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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So did it wake you up? Those thunderstorms in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night? Did it wake you up, Natalie?
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  Speaker 2: Woke me up. It shook me out of bed, literally.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. I mean, they were close.
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  Speaker 2: Very close. One shook my house.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those systems that when it comes through,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the system is going to have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of lightning and a lot of thunder. There was
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  Speaker 1: a few times, two or three times, my whole house
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  Speaker 1: lit up. You know, because it was close. It was
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden this flash of light. It was
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  Speaker 1: total darkness, and it was light for like two seconds.
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  Speaker 3: And then you look at the clock and say, how
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  Speaker 3: much time do I have left? Am I going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to fall back asleep?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Or am I up for the day now? But
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  Speaker 1: they were quick moving. That's what was nice. They were
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  Speaker 1: in and out of the area.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw the lightning.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So now, if you wanted to check if there was
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  Speaker 5: any damage to your property, because sometimes there is. You're
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  Speaker 5: told don't go out for a full 30 minutes until
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  Speaker 5: after the storm has passed.
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  Speaker 2: And you say to yourself, why?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's always a danger you could end up like
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  Speaker 5: that guy in Staten Island who worked for Congresswoman Nicole Maliotakis, remember,
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  Speaker 5: got hit by the lightning, went down.
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  Speaker 2: A neighbor helped him.
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  Speaker 5: And we got to find out if he won the
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  Speaker 5: lotto because he bought a lotto ticket.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first thing you notice, Larry, since he's a
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  Speaker 2: lucky guy.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm hoping, I'm hoping that this all means this
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  Speaker 3: weekend is going to be gorgeous because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people have a long weekend. It's looking right now like
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  Speaker 3: it's a pretty perfect Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We all deserve a great weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I deserve a great weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 1: I do deserve a great weekend, but I have birthday parties, kids'
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  Speaker 1: birthday parties all weekend long. Not that I don't love them.
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  Speaker 1: It's my grandson who's having a birthday party. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to go then. But two birthday parties? I've got to
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  Speaker 1: go to two birthday parties for the same grandson? Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: that's stretching it a little bit, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: I would not be complaining about that. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Stacia, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Stacia, he can't.
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  Speaker 3: Wait to be there.
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  Speaker 5: I'm assuming we check off the box that says you'd
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  Speaker 5: be going for the last weekend for Labor Day down
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  Speaker 5: at the Jersey Shore.
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  Speaker 2: That will not be on your list of places. I
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  Speaker 2: might be able to make it down.
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  Speaker 1: See, I don't want to do Sunday and Monday because
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  Speaker 1: then you hit the traffic on the way back on
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  Speaker 1: both those days because- People put in their rental homes
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and they come back. And then Monday, if
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  Speaker 1: they have a house down there, they come back. So, no,
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  Speaker 1: I think– Oh, deal.
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  Speaker 2: With the traffic. You know what I'm going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit home and sulk.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good plan.
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  Speaker 2: But hop along, Natalie.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Hopping, literally.
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  Speaker 5: No doubt, who is now recovering. Completely, while also doing
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  Speaker 5: your producer duties here in studio. You'll be going down
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  Speaker 5: to the Jersey Shore, no doubt, for this final weekend, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: I have to ask you both, because it's been such
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  Speaker 5: a topsy-turvy summer with extreme weather flash, flooding, hot, humid.
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  Speaker 5: How do you think it's been for the vendors, the businesses,
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  Speaker 5: the restaurants who are so dependent on that rush of
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  Speaker 5: a crowd from the Memorial Day weekend to the Labor
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  Speaker 5: Day weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I have an answer. I have an answer. I've
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  Speaker 1: told you before, Mike's Seafood in Seattle City, that's a
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  Speaker 1: family-owned business, and he's doing great. He's having a great,
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  Speaker 1: you know why? Because people can't go to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they can't go to the boardwalk at night. What
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  Speaker 1: are they going to do? They're going to go to
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't think of that.
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  Speaker 1: The restaurants are doing really, really well down the shore.
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  Speaker 5: And so, Natalie, yourself, your perception, even though you've been
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  Speaker 5: in pain and hopping around, is that Has it been
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  Speaker 5: a good summer for the Jersey Shore?
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I go into the towns like Lavalette,
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  Speaker 3: you know, around where there's a lot of businesses, it's packed.
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  Speaker 1: It's packed. Yeah, because even when it rains, people are
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  Speaker 1: on vacation. They want to do something. So they go
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  Speaker 1: to the stores. They'll go to the boardwalk and stay
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  Speaker 1: under the awnings. And walk from store to store to
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  Speaker 1: store to store.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have the people. You said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you rented the house for the week. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: go out. You're going to spend money. I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 3: day trippers wouldn't be going down. But I felt like
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  Speaker 3: the weekends were always one day that you can pull out.
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  Speaker 5: But I think the other thing you commented early on
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  Speaker 5: in this summer process of the Jersey Shore is how
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  Speaker 5: well law enforcement has done in imposing curfews. on their beaches,
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  Speaker 5: also the boardwalks because of all the wilding incidences in
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  Speaker 5: the past that might have deterred people from coming down like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we don't want to be with all those crazy teenagers.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently from Cape May right on up to Point Pleasant,
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  Speaker 5: they've done an excellent job.
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  Speaker 1: You really haven't heard much. Well, Cape May had that
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  Speaker 1: one problem. It's funny that you said Cape May because
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  Speaker 1: the place that never has any problems and doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: even meet any laws never has any problems because Because
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  Speaker 1: it used to be that the average age there was deceased.
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  Speaker 1: And so now it's gotten to yuppies. Yuppies are starting
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  Speaker 1: to go there now. And then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: because of all the laws and the curfews in Wildwood
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  Speaker 1: and Ocean City and Seaside Heights, all up and down
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  Speaker 1: the coast, the only place that didn't have a curfew,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody went to bed early anyway, was Cape May.
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  Speaker 7: And all of a sudden, they had these curfews. flash
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  Speaker 7: parties on the beach. Cape May was God's waiting room, right?
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  Speaker 7: It was sort of the equivalent of what Florida used
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  Speaker 7: to be. If you went to Cape May, you were
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  Speaker 7: just waiting.
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  Speaker 5: But speaking of beaches, when you were in New York City,
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  Speaker 5: we have this phenomenon that has occurred now that you
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  Speaker 5: really don't have down by the Jersey Shore and other places,
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  Speaker 5: random attacks. Almost every day, the headlines, a random attack.
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  Speaker 5: not pre-orchestrated, not part of a gang, not part of
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  Speaker 5: a group that's going to an area to commit crime,
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  Speaker 5: and then when confronted, uses lethal force. Individual random attacks.
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  Speaker 5: So I'll give you an update on my nephew, who
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  Speaker 5: was the victim of that random attack the other night. Hours, remember,
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  Speaker 5: after that woman took those two knives in Times Square,
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  Speaker 5: stabbed a man who was with his wife from Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 5: He luckily recovered, and then as she moved up a block,
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  Speaker 5: She killed that young mother who had just come off
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  Speaker 5: of her leave for caring for her child. She's an
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  Speaker 5: executive at Bank of America. What a great story, her
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  Speaker 5: and her husband. They met at Fordham Law. She went
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  Speaker 5: to the University of Pennsylvania. She was just getting back
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  Speaker 5: her first day work, and now she's no longer with us.
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  Speaker 2: She's dead. Again, what do they call it? A random attack.
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  Speaker 2: With my nephew.
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  Speaker 5: He and his girlfriend and a friend in their early
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  Speaker 5: 20s were walking over to that Legos location near Rockefeller Center.
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  Speaker 5: It's like huge, you know, people around the block, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of tourists buying Legos. They were going there to
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  Speaker 5: look at some of the new stuff and a car
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  Speaker 5: almost hit them. And the next thing you know, the
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  Speaker 5: driver gets out. This is in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
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  Speaker 5: across from Saks Fifth Avenue, pulls out a straight edge racer.
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  Speaker 5: and cuts him, in which he took in about over
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  Speaker 5: 38 stitches, and then he had a collapse along. So
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  Speaker 5: he's in really bad shape at Bellevue. He is nicely
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  Speaker 5: recovering now. The police are all over it. The police
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  Speaker 5: commissioner told me they were able to trace the license
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  Speaker 5: plate at his BMW. She didn't say flock camera, but
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  Speaker 5: it must have been because they arrested the guy upstate,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the license plate reading technology that exists.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess we're just.
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  Speaker 5: Waiting to see when he's going to be transported down
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  Speaker 5: for arraignment in Manhattan. But my nephew doing well. But, again,
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  Speaker 5: it's under that category, random attack. There's no way you
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  Speaker 5: could make rhyme or reason of it. And this comes
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  Speaker 5: on the heels.
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  Speaker 2: In Brighton Beach. We're speaking of beaches. A 90-year-old woman.
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  Speaker 5: Is walking on the street, 930 in the morning, Brighton
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  Speaker 5: Beach 5th, busy thoroughfare. And this emotionally disturbed black guy
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  Speaker 5: comes up to the garbage can. He sees an old
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  Speaker 5: baby carriage that's there with garbage, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Picks it up. He slams her in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the head. She goes down. Luckily, she survives. She's at
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  Speaker 2: Coney Island Hospital. He fled.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a coward that guy was. What a coward.
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  Speaker 1: Because not only was it an elderly woman, he walked up.
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  Speaker 1: He walked towards her, then went behind her, and then
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  Speaker 1: hit her from behind. What an absolute coward.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you were saying how these are really busy,
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  Speaker 3: busy areas of the city. We're not talking a desolate
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  Speaker 3: back alley. Because people ask me all the time, do
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  Speaker 3: you feel safe when you're in the city? And I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Because I feel like I'm in a populated area.
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  Speaker 3: What's going to happen to me in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: Times Square? I know that sounds crazy, but I feel
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  Speaker 3: like there's so many people around, like I'll be safe.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously not.
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  Speaker 1: No, remember a couple of years ago, who was the
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  Speaker 1: guy that was just going around, the mentally ill guy,
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  Speaker 1: killing people? They didn't know who it was at first.
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  Speaker 1: That was just a couple of years ago. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to look up the information on that because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: people remember.
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  Speaker 5: Let me give you some dreary stats. Increasingly, these emotionally
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  Speaker 5: disturbed persons, and that's what they are. They're not on
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  Speaker 5: medication or they're not in a psychiatric facility. The assaults
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  Speaker 5: against those who are 65 plus, I think that includes
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  Speaker 5: me and Larry, not you, Natalie, have skyrocketed.
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  Speaker 2: Since 2018, 143%.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: This never used to happen.
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  Speaker 5: An elderly person, by golly, a whole community, if they
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  Speaker 5: saw an elderly person being assaulted, everybody would come out
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  Speaker 5: of the stores, the streets. They'd give that guy a
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  Speaker 5: beat down. There'd be nothing left of him when the
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  Speaker 5: cops arrived. Now, this was busy in the morning. This
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  Speaker 5: is 945 on Brighton Fifth Street, main thoroughfare underneath the yell,
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  Speaker 5: the subway, and nobody came out and intervened. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they helped her afterwards when the EMTs came and brought
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  Speaker 5: her to Coney Island Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not like it used to be. That neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: years ago, nearby Bensonhurst.
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  Speaker 5: Bay Ridge, No way. You attacked an elderly person. You're
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  Speaker 5: dealing with 20, 25 people out there trying to kill you.
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  Speaker 5: That person would look forward to the arrival of the
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  Speaker 5: police to save them from the outraged citizenry who didn't
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  Speaker 5: care if you were EDP or this was just a, quote,
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  Speaker 5: random attack.
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  Speaker 2: They'd give you a beat down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now everybody just looks the other way. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that was in November of 2024, the random murders. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember that homeless guy? His name's Ramon Rivera. 51-year-old
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  Speaker 1: homeless man, mental problems, was going around and killing people,
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  Speaker 1: stabbing them to death all the way through Manhattan. And
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  Speaker 1: what gets done? It happens, it's over, and then nothing.
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  Speaker 1: No solution until the next one happens. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: a continuous cycle.
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  Speaker 5: Although the one thing that's changed, and I haven't quite
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  Speaker 5: yet figured it out, If you notice, almost all these
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  Speaker 5: crimes are with knives, straight edge razors or box cutters.
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  Speaker 5: Very few of them are with guns. And it's not
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  Speaker 5: because they're doing stop and frisk. I can tell you
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  Speaker 5: the cops are not doing stop and frisk. Got to
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  Speaker 5: say to yourself, how come so few guns and plenty
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  Speaker 5: of guns out there? And now they got these ghost guns,
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  Speaker 5: which you can manufacture yourself with a computer and they
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  Speaker 5: can't be traced.
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  Speaker 2: Can't be traced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should be talking more about this because this
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  Speaker 1: is a huge problem over the next few weeks. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, a woman that was once named the greatest
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  Speaker 1: voice in America has died. Plus, you have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to see Air Supply at 825. Disney. Perfectly imperfect.
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  Speaker 5: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. Guaranteed human.
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  Speaker 4: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the attention of the world was on that courtroom
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  Speaker 5: in Florida where Tiger Woods, after getting out of his
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  Speaker 5: rehab stint, was in court to hear from the judge
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  Speaker 5: in terms of what would the penalties be for being
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  Speaker 5: caught impaired while recently driving. They claim that it wasn't alcohol.
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  Speaker 5: He passed the breathalyzer, but he was clearly on some pills.
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  Speaker 5: They found two pills on him at the time. Vanessa
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  Speaker 5: Trump who is his girlfriend, I guess you can call
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  Speaker 5: her at this point, was at his side. Everybody was watching.
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  Speaker 5: And what was it that was said about him and
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  Speaker 5: his driving privilege, Larry?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's been suspended for five years. I want to
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  Speaker 1: point out he did pass the breathalyzer, but he refused
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  Speaker 1: to take a urine test and a blood test, which
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to do. And that's why they arrested him.
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  Speaker 1: And when he got arrested, if you remember, he was wild.
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  Speaker 1: way out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking Ambien. We remember that original one.
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  Speaker 3: He had his fight with his wife at the time
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  Speaker 3: and the gated community, and then he.
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  Speaker 4: Crashed into the Johnny Pump, knocked it over.
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  Speaker 2: They found out he was impaired on Ambien.
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  Speaker 5: Seems to have that look, you know, when you've had
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  Speaker 5: too much ambient and you're like, you're still like sleepwalking.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. He was out of it. He
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  Speaker 1: was really out of it. I played that and it
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  Speaker 1: was hard to hear because it's all being recorded on
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  Speaker 1: a body cam. But she said, turn around, face the car,
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  Speaker 1: put your hands behind your back. And then she puts
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  Speaker 1: the cuffs on him and says, we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: you to, we're going to take you downtown. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: am I being arrested? how out of it do you
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  Speaker 1: have to be not to realize you're being arrested after
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  Speaker 1: you've been cuffed? I mean, he was really out of
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  Speaker 1: it that day. And if you remember, he clipped a car,
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  Speaker 1: he clipped a truck that was being towed and the
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  Speaker 1: truck flipped over and his car flipped over. And, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was, it was, it was a mess and
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  Speaker 1: he tried to leave the scene for a while and
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  Speaker 1: he was just way, way out of it. But you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the Florida state attorney, Thomas Bacadal, who had a suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: If Tiger Woods, during this five-month suspension— Five years. Five years. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Five months would have been nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Get out of the way.
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  Speaker 8: Tiger Woods is behind the wheel. Shut down I-5. Five
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  Speaker 8: years suspension. He said, you really shouldn't try to drive.
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  Speaker 6: Oops.
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  Speaker 4: His license is suspended for a period of five years.
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  Speaker 4: And as you heard, the judge indicates him, you shouldn't drive.
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  Speaker 4: And if anybody in the world, if I can send
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  Speaker 4: any message to Mr. Woods, it's simply this. Of all
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  Speaker 4: the people in the world who should not get behind
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  Speaker 4: the wheel of the car, it's the gentleman who is
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  Speaker 4: one of the most recognizable faces on the planet.
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  Speaker 5: So that was the moment in the spotlight for the prosecutor,
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  Speaker 5: except the judge then turned to the prosecutor and said,
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  Speaker 5: Does this also apply to when Mr. Woods is playing
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  Speaker 5: golf and he's driving a golf cart and the prosecutor
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  Speaker 5: was like, we hadn't factored that in. So all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden he was stymied by that. But yeah, how
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  Speaker 5: many times now I haven't played golf much in my life,
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  Speaker 5: but the times I've been out there. on the links,
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  Speaker 5: there's always some guy who's half in the bag driving
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  Speaker 5: a golf cart because he's looking for the beer wagon
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  Speaker 5: coming around that's going to sell you booze on nine
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  Speaker 5: holes or 18 holes. And he's either in a ditch,
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  Speaker 5: he's in a sand trap, and not his ball. The
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  Speaker 5: golf cart, because they're impaired. I think they came to
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  Speaker 5: the conclusion that he could drive a golf cart.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he could. It's a stupid question. They never
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  Speaker 1: should have asked it. The judge didn't know what he
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  Speaker 1: was talking about. The state attorney doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would have asked that.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a license for a golf cart. You
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  Speaker 1: can't suspend driving a golf cart.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: You just can't do it.
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  Speaker 5: Larry, I hate to tell you, there are people who
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  Speaker 5: have driven golf carts that don't have a license.
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  Speaker 2: As long as you tip them, you can drive it.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is you don't need a license. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need anything. You can drive a golf cart.
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  Speaker 2: You could drive a golf cart.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, I understand that. But I would ban it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: I would make sure that he's not. Well, he's not
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: going to a public links. There's only certain places that
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: he would go to play. He could have his chauffeur,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: which he refuses to have, by the way.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He and others who are famous.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You can't say to somebody, guess what we're doing? We're
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: also imposing a moratorium on you driving golf carts.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: The only reason you could suspend driving is because there's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a driver's license.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Larry, in Florida, I've seen elderly people driving golf. Golf
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: carts on the road.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yes. Then you can get fined. Once you get
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: off the golf cart, you are now a vehicle on
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the road. But there's no license for that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: That is a thing, though, because some golf carts are
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: modified to be what they call low-speed vehicles, because I
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: see that down the shore.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: And they actually have a license plate. and you can't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: drive it on the street.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: They've become extremely controversial down the shore. I agree. They're
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: plentiful now, and people are getting furious at them all
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: over the streets.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: As they should.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: But meantime, the bigger issue here, Tony Romo, different set
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: of circumstances, wealthy people is, why aren't you being driven
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: by somebody? And it turns out that what my very
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: dear friend Johnny Legit said to me a long time
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: ago is, is they don't want a chauffeur, they don't
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: want a driver, they don't want to even Uber because
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: they don't want people listening to the conversations, private conversations,
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: they're probably having in the backseat on their cell phone.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: God only knows what they're discussing. So they choose, instead
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: of spending the money, which they have in all these cases.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Who was the guy in Long Island? You were talking
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: about him yesterday. Remember who was cold busted? He couldn't
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: even walk the line. Justin Timberlake, remember?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No chauffeur.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: No Uber driver, but there's a reason they don't want him,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: because they don't want anyone listening to their personal business
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: that they're discussing on the cell phone.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But let's get back to Tony Romo for a second,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: because he was just a disgusting liar that day. I mean,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: at least Tiger Woods took his punishment like a man
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and then made a plea. Tony Romo He asked if
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you had any alcohol. He said no. He had a
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: big open bottle of alcohol right next to him in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the car.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: What did he think?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: They weren't going to look in the car to see that?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: He lied about everything, about where he was going, about
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: what he was doing, about where he was. The best thing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And you know what? That ended up with not just
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a suspended license. His job got suspended.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the interesting thing was how he claimed he
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: was in Milwaukee to go visit his grandparents.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I'm saying out of all the stories he could have told.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: But then I'm thinking back to when.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Pat Summerall was the lead broadcaster with his partner at
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: that time who would never fly.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I'm forgetting his name right now. Madden.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: My God, that guy had been an alcoholic.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Now, the reason I mentioned his name is that Susie Wise,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: who is the chief of staff in the Trump administration,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: that was her daddy.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering how he survived.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I know he said he was on the wagon for
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: a while, but sometimes I look at Pat Summerall when
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: he was.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: With Madden and it seemed like his eyes were rolling in.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: his head.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was a great broadcast, so don't get
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: me wrong, but some people said he reeked of alcohol.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I just searched most famous people be arrested for DWI,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and the top two are Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: but then Britney Spears, Mel Gibson, Khloe Kardashian... And I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: didn't know about this one. Michael Phelps. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Remember Phelps? He went through that whole period. Oh, my God.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: He was, well, what was that? He was drinking. He
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: would go to frat parties, right? He was already out
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: of college.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: He'd be drinking. I forget what those college kids do.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: A funnel?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with a funnel. What the hell are you doing, Mike?
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I guess he wasn't swimming anymore. I guess he wasn't
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: in training at that moment.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti in the morning. On 710WOR.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, Curtis, I don't know if you saw yesterday, but,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you know, they had an availability with Donald Trump, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: there was all the reporters that were there. And right there,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: smack in the middle of the room, in just about
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: every TV shot, was John Decker.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: You can't tell me he doesn't position himself. It's a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: great spot, by the way. I don't know how he
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: gets it, but he's right up front. Every time the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: president answers, he almost has to look at John Decker
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: at one point because he's right there. He's right up front.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: That was his laugh. John Decker, WOR White House and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Briefing Room with John Decker can be found on the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Congratulations, John. That's I would imagine that's a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: tough spot to get.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Well, it is, absolutely. But, you know, I've been doing
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: this for quite some time, so I know where to go.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I know where my spot is in the Oval Office,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: where to go to get the best spot available to
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: ask the president some questions. And as you point out,
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: right in front of the Resolute Desk, in the Oval Office,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: and I think that if you counted, I probably got
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: five or six questions yesterday to the president, which was
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: pretty good.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing. I think the president right now
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: is doing everything possible to try to bring gas prices
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: down with the Straits of Hormuz, with the tens of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: billions of barrels of oil coming out of Venezuela. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I think one of the most important things, and this
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: is what I want to ask you about, is the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: meeting he had with oil executives. How did that go?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Do we know what happened?
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Well, we don't know everything that happened. That was a
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: meeting in which I was also scheduled to be in
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: the pool to go into the cabinet room. That's where
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: he was meeting with those oil and gas company executives.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: But unfortunately, the White House decided to leave that meeting closed.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: They did not open it up to the press. So
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: as a result, we have to rely on the readout
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: coming from the White House. and the limited information coming
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: from those oil and gas company executives who are meeting
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: with the president in terms of what was discussed at
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: that meeting. As you know, oil prices remain exceedingly high.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I think over $ 94 a barrel consistently this week. And
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: when oil prices are so high, when the wholesale price
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: is so high, there's a corresponding high price for gasoline,
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: and that's what we're seeing all across the country, in
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: New York State, all around the country. In some places, obviously,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: it's much worse places like California, which also has on
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: top of those high gas prices, high taxes. So you're
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: looking at gas around $ 6 a gallon in California.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: So now, John Decker, the Iranians, whoever is the shot callers,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: their trump card is the Straits of Hormuz. Why does
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: the president, over this very serious matter, in which he
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: does not have acceptance by the American public, he's down
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: in the polls on this issue, first last week say,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: I'm going to declare it an American territory, and then
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: yesterday say, we're going to rename it Trump straight. Does
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: he not realize that that goes nowhere? Even with MAGA supporters,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: they're shaking their heads like, yo, man. This is not
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: a joking matter. This is like this is hurting us.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: This is hurting the world, turning Iran. What are you
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: joking around for?
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Well, I can't get inside. The president said he was
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: indeed joking around. He was asked a question about that yesterday,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: also in the Oval Office by a colleague of mine
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: from AFP. And he just pretty much said I was
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: just putting it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Out there in jest. But you're right. This is a
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: serious matter.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: It's a serious matter for families. that are dealing with
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: this high price of gas. You know, I remember a
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: few weeks ago when I was out in Alaska and
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: talking to motorists out there, they're dealing with really high
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: gas prices because although they have the largest amount of
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: crude oil in the country, they have to export it
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: out to be refined and then bring it back in
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: on trucks to get to the residents of Alaska. So
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: it really hits home for them. The fact is it,
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: you know, hits their budget really hard. So I don't
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: know why the president would put that out there. Of course,
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: this comes a few days after the president says and
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: declared through an executive order that he's changing the name
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: of Lake Ontario to Lake America. So maybe it's just simply, Curtis,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: a follow-up on that.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Everything is going to change next week. The starting gun's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: going to go off. That's when you're going to see
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: all of the ads for the midterm elections coming up.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And the president talked a lot about the midterms yesterday
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and what he plans to do. Is he going to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: spend any of his money on these midterms? Because he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: got a big war chest.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: He's got a huge war chest through his super PAC, MAGA, Inc.,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: over $ 400 million. And there are those people like Karl
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Rove who are saying.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Don't wait.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: We can't afford to wait. Republicans need to spend that money.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: They need to help out their candidates. And he's urging
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: the president to start spending right now, even before we
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: hit that magic Labor Day holiday. So the president realizes
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: that there's some pressure on him and is super packed
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: to spend that money. And the president yesterday, in response
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: to my question, confirmed that he's going to head all
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: the way out to Alaska to help out U.S. Senator
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Dan Sullivan, who's running for his third term. This is
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: a state that President Trump won all three times he
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: ran for president. The last time in 2024, he won
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: it by 13 and a half points. And yet, Dan
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Sullivan is having difficulty in terms of gaining traction to
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: win a third term in the U.S. Senate. So that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: the reason why the president says he's going to head
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: out to Alaska to campaign for Dan Sullivan, to get
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: his base energized, to vote for him on November the 3rd.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Now, just imagine, John Decker, you're one of those 38
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: that are marginal.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: You're on that line. You're a little ahead. You're a
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: little behind.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: And the president said, I'm there for you those last
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: 30 days. It's going to be morning, noon and night.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: But you first got to come to our first ever
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: party convention in Dallas, which is September 9th and September 10th,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: right before 9-11. Some of the Republicans are saying they
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: can't make it. They're too busy campaigning. Now, you know
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: this president. If they don't pick up and come to
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: this party convention, which is going to be like a
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: pep rally and laying out the goals of this campaign,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I have a feeling the president ain't going to be
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: there for them in that final push.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Well, you're right.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: You know, you really have to make a tough decision
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: if you're in a very close race. Do you head
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: down to Dallas or do you stay in your district
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: and campaign there and try to, you know, energize people?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: the people there, the constituents there to come out and
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: vote for you or to vote early or to vote
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: on November the 3rd. So that's a tough decision they
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: have to make. I've already made that decision. I'm going
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: to be down in Dallas next week for that midterm convention,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: the first of its kind. So I'll be speaking to
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: you next week from Dallas, Texas, and we'll see if
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: indeed the president is effective in essentially energizing his base,
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: energizing the troops, and getting them to vote for those
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Republican candidates in November.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're all going to be there. There's over 400
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: million reasons why they should be there. They're not going
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to see any of that money unless they go down.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So the one person that was left out, actually a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: lot of people that were left out, when he talked
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: about the campaign and what he's going to do and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: how he's going to barnstorm, maybe he said the last
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: 30 days I'll be on the road every day. He said,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: except for the Republican governors, good luck. You're on your own.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: How does Vivek Ramaswamy feel in Ohio?
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he's in good shape, regardless of whether
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: the president campaigns for him.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It is Ohio.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: That being said, there's a Senate race in Ohio, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: I would imagine the president's going to travel to Ohio
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: for that Senate race. And I would not be surprised
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: if Vivek Ramaswamy shows.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Up at that event with the president.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: So the Senate race is one in which It really
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: is a pickup opportunity for Democrats.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: That's in Ohio.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: There are other pickup opportunities for Democrats. I could go
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: through the list really quickly. It's North Carolina. It's Maine.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: It's Iowa.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It's Alaska.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: It's Texas. So those are the pickup opportunities for Democrats
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: this election cycle. And as it relates to the Republicans,
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: they have some pickup opportunities there.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: As well.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens. It's going to be a
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: really interesting work. Look at the look at the date
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: on the calendar. It's September.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: The 3rd.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: We're exactly two months away from election day.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: It's just real quick. I would check those polls in Ohio.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Take another look. Yeah, you would think that they were Swami.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Ramaswami was way ahead. But Cook Report just called it
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a toss up.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Did it really?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, it did.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: Really interesting.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Thanks for letting me know that.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: I'm not following the governor's races like the president is.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: I'm following the Senate races. So there you go.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You're on your own, pal.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I've got enough to do for Senate candidates and House candidates,
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: and you better be in Dallas if you expect to
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: see me. But we know the big meeting is at
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: the end of September at the White House. The return engagement.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: The president, Donald Trump, went to see President Xi in Beijing. Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: And then he invited him to come to the White
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: House in the end of September. You know, a lot
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: of focus on what the red Chinese can do to
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: help end this Iranian war. They seem to be quite
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: belligerent and defiant. What do you think is the president's
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: goal in that meeting where he is the host?
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be really interesting. And it just
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: so happens September the 24th is when President Xi will
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: come to the White House. I'm in the pool that day.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: So hopefully there'll be an opportunity to ask both presidents
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: questions in the Oval Office. I've been looking forward to
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: that for quite some time. And for the president, a
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: lot is on the agenda. Trade with China is always
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: on the agenda. That is such an important issue. And
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: then you hit upon those foreign policy challenges for the president.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: And the number one foreign policy challenge right now for
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: the U.S. and for President Trump is the Iran conflict.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: And the president would very much like to see China
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: essentially stop purchasing that Iranian oil. It props up their economy.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: And I don't think you're going to get any buy-in
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: from the Chinese, given the statements that have been put
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: out by their foreign ministry just in the course of
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: the past two weeks.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: That can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, John.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Talk to you then. Bye-bye.