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Hour 3: Vance 2028? · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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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, also said the president said so
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  Speaker 1: himself last night because people are angry and they're angry
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  Speaker 1: at us for starting this war. I'd like you to
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  Speaker 1: argue it was worth it. I'd love to do that,
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  Speaker 1: that losing the Senate for the next six years was
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  Speaker 1: worth it. You can do that if you want to,
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  Speaker 1: then do so. Argue it was worthwhile, cost to pay.
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  Speaker 1: Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: why we lost. Now, I want you to hear those words.
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  Speaker 2: In the middle. I'm not going to read it again.
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  Speaker 2: I just read it to you.
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  Speaker 1: But he was not committed in that statement to supporting
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  Speaker 1: the war. He is now distancing himself from the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration and the war in Iran. That's why he was
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  Speaker 1: just saying, you can argue that if you want. Was
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  Speaker 1: it worthwhile? Wasn't it worthwhile? You can make the argument
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  Speaker 1: on either side. But any honest conversation, he says, has
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  Speaker 1: to start with the fact that we lost the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: So if you read between the lines on his social
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  Speaker 1: media statement, what he's saying is, as you know, I
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  Speaker 1: fought against going into war. Because I didn't think that
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  Speaker 1: this was worth the cost. And the cost was the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections. And he's absolutely correct. He's absolutely correct that
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  Speaker 1: that cost them the midterms. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that the President of the United States did
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  Speaker 1: take other opinions. He famously voiced his opinion. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's going to run on that. And he is going
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  Speaker 1: to be maybe one of the few that can say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I said no, because it was reported over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. And he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: more forthright because that was ambiguous. He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: more forthright as the election goes on. Now, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: been saying, OK, the race is going to be between
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  Speaker 1: him and Marco Rubio, him and Marco Rubio. But there's
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  Speaker 1: someone that's run a couple of times now. that I
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  Speaker 1: think people forgot and shouldn't forget. And he wants to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you don't forget his name. Because Ron DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Florida, it was the only large Republican
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  Speaker 1: state that survived these midterms. The House members survived. The
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  Speaker 1: governor survived. The governor's race survived. Byron Donald's won that.
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  Speaker 1: And the Senate race as well.
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  Speaker 2: They won all of them. And so Ron DeSantis took
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  Speaker 2: 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
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  Speaker 3: many parts of the country, as we have seen probably
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  Speaker 3: in the last hundred years. In January, when everyone in
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  Speaker 3: office leaves who were either term limited or got voted out,
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  Speaker 3: of the 10 largest states in this union, only one
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  Speaker 3: state will have Republican control of their state, the state
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  Speaker 3: of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went right on Fox News, and he was
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  Speaker 1: on 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.
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  Speaker 1: in this last election where they were winning it. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump won the Hispanic vote last time, which was incredible
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  Speaker 1: for a, for a Republican to win that, especially when
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  Speaker 1: he was so anti-immigration at the time. But there was
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  Speaker 1: people that knew they didn't want bad people to come
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  Speaker 1: here and that might happen. And a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: were coming here. So they absolutely knew what was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. If Marco Rubio runs and he wins the nomination,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that is the best chance for the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: to win in 2028 and get back that very important
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  Speaker 1: Hispanic vote.
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  Speaker 2: His problem, though, is he's tied to AIPAC, he's tied
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  Speaker 2: to Israel, and he knows that funding for race against
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  Speaker 2: a vice president is dependent on the generosity of Jewish donors.
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  Speaker 2: And he's based out of Florida. That's where a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them are. That is going to continue to be
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  Speaker 2: a growing problem, and it will divide him and J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that a problem for him? Well, because there's
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  Speaker 2: so many people now running away from Israel. On the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic side. Not so much on the Republican side. Not
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  Speaker 2: as much. Larry, let me tell you, AIPAC is no
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  Speaker 2: longer going to have PACs. They're reconsidering doing donations. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to figure out another way to do it. It
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  Speaker 2: is taking on a life of its own amongst Republicans
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  Speaker 2: now that J.D. Vance has said it.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen so many Republicans come out and disagree with
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  Speaker 1: the president on the funding. You've seen so many congressmen
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  Speaker 1: and senators come out. I think that there is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: on the Democratic side an anti-Israel strain. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that the Republicans would really hurt themselves if they took
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  Speaker 1: the same position.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're not going to win an election, I tell you.
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  Speaker 2: If Bibi stays in office, you're not. Look at the
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  Speaker 2: popular opinion polls. You keep telling me the Israeli vote's
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  Speaker 2: not so important. Every time we get to a race,
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  Speaker 2: you say the Israeli vote's not that important. Can I
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  Speaker 2: speak what J.D. Vance said yesterday? War? Correct. Inflation? Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Relationship with Israel? Correct. He has always said we should
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  Speaker 2: not have the kind of relationship with Israel that we have.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to remind Bibi months ago, let me remind
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  Speaker 2: Bibi that two-thirds of your weapons protecting you comes from
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  Speaker 2: the USA. He has clearly been against the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke of that. But he respected the president. He said,
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  Speaker 2: is this what you want to do? I'll be a
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  Speaker 2: good vice president. And he has been. But now that
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  Speaker 2: the president okayed this, okayed this, he looked at it
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  Speaker 2: and he said, okay, I don't have a problem with it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know who gave it like four emojis? His sponsor,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump Jr., who reposted it. Every word of this
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  Speaker 2: is true, he wrote. And remember, the other guy who
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  Speaker 2: had promoted him to be vice president and who lobbied
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  Speaker 2: on his behalf was Tucker Carlson. When he was in
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  Speaker 2: the good graces of the White House, he had Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson, who apparently convinced Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: at that point to take J.D. Vance on. As you know, J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance had not been the best supporter of Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: actually referring to him as a Hitler when he put
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  Speaker 2: out those hillbilly elegies. Yeah, a long time ago. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to divide the Republican Party, there's no doubt. And
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  Speaker 2: with DeSantis, I'm surprised you didn't take umbrage to what
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  Speaker 2: he called this. You don't believe it was a blue tsunami,
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  Speaker 2: even though the New York Post had it on their
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  Speaker 2: front page. He said this is an extinction-level event. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's using these hyperbolic terms, if it benefits them. The
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are using it because it benefits them. DeSantis is
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  Speaker 1: using it because it benefits him. I'm just talking about
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  Speaker 1: when you look at it historically, there's been worse. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: in 2010, it was worse under Obama. Nobody called it
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  Speaker 1: a tsunami when it happened under Obama. It was a
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  Speaker 1: red wave back then because that's the term for it.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a big difference? Obama did not go into
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  Speaker 2: the ring sticking his chin out. And go to every
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  Speaker 2: rally and every place to try to get Democrats elected.
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  Speaker 2: So what? That doesn't make it the word. This was
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  Speaker 2: a referendum on Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That was a referendum on Barack Obama because he synced
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  Speaker 1: the economy. That was a referendum on him. Are you,
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  Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? How are you saying? Every
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  Speaker 1: Republican is saying that today. You're the only holdout. You're
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  Speaker 1: the only holdout.
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  Speaker 2: Give me another one. You're the last man. You're like
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  Speaker 2: Robinson Caruso. You say things and you can never back
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  Speaker 2: them up. This was Trump's election. He said it 47 times.
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  Speaker 2: Stop yelling. Think of me at the top of the ticket. Stop,
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  Speaker 2: you're turning red. Our talkbacks have said that. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a heart attack. I'm worried about you with this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to have a heart attack and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to give me mouth-to-mouth with Trump. Trust me,
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  Speaker 2: I won't. Reception, please. Trust me, I won't. But you're
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  Speaker 2: in denial. No, you say things and you never back
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  Speaker 2: them up. It was a blue tsunami. I said that
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  Speaker 2: a month ago.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to yell.
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  Speaker 2: Again because you can't back it up. The New York
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  Speaker 2: Post said it on its front page.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, please, if you're listening, note he just
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  Speaker 1: yells when he can't back up what he's saying. Was
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  Speaker 1: I right about that? No, you just said every Republican
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  Speaker 1: saying that. Who else is saying it? Every Republican is
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  Speaker 1: distancing him. Who's supporting Trump today? No, no, who else
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  Speaker 1: is calling it a tsunami?
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  Speaker 2: When you say this is an extinction event. You were wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You were wrong. Larry, you could be the last man.
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  Speaker 2: Robinson Crusoe. You and the few mega people that are left.
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  Speaker 2: No one else is calling it. He's calling it. DeSantis
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  Speaker 2: is calling it. And Democrats are calling it. And you're
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  Speaker 2: calling it, which would be expected. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: this Vance thing was? You couldn't distance yourself more from
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump and this war in Iran and the support
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  Speaker 2: for Israel and inflation. Well, you could distance yourself a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot more. This was Bibi's war. I said it consistently.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. And it's Bibi who's brought down
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party. This is the Democrat new coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on. Let me give you one other update.
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  Speaker 2: Bibi is in double trouble. No, he's in double trouble.
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  Speaker 2: He claimed the Arabs rigged the vote. Herzog, the president,
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  Speaker 2: said that's racist. He certified the election. So his opponent
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  Speaker 2: will get the first opportunity to put together a cabinet
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  Speaker 2: and he will include some of the Arabs. So bye bye, Bibi.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God. Maybe we can get on to normal life
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  Speaker 2: with a new leader in Israel that nobody knows.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what you talk about with Israel all the time
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  Speaker 1: is what I really don't care about. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that most Americans, not in New York, most people in
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  Speaker 1: New York, but if you go across the country, most
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  Speaker 1: people in the country don't really talk about Israel that much.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the big deal to them. So the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you think that has such a play in the
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  Speaker 1: big election coming up and that people are going to
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  Speaker 1: distance themselves for this reason or that reason, the PAC
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  Speaker 1: money is important. I agree with you. The PAC money
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  Speaker 1: is important. As far as an issue, not as big
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  Speaker 1: an issue as you think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, then tell that to the vice president, J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 2: who decided to list that. as the big three reasons
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  Speaker 2: why we lost the midterms, meaning Republicans. That's a whole
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  Speaker 2: different team. The war around inflation and relationship leadership. Man,
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  Speaker 2: you would die in our debate table. Larry, you're Robinson Crusoe.
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  Speaker 2: You're Maga Man. Stay on the island. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: blue tsunami. I said that a month ago. The New
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  Speaker 2: York Post had it on its front page.
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  Speaker 1: I listed the historic. I listed them for you. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't make the top ten. It is hyperbole, and it's
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  Speaker 1: hyperbole you're falling for.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Larry. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: To make it a bigger deal so you and your
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  Speaker 1: guys can win the next election. When we come back, well,
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  Speaker 1: we have Maria Melito coming up, who is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know her well. And she has got a cause
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  Speaker 1: that she wants to talk about that I think every
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  Speaker 1: single one of you is going to want to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: She's coming up after the break. Plus a chance to
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  Speaker 1: see Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Uh larry and quiet storm chris uh we have a
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  Speaker 2: great cluster here with iheart and all on the same
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  Speaker 2: floor in different studios but probably the one that we
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  Speaker 2: have the best relationship with is q104. 3 the classic rock
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  Speaker 2: station we've had jim kerr the icon in here many
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  Speaker 2: times to discuss rock issues and he's quickly followed by
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  Speaker 2: maria melito who uh I was told when I came
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  Speaker 2: and I joined with you and consummated our relationship in
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  Speaker 2: March that you think you're the animal welfare expert. You
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  Speaker 2: can forget that. You're the junior varsity because Maria Melito
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  Speaker 2: has dedicated her whole life to that. And, Maria, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for coming over and explaining what a great
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  Speaker 2: event you're going to be hosting this Monday that we
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  Speaker 2: hope our many listeners will join with the Q104. 3 list.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you. First of all, you are way above
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  Speaker 4: me with animal advocacy. You carry the torch. But it's
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  Speaker 4: great to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry. Thank you, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: So Monday night at the Cutting Room, which is on
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  Speaker 4: East 32nd Street here in Manhattan between Park and Madison.
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  Speaker 4: So we're showing a screening of By My Side. It's
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  Speaker 4: a 30-minute documentary. It's about three veterans who had PTSD
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  Speaker 4: and their families were distraught over how bad they were.
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  Speaker 4: and service dogs gave them their lives back. So it's
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  Speaker 4: a 30-minute documentary that we're going to show. Also, Operation
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  Speaker 4: Canine Beethoven, which is a local organization, they take dogs
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  Speaker 4: out of shelters and train them for veterans and first
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  Speaker 4: responders and people who need a service dog. You know,
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  Speaker 4: because you know better than I do when you talk
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  Speaker 4: to veterans... The government always just wants to pump them
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  Speaker 4: with medication. And that's not the answer because they just
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  Speaker 4: want to be able to live their lives, be part
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  Speaker 4: of their family, go to the supermarket without the noises
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  Speaker 4: affecting them.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, we love dogs.
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  Speaker 4: Another great thing about a dog is a dog always
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  Speaker 4: gives veterans their lives back and they don't have to
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  Speaker 4: take as many medications. So it's a benefit because by
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  Speaker 4: my side, they usually the documentary usually shows in community
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  Speaker 4: centers and libraries. So they have an impact campaign. Operation
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  Speaker 4: Canine Beethoven is also a nonprofit. So the two nonprofits
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  Speaker 4: were charging 10 bucks to come in. Five dollars goes
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  Speaker 4: to Buy My Side Impact and five dollars goes to
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  Speaker 4: Operation Canine Beethoven. Of course, people can donate more. And
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  Speaker 4: the cutting room, you know, it's a twenty five dollar
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  Speaker 4: food and drink. So for thirty five bucks, it's a
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  Speaker 4: great night in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. This one's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I have done in my career many stories on PTSD
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  Speaker 1: and talked to several people with PSTD, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that everyone should know how devastating it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And it is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That you talked about the medication they give these men,
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  Speaker 1: and they hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they do. Every single one of them hate
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  Speaker 2: it and says it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Explain why this works when they get a canine companion.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the canine companions actually... will do things that helps
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  Speaker 4: the veteran. Like if the veteran is sleeping and having
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  Speaker 4: a terrible nightmare, the dog senses that and will wake
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  Speaker 4: them up. Where a medication is just going to put
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  Speaker 4: you to sleep and you're going to have bad sleep
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  Speaker 4: with nightmares. If the person is unsure about going out
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  Speaker 4: in the street because a car might backfire and that
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  Speaker 4: scares them, the dog is a very calming person. living
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  Speaker 4: creature next to them. And it just, it gives them
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  Speaker 4: their life back. That's what every single veteran I've ever
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  Speaker 4: spoken with tells me.
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  Speaker 2: And they love the dogs.
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  Speaker 4: And they love the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: They don't love the medication, so sometimes they won't take
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  Speaker 1: it and that's when the problems happen.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of times, it's not one or two medications.
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  Speaker 4: Some of them have told me they're on like 25 medications.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's not a good way to live your life.
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  Speaker 4: And here they served our country and they're on medications
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  Speaker 4: and they can't live their life.
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  Speaker 2: But a dog... Go ahead, sorry.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: They go through the treatment and they're not better. Exactly. Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Because also a lot of times there's guilt about having
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  Speaker 4: the PTSD because people don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: We don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: I've never been in a war.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like. And their families don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So they don't understand it. But a dog.
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  Speaker 4: It becomes part of their family like any family dog does,
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  Speaker 4: but it also helps the veterans do their daily chores
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  Speaker 4: and live their life. I mean, they always say, I
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  Speaker 4: can go to a restaurant now, and it's just their
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  Speaker 4: life is back.
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  Speaker 2: Man's best friend is a dog. And so if people
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  Speaker 2: want to join and I'm going to use this for
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  Speaker 2: my wife, Nancy, she loves all animals. I know I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell her, oh, let's go on a date night.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so happy you're going to come.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously. Absolutely. I wouldn't miss it. But how can others
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  Speaker 2: listening to us now? Get involved in showing up for
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  Speaker 2: your cause.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so they can just actually show up at the
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  Speaker 4: cutting room, but they can also go to thecuttingroomnyc.com. And
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: it's right there. It's the billboard from the movie. And
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: you'll see it's like kind of mustard color with a dog.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: And you can just click on it and you can
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: get your tickets that way.
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  Speaker 1: Maria Melito, Q104. 3. Let's do another promo. How can people
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: listen to you?
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: They can just go over to QN043 after you.
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  Speaker 2: We share an audience.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: We share an audience.
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  Speaker 2: That would be great. Out of all the stations here, R2,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: your FM, where I am, we share the same audience.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: So people can come over if they want nice rock
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: and roll and, you know, no politics, just rock and roll.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Come over to me at 9 o'clock after you guys.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: By the way, this is the first time I'm here
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: on WOR.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm pretty honored. So thanks. Well, we have
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to have you back. I would love to come back.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: And right now, let's get the 8.30 news from Daria.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: All right, guys.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Good morning. Maria, nice to have you here. Chance for
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: showers today. We'll see a high of 64 degrees. Investigators
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: are focused on a lithium-ion battery as a possible cause
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: of a fire overnight in Brooklyn, which left at least
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: six people dead. More than 200 firefighters responded to the
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: blaze in the two-story home in Sunset Park. Well, back
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: in 2006, the war in Iraq led President George W.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And now after
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: the midterms, a lot of people are saying that Pete
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Hegseth's job may be on the line.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Republican Thomas Massey, member of the House, he intends to
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: introduce an impeachment resolution of Pete Hegseth as early as Monday.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: I spoke to him overnight. He expects that he has
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: enough Republican support to pass that. And there's a lot
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: of speculation that before that actually comes to fruition.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: That Hegseth himself could be gone. But I also spoke with.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: President Trump this morning, and President Trump told me, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: this is a direct quote about Pete Hegseth, I have
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: every intention to keep them.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: That's ABC's Jonathan Karl.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: The U.S.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Embassy in Paris issuing an urgent security alert for Americans
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: in France with a nationwide strike planned for today. They
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: say it could lead to travel disruptions, sudden curfews, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: possible violence. And a New York holiday tradition is on
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: its way.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: The 76 foot tall Norway spruce is leaving Ostago County
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: and heading for Midtown. The tree is roughly 75 years
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: old and weighs 11 tons, hailing from West Edmiston, just
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: about four hours away from Rockefeller Center. Once the tree arrives,
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: it'll be covered in scaffolding so crews can decorate it
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: in over 50,000 LED lights and top it with a
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: 900-pound Swarovski crystal star. The lighting ceremony is Wednesday, December 2nd.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: And it'll be on display through January 9th. Natalie Migliore,
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: WOR News.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Somebody in New Jersey got an early Christmas. $ 847 million.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: They have the only winning ticket that was sold in
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: last night's Powerball jackpot.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: And I don't know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Natalie hasn't checked in yet. Just saying. Knicks and Nets win.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Next news, 9 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: on 710 WOR. All right.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Daria. Who's the winner, Chris?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Now, congratulations to Jim Dooley in Long Beach, New York,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: who just won a pair of tickets to see a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: great double bill, Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: How about that, Maria? March 13th at the Prudential Center.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com. You get another chance to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: win tomorrow at 825.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: So....
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The midterm elections, some of the races still have to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: be decided. Alaska still has to be decided. Mississippi still
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: has to be decided. We'll give you an update on
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: who is winning right now and what we expect when
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: we come back.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Remember when we were talking about Mississippi and the unexpected
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: close race a month ago? They would have thought you
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: were in a drug-induced psychosis. The sitting Republican senator was
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: guaranteed a victory. Nope, neck and neck. And Larry, when
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you were playing touch football, you said five Mississippis. We
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: played 10 Mississippis in the street before we charged the quarterback. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-I-S-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-
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  Speaker 2: The Republican sitting senator is slightly behind. They still have
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to count the mail-in ballots. And then remember what I've
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: talked about, affidavits, which are critical in this race. So
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: if you go to your polling location, this is information
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: for the future, and they can't find you or you
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: feel like you're not listed where you used to, just
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: fill out an affidavit. They have a special box there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the affidavit ballots might determine the winner. But there's a
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: third candidate here who's maybe wishing he wasn't because he
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: was out in the streets. He was going door to door.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: His name is Ty Pinkins, African-American himself, active campaigner, not
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: like the Sullivan in Alaska who was hiding out in
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: an igloo. He's an independent. And a lot of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: African-Americans would say, why are you running, Ty? We've got
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: our candidate, you know, the Democrat column. He said, but
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I'm different. I'm an independent. This is what I stand for.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You had to the palm cards, you know, and obviously
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: this is how I disagree with the sitting Senate. He
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: got 20,000 votes. That's 2.1% of the total. And now
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are making his life miserable. He's had to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: take down all of his social networking. He's had to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: leave his house. He can't walk in the streets because
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: they're saying you sold out. The Republicans paid you to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: run because they want to win this election and they
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: knew you would siphon off black votes. And he goes, no,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I've run a legitimate campaign. I just differ with the
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Republican and Democrats. The poor guy is going to have
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to leave M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-D.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And he says, no, no, no. I took Republican votes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: That's what he's been saying publicly because he's a Republican.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: He used to be a Republican. That's now an independent.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So that's what he gets on every TV station. He
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: gets on every radio station. It looks to me like
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they know where this may be going because Mississippi is
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: normally a red state. If you looked at every one
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: of the prognosticators, they said it's a safe Republican seat.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: That it's definitely going to go to the Republicans.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, in fact, Jose, a month ago, an African-American Democratic
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: delegation went to see Chuck Schumer himself in D.C. He controls.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the finances for Senate races. And they said, Chuck, our
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: guy's doing really good. Can you throw some money on it? Ah, hopeless.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to give you two nickels to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: rub together. Now look at this. No, absolutely.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But this guy, this poor guy, I do feel bad
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: for him, the Pinkins, because Ty Pinkins actually has a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: great argument.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: He said, look at my past registration. I was running on.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: More Republican issues than Democratic issues. And so he has
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a great argument, but you're right. I mean, the threats
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: against him and the fact that they want to take
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: this to court now if the Democrat loses, I think
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: this is a lot of them looking at the reality
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and knowing this may go the other way when they count.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: The rest of the votes. Now, imagine this. The other
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: independent candidate up in Alaska is the fake Sullivan versus
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the sitting Republican senator, the real Sullivan. And he's been
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: labeled decoy Dan. Nobody has seen him of late, Larry.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: He's on this island near the Aleutian Islands. Next stop
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: is Mother Russia. And, my God, they are counting to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the point.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: They're not counting. That's what I want to know. What
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the hell's going on in Alaska? They're still at 75%.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: 75%.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: What are these votes coming in by dog sled? How
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: does that happen in a modern world where we have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: computers and we have an Internet? Can you explain that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to me?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. Now, I can understand how in
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: some of these rural areas in Alaska, you know, they
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: have no way to get there. There's no roads. Okay,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: so those mail-in ballots, you give them a little bit
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: of time to get in. But this is how it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: going to go. November 18th. Wait a second. Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Explain to me the mail-in ballots now. So you're telling
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: me you send in a mail-in ballot. You might do
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this a week before.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: No, you had to do it before the postmarked on
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the day of the election. It had to be mailed
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: by then.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're letting people to mail on the day of
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: up there, not like the mail-in ballots down here.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And there is a legitimate concern. The U.S. Parcel Service
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: is horrible. Okay, so you would think they'd have it
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: wrapped up in a week. No, November 18th, they start
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the ranked choice vote. What the ranked choice vote is,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: if you're last, like the fake Sullivan is now, they
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: go through all of it. If you voted for him,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: who was your second, third, or fourth choice if he
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: even chose that? Then the next one was also Republican.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Then Sullivan, then Peltola. But it doesn't get certified totally
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: till November 25th as all the absentee ballots will have
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: been counted and the affidavits. So this is not going
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: to be resolved till November 25th. It might be pushed
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: back further than that. Who knows when all these other
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: votes are going to come in. This is the worst
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: system I have ever seen.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Somalia had a quicker election.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Iraq.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: They were just on the same night. Remember Iraq in
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the war, you know, they get their finger, what was it, purple,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you know? No, it's a disaster. And I must tell you,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: it's so neck and neck. And there aren't that many
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: votes there. I mean, we're talking, what, 100,000 votes apiece
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: for the leaders of the pack? Peltola, who's slightly ahead now,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and the sitting senator, the real Sullivan, Dan S. Sullivan. Slightly. Yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: but Dan J.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Sullivan, you're right, got 3,600 votes, so he's 1.68. Look
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: who is third on the list. Gerald Hikes, a Republican.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Another Republican made it. He got 4,846 votes. You would think,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: since he's another Republican, those votes would go to Sullivan.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And if they took advantage, though, of ranked choice, they
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: may have had, those people who voted for them, a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: second choice, a third choice, a fourth choice.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So that all has to be tabulated. That's what I'm saying.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: But I mean, there is a salvation for Sullivan.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Because if he gets those 4,000 votes.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see where the other
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan votes go. If they go to the Democrat,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you know that's going to be used as evidence in court.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Completely. Up next, we have so many talkbacks. We're clearing
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the deck again, as we did yesterday, so that your
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: voice can be heard. Your opinion counts here at 710WOR
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: with Larry and Curtis in the morning, because you can't
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: be heard over at WABC, Israel First Talk, because they
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: don't take calls. It is too afraid. Thank you.