gotta.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: See, the crowd got what he was saying.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You know, when I... One time I had to go
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to College Station, which is where Texas A & M is.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And some people there did not like me as I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: was speaking about the Guardian Angels in Houston. And I'll
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: never forget A guy in the crowd gets up, you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: got the cowboy hat on, well-spoken. He goes, hey, guardian
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: angel man, only two things come from Texas, steers and queers.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: You don't look much like a steer. So that narrows
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: it down a bit.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Don't it, Guardian Angel Man.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell to say. The crowd
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: was absolutely crazy, so I acted like I couldn't hear
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: what he said.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Good move.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's a veteran move. What the hell was I going
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to say? The crowd loved the line. Obviously, it's a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: line they've used for years. Yeah. But I just decided
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: this is a no-win proposition here, no-win proposition.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, Tallarico, his position on all of those issues is weird,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: is really weird. Now, he's changed a lot of them.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Now he's changing everything that he apparently believed in all
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of his life until he decided to run for the Senate.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But Tallarico, I'm worried about him only because he's very
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie-like. in that he changes a lot of what
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he believes in to win, or he changes a lot
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: of what he believes in, or he tries to cover
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: up his past. It keeps coming up, but he constantly,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: over and over again, is now morphing into something that
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: he's not.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He's weird.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Remember he said, how many sexes were there? I think
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: it was like a dozen sexes.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I've missed the mark on some of my past statements.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I will be the first to admit it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: What I meant is that there are two sexes and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: then there's a small percentage of.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: People with genetic abnormalities. I obviously didn't say it correctly.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: There are not six sexes.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: There are two.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That's a huge difference to go from six sexes now
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to say there's two and everybody else has genetic abnormalities.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: That's a conservative position.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, super. And he hides now behind the fact that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he was a Presbyterian divinity student before he got involved
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in politics. They're really trying to hone in and claim
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he's gay. They want to see the medical records of
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: his two weeks of being off the campaign trail. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: got to tell you, he said he had the flu.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: That's BS. There's no way he had the flu when
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: he was out for two weeks. That's a complete lie.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the donors who have given him about
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: $ 200 million to run this campaign? must have been screaming
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at whoever they gave the money to. Where the hell
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: is this guy?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I'd be willing to bet anybody right now, I'll bet
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: anybody Paxton wins that election. And one of the reasons
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say that Paxton wins the election, well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: two reasons, actually. One is that state after state after
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: state after state, and especially in Texas, they undercount Republican
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: votes in the polls. Republicans sometimes just don't take part
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: in the polls, and they always underrepresent Republicans in the polls.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: And in the last six years, midterms and presidential elections
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that have undercounted Republicans by as many as four points.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So that's number one. But the other thing is, it's
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: a red state. And I've heard this throughout history. This
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: guy's going to win. This guy's going to win. Oh,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: they have a hot new shiny object that's going to win.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: And in Texas, Republicans always win. the statewide offices.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You know, four years ago, that's a slam dunk, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the population flow into Texas from California, New York, all
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the blue states, it has the biggest population growth.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: A lot of those folks are blue. Oh, you seem
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: like you're hoping.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Not that I'm hoping. Put your fingers crossed. I'm telling you,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'll take you back.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Tallarico maybe is your kind of guy because you're not
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: a steer, right?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: What the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Chris, you're not going to weigh in on that? You're
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: supposed to be the producer.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I think now is a good time for me to
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: be the quiet storm again. I'm not going to take
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: a side on this debate.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'll take you up on that, Beto. I believe it'll
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: be very close, but I think Tallarico will edge it
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out only because a lot of people just don't like Petros.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any way Tallarico wins this race.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: First of all, his poll numbers are going the wrong way. Secondly,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the public opinion on him is going the wrong way.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And third, it's Texas... Texas always in the end goes red.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: So again, I'd be stunned, but we have to figure
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: out what we're going to bet because I want it
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to be, well, maybe not embarrassing because I could lose.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So let's, we'll figure out. Yes, we will. We'll figure
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: out what we're.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Going to bet.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: But up next, we're going to go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. No,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about the Amish and the spread of measles.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: That's But there's a certain corruption that is taking place
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: there that Larry is going to bring to all of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: your attention that may be taking place in other parts
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of the country too. Lancaster leads maybe in this. Maybe
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: others follow. Up next.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Did you ever hear the saying, the devil's greatest feat
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: is convincing people he didn't exist? That is the same
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: thing with voter fraud. How many times have you heard
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Democrats out there saying there's no voter fraud? They keep
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: saying this. They keep claiming elections are stolen.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: There's no proof of that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: And then we have 6,000 people that turns out were
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: registered for years for a couple of elections in New
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Jersey that weren't in the country legally. And I wonder
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: where that investigation is going. We haven't heard anything about
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: that since Mikey Sherrill talked about it. Nothing. So are
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: they going to all get the vote again? Well, now,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: this problem has raised its ugly head in Pennsylvania, specifically
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: in Lancaster County. And you've got to give a lot
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: of credit to the people of Lancaster County who did
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: their due diligence and looked at things. They didn't just
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: go ahead and say, well, I guess this might happen,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: it may not happen. It was the DA there that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: got word from, listen to this, the election offices of
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: the different county and state organizations were looking through all
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of the papers they were getting in for registration, right?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: And they were looking at them and they noticed something
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: a little bit unusual.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: The elections office received approximately 2,500 applications at or near
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: the deadline for registering to vote. While preparing to process
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: these applications, staff noticed that numerous applications appeared to have
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: with unknown signatures, and some were previously registered voters, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: the signatures on file did not match the signatures on
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: the application.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: 2,500 of them they've found so far. Now, of course,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: they're going back over everything and looking again, but most
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: of them Most of them are fraudulent.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Thus far of the investigations that we have completed, we
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: have determined that 60% have been fraudulent.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That's Heather Adams, by the way. She's the DA in
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Lancaster County, and she says it's not just in Lancaster County.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: We are aware of at least two other counties that
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: receive similar applications that are currently being investigated. At this point,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: we have confirmed violation of our crimes code as well
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: as our elections code.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Here's how this works, Curtis. You know, when you go
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: to the mall or you go to the supermarket, there's
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: somebody out there and they're saying, yeah, let's get you registered.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Let's get you registered. Well, they are sometimes just getting
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: their information. They're not registering them. And then they register
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: them without them knowing, you know, or they'll ask for
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: their information for something completely different. And then they'll get
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: them registered. That's why the signatures were all the same.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Because they weren't getting their signatures. Or they were just
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: looking them up to try to get information on them
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and then registering them without them knowing.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: This is super serious. Should be the lead story. The
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: governor should have to respond to this, Shapiro. But he said, Lancaster,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: what do you mean? Measles with the Amish community? Because
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that's the one that's getting all the play all over
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the country. You're absolutely right. And I want to credit
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: our producer who is not with us today. She'll be
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're stuck. I mean, we have the quiet storm, Chris,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: who has replaced her on loan from Mark Simone. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: she has lined up an interview. with the postal supervisor
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: about all the mail theft. Now, this is not the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: same as... No, this is bigger. But how many people
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: send their ballots in, mail ballots? The president has decided,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I can't beat this this time around, so vote by
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: mail if you have to. If you're voting by mail
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and your ballots are being stolen out of the blue mailboxes,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you'll never know. Yeah, that's horrible.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: We're talking about thousands here, though. We're talking about thousands
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: of people that are being registered fraudulently just so they
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: could steal their votes. A long time ago, I did
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a show on the radio where I asked people to
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: call in if they saw something funny going on at
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the polling places. And you know, Curtis, at least three
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: people called in and said, I went to vote and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: they told me.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I voted already.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So they're just stealing votes. And if this is happening,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: thank God for this woman in Lancaster County. If they're
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: stealing votes in Lancaster County, and she said two other
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: counties at least that she knows of, you know this
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: is happening across the country. Well, you know it happened
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: in Jersey, too. You know this is happening across the country,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: which now completely explains why the Democrats did not want
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the SAVE Act.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Makes so much sense. 80% of the Americans... Even Democrats
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: who are registered voters want the SAVE Act. Want it
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: so that you have to prove who you are with,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you know, proper government ID when you go and cast
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: your ballot. They don't want it. And for reasons that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you have just brought to our attention. Right. They're cheating.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: You can't hide it anymore. It's being found in county
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: after county and in state after state. This is a
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: huge problem that, by the way... When Donald Trump comes
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: out afterwards, after this election coming up, if it doesn't
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: go his way and he says votes are stolen, look
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: no further than Lancaster County or look no further than
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: New Jersey and realize what must be happening in a
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: state like California. Coming up next, we got our White
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: House correspondent, John Decker, just back from Alaska, just back
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: from a one-on-one with Donald Trump. We'll talk to him
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: about it after the 7 o'clock news.