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Hour 1: Horse drawn carriages are out · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, last night was debate night, and you yearn for
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  Speaker 1: more afterwards, like so many other states have, Larry, as
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about it. Maine, they've had like five
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  Speaker 1: debates for the Senate in nine days. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: others are like two debates. That's the mandatory. Jack Cittarelli, remember,
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  Speaker 1: against Cherelle? They had at least two debates. We only
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  Speaker 1: get one in New York, unfortunately. And after you watched it,
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  Speaker 1: you said, wow, one more debate, and they would have
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  Speaker 1: touched on every subject. And I think those that are
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  Speaker 1: interested in voting would have had their buffet, would have
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  Speaker 1: had the entree and the hors d'oeuvres to make up
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  Speaker 1: their mind, if in fact they hadn't yet made up
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  Speaker 1: their mind on who they want to be the next
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  Speaker 1: governor of New York State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how many undecided there are. That's a
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  Speaker 2: really interesting question. I thought that Bruce Blakeman won that
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  Speaker 2: debate easily, easily. Kathy Hochul, right from the beginning, seemed
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  Speaker 2: off her game. Remember this moment?
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  Speaker 3: New York State now has the lowest crime rates it's
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  Speaker 3: had in modern history. Now, we're not done yet, and
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  Speaker 3: you're going to hear a lot of, well, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different opinions here this evening, and I want you
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  Speaker 3: to judge it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I will say this. I think she was about
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  Speaker 2: to curse there and say a lot of BS, but
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  Speaker 2: the longer word for that. But then after that, she
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  Speaker 2: couldn't come up with something else. I mean, don't you
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  Speaker 2: have that early on the opening prepared? Don't you already
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  Speaker 2: know what you're going to say right out of the box?
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  Speaker 2: That was out of the box, but that wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: only time. She did it a few times, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure who was coaching her. Because if you've noticed,
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  Speaker 2: she was downplaying everything. She was speaking in a softer voice.
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  Speaker 2: It was like she was on Xanax. She rarely got excited.
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  Speaker 2: She rarely was showing a lot of energy or any
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  Speaker 2: energy at all. Blakeman, on the other hand, was full
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  Speaker 2: of energy constantly.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could have helped Kathy Hochul enormously. with
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  Speaker 1: your strategy of taking 15 caffeinated cups of coffee a day,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a desperate need. You're absolutely right. She
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  Speaker 1: needed a caffeinated coffee or a latte caffeinated. She was
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  Speaker 1: very low energy. I don't think that was on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think.
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  Speaker 2: That was on purpose. Then why? I mean, there's no
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  Speaker 2: other reason to do it unless somebody said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to be too shrill. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to come off too loud. I mean, there's some bad
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  Speaker 2: debate coaches out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because in her case, too much packed
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  Speaker 1: into her head. And that's why at times, if you notice,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a void. She was like searching. It
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  Speaker 1: almost like was a stop. And that's because they over
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  Speaker 1: prepare you. Whereas Bruce Blakeman, I think he came out.
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  Speaker 1: He knew what he had to say. He knew he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be wrapped in cellophane wrap with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Trump would be like an appendage to him.
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  Speaker 1: So he was prepared for that. He was calm. Unlike
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  Speaker 1: Lee Zeldin, who had only one debate against Hochul, he
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  Speaker 1: got a little angry at Hochul. It didn't come across well.
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  Speaker 1: But he had the fact that as the governor, he
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  Speaker 1: would get rid of Alvin Bragg, who had just been
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  Speaker 1: elected Manhattan DA. Remember, after sworn in, he said... Half
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  Speaker 1: the rules, throw them out the door. So that was
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  Speaker 1: a vulnerable point for Hochul. But I think Bruce Hochul,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman overall did as well as you could possibly
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  Speaker 1: do in those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievably well. Here's the thing, too. And I didn't notice
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  Speaker 2: this before. I just noticed it after this debate because
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  Speaker 2: I saw Blakeman being shared on social media online. over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over and over again. And it was
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  Speaker 2: done by the RNC, all the usual suspects, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Republicans, Blakeman's campaign. And I thought, maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just my algorithm. Maybe I'm just getting all that
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  Speaker 2: because of my algorithm. So I just did a search
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  Speaker 2: now this morning. I did a search for Hochul and
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  Speaker 2: DNC and New York Republicans, New York Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: There's very little on Hochul because she didn't have a highlight.
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  Speaker 2: She really didn't have a highlight. Blakeman had several. And
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  Speaker 2: some of these that are being shared on social media,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is the most important thing right now.
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  Speaker 2: It is no longer what is broadcast. It is what
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  Speaker 2: he shared. Some of these have hundreds of thousands. If
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  Speaker 2: you total them all up, it's over a million, hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of looks and likes. And so I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, if I had to bet,
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  Speaker 2: if you were forcing me to bet money now, I
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  Speaker 2: still don't think Blakeman can win just because of the
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  Speaker 2: way the state's set up and because the oversaturation of
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in New York City. But, man, he should win.
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  Speaker 2: He is by far the better candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, he definitely pounded her on the utility bills, which
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  Speaker 1: she's responsible for. Everybody opens up that envelope. You remember
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  Speaker 1: that day we were talking to Rob Astorino. He had
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  Speaker 1: just gotten his electricity bill at the same time I
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  Speaker 1: got mine. Our eyeballs fell out of our heads. Only 30%
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  Speaker 1: of it was for the cost of the electricity. The
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  Speaker 1: other 70% were all taxes, most of which were going
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  Speaker 1: to the state. She controls that. And he pounded away
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  Speaker 1: on that affordability, which is of key concern. The issue
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  Speaker 1: that Hoku has been convinced is an easy pass to victory.
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  Speaker 1: is just campaign against Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Treat Bruce Blakeman as if he's Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: But if you do it too much, and she did
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  Speaker 2: it way too much. 44 times she mentioned it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so if you do it all the time, after a
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  Speaker 2: while people start rolling their eyes because they go, unless
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  Speaker 2: you are a really blue Democrat, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: If you are really into the Democratic Party, you love
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. That's red meat for you. But other people,
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  Speaker 2: especially any of the undecideds and some of the moderates
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  Speaker 2: and maybe even some of the Republicans that are be
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  Speaker 2: willing to go over after a while, they're going to go.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. Everything was attached to Trump. Now, Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: to his credit, only went at Zoran about six times.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine 44 times Trump. That's whole cool. Blakeman mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Zoran as the negative factor attached to Kathy Hochul six times,
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  Speaker 1: which was appropriate. And so he didn't make the whole debate, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're Zoran, mini me for Zoran, whereas all Hochul kept
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  Speaker 1: mentioning was Trump, Trump-like phrases. You're just like Trump. You
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  Speaker 1: worship Trump. You think Trump is the greatest president who
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  Speaker 1: ever lived in our life. It's like, enough, lady.
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  Speaker 5: Enough.
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  Speaker 1: We get it. He already said, Trump is my friend.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need anything more. We know he supports Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Trump supports him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he didn't hide from it. He didn't hide from
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  Speaker 2: it the entire time, which is really good. That's a
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  Speaker 2: smart strategy. Because if you try to hide from it,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the defensive. I thought what was really interesting,
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  Speaker 2: because I thought he might stay away from this because
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  Speaker 2: of ICE. But it was just the opposite. He went
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  Speaker 2: really after her about all the money she spent on
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  Speaker 2: illegals and all of the crimes that illegals have committed
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  Speaker 2: in this state. As a matter of fact, I just
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  Speaker 2: told you that the RNC is sharing this stuff. The
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  Speaker 2: one that is getting the most attention, it might be
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  Speaker 2: a little surprising to you, is this.
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  Speaker 4: Governor Hochul, under your sanctuary policies, a 14-year-old girl was
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  Speaker 4: raped recently here in New York State by an illegal migrant.
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  Speaker 4: Four Irondequoit residents were killed recently by an illegal migrant.
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  Speaker 4: Two of those victims were children under the age of five.
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  Speaker 4: Two Nassau County women in their 30s were killed by
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  Speaker 4: an illegal migrant because of your sanctuary policies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it off there because he goes on.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing how long they let him go on in that.
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  Speaker 2: But then he said to her afterwards, do you apologize
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  Speaker 2: to those families for making this a sanctuary state? And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we talked about how low energy she was.
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  Speaker 2: Her answer was abysmal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, any crime is.
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  Speaker 1: Heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 3: There's a family left with a huge hole in their heart.
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  Speaker 3: And I abhor all crimes, regardless of the perpetrator.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what he was saying. He was saying
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  Speaker 2: your policies are responsible for these crimes, and you treat
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  Speaker 2: people that are here illegally, giving them billions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, better than you treat the people of New York.
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  Speaker 2: And she never answered that question.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, that was the first question out of the
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  Speaker 1: docket from the moderators, who I thought did a very
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  Speaker 1: good job. Errol Lewis and the young lady who was
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  Speaker 1: from the Albany Bureau said, They didn't interfere many times.
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  Speaker 1: They let them talk to one another, go at one another,
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  Speaker 1: even in the lightning round, let them go on and on,
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  Speaker 1: then yes or no. You know, sometimes the moderators try
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  Speaker 1: to steal the show. So I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: very good job. They were reserved. But Kathy Hochul was
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Kathy. There's no doubt about it. You remember Jeb Bush,
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Jeb Bush. She was low-energy Kathy Hochul. She could
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  Speaker 1: have used a few of your cups of coffee. There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Or something. Shoot her up with something next time.
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  Speaker 1: But their first question out of the box was... the
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  Speaker 1: situation involving the illegal Dominican in Marble Hill, ICE, and
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  Speaker 1: that opened up immediately right out of the box, because
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  Speaker 1: that's when most people, if they're watching it, are going
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: That should be a slam dunk for Hochul. If she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go after ICE and she wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: those constituents on her side, that should have been a
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  Speaker 2: slam dunk. Instead, she fumbled. She sounded weak. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: sound like a governor. That's for sure. That's not somebody
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  Speaker 2: you want in charge.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, again, her situation is she was riding
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  Speaker 1: that pony up in Saratoga, the Trump pony.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Because
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  Speaker 1: she knows his negatives are high. So, for instance... like
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman wisely didn't say Zoran as many times as Hochul
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  Speaker 1: said Trump. Remember, Hochul 44 times she said Trump in
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  Speaker 1: the debate. Blakeman six because he happens to be the
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  Speaker 1: most popular Democrat in the New York State now, Zoran Mondavi.
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  Speaker 2: More popular than Donald Trump. When you look at the
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  Speaker 2: polls outside of New York City, New York City skews
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  Speaker 2: those polls so much because after you said that, I
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  Speaker 2: started looking into it. When you look at it outside
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  Speaker 2: of New York City, some of the polls, he's under 40%.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the polls, he's a low 40% when you
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  Speaker 2: go out. So he knows that. He knows that Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: is not as popular outside of New York City. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he basically has to give up on.
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  Speaker 1: New York City.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: If he can win Erie County, which will be tough
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  Speaker 1: because that's the second biggest block because remember, That's where
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul is from. I'm the Buffalo girl. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: lived in a trailer park and I worked in a pizzeria.
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  Speaker 1: Enough of that already. If he can win Erie County,
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  Speaker 1: then he's got a chance at an upset. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: a tough one because that's her backyard. But he's got
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  Speaker 1: to get at least 30, 32 percent of the vote
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  Speaker 1: in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if life was fair, he would
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  Speaker 2: absolutely win it.
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  Speaker 1: And up next. You know, this is the month of
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  Speaker 1: the black cats. Nobody wants black cats because of superstition.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that are left in the shelters the most.
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  Speaker 1: But a missing cat was found after 571 days. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy is going to go.
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  Speaker 2: See it all. I don't know what the record is
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  Speaker 2: for a lost pet coming home, but this has got
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  Speaker 2: to be close to being a record. It's happened in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: It's a cat named Turtle. I love the name. It's
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful cat, too. It's a black cat with longer
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  Speaker 2: hair that they got because somebody in Tennessee was just
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  Speaker 2: trying to get rid of the cat. And so they
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  Speaker 2: went and they got it and they brought it to Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously they're animal lovers and they love cats. And
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  Speaker 2: the woman named Kelly Moore opened the door shortly after
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  Speaker 2: they got it. Shortly after they got the cat, she
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  Speaker 2: opened her door, and she just opened the screen door
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  Speaker 2: a smidgen, and it ran. It was gone. And she
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  Speaker 2: was sick about it because she said it was absolutely
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  Speaker 2: her fault.
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  Speaker 3: I cried so many nights, and I felt so responsible
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  Speaker 3: because not being aware of the storm roar, and we
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  Speaker 3: were really brokenhearted.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you didn't hear that in the beginning, she
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  Speaker 2: said she cried so many nights, and apparently she just
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  Speaker 2: stayed distraught. Every once in a while, you would see
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  Speaker 2: the cat. As a matter of fact, they went and
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  Speaker 2: found something called Rocket Lost Pet Rescue to show up,
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  Speaker 2: and they put cameras all around the house, and the
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  Speaker 2: cat kept coming back and just looking around the yard
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  Speaker 2: and then taking off again. So it was unusual. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that kind of unusual for it to keep coming back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very unusual. But imagine, what was it, 571 days away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I was getting to. I mean, they gave
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  Speaker 1: up on it after a while. 571 days. That's over
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half that it was missing. So
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  Speaker 1: they had really given up on it. And then there
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  Speaker 1: was a, in.
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  Speaker 2: Westchester County, New York, at a town in Westchester County,
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  Speaker 2: there was an ad in the paper saying, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: found this cat. If it's yours, come get it. And
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  Speaker 2: people that knew her story passed it on to her.
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  Speaker 2: They went down there to find it, and she had
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  Speaker 2: a chip in the cat. And so she was able
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  Speaker 2: to identify it, and they got their cat back after
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  Speaker 2: 571 days. And this cat was seen in three different states.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this cat's not supposed to be domesticated, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. They're happy.
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  Speaker 6: If this can happen, anything can happen.
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  Speaker 7: It's so wonderful, and I'm so happy to have him back.
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  Speaker 2: She's a cat lover, you can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. I know my wife, Nancy, who tends to
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  Speaker 1: feral cats outdoors, and obviously the cats we have indoors,
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  Speaker 1: going to love sharing this with all of her friends.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, you would think your cat, we lost
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  Speaker 1: one cat in all these years named Dropfoot. I actually
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  Speaker 1: tried to capture Dropfoot in a rainstorm for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: It just wanted to be away. And to this day,
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  Speaker 1: we're both plagued by that, that loss of Dropfoot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, if you want to see
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  Speaker 2: this story, you can watch it on YouTube. It was
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  Speaker 2: done by Eyewitness News. So nice job going all the
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  Speaker 2: way up to Greenwich to get that story. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: I thought Bruce won the debate last night, but I
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  Speaker 5: really wanted him to open up the show by saying
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  Speaker 5: the Democrats have been holding the governor's mansion for the
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  Speaker 5: last 24 years, yet they're complaining that there are still problems. Well,
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  Speaker 5: if they can't fix the problem in the last 24
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  Speaker 5: years that they have been in control of the governor's mansion,
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  Speaker 5: then it's time for a change. That's what I think
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  Speaker 5: he should have started with.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. That is good.
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  Speaker 8: I just wanted to comment on Larry saying you don't
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  Speaker 8: think Blakeman can win.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you? Just stay positive for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the month, please. Thank you. I said, I hope he wins.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see him win. I said he
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  Speaker 2: won the debate going away and that if it was
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  Speaker 2: a fair world, he'd win. But you've got to look
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  Speaker 2: at reality sometimes. He's behind. Let's see what the next
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  Speaker 2: poll says.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, how unfair of her to say
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  Speaker 1: that about you. You've been boasting his candidacy, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 1: And he kept getting in. The one thing that Zeldin wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: or even Stefanik wasn't, their pro-life... Hey, I'm pro-choice. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pro-choice because he needs more female voters. Without that, he loses.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, because it's overwhelming, the gender difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I hope he won some people over. No,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you say, how dare you, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: talking reality. I can't... go too far off the farm,
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  Speaker 2: off the reality farm. But listen, I'm with you. I
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  Speaker 2: want him to win, and I will keep saying that
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  Speaker 2: he is the best candidate. But I have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the polls and look at past elections and look
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  Speaker 2: at the registration in New York and face reality as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure he knows that. Let's get the news
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  Speaker 2: now at 6.30 with Daria Albinger. Daria. Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 6: Chance for a midday or afternoon shower. We'll see a
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  Speaker 6: high of 78 degrees. The NYPD is looking for a
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  Speaker 6: masked suspect after an early morning attack in a Manhattan
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  Speaker 6: subway station.
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  Speaker 7: Cops say a 40-year-old man was stabbed multiple times at
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  Speaker 7: the Astor Police Station just before 2.30 a.m. The victim
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  Speaker 7: was on the northbound platform of the No. 6 train
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  Speaker 7: at the time of the attack. He was taken to
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  Speaker 7: Bellevue Hospital in stable condition as investigators try to figure
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: out what led up to the attack. The suspect has
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: been described as a masked man who fled the station.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Immigration was a major focus of the one and only
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: debate between Governor Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: If you cooperate with federal law enforcement, it makes for
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: a safer community.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: That's what I did.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul has taken that ability away from us.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: That's why things like this happen.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: He refused to condemn what ICE did. So he basically
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: says in the state of New York, he'd be fine
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: if ICE agents shoot into cars.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: They also faced off over taxes, data centers and affordability.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: President Trump will be out on the campaign trail again
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: today with stops in Arizona and Montana. The city council
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: is expected to vote next week to ban carriage horses
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: from Central Park. Mayor Mamdani backs the bill, which includes
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: job training for drivers who will need a new.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Source of income.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: The Vatican says Pope Leo had a restful night at
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Gemelli Hospital following his diagnosis of lung cancer. The 71-year-old
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Chicago-born pontiff had surgery yesterday to remove part of his lung,
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: where a small growth was found to be malignant. And
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: North Korea is reportedly using more Americans to hack U.S.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Companies.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: The Justice Department says it's made at least two dozen
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: arrests of people operating so-called laptop farms. That's where employees
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: use company-provided computers to steal sensitive data from their employer. Devils, rangers,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: and islanders all won. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Daria. The New York City Council, what frauds.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: They are outcrowing that. They're going to ban horse-drawn carriages.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: They should never have been around. Well, you're the ones
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: that let it happen year after year after year after year.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: But you know who was saying this should happen for years?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: The man I'm sitting next to. Curtis is going to
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: talk about that when we come back.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Glory, hallelujah. When I heard the words late in the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: morning yesterday after the show, Larry, I immediately left my
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: bag here. In the studios of the number one most
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: listened to talk radio station in New York, 710 WOR.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I don't often do that because I just wanted to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: go into Central Park. and talk to every one of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the horses who are still attached to a carriage, you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: because they sit there very sullen, their heads are down,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: they're very depressed. And even though the horse carriage drivers,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: they scream at me now, most are Turks now. They
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: used to be all Irish. They're mostly Turks now. And
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you may have remembered that one video. You'll never be mayor.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: People hate you. Get out of here.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Get away from my horse.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And remember, I was drinking from the trough. I said,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the horses can't even get fresh water. They have to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: drink swill. They got so, so much attention. And I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: just petted the horses, you know, and I said, hold
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: on for another two years. Because in 2028, there will
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: no longer be horse-drawn carriages in Central Park or anywhere
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in the city of New York. So you just got
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to hold on because this deal that's been made with
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Zoran Mandami, who was a latecomer to this, remember in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the last election cycle, at the very end, public popular
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: opinion was actually siding with me, as opposed to 2021
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: when I ran against Eric Adams. Everybody laughed at me,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you animal lover. The editorials and the Times, the News,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the Post were... Really demeaning. And then all of a sudden, 2025,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: at the very end in the last month, Cuomo came
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: on board. Adams came on board. And yes, Zoran Mandami
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: came on board. I didn't think he would do anything,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: but he joined with Julie Mennon, who is the only
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: person who could do something because this had to be
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: voted on by the city council. Years ago, Bill de
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Blasio claimed that he was going to ban the horse
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: carriage industry when he was running for mayor. All the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: animal welfare people, you know how they love animals. They'll
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: give more money for animal welfare than for people welfare.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: They flooded his campaign with cash, which propelled him to victory.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Then he got inaugurated. They said, well, where's your executive pen?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Through executive order, you're going to discontinue this barbaric behavior.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: He said, oh, it's the city council that has to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: do it and never did anything more. So finally, they
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: got the votes. They must have worked on these different
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: city council people. I know who they are, who resisted.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention their names because the victory
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: is here. And she probably threatened them with holding discretionary funds,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: which is the mother's milk of a politician. So they
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: can go back to their district and say, hey, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing you all of this courtesy of me. When
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in fact, it's us, the taxpayers. So it is a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: momentous occasion because I don't want to take any credit
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: for this. This actually, as I mentioned, and nobody else
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: out there ever mentions it, started in the studios at WOR.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: with a man who was credited with founding talk radio,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: this thing of ours that we love so much, Barry Gray. Remember,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he's the first person ever to take a phone call.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And after that, the suits at WRC, that's a pretty
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: damn good thing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe you ought to do it on a regular basis.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: In the 60s and 70s, he did mid mornings at WMCA,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: WOR constantly. We need to ban the horse carriage industry,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: ban it. Nothing was done. Bill de Blasio faked everybody out. 2021,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: they made fun of me, and now we're going to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: see the end of it. Imagine, this was the first
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: city that began the effort to stop this barbaric practice,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and will probably be the last city to end it,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and that includes in the world.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: But let's give some credit to people in general. I
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: don't think, if you didn't get the masses behind this,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and I think it's changed, the polling has already showed
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: that it's dramatically changed. You pointed that out a second ago,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that Nobody was doing anything when you were talking about
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: it at first. As a matter of fact, they probably
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: thought you were crazy. There were editorials putting you down
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: for even saying that. What has happened is that because
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: of you and because of Barry Gray, people started paying
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: attention to the issue. And it was the people that changed.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: When horse after horse was dying, when horse after horse
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: was running rampant through the streets and terrorizing people that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: were walking on the streets, they're was slowly a feeling
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: that maybe this isn't the best thing to have in
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: an overpopulated city, in a city where there's people every
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: single day that are in these horses' way, that they're
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: unpredictable and anything can happen. It was case after case
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: after case that was building. And I'll be honest with you,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I was one of those people. I thought, wow, you
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: don't want to get rid of the carriages in Central Park.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: They're iconic. It's part of the landscape.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You were in the majority at that time.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. But I think I was in that
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: majority that changed in story after story after story after story.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And I didn't change until recently. And I think a
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: lot of people changed recently when that young boy was killed,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the tourist that was killed in Central Park just this year.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So listen– Um, I applaud you because you saw this
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a long time ago and I applaud everybody who saw
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: it a long time ago, but I, I do know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and it's not going to be voted on now. It's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: probably going to take about a month. No, no, actually
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: it's October 22nd next, uh, next week.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, really? Yeah. I've been invited to come.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We'll see if they let me in the last time
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: they took my microphone away.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Remember?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: That was still one of my favorite videos. The hand
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: coming out of nowhere.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, October 22nd because I had heard somebody, oh, it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: not going to take effect for a long time.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: No, not until 2028. Now, what they're going to do is,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: because obviously they're men and women who that's how they
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: earn their living, they're going to seek other terms of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: employment for them until 2028. I had the better plan.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to go with it. There is a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: benefactor down in Florida who collected all these shitty bang-bang cars.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: He said, I'll electrify them. Remember from the movie Dick
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Van Dyke, Chitty Bang Bang? There are people who would
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: love to be in a Chitty Bang Bang car and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: go around Central Park electric, safe. We got to do
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: something with the pedicabs up next because they're out of control.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: You want to hear from one of your favorite people?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Christina Hansen.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, I would hope that the city council members have,
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: you know. that they remember why they came to government
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: and that that was to help people, not hurt people.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: This bill will be devastating for carriage drivers and carriage owners.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: People will be evicted. People will lose their houses. They
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: have mortgages and bills they need to pay. They have children.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: She's with the TWU. That's not show because they're giving
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: them two years. They're going to segue them into other work.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They're going to compensate the owners. Everybody will be made
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: whole at taxpayers expense and, But it's time. It's time
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that it's over. And I'm going back into Central Park today,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: talk to the horses. You know, I talk to the horses,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and they listen to me. I'm saying, hold on, pal.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Hold on to 2028. Oh, man.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: When we come back, well, the Pope, see, he went
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: in for something on his lung, and he ended up
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: in there a lot longer than they thought he was
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: going to be in there because they found him. Well,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: they found the beginnings of something really bad, but we
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: should have an expert talk about that. The great Dr.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Gil Lederman.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Right, who saved my voice. Sunday night, or I would
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: never have been able to appear with you and Natalie.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I had no voice. The only one who's upset about
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: that is my wife, Nancy, who appreciated two days of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: me not being able to talk Saturday and Sunday in
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the house.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Each and every... Well, as soon as we heard that
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Pope Leo had to undergo surgery because of possible lung cancer.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: We knew who to go to, the expert, the best
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: in the country, Dr. Gil Lederman, host of the Radio
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Surgery New York at midnight and also on the weekends. Dr. Lederman,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: what do we know about the procedure he went through
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and what can we all learn from it?
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Larry. Thank you for having me on the show.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: So on the weekend, we heard that he had a
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: small nodule in the lung. No other news. We weren't
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: told if he had a biopsy, if he had a
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: PET scan, if he had bronchoscopy. Only there was a
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: small nodule in the lung. So we know that it's
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: a small nodule in the lung, supposedly. And then yesterday
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: at Camelli Hospital, which is one of the leading hospitals
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: in Rome, he had his entire right lower lobe of
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: his lung removed for adenocarcinoma. So that's what we know
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: right now. At least that's what the public knows. That's
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: what I know and you know now. So there's lots
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: of remaining issues. Number one, did they do a biopsy?
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: Did they do a PET scan? Is this a cancer
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: that's traveled? Has it gone to the lymph nodes? Has
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: it gone to the bone or the lung? Or is
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: it only just this tiny little cancer that was removed
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: by removing the entire right lower lobe? So that's what
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: we know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Dr. Lederman, this is Curtis. You had mentioned when you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: were kind enough to join us Monday when the news
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: broke that the typical procedure might cause them to have
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to deflate the lung for upwards of a week before
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: there can be recovery. Is that your concept right now
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: based on more of the information that you have available?
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: Well, yeah, because the lung is like a balloon. If
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: you go up and cut out a quarter of the
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: balloon or a third of the balloon... The balloon's no
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: longer the balloon. And so, yes, he's probably in the
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: ICU at Gamali Hospital with a chest tube in, and
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: that chest tube is hooked up to a gizmo to
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: suck out all that air that got in. the right
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: lung cavity. So presumably his lung was sewed up, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: they're going to suck out all the extra air to
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: reinflate the right lung. It's kind of a painful procedure
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: to be a normal person all of a sudden being
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: stuck on a ventilator or on a chest tube in
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: the ICU. and usually takes about a week to reinflate
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: the lung, and then the chest tube is removed, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: hopefully the lung stays up, and he goes home, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: then he goes on the next step, which is to
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: see if the cancer's traveled. If it was in my practice,
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: things would have been different. At least we would have
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: spoken to him about the possibility of a biopsy without
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: removing the right lower lobe. His entire right lower lobe
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: was removed, which means he'll have less exercise capacity. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: think he's a very active pope, he's very physically active,
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: and he'll probably notice a diminishment in his ability to
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: breathe and exercise normally. There were options for him. In
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: my view, on the little knowledge I know, if there
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: was a small tumor, and it's only a small tumor,
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: he could have had non-invasive treatment, and non-invasive treatments such
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: as radiosurgery. We treat thousands. I've, in fact, treated 40,000
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: patients with non-invasive treatment, specifically for this syndication. Adenocarcinoma of
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: the lung, small nodule, in a person who just does
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: not want to go through surgery, does not want to
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: be in the hospital, does not want a chest tube,
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: doesn't want to lose a third of his right lung.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, Pope Leo's older brother, we're now learning, also has cancer.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: He's been getting treatment for a type of blood cancer,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: multiple myeloma. Is that just a coincidence or is it
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: common that if one member of a family has cancer,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: other members might be susceptible or may also have cancer?
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: I can tell you that in my practice, I always
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: ask people if they smoke and then I always ask
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: them if they had secondhand smoke. And in my experience,
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: which is shocking, but I'm actually going and producing a
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: study now, many people will tell me, no, they don't smoke.
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: And actually, they were ex-smokers. Many people tell me they
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: had no secondhand smoke. Then I'll ask them, but did
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: your parents smoke at home? And at that point, most
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: people right now are telling me their parents smoked at
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: home when they were children, which is a very vulnerable
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: stage for us. And to have two cancers, it may
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: well be that his parents smoked at home. And smoking
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: can increase cancers, so many cancers, smoking, even secondhand smoke,
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: lung cancers, esophageal cancer. prostate cancers, bladder cancers, kidney cancers,
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: and heart disease. So much could be done. So it's
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: certainly possible. And I'm actually trying to do a search
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: about the beloved Pope, but they don't talk anything about
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: smoking history. So we don't know really about that, and
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: we don't know about his parents.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Lederman, I can't recommend your services more highly. You cared
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: for my dad, my mom, me, and I've just known
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you for so many years. So for people out there
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who want to learn more and find out all these
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: alternatives that Dr. Gil Lederman has become an expert in
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the field of. And, of course, you can hear Dr.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman at midnight right here on 710WOR and on
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the weekends. Thanks again for this great update, Dr. Lederman,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: on the health of the Pope.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: God bless you, and God bless the Pope, and I
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: hope he lives to be 120. And a better phone number,
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: by the way, is 212-CHOICES. 212-CHOICES comes right to our office,
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: and it's easy to remember. 212-CHOICES.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: We appreciate that. It's 7 o'clock. Up next, Cornell. There
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: are updates, but first, the news. All right.