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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, back from the Christopher Columbus parade yesterday, Natalie, did
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  Speaker 2: you have a good time? Did you have your sausage
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  Speaker 2: and peppers while you were there?
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't have my sausage and peppers, but I
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  Speaker 1: was among my paisans, so it was all good.
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  Speaker 3: Did you two see each other there? No, it's such
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  Speaker 3: a big parade.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Curtis, you started on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the people of the street.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. I didn't go where the scrum of reporters were.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed to the side, so if the reporters wanted
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  Speaker 2: to come to me, they could. If they didn't, no
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  Speaker 2: big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And I see him every day and we get to
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  Speaker 1: hear his opinions every day.
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  Speaker 4: So you want some distance every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice to see him out in the wild. But
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  Speaker 1: I had to go chase. I had to go chase
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  Speaker 1: one of our governor candidates. And we'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: at the end of it, because. Our day, our weeks
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  Speaker 1: are shorter, not for us. We were in the studio
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  Speaker 1: yesterday because of Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day or
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  Speaker 1: Italian American Heritage Day.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what people want to call it these days.
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  Speaker 1: Many consider it, though, the perfect day to celebrate Italian
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  Speaker 1: American heritage. But there have been disputes over what to
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  Speaker 1: call the day for years now.
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  Speaker 3: It's Columbus Day all the way. It'll always be Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 3: None of us were here 500 years ago.
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  Speaker 5: We all don't know what actually happened, but let's preserve
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  Speaker 5: the positive image of Italian American heritage.
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  Speaker 3: Columbus Day is fine.
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  Speaker 4: It's always been Columbus Day. Not Indigenous Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's Columbus Day. It's Columbus Day. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: when you hear people call it this Indigenous People's Day?
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  Speaker 1: I think they're * * * *.
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  Speaker 3: And I was being polite.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: He really was being polite.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure he didn't direct that at Joran Mondami?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, later on in the conversation, it could have gotten there.
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  Speaker 1: Escalating quickly at that point. Now, Governor Kathy Hochul attended
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's parade, along with a slew of lawmakers and candidates
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  Speaker 1: running for various levels of office.
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  Speaker 3: It's an election year, so everyone wants to make.
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  Speaker 1: Their presence known, especially at an event like this. But
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Mamdani was absent from the festivities despite getting an invite.
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  Speaker 5: I think that says a lot in itself, because as
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  Speaker 5: a mayor, you should support everything and anything going on
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  Speaker 5: in your city. Whether you agree with it or not,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just very professional of you to attend everything.
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  Speaker 3: He might have learned something about the Italian people if
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  Speaker 3: he came here, but he doesn't care, doesn't want to know.
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  Speaker 5: It's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's better that he shows up because he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like us.
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  Speaker 3: He would have been booed if.
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  Speaker 5: He showed up.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: It's their loss.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was a good one. Yeah. That was a disgrace.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I was at a parade, actually covering
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  Speaker 1: a parade was the not. And somebody was booed was
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  Speaker 1: the Veterans Day parade. And it was former Mayor de
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  Speaker 1: Blasio who was booed walking down the street.
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  Speaker 3: But he would be oblivious. He would just wave.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he would wave and keep the smile on his
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  Speaker 1: face as if to say, ha-ha, I'm still your mayor.
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  Speaker 3: What was the boo total now? It was Hochul, Letitia James.
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  Speaker 4: Who else?
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  Speaker 3: Anybody else? No, those two.
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  Speaker 2: But I felt it was Tish James who got a
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  Speaker 2: little more boos than Hochul. But they were both booed
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  Speaker 2: as surrogates for Zoran Mandami not being there.
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  Speaker 3: Surrogates. The governor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see, though, like these people, there was
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  Speaker 1: actually one guy wearing a shirt And I interviewed him
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  Speaker 1: that said, make America Italian again. And it was in
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  Speaker 1: the same font as make America great again. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are people who lean more conservative. You're not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even if they and there are some people who even
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  Speaker 1: came over from Italy to see the Columbus Day Parade,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or they happen to be here and see
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  Speaker 1: the festivities. Now, the mayor, the mayor did put out
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  Speaker 1: a prerecorded video acknowledging Italian American heritage. Another person who
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  Speaker 1: was there, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running
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  Speaker 1: for governor. The Republicans actually preparing for his first and
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  Speaker 1: only debate against Governor Kathy Hochul this evening.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled him.
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  Speaker 1: We had, you know, Curtis saw the whole reporter gaggly thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to pull him aside. I asked him
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  Speaker 1: directly how he felt that this seven o'clock meeting is
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  Speaker 1: only happening on Spectrum New York 1. which only reaches
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  Speaker 1: about two million households in the city.
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  Speaker 4: I got, I believe, seven invitations from every media outlet
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  Speaker 4: in New York State, and I accepted all of them.
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  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul only accepted one, Spectrum. That is one of
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  Speaker 4: the smaller media outlets, and it's designed so that people
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  Speaker 4: won't look at her record and won't look at my
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  Speaker 4: record and compare the two, because if they compare my
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  Speaker 4: record with her record, they're going.
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  Speaker 5: To vote for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he was very adamant.
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  Speaker 1: He even said yesterday when we interviewed him, he is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the governor.
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  Speaker 3: Come November 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: The polls are tightening, but Governor Hochul has held a
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  Speaker 1: double-digit lead, and we'll see what the debate does tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But all of the elected officials, varying in people who
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 3: Be elected, many of them were there yesterday. You said
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  Speaker 3: something interesting. You said that most of the people there
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  Speaker 3: are conservative voters. Italian-Americans, mostly conservative?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They've been conservative in New York City. So you could
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  Speaker 3: be like Magaliori.
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  Speaker 1: Like what he calls me? No, guys. The I in
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  Speaker 1: Magaliori stands for independent.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I just came up.
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  Speaker 3: With that on the spot. That's funny. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the MAGA girl, I mean, Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 3: Migliore.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a reporter.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow morning at 7.50. Meantime, up next,
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  Speaker 2: there is pressure to fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch by
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  Speaker 2: the DSA, which have been the primary supporters. for the
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  Speaker 2: rise politically of Zoran Mandami. We'll get to that after
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  Speaker 2: the 8 o'clock news.