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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, Curtis isn't here today. He had an event late
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  Speaker 1: last night. Knowing Curtis, he's not sleeping, though. Knowing Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably listening right now. Hi, Curtis. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: He picked a good day, though. How about that? What
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  Speaker 1: is it? What did they say?
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  Speaker 2: 82?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be 82. I bet you we're
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  Speaker 3: going to find him down at the beach. We're just
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  Speaker 3: going down the shore.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Curtis? Does Curtis still wear the beret when he goes
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  Speaker 1: to the beach? I don't know. I'm sure he does.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. I'm sure he wears the satin
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  Speaker 1: jacket and the beret and he walks along all the
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  Speaker 1: slightly clad people. I was going to say nude, but
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  Speaker 1: that's not true. Slightly clad people.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, what beaches are you going to?
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  Speaker 1: Sandy Hook? One time I happened upon there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be, are you going down to shore?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 8: I am not.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I was actually, but I'm going to the
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  Speaker 3: Harry Styles concert tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 9: Yes!
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  Speaker 1: And your daughter's already been a couple times?
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  Speaker 3: She's been to two already. This will be number three.
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  Speaker 3: She's got a couple of more later.
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  Speaker 1: She must be rich.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, she's got some connections, some friends. She's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say, well, you got to say.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 8: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: One, some friends gave more tickets for her birthday. And then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it was a whole bunch of different things.
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  Speaker 1: Plus, you know, if you love somebody that much, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go to concerts, you go to see
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  Speaker 1: them a couple of times. You don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: to see other people.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you don't know, he has a 30
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  Speaker 3: night residency here at Madison square garden.
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  Speaker 5: So this is your probably only opportunity to ever do this.
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  Speaker 5: And I said to her, cause she said, is this
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  Speaker 5: a little ridiculous? I said, Yeah, probably. But why not?
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 5: You're young and have fun. This is great. You'll remember
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  Speaker 5: this for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. A thousand percent.
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  Speaker 11: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand percent. It's this age when you get to
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  Speaker 1: do these type of things. It's later in life that
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  Speaker 1: you get boring.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And if she was 50 and doing this, I'd
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  Speaker 3: be like, but to tell you the truth, I actually
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  Speaker 3: know a 50 year old woman who's several who are
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  Speaker 3: doing the same exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll Harry Styles fan.
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  Speaker 7: I am.
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  Speaker 6: You are?
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  Speaker 7: I am. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're going to have a great time and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be with your daughter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What a great night that's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it might rain tonight.
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  Speaker 5: It's okay. We don't care.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll be inside.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: One of the first concerts I ever took to, well,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't the first one, but we went to go
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  Speaker 3: see One Direction together. And that's, he was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the boy band, he was 16 years old at the time.
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  Speaker 5: So it's kind of like full circle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a big mother-daughter thing. You know what, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to tell us about your favorite concert, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to hear about that. I gotta, let me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give all the information at the end. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you who give talkbacks all the time, you already know
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  Speaker 1: the information, but there's a few things I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about here. First of all, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: Natalie and her beat on the street is going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing this today. So I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: too much about it, but I do want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the 25-year-old man who was arrested for stabbing a
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  Speaker 1: fellow rider on the J train in Queens. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like another mentally disturbed person. He was pacing back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: and he appeared agitated before approaching Messiah Lojano, 59, and
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  Speaker 1: stabbing him, and he later died. So it's an awful story.
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  Speaker 1: It's an awful story all around. But But here's what
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  Speaker 1: heartens me a little bit. That there was a person
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  Speaker 1: that saw this might happen and started videotaping the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he has this all in video. And then when
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  Speaker 1: it happened, people rushed to try to stop it and
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  Speaker 1: then ran after him. Got off the platform and ran
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  Speaker 1: after him. He had to go up on a roof
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  Speaker 1: and they filmed him on the roof. So the police
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  Speaker 1: were able to get him because of that. Doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: restore your faith in humankind? Because you hear so many
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  Speaker 1: of these stories in the subway where people look the
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  Speaker 1: other way and don't want to get involved. Here you
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  Speaker 1: had not one, but several people that got involved. And
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  Speaker 1: so hats off to them. You're wonderful human beings. It's
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  Speaker 1: a shame that somebody couldn't have stopped him before he
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  Speaker 1: did this, but I understand how quickly those things can happen.
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  Speaker 1: And God bless you. All of you. That's wonderful. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do a neck hurting turn right here because
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk a little bit about Sydney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 1: See how much of a turn was that? That's a
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  Speaker 1: big one. But I want to talk about it because
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  Speaker 1: I think she's a talented young woman. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem that people have with her, mostly women
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  Speaker 1: have with her, is that she uses her sexuality. and
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  Speaker 1: she uses it all the time. And she became more
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  Speaker 1: famous from an ad than she ever did from any
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  Speaker 1: of the movies she was in. She became famous before,
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  Speaker 1: was it American Eagle Jeans? Is that the name of it?
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  Speaker 1: American Eagle Jeans? Yeah. And when she talked about she
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  Speaker 1: has great genes and that became a huge controversy. It
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  Speaker 1: was the best thing that ever happened to American Eagle.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the best thing that ever happened to
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney. All of a sudden she became a huge star.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a new company named Novig that is
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  Speaker 1: sports betting. So they hired her because they're thinking maybe
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  Speaker 1: she could do the same for us that she did
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  Speaker 1: for American Eagle. Only in this one, she doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: any clothes on. She just uses sports equipment and her
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  Speaker 1: hair to cover the parts you can't show on TV.
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  Speaker 4: Think you know sports?
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  Speaker 2: Prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Novig is just sports.
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  Speaker 12: So they wanted to show to sports.
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  Speaker 1: And the people have come after her. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Novig loves that people, because it's in the news all
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  Speaker 1: the time now. It's Novig is being talked about all
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  Speaker 1: the time. This is exactly what they wanted. So the
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  Speaker 1: people that are upset about it are doing exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney wanted and what the company wanted. But it's
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  Speaker 1: all of these woke women that are coming after her.
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  Speaker 1: How dare she? How dare she use her sexuality? I
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  Speaker 1: thought that's what that movement was fighting for. That women
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  Speaker 1: should be able to do what they want with their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: That women should have the total control of their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: That there should be a freedom. If somebody wants to
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  Speaker 1: have sex with people, they're allowed to. If somebody wants
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  Speaker 1: to show their body, they're allowed to. How come that
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  Speaker 1: same group of women that defends the very thing that
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is doing has a problem with it once
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  Speaker 1: she does it? I really don't understand. All I know
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  Speaker 1: is that group of women that have a problem with this,
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  Speaker 1: they look silly right now because you're the one that's
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  Speaker 1: making her a star and you're the one that's going
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  Speaker 1: to help sell Novig. So exactly what they wanted happened.
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  Speaker 1: But it got me thinking, and Natalie, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to get in on this too. It got me thinking,
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  Speaker 1: what are some of the biggest and most successful endorsements
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  Speaker 1: by celebrities of all time and one immediately jumps to
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  Speaker 1: mind because one is by far the most successful and
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  Speaker 1: that is michael jordan with nike.
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  Speaker 7: I've lost almost 300 games 26 times i've been trusted
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  Speaker 7: to take the game winning shot and missed.
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  Speaker 13: Have failed over and over and over again in my life.
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  Speaker 7: And that is why I succeed.
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  Speaker 1: That ended up being a 20-year relationship, and that made
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  Speaker 1: him hundreds of millions of dollars. It made Nike billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars, and later on, they got Tiger Woods for
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  Speaker 1: golf as well, and so Nike has been brilliant at this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: another one I want to bring up, and this was
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney before there was a Sidney Sweeney. She was young.
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  Speaker 1: This was controversial. It is a Calvin Klein ad with
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  Speaker 1: Brooke Shields.
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  Speaker 4: You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins?
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  Speaker 12: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Calvin Klein jeans.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how old was she in then?
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  Speaker 5: She was too young.
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  Speaker 1: 14 or 15 or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: That's the whole thing about that ad. I mean, her mom,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this girl's 14 years old. Would you ever
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  Speaker 5: do that to your kid?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I don't think so. It
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  Speaker 1: was extremely successful.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like Sidney Sweeney, the same thing. It made her a superstar.
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  Speaker 1: She was already getting big because she was already modeling.
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  Speaker 1: But man, she took off after that. Now, I think
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  Speaker 1: those are two really good ones when you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: endorsements and the ones that have been successful. But one that, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I'm just going to play it
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  Speaker 1: because you might agree that this might even be bigger
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  Speaker 1: Bigger than the Jordan 1. Not bringing in so much money,
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  Speaker 1: but bigger at least for this athlete.
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  Speaker 14: My Joy Foreman Grills, America's favorite grilling machines, are.
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  Speaker 1: Number one on everyone's list. Moms want them. Dads want them.
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  Speaker 1: Grandmas want them. Even college kids. It's great for the
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  Speaker 1: whole family.
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  Speaker 5: I love the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: He's so good.
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  Speaker 9: This was commercial.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't he great?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know what? Everybody did want one. Moms
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  Speaker 5: wanted one. College kids wanted one.
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  Speaker 9: He was right.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody wanted one.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever have one?
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  Speaker 5: Of course I had one.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have one, Crash?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like at some point everybody had one.
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  Speaker 1: I had one and it got stolen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and it's funny.
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  Speaker 11: I had one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I used it very often, but we
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  Speaker 5: had one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd love to know from people. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: few topics on the table, but certainly I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: know from people who you think were some of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest endorsements of all time. And for that, or if
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  Speaker 1: C-Crane radio. Just a reminder, as if you couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: figured this out on your own, Curtis Lewa has the
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  Speaker 1: day off today. You know, with his schedule, the speeches
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  Speaker 1: he has to give, he just was not available for
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  Speaker 1: this morning. So, Curtis, I hope you have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, Well, a New Jersey girl has
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  Speaker 1: created a new American girl doll. A little girl did
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  Speaker 1: this all on her own. It's pretty amazing. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear from her next. Plus, a chance to hear
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder see Stevie Wonder and hear Stevie Wonder at
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  Speaker 1: a sold-out MSG concert at 825. We'll be giving away tickets. Also,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: our 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by Capital One. Relive
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  Speaker 1: all the biggest moments of that concert. And there were
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  Speaker 1: many streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu. You can go
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  Speaker 1: and watch it right now if you want. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what. If you feel like maybe you haven't done
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  Speaker 1: enough in life, I'm about to make you feel worse.
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  Speaker 11: Great.
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  Speaker 12: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: There is this 11-year-old in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Did you or Noelle, you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't because they weren't around, but with Noelle, American Girl Dolls?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Want to come up to my attic?
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  Speaker 1: Are you real? Oh, you have some?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, she kept them all.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so smart.
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  Speaker 5: And the clothes and the gadgets.
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  Speaker 1: Have you looked up how much some of them are worth?
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  Speaker 13: No.
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  Speaker 5: She wants to keep them, you know, maybe hand them
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  Speaker 5: down one day.
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  Speaker 1: What would her price be?
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  Speaker 5: Nowadays, let's see. The Harry Styles tickets were how much money?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. That's the way to convince her to sell them.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what? You can buy Harry Styles tickets. But listen
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  Speaker 1: to this little girl from Linden, New Jersey. Her name
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  Speaker 1: is Brooke Sumter. She was still in preschool when she
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  Speaker 1: became interested in fashion because she didn't like the way
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  Speaker 1: that her mom dressed her. So she decided, how about this?
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  Speaker 1: Instead of bugging her mom and saying, look, you got
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  Speaker 1: to get me different clothes. She wanted to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to make her own clothes at that age. And she
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  Speaker 1: learned sewing when she was very little and ended up
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  Speaker 1: making her own clothes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: She also loved American Girl dolls. And so she wrote
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  Speaker 1: to the company, hey, I have an idea for a
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  Speaker 1: dress and a new doll for And guess what? They said, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But this all started, like I said, a moment ago
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  Speaker 1: because of her mom.
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  Speaker 15: I didn't really like the clothes that my mom would
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  Speaker 15: pick out for me, especially for school.
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  Speaker 3: So I started paying attention of what my grandma would.
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  Speaker 16: Do on the sewing machine.
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  Speaker 1: So she has her own doll now coming out that
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  Speaker 1: she designed and she made. It's a Called Cherry Blossom,
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  Speaker 1: and there's going to be a bunch of them. There's
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  Speaker 1: going to be all these outfits, the Cherry Blossom couture.
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  Speaker 1: Is that how you say it?
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  Speaker 5: Couture, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Couture, yeah. With support and guidance from Harlem's Fashion Row.
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  Speaker 5: Everything about this story is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And listen to this. She has her own studio opening
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  Speaker 1: in a few months. She's 11.
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  Speaker 5: I want to see her in 10 years because she's
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  Speaker 5: going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to see her family.
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  Speaker 5: Who's supporting her? Who's pushing her, encouraging her? Because it's
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  Speaker 5: got to come from somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, in 10 years, this girl's going to be
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  Speaker 3: running her own company.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she has high hopes. Here's who she wants to
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  Speaker 1: design clothes for.
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  Speaker 5: Not design for. Design yourself, girl.
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  Speaker 1: No, she wants to design for these people. Give the
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  Speaker 1: girl her dreams. You ready? Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay, that way.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce.
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  Speaker 11: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Who is Tayana Taylor?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know either, but she wants to design clothes
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  Speaker 1: for her. And Tracee Ellis Ross.
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  Speaker 5: This is amazing. And you know what? She's going to
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  Speaker 5: put that out there, and these women are going to
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  Speaker 5: reach out to her. And guess what? She's going to
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  Speaker 5: be collabing very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to meet her or buy anything
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  Speaker 1: that she sells, she plans to open her own design
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  Speaker 1: studio in Union in New Jersey. In October, where she'll
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  Speaker 1: teach children and adults how to sew.
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  Speaker 5: I want to learn how to sew.
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  Speaker 1: You should go.
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  Speaker 5: I think I will.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be so cool.
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you have to do a video.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If you go there, you have to.
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  Speaker 11: Do a video.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to find out.
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  Speaker 1: In October.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get the details.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's get to your talkbacks. We played some
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  Speaker 1: ads and what were the best endorsements ever. And this
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  Speaker 1: one I forgot, but man, is it a good one.
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  Speaker 18: One celebrity endorsement that gets overlooked, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 18: to modern pop culture, would be Bob Dole, who was
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  Speaker 18: a paid spokesman for Viagra. That's a biggie.
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  Speaker 1: That was tremendous. That was a great one. That might
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  Speaker 1: be the best celebrity endorsement of all time. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it, he's watching Britney Spears. do a commercial
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  Speaker 1: for Pepsi and dancing all around. And they cut to
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  Speaker 1: him watching the TV. He's got a dog next to
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  Speaker 1: him and he pets the dog and he says, down boy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful, wonderful commercial.
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  Speaker 11: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that.
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  Speaker 19: I think one of the greatest promos was Michael Jackson
• 16:04
  Speaker 19: and Pepsi. Michael Jackson brought Pepsi back into contention with Coca-Cola.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. That's another great one. They were unbelievable ads, and
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: he made a fortune on it. So did Pepsi, though.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Pepsi made more.
• 16:19
  Speaker 13: To bring up my little Brooklynese here, haters gotta hate.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: That's just all it is.
• 16:27
  Speaker 13: Haters gotta hate.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what he's talking about. When you look that good,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: haters gotta hate. Sorry, sir, didn't mean to interrupt. He's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: talking about Sarah Sweeney and the blowback on her ad
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: where she's basically naked, but it's women that are upset
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: about it. And the same women that say, you know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: your body, your choice, they're the same women that don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: like that ad. Well, now let's get to Daria Albinger
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: with the 630 News. Daria.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: Morning, Larry.
• 16:57
  Speaker 20: I was going to say good morning, Curtis, but he's
• 16:59
  Speaker 20: not there.
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Ira.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: You can still. He'll hear you. I'm sure he's listening.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm positive.
• 17:03
  Speaker 20: All right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: He probably is.
• 17:05
  Speaker 20: Partly cloudy, warm, and humid showers later today. We'll see
• 17:08
  Speaker 20: a high of 83 degrees. President Trump with a prediction
• 17:11
  Speaker 20: on the war with Iran.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Iran, that'll be over very soon, by the way. Your
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: prices are going to.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: Come pouring down.
• 17:17
  Speaker 20: The president making that prediction while he was campaigning in
• 17:19
  Speaker 20: Oklahoma ahead of the midterms. His comments come after he
• 17:22
  Speaker 20: gave Iran a dire warning. He said, accept a fair
• 17:25
  Speaker 20: deal or, and I'm going to quote here, cease to exist.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: More U.S.
• 17:28
  Speaker 20: Troops are headed to the Middle East, including another aircraft carrier,
• 17:31
  Speaker 20: the USS Theodore Roosevelt. That would be three aircraft carriers
• 17:35
  Speaker 20: in the region. New York Governor Hochul says she's lost
• 17:38
  Speaker 20: confidence in the prosecutors involved in the alleged Cornell University
• 17:41
  Speaker 20: gang rape case, so she's taking that case out of
• 17:44
  Speaker 20: their hands. The governor has signed an executive order that
• 17:47
  Speaker 20: appoints State Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. A
• 17:51
  Speaker 20: freight train derailed in Jersey City.
• 17:53
  Speaker 21: Conrail reporting that nine cars jumped their tracks Thursday night
• 17:57
  Speaker 21: in New Jersey's second largest city. The freight train system
• 18:00
  Speaker 21: says the cars were all empty and it all happened
• 18:03
  Speaker 21: on Conrail's own property near the intersection of 10th and
• 18:06
  Speaker 21: Brunswick streets. In fact, they say no public roads or
• 18:09
  Speaker 21: crossings were impacted. Conrail is, of course, investigating. Andrew Whitman,
• 18:15
  Speaker 21: WOR News.
• 18:16
  Speaker 20: The Labor Department's September jobs report will be released this morning.
• 18:20
  Speaker 20: Most analysts are expecting a gain of about 84,000 jobs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 20: That would be down considerably from the 162,000 that were
• 18:26
  Speaker 20: created last month. Are you looking to boost your workout?
• 18:31
  Speaker 20: This might sound counterintuitive, but experts say it works. Have
• 18:35
  Speaker 20: a little treat first.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: A new study by Limitless Fitness says eating a small
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: amount of candy before a workout makes it better. They
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: say the candy is a direct boost of fast carbs,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: which gives you energy, but nutritionists say it has zero
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: nutritional value and is only a temporary fix. Sports doctors
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: say grapes, applesauce, or honey would be cleaner eating and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: gives you the same boost. But it is Halloween season,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and candy is in easy reach. I'm Bree Tennis.
• 19:01
  Speaker 20: By the way, they're saying one ounce of candy.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: One ounce.
• 19:04
  Speaker 20: That's not really much at all. Devils and Rangers win.
• 19:07
  Speaker 20: Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:10
  Speaker 20: on 710WOR.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Daria. And coming up next, a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: story that if you live in New Jersey is going
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to make you just furious. You know, we all know
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that they waste money, but this is beyond the pale.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Thank God. for the investigation of the Newark School District.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: They got an audit, and there are now criminal charges possible.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You're not going to hear this story anywhere else, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: we have all the details next. A huge story out
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: of New Jersey that you may not have heard about yet,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: but you will now over the next few weeks because
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this story is... isn't going away and i want to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: thank the dawns my wife dawn and also dawn fantasia
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: who is an assemblywoman in suffolk county she's getting extremely
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: well known and she's been yelling about this for a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a long long time the two dawns are friends and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: My wife, Dawn, is the one that passed it along
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to me, but it came from Dawn Fantasia. So thank you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: This is what she posted just yesterday on social media. Actually,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: last night. Newark Public Schools audit released. And this goes
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: from the dates of July 2022 to May of 2026.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And there are certain matters, and it says this in
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the audit, certain matters that they found have been referred
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to the Division of Criminal Justice. So there may be
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: people that are going to be indicted because of the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: way they have been running the Newark schools. We shall
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: wait and we shall find out. But let me just
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: go through some of the headlines before I get into
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the details. There were no bid contracts. So things that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be bid on, they didn't take bids.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So they allowed people to have it, allegedly giving it
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to friends or giving it to somebody that would give
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: them a kickback maybe. So they wouldn't have to take
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: bids and take somebody they didn't like. They had required
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: board approval for certain things and they ignored that. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: they wanted to run this place the way they wanted
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to run it. and the suspicion is that there was
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: corruption going on, and that's why they didn't want board approval,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and that's why they didn't want bid contracts. On many
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of the people hired, and there's 10 that are talked
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: about in the audit, they didn't do criminal background checks,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: even though they are required by law. Now, why would
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that happen? Why would you do that? If you're going
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to do criminal background checks on everybody, why would you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: skip them on certain people? And of course, the allegation
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: would be these are friends or cronies or somebody that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you want to pay off and you're giving either their
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: son or someone that they know or they themselves a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: job to pay them back for whatever they did for you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: They overstated student enrollment by a lot. So they had
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: empty seats in the classrooms and And yet they claim
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: there were people in those classrooms that weren't there. Why
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: would they do that? To get state funding. That's fraud. Yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that qualifies as fraud if they can find out that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: indeed happened. But this is a state audit I'm talking about. Also,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: improper use of state aid. So they were taking state
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: aid and spending it on things that it wasn't designated for.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: This is a whole list of trouble right here. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: this is just the beginning of a story that's going
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: before I get into some of the details, I just
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: want to say this. Can you imagine if they were
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to do this kind of audit on New York City schools?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I think you'd find the same thing. As a matter
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of fact, I would love to see New York City
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: schools an audit of the overspending, an audit of the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: unnecessary jobs. Zoran Mamdani keeps looking for money. That is
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the perfect place to look. But my feeling is, if
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you go to any big city school, especially under the Democrats,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: any big city school, you're going to see it packed
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: with with no-bid contracts. You're going to see it packed
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: with overstating student enrollment. And you're going to see it
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: packed with patronage jobs. You hear Curtis complain about this
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: all the time. All of the officials that aren't even
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: necessary that are part of the New York City education system. So,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: kudos to the state of New Jersey for doing this.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I don't usually give kudos to the state of New
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Jersey because I think it's run awfully, but this is This,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you have to say, is wonderful that they went after
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a Democratic governor, allowed a Democratic attorney general to go
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: after a Democratic city and a Democratic mayor. You don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: see that a lot. So kudos to them. And thank
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you to Dawn Fantasia, who's been pushing for something like
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: this for a long time. Let me get into some
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of the specifics, although I'm running out of time. Approximately
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: $ 566, 000 from the school's general fund Was used for an
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: employee gym.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Employee gym.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: An employee gym, not for the kids.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: For the employees.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: And I bet you if you go to those schools,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the schools that they're apparently working for and, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: the gyms are falling apart.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: They don't have good equipment.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's a brand new gym that had seven employees,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: including a full time trainer.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, I wish I had that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Also, $ 2. 5 million up front for a museum. A year
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: past its deadline with no documentation, no construction progress, no
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: expenses or updated timeline. Just $ 2. 5 million for a museum
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that doesn't exist.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: And a museum that no one would ever want to
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: go to anyway. $ 6.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: 65 million in excess state aid. Newark overstated its enrollment
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: by 128 students, which totaled up to $ 6. 65 million they
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: got by two annual submissions. So this is over two years.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: An estimated $ 18. 7 million in missing health insurance savings over
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: two years. Documents showing the required 225 review of insurance
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: options was not completed at all. So there's just $ 18. 7
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: million in missing money. I can't keep going on in this.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: We'll be talking about this a lot. But it goes
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: on and on and on and on, filled with corruption,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: filled with misappropriation of funds. And there are going to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: be people, if these turn out to be true, there
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: are going to be people that are going to spend
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: time in jail. Approximately $ 1. 14 million spent on catering over
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a two-year period, not in the cafeteria for excursions. $ 1. 14
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: million in catering. They just were using all of the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: funds that were supposed to go to students in schools
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: for their own personal use and then lying about it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are going to be in a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: lot of trouble. We'll keep following that story. In the meantime,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what about Donald Trump? He started his 32-day barnstorming campaign
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: last night. He was in Texas. He was in Oklahoma.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: We're going to tell you what he had to say.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And also, listen to this. Republicans are surging in recent polls,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and Harry Anton says it might be even better news
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: than that. We'll talk about it when we come back. Well,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the old Donald Trump is back, man. He loves being
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: on the campaign trail. I don't know if you saw
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: him in Oklahoma last night, but wow. First of all,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the crowd loved him. Of course, it's Oklahoma. It's all Republicans,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: but he was on the top of his game and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it was fun to watch him. And as far as
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: all the people that just love to put down Donald
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Trump and question, oh my God, why is he in Oklahoma?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Why is he going to Alabama? This is a big mistake.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It could cost them the midterms. Cost them the midterms?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Are you serious? First of all, you go to Oklahoma
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and you go to Alabama, even though the races aren't
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: as close as in some states that you really have
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: to win. Because for two things, those other states you
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: want to go to closer to election time to really
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: inspire the Republican base to get out and vote. Because
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: if the entire Republican base gets out and vote, Or
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: let's just say 70% of them get out and vote.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: The turnout usually for the midterms, although this midterm is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: going to be a little bit higher, the turnout normally
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: for the midterms is much lower than in the presidential race.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And that's going to be the case this time. Even
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: though it might be bigger than normal, it's still going
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to be lower than the presidential election. So the important thing,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: more than anything else, even more important than the independents,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is getting out your base. And that's why the president
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: in office off time loses the House or the Senate
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: or both because anger fuels the other side. And so
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Democrats are inspired. He needs to get the Republicans inspired.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So why did he go to Oklahoma? And why did
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he go to Alabama? Because it's a national campaign. It's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: going to get covered. nationally. And he knows this will
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be played in all those other states you're talking about.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So if you want to have the best showing for
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: what's going to turn out to be a Trump and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the Republican TV commercial played all across the country on
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that networks, you want the most loving crowds. You want
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the best situation possible. And so Alabama and Oklahoma are
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: going to be the stage for what in essence is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a Donald Trump and Republican commercial. And so that's why
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it makes sense. It's just people that really want to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: attack Donald Trump on anything. You know, oh, it's so stupid.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Why is he going to Oklahoma? They have no close
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: races there. Just think. Think it out. So if he's
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: not a stupid person and the strategists aren't stupid and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee isn't stupid, they're doing it for
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a reason. And the reason is they know it's going
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to be played across the country. And we're going to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: talk about it here in New York. But you got
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to get out and vote.
• 30:27
  Speaker 12: But I really came here to pay my respect to
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: a place, really to a place that I love and
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: I appreciate.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So that's why I'm here. And it was a love fest.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It was a love fest from the very beginning. And listen,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump knows that among the MAGA base, he has 98%
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: not only approval, but love. I mean, they would do
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: anything for this man. The mega base is very supportive
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. And because of that, he doesn't want
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to get he doesn't want the message to get lost
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that this could affect him. This could cause his impeachment.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: And so this is what he says. You've heard him
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: say this before, but he's going to say this over
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and over and over again.
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: And in this election, I'm asking you to just, here's
• 31:19
  Speaker 12: what happened. We do great when I'm on the ballot.
• 31:22
  Speaker 12: When I'm not on the ballot, people don't go and
• 31:24
  Speaker 12: vote so much. Pretend I'm running, please.
• 31:27
  Speaker 22: Just pretend.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's important. You've got to think, if you're a Republican,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you're doing this for Donald Trump. Because that's what inspires
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Republicans the most. He did talk about some issues, by
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the way. He talked about Iran. And he said something
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: interesting that I hadn't heard him say before.
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: But we stayed longer because we didn't want to have
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: a short-term victory. We don't want to leave that mess
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: to another president that wouldn't do what we did because
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: other presidents should have done this a long time before
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: I came along.
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: Now, think of that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: No other president would have done that. Not one. Not one.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Every one of them would have pulled out early so
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't mess up the midterm elections. But he's not.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: He has a goal. He wants to make sure they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: don't have nuclear weapons, and he's going to stay in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: there just One last thing before we get to the news.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: The Republicans are surging in the polls. They are now
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: ahead in Maine. They've pulled to a tie in Michigan.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And in Maine, Susan Collins is up 2%. But remember,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Republicans always, always, always underperform in the polls. Sometimes by
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: as many as nine points is what happened in 2024
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in states like Iowa and Michigan. So when you see
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the polls, just add a few points to it for
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the Republicans. Well, we want to get back to that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Cornell case. It's a national case right now, and it's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: starting a movement across the country. The students held a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: town hall, and man, were they angry. We'll have all
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the details coming up right after this 7 o'clock news. Well,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul released what can only be called a seething
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: statement about the rape at Cornell University, I should say,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the alleged gang rape at Cornell University. And she has
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: appointed a special prosecutor, and the special prosecutor is New
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: York Attorney General Letitia James.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: Uh-oh.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Cornell's in some problems. But in the statement she released,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: she was really searing about the way Cornell handled the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: rape investigation. And also the way that the Tompkins County
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: District Attorney chose not to prosecute or even investigate further
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: alleged sexual assault. They just based everything on what Cornell
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: University told them. So she wrote in her statement, this has,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in turn, undercut my faith and the public's faith in
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the District Attorney's ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: case itself. At this time, you remember this attorney, this
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: district attorney was working with the university and the university
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: had a statement from the victim that he claims that
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: he never saw.
• 34:24
  Speaker 23: And she says, quote, I can say with 100 percent
• 34:28
  Speaker 23: confidence I was raped.
• 34:29
  Speaker 17: That wasn't information that I had, first of all. Second
• 34:33
  Speaker 17: of all, that is a legal conclusion. If she had
• 34:36
  Speaker 17: said those words, we certainly would want to have explored
• 34:39
  Speaker 17: that more.
• 34:40
  Speaker 23: Well, according to the transcript, she did say those words.
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: Well, like I said, that wasn't provided to me.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So you dropped the investigation at that point? You must
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: have gone only with what Cornell University supplied you. Because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: had you interviewed Jane Doe, the accuser yourself, she could
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: have said the exact same thing to you. So although
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I don't like Letitia James taking over the case because
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I think everything is political with her and it's going
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to be political ambition first and the victim and Cornell
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: University second and a far third, but I do believe
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: there needed to be a special prosecutor on this case
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because clearly This district attorney was way over his head.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And Cornell University, it sounds like, just bullied him and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: didn't give him the information they needed. But Cornell University,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: now they have given up everything. They've said, yes, we're
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: going to help. We're going to do everything we need
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to do. They know they're in trouble at this point.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: They know how bad this looks. I want to talk
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: about what happened at Cornell university last night, but I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: also want to get into the fact that this, you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: when the horrible thing like this happens, many times it
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: calls attention to something that deserves attention, an issue that
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: deserves attention because now women are coming out from across
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the country. And at that town hall at Cornell last
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: night saying something like this happened to me, that it
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: happened at my university. So this is pervasive. This isn't
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: an isolated incident at Cornell University. This is going to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: be the start of stories happening across the country. And
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing because it's going to bring necessary change.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Did you want to say something?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: No, I agree with you because I have been seeing
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: on my social media feed women from all over the country,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: all types of life, age talking about their experience with this.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: And it's not always at universities. Sometimes it was at
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: a convention, a vacation, when they were 14, when they
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: were 44. And the only good thing that could come
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: out of this is that other women realized they were
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: not the only one that this happened to and that
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: it's okay to say something. Because there were some women
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: who were holding their stories for 30, 40 years.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. It is tough to admit to that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: She was counseled. The Jane Doe was counseled. Don't come forward.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: And a lot of the women will admit, I was drunk,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: so I thought it was my fault because I put
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: myself in the situation where I wasn't 100% in the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: moment and could do something about it. But that's not,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: being drunk does not give anybody the right to rape someone.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Well, in New York State it does. We'll talk about
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that as well. There's a law that allows that. They're
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: trying to change that now. So a lot of good
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: is coming from this horrible story. And you talked about
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: women coming forward. There is a woman, a very brave woman,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: who's came forward. Her name's Liv Reinertsen. And she went
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to a purchased college, a SUNY college. And it was
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: there that she says almost immediately when she got to college,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: she was raped.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: So I was supposed to be living in a bedroom
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: right next door to my rapist. And so my only
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: ask from the university was that he would be removed
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: from that housing assignment. And they told me that they
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: couldn't do that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So she was living next to her rapist and she
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: was not pressing charges and She didn't want to make
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: this difficult for anybody, actually. She just wanted to go
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: on with her life. But she said to the university,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: could you just do me a favor and move him
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: out of the building that I'm in? I don't want
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to see him every day. He was right next door
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in the dorm. I don't want to see this man
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: every day. And they said they couldn't do that. I...
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I got a feeling these are stories that we're going
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to be hearing every day from across the country. And
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it's sickening. It is absolutely sickening that people are sending
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: their daughters to these universities and they're not being protected.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And it's, I'm so happy this story has come forward.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: And I feel horrible for what happened to this young lady,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: but I'm so happy that she's suing Cornell University because
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: across the country, good things are going to happen from this.
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: I agree.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: And just women telling their stories is a good thing.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they've been living in silence and many have
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: been living in pain. And so they finally get to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: deal with this. They get to see Jane Doe as
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: a sort of Joan of Arc that they can say, well,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: wait a second. She came out. I can come out.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I can come out. Now, I know that she's going
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: by Jane Doe, but she still is suing Cornell University.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And that her name is going to come out eventually
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: as they as they go through this. But she she
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: couldn't live with this anymore. her attorney says, couldn't live
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: with this anymore and said, I don't want this to
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: happen to somebody else. And so she's come forward with
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: her case. And my feeling is there's worse cases all
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: across the country that we don't know about yet, but
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: you know what? We're going to know about it. And
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you just talked about a second ago about just because
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: you're drunk, that doesn't give someone the right to rape you.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And yet in New York, And it's been very difficult
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: to get rid of. In New York, there is a
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: law called the voluntary intoxication law, where if you voluntarily
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: get so drunk that you can't say no, then it's
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: your fault, basically. You know what? You can't charge rape
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: at that point. And they've been fighting this for years.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And they had a rally in Albany. And some of
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the advocates and some of the legislators that want to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: get rid of this spoke about it.
• 41:23
  Speaker 24: These are our allies who've been fighting with us for
• 41:27
  Speaker 24: the last seven years. Let me repeat that seven years
• 41:32
  Speaker 24: we have been fighting an uphill fight to end this loophole.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: Either you're on the side of sexual assault survivors or
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: you're not on their side.
• 41:42
  Speaker 18: There's no middle ground.
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: Choose a side.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: When we go back to Albany, this will be a priority.
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: Day one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: So so many good things may come from this, by
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the way. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has been trying to push
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: for legislation time and time and time again. He is
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: from the Bronx, by the way, and he was at
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that rally yesterday. And he talks about the fact that
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: he's been trying to get rid of this voluntary intoxication
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: law for years and years and years and years and years.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: You heard the advocate a second ago says it's been
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: seven years since. And what's more disgusting to me is
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the reason that the other assemblymen and the state doesn't
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: want to get rid of that law.
• 42:34
  Speaker 25: Some people do not want more people going to jail.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality.
• 42:40
  Speaker 25: My opinion is if you did something really bad, like
• 42:43
  Speaker 25: rape somebody.
• 42:44
  Speaker 11: You should go to jail.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Duh. Yeah, of course. Of course that should happen. But
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: for some reason, they look at college campuses as a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: different world. Like, oh, these things happen. No, those things
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: aren't supposed to happen. So I think from a horrible situation,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that this Jane Doe filed suit,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: some really good things are going to happen, not only
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: in New York, but across the country. Hey, remember that
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Long Island pizzeria owner we talked about yesterday who broke
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: a world record? but it's not in the Guinness book
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: of world records. We're going to talk to him next
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to find out if he's going to fight the good
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: fight and get in the Guinness book of world records.
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: Come on.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Plus a chance to see Stevie wonders sold out MS
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and MSG concert at eight 25. But first remember we
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, the guy out in long Island in
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Huntington station that just broke the record. for the highest
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: pizza dough toss in the world? Well, guess what? We
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: got him on the phone. The world record holder for
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the highest pizza dough toss, Johnny Dawson from Johnny's Pizza. Johnny,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: thanks a lot for agreeing to talk to us. Tell
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: us how you came up with this idea to break
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the record.
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on the show.
• 44:14
  Speaker 26: So I have a seven-year-old daughter, Presley, and, you know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 26: I own the pizzeria, and I'm obviously making pizzas there
• 44:20
  Speaker 26: all the time. I make pizzas at my house, and
• 44:23
  Speaker 26: she loves it when I throw the dough up in
• 44:25
  Speaker 26: the air. She thinks it's funny and great, and I
• 44:27
  Speaker 26: do little tricks with it. So one day, I don't know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 26: I just came across it on the Internet that Joe
• 44:34
  Speaker 26: Carlucci had the record 21 1⁄2 feet. Now I'm thinking
• 44:37
  Speaker 26: in my head, like, I throw pretty high sometimes. I'm like,
• 44:40
  Speaker 26: I could probably beat that. So I started messing around
• 44:44
  Speaker 26: with it. And in the beginning, I was getting close,
• 44:46
  Speaker 26: but I wasn't beating it. And then I started practicing
• 44:49
  Speaker 26: and throwing it a little bit of a different way.
• 44:52
  Speaker 26: And then all of a sudden, I started throwing it
• 44:54
  Speaker 26: higher than the record. And I said, wow, I could.
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: Beat this record.
• 44:58
  Speaker 26: So we turned it into a fundraiser for every inch
• 45:04
  Speaker 26: that I break it by. I was going to donate
• 45:07
  Speaker 26: 100 meals to Family Services, which is their local homeless shelter.
• 45:11
  Speaker 26: And once I started putting that on my social media,
• 45:14
  Speaker 26: other businesses joined in and donated two per inch.
• 45:18
  Speaker 9: And it got pretty big. And we raised a bunch
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: of money and a bunch of meals for.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: The homeless shelter. And I've seen the video. By the way,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that was a great video. I love the Rocky music
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: and the training. So I've seen the video and I
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: saw you break the record. You have video evidence. Why
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: aren't you in the Guinness Book of World Records?
• 45:37
  Speaker 26: So when I first started this whole thing, I wanted
• 45:40
  Speaker 26: it to be in Guinness. And I had reached out
• 45:43
  Speaker 26: to them and, you know, told them that I wanted
• 45:46
  Speaker 26: to attempt to break the record and all this. And
• 45:49
  Speaker 26: they had wrote me back that it was $ 13, 500. Oh,
• 45:52
  Speaker 26: my God.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: What a scam. You had to.
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: Pay them to get an official attempt.
• 45:59
  Speaker 26: You know, the package they give you where they send
• 46:01
  Speaker 26: the cameraman and the judge and You know, basically, I
• 46:06
  Speaker 26: think you're paying for their logo and the rights to
• 46:09
  Speaker 26: their name. And I thought that was a little excessive.
• 46:14
  Speaker 26: So I said, you know what? Better off donating the
• 46:17
  Speaker 26: money to the homeless shelter. I said, if they could
• 46:21
  Speaker 26: probably use it better than Guinness can.
• 46:22
  Speaker 9: And I said, you know what? Who needs Guinness anyway?
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: You know, it's their record, but I'm going to beat
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: it regardless.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but how about a GoFundMe? How about a GoFundMe?
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I guess we could have done that.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: You know, that's not really... That's not really my thing.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I don't do the GoFundMes and stuff like that.
• 46:38
  Speaker 26: I hate asking other people for money. It's not something
• 46:41
  Speaker 26: I enjoy doing.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Johnny grew up looking at the Guinness Book World Records
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: like I did. I had one in my house and
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: I would flip through it all the time. So I
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: know you did too. But you said, who needs sometimes Guinness?
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Because the internet thinks you're the top anyway, right?
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: So yesterday I was Googling who holds.
• 47:03
  Speaker 26: The the highest record for the highest pizza dough toss,
• 47:07
  Speaker 26: and I come up.
• 47:08
  Speaker 19: Oh!
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: Google says it's me.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: So there you go.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who needs Guinness? Hey, listen, Johnny, thanks for taking
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the time to talk to us today. Congratulations.
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: I appreciate the call. Thank you, man.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: All right, see you later. Johnny Dawson from Johnny's Pizza
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: in Huntington Station. Now to your talkbacks. We started off
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the show talking about the blowback that Sidney Sweeney is
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: getting for her latest ad.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: Two reasons why.
• 47:34
  Speaker 23: They don't like Sidney Sweeney.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: One, she's a Republican, and two, she's beautiful and she's sexy,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: and they're just jealous.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: She's also very smart. I've seen her in interviews, and man,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: she doesn't get sucked in when they try to talk
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to her about politics.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Sidney Sweeney is doing nothing different than every football player
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: that does a commercial, every baseball player that does a commercial,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: and every so-called movie star that does a commercial. Her
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: only problem is she's on the wrong side of politics
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: from what they say.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I think you both are right. Now let's talk about
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Mikey Sherrill. We told you the story, which I think
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: you've heard here first now, about some of the fraud
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: in Newark in the school district. And Mikey Sherrill and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: now Cory Booker are a topic.
• 48:19
  Speaker 27: Larry, could this be an attempt by Sherrill to throw
• 48:23
  Speaker 27: mud on Cory Booker, who's going to be one of
• 48:26
  Speaker 27: her rivals for when she runs for president in two years?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Oh, my God. I didn't think of that. Man,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have nightmares now that you brought that up.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Cory Booker, I'm not afraid of. Cory Booker is going
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to run for president until he dies and he's never
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: going to win. He's going to be Harold Stassen. But
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Mikey Sherrill, man.
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I'll have to mull that over. But let's get the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: news now at 730 with Daria Albinger.
• 48:53
  Speaker 18: Daria.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Morning, Larry.
• 48:54
  Speaker 20: Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Summer for one more day.
• 48:57
  Speaker 20: Showers later today. We'll see a high of 83 degrees.
• 48:59
  Speaker 20: It's going to get cooler, though, this weekend. The war
• 49:02
  Speaker 20: in Iran and its effects will be big issues in
• 49:05
  Speaker 20: the midterms, and it was a major focus for President
• 49:07
  Speaker 20: Trump as he campaigned in some reliably red states.
• 49:10
  Speaker 16: The president started the day at a truck plant in Texas,
• 49:13
  Speaker 16: addressing concern about high gas prices.
• 49:15
  Speaker 12: I'm ensuring that Iran will be very quickly ended. I
• 49:20
  Speaker 12: will tell you the energy prices are going to be rapidly,
• 49:22
  Speaker 12: rapidly coming.
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: It's already happening.
• 49:24
  Speaker 16: Trump's saying talks with Iran are ongoing. He vowed to
• 49:28
  Speaker 16: decide soon what direction to take to resolve the conflict.
• 49:32
  Speaker 20: ABC's Karen Hwan, Washington. Governor Hochul's appointed State Attorney General
• 49:36
  Speaker 20: Letitia James A special prosecutor, as she takes over the
• 49:39
  Speaker 20: investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University
• 49:42
  Speaker 20: fraternity house. Hochul says newly released information has raised some
• 49:46
  Speaker 20: serious questions. A suspect is facing charges in a deadly
• 49:51
  Speaker 20: subway stabbing in Queens.
• 49:53
  Speaker 28: Police say Jairo Thomas was taken to Jamaica Hospital for
• 49:56
  Speaker 28: a psychiatric evaluation Thursday and later charged for what appears
• 50:00
  Speaker 28: to be an unprovoked attack on a subway rider on
• 50:02
  Speaker 28: a J train Wednesday afternoon. Police say Thomas was pacing
• 50:06
  Speaker 28: back and forth inside the train car and appeared annoyed
• 50:08
  Speaker 28: before attacking another subway rider on the train and then
• 50:12
  Speaker 28: onto the Woodhaven Boulevard station platform as it pulled into
• 50:15
  Speaker 28: the station. I'm Scott Pringle, WORD News.
• 50:18
  Speaker 20: A push to make daylight saving time permanent faces an
• 50:20
  Speaker 20: uncertain future in the Senate. The House passed the Sunshine
• 50:23
  Speaker 20: Protection Act this summer. President Trump is fully behind it,
• 50:26
  Speaker 20: but the bill remains stalled in the Senate, which is
• 50:29
  Speaker 20: on recess until after the midterms. The government will release
• 50:32
  Speaker 20: its September employment numbers in about an hour from now.
• 50:35
  Speaker 20: Analysts are predicting a gain of about 84,000 jobs. That
• 50:38
  Speaker 20: would be a big drop from the 162,000 that were
• 50:41
  Speaker 20: added in August. Devils and Rangers win. Next news, 8 o'clock,
• 50:45
  Speaker 20: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, Daria. When we come back,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman seems to be getting his footing, his stride.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: He is coming out swinging against Kathy Hochul. And the
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Republicans are making a comeback in the midterms. That's what
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about with WOR host and former
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino next. But first, let me
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• 52:40
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• 52:44
  Speaker 1: host of the Saturday Agenda, one to three on Newsmax.
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  Speaker 1: And the former Westchester County Executive, I'll explain the good
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: news in a second, but Rob Curtis isn't here today,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: so do you want to talk about him?
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: It seems like old times, Larry.
• 52:59
  Speaker 29: I know.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: So now we'll talk about– go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: What were you going to say? I want to get
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: you off the ledge.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, you think I'm going to commit suicide because he's
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: not here?
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely not that.
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: It would be the politics. It would be the, you know,
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: you're concerned each week we talk.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not concerned anymore.
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: Republicans.
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not concerned anymore. And I'll tell you the reason.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Let's do a couple of things. Let's start with the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: governor's race. I think Bruce Blakeman is finding his footing.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Every single time I hear him interviewing, he's hitting the
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: right tone. He's hitting the right topics. I was wondering,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: he just seemed to be floundering. Maybe he was busy fundraising.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But he seemed to be floundering a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: little bit. But man, he's coming out swinging now. And
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I'm impressed every time I see him. Do you share
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: the same impression?
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, look, I've known Bruce a long time. He's a pro.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: He gets it done, and he knows how to campaign.
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: This is not his first rodeo. You know, going around.
• 54:02
  Speaker 7: The state, it's different. It takes time, not only to
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: get to know everyone around the state, but also to
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: find your footing. You know, it's a very different race being,
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: you know, county executive and then running all over New
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: York State, where it's very different, very diverse, you know,
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: in terms and backgrounds and just the geography.
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: It takes a while.
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: He's done that now. I mean, he's lapped the state
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: I don't know how many times. I know he had
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: a very successful fundraiser in Syracuse the other night.
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: He pulled in a lot of money.
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: Money is not really the issue, which is really good.
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: And that's always been the case from, you know, for
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: me or for any Republican, money's been tough because nobody believed.
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: They don't invest in New York. He's had money and
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: he's got some super packed money. So he can compete.
• 54:52
  Speaker 7: Republicans with money can compete in this state, and that's
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: why I think he's in a position to win.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think he's really gaining ground,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: and we can see that in the polls. And I
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: think not only is he gaining ground, but he's gaining
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: confidence in this race because every interview I see him on,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: he does extremely well. If you were to advise him,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: what does he need to do in the debate, the
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: one and only debate coming up in about 10 days?
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 55:23
  Speaker 29: He needs to.
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I think he looks like a
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: governor in all honesty. And I think that that's important.
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: You know, he's got that stature. He's got a great demeanor.
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: He just he just has to bite his tongue. You know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 7: she's going to be lying the entire time. And he's
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: got to just make sure he remembers he'll never get
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: the benefit of a doubt in a debate with a woman.
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: And she will play that card a million times because she,
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: I think she feels she's on the run here. Like he's,
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: she's looking in the mirror and he's a little too close.
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: And then she's going to start getting desperate and play
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: every stupid card the Democrats play. And it's going to
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: be Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. But I think he's
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: got a real opportunity here. Remember the two big issues
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: where she actually wins in the polling is the affordability issue.
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: And, and crime.
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: I mean, so he's got such an opportunity to take
• 56:20
  Speaker 7: her strength and just wrap it around her.
• 56:23
  Speaker 8: And I think, I think he will.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think these proposal to eliminate the income tax
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: for low income people or even moderate income people is,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: is a winner and to cut the fat and to
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: try to keep some of the money here, stop the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: rich and the corporations from leaving New York. I think
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: if he stays on that, those messages, it's really a
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: strong message to say, especially when people are suffering?
• 56:48
  Speaker 8: Well, remember, take the two issues, right? Affordability and crime. Okay.
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, it's pretty easy who's been in charge
• 56:56
  Speaker 7: in this state forever, right? It's the Democrats. We just
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: have to go back a few years when crime was
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: rampant everywhere, the riots, the George Floyd stuff, the COVID nonsense,
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: all this stuff, who was in charge. And with affordability,
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: For God's sakes, why is everybody leaving? Because they are
• 57:14
  Speaker 7: in charge on every issue, whether it's utility bills, whether
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: it's property taxes. There really is no one else to blame.
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: And so it's pretty easy to tell people that because.
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: In the end, they know it's true. They know it's true.
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: It's been her.
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: It's been Cuomo. You just keep going backwards. They're all Democrats.
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: So I think if he pounds that, stays on that,
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: and offers his vision of how he's going to fix it,
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: I think he can come out not only winning the debate,
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: but winning the election.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. He said something really fascinating in
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: an interview that I heard recently when they asked him
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: about ICE and working with ICE and if that's going
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to hurt him. He said, no, working with ICE allows
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: me to control what ICE does in my county.
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: That's a great answer.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Isn't it? Isn't it a tremendous answer? And for him
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: to be able to say that with the state, he said,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: I can take crime down and I can know where
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: they're going, and I can keep them out of the communities.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I thought it was brilliant. Let me talk about why
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling better about the midterms, because some recent polling
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: that came out shows Susan Collins in the lead now.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: It shows Rogers now tie. It shows in Oregon the
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: governor's race, the Republican winning. There seems to be a
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: bit of a surge for Republicans, and I'm guessing that
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: has to do with the fact they have so much
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: money and the ads have started.
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: It's finally being spent. Yeah, it's finally being spent. So
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: that's important. I mean, we've ceded all this ground to
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: Democrats so early. You can't do that.
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: Especially when you have the huge advantage with money, not
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: a little edge. Start spending it. Define them. Define yourself.
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: And they didn't.
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: And now they're playing catch up. And also, I was
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: just in Wisconsin and the governor's race there. A ton
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: of money is going to the Republican candidate. That didn't
• 59:03
  Speaker 7: happen in the past either. And he's now tied. He's
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: in a position to win.
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: Same thing in Minnesota. Tafoya is neck and neck actually
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: winning in some polls.
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: I mean, think about that. We're doing, by the way, locally,
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: the two Long Island races, we're doing very well there.
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: Trump's numbers are not bad at all. And so we
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: could flip some from seats on Long Island.
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: So look, it's never going to be easy.
• 59:29
  Speaker 7: But I do not think it's going to be a disaster.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, I agree with you.
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: I think we're going to hold the Senate House. I'm
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: not so sure about. But I've always said the Senate, yes.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: But I think the House is going to be close.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really close. It's fascinating.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: It's fascinating to watch it happening. And they still have
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of money and a lot of time to
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: pull out a couple of more races. At least the
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: polls are going the right way. And by the way,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the polls always undercount Republicans, so we have to take
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: that into account as well. Rob, it was great talking
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: to you, listening to you this weekend when you are
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: on 4 to 5 on Saturday and you're also the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: host of Saturday Agenda, 1 to 3 on Newsmax. Former
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. Thanks a lot, Rob.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 11: Thanks, Larry. Good talking to you.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: All right. Talk to you again soon. Natalie Migliore and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: her beat on the street is next. There have been
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: six murders. in the city subways so far this year,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: raising fresh concerns about safety underground. So how do New
• 1:00:31
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  Speaker 11: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: So wait a second, Natalie. You chose to do subway
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: safety when Curtis Lewa wasn't here?
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 15: We have to test how well you and I know
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 15: it without him. We have to see if we can
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 15: hold it down, baby.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a great topic for right now. I mean,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: a horrible thing happened yesterday.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: You're like, it's a horrible thing.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: No, because you're like, it's a great topic for right now.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: A horrible thing.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: But it's true.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: That's what's in the news cycle.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 15: That is what you said, though. But it's in the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 15: news cycle. That's why we've got to keep up with
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 15: the news cycle. The subway stabbing on the J train
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 15: in Queens that ended with a 59-year-old dead is the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 15: sixth murder in New York City's subway system since So
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 15: far this year, the suspect, a 25-year-old, allegedly, okay, allegedly,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 15: but he did, allegedly approached a 59-year-old man, a father
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 15: of six I read somewhere, which terrible. He tried to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 15: walk away, the guy on the subway, and the suspect
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 15: stabbed him with a kitchen knife. No shortage, really, of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 15: reaction from New Yorkers who ride the subways every day.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: It's terrible.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 18: It's scary.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: It's sad.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 9: It's gut wrenching.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's terrible. It's gotten crazy out here.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: I think that's very traumatic that there's increasing. We have
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: so much police and more murders.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: You know, that's crazy.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: And I feel unsafe as a.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 9: Say the same, you know.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 22: Shock, but also kind of not really. Because the subway
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 22: environment is a little bit all over the place. Like,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 22: you can see opposites of, oh, blue-collar workers, but also, like,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 22: really struggling people on there.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: I'm not gonna lie, the subway is just for the crackheads.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 26: Like.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 29: Okay.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 15: So you do see a lot of characters on. I
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 15: was going to say you do see a lot of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 15: characters on the crackheads. You do see a lot of
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 15: characters on the subways. And a lot of New Yorkers,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 15: they actually tell me they try to avoid the subways
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 15: and take the buses as often as they can now
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 15: in certain extents because they feel like they can jump
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 15: off more frequently rather than being stuck underground sometimes. Now,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 15: the suspect, Jarrell Thomas, ran away from the scene and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 15: climbed onto a rooftop where he had to be carried
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 15: away again. The NYPD has described him as emotionally disturbed
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 15: and he was taken to Jamaica Hospital for a psychiatric
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 15: evaluation yesterday morning. New Yorkers say they're seeing an increasing
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 15: number of mentally disturbed people, not just on the subways,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 15: but on the streets.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 14: I'm not really sure what the motivation is behind some
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 14: of these attacks. I would assume mental health plays a
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 14: major part, so I don't know what could be done
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 14: to help that.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: They really got to get better with having homeless people
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: and stuff on the train because it's dangerous.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: And then late at night is usually when it's really bad.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: I think there's something that needs.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 9: To be done about it.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 24: I'm not in a position to run for politics right now,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 24: but they wouldn't like me because I would do something
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 24: about it if I was mayor.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: Now, I know Curtis isn't here, but he'd probably tell her,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: move over, lady.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 15: Because it's a crowded field, and Curtis knows it all
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 15: too well.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: But I thought that was funny to put in. Of course,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: she said mayor. I went, ooh.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I know a mayoral candidate.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 8: There you go.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 15: We know somebody very well who's tried. But either way,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 15: the question arises, what or who– do people rely on
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 15: to ensure they get to where they're going safely?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: So it's a joint effort, right?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, in society, you rely on everyone around you
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 10: to make sure that things go as everyone would want, right?
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 14: I mean, I feel safe to a certain extent, but
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 14: I'm very aware of my surroundings when I'm in the subway.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 14: I also do carry something usually to protect myself in
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 14: case of emergency. Not anything illegal, but just some form
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 14: of protection. It feels like since COVID, it's gotten progressively
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 14: worse here.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 15: Was there a final straw for you in deciding, hey,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 15: I need a little something extra?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 14: Probably hearing about violence on the subway, specifically, or random
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 14: acts of violence in the.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Street where people are just being assaulted for no reason.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, you should have asked him to see what he
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: was carrying.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: No, thank you. I want to test it out.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: He's not going to use it on you.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: Well, here it is. He said nothing illegal.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 30: But who knows?
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to. Maybe brass knuckles. You know, you're right.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: I should have asked to see it. Isn't that illegal, though?
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: But if they would have taken. Now, remember, and I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 15: haven't seen these in a while. I go down in
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 15: the subways a lot. They were doing bag checks in
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 15: this subway. I haven't seen them do bag checks in
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 15: a while. I haven't seen that. We covered that. It
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 15: was the big rollout. We did it for months at
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 15: a time. And I think they would have taken away
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 15: a knife, no, if they had found it in somebody's bag.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Now, if you have cutlery, let's just say you have
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: a steak knife you just bought. What are you, a chef?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: And it's in your bag. That's what they would say
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: when they check the bag.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: What do you do for a living before we let
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: you cross the subway?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 15: Now, you, though, Larry, we were talking off air before,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 15: said that there was one thing that stuck out to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 15: you about this specific story.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, I just love that three people ran after the suspect.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: I love that people got into action. They couldn't stop it.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: It happened so quickly. But they got him on video
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and they chased after him. I mean, so many times
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: people just look the other way. So God bless those people.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: They're the reason. that police were able to get them.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 15: And you know that one of the witnesses said they,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 15: they were afraid to intervene because they didn't know which
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 15: way it could go, but they wanted to get this
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 15: on video in case of which way it would go.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 15: So yeah, to see that, I think that, you know,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 15: the first guy before the guy who revealed that he
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 15: carried a little something extra had said, we rely, we
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 15: have to rely on each other a little bit to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 15: take care of each other and get to where we're
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 15: going safely.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 12: And, Yeah.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: And so often it doesn't happen. So we should point
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: out and congratulate the people when it does, because that
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: is just wonderful. And we need to see a lot
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: more of that. And if Curtis was here, I'm sure
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: he would applaud them as well. Natalie Migliore is going
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: to be back Monday morning along with Curtis back Monday
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: morning at seven 50. I still can't get over what
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: happened in Tennessee this week. It was horrific. And, and, Listen,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care at all about Krista Pike, the crime
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: she committed when she set up a person that she
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: wanted to kill because that person liked her boyfriend. She
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: used the boyfriend to lure her into the woods and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: she and friends tortured the woman and then almost severed
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: her head but slit her throat. It's awful. It is awful.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: And of course I understand the family saying, I want
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: this person to be dead. Wouldn't you? I get that.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: But what happened with her earlier this week, 50 year
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: old Krista Pike was given two lethal injections. She screamed
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: of pain. Then she fell asleep. She even snored and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: she was taken to the hospital. She's still alive today.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, They're watching over her. She may pass, but
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: she's hanging in there and it seems like she's going
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: to live. This was the second botched execution in Tennessee
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: this year. The 19th in the country in the past
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: 10 years. And it's all with lethal injection. This happens
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: way too much. Now, look, I don't care at all.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I don't shed a tear for Krista Pike or any
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: of the people that are going to be executed because
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: I know that they committed horrific crimes. I get that.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: She tortured this poor girl, Colleen Slemmer, who was 19
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: at the time, all the way back in January of 1995.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: So no, I don't shed a tear for her. And
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: I understand, I completely understand the Old Testament cry of
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth justice.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: My concern is for the families. My concern is the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: pain that they go through Because the only people that
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: profit from this system right now of putting someone to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: death are the attorneys and their billing hours. Nobody else.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Nobody else profits from this. And the fact that we
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: have botched execution after botched execution, to me, is just mind-blowing.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: I think you've heard from these people already, but I'm
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: going to play it again. It's the witnesses that were there.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: This is the media, and I've been asked to do
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: this in the past, and I've turned it down because
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: I do not want to be a witness to an execution.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: But I understand why it's important, and these are members
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: of the media who watched this botched execution, and they
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: kept trying to cover it up. They kept closing the curtains,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: and the media was going, no, no, no, we can
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: hear her. Open the curtain back up.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 31: At one point at 7.34, she said, my arm feels
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 31: like it's about to burst open.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 10: She lifted her head off the table, or off the gurney,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 10: I should say, with her mouth open, kind of.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 10: Gasping, but not making the sound of gasping, but with
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 10: her mouth that wide open.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 31: Media witnesses repeatedly asked, can we open the curtains? Because
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 31: we could still audibly hear her snoring, and we were
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 31: kind of looked at like, we don't know.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: We could not see what was happening. We heard activity,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: but we don't know what happened. We're not sure that's appropriate,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: and that's a question that we'd like answered.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 31: I've witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee. Nothing about
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 31: today was normal, typical at all.
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  Speaker 23: Right.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: And so, of course, the attorney in the case now
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: is asking for a commutation. He's saying his client has
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: suffered enough.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 25: It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 25: of Tennessee and the courts that her medical conditions would
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 25: cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 25: the court dismiss Krista's concerns.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: It does not sound like, A... The state of Tennessee
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: is going to get rid of the death penalty, and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like the governor has the inclination of
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: not putting her to death.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 32: The people of Tennessee have determined that the death penalty
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 32: is the appropriate penalty for the most heinous crimes in
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 32: this state. The people of Tennessee make that decision, and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 32: my job is to make sure then that those sentences
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 32: are carried out.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: So, again, I don't care. I don't care about Krista Pike.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: But I don't think any of us should care. I
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: don't even think we should know her name. I think
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: that these people should be put away forever and forgotten.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: It'll take away a lot of agony from the families.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: The average death penalty case takes 23 years from sentencing
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: to execution, if it ever happens at all. And trust me,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: I've been with the families. There's nothing but pain and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: heartache for the families of the victims. whose lives are
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: plagued by court cases, disappointments, and of course the news headlines.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: They have to relive the worst moment of their lives
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: over and over again and feel that same emotional trauma.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: They're never able to get on with their lives. And
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: even in the rare times that the execution finally happens,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: studies show only a small percentage of the families die.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: find closure and healing that they had hoped for, that
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: they thought this would finally end it. And it doesn't.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: It's just as horrible. Now, there are 27 states in
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the country that have lethal executions. And there's all types.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: There's firing squads. There's three or four types of of
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: putting somebody to death. And many times they even have
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: their choice. Krista Pike was supposed to have her choice,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: but they told her, no, it was going to be
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: lethal injection. And again, I could care less about Krista Pike,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: but I do care about the mother of the victim
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: who is still suffering. And I'll just tell you a
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: quick story about how bad the death penalty is. In Philadelphia,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: there was a police officer that was assassinated, assassinated by
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: a guy who now in prison is Moumi Abu-Jamal. You
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: might have heard that name. He was making national news
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: for a while. And a lot of us, a lot
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: of reporters that worked in Philadelphia at the time, got
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: to know Maureen Faulkner, who has been trying for his execution.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: He was sentenced to death. He's still alive today. Still
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: alive today. And if it wasn't for this fight for
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: the death penalty over and over and over again, Maureen
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Faulkner would not have to relive this over and over
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and over again. Now, she wants them put to death.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: There's no question. And I think the families of all
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: these victims want them put to death. The person that
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: committed the crime against their family wants them put to death.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 19: But.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: After they go through years and years and years of
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: court cases and appeals and reliving the worst moment over
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: and over again, you talk to most of them and
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: they would want to get rid of the death penalty.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: So I know it's certainly not a conservative position. But
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: trust me, there should be no death penalty. There really
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be. Let the person rot in jail. Take them
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: away from society. Make certain they can't do this to
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: another family again. But for God's sakes, if you want
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: the death penalty, understand it's going to be decades of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: pain for those families. Decades of pain. I've seen it.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: I've lived it. I've been in their homes. I've watched
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: them crying. I've watched them get the news that this
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: man is still going to stay alive, or in this case,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: this woman is still going to stay alive. And it
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: goes on and on and on and on and on. So,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: the next time it becomes an issue, and I do
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: hope some Republican politicians are listening right now, the next
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: time it becomes an issue, rethink it. Just don't take
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: a position because It makes you sound manly or it
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: makes you sound tough or it makes you sound like
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: you're big on law and order. No, you're hurting the innocent.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: You're hurting the innocent because they have to relive it
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: all the time. So I wanted to make my position
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: clear because I know yesterday I said that I was
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: against the death penalty and I got a little bit
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: of pushback on that. And I'm not sure... that any
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: of the families that went through this and finally did
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: get the death penalty and it went off well would
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: tell you that it was worth it. Because it's not.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: If they were able to speed up the process, there'd
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: be no problems.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: If you're going to find somebody guilty and then there
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: is the death penalty and you're going to kill them
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: within the year, have at it. But that's not the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: system we live in. people live in misery and the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: only people of the prophet are the lawyers go ahead
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: and leave us a talk back on that if you
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: want to because i'd love to hear how you feel
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: i know a lot of you disagree with me but
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: i want to hear the argument for it other than
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: just pure vengeance all right let's soften things up a
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: little bit when we come back with pete davidson because
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: pete davidson did an interview with variety or vanity fair
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: i guess right vanity fair And he doubts Mom Donnie
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: has a Staten Island heart. No, I can promise you
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have a Staten Island heart. Plus a chance
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: to see Stevie Wonder coming up next. Natalie and I
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: were just looking at it. There's a lot of famous
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: people from Staten Island that I didn't know about. Everybody
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: knows Pete Davidson because he was the king of Staten Island.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: That was his big movie, if you remember. So he's
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: the most famous now. But Christina Aguilera?
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 16: Yes!
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Did you know that? I did.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: You know, us Staten Islanders, we know.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Colin Jost from Staten Island.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: Yes, I love him.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: Joan Baez.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 5: That one I never knew. That one is surprising to me.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: I had no idea. I got to go check that
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: one out. That one seems not right to me, but
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: And who were the two that when you were growing up?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: When I was growing up, Alyssa Milano and Ricky Schroeder
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: were both child stars.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 11: Oh, sure.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: And they were both from Staten Island. Actually, Alyssa Milano
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: went to the same middle school that.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: I went to.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: And I remember when I was in the eighth grade,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: she was in the sixth grade. And there was an
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: article in the school paper how the cheerleader, Alyssa Milano,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: is going to be on a new show called Who's
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: the Boss?
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: And we're like, whoa.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: So Staten Island has quite a roster of celebrities, including
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Pete Davidson, who's Saturday Night Live and had the big movie,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: The King of Staten Island. And he did an interview
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: recently where they asked him, If Zoran Mamdani was Staten Island-ish,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I guess you would say.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 33: Zoran Mamdani, is he Staten Island?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 33: I don't think he's from Staten Island. I don't know
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 33: if he has Staten Island's heart.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's Staten Island.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 33: I don't have a problem with the guy, but I
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 33: definitely don't think he's Staten Island at all.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: It was a funny interview, mostly about Staten Island.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 33: Staten Island's the only red place in New York, and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 33: it's violently red. I try to explain it because, you know,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 33: most of my family is, you know, on the red side.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 33: It's not like that, like, Storm the Capitol vibe. It's
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 33: not like a racist, misogynistic sort of thing. It's just
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 33: like they just, it's 1985 over there.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: 1985 was great, by the way. So all good.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: I hate the caricature of Republicans as being racist and misogynistic.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: It kind of shows me where he's leaning right now
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: these days.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 33: You are not a real Staten Island politician unless you
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 33: have a secret family and no one mobster.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: I would not trust.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 11: You to run Staten Island.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from people from Staten Island. What
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: makes a Staten Islander? Pete Davidson just really gave you
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: a nice list. But what do you think? What do
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: you think identifies and represents Staten Island?
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: I get it, though. The Staten Island heart.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: We were just talking about Jimmy Fallon because he's got
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: a great show coming up that we're promoting.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 5: He's got a Staten Island heart. He could come right in.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 5: He'd be welcome.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Where's he from? Long Island. He's from Long Island.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: But he's Staten Island at heart.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll talk to him about it. Now, let's
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: get some talkbacks.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 16: Hey, Larry.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 34: Worked 35 years in the subway from Token Clark on up.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 11: I've seen it all.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 34: And I would never seen it as bad as it
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 34: is now with the mentally disabled roaming around. They cause
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 34: half the problems. They've got to do something against that.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 34: I would suggest people just stay away from the edge
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 34: of the platform, behind the columns. and maybe against the wall,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 34: and just be aware of your surroundings.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: That's great advice. That's all you can do, right?
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 27: Larry, there was a video out a couple weeks ago
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 27: of a guy in London who went to a sports store,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 27: bought a baseball bat for playing baseball, and got arrested
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 27: when he walked out of the store for carrying a weapon.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. We'll have to follow up on that
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: because I can't believe that they're going to press charges
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: against him. Well, maybe. I mean, it's a crazy world,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: especially in London.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 23: This Pike character, she committed this crime over 30 years
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 23: ago and now she's being punished. What took so long?
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 23: Why do we wait so long if she was sentenced
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 23: to death? Why wait so long? It doesn't make sense.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 23: But nothing in this world makes sense anymore.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: It's the legal system. I've been through these cases before,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: and it's hell on the families. That's the whole reason
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: I want to get rid of the death penalty, just
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: for that fact. Because it's become a legal process that
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: is just hell on the families. Daria Albinger with the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: 830 News.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 7: Daria.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 20: Beat me because I want those tickets, too. I think
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 20: we all do for this one. Partly cloudy, warm and
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 20: humid showers later today, a high of 83 degrees. Governor
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 20: Hochul has taken control of the investigation into an alleged
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 20: gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house, and she's
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 20: named Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor. A new poll, meanwhile,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 20: asks if sexual assault on campus is a serious problem.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 35: One half of Americans believe sexual assault on college campuses
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 35: is a very serious problem. Another third in the YouGov
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 35: poll call it somewhat serious. The poll numbers are roughly
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 35: the same across age groups, but women, blacks, and Democrats
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 35: were more likely to consider campus sex assault a very
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 35: serious threat. The poll was taken after a rape investigation
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 35: was reported at Cornell University.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm Rory O'Neill.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 11: The U.S.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 20: Is sending another aircraft carrier to the Middle East as
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 20: the war with Iran continues. The USS Theodore Roosevelt will
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 20: be the third carrier in the region. accompanied by an
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 20: expeditionary unit with over 7,000 sailors and about 2,000 Marines.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 20: A house fire in Jersey City has left an elderly
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 20: woman dead and six others hurt.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 28: Flames broke out shortly before 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon inside
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 28: a home on Boyd Street. Jersey City Fire Chief Jack
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 28: Johnson says firefighters had to deal with debris everywhere.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 27: They went upstairs where they could barely move because the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 27: whole second floor was on fire.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 11: Full of clutter, probably five feet high.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 28: Firefighters pulled the body of a woman believed to be
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 28: in her 80s. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries and three
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 28: other residents were sent to the hospital. The cause is
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 28: under investigation. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 20: OpenAI has cut ties with three safety workers who reportedly
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 20: shared company information with an AI safety organization. The Wall
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 20: Street Journal says it isn't clear if the researchers also
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 20: shared their concerns with the company. The Devils and the
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 20: Rangers win. Next news, 9 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 20: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria, and congratulations to Donna Morgan from Manhattan
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: who just won a pair of tickets to see Stevie
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: Wonder's sold-out Songs in the Key of Life 50th anniversary
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: concert at Madison Square Garden November 19th. Next week at 825,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: tickets to see A Bronx Tale, the one-man show starring
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: Chaz Williams. Palminteri, who wrote Bronx Tale and starred in
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: the movie. Also, you know, talking about great shows, Jimmy Fallon,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: WOR host, 9 to Midnight, Fox Across America with Jimmy Fallon,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: and host of Fox News Saturday Night. You know who
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: he is. He's on the Fox News channel all the time.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: He is going to have a comedy show plus a
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: dinner buffet, and you get a meet and greet as well.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: He'll be doing a night of comedy at Kuchina Calandra
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: in Fairfield, New Jersey on October 28th. You want to go?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Get all the ticket details by going to 710WOR. com slash Jimmy.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to check out what's
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: in the movies this week from the great WOR Movie
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Minute host, Joe Neumeyer. All right, it's time now for
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR movie minute host. By the way,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: as I've mentioned a couple of times, and I know Joe,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: you're upset about this. Curtis Lewa is off today. He's,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: had an event that he had to go to last night. Hey, listen,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, that this time of year
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: is not usually a good time of year for movies
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: because people don't have any more vacation time left, kids
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: are back in school, and so they know they're not
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: going to make so much money. But every once in
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: a while, a good movie sneaks through. Every once in
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: a while. So is that going to happen this weekend?
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 11: Well, it's not. However, we'll take this seriously. So let's
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 11: get that right out of the way right off the.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 16: Bat.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 29: But this weekend is actually.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 11: Proving to be a really interesting one at the box office,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 11: and I'll explain that. Because what you're having is a
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 11: movie that a lot of people are calling the worst
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 11: film of the year so far. And then you have
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 11: another film that a lot of people are calling the
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 11: worst film of the year.
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  Speaker 29: And I don't think either one of.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 11: Them are that bad. They both try different things. So
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 11: maybe that sort of speaks to what we're talking about. Yeah,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 11: it's that time of year, and here come the two
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: worst films of the year. Come marching in, hand in hand.
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  Speaker 11: But let's start off with the one that I think
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 11: is better, which is Verity. And a lot of people
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 11: have been giving this movie a lot of guff. They've
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: been saying, oh, you know, it's really, it's trashy, and
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 11: it's trying to be this 80s thriller thing. And to
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  Speaker 11: which I sort of say, like, yeah, okay, you know,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 11: that might be kind of fun. And it actually is.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 11: It's with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson. And it's based
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 11: on one of the books by this author named Colleen Hoover.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 11: And a couple of movies, three movies have been made
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 11: from her books before. She's very popular. It's like an
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 11: airport novelist kind of thing. You find her books in airports.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 11: But this one sort of reminds me a little of
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 11: the movies of the 80s, like Body Double or Dressed
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 11: to Kill, or Single White Female, things like that. Even
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 11: a little like Jagged Edge. Dakota Johnson is a young
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 11: author who's hired to finish the novel of a very
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 11: popular novelist who's paralyzed from an accident. She's played by
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 11: Anne Hathaway. And, of course, she moves into their house,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 11: and something starts to happen with the husband, who's played
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 11: by Josh Hartnett. And there's sort of all these mysterious
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 11: things going on. You know, there's lots of mixture of
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 11: fact or fiction. What's real? What's not? Is she really,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 11: is Anne Hathaway really paralyzed? It's totally over the top,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 11: but it really, I thought it was kind of fun.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 11: And I think a lot of critics are taking it
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 11: like it's supposed to be a Hitchcock film. It's not.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 11: It's supposed to be sort of like a trashy 80s film,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 11: which it is. So I think Verity is a lot
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 11: of fun. I give it four stars. Just don't go
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 11: in expecting high art. because a lot of people are
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 11: calling it trash, and it's sort of like, it's just
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 11: trashy fun. So that's the one movie.
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  Speaker 1: Four stars! Four stars!
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 11: Four stars. I'm giving it four stars. I gave Spider-Man three.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: I know! I wasn't going to say it!
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 11: Curtis would say, and what did you give Spider-Man, Joe Neumeier?
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: That is going to be his line for the rest.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Everything is going to compare to the three of Spider-Man.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 29: It's going to be on my tombstone! Yes, I gave.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 11: Spider-Man three stars. How much money is that made so far?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Spider-Man.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 11: Spider-Man made more money than they actually have on the world.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 11: So it makes too much money.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 29: Let's just leave it at that.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: So what's the other movie?
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 11: The other movie is called Digger. And it's the new
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 11: movie with Tom Cruise, which is pretty much how anybody
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 11: sort of knows it. It's the Tom Cruise movie. And
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 11: it's Tom Cruise under some makeup. and he plays like
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 11: an older guy in his 60s or early 70s. He's
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 11: an oil baron, and there's been an accident at one
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 11: of his rigs. And so this rich guy, this guy
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 11: who's named Digger, played by Cruise, and it sets off
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: an environmental disaster. And he kind of gets the president,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 11: who's played by John Goodman. It's a comedy. It's kind
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 11: of like Doctor Strange. He gets the president and his
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 11: cabinet to kind of rally around, and they try and
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 11: figure out, what to do, and all their decisions are
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 11: based upon greed or deflecting blame or not even addressing
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 11: the problem. It's about the climate. But here's the thing.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 11: It's not good. It's trying to be Dr. Strange's love,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 11: and it goes way over the top, and it's crazy.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 11: But there is a twist in the movie, and it
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 11: takes a really big swing. And it takes a big chance.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 11: And for that, I applaud it. Because, you know, sometimes
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 11: those movies that take really crazy chances can be kind
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 11: of interesting or fun, or at the very least, they're
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 11: not boring, right? So movies like Vanilla Sky or The
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 11: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you know, things like that,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 11: they may not be necessarily always successful or what everybody
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 11: wants to see, but they're interesting. And I give that
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 11: to this Tom Cruise movie. It's interesting. I'm not saying
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 11: people should go see it because it's really not. After
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 11: 45 minutes, you go like everyone's shouting. I don't really
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 11: want to sit in this anymore. But if you do
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 11: stick through it, it's okay.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 29: It has an idea. It does.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: It's sort of a science fiction thing.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 5: I've got to say, that name is a terrible name.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 11: Terrible name.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 5: Terrible name.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Digger.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 16: Digger.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: And to tell you the truth, I was watching a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: movie last night that Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Carell.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 5: I actually think it's a funny movie. I think it's
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: a good movie.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 11: It is a funny movie. Yeah.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: I have heard, though, and it didn't do well in
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: the box office, and Steve Carell at one point said
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: it's because the name was terrible. It was a terrible
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: name for the movie because it doesn't really give you
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: any sense of what that movie is about.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, tells you nothing. Are they crazy? Are they stupid?
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 11: Are they in love?
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: Who knows? You know, are they all free?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 11: It could be anybody. And Digger reminds me of the
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 11: name from Boogie Nights, Dirk Diggler, which was the Mark
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 11: Wahlberg character.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 11: Right?
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 29: What were you going to say, Larry?
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, Steve Carell, I think he's
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: way underrated as an actor. I think he's tremendous. Would
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: you agree?
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: Totally agree. I absolutely agree. I've done a couple of
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 11: Q & As with him, but he's really good. I
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 11: think he's also one of those actors, and like Steve
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 11: Martin is sort of another one, Robin Williams was another one,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 11: who started in comedy, but actually has all these great
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 11: layers of drama to him, and I think that Carell
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 11: is one of them. He's really great. in so many things, even,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 11: even like small things that people maybe don't know about,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 11: seek him out if he's in it. And, and Rory
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 11: is Oscar nominated for Little Miss Sunshine. He's really great
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 11: in so many things. Yeah.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 11: He was, you know, but I think he's just terrific.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: And that movie, it's so good. Ryan Gosling is in
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 5: it and Julianne Moore is in it. It's a great cast.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: And I just think it's one of those underrated movies.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 5: I just really enjoy it.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: You know what's really funny? I wanted to ask you
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: about this, and I think we should probably do this
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: every week because I think a lot of people out
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: there don't want to go to the movies or there's
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: nothing good out like Digger. And so they sit at
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: home and they're looking for something to watch. And so
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: I've done this at home. You're going through and you're
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: clicking through all the different channels and you're clicking through
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: all the different shows online. So maybe we can give
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: people something that they should watch every weekend at home.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 11: That's a great idea. And maybe we can even sort
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 11: of relate it a little bit to, you know, movies
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: like some of the movies that are out, but maybe better. So,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: you know, we listed a couple of them just now,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 11: but there's a couple of them on Amazon right now
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 11: or on Netflix that are a few good ones. Single
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 11: White Female is one of the ones that Verity reminds
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 11: me of. I'd recommend that to people. It's a great
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 11: New York movie from the early 90s also. It's a
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 11: lot of fun. And Jagged Edge, which people always forget,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 11: but it's Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close playing It's a
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 11: terrific sort of courtroom thriller. It reminds me a lot.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 11: There's a lot of things like it on TV now.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 11: So Jagged Edge is one of those that I would say,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 11: seek it out. It's right there on Amazon. It's a
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 11: really great movie. It's a lot of fun and thrilling too. Exciting.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WR, Movie Minute host. Thanks so much.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 11: Thanks, Larry.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: When we come back, well, I said this earlier to
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, and I've got some proof. Bruce Blakeman is
• 1:34:31
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  Speaker 1: something I've said a few times during today's show, and
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: that is I'm feeling a little bit better about the midterms.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: And we even got to talk back about it.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 13: Larry, Ed Rollins, who was Reagan's pollster, was on Mark
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 13: Simone's show earlier in the week, and he predicted nothing
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 13: but gloom and doom for the Republicans. Definitely the House,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 13: and he was even saying that the Senate looked like
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 13: It's going to fall into Democrat hands. Wanted to gut
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 13: check with you. What are your thoughts at this stage?
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm worried about the House. I think the Senate's
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: looking so much better. And I base that on recent polling.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: You know, it looked like it was going to go
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: the wrong way all the way up to Election Day.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: But the Republicans have started to spend their money. And
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: you can see it taking effect in certain states. Like
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: in Maine, Susan Collins has pulled ahead. In Texas, in
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: a couple of the polls, Paxton has pulled ahead. You're
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: saying the same thing in Michigan, where that's now a tie.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: And in my heart, I'm telling you, I don't believe
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: Texas is going to switch. I don't believe Ohio is
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: going to switch. And so if you hold on to
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: those races, all you have to do is hold on
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: if you're a Republican, you're going to win the Senate. Now,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: the House is a little bit different. But remember, the
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Republicans are just starting to spend their money. And they
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: have three times more than the Democrats. And so you're
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: going to see ad after ad after ad after ad,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: and they do have an effect. But the biggest reason
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: I think that the Republicans are going to do better
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: than anybody's talking about right now is they always overperform
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the polls. Always. In 2024, it was significant. And this
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: is just me saying this. Let's go to Harry Enten.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: from CNN who is talking about the 2024 results.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 30: GOP outperformed September polls by in the major 2024 races,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 30: that is, President and Senate in the states that had
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 30: a Senate race. In Iowa, where the Democrats have been
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 30: getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 30: nine points back in 2024.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 11: How about Ohio?
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 9: Six points.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 8: How about Michigan?
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 11: Five points.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 30: And I will note that the leads that the Democrats
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 30: have in all of these races right now are under
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 30: how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 8: So you look at this.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 9: And you go, you know what?
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 30: Maybe we should just hold on a second here because
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 30: we've seen this dance before and it was not a
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 30: dance that Democrats like when the votes were actually cast
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 30: in council.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: And it's not just 2024. It really isn't. It's almost
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: every federal election. For some reason, the Republicans always are
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: underestimated in the polls. And sometimes it's significant. You heard
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Harry Enten talking about Ohio elections. In Iowa, I mean.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: A nine-point difference in Iowa. So these are significant, significant numbers.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: So that's why I hold out hope. Not only because
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: of the polls, not only because of the money, but
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: because Republicans are undercounted time and time again. But thank
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: you so much for the question, and I always appreciate
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: your emails, and I read them all, and I always
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: want to thank you for taking the time. If you
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: can take the time to write to me, I'm going
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: to take the time to write back and talk about them.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: Now we talked about famous Staten Islanders, right? Well, the
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: talk back in the morning and winner of the Curtis
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Lee and Larry Menti in the morning t-shirt wanted to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: remind us of four more.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 11: You're forgetting the big four.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure all the impractical jokers are from Staten Island.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: He's correct.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 11: They are.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: Yep. We had one of the practical jokers on the show.
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  Speaker 5: It's a fun show.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan, but, you know, when I've
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  Speaker 1: This is for me. Yeah. 15 cups of coffee a day.
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