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Opening Segment 9/30/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of New York.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a day it was here yesterday on the
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  Speaker 2: floor of iHeartRadio, not just here at 710WOR, your number
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  Speaker 2: one talk station in the nation, but also... All of
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  Speaker 2: our FM brothers and sisters in solidarity because Larry, the
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  Speaker 2: North Shore Animal League of America brought puppies in that
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  Speaker 2: they had rescued in South Carolina where they didn't do
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  Speaker 2: any neutering and spading and boy, these poor puppies would
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  Speaker 2: have been killed, but they do such a good job
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  Speaker 2: rescuing unwanted dogs all over the country and then finding
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  Speaker 2: a home of their own and I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: you can actually see it posted. I was over at
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  Speaker 2: Classic Rock Q104. 3, normally with Jim Kerr in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: But Maria Malito, and she has her own podcast about
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  Speaker 2: animal welfare. She loves animals. And you'll see she's holding
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  Speaker 2: one of these rescued puppies. I'm there. Oh, man, it
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  Speaker 2: was like puppy love. That song. What is that? Puppy love? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Osmonds. I think that is.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a picture of Natalie with a puppy, and
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  Speaker 3: it looks like she's going to adopt a puppy. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure if her family knows this yet, but it
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  Speaker 3: sounds like that puppy's going home with you.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I was really taken by those puppies.
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  Speaker 1: They are having an event this weekend on Saturday in
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  Speaker 1: Port Washington.
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  Speaker 2: You might find me there. I've got to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I've been there many times, and there's no smell. The
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  Speaker 2: animals are happy. Like some shelters I've seen around the country,
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  Speaker 2: they're drugged up, so they're like sedated. Not there. And boy,
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  Speaker 2: people get a choice of whether it's dogs, cats, or
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  Speaker 2: other animals. So I'm suggesting if you're looking for a
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  Speaker 2: new friend, a furry friend, Just go to the North
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  Speaker 2: Shore Animal League. It's a great place to go to.
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  Speaker 2: And this is in league with a conversation we had
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  Speaker 2: with you yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say one last thing about that because I
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  Speaker 3: think this is important. Even if you are thinking about
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  Speaker 3: getting a dog, even if you say to yourself, well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't like dogs, but I want to go see
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  Speaker 3: the puppies. I will tell you, I learned something from Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie's never had a dog in her life. She held
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  Speaker 3: one of these puppies and now she's actually thinking about
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  Speaker 3: getting a dog. And so don't think to yourself, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a dog person, so I'm not going to go
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  Speaker 3: to this thing. Just if you're nearby, go ahead over there.
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  Speaker 3: You might find some love.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Come on, Natalie. You can handle it. Look,
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  Speaker 2: it's getting a puppy to train properly is a little difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Might keep you up the few hours that you get
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  Speaker 2: some sleep if they're yelping. But you can handle it, Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: You and your family. I think we can.
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  Speaker 3: We've always talked about maybe when we retire, where we
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  Speaker 3: could spend a lot of time with.
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  Speaker 2: The dog.
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  Speaker 3: You only need to spend a whole lot of time
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  Speaker 3: when they're a puppy. I think, I think they're, they're
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  Speaker 3: self-sufficient after they're a puppy.
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  Speaker 2: They get lonely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they get the, you know, nobody knows this,
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  Speaker 3: but dogs get depressed too. If you leave them alone
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  Speaker 3: for too long. But let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: Retire? You ain't retiring. Well, no, I'm not. You've been
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  Speaker 2: here with all three of the gamblers, the legacy. You've
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  Speaker 2: been with every talk show here on WOR, Joan Hamburg,
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  Speaker 2: Barry Gray, all of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't think she said she was. She said
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  Speaker 3: when I retire. That's what she said. Someday she's going
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  Speaker 3: to retire.
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  Speaker 2: Do it now. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he liked you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I do. But you should have seen it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: She fell in love with this puppy. Come on. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to break that puppy's heart. Natalie, that puppy
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  Speaker 2: looked at you like, please take me home. Please take
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  Speaker 2: me home. You should get one.
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  Speaker 3: Even for security alone. I will tell you, I did
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  Speaker 3: two stories called the burglars poll. Where we went to
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  Speaker 3: prisons and we talked to people that were in prisons
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  Speaker 3: for burglary. And I did it in Chicago and I
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  Speaker 3: did it in Philadelphia. And the number one deterrent is
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  Speaker 3: a dog. More than security alarms, more than anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Nosy neighbors are number two, by the way. But number
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  Speaker 3: one is a dog. So just think, you want to
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  Speaker 3: get a security alarm. You can have a dog. A
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  Speaker 3: dog is always going to bark, and the burglars say,
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  Speaker 3: we just go. As soon as you hear a dog,
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  Speaker 3: we leave.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that sounds like a real dog guy. You've been
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  Speaker 2: a dog guy your whole life, right? I have been, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No cats.
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  Speaker 2: Take us through the transitions of the different dogs you've had.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we bought my grandmother lived in West Philly and
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  Speaker 3: the neighborhood started to turn. So we got her a
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  Speaker 3: dog that was vicious named Bing. And then she came
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  Speaker 3: to live with us. So Bing came to our house.
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  Speaker 3: The vicious dog was in our house for a while.
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  Speaker 3: But for some reason, the dog, I could tame the
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  Speaker 3: vicious dog because I was like three. And the dog
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  Speaker 3: would come up and growl at me, and I'd be
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  Speaker 3: ready for it, and I'd have toothpaste, and I'd rub
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  Speaker 3: it in his mouth. And he'd start sneezing and go away.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the first dog. Then we had another Bing.
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  Speaker 3: And then since then, I've had dogs, geez, everywhere I went,
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  Speaker 3: everywhere I went. I love having a dog. I love
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  Speaker 3: having a dog for a lot of reasons, not just companionship,
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  Speaker 3: but it's smart to have one. especially if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be away from your apartment or your home because
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  Speaker 3: it is the best security system you can get.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure it was good as deer radar, keeping
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  Speaker 2: the deer away, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Thanks for saying that. I forgot all
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  Speaker 3: about that. Now we're definitely going to get a dog.
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  Speaker 3: I can promise you we will get a dog because
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  Speaker 3: I forgot all about that. When I tell Dawn– If
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  Speaker 3: we get a dog, there'll be no more deer in
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  Speaker 3: our yard.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get one tomorrow. But that was a result of
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  Speaker 2: having lost and continuing to mourn the last dog you had,
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  Speaker 2: which was Buddy. You've had a series of dogs called Buddy, right?
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  Speaker 2: Buddy 1, Buddy 2. What was this, based on the
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  Speaker 2: coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Buddy Ryan?
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  Speaker 3: Buddy Ryan, no, no, no. The shame of it is
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  Speaker 3: I call my kids Buddy as a nickname, too. So
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  Speaker 3: nobody knows who I'm talking to all the time. But no,
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  Speaker 3: we've had three German Shepherds. We had a purebred white
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  Speaker 3: German Shepherd. Then we had a police dog that lasted
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  Speaker 3: like a week because he ran away. And then we
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  Speaker 3: had another one that was a mix between a white
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  Speaker 3: Lab and a white German Shepherd. Unbelievable dogs. Loved every
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  Speaker 3: one of those dogs. But when the last one died,
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  Speaker 3: Dawn said, I don't know if I could take another
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  Speaker 3: one dying. I can't. It hit her really hard.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are like that. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: they lose... a cherished member of their family, because that's
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  Speaker 2: what Buddy was to you, they find it, they know, well,
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  Speaker 2: we could get another dog, but nobody's going to replace Buddy.
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  Speaker 2: And it would remind you of Buddy. But now, deer radar.
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  Speaker 3: Well, aside from that, that's going to make certain.
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  Speaker 2: Seal the deal. That's going to close the deal, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because she came to me about a week ago and said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think I'm ready to get another dog.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm ready. So it sounds like that's going
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  Speaker 3: to make it happen. Wait till I tell her that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. This will be good. Anyway, if
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  Speaker 2: you have any talkbacks on this subject, especially in light
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  Speaker 2: of the North Shore Animal League having the giveaway of puppies,
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  Speaker 2: especially that they've just rescued all over the country this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: how can they– register for our talkback?
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  Speaker 2: You know, my mother, Francesca, no longer with us. was
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  Speaker 2: terrified of dogs. And I was delivering the New York
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  Speaker 2: Daily News in the morning, 168 daily, so it took
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  Speaker 2: me a while. And I saw this huge dog running around.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody had just dumped him. You could tell that in
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  Speaker 2: the streets of Canarsie. He was part Great Dane, part
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  Speaker 2: German Shepherd. I just showed you a picture of it, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: with my grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino, who loved dogs. And my
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  Speaker 2: mom did not want a dog. So when I brought
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  Speaker 2: the dog home, she said that no dog is going
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  Speaker 2: to be in my house. You and your grandfather are
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  Speaker 2: going to have to build him a dog house out
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  Speaker 2: in the yard. And so he stayed in the dog house.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously nobody's coming in beyond that fence. So my
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  Speaker 2: uncle comes in, my Uncle Vincenz, who's having an argument
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  Speaker 2: with my mother. over something, I forget what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And he's arguing and arguing in the house. His voice
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  Speaker 2: is getting raised up. I wonder what's going, what am
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  Speaker 2: I going to do? I'm just a little kid. And
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  Speaker 2: he goes to leave and the dog puts his paw
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  Speaker 2: right in front of his leg and puts his mouth
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  Speaker 2: right on his ankle. My cousin Vincenzo was so scared.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying to me, get that dog off of me,
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  Speaker 2: get that dog off of me. And then he just
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  Speaker 2: ran out. Didn't come back to bother my mom after that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what my mom said? The dog gets
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  Speaker 2: to stay in the house. The dog gets to stay
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  Speaker 2: in the house. Oh, and as you can see, you
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  Speaker 2: know what you should do, Natalie, at some point this week? Yes, what?
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  Speaker 2: Because we want to promote people going out and adopting
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  Speaker 2: unwanted dogs. You should post a picture that I just
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  Speaker 2: showed Larry so people can see. I was originally a
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  Speaker 2: dog guy growing up. And then, Larry, if you have any...
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  Speaker 2: pictures of you and your dog you should definitely post
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  Speaker 2: that just as an encouragement to others because there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of unwanted dogs out there we're just looking
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  Speaker 2: for a home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah i think i'll wait until we get another dog
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  Speaker 3: which i think now is going to happen soon you
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  Speaker 3: don't you don't realize how important i can't believe i
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  Speaker 3: didn't think of that before i cannot believe i didn't
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  Speaker 3: think of because.
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  Speaker 2: You'd You told me when we first consummated this relationship,
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  Speaker 2: you know, after Tom Cuddy did the shit in March,
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  Speaker 2: you told me that your wife Dawn hates the deer
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  Speaker 2: coming into your yard. And we've tried everything. And eat
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  Speaker 2: all the flowers, eat everything. She doesn't even want to
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  Speaker 2: plant anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We've tried coyote urine, which smells horrible, but we had
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  Speaker 3: it all over our yard. First rain, it's gone. We
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  Speaker 3: tried everything. I will promise you. We will have a
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  Speaker 3: dog within two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Because the dog is going to frolic in the yard
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  Speaker 2: and the deer are going to stay away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And even if it's a puppy, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: run after the deer like it wants to play.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still going to scare them off. You see,
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  Speaker 1: I did a good thing. Larry, Dawn, if you're listening, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: I did a good thing. I was able to put
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  Speaker 1: the key in the door and turn it.
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  Speaker 2: To give rationale to Dawn to get over her mourning
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  Speaker 2: period for your previous beloved dog, Buddy. And this now
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  Speaker 2: has a rational reason why you got to do that. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and she hates the deer. She hates the deer. Probably
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  Speaker 2: treats deer like Agent Orange in hooves. Because people say
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  Speaker 2: when the deer come on, like your property, Natalie, they
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  Speaker 2: just eat everything in sight.
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  Speaker 3: We tried everything. My son was out with a BB
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  Speaker 3: gun shooting them. And I said, what if he hit
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  Speaker 3: one in the eye? And that stopped that. Then after that,
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  Speaker 3: he wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, up next, what a great– golly, gee, golly, holly, yoski, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees just killed the Red Sox last night at
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  Speaker 2: the stadium. Game two in the playoffs tonight, plus a
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  Speaker 2: chance to see Stevie Wonder's sold-out concert at Madison Square
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  Speaker 2: Garden at 825.