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Hour 3: Otter attack · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So, Larry, now that we talk about the Clancy case again,
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  Speaker 1: one quickie, though, before you get into the major details
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  Speaker 1: of the jury being convened again today, is it was
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  Speaker 1: a woman. Apparently, she's part of that crowd of the
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  Speaker 1: many who are outside, mostly women, some men, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wear pink every day. And when the jurors were being discharged,
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  Speaker 1: she filmed them all. And she was caught and brought
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  Speaker 1: right before the judge and charged. jury interference or something
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  Speaker 1: along that line, and she pleaded not guilty. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: would think right there, boy, that's pretty damn intimidating to
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  Speaker 1: the jurors there, that they're being filmed. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to do with that film? Which
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  Speaker 1: almost leads to the conclusion that you had early on
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  Speaker 1: that this jury should have been sequestered.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they absolutely should have been sequestered. But this
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  Speaker 2: woman just seems like a nut. Her name's Dawn Light.
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  Speaker 2: She's 56 years old. She was arraigned immediately. She's being
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  Speaker 2: charged with aggravated intimidation of a juror, witness or person
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  Speaker 2: furnishing information. Extremely serious charge. That's a felony. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a felony. You can get up to 10 years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: They asked for $ 50, 000 bail on her. So listen, she
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  Speaker 2: lied to them. They said, are you taking pictures? She said, no.
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  Speaker 2: They took her cell phone. She had pictures in her
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  Speaker 2: cell phone. It was in her deleted file, but they
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  Speaker 2: had all these pictures in her cell phone. She had
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  Speaker 2: been doing it now for a couple of days. This
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the first time she was doing it. It's just
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  Speaker 2: somebody called their attention to it. I got a feeling
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  Speaker 2: they're going to work out a deal with her and
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  Speaker 2: she's going to get some type of probation because I
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  Speaker 2: don't think she meant any harm. I don't think she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to intimidate anybody. We'll find out. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: find out more about her. She fancies herself as a
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  Speaker 2: civilian Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm a self-appointed crime reporter. But, boy, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a juror and you see that going on,
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  Speaker 1: that you're being filmed, especially at this very sensitive time.
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  Speaker 2: It can be very intimidating. Yeah, I wonder how they
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  Speaker 2: found out about her. I wonder if it was a juror.
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  Speaker 2: But then I think we would have known that because
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  Speaker 2: a note would have been sent to the judge and
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  Speaker 2: it would have to be read out loud. So somebody else,
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  Speaker 2: maybe somebody in the press told her. The interesting thing
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  Speaker 2: was she got her due because when she left after
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  Speaker 2: her arraignment, there must have been 50 cameras in her face. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and she was trying to avoid them and she was
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  Speaker 2: trying to go somewhere else. So Now she kind of
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  Speaker 2: knows how it feels, but getting back to the meat
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  Speaker 2: of what happened on that day, no more questions, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, should give you a sign that I
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  Speaker 2: don't think this jury's going anywhere with this. I think
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  Speaker 2: they've already resigned themselves to the fact that this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a hung jury, and the only reason
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  Speaker 2: they're going back there and talking at all is because
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  Speaker 2: the judge keeps forcing them. It's going to be fascinating
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  Speaker 2: to find out who is dug in and who isn't,
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  Speaker 2: but Curtis... I really believe that today is the day
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to find out that they cannot make
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  Speaker 2: a decision. And remember, under Massachusetts law, they can't send
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  Speaker 2: them back again. So this would be it. And then
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  Speaker 2: they'd have to figure out whether they're going to go
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  Speaker 2: through with another trial, whether they're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: plea deal, whether they're going to let her go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution, all of the weight after this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be on the prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're the defense attorney who's become this iconic
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  Speaker 1: symbol now, you know, a grandfather type, oh, we love you,
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  Speaker 1: we love you. Nobody even knew this guy before. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: you probably would say, I don't care about money. I
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  Speaker 1: want to go back on trial with this because of
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  Speaker 1: the attention and recognition. There's probably a book deal. There
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  Speaker 1: are other things that will be coming his way. If
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  Speaker 1: you're the prosecutor, I think you say, look, This is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. It's going to be even more retrial.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to sequester a jury. So much more about security.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just try to get a plea and get rid
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  Speaker 1: of this, get it off the docket. But then if
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  Speaker 1: you are the person who is being prosecuted, who obviously
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  Speaker 1: can think for herself, she's not impaired, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want to do? Because she could always dismiss the defense
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  Speaker 1: attorney and then just take somebody else to represent her.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, this is very interesting how this decision
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  Speaker 1: ultimately will be made. But I think the whole world
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  Speaker 1: agrees with you that this is a deadlock jury. A
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  Speaker 1: mistrial will have to be called. And then they'll have
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  Speaker 1: to determine if they're going to go forward with this.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly, I think the fear would be, what? You're
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  Speaker 1: going to drop charges and what, turn a loose, back
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  Speaker 1: loose into the streets? I think that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what, look, if they can't work out a deal,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to recharge her. But I do think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to work out a plea deal. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that if she were to accept, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, just take all of this with a grain
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  Speaker 1: of salt. I'm just telling you what I believe. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're going to try to put her
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  Speaker 1: away for a long time. And that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the plea deal. They're not in jail. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: put her under psychiatric evaluation and then treatment and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that she is locked away. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: the prosecution is going to at least settle for. That
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  Speaker 1: may not be where they start. but at least what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to settle on. And interesting as to whether
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  Speaker 1: they're getting any advice on this, because we're talking, this
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  Speaker 1: is Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, right? Where I was disappointed when
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  Speaker 1: I went there, look at Plymouth Rock in the center,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a little pebble. I'm thinking it's the Rock
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  Speaker 1: of Gibraltar there. You know, that's what it's best known for.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the Pilgrims landed. They're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: handle a case like this. I mean, they put on
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  Speaker 1: a good case. They had a lot of witnesses. They
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of exhibits. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have the wherewithal to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do it again.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, maybe not. I will tell you this. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution did an excellent job. They did a really
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  Speaker 2: good job. Keith Reddington, the defense attorney, was blasted because
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  Speaker 2: they thought his closing was awful. Truthfully, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: the attorneys really played into this at all. I think
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  Speaker 2: the women outside... And the women that have been writing
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  Speaker 2: to me and the women I've heard on other stations,
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  Speaker 2: on talk radio, you know, I drive down, I listen
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  Speaker 2: to my, I listened to my wife on talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of women called her. What we're not understanding
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  Speaker 2: is the depth of postpartum depression. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's an excuse for her. I think everybody knows where
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  Speaker 2: I stand on this. I think she should put it,
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  Speaker 2: be put away for life. Cause I, I side with
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  Speaker 2: the three children, but, There is a feeling in this
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  Speaker 2: country that finally, finally people are paying attention to us,
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  Speaker 2: that they now know what I suffered through. They now
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  Speaker 2: know the darkness of what can happen after you give birth,
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  Speaker 2: and this depression takes over your body. And so maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's a good thing that that's come out now. It's
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  Speaker 2: horrible that if she gets to go free or if
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't get some time in jail— To me, that's
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  Speaker 2: an aberration of justice. But I do understand what people
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  Speaker 2: are saying to me. And I get it. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that they feel, through her, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's rational, but through her, they feel some kind of vindication.
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  Speaker 1: Well, also because, remember, she was a nurse herself. She's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not without intellect. Because sometimes, if a person is
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  Speaker 1: not able to explain themselves, it makes it very difficult.
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  Speaker 1: But She is certainly at that level. And she has
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  Speaker 1: yet to be heard from in full. So you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine if she's whipping up a story or whatever. But
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  Speaker 1: it really does set the gender divide.
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  Speaker 2: It does. It does. And listen, I've been tutored by
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  Speaker 2: a lot of women on this now. I've been tutored
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  Speaker 2: on how depressed they can get. And I think that's–
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  Speaker 2: even though I believe that's irrational– to put yourself on
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  Speaker 2: her shoes because everybody that's I'm talking to and everybody
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  Speaker 2: that shared their stories with me, they didn't kill three children. And,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's the dividing line and that's what
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  Speaker 2: we always have to remember, but it gets forgotten because
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of women out there that are saying
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  Speaker 2: now people kind of understand now understand what I was
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  Speaker 2: going through. I went through something like that. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: And how do I argue with them? How do you
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  Speaker 2: say to them, well, no, no, what you went through
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  Speaker 2: was nothing like that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've now been in the eye of the storm
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  Speaker 1: three times. You took on initially the Swifty people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Taylor Swifties. And boy, you caught tremendous blowback. AI
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  Speaker 1: data filing centers, you caught blowback. And now, obviously, in
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  Speaker 1: this case, which is internationally being reported, the Clancy case.
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  Speaker 1: Which has been the more difficult storm for you to
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  Speaker 1: navigate through? Because I remember the Swifties, man. That was
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  Speaker 1: like chatbots coming at you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. On Instagram, what was that up to? And
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  Speaker 2: they were all negative, too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like a million?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No joke. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But that was all at once. The AI data filing
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  Speaker 1: centers initially came all at once at you. This seems
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  Speaker 1: to be systemic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I discount some of the AI stuff because I
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  Speaker 2: think that we're that they were just either people that
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  Speaker 2: were working for AI or some type of program that
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  Speaker 2: was going after everybody that's against the AI data centers.
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  Speaker 2: This is the most complicated one because where you can
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  Speaker 2: still feel compassion for the women who think that she
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  Speaker 2: is a symbol for them, you can feel compassion for that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't feel compassion for Lindsay Clancy I can't feel
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  Speaker 2: any compassion for her at all and the reason is
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  Speaker 2: the line for me is three children being dead that
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  Speaker 2: seem to be forgotten in this entire debate. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why I want to keep talking about them, the victims,
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  Speaker 2: because they're making this woman a victim. And I just
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  Speaker 2: want to remind all of them, she's not you. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't kill your kids. She did. And you should make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you understand that and draw the line yourself.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, who knew that otters were so dangerous?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait. They just appeared in the Bronx River for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in like a century. They were on
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  Speaker 1: a pedestal. What are you talking about? They're cute.
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  Speaker 2: Not always. We'll tell you about a dangerous otter when
• 10:41
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  Speaker 2: Otters are cute, aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: Well, looking at this most recent story of the first
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  Speaker 1: otter appearance in the Bronx River in over a century,
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  Speaker 1: which means fresh water, they're frolicking, they seem to be happy.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was euphoric, so I would say, yeah. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you ask that?
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  Speaker 2: Because a woman at Lake Tahoe that was swimming in
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  Speaker 2: what they called a secret beach, I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: that is, was swimming and she saw an otter. And
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  Speaker 2: of course you think to yourself, wow, cute otter.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: This otter wasn't cute.
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  Speaker 4: I've been swimming in Lake Tahoe for like 25 years.
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  Speaker 1: This has never happened, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and she ended up, listen to this, the otter
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  Speaker 2: attacked her face, went onto her foot, tried to pull
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  Speaker 2: her under, and she ended up with, well, let her
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  Speaker 2: say it.
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  Speaker 4: I got 38 stitches. I have 22 on one foot.
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  Speaker 2: She ended up with the 38 stitches in her foot,
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  Speaker 2: facial scratches, bite marks on her face, bite marks on
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  Speaker 2: her body. And this is Lynette Bellin, who is a
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  Speaker 2: certified swim coach. self-rescue instructor from Reno, Nevada. Thank God
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  Speaker 2: it was her because, you know, she already has these
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  Speaker 2: instructions on how to survive when she's in the water.
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  Speaker 2: Because had this been somebody else, I don't think this
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  Speaker 2: otter was going to stop.
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  Speaker 4: I turned around and there was this otter and it
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  Speaker 4: just came at me, teeth and claws and biting and scratching.
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  Speaker 4: And I immediately was just trying to get away from it.
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  Speaker 2: Now they want the otter and they can't find the otter.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is going to get my wife Nancy upset.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to go out there and just start
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  Speaker 1: shooting otters randomly until they think they got the suspect responsible.
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  Speaker 1: There won't be a lineup of otters at the local
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  Speaker 1: police precinct in Lake Tahoe. Remember, Lake Tahoe is where
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  Speaker 1: they kidnapped Frank Sinatra's son, remember? Yeah, Lake Tahoe. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, Larry. You're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of animal rights people upset unless you really
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  Speaker 1: tag and bag the right otter for this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get them upset. The people out
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  Speaker 2: there are going to get them upset. But I would
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  Speaker 2: think that they'd try to catch some of the otters
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  Speaker 2: to test because obviously they're looking to see if this
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  Speaker 2: otter has rabies. And wouldn't you be able to tell
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  Speaker 2: an otter has rabies?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the only problem is the only rabies test is
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  Speaker 1: you got to chop their head off. And then if
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  Speaker 1: they don't have rabies, how do you put them back
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  Speaker 1: together again?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. You flying out there now?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I know my wife Nancy will. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of animal rights activists. I mean, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: they want to protect the otter that did it. But
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling, let's face it, Lake Tahoe, that
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  Speaker 1: area between Reno, a lot of gun owners may actually
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  Speaker 1: go otter hunting.
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  Speaker 2: That's really good. Yeah, some otter fur is going to
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  Speaker 2: be up on people's houses. And Nancy can go door
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  Speaker 2: to door. Now let's get some talkbacks. The first one
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  Speaker 2: is about the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can guarantee that the person or persons
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  Speaker 3: holding up the Clancy trial, that person does not have
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  Speaker 3: children of their own.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that. I think you're absolutely right. And if
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  Speaker 2: it's a woman and you know the difference between being
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  Speaker 2: a single woman and being a mother, or being any
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: childless woman and being a woman with children, your perspective
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  Speaker 2: changes a thousand percent.
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  Speaker 5: I just heard and read on the news that a
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  Speaker 5: woman in Virginia was charged with three counts for letting
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  Speaker 5: her five-year-old child go for a walk in a gated community. Now,
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  Speaker 5: where are these women activists now? Instead of walking around
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  Speaker 5: and supporting a woman that strangled the life out of
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  Speaker 5: three of her children, Where are the women that are
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  Speaker 5: supporting the woman that just let a five-year-old kid go
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  Speaker 5: for a walk?
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. So that's called nowadays the free-range children, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to do what we used to do, just walk around
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  Speaker 1: on our own. Now you've got the helicopter parents, so
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  Speaker 1: you're right. There are going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: parents who are going to want to incarcerate that mother.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: How could you let a five-year-old go out there and
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  Speaker 1: walk around on their own?
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  Speaker 2: So she's wrong, but the one that killed three children,
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  Speaker 2: she should be let go. I'm not saying you're saying that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that there's people saying that.
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  Speaker 6: Great topic regarding this unfortunate situation, lady killing her three children.
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  Speaker 6: I have a mom, a wife, a daughter, and I
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  Speaker 6: don't agree with.
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  Speaker 1: What she did.
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  Speaker 6: My question is, what happens when there's a man that
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  Speaker 6: kills his wife or partner for being emotionally abused? Does
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  Speaker 6: it get looked at in the same way? I think
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: in the world we're not treating people the same, and
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  Speaker 6: that's why we're being divided.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point. Look, I think murder is murder,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that there's a punishment for that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's mitigating circumstances and you get less of a sentence,
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  Speaker 2: but there's got to be something done.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's get the news at 8.30 with Daria.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Curtis.
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  Speaker 7: Partly cloudy and warmer today with a high of 84 degrees.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: President Trump is warning oil executives to bring down gas prices.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: as Americans continue to pay more at the pump, especially
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: as we head into a busy driving weekend like the
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: long Labor Day holiday. He says he's warned retailers about
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: price gouging in a meeting earlier this week. Well, with
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: no signs of the war with Iran ending, there are
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: new concerns about how well prepared U.S. troops are for
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: the mission.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Military leaders have reportedly been warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: that a prolonged war with Iran is unsustainable and pushing
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: back against his purge of top officials. And now some
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  Speaker 8: Republican senators are voicing serious concerns.
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  Speaker 1: About his leadership.
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  Speaker 8: Tom Tillis, who cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Hegseth,
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  Speaker 8: now says Trump should fire him for his, quote, inept management.
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  Speaker 7: ABC's Mary Bruce in Washington. Almost a half a million
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: dollars has been raised in a GoFundMe campaign for a
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Bank of America vice president who was stabbed to death
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: last week. in Times Square.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: It was Erin Piacenti's first day back to work from
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: maternity leave when she was approached by a woman who
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: police say randomly stabbed her while walking in Times Square Monday.
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: Police shot and killed the suspect who was apparently emotionally
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: disturbed and stabbed another person as well. The 32-year-old Chester,
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: New Jersey native leaves behind a husband and five-month-old daughter.
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: Donation money from the GoFundMe will go towards supporting her daughter.
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: A key figure in the women's rights movement has died.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Gloria Steinem co-founded organizations like the Women's Action Alliance, as
• 17:52
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• 17:52
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• 17:53
  Speaker 7: The longtime New Yorker was 92. And a magazine which
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: has published for more than 200 years is no longer
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: going to be in print after the start of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: new year. The Saturday Evening Post, which has been in
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: publication since 1821 and is legendary for its iconic cover
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: illustrations by Norman Rockwell, says after.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: January, future issues will only be online.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Mets and Yankees both win.
• 18:18
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  Speaker 7: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Daria, and congratulations to Chris Girantante. Did I
• 18:28
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• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Girgente.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Girgente. Man, and you came over and told me and everything.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Chris. Girgente won't forget again from Manhattan. who
• 18:39
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• 18:53
  Speaker 2: When we come back, well, Mayor Zora Mamdani just sent
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: children in New York City schools back, but he placated
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the teachers' union. We're going to explain when we come back. Listen,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you about a dramatic, dramatic rescue
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: of saving of a life in Rialto, California. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: I covered the news for a long time. I covered
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: incidents like this all the time. It is a matter
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: of seconds. It's a matter of life and death. Choking
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: is one of those moments. And there's no better example
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  Speaker 2: than when police received a frantic 911 call on August
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  Speaker 2: 5th from a mother who, In Rialto, California, who said
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  Speaker 2: her three-year-old son was choking on his own vomit in
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  Speaker 2: the backseat and could not breathe. He was turning colors.
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  Speaker 2: The mothers told dispatchers where to go. They arrived and
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• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So yesterday, the mayor was on the move. We'll talk
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: momentarily about his AI ban in grades up to eighth
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: grade in public schools in New York City. But he
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: decided to go into the heart of the Orthodox Jewish
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: community in Borough Park. He had been invited to come
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to Eisner's. I've been there many times, which is on
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Coney Island Avenue between J and K. It's a huge
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: store you would go to to get any kind of
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Jewish artifacts before the holidays. With Rosh Hashanah coming up,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur, they sell everything. Well-known, well beyond Brooklyn, which
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: has the largest Jewish population in the city. And the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: place was packed with the black-hatted-wearing Orthodox Jews, males. But
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: there was one woman who came in as Zoran was
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: talking to the crowd. That's a woman I've known for years.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: She's like a fixture in the Jewish Orthodox community. She
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: goes by the handle Boss Mama America Israeli Zionist. She'll
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: show up oftentimes with an American flag and an Israeli flag.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: She's been at events for me. She's been at other events.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: But she decided, I'm going inside in the heart of
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Borough Park, and I'm confronting this mayor. There's no way
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you keep this woman, Stephanie, quiet. And listen to what
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: she had to say as the mayor was talking to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: this packed crowd of black-hatted Orthodox men who were nodding
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: their head in agreement with whatever he was saying at
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that moment.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I can't believe that you're in a Jewish store.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Before Rosh Hashanah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: You're causing all the anti-Semitism. You're not the ambassador for America.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Shame on you for coming to Borough Park where.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: My bubby came after the Holocaust.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: My bubby and daddy came to Borough Park.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You have such roots for coming here.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: Your mom's there.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Shame on you. I love her.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: She's my hero.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Where was everybody else? who should have been there to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: protest the mayor's arrival, right? On a day in which
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: earlier anti-Semitic crimes hit a new high, the police commissioner
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: had to acknowledge that while the mayor was there. Where
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: were all the other people always yelling and screaming? I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: always say, you don't like this mayor? Organize and mobilize.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Make sure he's not mayor in 2029. She was there
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: by herself. Where was everybody else? Because you see in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: these orthodox and Hasidic communities, Whatever the rabbi tells you,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that's what you do. So the rabbi determined, a series
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: of rabbis said, hey, he's the mayor. We do business
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: with the city. There's a lot of social services provided
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: by the city. Read into that what you want. Let's
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: not upset the mayor. They rolled out the red carpet.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: They invited him. And more importantly, the owners of Eisner's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: had already predetermined this was not going to hurt their
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: business before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Well, they would
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: never have done this. It would hurt the bottom line.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So everybody out there, this is right in your backyard.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You stay quiet. This is a midday. This is not
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: like he did it at 3 o'clock in the morning.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: He slept in and slept out. So I'm tired of
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: listening to these people. Instead of complaining, organize and mobilize.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: But Stephanie was there. Where was everybody else?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: It is amazing. It is amazing because, remind me, did
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: he win the Jewish vote in the election?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Not that area. No way. Cuomo won that overwhelmingly. He
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: won the Satmar vote in Williamsburg, which is the largest
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Hasidic group. And they get a lot of social services
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: from the city, but they don't believe in the state
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of Israel. They believe the only way Israel can exist
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is when the Mashiach returns, the Messiah. But this community
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there in Borough Park, I don't think he got one vote.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Well, everybody can be bought off, it sounds like.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Everybody. Let's just say, follow the money.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, you can follow the money
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: on Zoram Mamdani announcing the biggest ban on AI in
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: schools in the entire country, which I believe is going
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to set back kids, the 600,000 plus kids in the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: New York City school system, because while other School districts
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: all across the country are going to be learning AI
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: because every single employer wants AI. Every single college uses AI,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: but they're going to be set back because in grade
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: school all the way to eighth grade, it's basically a
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: ban on the use of AI. Now, you're going to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: learn some about it, something about it in high school,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: but it's not going to be as in-depth as other
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: school districts across the country. So these children necessarily are
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: going to be behind. And as you just said a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: moment ago, Curtis, follow the money. Guess where the money
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: comes from? Teachers unions. a strong supporter of Zorin Mamdani,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and the teachers' union wants this, and so he's going
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: to do it, and he's going to put a smiling
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: face on it. That's what he did. He made it
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: sound like, oh, we're protecting your children from AI. Even
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the teachers have limited use to AI. It's because teachers
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: don't want to be replaced by AI. The unions are
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: worried about AI. And so Zoran Mamdani has knelt down
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and said, okay, I'll give you whatever you want. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: he's banning AI in the grade schools. And it's going
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to set back the kids. But I guess when he
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: runs for re-election, he's going to get a lot of money, Curtis,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: from the teachers union.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, no question. But remember, he wanted to be out front.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So we're the first municipality to ban AI in schools.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: We're the largest in the nation. This is sort of
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: like what– Kathy Hochul did in declaring the moratorium on
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: AI data filing centers first in the nation but then
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: we learned we read the uh the small print with
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul we saw wait if you're under 50 uh
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: megawatts or whatever it was you're okay I got to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: read the small print on this and I really got
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to consult the experts on this my sons who know
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: all the tricks uh And also some teachers who you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: know they're going to be grading papers. You know they're
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: going to be doing a lot of things with AI.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Everybody uses AI now.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Everybody in companies everywhere. And these kids are going to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: be set behind now. It's a shame.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he grabs a headline for the day. He does
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a Kathy Hochul. And let's see what the results of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: my conversations are over the weekend. And I'll be able to,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: when we come back after the Labor Day weekend, be
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: able to explain to people what I think happened. is
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: going on from the people that this would directly impact.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Up next, oh boy, this is the last weekend for
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore and other beach communities. I want to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: definitely ask Natalie and Larry how it's been on the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore with all the inclement weather, the flooding, the storms.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And then also, we'll get into it longer tomorrow, is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the death of the woman most associated with the creation
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of now Gloria Steinem. who was not only a CIA agent,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but a playboy bunny. So let me take you, Larry
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and Natalie, back to the Memorial Day weekend. I was
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: at Coney Island, and I'll be at Coney Island Labor
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Day weekend and the beach season. But both of you said, oh, yeah, no,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. We grew up on the Jersey Shore. We're
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: going to be down on the Jersey Shore. So hop along, Natalie,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: who has been forced to stay at home and convalesce
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: from knee surgery, and now you're back in studio. Thank
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: you for doing that. But I'll bet you you're going
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to hop your way down to the Jersey Shore for
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the final weekend. Am I right?
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: I will be.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I am going to hop along the sand.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen you hop yet.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'll tell you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Ever, by the way. I can show you if you'd like.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: But yeah, walking on sand after a knee procedure, not
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: so good.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: So you're willing to hop for me? That's what I
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: took out of that sentence.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to hop for the beach.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: But you, Larry, you've grown up on the Jersey Shore.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You have family there. Ultimately, when the books are closed
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: after the Labor Day weekend, how do you think business
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: will report it that the summer was?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Well, some numbers are already out, and this is stunning, actually. Rental. Rental.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: surged by 53% year-to-year at the Jersey Shore. So the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: people that owned houses and rented them out at the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Jersey Shore, they certainly made a lot of money. And
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the amazing thing is, even with this huge increase in prices—
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Most places were sold out.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Still, I don't know if you've been paying attention, but
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the property values at the Jersey Shore skyrocketed over the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: last five years. I mean, to get into a Jersey
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Shore house right now, even to buy a floor of
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: a Jersey house, you're looking at a million dollars at
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: this point. Some of the places like in Avalon and
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Ocean City and Long Beach, they've gone up to like
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: $ 4 million for some of the places, especially... The closer
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you get to the ocean, the more they go up.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I read a big story about the Jersey Shore. They're
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: saying it's becoming the Hamptons of New Jersey, some of
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: these areas that people really want to go to. But
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: as far as the numbers that I think that are
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: going to come out, rain doesn't hurt anything. Rain never
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: hurts anything because people have already booked their houses.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And they're going to go down there no matter what,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: and they actually spend more money– When it rains, the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: amusement parks may not do too well, but the restaurants
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: are going to do really well, and the stores are
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: going to do really well. So we'll see when the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: numbers come out, but I think it's going to be up.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Well, we started with this subject at the start of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the program, and then the news of the passing of
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Gloria Steinem. Remember back in the days of peace, love,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and happiness, the hippie days, when NOW was created, National
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Organization of Women, We're going to burn our bras. There
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: were two women synonymous with that, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And I remember the guy saying, Gloria Steinem, you burn
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: your bra. We don't want to see the breasts of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Betty Friedan. Betty Friedan wasn't a good looker. But Gloria
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Steinem did not fit the profile of what many people
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to stereotype as the now crowd. Her background, we
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: need to do a deep dive tomorrow. She was a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: CIA agent that went undercover. She was a playboy bunny
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: for Hugh Hefner.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: She was a journalist. Yeah, journalist, but also she was
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a man magnet. Almost every famous guy wanted to be
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: seen dating her or going out with her. I would
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: say she was the equivalent of almost like a Jane
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Fonda type at that time. You know, very good looking.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You didn't necessarily put her in a certain box. You
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: know how Jane Fonda ended up with Ted Turner.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: She ended up with a lot of high-profile men, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: she's dead at the age of 92, and she was
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: really the face of the Now crowd. They wanted that
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because they realized when it came to marketing and selling
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that concept, National Organization of Women, her face would be
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: better to sell that than Betty Friedan.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: And her face was on every magazine, in every newspaper.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: She was one of the most famous women in the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: world for several years there. She is and always will
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be the face of the women's movement. We'll talk a
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: lot more about her tomorrow. But in case you haven't heard,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Gloria Steinem, dead at the age of 92. They found
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: her in her New York City apartment.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: The talk back of the morning and winner of the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Curtis Lee with Larry Menti in the morning T-shirt wanted
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to talk about the random attacks across the city that
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: seem to be happening each and every day.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: More emphasis on protecting the public from these attacks. Crazy people,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: no matter what reason, they killed the people. Protecting the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: public from them and not to let them go free
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: because they were insane or whatever. That's the thing that
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: gets me.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, and I think it's almost everybody cannot figure that out,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: how they're released into the streets. And remember, the Talkback
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  Speaker 2: in for Mark Simone and talks to economist Steve Moore
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: and mental health expert Dr. Christopher Taylor. Curtis, it's going
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: to be a busy day tomorrow. I think we're going
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: to get some type of resolution today in the Lindsay
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Clancy trial. My feeling is it's going to be a
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: hung jury. I think you agree with that. So we're
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: going to have a lot to talk about tomorrow.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt. And also maybe a further explanation why
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul declared Al some shady Sharpton to be the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Forrest Gump of our lifetime.
• 34:55
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