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Hour 2: Early voting · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, as a good practicing Catholic, Larry, mea culpa,
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  Speaker 2: mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
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  Speaker 3: You too, Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, I jumped the queue because I wanted to thank Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lederman again for saving my voice. I had no voice
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  Speaker 2: a few Sundays ago. He came to the rescue. But
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  Speaker 2: it's actually tomorrow we'll be talking to Dr. Lederman, our
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  Speaker 2: doctor here at 710WOR that you can listen to at night.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be joining us because it's breast cancer awareness. So
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  Speaker 2: blame me.
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  Speaker 3: Blame me. I take the rap.
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  Speaker 2: Meantime, the big story coming out of the NFL is
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  Speaker 2: that guess who appointed himself to be the halftime performer
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  Speaker 2: of the upcoming Super Bowl game? The guy who picks
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  Speaker 2: the talent or the talent lobbies him because all talent
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  Speaker 2: wants to be on that stage. You get more eyeballs
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  Speaker 2: than doing anything else. Well, it was a tough decision.
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  Speaker 2: Jay-Z sat down and he said, you know, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pick myself.
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  Speaker 4: He put out the announcement in a video.
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  Speaker 3: That's enough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, please.
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  Speaker 2: That's Power 105, okay? We'll give that to Charlamagne Tha God.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, now, you know what this reminds me of politically?
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  Speaker 2: Remember Bush 43? He gets elected after we waited eight weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Al Gore, Bush 2000, Supreme Court made the decision. So
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  Speaker 2: in the interim, taking over for the presidency, Dick Cheney
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  Speaker 2: was putting together his transition team and also picking a
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  Speaker 2: vice president. Bush 43 wanted Tom Ridge. He loved Tom Ridge,
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  Speaker 2: the governor of Pennsylvania. But Cheney said, yeah, but he's pro-choice.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's good, but he's pro-choice. Can't have him.
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  Speaker 2: And they went through a whole laundry list until finally
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  Speaker 2: Dick Cheney said, you know what, Bush?
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  Speaker 3: I'm picking myself. Look, I've been the.
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  Speaker 2: Chief of staff, the deputy chief of staff to so
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  Speaker 2: many in the White House. I know exactly how to
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  Speaker 2: function as a vice president. And he picked himself.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you thought of when you heard this. I
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  Speaker 4: thought about how weak need the commissioner of the NFL
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  Speaker 4: is and how much they give into the Colin Kaepernick.
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  Speaker 3: And said to.
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  Speaker 4: Jay-Z, just make this go away, we'll give you anything.
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  Speaker 4: So they gave him a tens of million dollar contract
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  Speaker 4: to pick the Super Bowl acts. Ad nauseum, I'm wondering
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  Speaker 4: when that contract, they re-upped them, I guess. But man,
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  Speaker 4: he gets to pick them all and they have all gone.
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  Speaker 4: Most of them, not every one of them, but most
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  Speaker 4: of them that have been awful since he has picked them.
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  Speaker 4: Some of them I had to turn off. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just bad. Bad Bunny was pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you went over to Kid Rock in
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  Speaker 2: that alternative show that was put on that didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: match egg rape. But no, I like Bad Bunny. But
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to expand into Latin America. Like when the
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  Speaker 2: NFL plays in Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, it seats
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  Speaker 2: 100,000 people. They got 100,000 Mexicans wearing Dallas Cowboy suits because.
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  Speaker 3: But he's.
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  Speaker 6: Ruined the Super Bowl halftime show for most of America.
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  Speaker 6: Most of America has been turning off the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 6: halftime show. Go to social media someday. Just look at
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  Speaker 6: all the people that are going, I can't watch this anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: The players, they ain't complaining because like 80% of the
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  Speaker 2: players now are African-American. They're like high-fiving Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 4: There was great African-American acts in the past. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that has much to do with it. It is
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  Speaker 4: the genre. It is just rap. And I know rap's
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  Speaker 4: a big deal, but rap is not the predominant genre.
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  Speaker 4: musical genre in this country.
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  Speaker 2: This is like bill clinton you get two for one
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  Speaker 2: remember bill said that you get two for one you're
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  Speaker 2: getting beyonce you know she's coming up there with their
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  Speaker 2: daughter blue now she's going to perform you almost guarantee
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a husband and wife performer and
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  Speaker 2: then they'll have other the blue will be.
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  Speaker 4: Up there and then they're going to put the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the family up there and anybody that pays off
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  Speaker 4: jay-z will be up there it is the worst contract
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  Speaker 4: ever signed in the nfl and that's a high bar
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  Speaker 4: let's get to some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 7: Frank from jersey I just want to say that I
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  Speaker 7: do everything I can to stay off the roads. I'm
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  Speaker 7: retired from the electrician union, and I don't even want
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  Speaker 7: to go out of the house because of the driving
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  Speaker 7: situation in this state. It's just, you're taking your life
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  Speaker 7: into your own hands.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I drive through New Jersey every day, and
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  Speaker 6: I don't think it's that bad.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I drive so early in the morning, I guess
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  Speaker 4: I'm not running. No, but when you go back, you're
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  Speaker 4: going mainstream time.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's probably a combination of your positivity
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  Speaker 2: and his negativity.
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  Speaker 3: I think most people are like somewhere in between.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. But I mean, the Jersey Turnpike,
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  Speaker 4: the drivers are pretty good. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 4: there's some idiot, but you just let them go. Just
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  Speaker 4: let them go.
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  Speaker 8: Or through life technology made jobs disappear. Look at the
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  Speaker 8: farmers when the tractors came. Had to lay off all
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  Speaker 8: the people on the farm, but then they got tractor repairmen.
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  Speaker 8: Look at Henry Ford's assembly line. They had to lay
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  Speaker 8: off workers, and they got people to fix the assembly line.
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  Speaker 8: The list goes on and on. Jobs will catch up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what you're talking about, and I've made
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  Speaker 4: this argument on the air several times. I'm a little
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  Speaker 4: more afraid this time, but then again, that's been every
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  Speaker 4: single time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, remember, Elon Musk, leader of the PAC, says nobody
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  Speaker 2: will have to work. You'll have a universal socialist slash
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  Speaker 2: communist income. You can just lay back and enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody ever said that before.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, and I don't think that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 9: Natalie's complaint earlier in the morning about the construction and
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  Speaker 9: how it's affecting the traffic patterns and how maybe one
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  Speaker 9: part of government doesn't talk to another part of government
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  Speaker 9: and they do all these construction updates at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 9: It just makes the matter worse is one of the
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  Speaker 9: biggest cases why we should not have government run health care.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't know that's where you were going. That
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  Speaker 3: was a twist. That was a surprise ending. What the
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  Speaker 3: hell is she talking about? That was called the Jersey
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  Speaker 3: Slide right there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I know what he was talking about because government
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  Speaker 4: can't even handle the roads.
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  Speaker 3: Government can't handle health care.
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  Speaker 2: Israel has government health care and free education for all, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right. Well, a lot of people are. That's true.
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  Speaker 4: They're going back there to vote right now. Let's get
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  Speaker 4: to Daria Albinger with the 730 News, Daria.
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  Speaker 10: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Sunny and cooler today. We'll see a high of 59 degrees.
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  Speaker 11: A retired NYPD detective who was charged in last week's
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  Speaker 11: deadly drive-by on the GWB will be in court today.
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  Speaker 12: Victor Romero was charged with manslaughter, but legal experts say
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  Speaker 12: a grand jury could decide on whether to upgrade that
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  Speaker 12: charge to murder. Prosecutors say Romero, fueled by road rage,
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  Speaker 12: shot Karan Irvine on the GWB after their two vehicles
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  Speaker 12: came close to colliding last week. And Irvine's family members,
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  Speaker 12: including his aunt here, furious the charge was not murder.
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  Speaker 13: You had a retired police officer intentionally fire a bullet
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  Speaker 13: and killed him.
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  Speaker 12: Romero is being held on a $ 1 million bail. I'm
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  Speaker 12: Scott Pringle, WOR News.
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  Speaker 11: With the midterm elections a week away, President Trump will
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  Speaker 11: be back in Texas today. He'll campaign for Republican State's
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  Speaker 11: Attorney General Ken Paxton. who is in a close battle
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  Speaker 11: for a U.S. Senate seat with Democratic State Representative James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 11: At least one person is dead. Several others were hurt
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  Speaker 11: in a shooting last night in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Police
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  Speaker 11: responded to the call on Irvington Avenue across from the
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  Speaker 11: Oakwood Plaza apartments. The MTA's fare enforcement teams, known as
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  Speaker 11: the Eagle Teams, are back on the buses today. They
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  Speaker 11: were taken off last week after two fare-checking incidents, which
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  Speaker 11: turned violent and were not reported. Well, dictionary.com has chosen
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  Speaker 11: its word of the year and it's maxing. It defines
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  Speaker 11: a term to describe pursuing an activity to the fullest
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  Speaker 11: or optimizing a certain aspect of your life. So here's
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  Speaker 11: a college student who's telling us the correct way to
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  Speaker 11: use it.
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  Speaker 10: People randomly like attach it to their own words. Like
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  Speaker 10: maybe if you're Having a bunch of sugar that day
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  Speaker 10: or like sweets maxing, I don't know, things like that.
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  Speaker 11: My dog's name is Max and when he's well behaved,
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  Speaker 11: we say he's maxing well. That may or may not
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  Speaker 11: be the right way to use it. Rangers lost to
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  Speaker 11: Los Angeles 6-3. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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  Speaker 11: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Great job, Daria. You were maxing out just then. I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing my best. Is that the right use? Did I
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  Speaker 3: use that right? You did. I did not when I
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  Speaker 3: talked about my dog. You did use it well. Well done.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Daria.
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, it is a political heavyweight fight
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  Speaker 4: as we near the midterms. In one corner, Barack Hussein Obama.
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  Speaker 4: In the other, Donald J. We're going to find out
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  Speaker 4: who wins that fight on Tuesday, and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: it next. Who knew of all the things that you
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  Speaker 4: can say about Donald Trump and have been said about
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, that he's a Nazi, that he's Hitler, that
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  Speaker 4: he's not very bright, all these things that are said
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  Speaker 4: about him roll off his shoulders. He doesn't care about
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  Speaker 4: any of that. But for some reason, when Barack Obama
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  Speaker 4: in Michigan was at a campaign rally and said this,
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  Speaker 4: it bugged him.
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  Speaker 5: What's up with the gold?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's got the White House looking like Saddam
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  Speaker 4: Hussein opened a cheesecake factory.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gold everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I can't play everything Donald Trump said because he
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  Speaker 4: went on and on about it yesterday. Yes, he was
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  Speaker 4: asked about it, but... in most questions, he gives a
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  Speaker 4: 30-second answer. This one, he just kept talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: It is extremely important to him, apparently, that he fix
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  Speaker 4: up the White House and he makes the White House
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  Speaker 4: look great. He says that Barack Obama ignored the White
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  Speaker 4: House and watched that it was falling apart and did nothing.
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  Speaker 14: We have to explain to Obama that the White House
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  Speaker 14: is a symbol of America.
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  Speaker 1: And it has to be maintained properly. It has to
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  Speaker 1: be painted.
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  Speaker 14: And the exterior plaster can't be falling off the walls.
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  Speaker 14: And the decorations and ornaments around the windows that are
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  Speaker 14: magnificent can't be on one side.
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  Speaker 1: Of the window and fallen off on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be clean.
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  Speaker 14: The columns can't be broken.
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  Speaker 3: The bricks can't.
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  Speaker 1: Be falling off from under the plaster.
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  Speaker 14: For you to say it's a cheesecake factory, that just
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  Speaker 14: shows why you're a lousy president.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that went on for a long time. I'll
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  Speaker 4: play one last thing, because the best reaction was from
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  Speaker 4: the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, who went to a cheesecake factory,
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  Speaker 4: and reporters were waiting for him when he got back out.
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  Speaker 5: This is the man who built the museum. It looks
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  Speaker 5: like Darth Vader's tomb. And I would just tell the.
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  Speaker 4: I eat a great meal, always have a great meal,
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  Speaker 4: and I would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give
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  Speaker 4: it a try. Ah, Obama's elitist for putting down Cheesecake
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  Speaker 4: Factory is what Scott Besson is saying, that he eats
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  Speaker 4: at Cheesecake Factories all the time, according to him.
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  Speaker 2: What this is, is these are the two superstars of
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  Speaker 2: both opposing parties. If you had a dream presidential campaign, right?
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  Speaker 2: They used to do this facsimile. They would recreate the
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  Speaker 2: two greatest heavyweights of all time, Muhammad Ali and you
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  Speaker 2: had undefeated Marciano fighting one another.
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  Speaker 3: He actually packed the theaters. It never occurred, but this
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  Speaker 3: is what people wanted to see.
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  Speaker 2: And if people had their druthers, they'd want to see
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama running against Donald Trump because at times they're
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  Speaker 2: like two scorpions in a brandy glass. You can see
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  Speaker 2: they really don't like one another. And then they surprise you.
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  Speaker 2: Remember at Jimmy Carter's funeral mass in Washington? They're sitting
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  Speaker 2: down there. They're having a good old time right before
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  Speaker 2: it started. You know, people are saying, wow, these guys
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  Speaker 2: really get together. Meantime, if you notice, Michelle was like
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  Speaker 2: not wanting to talk to anybody. The gals said not Melania,
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  Speaker 2: not talking to anybody. Remember Hillary? Hillary with the death
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  Speaker 2: stare when she looked at him. But you see, this
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  Speaker 2: is what politics is about. You know Barack Obama misses
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  Speaker 2: being in the ring. And he's good at it. And
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  Speaker 2: obviously Donald Trump is good at it. And they can pirouette.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Barack Obama's strategy here is.
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  Speaker 3: Distract him.
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  Speaker 2: My job is to try to distract him to talk
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  Speaker 2: about other issues than the issues that he was really
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  Speaker 2: there to talk about to begin with, because he knows
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  Speaker 2: I get under his skin.
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  Speaker 3: And vice versa. They get under each other's skin. If
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  Speaker 3: that was planned, it worked because he did.
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  Speaker 4: He went and he was very serious talking about everything
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  Speaker 4: he saw and everything he fixed and everything he did.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, we can't play it here because it
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  Speaker 4: goes on forever. But it's worth watching because it tells
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  Speaker 4: you a lot about the guy. I will say I'll
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  Speaker 4: give one addendum, one change to your heavyweight fight. As
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  Speaker 4: much as I love Donald Trump, if I was going
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  Speaker 4: to have the two best campaigners, it would be Barack
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  Speaker 4: Obama versus Ronald Reagan.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: He's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he can't keep up with the pace now.
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  Speaker 2: The pace now is a lot different. You know, it's pirouette.
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  Speaker 3: It's shift. Obama and Trump are the best. Reagan set
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  Speaker 3: the pace. He didn't have to keep up with the pace.
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  Speaker 3: On every debate, he set the pace, and he had
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  Speaker 3: the line of the debate.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take Ronald Reagan every single day of the year.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing, remember, Nobel Peace Prize. Trump is still grumbling.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get it. He's attacking Norway. Meantime, Barack Obama
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  Speaker 2: got one that he didn't deserve.
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  Speaker 3: So here it is.
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  Speaker 2: You had two presidents, one who said, I want my
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  Speaker 2: Nobel Peace Prize. I don't want to hand me down
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  Speaker 2: from Maria Corina Machado that I got.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Who got a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, and
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  Speaker 2: right at the start of his administration, a seven-month war
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  Speaker 2: against Libya. Man, these guys have so much in common.
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  Speaker 2: His library is a cheesecake factory in South Side of Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: and he's accusing Donald Trump of turning the White House
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  Speaker 2: into a cheesecake factory.
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  Speaker 3: These guys, people would pay. To watch them debate.
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  Speaker 4: We should get some talkbacks right now, especially since we're
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  Speaker 4: talking about who the best debaters are in history. Just
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  Speaker 4: go to the iHeartRadio app, look for 710WOR, you click
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  Speaker 4: the talkback feature, and then you are on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as you know, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: It's early voting, and Natalie Migliore is out on the
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  Speaker 4: streets to find out how many people have voted already.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, we got Jimmy Fallon at 835.
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  Speaker 14: It's 710 WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 3: Back from the streets, Natalie Migliore. What do you have
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  Speaker 3: for our audience today?
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  Speaker 15: Well, people are showing up and showing out during this
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  Speaker 15: early voting period. Roughly half a million people have early
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  Speaker 15: voted across New York State already, if not more.
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  Speaker 3: About 225,000.
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  Speaker 15: Are New York City residents that have cast their ballots
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  Speaker 15: in the first three days of early voting. Day four,
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  Speaker 15: underway today, so are people hitting the ballot box.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's very important. I vote in every election I can.
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  Speaker 1: I have a mail-in ballot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going Democrat all the way.
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  Speaker 13: I don't trust the mails anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll be handing mine in in person.
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  Speaker 16: No, I'm not going to vote.
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  Speaker 10: Why not?
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  Speaker 16: Because I feel like it doesn't count. Honestly, I think
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  Speaker 16: the last time I paid attention to that was, I think,
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  Speaker 16: the first time Trump got elected. And that was the
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  Speaker 16: last time. I feel like it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Like, look at Trump.
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  Speaker 16: He's a fraud. And he's a president? Like, that doesn't
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  Speaker 16: make sense to me. So anybody could be a president.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't care anymore.
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  Speaker 13: I can't say this on.
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  Speaker 3: You can say whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: They're full of s * * *.
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  Speaker 11: There you have it.
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  Speaker 3: She told you she couldn't say it.
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  Speaker 15: And I let her say it.
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  Speaker 11: Because I know that I have the power to bleep.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Natalie, a quick PSA. I have up on my
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  Speaker 2: social networking. Why, if you're doing mail-in ballots, you should
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  Speaker 2: not put it in the blue mailbox? Either bring it
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  Speaker 2: to the post office or give it to your mail
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  Speaker 2: carrier because they steal mail. And if they get your
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  Speaker 2: mail ballot, it's of no use to them. They just
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  Speaker 2: throw it away. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And that woman knew.
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  Speaker 15: So she's going to walk it into her voting place. Now,
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  Speaker 15: this this whole they're full of it seems to be
• 17:14
  Speaker 15: the sentiment that people feel who aren't voting carry around.
• 17:18
  Speaker 15: They just aren't buying what's being sold now more than ever.
• 17:22
  Speaker 15: 12.3 million people are registered to vote in the state
• 17:25
  Speaker 15: of New York, and just over 3 million of those
• 17:28
  Speaker 15: voters are independents. So that could determine who ends up
• 17:32
  Speaker 15: governor between incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman.
• 17:38
  Speaker 15: A race that I have people, you know, I'm wondering,
• 17:40
  Speaker 15: are people even paying attention to that race?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: How could you not?
• 17:44
  Speaker 15: A lot of people this morning telling me they are not.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: So what are you seeing out of this race between
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the two?
• 17:49
  Speaker 17: Well, it's the usual stereotypes of the divisions that people
• 17:53
  Speaker 17: set up. But beyond those divisions, you have to look
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: and say, what is likely to come about when this
• 17:59
  Speaker 17: person takes office? And you make a judgment about that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Well, I like Kathy Hochul. I think she's a great governor.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Blakeman says he's a clone of Donald Trump's, and Donald
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Trump is exactly who I'm hoping by November we'll have
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: at least semi-castrated him.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God! Semi-castrated? It's an image. It's an image.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: That's worse than castration. Semi-castration's worse. Does that mean he's
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: a eunuch? Oh, what is semi? I never heard of
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: that term. Is that consummate?
• 18:36
  Speaker 15: I literally just let people talk.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: That was great.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: That was brilliant.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: You don't just let them talk. You play them on
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the air, Natalie. Yes, I know. I give them a voice. Well,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: these people know that that's going to happen.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Imagine what they say in private.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: That is true.
• 18:56
  Speaker 15: So that's the image that I walked away with and
• 18:58
  Speaker 15: told her to have a beautiful day. But to be honest,
• 19:02
  Speaker 15: these people seem to be voting along party lines when
• 19:05
  Speaker 15: you talk to them.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: It's not about.
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: What the policies are behind each candidate. When you ask them,
• 19:12
  Speaker 15: they actually tell me that they're very unhappy what's happening
• 19:16
  Speaker 15: at the federal level. And so that tends to trickle
• 19:20
  Speaker 15: down into how they're voting on the local level, something
• 19:22
  Speaker 15: we've discussed before. So talk to some people who don't
• 19:27
  Speaker 15: even plan on voting and they are just so disenchanted
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: by the system that they have what they say, way
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: more stuff that they're worrying about.
• 19:37
  Speaker 13: Healthcare, transportation, groceries skyrocket. I mean, it's just not fair.
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: And I'm retired.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And I, you know, I.
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: get my monthly checks, right?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't even add up.
• 19:55
  Speaker 13: I mean, it doesn't even make it for me. And
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: I got to struggle. I still got to struggle. I
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: worked 24 years.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Healthcare is my priority.
• 20:04
  Speaker 16: You see the surge in food costs, and only people
• 20:08
  Speaker 16: that receive Medicaid are allowed to get those special boxes
• 20:12
  Speaker 16: delivered to them. What happened to middle class? I have
• 20:15
  Speaker 16: to pay for everything, for the doctor, for my food,
• 20:19
  Speaker 16: for my transportation, taxes. You know what I mean? When
• 20:23
  Speaker 16: do we get to breathe?
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: Now, Larry made a face in the very beginning. In fact,
• 20:30
  Speaker 15: not just a face. He almost looked like he was on.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: A roller coaster.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: He rolled all the way back on the road.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: What was that?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Because the way you led into that, and excuse me
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: if I'm wrong, you said that people have found reasons
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: not to vote?
• 20:44
  Speaker 15: Right, that they're so frustrated and they have other stuff
• 20:48
  Speaker 15: that they're worrying about.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: But then they list health care, transportation, and prices as
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the reason they're not voting?
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: There's something really wrong.
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: I don't know that those are the those aren't based
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: on conversation, the reasons why they're not voting. They are
• 21:05
  Speaker 15: just so disenchanted. And they feel when they talk to me,
• 21:09
  Speaker 15: they tell me. They feel they don't have a voice.
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: Their voice doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how they cast
• 21:13
  Speaker 15: their ballot.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: That's their only voice. That's it. That's their voice.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And haven't they seen all the close elections, all the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: polling now that's neck and neck? I've never seen such
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: neck and neck polling in my lifetime of observing politics.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I am a reporter, not an activist. So I just
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: let people say what they want to say.
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: And now I'm going to go out on the street
• 21:37
  Speaker 15: with both of you and you can tell them why
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: it's important to vote.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You idiot. Yes, they'll really take to that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 15: That's exactly what somebody who's sharing their opinion wants to
• 21:48
  Speaker 15: be told on the street.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You're an idiot.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: No, I'd never say that because I'd get the hell
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: beat out of me. I'm not a good fighter.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Well, the one bright light for Bruce Blakeman is he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: winning the independent vote, which normally at this point in
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the election, a Republican is not winning in this state.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: So that's a very good sign what that one shows.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: That one participant had mentioned. Anyway, Natalie Migliore, we've got
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to segue you out of here.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: You'll be back same time, same place tomorrow at 7.50.