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Rob Astorino, WOR and NewsMax host Interview. · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Perfectly imperfect curtis lewa and larry minty in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Guaranteed human on 710 wor.
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  Speaker 1: On the line right now rob astorino former county executive
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  Speaker 1: guy who gave a really good run against andrew evil
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  Speaker 1: eyes cuomo for the governorship and now a fixture at
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  Speaker 1: newsmax and naturally here wor saturdays four to five now
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  Speaker 1: rob as a good republican as you've always been have
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  Speaker 1: you uh heard the call from the RNC and President
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  Speaker 1: Trump to come to Dallas, come to Dallas for the
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  Speaker 1: 9th and the 10th before 9-11, sort of a mini
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  Speaker 1: convention before the president makes the big push to hold
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  Speaker 1: the House and keep the Senate?
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  Speaker 3: I have heard the call, Curtis, but I am not going.
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  Speaker 3: As of now, I am not going. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be interesting. Look, I think Newsmax and Fox will cover it.
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  Speaker 2: You'll have CNN and MSNOW will probably have as little
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  Speaker 2: as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 3: And even with that, with a sourpuss on and distort
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  Speaker 3: whatever is said. And the networks aren't going to cover it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is not a presidential election or nomination convention.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't... Look, I think it's a good idea
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  Speaker 2: to try it. But even before this starts... I just
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  Speaker 2: saw a poll yesterday, I think it was the Harvard-Harris poll.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans in the generic ballot there with likely voters
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  Speaker 2: are actually winning on the ballot against Democrats. And some
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  Speaker 2: of the other polls that I've seen, just the other
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  Speaker 2: public polls, the numbers are starting to come down, they're getting.
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  Speaker 3: A little closer.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe things are actually heading in the right direction
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  Speaker 2: as people are starting to really understand what's at stake here.
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  Speaker 2: And as you got the El-Sayeds and the others on
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  Speaker 2: the left, getting a lot of attention and people.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, what, what did they
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  Speaker 3: just say?
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, I guess Labor Day is their traditional
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  Speaker 2: kickoff and we're, we're here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not as optimistic as you are. And I follow
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  Speaker 4: the cook report. Like I follow box scores and they
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  Speaker 4: don't paint a really good picture right now. It used
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  Speaker 4: to be 15 toss-ups. That was just a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago. Now there are 21 toss-ups in the house.
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  Speaker 4: 16 of them are Republican seats. And then when you
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  Speaker 4: go to the Senate, it used to be four. Now
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  Speaker 4: it's six. Five of the six are Republican seats. There's
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  Speaker 4: some horrible numbers right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but remember the Cook Report and those like it,
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  Speaker 2: Sabato and others, it's a subjective measure on what they
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  Speaker 2: go lean Democrat, lean Republican, To some extent. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they try to use an aggregate of the polls, but
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  Speaker 2: then they also try to use whatever formulas they decide
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  Speaker 2: to use.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's not a great mood right now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it is.
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  Speaker 2: If it were tomorrow, the election, I think Republicans would
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  Speaker 2: lose the House. I still think they're going to hold
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. Honestly, Texas is going to be Texas in
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  Speaker 2: the end.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a little closer.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I've talked to people in Texas who have
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  Speaker 2: seen the inside numbers. They are not happy where things
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  Speaker 2: are right now. But there's still a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: to play out, and a lot of voters do vote
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  Speaker 2: the way they normally do.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing with Alaska. Michigan is a real pickup opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina is a little closer than people think. And
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  Speaker 2: Trump won that state three times. So there are still
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  Speaker 2: plenty of runway left.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Asciarino, let's look at the election prospects for 2028. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to look at J.D. Vance, again,
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  Speaker 1: our vice president, as the spokesperson for the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: until they find a permanent one. What is this weird
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  Speaker 1: obsession he has with Tucker Carlson? I cannot seem to
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  Speaker 1: treat him like dandruff, you know, like, yeah, we were friends, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's gone his own way. He's no longer
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Republican Party. He's been ostracized by Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Why this continued, almost like open friendship with him that
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  Speaker 1: is not being received well by a lot of Republicans?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, I think we need to put this
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  Speaker 2: rumor to bed or just make the damn announcement and
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  Speaker 2: get it over with.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, are you taking over for Caroline Leavitt or not?
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  Speaker 1: No, but it might be Maria Bartolome after that announcement
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  Speaker 1: that she's gone yesterday unexpectedly from Fox.
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  Speaker 4: Could you imagine Curtis in that job? Could you imagine?
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  Speaker 4: The reporters wouldn't get a word in.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, but he would say, let me just
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  Speaker 3: say this. I totally disagree with.
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  Speaker 2: The president on this one.
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  Speaker 3: That job would last a lot less than Scaramucci's.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. But why this obsession that J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: has in not wanting to detach himself from Tucker Carlson?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: J.D. Vance's son works for Carlson, I believe. No, Carlson's
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  Speaker 2: son works in J.D.
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  Speaker 3: 's office.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a family connection there, too. Now, with the
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  Speaker 2: problems that Tucker Carlson, who has a big following, though,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, but the problems that he has kind
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  Speaker 2: of caused the Republicans and Trump, I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: Trump hasn't pulled him in at one of these lunches
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  Speaker 2: and said to J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance, you know, hey... What are you doing here? But
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  Speaker 3: here's the but. Is there any relationship that can't be repaired, i.e.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Cohen, Elon Musk?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, does anyone not think that Tucker Carlson might
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  Speaker 2: be speaking at the next convention or having a press conference?
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, there was a really important meeting at the White
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  Speaker 4: House this week, and that was Donald Trump with the
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  Speaker 4: oil executives. I just went through the transcripts. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: really read them thoroughly, but I went through just to
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  Speaker 4: see if it jumped out with the president putting some
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  Speaker 4: pressure on them to bring down gas prices. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: find anything right now, but I can't believe that's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because the torture chamber is not in the Oval
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  Speaker 2: Office downstairs in the White House where the Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: took them and they were hooked up. You know, and
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  Speaker 2: here's the other thing that the vice president yesterday, I think,
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  Speaker 2: had an opportunity to kind of do. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the headlines, the vice president says nobody cares. The administration
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  Speaker 2: doesn't care about gas prices. Obviously, that's not true. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a real direct correlation.
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  Speaker 3: With the American mood.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously the way they might vote between gas prices
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  Speaker 2: and how they'll vote.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen that when it goes down, gas prices, the
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  Speaker 3: mood goes up, which is better for the Republicans. It's
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  Speaker 3: just the opposite. So it's a real issue.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one that I think they've got to not
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  Speaker 2: only pay attention to, which they obviously are with the
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  Speaker 2: oil executives there, but be very cognizant in every word
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  Speaker 2: they say and not kind of blow it off, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: He really did. But that's how it came across, at least,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the headlines.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that the gas prices are actually going
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  Speaker 4: to come down, and I think they're going to come
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  Speaker 4: down for several reasons. That torture chamber might be reason
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  Speaker 4: number one. I think there's going to be some heavy
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  Speaker 4: pressure on the oil companies after all the things that
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump has done for them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, think of this one thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, who would the oil and gas industry prefer
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  Speaker 2: to be in charge? Republicans or Democrats who will go
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  Speaker 2: after them With a vengeance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even if they've made a ton.
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  Speaker 2: Of profit with oil price rises, they could eat some
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  Speaker 2: profit over the next month or so to bring down gas.
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  Speaker 2: And that would be to their own benefit. I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 2: you have to think about the long run. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: a CEO of a company, oil and gas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good point.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, appreciate it, Rob Astorino. Again, catch him
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  Speaker 1: here at WOR this Saturday, 4 to 5. Same time,
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  Speaker 1: same place next week. Rob, it'll be 9-11 and obviously
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  Speaker 1: a very solemn occasion.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 3: Have a wonderful weekend, guys. You too.