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Opening Segment 10/30/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti in the morning on 710WOR,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of New York. Wow, huge weekend coming up,
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  Speaker 1: especially for you, Larry and Natalie, and our WOR710 staff
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  Speaker 1: and Natalie Migliore, the coverage of the marathon on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But before we even get to the start.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say one thing that jumped out at me
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  Speaker 2: that I can't get out of my head? Mild and 62.
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  Speaker 2: Sunny and 62. That's what Ray Stajic just said for
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  Speaker 2: the marathon. Is that perfect weather for a marathon? It's
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  Speaker 2: close to perfect. Probably close to perfect for us and
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  Speaker 2: the spectators.
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  Speaker 1: The runners like it.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit cooler, but it's still going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the 40s at the start. Oh, it's perfect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's perfect. That's perfect for them. I cannot wait. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you brought it up. I cannot wait for the marathon,
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  Speaker 2: the excitement of the marathon.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a marathon for you and Natalie
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  Speaker 1: because not only do you have marathon coverage. Then you
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  Speaker 1: have election night coverage. So thank God it is daylight
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  Speaker 1: savings time. Remember, you got to roll the clock back.
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  Speaker 1: You get an extra hour starting at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: You roll it back. So you can imagine there are
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  Speaker 1: some people, it always happens, where they don't have the
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  Speaker 1: technology that does it automatically. And they get up and
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  Speaker 1: they realize, damn, I could have slept an additional hour.
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  Speaker 1: And why is it so dark outside? Normally it's light
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  Speaker 1: at this time. And this sort of brings us into
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections. A man who was like a fixture
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  Speaker 1: on the Fox News channel, always coming to the aid
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  Speaker 1: of President Donald Trump, especially when it came to foreign affairs,
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  Speaker 1: which he's an expert, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how they got into that dispute about daylight savings
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  Speaker 1: time and Tom Cotton and some of the other senators
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  Speaker 1: who were in the farm areas? are opposed to what
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  Speaker 1: Trump wants to do, the Sunshine Protection Act, that would
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  Speaker 1: make daylight savings time permanent. And then Trump put on
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  Speaker 1: his truth social network that millions look at Tom Cotton's
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  Speaker 1: personal phone number and said, call him and tell him
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  Speaker 1: to rescind his opposition. I don't know if you've noticed,
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  Speaker 1: he was always a great spokesman. I haven't heard, seen, hide,
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  Speaker 1: nor hear of him. He's obviously campaigning in Arkansas. For
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  Speaker 1: Republican candidates. But I think he took that to heart.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, that reminds me of Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 1: Remember in 2016 in that heated primary when all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden Trump was upset with what Lindsey said about him?
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the participants running for president and
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  Speaker 1: he gave out his cell phone number.
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  Speaker 2: Remember one of those rallies? I don't think this is
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  Speaker 2: unusual in Trump world. If you've noticed, he can turn
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  Speaker 2: on you in a second and then love you the
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  Speaker 2: next day. It happens all the time. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: the bill that is called the Sunshine Protection Act, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite named bills of all time, the
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  Speaker 2: Sunshine Protection Act. And I think most of America, when
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  Speaker 2: you poll most of America, want that. They want to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of daylight savings times. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Overwhelming. And the argument that Tom Cotton has said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when the sun rises at 830, that's bad
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  Speaker 1: because kids are going to school in the dark. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because normally the sun rising would be about 730 while
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  Speaker 1: we're on the air would be rising 830 in these
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  Speaker 1: times where you roll back an hour. So remember, good
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  Speaker 1: news for you, Natalie. Good news for you, Larry, for
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  Speaker 1: all the coverage. You're going to get an extra hour
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  Speaker 1: of sleep. So don't forget out there. Roll that clock
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  Speaker 1: back an hour. But let me tell you, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing, my day is book solid Saturday for
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  Speaker 1: the now world's biggest. Halloween parade. It's in Greenwich Village.
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  Speaker 1: It starts at 6 at night, goes to about 12 midnight.
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  Speaker 1: I and the Guardian Angels participate every year. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: be interesting to see the political costumes. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people come dressed up as Donald Trump. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people came dressed up as me last year in the
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  Speaker 1: mayoral election. But let's see what's going to happen because
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  Speaker 1: I'm there from beginning to end. So I'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to report to all of you on Monday. What were
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  Speaker 1: some of the more unique costumes? Because some people, they
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  Speaker 1: develop their costumes for a whole year. It's sort of
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  Speaker 1: like a carnival in Rio. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They
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  Speaker 1: spend a whole year developing it. It's really become outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll be able to report to all of you,
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  Speaker 1: but I got to tell you, I don't think Nancy
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  Speaker 1: is coming. She normally looks. Halloween is her favorite holiday.
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  Speaker 1: She is sitting shiver for the loss of the Barn Owls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, not far from where we live. We live
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  Speaker 1: right near Central Park and 75th, 76th off Central Park West.
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  Speaker 1: One of the apartment buildings has a water tower, one
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  Speaker 1: of these old wooden water towers which proliferate in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: There are birdies downstairs. They have telescopes, binoculars, people coming.
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  Speaker 1: They're bringing their children, their grandchildren. It's even superseded what
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  Speaker 1: was the following for Flaco. Remember the escaped owl because
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  Speaker 1: Flaco flew all over the place. These two adult owls,
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  Speaker 1: the mama and the papa and the six owlets have
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  Speaker 1: been pretty sedentary, except obviously the adults go out and
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  Speaker 1: forage for food for the three baby owls, the six
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  Speaker 1: baby owls. Well, guess what? A construction crew arrived yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the hard hats and They started to
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  Speaker 1: disassemble the wooden water tower, which caused the owls to disperse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these birders, they got like GPS on these owls.
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  Speaker 1: All they've spotted is one lonely baby owl, which seems
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  Speaker 1: to be perched at a building nearby. They haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to spot the other five. This, whoever owns that building,
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  Speaker 1: whether it is a consortium, you know, an LLC partnership,
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  Speaker 1: or if it's an individual owner operator, they will become
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  Speaker 1: the Dracula landlord of this year and maybe forever. If
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  Speaker 1: in fact they ordered the replacement of that water tower
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  Speaker 1: to get those owls away.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a shame because you know, it was just
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. They probably, this is, this is scheduled. They'd
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  Speaker 2: probably do it this time every year or whenever the,
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  Speaker 2: it comes around. And I don't think, Why would they.
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  Speaker 1: Do it on purpose? Because they don't want the owls there.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the attention. They don't want the attention?
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  Speaker 1: Of course. Now they're going to get more attention than
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  Speaker 1: they ever thought that they'd ever get, and it'll all
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  Speaker 1: be in the negative. They don't want the.
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  Speaker 2: Attention of a street that's already crowded, of people just stopping?
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  Speaker 1: It's silly. You don't understand how some of these folks
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  Speaker 1: are on the Upper West Side. For all the supporters
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  Speaker 1: of the owls and the baby owls, there are detractors.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, this had to be signed off by the
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  Speaker 1: owners and the operators. Couldn't have happened at a worse time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to.
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  Speaker 2: See if this is a regular thing, the cleaning up
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  Speaker 2: the water tower. I mean, I'm wondering if it's even required.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? My feeling is it has
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, are they going to claim that it's Legionnaire's disease
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  Speaker 1: to force them to do this?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. But if you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a water tower, you're going to have to maintain it.
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  Speaker 2: And the maintenance has to happen regularly. So what I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking is this is just regular maintenance.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, it's a mistake. But I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 2: was on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if they actually are bold enough to come
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  Speaker 1: forward and speak on their behalf of why they decided
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  Speaker 1: to do it now and not delay. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are all kinds of advocates out there. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: protesting outside. There are rules and regulations that affect these
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  Speaker 1: species that you can't displace them. So let's see how
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  Speaker 1: this plays out. But I'm pissed off because this is
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  Speaker 1: my wife's favorite time of year. Favorite time of year, Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: And she is really upset. There are a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know the birders. You've seen them with
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  Speaker 1: the telescopes. They spend their whole day following these birds.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a disgrace. Now, speaking of my wife,
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  Speaker 1: we went out to fetch our brother-in-law was flying in
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  Speaker 1: a JFK. And what a great experience. Even though we
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  Speaker 1: took mass transportation, which is not the best alternative like
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  Speaker 1: in other cities, Larry, where you can go from center city,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right out to an airport.
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  Speaker 2: Going to the airport around here is the most stressful,
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  Speaker 2: annoying task to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Just about, I mean, any big city at the airports
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  Speaker 2: are a pain in the neck. Try O'Hare out in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I would do anything not to go to JFK. Right,
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  Speaker 1: but you can go straight to O'Hare on the CTA.
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  Speaker 1: You can go straight to Midway in Chicago, one ride
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  Speaker 1: on a subway. Here, you got to change. You got
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  Speaker 1: to go from one chain to another chain. Oh, if
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  Speaker 1: you take the subway, see, most of us drive. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's kind of a straight way. But you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I think that
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  Speaker 2: most people don't know what you were talking about, that
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  Speaker 2: you have to take public transportation.
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  Speaker 1: Even Cleveland and Stouffer Square downtown, they have an old
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  Speaker 1: rickety subway that takes you out to the airport. But
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  Speaker 1: the reason it was good, we were stuck with everybody
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  Speaker 1: who was coming in for the marathon. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the French visitors, because I was trying to inquire
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  Speaker 1: from them what's going on in their country. All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, while they were here, they could speak perfect English.
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  Speaker 1: Those same people, if you were visiting in France, right,
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  Speaker 1: would look at you if you were asking questions in English.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like, oh, God. And France is the only
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  Speaker 2: country that does that. I've been through all the countries
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  Speaker 2: in Europe, and France is the only one that won't
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  Speaker 2: speak English to you. you, even though they know English.
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  Speaker 2: There's a certain arrogance about that that ticks you off.
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  Speaker 2: They want you to ask them if they speak English,
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  Speaker 2: and then they will. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, it was a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: experience coming back, even though it's the same rickety-rackety, dirty, homeless,
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  Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed-filled, mass transit system subways, because everybody was euphoric
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  Speaker 1: to be here. You could see their eyes were so
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  Speaker 1: grateful to be in New York for the marathon. And so,
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  Speaker 1: whereas I normally talk, I just listened. And it was
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  Speaker 1: just an outpouring of pride in their family members because
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  Speaker 1: they come over as a family. And more importantly, that
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  Speaker 1: maybe they could win the medal, a medallion that they
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  Speaker 1: could wear forever. And when they go back to their countries,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, they're going to be the talk of
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  Speaker 1: their town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I talked about the same thing the other day
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  Speaker 2: because we get to stay in a hotel the night before,
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  Speaker 2: before we've, Natalie has been working now for like the
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  Speaker 2: last month on this, but we get to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have a meeting and we get to, we get
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  Speaker 2: to hang out a little bit and Everybody is there
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  Speaker 2: in the hotels from around the world. And they're there
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  Speaker 2: in groups. Usually there's running groups from Canada and Australia
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  Speaker 2: and all this stuff. And it's, they are so thrilled
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  Speaker 2: and so happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And you're right.
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  Speaker 2: They, they work a long time for this moment. This
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  Speaker 2: is the pinnacle of their running career to make it
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  Speaker 2: to New York city, to get accepted into the New
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  Speaker 2: York city marathon and, And then the finish and get
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  Speaker 2: that medal. It's awe-inspiring. I know the big runners get
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  Speaker 2: all the attention, the professional runners get all the attention,
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  Speaker 2: but it's much more than that. It's a global, personal
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  Speaker 2: event at the same time, which is amazing. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: some talkbacks on all of this. We have the talkbacks
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  Speaker 2: about Halloween. We got the talkbacks about the marathon. We
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  Speaker 2: got the talkbacks about the mall.
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  Speaker 1: Daylight savings time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, daylight savings time. That's another one. We got a
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