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Hour 3: New White House press secretary · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So, Curtis, I think any fair observer of the gubernatorial
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  Speaker 1: debate last night would have to agree that Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: won the debate. If you just go by command of
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  Speaker 1: the issues, command of the stage, he wins. Because Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul didn't seem like she came with her A-game. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen her better than this. But she's stumbled right out
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  Speaker 1: of the block.
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  Speaker 2: New York State now. has the lowest crime rates it's
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  Speaker 2: had in modern history. Now, we're not done yet, and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to hear a lot of different opinions here
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  Speaker 2: this evening, and I want you to judge it this way.
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  Speaker 3: That was right out of the block. She needed some
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  Speaker 3: help from you. The 15 caffeinated cups of coffee that
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  Speaker 3: you have a day. She was on low energy.
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  Speaker 4: Remember Jeb Bush? Low energy Jeb Bush. She was low energy.
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  Speaker 1: For the entire debate. I mean, I'm just playing the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: It's only an hour. For the entire debate. And all
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  Speaker 4: she did was talk. You'd think she was debating Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: She must have been told by her strategist, go after Trump,
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  Speaker 4: go after Trump, go after Trump, no matter what comes up.
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  Speaker 5: When you talk about Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 5: that's all you can talk about because you have a
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  Speaker 5: record of failure and misery for the people who live
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  Speaker 5: in this state.
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  Speaker 2: I did not wrap myself in the shroud of Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump the way you did.
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  Speaker 4: No, you wrap it in Zoran Mondani. Hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 4: hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Who Donald Trump actually thinks is a great mayor.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Larry, as I and Nancy watched, we had a clicker.
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  Speaker 3: 44 times in one hour, Kathy Hochul, the governor, tied
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman to Donald Trump. Only six times in an
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  Speaker 3: hour did Bruce Blakeman tie Kathy Hochul to Zoran Mandami.
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  Speaker 3: It was so, it's like every second word out of
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  Speaker 3: her mouth, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. It's like she was
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  Speaker 3: running against Donald Trump and not Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: She was obviously, and she thinks this is the path
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  Speaker 1: to victory. And I understand it, by the way. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a strategist, you would think this is the path
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  Speaker 1: to victory, too. she's obviously just trying to shore up
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  Speaker 1: her base and that she knows her base hates Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's going to say Trump and Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Trump and Trump and get him to to
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  Speaker 1: then defend Donald Trump, which he didn't take the bait.
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  Speaker 1: He really rarely took the bait. But as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: he did go after Mamdani. If you want to campaign
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  Speaker 1: with him, that's fine. But I will tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 5: Zoran Mandami is an anti-Semite. I believe he's anti-Christian. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he.
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  Speaker 4: Has American values.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even have the spine to stand up to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. You're taking money from your own county.
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  Speaker 3: He's talking Zoran Mandami. She's talking Donald Trump. I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you, though, they had go-to terms. For her, she
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  Speaker 3: consistently says, I'm laser-focused. You know, that comes from a consultant.
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  Speaker 3: He had the best go-to term. You played it in
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  Speaker 3: one of those cuts. You have a record of misery
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  Speaker 3: and failure. That's a great one. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: And he dropped that appropriately. Not too much, but in
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  Speaker 3: the appropriate times. And if you were listening and you
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  Speaker 3: hadn't yet decided, you would say, yeah, it's been miserable.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a failure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm paying more money than ever before, especially electricity rates,
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  Speaker 3: which he hammered her for. 30% of what you pay
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  Speaker 3: is for the electricity. 70%, the rest of it is
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  Speaker 3: for taxes and fees.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you, if it was another year, if
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  Speaker 1: it was a different climate, political climate in the country,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman could win this. I think he's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of headwinds against him only because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: at least if you pay attention to the polls and
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  Speaker 1: trust me, and I read your emails and we get
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  Speaker 1: your talkbacks. I know the polls can be way off
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  Speaker 1: and they almost always favor Democrats. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: going to affect certain States. I'm not sure it's going
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  Speaker 1: to affect New York. So at right now, if you
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  Speaker 1: were handicapping this race, and I know you get upset
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  Speaker 1: when I say this, but if you're handicapping this race,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, It's Kathy Hochul's to lose. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure she lost it last night, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the people that are supporting her are
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  Speaker 1: looking at that and have some concerns. Well, she has
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  Speaker 1: the woman's vote overwhelmingly, and she had it the last
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  Speaker 1: time against Seldon. The difference here is. Zeldin was strongly pro-life,
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  Speaker 1: which turns off a lot of women.
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  Speaker 3: And Blakeman very adeptly got it in twice by saying,
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  Speaker 3: this is how I differ from Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: I am pro-choice, pro-choice.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of women watching, I just assumed every
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  Speaker 3: Republican is pro-life. So he got that in a few
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  Speaker 3: times is effective because a lot of women will not
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  Speaker 3: even consider you if you're pro-life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed like the top issues are the same
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  Speaker 1: top issues they are in every election, crime in the
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  Speaker 1: economy and the cost of living. And so although Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul kept going after Trump for causing record high inflation, well,
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  Speaker 1: not record high, Biden had higher, but high inflation, Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: kept going after her for higher taxes and the energy costs,
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  Speaker 1: which he says, She raised 48 times, and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she never challenged him on that means it's true. Now,
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  Speaker 1: she's also going to send a $ 150 check. Have you
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  Speaker 1: gotten yours yet, by the way?
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  Speaker 4: That's a bribe. It is a bribe. It's absolutely a bribe.
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  Speaker 4: They call it a rebate. It's a bribe.
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  Speaker 1: No, and he said that as well. She never said that,
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  Speaker 1: but she was ignoring all of that. I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. Whoever prepped her for this debate did a
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  Speaker 1: horrible job. Because there was many things Blakeman went after
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  Speaker 1: her about that she didn't seem like she had an
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  Speaker 1: answer for. And so that's definitely prep. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it was her fault that she didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like she needed to be prepped or it was the
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  Speaker 1: person that was prepping her. But you've been through debates.
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  Speaker 1: You've gone through a lot of prep. I've gone through
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  Speaker 1: seven debates now running for mayor. three in a primary,
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  Speaker 1: and four in the general election. I will tell you, though,
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  Speaker 1: that I felt the two moderators, Errol Lewis, who's based
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City, and his colleague from Spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: the Albany correspondent, did not intervene.
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  Speaker 3: They let them go. And that's what you want. You
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  Speaker 3: want them to go back and forth. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you've seen it. Moderators, they steal the show. It's
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  Speaker 3: all about them, you know, and then they talk over you,
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  Speaker 3: they interfere with you. Both sides were able to make
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  Speaker 3: their points. You're right, and your first debate, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: was awful. That was awful. They felt like they were
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  Speaker 3: the stars.
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  Speaker 4: You heard more.
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  Speaker 1: From the people that were asking the questions than you
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  Speaker 1: did from the people that.
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  Speaker 4: Were on the stage. That was NBC.
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  Speaker 3: I had to wave flags as if I was on
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  Speaker 3: the deck of an aircraft carrier. And I was right
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  Speaker 3: in the middle, you know, from the choice. Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm running for mayor. This is after 10 minutes. But
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't get a question.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just bogarted my way in. I just
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  Speaker 3: kept talking, talking, even just interfering. I had no choice.
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  Speaker 3: But I will tell you this. Three things that are
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  Speaker 3: important in the debate.
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  Speaker 4: Height.
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  Speaker 7: Hair.
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  Speaker 4: Makeup.
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  Speaker 8: Every debate.
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  Speaker 3: So Kathy Hochul is about a little taller than our
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  Speaker 3: own Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 4: Did I get that right? Migliore. Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: So Bruce Blakeman's pretty tall guy. I've been in his company.
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  Speaker 4: He's about 6'2, 6'3.
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  Speaker 3: So if they stood next to one another debating at
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  Speaker 3: the podium, it would be a clear difference. They obviously
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  Speaker 3: had a place for her to stand on. It almost
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  Speaker 3: put her at equal eye level, except when the New
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  Speaker 3: York won, the spectrum camera was on it. You never
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  Speaker 3: saw her feet. You saw Bruce Blakeman's feet. That's the
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  Speaker 3: way it was positioned. Then at the very end, after
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  Speaker 3: the salutations and greetings to the audience by the moderators,
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  Speaker 3: They panned over to her. She walked over to Bruce,
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  Speaker 3: shook his hand. It's like she was staring up at
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  Speaker 3: the Jolly Green Giant. Now, psychologically, they say that impacts
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  Speaker 3: on people.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, she's not the first one to
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  Speaker 1: do this. This happens regularly in debates. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is not just for the candidate itself. It's
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  Speaker 1: for the camera shot. You know, they need to get people.
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  Speaker 1: They do it all the time on anchor sets. There's
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  Speaker 1: people that sit on pillows so they can be as
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  Speaker 1: high as the other person.
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  Speaker 4: But it happens all the time.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: He had that nice silver gray hair, well done.
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  Speaker 3: And he had a little bit of what looked like
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  Speaker 3: a tan, but it wasn't a tan.
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  Speaker 4: So the makeup was a good job.
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  Speaker 3: In regards to Kathy Hochul, yes, hair, makeup was okay.
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  Speaker 3: But there have been other candidates who are bald, who
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  Speaker 3: never have a chance as a guy against somebody with
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  Speaker 3: a full mane of hair.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman's a good-looking guy. And Bruce Blakeman presents himself well.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like a politician. He looks like a governor.
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  Speaker 1: And that's important. That's really important that people see that.
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  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul, I don't think she looks like a governor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, remember, she told us at the start, you know, like.
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  Speaker 3: I came out of a trailer park and I worked
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  Speaker 3: in a pizzeria. I said, you are so loaded with cash.
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  Speaker 3: You and your deadbeat husband, a former U.S. attorney in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: from that Buffalo's bills deal they engineered and other measures.
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  Speaker 3: She's the grifter of New York State. But, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to take the violin out. I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: it's a rags to riches story. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, here's the important thing. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: sum this up by saying, I think that Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: easily won that debate. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people watch the debate. However, they do look at
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  Speaker 1: social media and they do look at YouTube. And when
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  Speaker 1: they hear about certain things, especially they go and search
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  Speaker 1: it out. And Bruce Blakeman at this point is winning
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  Speaker 1: the internet. He's winning the social media battle. And I,
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  Speaker 1: would say, curses on the Hochul campaign, because they have
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  Speaker 1: done a horrible job of getting her out there and
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  Speaker 1: her shining moments, if there was one or two, on
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  Speaker 1: the internet. And they have done a horrible job of
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  Speaker 1: promoting that. If you go online right now and you
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  Speaker 1: put Hochul's name in and you go to X or
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  Speaker 1: you go to Facebook or go to anything, you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to see a lot of stuff, especially from the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic National Committee or from the Hochul campaign.
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  Speaker 4: Blakeman, on the other hand, it's filled. It's all over
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  Speaker 4: the place.
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  Speaker 3: The key to this is he's winning with independents, which
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  Speaker 3: normally at this point, three weeks out, that's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: So he's doing very well. He'll have the base out. Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: maybe some men, he's really hurting when it comes.
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  Speaker 4: To the women.
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully last night's performance, if looked at by a woman,
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  Speaker 3: they would take a much more liking to him than
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  Speaker 3: they did to Lee Seldon, who was, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: he was angry in his one debate.
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  Speaker 4: There should be more debates. Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I want to just tell the importance of the point
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  Speaker 1: I just made, though, because very few people saw that
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  Speaker 1: debate last night. Very few people. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are going to see it online today.
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  Speaker 3: That's why there should be minimum of two debates tonight.
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  Speaker 3: As you look around the country, Maine has had five
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  Speaker 3: in nine days, most others two, some four, and we
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  Speaker 3: are only relegated to one debate.
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  Speaker 4: That is u discraziata.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if it tightens up, they'll agree to another debate
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  Speaker 1: and do one in a rush, because right now I
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  Speaker 1: think Hochul thinks she has it wrapped up, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why there's only one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's running against Trump. She probably forgot Bruce Blakeman's name.
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  Speaker 3: 44 times she mentioned Trump in one hour.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, up next... Oh, boy, Larry. Wow, you forgot something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was purposeful. What did you say?
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  Speaker 4: Something like you. I got my pants on.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. What did I forget?
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  Speaker 3: Having to do with Harry Styles. Wait till you hear this,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if you forgot or
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  Speaker 3: you skated on the issue. We'll figure it out. Plus
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  Speaker 3: a chance to see Journey next. So, Larry, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to reserve judgment on this. You normally don't have this
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  Speaker 3: kind of a lapse. You normally are like a tiger,
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  Speaker 3: ready to just pounce. But the other night, Sunday night,
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  Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden, packed house, you know, Harry Styles is
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  Speaker 3: doing his residency tour. He's singing, and then he stops
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  Speaker 3: and addresses the audience. I figure, oh, it's one of
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  Speaker 3: these Palestinian things.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: He decided to talk about Oscar Belgal, the illegal Dominican
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  Speaker 3: criminal that I shot up in the Bronx the other day.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, all the people who don't look like
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  Speaker 3: you and aren't born where you're from, they deserve respect
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  Speaker 3: and love and dignity and justice. Bruce Blakeman was like
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  Speaker 3: all over that. He was saying, I think Harry Styles
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  Speaker 3: should put that guy on his tour bus and take
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  Speaker 3: him around the country. He's a convicted criminal. But I
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  Speaker 3: think you didn't overlook it. I think you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: keep solidarity with Natalie, our producer.
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  Speaker 4: Who likes Harry Styles.
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  Speaker 10: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know about it until just now. So
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  Speaker 4: that's why I didn't talk about it. That's the only
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  Speaker 4: reason I didn't talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you just wanted to not upset Natalie,
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  Speaker 3: who is like.
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  Speaker 4: A devotee of Harry Styles. I have taken almost every
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to upset Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh!
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  Speaker 4: That's not my style. You know what's incredible?
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  Speaker 3: When I looked at the headline, I just assumed it
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  Speaker 3: was about Palestinians and Zionists, you know, the typical routine,
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  Speaker 3: Macklemore and all that.
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  Speaker 4: No, Oscar Belgao. And I'm like, this is Harry Styles.
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  Speaker 4: He's on top of the world.
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  Speaker 3: Why is he talking about this guy in the Bronx,
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  Speaker 3: this illegal Dominican criminal that was shot by ICE?
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  Speaker 1: You look at, I don't look at the, I don't
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  Speaker 1: give them any weight whatsoever. I don't care what Harry
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  Speaker 1: Styles says about social issues. Does he sing a good song?
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But just shut up during your concert about social issues.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the platform for it. And you're just making
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  Speaker 1: people feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I wasn't there for that one. I did go recently.
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  Speaker 10: I wasn't at that show. It was this past Saturday.
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  Speaker 10: I'm just, you know, hoping he comes out in shorts.
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  Speaker 8: See?
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  Speaker 7: See?
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  Speaker 4: I proved my point. And unfortunately, the night I went
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  Speaker 4: was not a shorts night.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's still there. His residency tour continues in Madison
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  Speaker 3: Square Garden. So wait with bated breath, Natalie, for him
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  Speaker 3: to come out with his BVDs and boxers.
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  Speaker 4: And please, if you have any pictures of Harry Styles
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  Speaker 4: in shorts, send them.
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  Speaker 10: There's tons.
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  Speaker 9: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: They're all over my feed. All over your refrigerator, did
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  Speaker 4: you say?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 10: My social media feed. And I'm not going again, so
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  Speaker 10: it's unfortunate for me.
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  Speaker 4: Now let's get some talkbacks. First of all, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to talk about Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: I got my bribe from Kathy in the mailbox yesterday
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  Speaker 3: for $ 100. I ain't voting for you, Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 4: Bruce Blakeman all the way. I love that she called
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  Speaker 4: her Hochul. Yeah, she got her bride, but she's not
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  Speaker 4: going for it. We should all call her Hochul.
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  Speaker 6: Regarding your comments on the height difference between the two candidates,
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  Speaker 6: it reminds me of when Trump stood behind Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 6: on stage behind her and stared her down. And it
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  Speaker 6: was very dominant positioning. And Blake could have done something
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  Speaker 6: like that if he didn't do it.
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  Speaker 4: Nah, nah, nah.
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  Speaker 3: He handled it well. He was a gentleman. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: lose his temper. He had the right tone and the
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  Speaker 3: right position.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember the most famous one when Al Gore
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  Speaker 1: walked over and looked down at George W. Bush and
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  Speaker 1: George Bush just laughed him off?
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  Speaker 4: He looked at him and laughed and then walked away.
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  Speaker 4: I remember that. Meantime, let's get the news from Daria.
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  Speaker 7: Chance for a midday shower or maybe an afternoon shower today.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: We'll see a high of 78 degrees. Now, your parents
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: may have told you that people will judge you by
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: the company you keep. That lesson apparently was not lost
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: on the candidates for governor of New York.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Zoran Mandami is an anti-Semite. You are campaigning around the
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: state with a guy who doesn't believe in American values.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Republican Bruce Blakeman and Governor Hochul at last night's debate.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Happened under your friend Donald Trump, who you are the
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: president of the fan club for Donald Trump.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: It's absurd how adoring you are of him.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: And if you want more of this, you are out
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: of luck because it's their only debate before the election.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: With less than three weeks to the midterms, President Trump
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: will be back out on the campaign trail today. He
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: starts the day in Las Vegas and then it's on
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: to Arizona and Montana. A Democrat who is running for
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: re-election in Georgia says he will not run for president
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: in 2028. Senator John Ossoff making the promise in his
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: debate last night against Republican Congressman Mike Collins. Well, the
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: city council has some questions for SpaceX and Elon Musk's
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: company has agreed to answer them or at least to testify.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: Council Speaker Julie Menon says Elon Musk's SpaceX AI is
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: set to testify Friday before the Council's Committee on Technology,
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: but every council member is invited to attend and ask questions.
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: The agreement comes weeks after four other AI researchers and
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: industry leaders testified in front of a full council for
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: more than 10 hours, with Friday's planteering ending a subpoena
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: standoff between SpaceX AI and New York City. Lawmakers are
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: expected to ask SpaceX AI many of the same questions
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: they asked Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Publio is expected to spend the week in the hospital
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: as he recovers from surgery yesterday for lung cancer. The Rangers,
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: the Islanders, and the Devils all win. Next news, 9
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Lucio Nzinga from Bethpage, Long Island, who just
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: won a pair of tickets to see Journey October 25th
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: at the Prudential Center. Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster.com.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Another chance to win tomorrow at 825. Ilhan Omar is
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: in some trouble. It sounds like her home was raided
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: for a specific reason. And also, a lot happening in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Washington yesterday. We got a new press secretary. How did
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: she do? We'll talk about both next.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: When we're just.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Less than a month away from the midterm election, that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a sitting congresswoman's home is raided. But that's exactly what happened.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: The federal investigation... Happened in Washington, D.C. A federal investigation
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: prompted the search of Representative Ilhan Omar, D.C. residence on Monday,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: with claims that she or her late father may have
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: lied on decades-old immigration paperwork to secure legal status and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: eventually U.S.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Citizenship.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Here's what they're claiming happened, that he was, he immigrated
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to the United States and He got in, he got
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: all his papers. If he can claim that he has
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: a daughter that's under 18, she automatically gets in. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: apparently what they're alleging is she was over 18 and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: they changed her birth certificate and they changed all the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: application papers to illegally get her into the country. So
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that's what the raid was all about. But Curtis, there's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: so much going on with Ilhan Omar I can't believe
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that is the end of that story or the end
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of an investigation as with most investigations I think it's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just they build.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The key in the door and they're hoping to find
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a lot about the financial improprieties that have been written
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: about extensively especially with this Brand new husband. Remember her
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: political consultant who owned a winery and then it turned
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: out there was no winery or it had collapsed. I mean,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: there's so many twists and turns to the financial mess.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I got to believe that now that they are going
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: to be subpoenaing the members of her family, extended family,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: that they are trying to get access to more information
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: that would implicate her directly.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And there's also, there's an allegation that she married her
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: brother to get her brother into the country legally. But
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: there are bigger, bigger allegations about her being involved in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, where a lot of people
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: have already gone to jail for that. And a lot
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: of public officials are already being investigated for that. There
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: has always been a suspicion of that. But the big
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: one is going to be her personal worth.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: How come Tampon Tim... The outgoing governor has not spoken
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: up on her behalf.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: He decided not to run for office again after running
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: for the vice presidency because he knew about all the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Somalian Medicare, Medicaid fraud and didn't do anything about it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He looked the other way because he wanted their votes.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And also he wanted to be picked as the nominee
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: for vice president. And he didn't need a scandal that
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was looming. So he hid all of that. But she,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I believe, is in some trouble. And she's come out,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of course, on social media. And she said, this is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all just political. They're doing this to try to have
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: me lose my seat. She's not going to lose her seat.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I don't care what they find on her because it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: all Somalians in her district. And they're going to put
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: her back in over and over and over again. No,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: there is definitely something there. There's way too much smoke.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And the fact that she was hiding money, allegedly, in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: her husband's businesses. So I want to remind you that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: when she gave initial financial disclosures about her husband's businesses,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: they listed the two businesses, one being worth $ 6 million,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the other one being worth $ 30 million. And then when
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: she learned there was an investigation, she changed them. $ 6
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: million went down to $ 18, 004. And $ 30 million, she changed
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to $ 95, 000. And she said it was a clerical error.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Probably how they taught her math in Somalia before she
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: came to America.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: She'll blame it on that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Meantime, though, normally the White House press spokesperson would have
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: been addressing questions about that raid on behalf of, the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security, and the DOJ. And yesterday was
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the debutante debut in that very important job for Katie Zachariah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Now, I must admit, I didn't know much about Katie.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I know that she had been on talk shows before,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: representing different points of view involving Donald Trump.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: But I would.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Say after that debut, maybe she gets a chance to
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: do it all over again or go to boot camp.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe Levitt can give it. I mean, it
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: was horrible. It couldn't have been that horrible. It was
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: so short.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, she just went out there and she got
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a question from Peter Doocy and then she had to run.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how bad it can be. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it was her first time. It wasn't horrible. It was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: not horrible. It wasn't Caroline Levin, I'll say that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: According to the Post, which is very friendly to the
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Trump administration, and the one who's never involved any longer,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: hopefully she's recovered completely from the breast cancer, Susie Wise,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: you know, the chief of staff. She wasn't involved in this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: But the president, before he went to Alaska, apparently prepped her.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: He said, talk about all my achievements first. Oh, announced
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: that Kimberly Guilfoyle will no longer be U.S. ambassador to Greece.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So she spent eight minutes praising the president, which he wanted,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: and just announced Guilfoyle. And he answered the question of Fox,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Breitbart and the Daily Mail.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: And that was it. She had to go.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: And apparently you have to go. She was going to
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: she went to Alaska. Oh, you mean to be out
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of sight, out of mind?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: No, with the.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: President of the United States. I don't know what you're
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: getting at. I don't know why you're saying. They were
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: trying to hide her, obviously, and put her out there.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, her claim to fame as
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: a spokesperson was for Kristi Noem at the Department of
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Homeland Security.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Probably not the best choice. You've never seen her before.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I've seen her on TV. Yeah, she's on TV. She's great.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: She's wonderful. So listen, she had to get her footing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she was nervous yesterday. Give her some time. Look,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: when I was asking you about Mamdani for the longest time,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you said, I'm holding off. I'm holding off till, what
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: was it, Labor Day or Memorial Day or something? You
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: were holding off.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Why don't you hold off with her? Let's give her
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: a couple times.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: She's got ruffles and ridges and must smooth it out
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: because she's She wasn't that bad.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, she was horrible. Oh, no, she was not that bad.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you saw or why you're saying this.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: She wasn't that bad. And I've seen her many, many times.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: She's pretty good. I'm sure she's going to get her
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: footing and she's going to be just fine.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you, Republicans, knowing you really need somebody solid
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: with three weeks left to this midterms, we're not all
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: that reassured.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: By her first day in the position. I think you're
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: absolutely wrong. Nobody, nobody saw what you did. I, I,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: did you watch it, Natalie? Did you see it by
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: any chance? Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Part, I mean.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Did you think she was horrible? Oh, no, I didn't
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: think she was horrible. No, I didn't think so either.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I did think she was just. She was nervous. Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: She, she flubbed up a little bit near the end
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of some answers, but, but you know, that was minor.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It was, I think it was minor. I flub up
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: more in the show than she did on that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't. Hang your support for her based on you
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: flubbing up. You don't want to go down that road there, Larry. Oh,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm fine with that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: We may have to put you in the talk radio
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: boot camp after you said that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: But anyway. You're an expert on this. I'm an expert.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: We love roller coasters.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: But Six Flags is closing nine roller coasters after the
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: death in Georgia and the many injuries. One of them
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: is a great adventure in New Jersey. Please don't close
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the Cyclone in Coney Island. That's all I'm hoping for
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: up next.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: This story out of Georgia at the Six Flags down
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: there is just horrific. And if you're thinking about going
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: on one of these hyper coasters at any of the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Six Flags, including the one in New Jersey, they have
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: all been shut down because they had a man, we
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: know his name now, Hassan Karim, 42 years old, He
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was thrown from a car when it unlatched. He was
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: up 900 feet in the air. There were some other
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: people that were injured as well, but he is the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: only one that fell the 900 feet and died. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of witnesses. So many people saw it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: One of the people that saw it said they looked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in his eyes as he was falling down and he
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: was terrified. This is a guy, by the way, that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: survived cancer. And just a month ago, he was in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a horrible car fire and survived that. And so now
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: he goes on this ride. And this is a series
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of accidents right now with Six Flags and their roller coasters.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: There is an attorney, by the way, that's taking over
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this case that was saying, you know, it's either going
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to be something with the roller coaster itself and the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: mechanics of the roller coaster itself. Or it's going to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: be somebody who wasn't following procedure and didn't check the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: belt and didn't check the apparatus well because it's supposed
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to be inspected every single day. So this attorney has
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: already handled six other cases with six flags, and now
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: he is on this one. So I feel horrible. Could
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you imagine being thrown from a roller coaster after trusting
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it was going to be safe?
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Having been on the Cyclone many times in Coney Island,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: you almost feel when you're at the top of the
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: epic arch and you drop down, you almost feel that
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: way and then you're happy that you were basically seat
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: buckled in. But on those extreme roller coasters, those are
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: extraordinary drops. It may be that the time for the
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: extreme roller coaster... is out because there have been a
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: number of these. Although, remember, I always remind our audience,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: when we were growing up, there was Traction Park, a.k.a.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Action Park in New Jersey, where if this had existed
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: back then, it would have been the featured ride. There
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: were so many people killed. There were so many people injured.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Ambulances would wait outside in western New Jersey and Sussex
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: because they knew every day there were injuries. And believe
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: it or not, If this were to restart, these roller coasters,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: these extreme roller coasters, Larry, there would be lines to ride.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: People would want to say, like bucking broncos. Oh, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: can handle it. I can handle it. That's the way
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: it was at Action Park, especially males. They couldn't wait
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: to go in there and risk injury or death. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: the lawyers, they stood outside. They were signing up litigants.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Didn't matter. Then eventually they went out of business. Remember
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: when they put out?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: They put the to death or put to sleep the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: roller coaster that they had it was a special roller
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: coaster in new jersey and they had a closing day
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and people were camping out to go on that roller
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: coaster and came from across the country to get on
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that roller coaster for the very last time There are
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: roller coaster enthusiasts that will.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Travel everywhere to go on these. Travel the world.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: I don't know what age I said roller coasters are
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: no longer for me. But there was a point where
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: I said, no, because I used to enjoy them. You know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: I had fun. And then I looked at them and said.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: What the heck am I doing?
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Did you really have fun? Probably not.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: No, that's the way I feel. I go on it
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: mostly because of peer pressure. And then you get on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it and afterwards you go, I wish I didn't do that.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: And waste an hour of my life online before I
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: got on the 22nd ride.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, I only wish.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Remember the roller coaster at Seaside Heights, which was washed out,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: but still you could see the frame after Superstorm Sandy?
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I wish I had a chance to ride it out
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: there in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: That would have been super spectacular. That's quite a belly flop.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Anyway, tomorrow, tickets to see Journey at 825, the Talkback
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: of the Morning, and winner of the Curtis Lee with
• 31:00
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• 31:07
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• 31:11
  Speaker 8: Larry, Larry, stop it with all those smart gadgets. All
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: they're doing is spying on you, keeping track of you.
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: Stop it with all that spying stuff.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Everybody's spying on us. I've given up on that. No,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I don't care. There's nothing to see.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: If they're bored. If they're spying on me, I can
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: tell you they're bored all day.
• 31:32
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• 32:10
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