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Opening Segment 9/3/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR, The
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  Speaker 1: Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 2: So, did it wake you up? Those thunderstorms in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the night? Did it wake you up, Natalie?
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  Speaker 3: Woke me up.
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  Speaker 1: It shook me out of bed, literally.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, they were close.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they were very close. One shook my house.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those... systems that when it comes
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  Speaker 2: through the beginning of the system is going to have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lightning and a lot of thunder. There
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  Speaker 2: was a few times, two or three times my whole
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  Speaker 2: house lit up, you know, because it was, it was close.
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  Speaker 2: It was all of a sudden this flash of light
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  Speaker 2: where you didn't, it was total darkness and it was
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  Speaker 2: light for like two seconds.
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  Speaker 3: And then you look at the clock and say, how
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  Speaker 3: much time do I have left?
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to be able to fall back asleep? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Or am I up for the day now? But they
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  Speaker 2: were quick moving. That's what was nice. They were in
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  Speaker 2: and out of the area.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw the lightning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So now, if you wanted to check if there was
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  Speaker 1: any damage to your property, because sometimes there is, you're
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  Speaker 1: told don't go out for a full 30 minutes until
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  Speaker 1: after the storm has passed. And you say to yourself, why? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a danger you could end up like that
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  Speaker 1: guy in Staten Island who worked for Congresswoman Nicole Maliotakis, remember,
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  Speaker 1: got hit by the lightning, went down. A neighbor helped him.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to find out if he won the
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  Speaker 1: lotto because he bought a lotto ticket. That's the first
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  Speaker 1: thing you notice, Larry. He's a lucky guy.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm hoping, I'm hoping that this all means this
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  Speaker 3: weekend is going to be gorgeous because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people have a long weekend. It's looking right now like
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  Speaker 3: it's a pretty perfect Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We all deserve a great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I deserve a great weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You do.
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  Speaker 2: I do deserve a great weekend, but I have birthday parties, kids'
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  Speaker 2: birthday parties all weekend long. Not that I don't love them.
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  Speaker 2: It's my grandson who's having a birthday party. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to go then. But two birthday parties? I've got to
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  Speaker 2: go to two birthday parties for the same grandson? Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: that's stretching it a little bit, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I would not be complaining about that. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Stacia, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Stacia, he can't.
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  Speaker 2: Wait to be there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming we check off the box that says you'd
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  Speaker 1: be going for the last weekend for Labor Day down
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  Speaker 1: at the Jersey Shore. That will not be on your
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  Speaker 1: list of places. I might be able to make it down.
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  Speaker 2: See, I don't want to do Sunday and Monday because
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  Speaker 2: then you hit the traffic on the way back on
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  Speaker 2: both those days because- People put in their rental homes
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday and they come back. And then Monday, if
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  Speaker 2: they have a house down there, they come back. So, no,
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  Speaker 2: I think– Oh, deal with the traffic. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do? I'm going to sit home and sulk.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good plan.
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  Speaker 1: But hop along, Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Hopping, literally.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, who is now recovering. completely while also doing
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  Speaker 1: your producer duties here in studio. You'll be going down
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  Speaker 1: to the Jersey Shore, no doubt, for this final weekend, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask you both because it's been such
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  Speaker 1: a topsy-turvy summer with extreme weather flash, flooding, hot, humid.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think it's been for the vendors, the businesses,
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  Speaker 1: the restaurants who are so dependent on that rush of
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  Speaker 1: a crowd from the Memorial Day weekend to the Labor
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I have an answer. I have an answer. I've
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  Speaker 2: told you before, Mike's Seafood in Seattle City, that's a
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  Speaker 2: family-owned business, and he's doing great. He's having a great— you
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  Speaker 2: know why? Because people can't go to the beach. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they can't go to the boardwalk at night. What are
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  Speaker 2: they going to do? They're going to go to a restaurant. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think of that. The restaurants are doing really,
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  Speaker 2: really well down the shore.
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  Speaker 1: And so, Natalie, yourself, your perception, even though you've been
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  Speaker 1: in pain and hopping around, has it been a good
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  Speaker 1: summer for the Jersey Shore?
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I go into the towns like Lavalette,
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  Speaker 3: you know, around where there's a lot of businesses, it's packed.
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  Speaker 1: It's packed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because even when it rains, people are on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: They want to do something. So they go to the stores.
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  Speaker 2: They'll go to the boardwalk and stay under the awnings
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  Speaker 2: and walk from store to store to store to store.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have the people. You said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you rented the house for the week. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: go out and you're going to spend money. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: maybe day trippers wouldn't be going down. But I felt
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  Speaker 3: like the weekends were always one day that you can
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  Speaker 3: pull out.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But I think the other thing you commented early
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  Speaker 1: on in this summer process of the Jersey Shore is
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  Speaker 1: how well law enforcement has done in imposing curfews on
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  Speaker 1: their beaches, also the boardwalks because of all the wilding
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  Speaker 1: incidences in the past that might have deterred people from
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  Speaker 1: coming down like, oh, we don't want to be with
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  Speaker 1: all those crazy teenagers. Apparently from Cape May right on
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  Speaker 1: up to Point Pleasant, they've done an excellent job.
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  Speaker 2: You really haven't heard much. Well, Cape May had that
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  Speaker 2: one problem. It's funny that you said Cape May because
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  Speaker 2: the place that never has any problems and doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: even meet any laws never has any problems because it
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  Speaker 2: used to be that the average age there was deceased.
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  Speaker 2: And so now it's gotten to yuppies. Yuppies are starting
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  Speaker 2: to go there now. And then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: because of all the laws and the curfews in Wildwood
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  Speaker 2: and Ocean City and Seaside Heights, all up and down
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  Speaker 2: the coast, the only place that didn't have a curfew...
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  Speaker 2: because everybody went to bed early anyway, it was Cape May.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden they had these flash parties
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  Speaker 2: on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Cape May was God's waiting room, right? It was sort
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  Speaker 1: of the equivalent of what Florida used to be. If
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  Speaker 1: you went to Cape May, you were just waiting. But
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  Speaker 1: speaking of beaches, when you're in New York City, we
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  Speaker 1: have this phenomenon that has occurred now that you really
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  Speaker 1: don't have down by the Jersey Shore and other places,
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  Speaker 1: random attacks. Almost every day the headlines are, a random attack,
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  Speaker 1: not pre-orchestrated, not part of a gang, not part of
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  Speaker 1: a group that's going to an area to commit crime
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  Speaker 1: and then when confronted uses lethal force. Individual random attack.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll give you an update on my nephew who
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  Speaker 1: was the victim of that random attack the other night. Hours, remember,
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  Speaker 1: after that woman took those two knives in Times Square
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  Speaker 1: and stabbed a man who was with his wife from
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island. He luckily recovered, and then as she moved
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  Speaker 1: up a block, she killed that young mother who had
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  Speaker 1: just come off of her leave for caring for her child.
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  Speaker 1: She's an executive at Bank of America. What a great story,
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  Speaker 1: her and her husband. They met at Fordham Law. She
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  Speaker 1: went to the University of Pennsylvania. She was just getting
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  Speaker 1: back her first day work, and now... She's no longer
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  Speaker 1: with us. She's dead. Again, what do they call it?
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  Speaker 1: A random attack. With my nephew, he and his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: and a friend in their early 20s were walking over
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  Speaker 1: to that Legos location near Rockefeller Center.
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  Speaker 2: It's like huge.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people around the block, a lot of tourists
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  Speaker 1: buying Legos. They were going there to look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the new stuff, and a car almost hit them.
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  Speaker 1: And the next thing you know, the driver gets out.
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  Speaker 1: This is in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, across from
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  Speaker 1: Saks Fifth Avenue, pulls out a straight edge razor and
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  Speaker 1: cuts him in which he took in about over 38 stitches.
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  Speaker 1: And then he had a collapse along. So he's in
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  Speaker 1: really bad shape at Bellevue. He is nicely recovering now.
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  Speaker 1: The police are all over it. The police commissioner told
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  Speaker 1: me they were able to trace the license plate of
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  Speaker 1: this BMW. She didn't say flock camera, but it must
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  Speaker 1: have been because they arrested the guy upstate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the license plate reading technology that exists. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: we're just waiting to see when he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: transported down for arraignment in Manhattan. But. My nephew doing well,
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  Speaker 1: but again, it's under that category, random attack. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way you could make rhyme or reason of it. And
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  Speaker 1: this comes on the heels in Brighton Beach. We're speaking
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  Speaker 1: of beaches. A 90-year-old woman is walking on the street,
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  Speaker 1: 9.30 in the morning, Brighton Beach 5th, busy thoroughfare. And
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  Speaker 1: this emotionally disturbed black guy comes up to the garbage can.
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  Speaker 1: He sees an old baby carriage that's there with garbage,
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  Speaker 1: and he picks it up. He slams her in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the head. She goes down. Luckily, she survives.
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  Speaker 1: She's at Coney Island Hospital. He fled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what a coward that guy was. What a coward.
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  Speaker 2: Because not only was it an elderly woman, he walked up,
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  Speaker 2: he walked towards her, then went behind her, and then
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  Speaker 2: hit her from behind. What an absolute coward.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, you were saying how these are really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Busy, busy areas of the city. We're not
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  Speaker 3: talking a desolate back alley. Because people ask me all
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  Speaker 3: the time, do you feel safe when you're in the city?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, I do. Because I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a populated area. What's going to happen to
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  Speaker 3: me in the middle of Times Square? I know that
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  Speaker 3: sounds crazy, but I feel like there's so many people around,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be safe.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously not.
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  Speaker 2: No, remember a couple of years ago, who was the
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  Speaker 2: guy that was just going around, the mentally ill guy,
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  Speaker 2: killing people? They didn't know who it was at first.
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  Speaker 2: That was just a couple of years ago. I got
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  Speaker 2: to look up the information on that because I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: people remember.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you some dreary stats. Increasingly, these emotionally
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  Speaker 1: disturbed persons, and that's what they are. They're not on
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  Speaker 1: medication or they're not in a psychiatric facility. The assaults
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  Speaker 1: against those who are 65 plus, I think that includes
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  Speaker 1: me and Larry, not you, Natalie. have skyrocketed since 2018, 143%.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: This never used to happen. An elderly person, by golly,
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  Speaker 1: a whole community, if they saw an elderly person being assaulted,
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  Speaker 1: everybody would come out of the stores, the streets. They'd
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  Speaker 1: give that guy a beat down. There'd be nothing left
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  Speaker 1: of them when the cops arrived. Now, this was busy.
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  Speaker 3: In the morning.
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  Speaker 1: This is 945 on Brighton Fifth Street, main thoroughfare, underneath
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  Speaker 1: the L, the subway, and nobody came out and intervened.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they helped her afterwards. when the EMTs came
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  Speaker 1: and brought her to Coney Island Hospital. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: like it used to be. That neighborhood years ago, nearby Bensonhurst,
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  Speaker 1: Bay Ridge, no way. You attack an elderly person, you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with 20, 25 people out there who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill you. That person would look forward to the
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  Speaker 1: arrival of the police to save them from the outraged
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  Speaker 1: citizenry who didn't care if you were EDP or this
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  Speaker 1: was just a, quote, random attack. They give you a
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  Speaker 1: beat down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now everybody just looks the other way. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: that was in November of 2024, the random murders. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember that homeless guy? His name's Ramon Rivera, 51-year-old
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  Speaker 2: homeless man, mental problems, was going around and killing people,
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  Speaker 2: stabbing them to death all the way through Manhattan. And
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  Speaker 2: what gets done? It happens. It's over. And then nothing.
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  Speaker 1: No solution until the next one happens. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: a continuous cycle. Although the one thing that's changed, and
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  Speaker 1: I haven't quite yet figured it out. If you notice,
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  Speaker 1: almost all these crimes are with knives, straight edge razors,
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  Speaker 1: or box cutters. Very few of them are with guns.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because they're doing stop and frisk. I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you the cops are not doing stop and frisk.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to say to yourself, how come so few guns,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of guns out there, and now they've got these
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  Speaker 1: ghost guns. which you can manufacture yourself with a computer
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  Speaker 1: and they can't be traced. Can't be traced.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we should be talking more about this because this
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  Speaker 2: is a huge problem over the next few weeks. But
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  Speaker 2: right now, a woman that was once named the greatest
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  Speaker 2: voice in America has died. Plus, you have a chance
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