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Opening Segment 10/28/26 · 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: That was a Central Park morning for me. As I
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  Speaker 1: patrol the neighborhood, Larry, looking for those mail thieves.
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  Speaker 2: They're still out there.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, if you're sending your ballots in, mail-in ballots,
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  Speaker 1: you're running out of time. You know, you've got six
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  Speaker 1: days left in the midterms. So don't put it in
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  Speaker 1: the blue mailbox. There is so much mail theft going on.
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  Speaker 1: Please give it to your mail carrier or bring it
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  Speaker 1: to your post office and make sure that your ballot
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  Speaker 1: gets counted. But the reason I was in Central Park
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  Speaker 1: is I figured I'd walk here through Central Park. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that long to the iHeart Studios. They're laying down
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  Speaker 1: the blue line. painted at the marathon finish line where
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  Speaker 1: you larry and you natalie are going to be parked
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  Speaker 1: on sunday for like what like half a day from
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  Speaker 1: uh early on pre-race to uh after post-race am i
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  Speaker 1: correct on that yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be on air from eight to noon so we
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  Speaker 3: get on the air just as the professional wheelchair race
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  Speaker 3: starts and we will be there until you know the
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  Speaker 3: professionals end and All the rest start coming in, which
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  Speaker 3: takes hours and hours and hours.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was just going to say. They're coming
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  Speaker 4: in after midnight. They're still showing up and crossing the
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  Speaker 4: finish line and their families are there waiting for them. No,
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  Speaker 4: we're really looking forward to it. Natalie, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: let me just talk about this for a second, is
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  Speaker 4: really amazing at producing these things. She is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's really easy for me because she is so good.
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  Speaker 4: I just show up and I get a book and then,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I do some studying, but- She does the
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  Speaker 4: most of it.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, this morning, the safest place
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  Speaker 1: to be in New York City was Central Park. Not
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  Speaker 1: only additional cops there for the blue line being painted
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  Speaker 1: at the marathon finish line, but all the rapes that
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  Speaker 1: have been occurring there of late overnight. And so Madeline
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  Speaker 1: Migliore is going to sample people's reaction, especially women. Also,
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  Speaker 1: as I was entering, a lot of other people who
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  Speaker 1: have to get up early and go to work were
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  Speaker 1: and leave Fido at home for like eight, nine, or
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  Speaker 1: ten hours. They're walking through the park, walking the dog,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so he can take care of his needs.
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  Speaker 1: So then they can go back to the apartment, and
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  Speaker 1: whosoever there goes off to work and leaves Fido alone.
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  Speaker 1: And then they'll walk them back in the park later
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  Speaker 1: on in the day when they return. One of the
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  Speaker 1: stories we're going to be covering today, guess what? They
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  Speaker 1: have robots now that are going to be dog walkers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be discussing that. But it was a mood elevator
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  Speaker 1: to be in Central Park. I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it's just such a gorgeous park. And it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a mood elevator for some and maybe a real
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  Speaker 1: downer for others because of the trick-or-treat season with Halloween
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  Speaker 1: coming up and what has been.
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  Speaker 2: Described as escalating prices.
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  Speaker 1: For the various candies that you might have had available,
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  Speaker 1: the various treats you might have had available, especially for
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  Speaker 1: all the kids who look forward to going around either
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  Speaker 1: in a posse or with their adult minders and fill
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  Speaker 1: up those bags as much as they can. And I
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  Speaker 1: was traumatized, I must tell you, when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I'd hit some of these houses and I'd get an apple.
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  Speaker 2: And a nickel.
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  Speaker 1: I still cannot figure out why they would put an
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  Speaker 1: apple in the bag with a nickel.
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  Speaker 2: Or they give you the candy corns.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have like a paper towel with a
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  Speaker 1: little rubber band on the top.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're going to really get something good. And it's
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  Speaker 2: candy corns.
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  Speaker 4: Candy corns are the worst. They were the absolute worst
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  Speaker 4: of all the candies you could get. People would get
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  Speaker 4: their houses egged. for giving out candy corns. That's horrible.
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  Speaker 4: That's horrible. Please don't do that to the kids. Now,
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  Speaker 4: did all the kids get apples and nickels or just you?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, all the kids.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'd warn one another, hey, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: go up to that woman's house there. The guy is there.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting on the porch. You're going to get an
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  Speaker 1: apple and a nickel. And maybe somebody out there in
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  Speaker 1: our talk back can explain why so many houses gave
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  Speaker 1: a nickel.
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  Speaker 4: Why a nickel? That must have been in your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Until you mentioned that today, I have never heard of
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  Speaker 4: that before. I've heard of people giving money because they
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  Speaker 4: forgot to go out and get candy for Halloween, so
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  Speaker 4: they give you like a buck. I've never, ever heard
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  Speaker 4: of somebody giving you a nickel.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to get much when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the store if, in fact, you're going to buy
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  Speaker 1: treats for the kids because prices are up. I was
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  Speaker 1: on 116th Street, which is where a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: West Africans are in Harlem on Sunday. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people from the Ivory Coast. That's where we get so
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  Speaker 1: much of our chocolate from West Africa. And apparently they
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  Speaker 1: had some environmental problems, you know, flooding and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But still, like everything else that's gone up, candy's gone up.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people keep talking about how bad prices are
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  Speaker 4: and how prices are up and how they've cut back
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't seen anybody in reality. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a great talk back. I would love to hear from people.
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  Speaker 4: If you've really cut back on your groceries because prices
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  Speaker 4: are up. Because I went out. I didn't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices. Now I'm going to go back and
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  Speaker 4: look at them. I bought way too many bags of candy.
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  Speaker 5: No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I did. No.
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  Speaker 5: Because you have leftovers for yourself. That's the point.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big candy fan. Oh, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: does it.
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  Speaker 4: My wife took the bags of candy I did and
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  Speaker 4: put them around my desk because she's mad that I
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  Speaker 4: got too many. She goes, I don't want this near me.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 4: And I have three huge bags of candy around my desk.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has to remember that this year, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: it's on a Saturday. So it's going to be intense.
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  Speaker 1: Packed.
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  Speaker 5: Packed.
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  Speaker 2: The one day there'll be more kids out there than
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  Speaker 2: early voters. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And so far the weather is looking pretty darn nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, you better have it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get anybody.
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  Speaker 4: No matter what.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get anybody. Yeah, me either. Because we don't
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  Speaker 2: have a sidewalk.
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  Speaker 5: I have a hill. Kids don't want to walk hills.
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  Speaker 2: We have a hill too.
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  Speaker 5: They look at the hill and they're like, eh, not
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  Speaker 5: worth our effort.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if there was word that it's worth the schlep,
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  Speaker 1: Because last year, oh my God, there was a treasure
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  Speaker 1: trove of candy that ended up in my bag.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you they'd make the schlep.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, our neighbor gives out full-size candy bars.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like full size. Not the little bitty ones.
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  Speaker 5: Like the ones you get in the store. They won't
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  Speaker 5: even come up to get that.
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  Speaker 2: How cheap is your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 4: You all give out tiny candy and the one family
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  Speaker 4: gives out full size?
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  Speaker 5: Everybody gives out full size.
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  Speaker 2: In my area, they do.
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  Speaker 3: I give out the fun size, but I tell them
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  Speaker 3: to take as many as they want. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not like giving them one.
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  Speaker 4: That's just like a notch above an apple.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm better than pretzels.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. Worst thing worse than the apple
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  Speaker 2: and a nickel? Hard-boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Hard-boiled eggs. I am not kidding you. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 4: These are people that forgot to buy candy. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, my God, I forgot to buy candy.
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  Speaker 2: Quick, boil the eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I was telling you guys off air that there was
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  Speaker 3: one person when my kids would go and It was
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  Speaker 3: a dentist and he gave out toothbrushes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look. Let's face it. Who racks up during Halloween?
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  Speaker 2: The dentist. The dentist. Because, man, all the kids that are.
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  Speaker 1: Going to have to end up going for their checkups
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe their first cavity.
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  Speaker 2: Cavity's getting filled.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, I remember going to buy candy and I'll
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  Speaker 3: go to Costco or something, you know, buy the big,
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  Speaker 3: big bags. But I must have spent over $ 100 on chocolate.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought to myself, wow, that's. It's getting steep.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? I love that I don't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices because I'm sure I spent more than that.
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  Speaker 4: I spent a fortune on candy and for no reason.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because three people showed up.
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  Speaker 4: Because my grandkids were coming over to the house and
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  Speaker 4: I was excited. That's why it was. And then I
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  Speaker 4: went out and just kept buying candy and kept buying
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  Speaker 4: candy and kept buying candy. But I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 4: the worst, worse than the eggs, worse than the toothbrush
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  Speaker 4: are the people that turn.
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  Speaker 2: Their lights out. Oh, that's rude.
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  Speaker 5: Don't do that to the kids. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, they got a special treatment of toilet paper. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what we do. We bomb their
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  Speaker 1: houses with turley paper. I just figured out what the
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  Speaker 1: eggs are for.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 5: You egg them.
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  Speaker 4: To egg the houses that put the lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not a hard-boiled egg. Oh, even better. Even better.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that'll break a window.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you're devious. You're devious. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 3: And egg prices have come down. I was paying like
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  Speaker 3: two bucks for a dozen the other day, so, you know, better.
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  Speaker 5: When they were $ 7, maybe not. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I just keep hearing stories about people saying they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to buy chocolate this year.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to buy pretzels or potato chip bags. I
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  Speaker 5: don't believe it. I feel like people are going to
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  Speaker 5: still buy chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Kids love potato chips, but when they get a bag
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  Speaker 1: of pretzels, it's sort of like, ah.
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  Speaker 5: That's when I take it. I'm like, oh, little bags
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  Speaker 5: of pretzels. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Kids want candy. They don't want something you made. They
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  Speaker 4: don't want potato chips. They don't want pretzels. They don't
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  Speaker 4: want little boxes of cereals. And they certainly don't want
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  Speaker 4: a toothbrush. So if you're going to give out something,
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  Speaker 4: give out candy. If not, turn your lights out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't want a little blueberry muffin, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put in, again, a paper towel, you know, with a
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  Speaker 1: rubber band at the top.
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  Speaker 4: They'll accept muffins. depending on the age of the person
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  Speaker 4: giving to them. Like if it's a nice old woman
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  Speaker 4: coming up with a thing of muffins, you're polite. You go, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: That's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Look, this is when you prove that you're a politician.
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  Speaker 1: There are times you want to say what?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: And you're, oh, this is the best Halloween I've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mrs. McGillicuddy.
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  Speaker 1: This is really outstanding. And you walk away and you say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing deep boots today, man. I'm shoveling the flotsam
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  Speaker 1: and jetsam here.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we'd like to find out.
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