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Hour 2: NYC nightlife · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now it's time to bring in John Decker, WOR White
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  Speaker 1: House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The
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  Speaker 1: White House Briefing Room with John Decker. That can be
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  Speaker 1: found on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you, John. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're all members of the big iHeart family.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, you know, people in the family are
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  Speaker 1: so proud of you. You've been the star of these
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  Speaker 1: White House pools and press conferences. And I just want
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  Speaker 1: to play a question that you asked to the president yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: President, you on the campaign trail, you had said that
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  Speaker 3: you had stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Why
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  Speaker 3: not just declare an end to the conflict and be
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  Speaker 3: done with it?
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  Speaker 4: Because we have some great allies there and we have
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  Speaker 4: to make sure they're not hurt and they would be hurt.
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  Speaker 4: They are right now a lot safer than they were.
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  Speaker 4: six months ago, because Iran's been very much decapitated. But
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  Speaker 4: they're still the bully of the Middle East a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And I see that. We want to make sure they're OK.
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  Speaker 4: We want to make sure it's a long-term solution, not
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  Speaker 4: just a short-term. They'll never have a nuclear weapon, but
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  Speaker 4: we have to make sure that's a long-term. So it's
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  Speaker 4: ending quickly. But we want to take care of people
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  Speaker 4: that have been very good to us over the years.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much to read in that question and answer,
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  Speaker 1: because I believe, John, if somebody from MSNOW or CNN
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  Speaker 1: had asked that question, he would have attacked them. But
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  Speaker 1: I think he has some respect for you, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the reason you got that answer.
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  Speaker 5: Well done. Great question.
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  Speaker 1: And it was nice that you set it up by
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  Speaker 1: being respectful in the White House.
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  Speaker 6: Well, thanks.
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  Speaker 7: There's a tone, there's a way to approach the president
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  Speaker 7: and still get a good answer from the president. And
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  Speaker 7: I think through all the years that I've known President Trump,
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  Speaker 7: first time I interviewed Donald Trump was way back in 1999.
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  Speaker 7: I've built up what you describe as a well of
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  Speaker 7: respect with President Trump. So to me, that's an important
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  Speaker 7: question because as you know, it's the vice president who
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  Speaker 7: said the war in Iran is the reason why the
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  Speaker 7: midterms went the way they did It's the president who
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  Speaker 7: said he agrees with the vice president. And that's the
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  Speaker 7: reason why I asked that question to the president yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was a perfect question. It was just a perfect question.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think, Curtis?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It goes along with me saying declare victory and get
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  Speaker 5: the hell out of there.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 7: I hear that from so many. I hear that from
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  Speaker 7: people that are fans of the president. And I hear
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  Speaker 7: it from people who describe themselves as, you know, never Trumpers,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 7: It's one of those issues that really actually unites people
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  Speaker 7: in terms of wanting to see an end to that conflict.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when we were most united on election night,
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  Speaker 5: John Decker, in the wee hours of the morning, the president,
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  Speaker 5: who never sleeps, gave an interview in which he said, yep,
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  Speaker 5: I see. Yep, yep. I'm willing to accept the results
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  Speaker 5: of this election, the Democrats winning. That was then. And
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  Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, Monday night, Truth Social said,
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  Speaker 5: This is Trump. Does anybody really believe this election was honest?
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  Speaker 5: It's all about the machines which are more important than
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  Speaker 5: the voter. No, no, tell me, John Decker, he didn't
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  Speaker 5: start this, this, this, this deal, you know, the election denial.
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  Speaker 5: Is he, is he starting this?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think when the president spoke to Fox News
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  Speaker 7: in the aftermath of those election results late on Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 7: His guard was down, you know, and to a certain extent,
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  Speaker 7: you know, when your guard is down, you answer truthfully,
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  Speaker 7: you answer honestly. And, you know, now the president, you know,
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  Speaker 7: on reflection, realizes what has happened, that Democrats come January
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  Speaker 7: the 3rd will retake control of both the House and
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  Speaker 7: the Senate.
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  Speaker 6: There has to be a logical explanation for this, Curtis.
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  Speaker 7: And the logical explanation, according to the president, is that
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  Speaker 7: this was an election that was rife with fraud.
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  Speaker 6: And he's the only one out there saying it.
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  Speaker 7: I don't hear others either within the administration or allies
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  Speaker 7: of the president saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully it's a one-off. He got it out of
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  Speaker 1: his system and now he's going to move on to
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  Speaker 1: other things. So we should move on to other things
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  Speaker 1: like Pete Hegseth is going to have a press availability today.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be quite a fight today. in
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  Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, because the last time he was there,
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  Speaker 1: it was fireworks. This time, I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be even more.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 7: And I honestly don't know how this vote is going
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  Speaker 7: to turn out. Now, we know it's not going to
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  Speaker 7: be a party-line vote because the person who brought the
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  Speaker 7: articles of impeachment to the floor of the House is
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  Speaker 7: a Republican. So at least there will be one Republican
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  Speaker 7: voting with every Democrat trying to impeach Pete Hegseth. There
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  Speaker 7: could be others because there are Republicans in the House
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  Speaker 7: that are heading out the door, Larry. This is their
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  Speaker 7: final weeks in the House of Representatives. To a certain extent,
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  Speaker 7: some of them blame the president for that. So you
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  Speaker 7: could see a few other Republicans join with Democrats in
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  Speaker 7: trying to impeach Pete Hegseth. We'll know the answer to
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  Speaker 7: that question likely within the next 24 to 48 hours.
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  Speaker 5: Now, did the president address the... That CCP spy that
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  Speaker 5: he was having the urge to merge with from Singapore
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  Speaker 5: that he gave super chips to, most valued by everyone,
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  Speaker 5: that went to the red Chinese. Did the president acknowledge
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  Speaker 5: that apparently he had been told this by a memo
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  Speaker 5: from Rubio that the guy is compromised because of this
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  Speaker 5: love affair he had with that CCP woman?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the president gave an answer to that very question.
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  Speaker 7: And he says he doesn't remember reading or seeing that
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  Speaker 7: memo that was written by Marco Rubio, reported by the
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  Speaker 7: New York Times, not denied in any way by the
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  Speaker 7: State Department.
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  Speaker 6: So that memo certainly was written. And that memo spells out.
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  Speaker 7: The danger that the CEO, the president, the founder of
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  Speaker 7: NVIDIA could be under in the sense that he was
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  Speaker 7: having an affair with someone who was a spy for.
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  Speaker 6: The Chinese government.
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  Speaker 7: And given all of the interactions between Jensen Huang and
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  Speaker 7: the president, between Jensen Huang and the Chinese government, you
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  Speaker 7: can understand why that memo was written by Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 1: What do you expect over the next two years? Because
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  Speaker 1: you've been there before with people that have taken a
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  Speaker 1: bath during the midterms, and he has reached his hand
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  Speaker 1: across the aisle on a couple of issues very early on,
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  Speaker 1: which is unlike him. Can we expect him to be conciliatory,
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  Speaker 1: or do you think that was just in the moment
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  Speaker 1: when he was taking in the results?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I don't know the answer to that, Larry, because,
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  Speaker 7: you know, every president that is essentially counting down the
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  Speaker 7: dead days until they leave the White House does think
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  Speaker 7: about their legacy. Now, the president has a physical legacy,
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  Speaker 7: all the things that he's done to the property of
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  Speaker 7: the White House. But you also want to have a
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  Speaker 7: legacy beyond that. He has a legacy certainly at the
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  Speaker 7: Supreme Court. But does he want to have a legacy
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  Speaker 7: for these final two years and move legislation through Congress
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  Speaker 7: to do that? It's something in which you need compromise,
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  Speaker 7: you need conciliation. And so we'll see whether the president
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  Speaker 7: decides to move in that direction to try to move
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  Speaker 7: forward legislation on, for instance, immigration, something he brought up
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  Speaker 7: that on Tuesday night, last Tuesday night, as the results
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  Speaker 7: were coming in. That's an area, he says, in which
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  Speaker 7: he could cooperate with Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: John Dagger, over the years, you've seen chiefs of staff
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  Speaker 5: come and chiefs of staff go. some with accommodation, some
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  Speaker 5: with a lot of vitriol. Susie Wiles leaves for another position,
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  Speaker 5: and Stephen Miller is elevated from deputy chief of staff
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  Speaker 5: to the chief of staff. First off, what is the
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  Speaker 5: role of the chief of staff? And number two, was
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  Speaker 5: that a signal that he has a wartime consigliere now?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's what I hear.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I've read.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that's Stephen Miller's style. He is a pugilist.
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  Speaker 5: He is a fighter.
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  Speaker 7: He is not a compromiser. So if you want someone
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  Speaker 7: in that role to have that kind of tone and
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  Speaker 7: tenor set at the White House as it relates to
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  Speaker 7: relations with Congress, the president chose the right person in
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  Speaker 7: Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller is a longtime aide to the president.
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  Speaker 7: He's the architect of his immigration crackdown, and the president
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  Speaker 7: trusts Stephen Miller. So what I expect is Stephen Miller
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  Speaker 7: being given essentially free reign to run the White House
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  Speaker 7: in the way that he wishes and to deal with
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  Speaker 7: Congress in the way that he wishes.
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  Speaker 6: And what I do expect is a lot of battles.
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  Speaker 7: Between the White House and Congress, which will be controlled
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  Speaker 7: by Democrats for the next two years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the midterm results are sort of like a
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  Speaker 1: starting gun for the 2028 presidential election. People are already
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  Speaker 1: starting to claim their ground, especially the governor of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis. Give me a ballpark. We were trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure this out here. How many people do you think
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  Speaker 1: are going to throw their hat in the rain for
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats and how many for the Republicans?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say maybe 10 to 15 on each side.
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  Speaker 7: I think that it's just an interesting environment. We don't
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  Speaker 7: know what the environment is going to be like two
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  Speaker 7: years from now. It may not be what it exists
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  Speaker 7: right now.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe the U.S.
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  Speaker 7: Economy makes a huge comeback and it's just.
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  Speaker 6: Firing on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 7: And if that's the case, that's the perfect environment for
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  Speaker 7: someone like J.D. Vance on the Republican side to keep
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  Speaker 7: that good.
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  Speaker 6: Economic feeling going within the administration.
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  Speaker 7: On the other hand, you know, if the feeling or
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  Speaker 7: environment is like it was on Tuesday night, last Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 7: it's not a good sign for someone within the administration.
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  Speaker 7: And then Ron DeSantis could take advantage as an outsider
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  Speaker 7: running for the Republican nomination. On the Democratic side, you
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  Speaker 7: have so many governors and some that just did really well,
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  Speaker 7: like Josh Shapiro, won by more than 20 points, who
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  Speaker 7: will certainly throw their hat in the ring. You have
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  Speaker 7: a number of senators who Certainly, Cory Booker is going
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  Speaker 7: to run for president. Any Republican or Democrat who's run
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  Speaker 7: for president in the last 10 years will certainly give
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  Speaker 7: a strong look at running again in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent, host of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
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  Speaker 1: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. John, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a fascinating two years. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to talk.
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  Speaker 5: To you about it.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis.
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  Speaker 5: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 10: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, Billy Joel had announced he's never,
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  Speaker 1: ever going to be able to perform again. Guess what?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it did certainly.
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  Speaker 1: Seem like Billy Joel was never going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to perform again after going through brain surgery for normal
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  Speaker 1: pressure hypocephalus, which is a diagnosis that after you have
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  Speaker 1: it can leave you imbalanced. It can also be very dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're around loud noises and you lose your balance.
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  Speaker 1: And so he announced recently that he was never going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to perform at big concerts again because
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  Speaker 1: the noise and the loudness and the crowd would just
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  Speaker 1: be too much on his brain. Except now, on his
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  Speaker 1: official page on the internet, he has announced that he
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  Speaker 1: is going to perform at at Florida Atlantic University. And
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  Speaker 1: they are thrilled. Here's what they have on their website.
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  Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic University will welcome singer, songwriter, and composer Billy
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  Speaker 1: Joel for Billy Joel, an evening of questions and answers.
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  Speaker 1: Then it goes dot, dot, dot, and a little music.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, I love Billy Joel at
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  Speaker 1: his best. I know he's got these big songs and
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  Speaker 1: he comes with a rock band But I love him
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  Speaker 1: when he's just at a piano.
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  Speaker 5: Sort of like Liberace, huh? Yeah, exactly. You love him
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  Speaker 5: that way, like Elton John at the piano.
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  Speaker 1: December 14th at 7 p.m., tickets are going to be
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  Speaker 1: available exclusively. Oh, sorry, you're left out unless you went
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  Speaker 1: to FAU. For currently enrolled students at FAU, even if
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  Speaker 1: you went to FAU, you're out. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: there currently enrolled. I just love to see him back
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  Speaker 1: on the stage again. It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: So never doesn't mean never.
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  Speaker 1: No, but it's questions and answers.
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  Speaker 5: Understood. How soon before Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli in the
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  Speaker 5: four seasons, 92, as you know, recently had to say,
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  Speaker 5: I'm discontinuing temporarily being out on tour. How soon before
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  Speaker 5: Natalie recognizes Frankie Valli and his fans have posted that
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  Speaker 5: he's back on the road with, And he's doing some
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  Speaker 5: Italian cultural clubs where he's answering a few questions because
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  Speaker 5: he can't hit the high notes anymore. How soon, Natalie?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how soon. Am I supposed to? Never,
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  Speaker 5: never means never.
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  Speaker 1: Never, never, never means never.
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  Speaker 5: Performers. No, they'll perform. It's almost like Schumer and Chuck Grassley.
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  Speaker 5: They never want to leave the Senate. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: sort of like there should be term limits for some
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  Speaker 5: of these performers.
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  Speaker 2: But that's in them.
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  Speaker 5: That's who they are.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like a lot of these performers, if
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  Speaker 2: they're not performing, they don't feel alive.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I like this. I've seen Billy
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  Speaker 1: Joel in concert and he's wonderful. He's tremendous. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of times. I would pay a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money to go to this, to hear him answer
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  Speaker 1: questions and just sit at the piano and talk about
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  Speaker 1: the songs.
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  Speaker 2: But do we know that's really what the case is?
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  Speaker 2: Because when they say a little music, do we know
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  Speaker 2: the little music's coming from him?
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  Speaker 6: What do we know?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's going to have a piano there. He just
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  Speaker 1: can't have big, loud noises. He's going to have a
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  Speaker 1: piano there. I don't know that for a fact, but
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  Speaker 1: that's what I dream of. Don't ruin my dream.
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  Speaker 5: Don't feed the beast. Here it is already. The guy
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  Speaker 5: is trying to recover. And all, yeah, come on, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: get on the stage. Oh, I can't wait to see you.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, there was a tribute band that was playing,
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  Speaker 1: and he did get on the stage and played one
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  Speaker 1: song with the tribute band, so he can do it.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason to believe he's not going to just
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  Speaker 1: sit at a piano.
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  Speaker 5: No loud noises. Can we include in that- eliminating the
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  Speaker 5: possibility of doing another residency with the guy I hate,
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  Speaker 5: I loathe, I despise, Jimmy Dolan at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 5: Can we rule that out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's ruled out. I think it's all
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  Speaker 1: Harry Styles now.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 11: It seems like you guys put party before country every time.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 11: Am I wrong? Just correct me if I'm wrong. Once
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  Speaker 11: somebody steps out of the Republican line, they're a rhino.
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  Speaker 11: They're not an American anymore. Well, this is about America,
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  Speaker 11: not about the Republican or the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 1: No, elections are different. Elections are different. That's when you
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  Speaker 1: can express your discontent, which Americans did. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: when somebody goes out of line when there is an
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  Speaker 1: initiative and they vote against it. And sometimes they do
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  Speaker 1: it out of spite. So that's when they're called a rhino.
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  Speaker 9: The immortal Rush Limbaugh said it best. And I just
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  Speaker 9: seriously can't believe that it is still going on. But
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  Speaker 9: he coined that phrase, the first thing that Republicans do
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  Speaker 9: when they take charge or lose charge is the circular
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  Speaker 9: firing squad.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 9: Why does this party hate itself so much? Circular firing
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  Speaker 9: squad every time.
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  Speaker 5: You could say the same thing about the Democrats, their
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  Speaker 5: fights with the DSA. This is nonsense. And by the way,
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  Speaker 5: based on the first caller, I sit here as a
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  Speaker 5: proud rhino, the leader of the rhinos in the Republican
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  Speaker 5: Party today. A rhino means Republican in name only. I'm
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: proud to be a rhino. And, MAGA, it's over.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: It's over, MAGA. I'm so glad you're owning it because
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of people were confused, and now it's all
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: cleared up.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, never. I was never MAGA. Everybody knew that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Now let's Republican in name only. Now, let's get to dairy.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Albinger dairy. I already forgot the name of it, but
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: this spinach thing is.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Spanakopita.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: And I'm glad you're enjoying it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: It's delicious. It is.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going to eat all of it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: Glad you enjoy it. Did you try the desserts?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Not yet.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: We've got a.
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: They've got a semolina cake over there, which is Middle Eastern.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Bosposa. We've got.
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: And I kind of went somewhat Italian-ish on the pastries,
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: not to scare Curtis too much.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: So, we have two.
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: And pistachio eclairs over there for you guys, and a
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: Dubai chocolate brownie to show that there's a lot of
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: sharing within the Mediterranean cultures of all our flavors.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Say one more time why you brought this stuff in.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: I'm a member of St. Anthony Orthodox Church in Bergenfield,
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: New Jersey, and we are having our international festival on
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: Friday and Saturday. We do a lot of work in
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: the community, and we could use your support so we
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: can continue growing. many things that we do to help
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: the northern New Jersey community. We'd love to meet you, too.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Let me attest, it's unbelievable food. If you want to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just go for the food, that's why you should go.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: And come see me. I'll be behind the bar.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: I'd love to meet you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: Mostly sunny and breezy with a high of 61 degrees,
• 19:39
  Speaker 12: and we could see the first snowflakes of the season
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: by the end of the week.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Not in my neighborhood.
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: Not at least one this big. That's what elected leaders, teachers,
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: and parents said last night about a planted build a
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: 200-bed single men's shelter on 108th Street in Brooklyn. It's
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: a block from the Science and Medicine Middle School 366.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: Parents say they're worried about the safety of their kids.
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: City officials say this is one of 12 new shelters
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: that are planned for across the five boroughs to help
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: deal with the city's unhoused population. There's been an arrest
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: in connection with a brutal murder in Queens.
• 20:11
  Speaker 13: The NYPD arrested Zordrak Blondie One three days after a
• 20:15
  Speaker 13: woman's naked body was found covered in stab wounds inside
• 20:19
  Speaker 13: a business on 164th Street and Depot Road in Flushing.
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: Police say the victim had stab wounds all over her body,
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: including her head. The Department of Buildings website has an
• 20:29
  Speaker 13: open complaint against the address where the woman's body was found.
• 20:32
  Speaker 13: alleging the storefront that used to be a skin care
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: clinic now operates.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: As an adult establishment.
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: Gladiwan, who police say is homeless, is charged with murder, robbery,
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: and weapon possession.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: There's bipartisan support for articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: Pete Hegseth. Here's House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
• 20:53
  Speaker 14: Pete Hegseth has abused his power, undermined America's national security,
• 20:59
  Speaker 14: and he's the architect of the reckless and costly failed
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: war of choice in Iran, which has skyrocketed gas prices.
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey introduced the articles yesterday. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: winter is not far off. Mayor Mamdani says the city
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: will be ready. He's announced an additional $ 25 million for
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: things like warming centers, homeless outreach, and of course, snow removal.
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: Rangers and Islanders lost. Next news, 8 o'clock bulletins at once.
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: I'm Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: WOR has your hookup to hear new music from U2
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: a day before anybody else. It's the iHeartRadio and TikTok
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: live premiere with U2. They'll preview never-before-heard music from their
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: new album, Carnival Luce, the night before its release and
• 21:49
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• 21:53
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• 21:57
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• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Big story. They need some explanation, Larry and our audience.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: He who controls the superchips, the production of superchips, controls
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the world because everyone now battling for AI supremacy needs superchips.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: And this guy, Jensen Wang, well, he's got a lock
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: on it. All of his factories were first in Taiwan,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: and he began to diversify when he realized the Red Chinese,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: if they were to ever invade, would basically get all
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: the superchips and put them out of business. So he's
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: now starting to build factories throughout the United States, Canada,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: all over the world. And it's a great all-American story.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: It's been told. This guy came over here. He didn't
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: have two nickels to rub together. He's working. Now, get this.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: He's working at, of all places, a Denny's. He's washing dishes.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: He's a busboy. He's a waiter. He works his way,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: finally gets to Stanford. He has a few friends. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: he goes back to the original Denny's that he worked
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: in in San Jose. And on napkins, they come up
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: with this first idea of a super chip. how are
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: we going to get people to finance? And it all
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: comes together. And he is the best supporter of Donald
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Trump's vision that there should be no guardrails in this
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: race for AI supremacy. The others are vacillating, but they
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: need his super chips or they can't win the race.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Now we find out that, oh boy, he had a honeypot.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: or as we call it, a gumata that he was
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: parading around, this video of her with him going everywhere.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: She is a big executive for a firm in Singapore
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: that was buying superchips from him, billions of dollars of superchips.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: And our surveillance indicates that she was doing it on
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: behalf of the Red Chinese, President Xi, and the shipment
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: went right to the Red Chinese. Marco Rubio, our Secretary
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: of State about a year ago, wrote a big memo,
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: top secret, that went to the president and his staff said, man,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: this guy is compromised. He's compromised. The president yesterday, as
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: we heard from John Decker, said, well, I can't remember
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: that memo. And he's become very good friends with this
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Jensen Wang. The woman, ironically, her name is Alice Wang.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: And she was recruited by the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: and went out there and developed this relationship, which obviously
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: meant they had the urge to merge out there. And
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: she fulfilled her mission. Now, the question is, what's going
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: to happen to the guy, his own company, which is
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: like top Fortune 500 company in the world? They're doing
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: an internal investigation of his hanky-panky. They're In this race
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: for AI supremacy, the red Chinese may not have access
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: to those super chips that you need, but they know
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: where there's a will, there's a way. And they know
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: that these guys who have not had saltpeter in their breakfast,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: they have that. urged to merge all the time. And
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: if they pick the right woman in the right timing,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: in the right place, they can do a Mata Hari.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Just like, remember, Eric Smallwell. Remember, that's how we realized
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: how this operation works on behalf of the Red Chinese.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a series of them. Remember, Dianne Feinstein
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: had a limo driver that ended up being a Chinese spy.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: All those times when she was making the phone calls
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: in the back, He was recording everything she said. But
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you're absolutely right when you talk about honeypots. It started
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: with Fang Fang. Remember Fang Fang? Fang Fang was the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: one he was caught with. There was a huge investigation,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and they found out that he didn't share any secrets.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: At least that's what they came out with. At the time,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the Democrats were in charge. And so they came out
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: after a thorough investigation. They said, They cleared him. He
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: even ran for president after that. He's been a presidential candidate.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: We then realized he had some bigger problems. He was
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: also drugging women to have sex with them. And some
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of those women were staffers and some of those women
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: were underage. So he's under investigation right now. But listen
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to this. A California mansion where he has been hanging
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: out now has been raided. So this guy is a mess.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Just think about that. He ran for president. People supported
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: him for president.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: He was the odds-on favor to become governor of California.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: That's right. You're absolutely right. And I'll tell you what.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: So he was staying with a guy, a billionaire named
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Stephen Klubeck. And they caught wind that he might have
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: been hiding some secrets there. Guess where they caught wind
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of that? From sex workers who were going to the mansion,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: told them what was going on. So the FBI has
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: now raided his home, not his home, Klubeck's home for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a third time. There is going to be a trial
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: coming up for him. Eric Swalwell, if there is any
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: justice in the world, will be spending time in jail
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for a long, long time. But here's another guy that
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: just couldn't keep it in his pants. I mean, just
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: think about it. If he was able to control himself,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: he had a steady girlfriend. If he had a wife,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he could be president.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Larry, there's another way they entrap you. They bring you
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: over for a cultural exchange. You know, like the politicians. Oh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: it was a cultural exchange to him. And they come
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: back and they have a brand new submarine Rolex on
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: their wrist, which you actually need a sling to put
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: around your shoulder. It's so heavy to carry. Legitimate. Or
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: a brand new car of your choice. I have confronted
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Chinese American elected officials and party officials, both parties here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I've done it publicly. I said, where'd you get that Rolex, huh?
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: That's not a knockoff brand new car on your assembly
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: manic salary on your state Senate salary. Could you explain
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: to me how you were able to do that? And
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: then all of a sudden I get told in either
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Cantonese or Mandarin. I'm not sure. I don't speak Chinese.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Mind your own business.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Remember just recently, by the way, Eileen Wang, the mayor
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of Arcadia, California, who was a rising star in the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: democratic party in California, uh, agreed to plead guilty for
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: acting as an unregistered illegal agent for the Chinese government.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So these are plentiful. Guess who's in China next week?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Hopefully he'll confront.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Xi on this. Anyway, up next, Natalie Migliore talking about
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the New York City nightlife and why so many clubs
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: are closing. Is it starting to die in the city? Now,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Natalie,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: you got a finger on the pulse of nightlife in
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: the city, which isn't doing too well.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: Well, that's according to a new report from the New
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: York City Hospitality Alliance. It shows restaurants, bars and clubs
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: might be stretching the dollar just as much as their
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: patrons are. The latest survey finds 52 of these establishments
• 29:37
  Speaker 13: reported lower than expected earnings. So do New Yorkers think
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: the city's nightlife is.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Live and well?
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: Honestly, yeah, you should have seen Halloween night. It was crazy.
• 29:48
  Speaker 15: Everybody was outside. Everybody was just like out and about
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: with their friends.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: And it was just a vibe.
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: I think it's very vivid. There's a lot going on.
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: You go out, you can see all types of things.
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: Every night of the week, especially on weekends.
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: Like, sort of. I think gentrification's made it worse for sure.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: You talk about politics, they don't want to talk to you.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You talk about nightlife, everybody's in.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Everybody's got something to say.
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: And maybe that's because, you know, these restaurants are saying
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: that They're not doing so well. But if you go
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: out anywhere in the city on a Saturday night, on
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: a Friday night, even on a Wednesday night, sometimes you
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: can't even move shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalks, let
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: alone on in a bar or in a restaurant sometimes.
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: So a couple of people mentioned gentrification, neighborhoods changing and
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: prices that just keep going up, right? A majority of
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: restaurants say gentrification. They've tried dealing with rising operating costs
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: by adjusting menu prices, reducing staff, or cutting hours. Now,
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: according to Gothamist, the median price of a cocktail in
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: Manhattan is, do you want to guess?
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: How much?
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: $ 12. $ 17. Oh, man. You want $ 12, you got to
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: go to the Outer Boroughs.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: Ha!
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: Some New Yorkers say there's your answer.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: Things are crowded still, but I feel like people are
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: buying less drinks. So it makes sense to me that
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: there's like fluctuation and in how much people can stay open.
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: They're definitely making money because there's a lot of people,
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: less room. Everything is expensive.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's packed and all, but.
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: I feel like bars can also be struggling, too, because
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: they're also competing with these, like, prices of other bars.
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: And it doesn't mean, like, just because we're struggling doesn't
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: mean they're also not struggling.
• 31:41
  Speaker 15: Yeah, 100%. I mean, if you make a single drink
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: $ 20 and you make cover $ 20, nobody's going to spend
• 31:47
  Speaker 15: $ 40 when rent is, like, $ 6, 000. You know what I mean?
• 31:50
  Speaker 15: I think that that's definitely, like, a huge part of
• 31:52
  Speaker 15: them not making as much money as they used to.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Now, you know what used to save them, Larry? You
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: would comp the first 50 women in. Which would guarantee
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: to attract guys if they walked in because guys don't
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: go by themselves. Girls don't go by themselves anymore. They
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: go in a crowd. So if you have the guys
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: coming in, then you got nightlife. But if it is
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: unsafe for the women to be out late at night
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: and they can't afford a cab and an Uber all
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: the time, they're not taking the subway. So there goes
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: your nightlife.
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: I don't want to toot my own horn, but I
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: used to be one of those people.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: They got in free.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I still am. They comp you, right? Yeah, if
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: the heel is high enough.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You used to pick me up after watching what I say.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: You used to tick me off.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, and I used to win. I'm going inside, baby.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: And then remember, the guys feel full of themselves. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: they say, you're going to buy a bottle here, right?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: You got to buy the whole bottle. And then you
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: have a pourer. Because then, hey, man, they can flex
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: and the girls will look or the young women will look. Wow,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: he can afford a bottle of champagne. I used to
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: complain about it. And I'd talk to the bouncer and
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: I'd say, what did they get in? What did they
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: get in for free? How come I'm standing out here?
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: He went, figure it out, Einstein. It ain't a gay club, pal. Yeah,
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: those guys never used to impress me anyway.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: No, it was a lot of fun.
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: But the survey got feedback from 107 respondents who operate
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: a total of 275 establishments across New York City. So
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: these are the owners of one to three places. They've
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: kind of got to make have multiple, right? So with
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: mom and pop restaurants and nightclubs and all that stuff
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: sort of disappearing, not everyone's happy with that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: There's definitely a few restaurant groups that now own like
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: a whole bunch of bars and they're honestly all great.
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: So I'm.
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: Happy with it, but I do miss having more like
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: local spots as well.
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: I mean, I think that the spots that used to
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: be sort of like homegrown, fun spots to go out
• 33:52
  Speaker 15: have now become places where people just stand instead of dancing.
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: And I think that like that also has to do
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: with our generation and club culture because it's become the
• 34:00
  Speaker 15: only third space where people can just hook up and
• 34:02
  Speaker 15: see people. Yeah, I think in general, nightlife has gotten
• 34:05
  Speaker 15: worse because, like, people are coming to spaces and they
• 34:07
  Speaker 15: don't know the history behind it. And then you have
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: DJs who also are not homegrown New Yorkers. So they're
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: playing that nobody wants to dance to.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Look at you. Look at this.
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: I'm thinking of like all the club songs that I
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: like to dance to.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: She's dancing in the studio. I've never seen her so
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: into a story except for the nightlife in New York.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: I'm a nightlifer. That woman said happy. What about happy hour?
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: What are the prices of happy hour that normally pack
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: the bars?
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: They got to track those.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Those are the deals.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: No, we don't want to interrupt you from dancing.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Natalie, she's like a whirling dervish here. Weigh your six-inch
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: stocked heels, Natalie. Anyways, you'll be back tomorrow, same time,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: same place at 7.50.