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Hour 2: Republicans may need a break · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, the list of people that potentially are going to
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  Speaker 1: be running for president, and remember, at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections, that's the starting bell. That's the starting
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  Speaker 1: gun going off for the race for president. And you've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of people already flexing, including Ron DeSantis
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  Speaker 1: that we played yesterday. There's no question at this point
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  Speaker 1: that Ron DeSantis is running for president. I think we
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  Speaker 1: knew that all along, but he's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: head start on people in the Trump administration because he's
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  Speaker 1: able to raise money now. But the list is long,
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  Speaker 1: and Curtis yesterday had what seemed like an over-the-top prediction
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  Speaker 1: of 20 for the Democrats, and yet they just put
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  Speaker 1: up potential candidates— on CNN or on Fox, and there
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  Speaker 1: were 18 of them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's because they didn't put up Don Lemon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. That makes 19. And then take one other
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  Speaker 2: spiritual healer, you know, sort of like low budget, Oprah Winfrey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and now you got 20.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I'm not sure either of them are
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  Speaker 1: going to run because they need some money for that.
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  Speaker 1: And Don Lemon, I know, is hurting for money. So
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  Speaker 1: he's probably not going to run. And Oprah, her name's
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  Speaker 1: always thrown out there. But there always are people that
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  Speaker 1: run that you don't see coming, like Ben Carson.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. You know, or like Marianne Williamson. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple of people. was ahead in the polls,
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  Speaker 2: was beating, remember, Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump went
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  Speaker 2: to work on him. He didn't care. Black guy, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I got to take him down.
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  Speaker 2: But Ben Carson, probably one of the nicest guys you'd
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  Speaker 2: ever want to know. Quick side story. I got hit
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  Speaker 2: with a drone. I was doing a commercial for Major
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  Speaker 2: World and a drone came down and I had to
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  Speaker 2: the cowboy from Times Square, and I had the Omega guy. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the drone films, it comes right eyeball with you.
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  Speaker 2: And the drone attacked me and cut me right near
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  Speaker 2: the jugular. And then it went back and then it
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  Speaker 2: came at me again. I knocked out the drone. The
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  Speaker 2: guy who operated the drone was crying. You killed my drone.
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  Speaker 2: So I went and I ran into Dr. Carson and
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  Speaker 2: I was bleeding profusely and I opened it up and
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  Speaker 2: he said, Come on, Curtis, you've had worse.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: I said, hey, you're the best doctor around. And I
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  Speaker 2: didn't even use a butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just it just bleeds a lot when you get it.
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  Speaker 1: When you get a neck injury, it bleeds a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And for the Republicans, just real quickly for the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the Curtis might be right around the
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  Speaker 1: 10 mark because there's some people jumping into the race.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like we're going to run. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Christie, who probably don't have a shot, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a way of making some money and getting some
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  Speaker 1: attention for yourself. So I think there's three or four
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  Speaker 1: for the Republicans that are so far out in front,
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  Speaker 1: except that, man, what about the shock of Marco Rubio?
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio. Yesterday, there was stories that he was from
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  Speaker 1: high sources and from good sources that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to step down and he was going to start his election.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the air with my wife, actually, when
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  Speaker 1: that happened. She told me that and I went smart.
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  Speaker 1: That's really smart because you separate yourself from the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: If anything goes wrong, he's not there. And then you
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  Speaker 1: also get to start raising money before anybody else. So
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  Speaker 1: it's brilliant. And then, of course, right away, he turned
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  Speaker 1: around and said, no, not doing it. I'm staying here.
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  Speaker 2: You know my policy. I don't trust any politicians. They
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  Speaker 2: say one thing and do another. So he said, as
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  Speaker 2: you said, I'm not leaving. I'm going to fill out
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  Speaker 2: my term. I will not talk about 2028 anymore. And
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  Speaker 2: back in May, he said, J.D. is a very good
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: If J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Runs for president, I think he would be a phenomenal candidate.
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  Speaker 2: I've said publicly, and I'll say it again. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: was in May. This could change. I'll be the first
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  Speaker 2: person to sign up and support him. But we've seen
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  Speaker 2: these things change in every election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Although a J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio ticket is a very,
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  Speaker 1: very strong ticket, unless, unless, we have to see how
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  Speaker 1: the next two years go. Because if the next two
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  Speaker 1: years are bad, and there's no telling, Obama's had bad
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  Speaker 1: first two years, had a great last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: that happened to Eisenhower. There's been so many people that
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  Speaker 1: have had bad two first years and then great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: great third and fourth years, but if they're bad, it
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  Speaker 1: would hurt that ticket immensely.
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  Speaker 2: Going based on your prognostication of how important Rubio would
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  Speaker 2: be as the Latino candidate with the best chance to
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  Speaker 2: be the first Latino president, in Trump's campaign 2024, Trump
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  Speaker 2: got 54% of the male Latino vote, 44% went to Harris.
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  Speaker 2: When they extrapolated the events across the country in the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats now have the Latino men 56% to 41%.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gone back to what it originally was. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think J.D. Vance gets the Latinos back or any
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  Speaker 2: of the others.
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio does. And Marco Rubio, even his vice president, does.
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  Speaker 1: He would be the highest elected, either way, the highest
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  Speaker 1: elected Latino ever. And just that last name, I know
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  Speaker 1: this from talking to consultants, that last name is going
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  Speaker 1: to get Latino votes.
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  Speaker 2: I'll move out of the way, because even though J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance issued his manifesto, which said we made a mistake
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  Speaker 2: in Iran, inflation, and we have to redo our relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Israel, that he put out on Truth Social, which
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  Speaker 2: is the president's informational line, apparently with the OK of
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump. He's not He just said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was important we go to war in Iran. But, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, DeSantis, could you wait for the starting firing gun?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no. He had a press conference first.
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  Speaker 1: Then he's been on every TV channel and network you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine. He is absolutely already running, and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to get a head start in fundraising over everybody. As
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  Speaker 1: he flies out of the starting gate, he was fascinating
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  Speaker 1: talking about Vivek Raswami. He is now full. Anti-Republicans in
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  Speaker 1: this midterm election because he's been flexing. I won. They lost.
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  Speaker 1: They made mistakes. I didn't. I'm the man to be president.
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  Speaker 3: How bad did they beat Vivek like a drum? Now,
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  Speaker 3: part of that was Vivek, quite frankly. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why they would have pushed him to be the candidate there.
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  Speaker 2: And then he went on to describe how he is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the candidate of the blue-collar working class.
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  Speaker 2: And Vivek, big tech, AI, AI data filing centers.
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  Speaker 3: My mom's from Youngstown. Ohio is a working class state.
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  Speaker 3: Very blue collar. You know, Vivek, he's like a tech guy.
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  Speaker 3: He did this Alzheimer's and he wants to bring in people,
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  Speaker 3: foreign worker on visas. That is not the type of
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  Speaker 3: person that's going to sell. And I know he shot
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  Speaker 3: himself in the foot. I know he did a lot
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  Speaker 3: of other stuff to make it a real landslide against him.
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  Speaker 3: But even with that, it's like, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to meet the voters where they are in some of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, poor Vivek. All of the potential
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  Speaker 1: candidates are going after him. We forgot about Nikki Haley.
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  Speaker 1: And Nikki Haley now is everywhere as well. She's going
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  Speaker 1: to run again. She went after Vivek.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was getting desperate. I think he did
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  Speaker 4: this ad, which was just immoral. But what he didn't
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  Speaker 4: think about was what he did to the entire ticket
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  Speaker 4: when he did that. I think Husted's going to suffer
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  Speaker 4: because Ramaswamy was so narcissistic and selfish in doing this.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's a shame for the people of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Vivek Ramaswamy. He's dead. He's done.
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  Speaker 2: Remember what the word has always been. If you win Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: you win the presidency. And remember, originally, Ohio was a
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  Speaker 2: purple state, and then it became entirely red. So the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans would always say, we win Ohio, we win the presidency.
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  Speaker 2: And that stood true, except now that's in flux, like
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  Speaker 2: Texas is in flux. But notice, right away, they hit
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  Speaker 2: the Achilles heel, Vivek, the face of the billionaire class,
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  Speaker 2: of the AI class, of the techie class. I'm the
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  Speaker 2: blue-collar guy, DeSantis. No, Haley goes, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: The blue-collar gal. They're going to be fighting for that.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's already started. Oh, absolutely. And this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be every single day. You know what? They're
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  Speaker 1: not going for votes right now. They're going for funds.
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  Speaker 1: They're going for money.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, as you stated, DeSantis is foot
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  Speaker 2: loose and fancy free on January 1st. He's no longer governor.
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  Speaker 2: Haley is no longer an elected official. She can start
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  Speaker 2: fundraising right away. So it's all dialing for dollars. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to be attached to their cell phones. Their ears
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  Speaker 2: will be hermetically sealed as they call up their lists.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. The Republican Party right now is being reset.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that may end up hurting, although I
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  Speaker 1: think they're the frontrunners right now, Both J.D. Vance and
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio. I'm not sure Marco Rubio is going to
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  Speaker 1: run and they're going to they both are going to
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  Speaker 1: read the room. I think J.D. Vance, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: the room is, is going to run no matter what. Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: I think, is going to read the room and then
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  Speaker 1: sit there as a possible vice president for anybody that eventually. wins.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting. It's going to be fascinating over this
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  Speaker 1: next year what the Republican Party does. But Ron DeSantis—
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  Speaker 1: has thrown his hat in the ring as the new
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  Speaker 1: leader of the Republican Party. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 2: And we forgot my favorite GOP favorite is Senator Johnson
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  Speaker 2: of Louisiana. Man, that is the soundbite guy. Remember he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm seriously considering running for president of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you are correct, Kennedy. I am seriously considering. Man,
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  Speaker 2: that is a soundbite machine. And as you know, if
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  Speaker 2: it is a crowded field of 10 who perseveres, The
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  Speaker 2: guy with the soundbites, a.k.a. Donald Trump, when he was
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  Speaker 2: running against, remember, what was it, 13, 14, 16? And
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  Speaker 2: he had the soundbites.
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  Speaker 1: Although I'm not sure Kennedy's going to run. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I told you the old political adage, if anybody asks
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  Speaker 1: you if you're running, you always say yes. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? Because why? Why would you say no?
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  Speaker 1: Of course you would say yes. Oh, I want him
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  Speaker 1: to run.
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  Speaker 2: I really do. That will definitely spark up the campaign,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not sure he's going to. When we come back.
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  Speaker 1: Pizza and pineapple. Pizza and pineapple has always been controversial,
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  Speaker 1: but in Australia, Curtis has that story coming up. Plus
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  Speaker 1: a chance to see Def Leppard and the Goo Goo
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  Speaker 1: Dolls at 825.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Larry, one of the best segments we've ever
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  Speaker 2: done since our relationship was consummated back in March is
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  Speaker 2: about pizza. And you actually acknowledge that, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you like a little pineapple on your pizza.
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  Speaker 1: You are honest. And I eviscerated you.
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  Speaker 2: So now let's go to the land down under Australia,
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  Speaker 2: who they like the Brits and the Irish.
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  Speaker 1: They have no good food.
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  Speaker 2: So they bring over this top Italian chef to run
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  Speaker 2: La Costa, a high-end Italian restaurant. And he's a guy,
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  Speaker 2: he's in the kitchen, he's working. And the Australians, they
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  Speaker 2: want pizza, but they want pineapple on their pizza. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the orders came back. We want pineapple
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  Speaker 2: on our pizza. The chef comes out to them like
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  Speaker 2: the soup Nazi. No pineapple for you. This is an
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  Speaker 2: insult to my culture. He actually comes out.
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  Speaker 1: He's shouting. He's yelling. What? Pineapple on pizza? This is
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  Speaker 1: all this.
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  Speaker 2: He gets fired and then he goes before Australia's Fair
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  Speaker 2: Work Commission. And they agreed with his employer that you're fired.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he hasn't left Australia.
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  Speaker 2: He just found an Italian restaurant that does not have
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  Speaker 2: pizza with whatever you want to put on it. It's
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  Speaker 2: like designated pizza. But they love pineapple on their pizza.
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  Speaker 2: So if you ever decide to resettle, Larry, Australia is
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  Speaker 2: the place for you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, California does too. That's the only place I've really
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  Speaker 1: had it is in California. California loves pineapple on their pizza.
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  Speaker 1: And I tried it and it just tastes like pineapple.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you. I like pineapple. The worst food. England, Ireland, Australia.
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  Speaker 2: They have a spread called Vegemite, the craft created here
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  Speaker 2: in America.
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  Speaker 1: No Americans would eat it. It's the worst.
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  Speaker 2: So they said, let's give it to the prisoners colony.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they were raised with gruel in Australia, which
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  Speaker 2: is true. That's what they ate as prisoners. They love Vegemite.
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  Speaker 2: They put it on everything. It's the only place in
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  Speaker 2: the world where it's sold. And today I will be
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  Speaker 2: interviewed by Australian TV about this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. As I come to the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just ask you, did you want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Australian food to say that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And to defend my kumbadichich, David Tambarella of Italia,
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  Speaker 2: where they know what real pizza is.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, the only voice for New York would be
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  Speaker 5: Archie Bunker.
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  Speaker 6: Prove me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Archie Bunker would be great to have right now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: hold on. Hold on. We have one.
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  Speaker 2: It's Constantino. If you don't know who he is, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to know real quick. He replaced Elise Stefanik upstate.
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  Speaker 1: I warned you, Larry. I've never heard or seen a
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  Speaker 1: worse candidate than this guy. Well, I saw him yesterday
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  Speaker 1: at his victory speech, and he said this about Mom Donnie. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to set this up. He is dressed like
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  Speaker 1: a pro wrestler almost. And everybody around him are like
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  Speaker 1: the helping people of pro wrestlers. And the crowd is
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  Speaker 1: like a wrestling crowd. And this is what he said
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  Speaker 1: to Mamdani.
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  Speaker 6: I know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: You know who I am. And like I said, the
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  Speaker 1: last time there was a battle between North and South.
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  Speaker 6: The North won.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the North, you're in the South. I know
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  Speaker 1: who you are. You ain't messing with me. And he
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  Speaker 1: threw down the mic. And be honest. He threw down
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  Speaker 1: the mic.
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  Speaker 2: Most of what he said in that long press conference,
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  Speaker 2: we can't air.
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  Speaker 1: It was all curses.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But how about that? I know where you are. You
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  Speaker 1: know where I am. Come find me.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped the mic. You know, he has a rap song,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the worst ever other than Mondami's rap song.
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  Speaker 1: And he is a U.S. congressman. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody is going to have to do. a better job
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  Speaker 6: at explaining what in the world an impeachment does because
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  Speaker 6: it sounds like a lot of noise about nothing. If
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  Speaker 6: you get impeached, nothing happens to you. So what is
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  Speaker 6: the big deal about being impeached? It's so ridiculous. Impeachment.
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  Speaker 1: So what if he's impeached? What does it mean? That's
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  Speaker 1: a really good point. And Curtis had a tremendous point
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  Speaker 1: about why people feel that way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. Clinton got impeached. Trump got impeached.
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  Speaker 2: So even if he gets impeached, what's the big deal?
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you have to leave. What does it, Larry? No,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to leave. You don't have to leave
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  Speaker 2: unless you're convicted in the Senate. You have 67 votes
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate. And that rarely, rarely has happened in
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  Speaker 2: our history. And so No, even if he was impeached,
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  Speaker 2: he probably wouldn't have to leave. Donald Trump may not
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  Speaker 2: want to go through weeks of an impeachment and a
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  Speaker 2: possible conviction because it's going to make him look bad.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to make Hegseth look bad. So as I
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  Speaker 2: said earlier, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think that Ronald Reagan is just going to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, please resign from the grave. Oh, did I
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  Speaker 1: say Ronald Reagan? No, no. I can see Trump saying,
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  Speaker 1: you're my surrogate. Please tell him he's got to go.
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  Speaker 2: I get Trump and Reagan mixed up all the time. Anyway, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know what time it is right now. 7.30 time
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  Speaker 2: for the news with Daria.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Rain today with a high of 68 degrees, so really
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  Speaker 7: the temperature not moving much at all from where it
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  Speaker 7: is right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just take that umbrella. You'll need it.
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  Speaker 7: Police want to know why two people were found shot
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  Speaker 7: to death in an apartment in East Harlem.
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  Speaker 8: Officers responded to a 911 call reporting a previous assault
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  Speaker 8: at a place by 2nd Avenue and 104th Street Thursday night. Inside,
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  Speaker 8: they found a 55-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man dead
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  Speaker 8: with gunshot wounds to the head. There are reports the
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  Speaker 8: woman appeared to be the man's home health aide. Detectives
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  Speaker 8: believe it may be a double homicide. No gun was
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  Speaker 8: found on scene. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
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  Speaker 7: City officials are calling for stricter regulations on e-bikes and scooters,
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  Speaker 7: especially where they can be charged. And it comes after
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  Speaker 7: yesterday's deadly fire in Brooklyn that left six people dead.
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  Speaker 7: There were lithium-ion batteries found in the rubble. President Trump
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  Speaker 7: is still trying to overturn his hush money conviction.
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  Speaker 9: Five New York appellate justices listened to attorneys explain why
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: they should overturn the president's conviction of falsifying business records
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: to cover up hush money payments to Stormy Daniels to
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: sway the 2016 presidential election. The president's lawyers argue federal
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: election law preempts state law. accusing the trial judge of
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: disregarding presidential immunity by allowing testimony from White House officials
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: and tweets to be used as evidence.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: In a case that had nothing to do with official acts.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: If the president loses his appeal, he can take it
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: to the state's highest court of appeals.
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: The government's October employment report is due out in about
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: an hour from now. Analysts are expecting it to show
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: a gain of about 59,000 jobs, which would be up considerably.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: from the 29,000 that were created in September. And the
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: rising cost of veterinary care is pushing more people to
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: buy pet insurance. The North American Pet Insurance Association, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: you know that a lot of people have it if
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: there is such an association, says more than 7 million
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: pets were covered last year. That includes my dachshunds, Cooper,
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Max and Honey, and that is up 9% from the
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: year before. By the way, like everything else, this is
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: getting more expensive too. Premiums are projected to rise 17%
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: this year. Devils and Rangers win.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Islanders lose. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Right on time, Larry.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Our colleague here, WOR, Rob Estorino, who's been through some
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: grueling political battles. But I want to start out first, Rob,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: by saluting your colleague, Mike Lawler, not only for him
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: being so gracious in defeat early in the night, But
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: then I had a chance to explain it because I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: saw it on my own thread with the malfunctioning of
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the machines early on Election Day. The thread was out.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I saw the stop the steal hats. He
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: didn't want to start screaming fraud. The election deniers were out. See,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: they're doing it again. It's 2020. And he said, I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: wasn't going to feed the beast of the conspirators.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Thinking. I knew where my votes were and I knew
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: where they weren't.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And I came out and I acknowledged defeat and I
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: was gracious to my adversary. I thought he really did
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: a service to the whole nation, Robert.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, you know, when.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: I talked to Mike yesterday, we had a nice, good,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: long conversation. I mean, we've been friends for a very
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: long time. And, you know, it's hard. I've been through it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: He's been through it now. And it's $ 65 million was
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: spent in that race all in $ 65 million for that
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: congressional race. And in the end, it honestly, I don't
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: think it would have mattered if they put a billion
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: dollars into that congressional race. It was what it was
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: on Tuesday. And it was just You know, when you
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: watch those like zombie movies, it opens up. It's like
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: orange on the screen and it's like, you know, tumbleweeds
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: and torn out cities. That's kind of what it looks
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: like for Republicans on Tuesday and Wednesday. Now, it just
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: it was an apocalypse. Almost nothing. Nothing could have changed
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: the outcome or the direction Tuesday.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: We didn't know that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: We knew it was going to be a tough environment.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: None of us knew it was going to be so
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: bad until the first return started.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Coming in in Florida.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: On that note, Mike Lawley yesterday said, Jesus Christ couldn't
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: have won that Republican seat, meaning his seat in the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: 17th Congressional District.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He's right, but Satan won.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't say that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Rob, I can't believe you've played into this whole thing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: An apocalypse?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Seriously?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I heard you guys argue about this yesterday.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Hold on a minute.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Am I talking to Robinson Crusoe?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Listen to me. Listen to me. This has happened to Reagan.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: It has happened to FDR. It's happened to Eisenhower. It's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: actually pretty common. This doesn't make the top 10 possible.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: No, but here's why I think it was very brutal
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: and it could have longer lasting because it wasn't just
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: that we lost particular areas. We lost in the heartland.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: We lost in the Midwest. But more significantly, Texas committed
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: suicide on Tuesday night. Economically, that is the state everyone
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: was going to, which was part of the problem, maybe.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: But what they decided to do, it wasn't just sending
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Tallarico to the Senate. It was literally overturning the entire
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: table and breaking everything. That was working. So up and down,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the Republicans are all out, including in the state legislature.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Texas now, if Texas holds, and in two years, you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: they got a redistrict. Now they control all the redistricting.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: They control all the power statewide for a presidential election.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: So if the Democrats take Texas and the Electoral College vote,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: You tell me how the Republicans are going to win nationally.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: No, I get it. Believe me, I understand it. I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: understand it. I'm just saying that everybody thinks this is historic.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Everybody thinks this is the biggest ever. It's not. It's
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: nowhere close to the biggest ever. There had to be
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: resets many, many, many times. And what happens over the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: next two years is going to determine that. Like when
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Obama had two awful midterms in a row. Yes.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: And by the way, you know, there are you can
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: ride a wave or you could you could be just
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: completely drowned by it. And I've had both when I
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: got elected county executive. I mean, look, we defy the odds. Why?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Because Obama got elected in 0-9. I was I'm sorry,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: in 0-8. I was running the following year and I
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: you know, there was a big issue that I was
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: running on with the HUD settlement. But it was also
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: a backlash against Obama. So I that's how I won
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: in a two and a half to one Democratic county.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: But then in 17, Trump got in. In 16, I'm
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: running for re-election. We had good numbers, but like Mike,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: same thing, good numbers. But you can't keep up with
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: the volume of people coming out to send a message,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: especially the Democrats. And that's kind of what happened. But
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: if you look around the country, Republicans did not come
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: out in many ways. They didn't come out. Some Republicans
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: flipped their vote to Democrats. And independents went, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: went big on to the left. So and obviously Democrats
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: were foaming at the mouth to vote all week. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: you just you cannot keep up with that. Right.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Again, it's happened before, though.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it does.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Your friend, my friend, Mike Lawler's friend, Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: came out firing her Gatling guns. She said there needs
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to be a generational change.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Goodbye, Ed Cox. I will help the GOP get back
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: on its feet. That's great.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: She recommended Mike Lawler become the chairman of the state GOP.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: He's well familiar, as you are, with all 62 counties.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: The battle is on for what is left of the GOP.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: And obviously she took shots at Blakeman. And then Blakeman said, oh, man,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: let me tell you something. She had one moment of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: glory in what was otherwise an unremarkable career.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Blakeman, shut the hell up.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Look, this is what happens when we get our ass kicked, right? Nationally,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: we're going to go through this. Here, nothing's really changed,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: and that's been very frustrating.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It's hard.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're in a blue state, deep blue state.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: It's hard to win as it is. And then when
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: you have divisions, and we've had that in this state
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: party and even with the conservative party. I mean, at
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: times we're battling with the conservative party. We can't win together,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: let alone alone. So That's going to happen. Do I
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: think Ed Cox should stay as chairman anymore? I love Ed.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I've known Ed a long time. I do think it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: time for a change. I do think we need somebody
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: else in there. Whether it's Mike Lawler, I doubt he
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: would do that. I don't know. I don't think he
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: should do that. Quite frankly, I think he should take
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: a very deep breath. You know, go into the back
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: into the real world, provide for your family, relax. He's young.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: He can come back at some point and he should. But,
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: you know, the party has to be, the party has to.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Be fixed nationally.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Now we need to, and here in New York state.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Rob, I don't know if you were listening yesterday. Oh,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of course you were. I mean, why wouldn't you be right?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course you were listening yesterday, but Curtis
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: suggested that you be the new chair of the Republican
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: party in New York city. And I thought to myself,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: New York state, New York state. Yeah. Of course, New
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: York state. And I thought to myself, Why would he
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: possibly do that? He's rolling in the big bucks with
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the seven jobs he has.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Especially the WOR one, right? If there's any sharp objects
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: near you in the studio, Larry, can you pick it
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: up and stab him in the eye?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, there's always Constantino, the last Mega Man standing. Rob,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I've been warning our audience. This is the worst candidate
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. He replaced Stefanik as Trump picked him
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: against the Republican Assemblyman. Ladies and gentlemen, you must go
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: on the thread and see. You think George Santos was bad?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: This guy's 10 times worse.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: You know what? Honestly, and the El-Sayed stuff. Did you
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: see El-Sayed's, quote, victory speech? You know, I've always said
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: thou shall not gloat in victory, nor sulk in defeat.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I just think you have to have grace. He has none.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: El-Sayed screaming in Arabic and telling Mike Rogers to go,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: you know, retire in his 10 homes, which doesn't. exist.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: It's just so frustrating. I mean, we're so far off
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: on moorings in this country, and two years from now,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: that's it. That is the threshold two years from now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: They will hold the Senate, the Democrats. They likely will
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: hold the House. And if a Democrat president gets elected
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: and they have the trifecta, then they're going to do
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: everything that they say they would do. There'll be too
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: much pressure not to, and this country will no longer
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: be I mean, it's not hyperbole anymore to say it
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: because they're telling us what they want to do. So
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: this country will.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You're going to make me stab myself. What are you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: talking about? Is this Rob Astorino?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Well, you don't think they would add Washington, D.C. and
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Puerto Rico?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Of course they will.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: You don't think they'll stack the Supreme Court?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: I do. I do.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to happen. That's all. Listen,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: can we rebuild and be a little bit more optimistic, Rob?
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Not today. I'm so depressed.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Come on, become chairman of the New York State GOP.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Rob. Have a great weekend. Have a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: great show over the weekend. Thank you. Natalie Migliore. Thank
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: God we're going to get a break from politics. Let's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: talk about... A mood elevator. Yeah, exactly. The Christmas tree. Yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore with her beat on the street next.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Elevator Larry was talking Rob Astorino off the George Washington.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: This is a great story. No matter who you are, Republican, Democrat, Independent,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you're going to love it, right?
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: And you know, the perfect thing is leading into the
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: segment was Christmas music, bits of Christmas music. So with
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: skeletons still out.
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: On some doorsteps, not in closets, hopefully, Christmas music.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: Doesn't care because the rockefeller center christmas tree is set
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: to roll into town tomorrow morning check your calendar it's november.
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: 6th so is it too early to be stringing the christmas.
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: Lights absolutely we're not even at thanksgiving yet And I
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: see Christmas lights in my neighborhood.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: So, yes, I think it's too early.
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: Look over at CVS over here. They were celebrating Halloween
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: in July.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Way, way too early.
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: What happened to Thanksgiving?
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: It's all Christmas things.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So every year, they skip over Thanksgiving. Halloween comes and goes.
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: It's like they go right to Christmas and no Thanksgiving.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was the line of the day. CBS was
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: celebrating Halloween in July. He's absolutely right.
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: That actually is what inspired the story.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: I walk past the 57th Street CBS quite often, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: they have Santa Clauses and Mrs. Clauses of all races
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: that you could ever think of in the window.
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: And I was like, we got to ask people what's
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: going on. It's not even Halloween yet.
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: So those poor turkeys overlooked as the Rockettes are once
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: again kicking at Radio City Hall while the holiday market
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: at Bryant Park.
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: Is already in full swing.
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: When is it the right time to start playing Christmas music?
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: You know, after Halloween, that's a good amount of time
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: to get started.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: After Halloween? Doesn't need to be. Any shorter than that?
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: My birthday is November 15th, so I think before my birthday.
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: Doesn't Santa close the Thanksgiving Day Parade? So any time
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: after Thanksgiving.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: Is that okay with you?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: That's right. After Thanksgiving is the appropriate time. Not at
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Light FM.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Up to Cubby, he'd be playing it 24 hours a day,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: every day of the week.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Remember when we were doing the videos? Cubby, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but Light FM traditionally flips its switch to all
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: Christmas music right before Thanksgiving.
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: You took that right out. It was like you were
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: reading what I had down.
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: So when do people start getting sick of the Jingle
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: Bell Rock?
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: December 26th. Because by that time, you've heard it for
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: two months now. Although I haven't heard my first Christmas
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: song yet. But I usually kind of mentally note that date. Like, oh, yes,
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: Christmas music started.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So I used to work at the Tentacle Gardens. And
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: their Christmas playlist is all day, every day. It gets
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: so poignant.
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: I feel like even now when I hear Christmas music,
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: I'm like, all right, let's skip to the next song.
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: Once December rolls around, I'm already over it. I feel
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: like once the new year hits, everybody's ready to just
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: start fresh. So for me, by time January 1st, I
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: don't need to hear it no more.
• 32:13
  Speaker 12: There's some great songs I like from the 80s. George Michael,
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: Mariah Carey. But Jingle Bells and all those things from
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: the old days, I don't need to hear it anymore.
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Unless it's Bruce Springsteen's version.
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: A man who knows what he wants.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You know, Mariah Carey, if she gets to the top
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: of the charts again, she could take on Ella Langley again.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'm back!
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: You know, that I pitch thing as she defrosts.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Nobody attacked the worst Christmas song of all times, Feliz Navidad.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: If I hear that one more time, I will impale
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: myself with this microphone.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Feliz Navidad is the worst Christmas song of all time.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: I would say keep them away from Light FM because
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: we never know when they might randomly be playing Feliz Navidad.
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: And then we have Curtis on a stake and we
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: don't want that before Christmas.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: He hates Silent Night, too.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Well, I guess he's just a big hater. What is
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: your favorite Christmas song, Curtis?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Christmas is not big with me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: We're going to go down the deep roots of why.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Let's move on.
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: Do you have a favorite Christmas song?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: You know what I love? I love the Springsteen song. Okay.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I just love that song. Give that a watch out.
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: That one?
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: Do I sound like him?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was very good.
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: Try it again. No, we'll save the listeners' ears.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Larry, you know Republicans, conservatives, you're going to say, oh, Larry, oh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: you're really a Springsteen fan, even though he supported El-Sayed.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: No, I've said this on the air a million times.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: I love how we've managed to make a holiday story
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: about politics. You've just wrapped it all around.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: The Christmas tree, though, it arrives tomorrow.
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: There is no live GPS tracker on the Christmas tree.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: It comes from upstate New York this year.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: About four hours north of Rockefeller Center, and we're just
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: steps away from it. So we'll see when it arrives.
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: Then it gets under scaffolding for a couple weeks, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: then the lighting is December 2nd.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: So I'm sure everybody's looking forward to that.