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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Look who's here.
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  Speaker 2: Man, the last time you were with us, Chris, the
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  Speaker 2: Quiet Storm, unknown from the Mark Simone Show, you just,
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  Speaker 2: it was like your debutante ball. You came out and
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  Speaker 2: you were flexing about hot dogs and baseball parks. And
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, Larry and I, we were
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  Speaker 2: like stunned at how you were exuberant. We had to
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  Speaker 2: cut you off at times.
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  Speaker 1: You were so talkative. Let's calm down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Exuberant by his standards. Yeah, I set a low bar
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  Speaker 1: for myself, but I exceeded it. But you were good. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 2: Talkative by his standards. You blew away a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our listeners.
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  Speaker 1: He went from saying no words to about 50. To
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  Speaker 1: a handful, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you were on loan to us because Natalie is
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  Speaker 2: out today. So you got to do the heavy lifting.
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  Speaker 2: I understand you're looking forward to it. to after the
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  Speaker 2: show because the Rockettes are showing up from Radio City
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  Speaker 2: Music Hall.
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  Speaker 1: So you notice, Chris, a little perky today, Larry. But
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  Speaker 1: it'd be interesting. Are you really into the Rockettes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been stretching my legs extra hard. I want to
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  Speaker 1: do the kicks with them today.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. No, no, no, but you said that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I can't kick that high. I cannot kick that high.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get a video of you doing kicks
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  Speaker 2: with the Rockettes. Well, let me tell you something, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your sweet spot, Larry. There is an individual
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in New Jersey who has won a jackpot that
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  Speaker 2: almost reached Elon Musk numbers, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, not quite. Close to a billion dollars. Well, except
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  Speaker 1: you don't get that. That's the problem. The big number
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  Speaker 1: you see, you're not ending up with. But you end
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  Speaker 1: up with a lot of money. I mean, it's still great.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to change their lives. Absolutely. Do we know
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  Speaker 1: who this person is?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They're in Jersey again. What is it about Jersey? I know.
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  Speaker 1: California and Jersey, I think they're the two top states
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  Speaker 1: in winning, and Ohio's like third. But Jersey, Jersey, Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to get a lotto ticket, get it
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  Speaker 1: in Jersey. But the problem when you get a lotto
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  Speaker 1: ticket out of state is that that's another state tax
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay on it. So forget what I
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  Speaker 1: just said. Just buy it in your own state.
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  Speaker 2: So the payout on this, the winning ticket, because I
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  Speaker 2: understand this guy who bought a ticket, he only bought one.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't buy a whole handful of tickets like people do.
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  Speaker 1: He is able to.
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  Speaker 2: Receive a prize and naturally all the taxes taken out.
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  Speaker 1: What did it hit? So it hit $ 863 million. And
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  Speaker 1: $ 863 million you get if you want that. you get
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  Speaker 1: it over 30 years. And they also increase it by 5%
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  Speaker 1: every year, whatever the payout is to set with inflation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of nice. But most people that win
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  Speaker 1: the lottery feel like I'm not going to be around
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  Speaker 1: in 30 years. And so they don't take the big payout.
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  Speaker 1: What they'll take is the single payout, which by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is much, much lower. It's less than 400 million. But
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  Speaker 1: then hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Then you've got federal taxes. 24% of that's going to
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  Speaker 1: come out on federal taxes. And then you have state taxes.
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  Speaker 1: And in New Jersey, that would be 8%. So you're
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  Speaker 1: losing 30% of that. So even though it's up there
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  Speaker 1: and it tells you on the billboards you could win
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  Speaker 1: $ 863 million, he's going to walk away with about $ 200 million.
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  Speaker 2: One thing we could say, whoever this gentleman is, when
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  Speaker 2: it finally emerges who he is, he will not... Any
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  Speaker 2: longer lists affordability and cost of living as his main concern.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. That's absolutely true. So he'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to walk away with about $ 300 million, right? And
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  Speaker 1: we'll probably never know who it is. No, probably a
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  Speaker 1: little bit less than that. But yes, yes, in the
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  Speaker 1: $ 200 million to $ 300 million range. So yeah, except that
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  Speaker 1: it's not that number that you see. It never is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I won one time in New York. And the problem is...
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  Speaker 1: I didn't live in New York. And so I had
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  Speaker 1: to pay a federal tax on it. I had to
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  Speaker 1: pay a state tax on it. I had to pay
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  Speaker 1: a city tax on it. And then I had to
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  Speaker 1: pay another state tax on it. So I won at
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  Speaker 1: the time. It was five numbers, but they didn't give
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  Speaker 1: you a million dollars back then. It was $ 250, 000. And
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  Speaker 1: I ended up with about $ 157, 000. Not a bad payday. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't complaining. It's just that the advertised price that
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  Speaker 1: you see, the advertised payout that you see, you ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to get that. Chris, have you ever played a
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  Speaker 1: lot of all these games, Powerball?
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  Speaker 4: I've played the Powerball Mega Millions a few times when
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  Speaker 4: it gets really high.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I would take, even if today, when it resets, if
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  Speaker 4: I won today, I would be I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do with myself.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to reset at $ 20 million if people go, oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently that's not worth it for me, even though I'm
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  Speaker 4: never going to make that much money in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So now we've got hot dogs, baseball parks around
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  Speaker 2: the country, and lotto tickets. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things we're learning about you quite some.
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  Speaker 1: But how about the fact that he's now wearing his
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  Speaker 1: Giants hat? Did you notice that a lot of Giants
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  Speaker 1: hats are now coming out now? You haven't seen them
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  Speaker 1: the last few years. Now all of a sudden everybody's flexing.
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  Speaker 2: But let's provide public service as we did yesterday because
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  Speaker 2: they don't do it at WABC. They don't take calls
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. You know, it's the Israel First radio
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  Speaker 2: program there. We continued to take talkbacks all morning long.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we even cleared out segments where we did
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  Speaker 2: only talkbacks. You have an opportunity. I call it PTSD,
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  Speaker 2: post-Trump stress disorder, to be able to vent.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're going to dance the aura.
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  Speaker 2: And the tarantella, which I don't think many of our
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  Speaker 2: listeners are, or you have recommendations and suggestions because it's
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  Speaker 2: starting to marinate in. When the New York Post has
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  Speaker 2: on its front cover, blue tsunami, you know it's beginning
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  Speaker 2: to marinate in. It's like, what are your thoughts about this?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we haven't even completed the week. This is
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  Speaker 2: all anybody wants to talk about. And everybody is a
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback. You know, they all have recommendations on
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  Speaker 2: what everybody needs to do.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we're at that point. I haven't felt that yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's happened yet. I think people are
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  Speaker 1: still angry. And we'll find out today. It'll be a
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  Speaker 1: good thermometer today. Go to the iHeartRadio app and leave
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  Speaker 1: every day to our favorite talk back of the morning.
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  Speaker 1: And while you're on the free High Heart Radio app,
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  Speaker 1: the best talk back of the morning takes home a
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  Speaker 1: C-Crane radio. I'm getting really tired of the blue tsunami thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's only said by people who have no sense of
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  Speaker 1: history whatsoever, and recent history. I mean, this happens. This happens,
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  Speaker 1: and it's happened many, many times. And as I pointed
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday, this doesn't make the top 10. of overwhelming midterms.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a wave. I'm not, I will not
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  Speaker 1: question that at all. It's a blue wave, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: to make it something that's historic and has never happened before.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, it's this big rejection of Donald Trump. It
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  Speaker 1: is a rejection of his policies. There's no question, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not, it's not historic.
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  Speaker 2: Later on, we're going to talk about the race for
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  Speaker 2: the presidency in 2028 has already begun.
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  Speaker 1: As of yesterday. As it always does, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Unofficial, yes. But with the blessings of the president who
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  Speaker 2: allowed Vance to issue his release, we'll go into the details.
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis was flexing in Florida. I think he used a
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  Speaker 2: word far more draconian than blue tsunami. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: find that word when we talk about him. But there
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  Speaker 2: have been words issued by Republicans who would never have
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  Speaker 2: used that language before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If Donald Trump wasn't a lame duck who lost the
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  Speaker 2: House and the Senate. And, you know, even on our
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  Speaker 2: new news woman from W.A.B.C., Liz Radabali came up to
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  Speaker 2: me and she said, oh, you were on the low side.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when my predictions came out of the political marketplace?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I said the Democrats will win 53 seats
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  Speaker 2: and the House will be 240 seats. She said to me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're on the low side. And it turns out, presently,
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  Speaker 2: I am on the low side. Everybody thought I was
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  Speaker 2: crazy when I made those predictions, but I am on
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  Speaker 2: the low side. I think the Democrats are like at 254.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking right now. They're still counting. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: still seats that are out there. Could go up to 260.
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  Speaker 1: You know where it is exactly right now? It's 240
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: 240.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been my prediction, but we know there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot more. There's a lot more
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  Speaker 1: out there that still have to be counted, so. It
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  Speaker 1: may take several days. There may be recounts. They've been
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  Speaker 1: so close in some of these districts that there may
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  Speaker 1: be recounts. Unfortunately, the ones that there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: recounts in are districts that were held by Republicans. So
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  Speaker 1: those are potential losses for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But I tell you, this is a perfect opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: all of you to vent out there. More importantly, we'll
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  Speaker 2: have John Decker with us at 7. He went on
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  Speaker 2: the tour of the ballroom yesterday with President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: as he addressed the loss, what J.D. Vance had done
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  Speaker 2: with his blessings, and more importantly, how he said, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why I'm going to give him a pass from
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  Speaker 2: now on. Guys, gals, you have to understand when I
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  Speaker 2: do these construction projects, it relaxes me. I had never
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  Speaker 2: thought of that. This is like his hobby. It's to
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  Speaker 2: replace golf. He doesn't get to golf much anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many construction sites that man has been
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  Speaker 1: on in his life? This is probably his home away
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  Speaker 1: from home. He loves this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but I want the president to be relaxed because
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  Speaker 2: when he's over the top, it doesn't help.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't help.
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  Speaker 2: And now we have some ideas coming up. of how
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  Speaker 2: the president can take advantage of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,
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  Speaker 2: get him into that White House office and make a
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  Speaker 2: deal on a few issues.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt the Republicans, but it's like a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a give over to the Democrats so that the president
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  Speaker 2: can fulfill his promise, which he said yesterday. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some things on immigration I'll talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Some things about the economy and tariffs I'll talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Take advantage of it now, because after January 1st, when
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  Speaker 2: all these new Jack Democrats get sworn in.
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  Speaker 1: You had a great point a moment ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you're exactly correct, that the president needs to get
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  Speaker 1: out on front on this. He needs to have an
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  Speaker 1: address to the nation to talk about the proposals he
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  Speaker 1: would like to talk about with the new Congress and
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  Speaker 1: make it some things that everybody wants. Put them on
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  Speaker 1: their heels for a second. That's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he should do so after he's toured
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: Because it relaxes him.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, sometimes the president, when he's done those nationwide addresses,
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  Speaker 2: he's a little too tense, a little too angry.
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  Speaker 1: If that's his form of prozac, this is good. This
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  Speaker 1: is good. As we just said, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: all your talkbacks. You already have some of them coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Some of your talkbacks are coming in at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be able to get them. Because it'll be
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  Speaker 1: your turn to be heard.
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  Speaker 2: Your opinion counts here at 710WOR with Larry and Curtis
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  Speaker 2: in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Lewa and Larry Mendte.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the starting gun has gone off for the 2028
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  Speaker 1: presidential election. It was unofficial. You may have heard it,
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  Speaker 1: but you certainly heard it from the candidates. And you
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  Speaker 1: heard it from the vice president, especially on Truth Social,
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  Speaker 1: who wrote, the reason we lost is the war. The
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  Speaker 1: reason we lost this race is the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: But he also said, the president said so himself last night,
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  Speaker 1: because people are angry. and they're angry at us for
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  Speaker 1: starting this war. I'd like you to argue it was
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  Speaker 1: worth it. I'd love to do that, that losing the
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  Speaker 1: Senate for the next six years was worth it. You
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  Speaker 1: can do that if you want to, then do so.
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  Speaker 1: Argue it was worthwhile, cost to pay. Agree or disagree,
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  Speaker 1: that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear those words in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to read it again. I just read
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  Speaker 1: it to you, but what he was not, he was
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  Speaker 1: not committed in that statement to supporting the war. He
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  Speaker 1: is now distancing himself from the Trump administration and the
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  Speaker 1: war in Iran. That's why he was just saying, you
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  Speaker 1: can argue that if you want, was it worthwhile? Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: it worthwhile? You can make the argument on either side, uh,
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  Speaker 1: But any honest conversation, he says, has to start with
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we lost the midterm elections. So if
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  Speaker 1: you read between the lines on his social media statement,
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  Speaker 1: what he's saying is, as you know, I fought against
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  Speaker 1: going into war because I didn't think that this was
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  Speaker 1: worth the cost. And the cost was the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: And he's absolutely correct. He's absolutely correct that that cost
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  Speaker 1: them the midterms. There's no question about it. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that the president of the United States did take other opinions.
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  Speaker 1: He famously voiced his opinion, and now he's going to
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  Speaker 1: run on that. And he is going to be maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of the few that can say, listen, I said no.
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  Speaker 1: because it was reported over and over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. And he's going to be more forthright because
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: that was ambiguous. He's going to be more forthright as
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  Speaker 1: the election goes on. Now, everybody has been saying, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the race is going to be between him and Marco Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: him and Marco Rubio. But there's someone that's run a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times now that I think people forgot and
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't forget. And he wants to make sure you don't
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  Speaker 1: forget his name. Because Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: it was the only large Republican state that survived these midterms.
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  Speaker 1: The House members survived. The governor survived. The governor's race survived.
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  Speaker 1: Byron Donald's won that. And the Senate race as well.
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  Speaker 1: They won all of them. And so Ron DeSantis took
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  Speaker 1: a victory lap.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just be clear about what happened last night. This
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  Speaker 3: is close to an extinction-level event for Republicans in many
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  Speaker 3: parts of the country, as we have seen probably in
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  Speaker 3: the last hundred years. In January, when everyone in office
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  Speaker 3: leaves who were either term-limited or got voted out, of
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  Speaker 3: the ten largest states in this union, only one state
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  Speaker 3: will have Republican control of their state, the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went right on Fox News, and he was
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  Speaker 1: along with Laura Ingraham last night. He was on CNN
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  Speaker 1: last night. Make no mistake about it. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: all of the victory speeches by the Democratic governors and
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  Speaker 1: Republican governors that won was the starting bell for the
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  Speaker 1: race for president. I'll say one last thing, Curtis, and
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  Speaker 1: that is that Marco Rubio is someone that's out there,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't make a statement like this. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: come out already, but he's going to run. There's no
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  Speaker 1: question he's going to run. As you know, he ran
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  Speaker 1: against Donald Trump before, and he was little Marco at
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  Speaker 1: that point. But Marco Rubio is the most fascinating to me,
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  Speaker 1: because you've pointed out a couple of times, and you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right, that the Republicans lost a lot of Hispanic vote.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: in this last election where they were winning it. Donald
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Trump won the Hispanic vote last time, which was incredible
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: for a, for a Republican to win that, especially when
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: he was so anti-immigration at the time. But there was
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: people that knew they didn't want bad people to come
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: here and that might happen. And a lot of them
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: were coming here. So they absolutely knew what was going
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to happen. If Marco Rubio runs and he wins the nomination,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I believe that is the best chance for the Republicans
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to win in 2028 and get back that very important
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Hispanic vote.
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  Speaker 2: His problem, though, is he's tied to AIPAC, he's tied
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to Israel, and he knows that funding for race against
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: a vice president is dependent on the generosity of Jewish donors.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And he's based out of Florida. That's where a lot
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of them are.
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  Speaker 2: That is going to continue to be a growing problem,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and it will divide him and J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that a problem for him? Well, because there's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so many people now running away from Israel. On the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Democratic side. Not so much on the Republican side. Not
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: as much.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, let me tell you, AIPAC is no longer going
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to have PACs. They're reconsidering doing donations. They're going to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: figure out another way to do it. It is taking
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: on a life of its own amongst Republicans now that J.D.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Vance has said it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: You've seen so many Republicans come out and disagree with
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the president on the funding. You've seen so many congressmen
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and senators come out. I think that there is absolutely
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: on the Democratic side an anti-Israel strain. And I think
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that the Republicans would really hurt themselves if they took
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the same position.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not going to win an election, I tell you.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that if bb stays in office you're not that's look at.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: The popular you keep telling me the israeli vote's not
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: so important every time we get to a race you
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: say the israeli vote's not that important said yesterday.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: War?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Correct. Inflation? Correct. Relationship with Israel?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Correct. He has always said we should not have the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: kind of relationship with Israel that we have. He wanted
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to remind Bibi months ago, let me remind Bibi that
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: two-thirds of your weapons protecting you comes from the USA.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: He has clearly been against the war in Iran. He
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: spoke of that. But he respected the president. He said,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: is this what you want to do? I'll be a
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: good vice president. And he has been. But now that
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the president okayed this, okayed this, he looked at it
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: and he said, okay, I don't have a problem with it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Do you know who gave it like four emojis? His sponsor,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump Jr., who reposted it. Every word of this
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: is true, he wrote. And remember, the other guy who
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: had promoted him to be vice president and who lobbied
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: on his behalf was Tucker Carlson. When he was in
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the good graces of the White House, he had Donald
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson, who apparently convinced Donald Trump
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: at that point to take J.D.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Vance on. As you know, J.D.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Vance had not been the best supporter of Donald Trump,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: actually referring to him as a Hitler when he put
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: out those hillbilly elegies.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a long time ago.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: It's going to divide the Republican Party, there's no doubt.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And with DeSantis, I'm surprised you didn't take umbrage to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: what he called this. You don't believe it was a
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: blue tsunami, even though the New York Post had it
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: on their front page. He said this is an extinction-level event.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Right. Everybody's using these hyperbolic terms, if it benefits them.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: The Democrats are using it because it benefits them. DeSantis
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: is using it because it benefits him. I'm just talking
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: about when you look at it historically, there's been worse. Recently,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: in 2010, it was worse under Obama. Nobody called it
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a tsunami when it happened under Obama. It was a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: red wave back then because that's the term for it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Is there a big difference? Obama did not go into
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the ring sticking his chin out. And go to every
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: rally and every place to try to get Democrats elected.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So what? That doesn't make it the word. This was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: a referendum on Donald Trump. That was a referendum on
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama because he synced the economy. That was a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: referendum on him. Are you— what is wrong with you? How
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: are you saying— Every Republican is saying that today. You're
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the only holdout. You're the only holdout. Give me another one.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: You're the last man. You're like Robinson Crusoe. You say
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: things and you can never back— This was Trump's election.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: He said it 47 times. Stop yelling.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Think of me at the top of the ticket.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Our talkbacks have said that. You're going to have a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: heart attack. I'm worried about you with this. I'm going
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to have a heart attack, and I don't want you
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to give me mouth-to-mouth with Trump. Trust me, I won't. Reception, please.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Trust me, I won't. But you're in denial. No, you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: say things and you never back them up. It was
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a blue tsunami. I said that a month ago. You're
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: going to yell again because you can't back it up.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: The New York Post said it on its front page.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, please, if you're listening, note he just
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: yells when he can't back up what he's saying. Was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I right about that? No, a month ago. You just
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: said every Republican saying that. Who else is saying it?
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Every Republican is distancing him. Who's supporting Trump today? No, no,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: who else is calling it a tsunami? When you say
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: this is an extinction event. You were wrong. You were wrong.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: You could be the last man. Robinson Crusoe. You and
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the few MAGA people that are left. No one else
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: is calling it. He's calling it. DeSantis is calling it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And Democrats are calling it. And you're calling it, which
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: would be expected.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: What do you think this Vance thing was?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You couldn't distance yourself more from Donald Trump and this
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: war in Iran.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you could distance yourself a whole lot more. This
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was Bibi's war. I said it consistently. I know, I know.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And it's Bibi who's brought down the Republican Party. This
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is the Democrat new coming out. Come on, come on.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Keep it coming. And let me give you one other update.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Bibi is in double trouble. Are you going to say
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I hate Donald Trump?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: No, he's in double trouble. He claimed the Arabs rigged
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: the vote. Herzog, the president, said that's racist. He certified
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the election. So his opponent will get the first opportunity
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: to put together a cabinet and he will include some
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of the Arabs.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So bye bye, Bibi. Thank God.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can get on to normal life with a
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: new leader in Israel that nobody knows. Maybe.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You know what? Exactly what you talk about with Israel
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: all the time is what I really don't care about.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And I think that most Americans, not in New York,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: most people in New York, but if you go across
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the country, most people in the country don't really talk
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: about Israel that much. It's not the big deal to them.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So the fact that you think that has such a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: play in the big election coming up and that people
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: are going to distance themselves for this reason or that reason,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the PAC money is important. I agree with you. The
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: PAC money is important. As far as an issue, not
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: as big an issue as you think.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, then tell that to the vice president, J.D. Vance,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: who decided to list that as the big three reasons
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: why we lost the midterms, meaning Republicans.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That's a whole different thing. The war around inflation and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: relationship with Israel. Man, you would die on the big table. Larry,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you're Robinson Crusoe. You're Maga Man.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Stay on the island.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It's not a blue tsunami. I said that a month ago.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: The New York Post had it on its front page.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I listed the historic. I listed them for you. It
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: didn't make the top ten. It is hyperbole, and it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: hyperbole you're falling for. Sure, Larry. Sure. To make it
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a bigger deal so you and your guys can win
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the next election. Dependable COD delivery. Great price. Curtis Lewa
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and Larry Minty in the morning. The conversation continues. On 710WOR.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Larry and quiet storm, Chris. We have a great cluster
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: here with iHeart. All on the same floor in different studios.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: But probably the one that we have the best relationship
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: with is Q104. 3.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The classic rock station.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: We've had Jim Kerr, the icon, in here many times
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: to discuss rock issues. And he's quickly followed by Maria Melito,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: who I was told when I came and I joined
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: with you and consummated our relationship in March that you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: think you're the animal welfare expert. You can forget that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You're the junior varsity because Maria Melito has dedicated her
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: whole life to that. And Maria, we thank you for
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: coming over and explaining what a great event you're going
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to be hosting this Monday that we hope our many
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: listeners will join with the Q104.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: 3 listeners.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: First of all, you are way above me with animal advocacy.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: You carry the torch. But it's great to be here.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Larry. Thank you, Curtis.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: So Monday night at the Cutting Room, which is on
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: East 32nd Street here in Manhattan between Park and Madison.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: So we're showing a screening of By My Side. It's
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: a 30-minute documentary. It's about three veterans who had PTSD
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: and their families were distraught over how bad they were.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Uh, and service dogs gave them their lives back.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: So it's a 30 minute documentary that we're going to
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: show also operation canine Beethoven, which is a local organization.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: They take dogs out of shelters and train them for,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: for veterans and first responders and people who need a
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: service dog, you know, because you know, better than I do.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: When you talk to veterans. The government always just wants
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: to pump them with medication. And that's not the answer
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: because they just want to be able to live their lives,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: be part of their family, go to the supermarket without
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: the noises affecting them.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: And, you know, we love dogs.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Another great thing about a dog is a dog always
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: gives veterans their lives back and they don't have to
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: take as many medications. So it's a benefit because by
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: my side, they usually the documentary usually shows in community
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: centers and libraries. So they have an impact campaign. Operation
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Canine Beethoven is also a nonprofit. So the two nonprofits
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: were charging 10 bucks to come in. Five dollars goes
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: to Buy My Side Impact and five dollars goes to
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Operation Canine Beethoven. Of course, people can donate more. And
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: the cutting room, you know, it's a twenty five dollar
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: food and drink. So for thirty five bucks, it's a
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: great night in New York City.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: This one's wonderful. I have done in my career many
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: stories on PTSD and talked to several people with PSTD,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and I think that everyone should know how devastating it is.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And it is amazing that you talked about the medication
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they give these men, and they hate it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Of course they do.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Every single one of them hate it and says it
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't work.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Explain why this works when they get a canine companion.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Well, the canine companions actually... will do things that helps
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: the veteran. Like if the veteran is sleeping and having
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: a terrible nightmare, the dog senses that and will wake
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: them up. Where a medication is just going to put
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: you to sleep and you're going to have bad sleep
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: with nightmares. If the person is unsure about going out
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: in the street because a car might backfire and that
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: scares them, the dog is a very calming person. a
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: living creature next to them. And, and it just, it
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: gives them their life back. That's what every single veteran
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: I've ever spoken with tells me.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And they love the dogs.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: And they love the dogs.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: They don't love the medication. So sometimes they won't take it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And that's when the problems happen. Exactly.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: And a lot of times it's not one or two medications. Some,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: some of them have told me they're on like 25 medications.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: You know, that's not a good way to live your life.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: And here they, served our country and they're on medications
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: and they can't live their life.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: But a dog... They go through the treatment and they're
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not better.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Because also a lot of times there's guilt about having
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: the PTSD because people don't understand.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: We don't understand. I've never been in a war. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: don't know what it's like. And their families don't know.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: So they don't understand it. But a dog.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: It becomes part of their family like any family dog does,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: but it also helps the veterans do their daily chores
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: and live their life. I mean, they always say, I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: can go to a restaurant now. And it's just their
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: life is back.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Man's best friend. Is a dog.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And so if people want to join, and I'm
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: going to use this for my wife, Nancy.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: She loves all animals.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I know she does.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell her, oh. Let's go on a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: date night.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: I'm so happy you're going to come.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Seriously.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I wouldn't miss it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: But how can others listening to us now get involved
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: in showing up for your cause?
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: OK, so they can just actually show up at the
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: cutting room, but they can also go to the cutting room.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: NYC dot com. And it's right there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: It has it's a it's the billboard from the movie.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: And you'll see it's like kind of mustard color with
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: a dog. And you can just click on it and
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: you can get your tickets that way.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Maria Melito, Q104. 3. Let's do another promo. How can people
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: listen to you?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: They can just go over to QN043 after you.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: We share an audience.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: We share an audience.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: That would be great.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Out of all the stations here, R2, your FM, where
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I am, we share the same audience.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: So people can come over if they want nice rock
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: and roll and, you know, no politics, just rock and roll.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Come over to me at 9 o'clock after you guys.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: By the way, this is the first time I'm here
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: on WOR.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: So I'm pretty honored. So thanks.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Well, we have to have you back.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: I would love to come back.