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Hour 1: Midterm campaigning · 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. And 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. But just
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  Speaker 3: going down the shore.
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  Speaker 1: Who? Curtis? Does Curtis still wear the beret when he
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  Speaker 1: goes to the beach?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he wears the satin jacket and the beret and he
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  Speaker 1: walks along all the slightly clad people. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say nude, but that's not true. Slightly clad people.
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  Speaker 4: 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? Sure.
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  Speaker 4: No, 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 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Yes!
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  Speaker 1: And your daughter's already been a couple times?
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  Speaker 4: She's been to two already. This will be number three.
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  Speaker 4: She's got a couple of more later.
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  Speaker 1: She must be rich.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, she's got some connections, some She's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say, well, you got to say, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: 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 4: 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. So this is
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  Speaker 3: your probably only opportunity to ever do this. And I
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  Speaker 3: said to her, cause she said, is this a little ridiculous?
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  Speaker 3: I said, Yeah, probably, but why not?
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  Speaker 5: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: You're young and have fun. This is great. You'll remember
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  Speaker 4: this for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Do it.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand percent. I agree a thousand percent. It's this
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  Speaker 1: age when you get to do these type of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's later in life that 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 doing the
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  Speaker 3: same exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: So are you a Harry Styles fan?
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 5: You are?
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 7: 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. What a great
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  Speaker 1: night that's going to be. By the way, it might
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  Speaker 1: rain tonight. It's okay.
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  Speaker 4: 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 4: 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: there was an American Eagle Jeans. Is that the name
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  Speaker 1: of it? American Eagle Jeans?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, when she talked about she has great
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  Speaker 1: jeans and that became a huge controversy. It was the
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  Speaker 1: best thing that ever happened to American Eagle. And it
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  Speaker 1: was the best thing that ever happened to Sidney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden she became a huge star. So
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  Speaker 1: there is a new company named Novig that is sports betting.
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  Speaker 1: So they hired her because they're thinking maybe she could
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  Speaker 1: do the same for us that she did for American Eagle.
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  Speaker 1: Only in this one, she doesn't have any clothes on.
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  Speaker 1: She just uses sports equipment and her hair to cover
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  Speaker 1: the parts you can't show on TV.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking of sports?
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  Speaker 1: Prove it.
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  Speaker 4: Novig is just sports.
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  Speaker 6: So they wanted to.
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  Speaker 8: 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 i've.
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  Speaker 9: Lost almost 300 games 26 times i've been trusted to
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  Speaker 9: take the game winning shot and missed.
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  Speaker 5: I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why I succeed. That ended up being
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  Speaker 1: a 20-year relationship, and that made him hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. It made Nike billions of dollars. And later on,
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  Speaker 1: they got Tiger Woods for golf as well. And so
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  Speaker 1: Nike has been brilliant at this. Now, another one I
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  Speaker 1: want to bring up, and this was Sidney Sweeney before
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  Speaker 1: there was a Sidney Sweeney. She was young. This was controversial.
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  Speaker 1: It is a Calvin Klein ad with Brooke Shields.
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  Speaker 10: You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Calvin Klein jeans.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how old was she in then?
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  Speaker 4: She was too young.
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  Speaker 1: 14 or 15 or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's the whole thing about that ad. I mean, her mom,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this girl's 14 years old. Would you ever
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  Speaker 4: do that to your kid?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I don't think so. It's
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  Speaker 1: 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 7: My George Foreman Grills, America's favorite grilling machines, are.
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  Speaker 4: Number one on everyone's list.
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  Speaker 1: Moms want them. Dads want them. Grandmas want them. Even
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  Speaker 1: college kids. It's great for the whole family.
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  Speaker 4: I love the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: He's so good.
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  Speaker 4: This was commercial.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't he great?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know what? Everybody did want one. Moms
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  Speaker 4: wanted one. College kids wanted one. He was right.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wanted one. Did you ever have one?
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  Speaker 4: Of course I had one.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have one, Crash? Go guess.
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  Speaker 4: 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 4: Well, and it's funny.
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  Speaker 9: I had one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I used it very often, but we
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  Speaker 4: had one.
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  Speaker 7: 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: you wanted talk about what happened on the subway, anything
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this morning, just go to the iHeartRadio app,
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  Speaker 1: the morning. And while you're on the free iHeartRadio app,
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  Speaker 1: the best talk back of the week, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, as if you couldn't have figured this out
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  Speaker 1: on your own, Curtis Lewa has the day off today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with his schedule, the speeches he has to give,
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  Speaker 1: he just was not available for this morning. So, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have a great weekend. When we come back, Well,
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  Speaker 1: a New Jersey girl has created a new American girl doll.
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  Speaker 1: A little girl did this all on her own. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. You're going to hear from her next. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: a chance to hear Stevie Wonder see Stevie Wonder and
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  Speaker 1: hear Stevie Wonder at a sold-out MSG concert at 825.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be giving away tickets. Also, our 2026 iHeartRadio Music
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  Speaker 1: Festival presented by Capital One. Relive all the biggest moments
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  Speaker 1: of that concert. And there were many streaming on Disney
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  Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu. You can go and watch it right
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  Speaker 1: now if you want. I'll tell you what. If you
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  Speaker 1: feel like maybe you haven't done enough in life, I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to make you feel worse.
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  Speaker 9: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. There is this 11-year-old in New Jersey. 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 4: 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 4: Oh, she kept them all.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so smart.
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  Speaker 4: 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 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: She wants to keep them, you know, maybe hand them
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  Speaker 4: down one day.
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  Speaker 1: What would her price be?
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  Speaker 4: 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 4: 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. 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 6: I didn't really like the clothes that my mom would
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  Speaker 6: pick out for me, especially for school. So I started
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  Speaker 6: paying attention of what my grandma would do on the
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  Speaker 6: 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 couture couture yeah um
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  Speaker 1: with support and guidance from harlem's fashion.
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  Speaker 4: Row 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 3: I want to see her in 10 years because she's
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  Speaker 3: going to be amazing. I'd love to see her family.
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  Speaker 3: Who's supporting her? Who's pushing her, encouraging her? Because it's
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  Speaker 3: got to come from somewhere. But yeah, in 10 years,
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  Speaker 3: this girl's going to be 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 4: 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 4: Oh, okay, that way. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Who is Tayana Taylor?
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  Speaker 4: 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 4: You know, good for them. This is amazing. And you
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  Speaker 4: know what?
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  Speaker 3: She's going to put that out there, and these women
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  Speaker 3: are going to reach out to her, and guess what?
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  Speaker 4: She's going to 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 4: I want to learn how to sew.
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  Speaker 1: You should go.
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  Speaker 4: I think I will.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be so cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you have to do a video.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If you go there, you have to do a video.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to find out.
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  Speaker 1: In October. Let me get the details. All right. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to your talkbacks. We played some ads and what
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  Speaker 1: were the best endorsements ever. And this one I forgot,
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  Speaker 1: but man, is it a good one.
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  Speaker 8: One celebrity endorsement that gets overlooked, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 8: to modern pop culture would be Bob Dole, who was
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  Speaker 8: 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 him,
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  Speaker 1: 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 5: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that.
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  Speaker 10: I think one of the greatest promos was Michael Jackson
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  Speaker 10: and Pepsi. Michael Jackson brought Pepsi back into contention with Coca-Cola.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. That's another great one. They were awesome. Unbelievable ads,
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  Speaker 1: and he made a fortune on it. So did Pepsi, though.
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  Speaker 1: Pepsi made more.
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  Speaker 5: To bring out my little Brooklynese here, haters gotta hate.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: That's just all it is. Haters gotta hate.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what he's talking....
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: When you look that good, haters gotta hate.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Sarah didn't mean to interrupt. He's talking about Sarah
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Sweeney and the blowback on her ad where she's basically naked,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: but it's women that are upset about it. And the
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: same women that say, you know, your body, your choice.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: They're the same women that don't like that ad. Well,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: now let's get to Daria Aubinger with the 630 News.
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: Daria.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Morning, Larry.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I was going to say good morning, Curtis, but he's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: not there. Good morning, Ira. You can still. He'll hear you.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's listening. I'm positive.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: He probably is.
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: Partly cloudy, warm, and humid showers later today.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: We'll see a high of 83 degrees.
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: President Trump with a prediction 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 come pouring down.
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: The president making that prediction while he was campaigning in
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: Oklahoma ahead of the midterms. His comments come after he
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: gave Iran a dire warning. He said, accept a fair
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: deal or, and I'm going to quote here, cease to exist.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: More U.S.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: Troops are headed to the Middle East, including another aircraft carrier,
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: the USS Theodore Roosevelt. That would be three aircraft carriers
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: in the region. New York Governor Hochul says she's lost
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: confidence in the prosecutors involved in the alleged Cornell University
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: gang rape case, so she's taking that case out of
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: their hands. The governor has signed an executive order that
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: appoints State Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. A
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: freight train derailed in Jersey City.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Conrail reporting that nine cars jumped their tracks Thursday night
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: in New Jersey's second largest city. The freight train system
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: says the cars were all empty and it all happened
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: on Conrail's own property near the intersection of 10th and
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: Brunswick streets. In fact, they say no public roads or
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: crossings were impacted. Conrail is, of course, investigating. Andrew Whitman,
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: WOR News.
• 18:16
  Speaker 11: The Labor Department's September jobs report will be released this morning.
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: Most analysts are expecting a gain of about 84,000 jobs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: That would be down considerably from the 162,000 that were
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: created last month. Are you looking to boost your workout?
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: This might sound counterintuitive, but experts say it works. Have
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: 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 boosts, But it is Halloween season,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and candy is in easy reach. I'm Bree Tennis.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: By the way, they're saying one ounce of candy.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: One ounce.
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: That's not really much at all. Devils and Rangers win.
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: 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... going away and i want to thank
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the dawns my wife dawn and also dawn fantasia who
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is an assemblywoman in suffolk county she's getting extremely well
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: known and she's been yelling about this for a a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: long long time the two dawns are friends and My wife, Dawn,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is the one that passed it along to me, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it came from Dawn Fantasia. So thank you. This is
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: what she posted just yesterday on social media. Actually, last night.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Newark Public Schools audit released. And this goes from the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: dates of July 2022 to May of 2026. And there
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: are certain matters, and it says this in the audit,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: certain matters that they found have been referred to the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Division of Criminal Justice. So there may be people that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: are going to be indicted because of the way they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: have been running the Newark schools. We shall wait and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: we shall find out. But let me just go through
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: some of the headlines before I get into the details.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: There were no bid contracts. So things that were supposed
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to be bid on, they didn't take bids. So they
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: allowed people to have it, allegedly giving it to friends
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: or giving it to somebody that would give them a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: kickback maybe. So they wouldn't have to take bids and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: take somebody they didn't like. They had required board approval
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for certain things and they ignored that. So they wanted
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to run this place the way they wanted to run it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and the suspicion is that there was corruption going on,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and that's why they didn't want board approval, and that's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: why they didn't want bid contracts. On many of the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: people hired, and there's 10 that are talked about in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the audit, they didn't do criminal background checks, even though
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: they are required by law. Now, why would that happen?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Why would you do that? If you're going to do
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: criminal background checks on everybody, Why would you skip them
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: on certain people? And of course, the allegation would be
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: these are friends or cronies or somebody that you want
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to pay off and you're giving either their son or
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: someone that they know or they themselves a job to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: pay them back for whatever they did for you. They
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: overstated student enrollment by a lot. So they had empty
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: seats in the classrooms and And yet they claim there
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: were people in those classrooms that weren't there. Why would
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: 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
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you go to any big city school, especially under the Democrats,
• 23:45
  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.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Employee gym.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: An employee gym, not for the kids.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: 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 4: 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 4: 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 4: And a museum that no one would ever want to
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: go to anyway.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: $ 6. 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
• 26:05
  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
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: million in catering. They just were using all of the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: funds that were supposed to go to students and schools
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: for their own personal use and then lying about it.
• 26:58
  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 Enten 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... They'd 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
• 28:12
  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 or both.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Because anger fuels the other side. And so the Democrats
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: are inspired. He needs to get the Republicans inspired. So
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: why did he go to Oklahoma? And why did he
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: go to Alabama? Because it's a national campaign. It's going
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to get covered nationally. And he knows this will be
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: played in all those other states you're talking about. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: if you... want to have the best showing for what's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: going to turn out to be a Trump and the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Republican TV commercial played all across the country on Netflix.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you want the most loving crowds. You want the best
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: situation possible. And so Alabama and Oklahoma are going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: be the stage for what in essence is a Donald
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Trump and Republican commercial. And so that's why it makes sense.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: It's just people that really want to attack Donald Trump
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: on anything. You know, oh, it's so stupid. Why is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: he going to Oklahoma? They have no close races there.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Just think. Think it out. So if he's not a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: stupid person and the strategists aren't stupid and the Republican
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: National Committee isn't stupid, they're doing it for a reason.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And the reason is they know it's going to be
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: played across the country. And we're going to talk about
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it here in New York. But you got to get
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: out and vote.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: But I really came here to pay my respect to
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: a place, really to a place.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That I love and I appreciate. So that's why I'm here.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And it was a love fest. It was a love
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: fest from the very beginning. And listen, Donald Trump knows
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that among the MAGA base, he has 98% not only approval,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: but love. I mean, they would do anything for this man.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: The MAGA base is very supportive of of Donald Trump.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And because of that, he doesn't want to get, he
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't want the message to get lost that this could
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: affect him. This could cause his impeachment. And so this
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: is what he says. You've heard him say this before,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: but he's going to say this over and over and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: over again.
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: And in this election, I'm asking you to just, here's
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: what happened. We do great when I'm on the ballot.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: When I'm not on the ballot, people don't go and
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: vote so much. Pretend I'm running, please.
• 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 7: But we stayed longer because we didn't want to have
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: a short-term victory. We don't want to Leave that mess
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: to another president that wouldn't do what we did because
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: other presidents should have done this a long time.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Before I came along. Now think of that. No other
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: president would have done that. Not one. Not one. Every
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: one of them would have pulled out early so it
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: wouldn't mess up the midterm elections. But he's not. He
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: has a goal. He wants to make sure they don't
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: have nuclear weapons. And he's going to stay in there.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: 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.