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Opening Segment 10/27/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Slewa, Menti, morning starts here.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Slewa and Larry Menti in the morning on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Larry and Natalie yesterday. Natalie Migliore was sampling opinions with
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  Speaker 2: the rebirth redevelopment of the Port Authority that is causing
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  Speaker 2: chaos for New Jersey folks coming in to the Lincoln Tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: And today, you should have seen our own Natalie, producer.
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  Speaker 2: I saw fire and smoke coming out of your nostrils
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  Speaker 2: and your ears because you were so ticked off at
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  Speaker 2: what has now happened as a result of this maybe
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  Speaker 2: years-long redevelopment.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, what is the reason for the— it' s not the backup there.
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  Speaker 3: That's still Gateway, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's both now.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's been Gateway for a long time. And they
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  Speaker 3: haven't really started the other one.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But so something definitely has changed in the past week because.
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  Speaker 3: It's gotten a lot worse. They just closed down different roads.
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  Speaker 3: The one we use, they go back and forth and
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  Speaker 3: back and forth and back and forth. It's the same construction.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the Lincoln Tunnel, as we know, was built
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  Speaker 5: a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's.
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  Speaker 5: The Helix is probably not the best for the amount
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  Speaker 5: of traffic that's coming in.
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  Speaker 3: Right. But we deal.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're going to have two major projects going on
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  Speaker 5: right on the other side of the tunnel. This is insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you could do.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to get worse because they're going to start
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  Speaker 3: closing down some of the tunnels. That's the next phase
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  Speaker 3: in this. Right now the phase is in the outside tunnel. Um, and,
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  Speaker 3: and so what they do is there's only two ways
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  Speaker 3: when you get out of the tunnel, you can take
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  Speaker 3: a right, you can take a left, right? That's the
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  Speaker 3: only two ways you can go. And they've been cutting
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  Speaker 3: off one at a time. And we like to go
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  Speaker 3: to the left when we get out and that's cut off.
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  Speaker 5: You know what? I'll go anywhere that doesn't take me
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  Speaker 5: 20 minutes at 4.30.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning to get somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm there at 4.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: Well, honestly, the traffic, you should not be sitting in traffic,
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  Speaker 5: dead stop traffic, you know, in 4 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Just you shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Chris. I don't know, Larry. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what anybody's going to do about this.
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  Speaker 5: Probably nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what they could do?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe put some more public transportation from New Jersey coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Which they don't.
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  Speaker 5: I live in northern New Jersey, probably one of the
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  Speaker 5: most populated, densely populated areas in the country. I cannot
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  Speaker 5: take a bus or a train from anywhere near my
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  Speaker 5: house before 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of buses just not near your house.
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  Speaker 3: There's something they have against you because when I leave here,
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  Speaker 3: there's a line of buses I can't believe. And they're
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  Speaker 3: all in that single lane on the Helix. All of
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  Speaker 3: them are in that single lane. There must be 50
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  Speaker 3: buses that go all the way back to the turnpike. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: enough complaining.
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  Speaker 5: If you're coming through the Lincoln Tunnel, just brace yourself.
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, you're right. And you got pushed back so
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  Speaker 3: far today, you didn't even miss the discount on congestion pricing.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 5: To really add insult to injury, I usually get in
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  Speaker 5: before 5, so you only pay $ 2.
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  Speaker 1: 25.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that didn't happen this morning. Nine bucks in their
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  Speaker 5: pockets today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: And the worst thing, well, let me go on because
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  Speaker 3: the other problem is, can they get together and decide
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  Speaker 3: how many projects they're going to do at the same time?
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  Speaker 3: Cause they're also working on the streets. So then you
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  Speaker 3: can only go one way getting out of the Lincoln tunnel.
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  Speaker 3: They make you go to the right or left. And
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  Speaker 3: then sometimes the streets closed right when you get there
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  Speaker 3: because of another project on the, on the, I had
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  Speaker 3: to go all the way over to the East side
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  Speaker 3: to go around and come back to the station. the
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  Speaker 3: other day because there was two streets closed that early
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. And they seem to only do this
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  Speaker 3: stuff overnight, right? It's not like this. There's a certain
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  Speaker 3: hour when they open things up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Usually after 5 a.m., most of the construction is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: put to rest for the night.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so nobody else cares.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, because they have.
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  Speaker 5: Normal congestion because they have more people coming in during
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  Speaker 5: the daytime. So they have their own issues. Obviously, people
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  Speaker 5: coming in now, you know, it's just starting to build up.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it is not an easy life here in
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  Speaker 5: the city.
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: It is not.
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  Speaker 3: There's always something. It's always something. Now, does this– when
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  Speaker 3: the winter starts, do they stop a lot of these projects?
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  Speaker 3: Probably not.
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  Speaker 5: Probably not because everybody knows what it looks like. There's
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  Speaker 5: no way of– clearing it up now. They have cranes
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  Speaker 5: up and holes in the ground.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's not just going to go away.
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  Speaker 3: They will go away eventually.
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  Speaker 5: Well, eventually, but not this winter, I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 2: Later in this segment, we're going to talk about How
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey drivers are rated the second worst in the nation.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're all stressed out. Let me talk about Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: who is in a marathon. You and Larry are preparing
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  Speaker 2: for the New York City Marathon, which 710WOR covers from
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  Speaker 2: beginning to end on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: That's like four straight hours. No interruptions whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, when you say preparing... We're not preparing to run,
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  Speaker 5: just so everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're not running this year?
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  Speaker 1: We're preparing to broadcast. Yeah, me with my knee injuries, sure.
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  Speaker 2: But the president has hit 30 sites in 30 days. Today,
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  Speaker 2: two in Texas for Paxton, who's neck and neck with Tallarico.
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  Speaker 2: He came off the barnstorming tour of Mississippi yesterday, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-B-I.
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  Speaker 2: And his voice was hoarse. But he responded as to why, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: exactly why his voice is getting very hoarse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't because of all the appearances. He was
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  Speaker 3: yelling at some foreign dignitary over tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: I feel great.
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  Speaker 4: I was shouting at people because they were stupid about
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  Speaker 4: something having to do with trade and a country, and
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  Speaker 4: I straightened it out. But I blew my stack at
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  Speaker 4: these people.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like there's a follow-up there, but can
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  Speaker 3: I ask you about Venezuela?
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like there's a follow-up there. Can I ask
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  Speaker 1: you about Venezuela?
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  Speaker 4: You said there was a polyp.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big deal if you get a polyp in
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  Speaker 3: your throat. But it's not a polyp.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. He bruised his throat.
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  Speaker 2: And because I've had a lot of throat issues over
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  Speaker 2: the years, anybody, doing talk TV, talk radio. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: remember I said it was Dr. Lederman to the rescue.
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  Speaker 2: I had no voice. 12 midnight. It was Sunday going
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  Speaker 2: into Monday. And then I got my prescription of prednisone,
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  Speaker 2: which is what a lot of people with voice issues
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  Speaker 2: have because they have too much mucus. It covers the
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  Speaker 2: voice box. And that's what causes it. But the other
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  Speaker 2: cause is a bruised throat muscle. And this is what
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump has. Now, it's not like you can
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  Speaker 2: have the MD with the black bag. who follows every president,
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  Speaker 2: who has every miracle you can imagine under the sun,
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  Speaker 2: like they did for Joe Biden, you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: him going with the amphetamines.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Dr. Curtis segment. I didn't know you
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  Speaker 3: could diagnose someone from afar.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I believe the president because I've had bruised vocal cords.
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  Speaker 2: And a bruised vocal cord is like any kind of
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  Speaker 2: bruise you have on your body. There is no miracle
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  Speaker 2: shot or pill that's going to resolve that. It requires
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of rest, of which the president has
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  Speaker 2: no time. Imagine two major speaking engagements today in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, Donald Trump does not give you
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  Speaker 2: the hors d'oeuvres. He gives you the full entree. 90
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  Speaker 2: minutes is considered a short talk. Sometimes he goes two hours.
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  Speaker 2: But this is not unique. JFK in the waning days
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  Speaker 2: of his campaign against Nixon, which was neck and neck,
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  Speaker 2: had his black bag doctor who was giving him all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of shots, including amphetamines, which they claim were B12 shots,
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  Speaker 2: the Upper East Side doctor. And as you know, Bill
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  Speaker 2: Clinton always had allergy problems. He'd lose his voice. Every
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  Speaker 2: antihistamine he takes, Sudafed, everything else. It didn't work at times.
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  Speaker 2: But this is.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be a real test for the president.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think so? I think he's going to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: He's dealt with this kind of stuff before, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and so. I think if he thought he couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 3: he wouldn't even give the speech. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: they do with him and they must do something. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what treatments he goes through. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if he gets shots. But man, the guy has an
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  Speaker 3: immense amount of energy. And every time you think exactly
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying, because he's had voice problems before. Every
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  Speaker 3: time you think, well, that guy's got to give it up.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to take a night off. He doesn't, and
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  Speaker 3: he's fine. So there must be some regimen he's on.
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  Speaker 3: There must be something the doctors do to bring him back.
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  Speaker 3: Because I guarantee you, he's going to be speaking later
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  Speaker 3: tonight or later today, and he's going to be just fine.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see?
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  Speaker 2: Now, he has been known to take Sudafed, which a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people take. I forget what the other one is.
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  Speaker 2: People have allergies. My wife has allergies.
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  Speaker 1: I forget.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with a C. Same kind of effect in
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  Speaker 2: a way. It dries up all the mucus and all
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  Speaker 2: the inflammation that you have.
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  Speaker 1: But I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: Two in one day for Paxton, who now has to
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  Speaker 2: spend all of his time in rural areas because that
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  Speaker 2: was considered originally a slam dunk. You know, Tallarico has
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  Speaker 2: the urban areas. That's a Democratic vote and probably the
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  Speaker 2: deciding vote in a negative. race in Texas will be
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  Speaker 2: the growing suburbs. But the president has got to get
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  Speaker 2: the MAGA vote up because Abbott, who's running for governor,
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  Speaker 2: also a neck-and-neck race, unexpected, is not throwing a lifeline
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  Speaker 2: to Paxton. Neither are a lot of the traditional Republicans, Corrin,
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  Speaker 2: the Bush family. So, man, this is quite a race.
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  Speaker 2: And the president is probably going to be at his
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  Speaker 2: MAGA best in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be quite a race, except it's this.
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  Speaker 3: Telerico has now been sliding the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: ever since he took that time off. And he really
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  Speaker 3: has not regrouped from that. I thought it was desperate
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  Speaker 3: that he was doing that ad trying to get Paxton
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  Speaker 3: to debate with him because that's the only shot he has.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree with you. I think this is now Paxton's
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  Speaker 3: to lose because it's just ridiculous. It's going the wrong
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  Speaker 3: way for Telerico. His poll numbers are just starting to
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  Speaker 3: slide and starting to go the wrong way. So it's
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  Speaker 3: bad this time in a campaign when the poll numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we doubted Telerico the 12 days he
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  Speaker 2: was off the campaign trail for that super flu.
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  Speaker 1: You know who just came down with it?
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  Speaker 2: Tom Jones, he had to cancel his dates, his singing
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  Speaker 2: dates in L.A., San Diego. He's got three coming up
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  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. He may not be able to do it,
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  Speaker 2: and his reason, the super flu. Yeah, how old's Tom Jones?
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  Speaker 2: The Tallarico super flu. How old's Tom Jones?
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  Speaker 1: What, in his 80s?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you get the flu and you're in your 80s,
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  Speaker 3: that's a lot different than when you're in your 40s.
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  Speaker 1: I would have held Tom Jones' hands and taken a
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  Speaker 1: flu shot.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine me and Tom Jones holding hands while
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  Speaker 2: he got a flu shot?
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  Speaker 3: When we come back, one of the best characters we've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen on television has died. And a very important
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  Speaker 3: anniversary of someone we all know and love. Plus, a
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  Speaker 3: chance to see comedian John Mulaney at age 25.