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Hour 1: Marriage rates · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: For all of you who are listening and want an
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  Speaker 1: update on the letter theft that's been taking place out
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  Speaker 1: of the blue mailboxes that I've been personally involved with,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving it to you now, Natalie or Larry
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  Speaker 1: or our audience. I'm going to give it to you
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the program. And boy, there's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot between what happened yesterday, me stopping the
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  Speaker 1: two banditos, getting the letter, showing how it is they
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  Speaker 1: steal mail out of the blue mailbox. But let me
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  Speaker 1: just do a quick PSA. Do not mail in a
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  Speaker 1: blue mailbox because you're Santa Claus. They're going to steal
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  Speaker 1: your mail. And it's not just the mail with maybe
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  Speaker 1: something of value inside. They discard the other mail that
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  Speaker 1: they're not interested in. But we'll discuss that at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the program.
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  Speaker 2: So cancel all your morning plans. Three hours from now,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to give the update.
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  Speaker 3: And it is fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Or.
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  Speaker 4: If you're not with us, you could go to the
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  Speaker 4: podcast later.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Very good, Natalie. What a great producer
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  Speaker 3: you are.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, it had a fascinating twist this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But a huge story, and this is affecting all of society.
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  Speaker 1: So no matter where you are throughout America, it could
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  Speaker 1: be rural areas, suburban areas, municipal areas.
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  Speaker 3: New survey, single men.
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  Speaker 1: Aged 20 to 39... There's been an increase by 50%
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  Speaker 1: since 2000 of those who are not getting married. And
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  Speaker 1: not because they're gay. You know, they're just not getting married.
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  Speaker 2: So gays can get married, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they can. And they're not getting married either.
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  Speaker 3: They're not getting married either. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Their marriages last. No. You notice that?
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  Speaker 3: No, actually, the percentages are, Larry, the same amount of breakups,
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  Speaker 3: close to 50%.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I just looked this up. If it's two males, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two men.
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  Speaker 2: Two men, they last the longest. If it is two heterosexuals,
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  Speaker 2: It's the second most. The most divorces are with two women.
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  Speaker 2: So if you think about it, the more women, the
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  Speaker 2: greater a chance of divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow I think you've turned those stats upside down, but
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. But this is affecting everybody out there. So
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  Speaker 1: the single men numbers have gone from 20. 0.7 million
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  Speaker 1: to 30.4 million ages 20 to 39 who have just not.
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  Speaker 3: Tied the knot.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because they had an early marriage that
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  Speaker 1: didn't work out and they decided, hey, maybe marriage isn't
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 3: They just have not decided to get married.
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  Speaker 1: So unmarried young men now outnumber married young men in
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  Speaker 1: the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Nearly two to one.
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  Speaker 1: So 30 million unmarried young men, 15 million married men. Now, 68%
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  Speaker 1: of them still hope to get married in that 20
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  Speaker 1: to 39 age category. But I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot different than when you were growing up, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: I was growing up, Natalie, and you were growing up.
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  Speaker 1: the whole circumstances now have changed.
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  Speaker 2: So you have how many? I have three sons. And
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  Speaker 2: so I have a 30-something, I have a 20-something, and
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  Speaker 2: I have a 19-year-old.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all over the place. None of them are married.
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  Speaker 2: Not one of them are married. Not one of them's
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  Speaker 2: even talking about getting married. The whole landscape has changed.
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  Speaker 2: And the whole landscape, even in dating, has changed.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Men, especially in college, they're very fearful. But then even
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  Speaker 2: young men are sometimes very fearful. All the rules have changed,
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  Speaker 2: and men now sometimes are seen as being almost criminals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're afraid that they're going to get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: If they do the wrong thing with a woman, they're
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  Speaker 2: so afraid these days because the law so much skews
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  Speaker 2: to the women's side. that any accusation can ruin your life.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just saying this because I've heard my sons
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  Speaker 2: talk about this, how you really have to find a
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  Speaker 2: woman that you can trust. And how do you find
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  Speaker 2: that out early on? I mean, you have to go
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  Speaker 2: out with them a couple of times, and even then
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  Speaker 2: they're suspicious. So it's really, there's this toxic male syndrome
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  Speaker 2: out there especially among women and especially ones that go
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  Speaker 2: through college because college, they get classes about this. They
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  Speaker 2: have symposiums about this, about what to be careful for
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  Speaker 2: and how to report. So all of the rules that
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  Speaker 2: we went through when we grew up, which were fine,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, have changed and changed. And so men
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  Speaker 2: are now guilty until proven innocent. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: That this survey does not take into effect the number
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  Speaker 1: of men and women, or men and men, women and women,
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  Speaker 1: who shack up with one another and don't get married.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for periods of time. They live together. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we used to call it common law. They say, you
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  Speaker 1: can't call it common law anymore. It used to be
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  Speaker 1: common law. I would say that to my father. I'd say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Cousin Vinny and Shirley, they're living in the same apartment.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call that? Dad, they haven't gotten married. well,
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  Speaker 1: that's common law, you know, common law. Now you've gone
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  Speaker 1: common law. It's like people are looking at you. It's
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  Speaker 1: not common law. So I'm confused about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Except I have three kids
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  Speaker 2: that I talk to, you know, and talk about how
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  Speaker 2: worried they are. But the fact that it's on their heads,
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  Speaker 2: but you're right. I mean, I do know a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of couples. You know why? One of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: is marriages are so expensive. Like if they're a young
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  Speaker 2: couple and their parents aren't going to kick in they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go through the marriage thing. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? And many of them believe, why do
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  Speaker 2: you even need marriage? I mean, why does the state
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  Speaker 2: have to sanction or the church have to sanction this?
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  Speaker 4: And it's now more acceptable to live with someone.
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  Speaker 6: You go back 40 years, even 30 years.
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  Speaker 4: People are like, oh, they were living together.
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  Speaker 6: And now it's like, okay. So then they live together
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  Speaker 6: and be like, okay, well, why should we bother at
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  Speaker 6: this point?
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  Speaker 2: I remember when my daughter got married and I looked
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  Speaker 2: at her and I said, look, this is how much
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to spend on your wedding. Do you just
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  Speaker 2: want the money? I'll hand you the money and then
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  Speaker 2: you won't have to go through the wedding. We can
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  Speaker 2: have some small ceremony. She still wanted the wedding.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think my dad might have said that to
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  Speaker 6: me too.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, nope, I want the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: To me, that's crazy. I know.
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  Speaker 4: I think about it now and it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. I remember one of my uncles saying to his daughters,
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  Speaker 3: just elope. Go ahead, elope.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, well, here's the money.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'll act surprised. Oh, I didn't know. We
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  Speaker 3: were planning a big wedding, me and your mother.
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  Speaker 7: Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: We had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, once you elope, oh, that meant you
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  Speaker 1: had sex. So, hey, you can't interfere. They got married
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  Speaker 1: at the Justice of the Peace in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 3: But my uncle said to her, Elope, don't worry. We'll
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  Speaker 3: act surprised. Like, we're shocked.
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny. That is really funny, except for the
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  Speaker 2: fact I don't understand. And you were offered the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand what it is about the wedding thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know either.
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  Speaker 2: With women that they want so much money spent on it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's wasted money.
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  Speaker 4: It's totally wasted money. I have been planting the seed.
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  Speaker 4: My kids are both in their early 20s.
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  Speaker 6: No plans whatsoever of getting married any time in the
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  Speaker 6: near future.
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  Speaker 4: But I've been planting the seeds about elopement. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that would be so romantic.
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  Speaker 2: Are you giving them money?
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  Speaker 4: I'll give them a little cash.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm like, just elope.
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  Speaker 4: Who wants the big wedding?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said. I said, go to the islands.
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  Speaker 2: You could have a nice, just private wedding down there.
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  Speaker 2: You and your husband. Bring people with you. I've given
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  Speaker 2: you enough money. You can bring people with you. They
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  Speaker 2: can be the witnesses.
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  Speaker 3: But I noticed. No, but no.
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  Speaker 2: And it cost a lot more than the check I
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  Speaker 2: was offering.
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  Speaker 1: That with dating, unlike in my time, where it was common,
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  Speaker 1: you would go by yourself. And, you know, you would
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  Speaker 1: check out the scenes. Now, the guys show up with
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  Speaker 1: a posse and the girls show up with a posse.
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  Speaker 1: It's like sometimes they're walking down the block. There's 8, 10,
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  Speaker 1: or 12 young ladies together or 8, 10, or 12
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  Speaker 1: young men together. It's almost like they feel awkward just
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  Speaker 1: being by themselves walking into, let's say, a bar or
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  Speaker 1: whatever social occasion is happening.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought about that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think in our generation we wanted to show
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  Speaker 1: up with a posse of anything.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted it to be you, yourself, and I.
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  Speaker 4: That was your competition.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I think what you're saying is outdated, too, because most
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  Speaker 2: of the people now are going online. Have you seen
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  Speaker 2: the numbers for these dating apps?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see the advertisements in the subways every day.
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  Speaker 3: Grindr, Grindr, whatever, all these places. Oh, we're better than
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  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you'll see women just, and in my family,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen women that are just swiping. And you see
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  Speaker 2: them on their phone, and finally you ask, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing? And they show you. They're looking at guys.
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 8: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe so you don't go to a matchmaker any longer
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  Speaker 1: somebody who can do a shit action hook you up
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  Speaker 1: it's like you go on to grinder and all these
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  Speaker 1: other and then you.
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  Speaker 2: Have a conversation a little bit with the person online
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  Speaker 2: to see if you trust them you feel them out
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  Speaker 2: you go to meet them for the first time with
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  Speaker 2: a friend believe me i've gone through the entire thing
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  Speaker 2: i got a huge family now how.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know it's not all ai generated.
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  Speaker 6: Well when you show up Can I also let, Curtis,
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  Speaker 6: just so you know, Grindr is for the LGBTQ community.
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  Speaker 3: No, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 8: Just so you know.
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  Speaker 3: Advertised all over the place. It's not like Match.com.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was a tell.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that, remember the guy up in Maine, the lobster guy? oyster, whatever?
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  Speaker 1: He was on Grindr, remember? That's how he got cold busted.
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  Speaker 1: So that meant he was gay?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to assume so.
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  Speaker 3: All right. It's okay. Whatever floats his boat.
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  Speaker 4: That's what Grindr's app is for. It's for, you know, LGBT.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 4: It's just something that you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Just inquiring.
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  Speaker 4: Although I'll have to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like being on Grindr?
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  Speaker 3: I've never been on any app.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so thankful that that was before my time.
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  Speaker 2: Because that sounds awful. It sounds crazy. The whole thing
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  Speaker 2: sounds crazy. But I'm telling you, it is pervasive. It
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  Speaker 2: is constant. You can see a bunch of girls or
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  Speaker 2: guys sitting together. And they're not even talking to each other.
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  Speaker 2: They're online looking for people.
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  Speaker 1: So they're shopping. It's like another form of shopping. They're
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  Speaker 1: shopping for a potential boyfriend, girlfriend or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's Amazon for relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Although I do have to say there is some hope
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  Speaker 4: because I have been seeing, I mean, my daughter and
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  Speaker 4: her friends, not very much into the app. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they were all doing them and then they're like, this
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  Speaker 4: isn't working out. Like, we don't like this. So there
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  Speaker 4: are a lot of like groups popping up where they're
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  Speaker 4: kind of meetups. Meet up and play pickleball. Meet up
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  Speaker 4: and play, you know, go to a run club.
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  Speaker 1: But the benefit for guys if they decide they just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get married, right, is they're not thought
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  Speaker 1: of being gay anymore. In our generation, if you weren't
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  Speaker 1: on your way to getting married, remember Larry's people were like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the guy's gay.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows? Maybe he doesn't like women.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nobody thought I was gay.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But it is true.
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  Speaker 1: Other than a Mama Luke who's 45 years old, still
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  Speaker 1: living at home with his Italian mother.
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  Speaker 3: No, he can't find anybody better than that. How do
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  Speaker 3: we get people on? I will get them.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you a couple of gay friends
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  Speaker 2: once told me you're the most heterosexual person I ever
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  Speaker 2: bodega cat. There may be charges, plus a chance to
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  Speaker 2: see Richard Marks at age 25.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we thought the story of the bodega cat was over.
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  Speaker 3: The kitten is back with the bodega owner. They're happy.
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  Speaker 1: The little three-month-old kitten had replaced his long-term 17-year-old bodega cat,
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  Speaker 1: who unfortunately had passed away. We saw the video. The
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  Speaker 1: kitten was snatched up outside of the bodega by the
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  Speaker 1: man and the woman, and the person had warned him, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's the bodega's cat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the woman gets taken in because she sends her
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  Speaker 1: stepson to the local police precinct to return the kitten.
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  Speaker 1: And the kittens returned to the bodega. So no longer
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  Speaker 1: any friction with the bodega owner. Now the woman is
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  Speaker 1: all upset. Why did they arrest me? It was my husband,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see in the video, who took the kitten.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to sue. Now, she's not suing the bodega guy.
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  Speaker 1: He probably doesn't have two nickels in his pocket to
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  Speaker 1: rub together.
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  Speaker 3: Going to sue who else? The NYPD, right?
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  Speaker 1: And more than likely what's going to happen in most
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  Speaker 1: of these cases, they settle. So she's going to walk
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  Speaker 1: away with money. But she ain't giving it.
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  Speaker 3: She's loud, abrasive. I'm going to sue, sue, sue.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a whole legion of lawyers out there, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: who every day practice their martial art.
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  Speaker 3: I sue.
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  Speaker 1: And they're more than happy to file with Corporation Counsel.
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  Speaker 1: And Corporation Counsel never argues.
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  Speaker 3: They do. OK, what can we settle on? She's going
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  Speaker 3: to make money from this. Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. But we said immediately, we said immediately,
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  Speaker 2: why would they arrest her when it was the guy
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  Speaker 2: that had the gun? So why would they go after her?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, was she an accomplice? But if she's an accomplice,
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  Speaker 2: why didn't the other guy get charged?
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  Speaker 3: No, she's blaming the husband. So NYPD, arrest the husband too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Put him in cuffs. Take him on a perp walk.
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  Speaker 2: That would be funny if the NYPD said that.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: You're right. We're going to come and get your husband.
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  Speaker 3: But they won't. Meantime, what about Duct Tape Man?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Duct Tape Man doesn't remember anything. He does nothing.
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  Speaker 2: He's like ashamed. He can't believe he's hearing the story
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. He went to court. And the
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  Speaker 2: judge told him, you know, you did this, this, this,
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  Speaker 2: and this.
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  Speaker 3: In first class.
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  Speaker 2: First class. Everybody knows the story. He got duct taped
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  Speaker 2: because he was saying the plane's going to go down
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  Speaker 2: and he was hitting the person next to him. And
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  Speaker 2: when they went to stop him, he scratched at them.
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  Speaker 2: He was crazed. He was a lunatic. And if you remember,
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  Speaker 2: they said at the time he looked crazy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was absolute fear in his eyes. But he's in
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  Speaker 2: front of the judge, and this is my favorite line
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  Speaker 2: in his testimony, my favorite line. They told him that
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  Speaker 2: he assaulted a police officer, because he did. He assaulted
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  Speaker 2: a police officer and went to stop him. And he went,
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  Speaker 2: I assaulted a police officer? Is that what it says?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't have my glasses on.
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  Speaker 6: We all know that feeling, though, honestly. But we talked
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  Speaker 6: to the duct taper, and I love, I got to
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  Speaker 6: reach out to him. Love to get his reaction about this.
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  Speaker 2: This is so funny. Then he went, here's more testimony
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  Speaker 2: of him. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: What a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember any of this.
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  Speaker 3: Shocking. Wow. That is insane.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: No, but that's a good defense because there is no
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: defense other than that.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Here's another one.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: So the judge says to him, what brings you to Maryland?
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: He goes, wait a minute, Maryland? I came to New
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: York City. I don't know how I got to Maryland.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I was supposed to land in New Jersey. Yeah, they
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: landed in Maryland because of you, dope. That's exactly why.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: But good try. Good try.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. Sometimes this kind of stuff works. Now
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: let's get to some talkbacks.
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: Curtis, Larry, my second wedding to my ex-wife, known as
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: a demon beast, Satan, and the seventh layer of hell.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: That was a $ 5, 000 wedding.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: At the American Legion.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Decked it out.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Big old smorgasbord full of food. Everyone was dancing. It
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: was only $ 5, 000.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe you should have spent more.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Man, you almost made me spit the water out of
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: my mouth. I almost did a spit take on Demon Beast.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: My first marriage, crazy expensive. My second marriage, I got
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: married at the TD Bank by a notary public. In
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: South Carolina on Hilton Head Island.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And your bride was happy with that call back? I
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: want to hear how she felt about it. She must
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: have said okay, too.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: He's a regular, and yes, he's very happily married. He
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: always talks about, he actually refers to her as my bride.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: There's the secret to a marriage.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just go to TD Bank.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: And get married. And get a notary to just sign
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: off on.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: That's all you really need, legally, is that's all you
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: really need. I got to jot that one down. Now,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: let's go to Daria Albinger with the 630 News.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Cloudy, warm, and muggy today. You're going to feel it
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: this morning. It's a little more summer-like than it's been
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: the last few mornings. We'll see a chance for a
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: shower this afternoon in a high of 80 degrees. Police
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: are looking into a stabbing at Westchester Community College, which
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: left three people wounded.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: Cops received numerous calls from the SUNY campus around 12.40 p.m.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: on Wednesday.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I see at least five people fighting, right?
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: And then one of them appears like he's limping and
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: then covered like blood.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: And then he falls like all the world, all that
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: stuff is right there.
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: Police recovered a knife outside the student center. Two suspects
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: were taken into custody. The victims are expected to survive.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: It is unclear if all those involved are students since
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: the school does have an open campus. I'm Lizzie Radabali,
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: WOR News.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: New York State is launching a new effort to reduce
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: the risk of floods and mitigate their impacts. Governor Hochul
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: announcing a partnership with state and federal environmental officials on
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: a first-in-the-nation hydrologic monitoring network with gauges that will look
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: for flooding patterns. It will be funded by the state's
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Act. An attempt
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: by the Trump administration to dismantle three federal agencies may
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: be held up in court.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: A U.S.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Appeals court in Massachusetts appeared skeptical Wednesday about dismantling the
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: And the U.S.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Interagency Council on Homelessness. A Department of Justice lawyer argued
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: that a lower court judge had wrongly blocked the administration's
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: actions affecting the three agencies. The appeals court said the
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: agencies weren't congressionally created. and claimed the administration was trying
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: to avoid judicial review. I'm Tammy Trujillo.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: President Trump says the Kennedy Center will be ripped down
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: if he's not recognized for renovations. This week, a federal
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: judge blocked the center from adding the president's name to
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: the building. The Center for the Performing Arts was opened
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: in 1971 in D.C. as a living memorial to the
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: late President John F.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Kennedy.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: The Mets and the Yankees both lost last night. Next news,
• 19:35
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• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Mayor Mondami has urged to merge 200 public schools that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: have less than 200 students. I and Larry will break
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it down for you. up next. But right now, oh boy,
• 19:54
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• 19:56
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• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Well, schools, schools, schools. That is the Achilles
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: heel of Zoran Mondami, and that needs to be focused
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in on. In fact, I made it a major issue during...
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The mayoral campaign, but Larry, nobody paid attention. I said
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you could cut $ 10 billion from the Board of Education,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: which is now called the DOE, Dumbest Organization Ever's budget.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: It's now $ 42 billion. It's one-third of the overall city budget.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I said $ 10 billion, and you don't lose anything because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: our kids, especially at the lower levels, are not able
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to read or write. at a performance level. They can't
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: function past fourth grade.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: That's it. It's over.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: And it's getting worse now in the first year of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Zoran Mondami. So there is an idea coming out of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Coney Island, a regular elementary school. They say, let's experiment there.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: The kids, they're not coming to school. They're missing 18
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: school days. You know, you don't have the old truant
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: officer that comes to your house.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Nobody cares. They're not reading or writing at grade level.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: disruptive in the class.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Let's start teaching them some vocational education. Let's start testing
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: them in these levels, see if there's any interest at
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: all to pursue other forms of education. It's almost like
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: putting the hook out there with a carrot and then
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: trying to get them into a normal educational cycle.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: And I say, why not?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It's one of over 200 schools in the whole system
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that has less than 200 students. Can you imagine this?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: A public school with less than 200 students, and they're
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: keeping them open at enormous cost. During the campaign, I said,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: let's conflate these. Let's merge all these schools together.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: It's crazy. We used to have over a million students.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: We now have about 850,000 students, and yet we're spending
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: more money and not sort of accommodating the fact that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: there are less students. So it's a good try, right?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And yet the opposition, no, we can't do that there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The city council is now more interested, Larry, in revisiting
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the old issue of why are there so many Asian
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: kids in the specialty high schools? Now, Zoran Mandami, he
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: went to Bronx Science Specialty High School. You had to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: take a test. Jumaane Williams, number two, public advocate, he
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: went to Brooklyn Tech Specialty High School. Obviously, it helped them, right?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You got to take a specialty. Now, the city council,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: instead of dealing with the poor-performing schools and the poor-performing children,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: they want to say, we got to cap the number
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: of Asians who are going to the specialty high schools.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: What the hell is this?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Which is completely unfair. It's unconstitutional. It's already been ruled
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: on by the Supreme Court. Remember the famous case against
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Harvard where they were not accepting some Asian students even
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: though they were more qualified than people that were being accepted?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And the Supreme Court said you can't do that. You
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: just can't do that anymore. So I would think that
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: it would have some weight in this case as well.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: But listen, this is a problem in big city schools
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: across the country. And I know New York is unique.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But one of the things that's happening right now is
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: there's just a loss of people in the city. I mean,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: this city is bleeding population at this point. And thank you,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Zohra Mamdani, and thank you all of the other mayors
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: in your Democratic policies.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: You made the.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: City unlivable, and people are leaving in droves. But one
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of the other reasons that people are leaving, they're leaving
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: because of the school system. And the school system has
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: an endemic problem, and not only the one you talked about,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: although that is.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: An exam.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: No, it's a huge problem. The money they spend on
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: this school system without money going to educating kids in
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the bureaucratic jobs that they pay for. Is outlandish. They
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: need to cut that immediately. And you campaigned on part
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: of that. You can save all the money by cutting
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: some of these positions.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Ten billion dollars, I said. And it's at the top
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of bureaucracy. There are other levels. But they say you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: can't do this. Nobody will vote for you if you
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: want to cut the educational budget. So Zoran didn't. Cuomo didn't.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But I stood there and said, we could cut $ 10 billion.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But you're not cutting the educational budget. Correct. You are
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: cutting the fat. And so the fact that they can't
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: see that is a bigger problem because I think they
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: can see that. But currency. among politicians are patronage jobs.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So they're going to pack any board they can with
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: people that give them money or friends of theirs or
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: political allies of theirs. And that's what happens in the city.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And they never cut that ever. This is city after city.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: This isn't just New York.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I'll give you an example.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: When I was going to junior high school, If you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: weren't doing that well, the guidance counselor would meet with
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: everybody and they would sort of try to guide you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to the right kind of high school.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: So if you weren't doing well, hey, Vinny.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: How are you doing in Woodshop? You know, you're not
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: going to make an academic high school. Why don't you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: go to Westinghouse? You know, they'll teach you carpentry.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: They'll teach you electricity, plumbing.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So they were guiding you by the time you were
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: like in seventh grade, eighth grade, because they're looking at
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: your marks and they can see you're not even keeping,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you can't even read at grade level.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: You can't do math at grade level.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: But vocational, you seem to be doing good in metal shop,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: wood shop, culinary, art. They would try to guide you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They won't let them do that anymore. Yeah, but what
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: if they teach them how to read before then?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen to what you're saying. You're saying, oh,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: they can't read and they can't do math at a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: certain age, so let's go to Woodshop. Teach them how
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: to read and teach them how to do math young.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: These teachers, they don't care and they're protected all the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: time by their unions. I'll tell you a quick story.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I had kids in private school and I had one
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: son that went to public school, right? And when my
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: daughter would fall behind in private school, And were my
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: two other sons. It was like a SWAT team. We
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: would get phone calls. They'd talk about tutors, all of these.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: What's the strategy for this? All of that. My one
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: son falls behind in a class for, I think it
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: was math. He had like a D and he was
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: in high school. And I go to meet the teacher
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: and the teacher said, I said to him right away,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I said, look, can he do anything? I mean, can
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: we do some extra credit? Can we do something? He said,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: what does he have? And I said, he has a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: D and he goes, what do you want? And I,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And I said, I'd love to try to become a B.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I stammered just like I did right now. I said, no,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I'd love him to have a B. And he goes, okay.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: That was it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: That was it. Now, I still feel guilty over that
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: for not saying, no, I want him to work for this.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: But no, I mean, he was getting a B and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: he was trying to get into colleges. And so, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: can you believe that? They didn't care. Half the people
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: didn't show up when it was the point all night. Exactly.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: So there's the problem. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about these kids.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Stop pretending like you do. I'm done. Oh, you want
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: me to do the tease now? Yes, yes.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: All fingers are pointing at you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Donald Trump says, Butler, the attempt
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: was a democratic plot. The assassination attempt in Butler was
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: a democratic plot. Seems feasible to me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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• 28:47
  Speaker 2: lot of information coming out all of the sudden about
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2019 on then
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: former president, current presidential candidate Donald Trump. You'll remember he
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: just happened to turn his head at the right time,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: and that prevented him from being killed. He was just
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: nicked in the ear. It was a miracle at the time,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and everybody's been quiet about it. All of a sudden,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: evidence went missing. No answers to many of the key questions,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: like why was that building not covered? How did Crooks...
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: get onto that building? How did nobody notice him up there?
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Why did they cremate the body? None of this. And
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it's now being investigated and it's slowly coming out. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: with the new attention on it, Donald Trump overnight on
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Truth Social wrote this, everybody knows the crooked Joe Biden
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the lunatic who shot me in Butler, Pennsylvania. I think
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: that's all true. By the time I got into office
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: or gone. Which, by the way, the FBI says is true.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: New info was just found. Why wasn't it seen long ago?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Great question. This was all a Democratic plot to get
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: me out of the election that failed. Dirty cop Christopher
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Wray should pay a price for the way he handled
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: this assassination attempt and certainly for the things he said.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: God bless America. Make America great again. President Donald J. Trump.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second. The FBI director, what was his name?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Christopher Wray. Who appointed him? Donald Trump.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: It was Shamuel Jefe Chris Christie who recommended him to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: replace Comey. Remember, Comey gets replaced by Christopher Wray. So
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: your FBI director now is in collusion with everyone in
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the Biden administration to whack Donald Trump.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Man, I don't understand why the president does these things.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Because it all sounded true to me. What was wrong
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Who appointed Christopher Wray?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I don't care who appointed Christopher Wray. I really don't care.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, you seem to grab on to these little
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: straws in a bigger story. It's not a little straw.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: It is a little straw. It is exactly a little
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: straw because Christopher Wray resigned almost immediately when Donald Trump
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: got elected. Christopher Wray wanted nothing to do with this.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Files are missing. So everything he said is true. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: so what you're saying is, well, you can discount the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: entire thing because now you're claiming it's a Biden plot
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: to have him assassinated. No, I'm not saying that. I'm
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: saying there's a whole lot of questions that he raised
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: that are it's mysterious. that they are not being answered.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: It's mysterious that files are missing. It's mysterious that he
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: got the C team. Let me just finish. They got
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the C team on that day. They were looking up
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: how to... Excuse me, Mr.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Conspiracy. The Secret Service was in charge of that. Who's
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: in charge of the Secret Service now?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: The actual Secret Service agent who is at the side
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, Ed Butler, right?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: My God, you know what? I'm a journalist. I deal
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: with facts. I don't deal with who is who, who
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: is at the top, who is here.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: No, you're not dealing with facts.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: There's things that happened on that day on the ground.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Are you blaming the Democrats for an assassination?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Just stop. Just stop. You're sounding crazy.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: No, you're sounding crazy because all of those things that
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I just mentioned are facts. That's factual. We don't have
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: the answers to any of those things. We didn't have
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the answers that day. We still don't have the answers.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: So what was Trump's tweet? And files are missing. It's
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: a democratic conspiracy, right? Yes. So that's what you want
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: to focus on.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You go ahead and blast Donald Trump like you always
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: do because of something he said. No, I don't always
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: And forget you do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It all the time. And forget the story. The story
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: is true. That's what I'm focused on.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Everything. Yes. All that stuff happened.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Okay. Tell me one thing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: That I said. Christopher Wray, appointed by Donald Trump, right?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: He got corrupted.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: So- You're going to ignore all the facts of that
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: assassination and just keep saying, look, Christopher Wray. How about
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  Speaker 2: let the facts come out of the Grassley Committee? How
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  Speaker 2: about not hiding documents?
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  Speaker 1: How about the president not tweeting away like a madman?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. WOR White House correspondent John Decker talks about the
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  Speaker 2: midterm campaigning right after the 7 o'clock news.