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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, the Yanks got wiped out by Tampa Bay, the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: last night. And even though I'm a tried-and-true Yankee fan, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: as I've been saying all along, Yankees really didn't deserve
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  Speaker 1: to win this series. You just watch Tampa perform the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals on the baseball field. Good defense, good offense, helping
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  Speaker 1: one another. hitting the opposite way, hitting runs, punting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the basic fundamentals of baseball. Good pitching, just a solid
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  Speaker 1: baseball team. They beat us through most of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And there were brief moments that the Yankees might have
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  Speaker 1: made a comeback, especially last night. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your impression. When the go-to guy that Aaron Boone decided
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  Speaker 1: he's going to play second base, Volpe, and not the
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  Speaker 1: hotshot and the malcontent Chisholm. who will probably end up
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  Speaker 1: leaving the Yankees. He's a free agent. He might land
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  Speaker 1: with another team and be a 40-40 guy. He's got
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  Speaker 1: that much talent, 40 home runs, 40 stolen bases. But
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  Speaker 1: he just doesn't seem to gel, at least with Aaron Boone,
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  Speaker 1: who I think has to go. But that moment when
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  Speaker 1: Volpe hits that ball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it set it up a little bit because they're
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  Speaker 2: down two. This is in the bottom of the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 2: They're down two. There's a man on base. So a
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  Speaker 2: home run– That would tie it up. No, he didn't. No,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't turn out to be a home run. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, did you hear the length of that home run?
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  Speaker 2: That was a big, huge, looping home run. I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen a call go on for that long. Maybe, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I could be out of here. And then about eight
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  Speaker 2: seconds later, it was out. But it turns out it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't out.
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  Speaker 1: On review... After review.
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  Speaker 3: We have spectator interference.
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  Speaker 2: So they, they ruled that he wouldn't have caught it.
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  Speaker 2: The center fielder would not have caught it. It still
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  Speaker 2: would have hit the wall. And so they gave the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: they gave Volpe a double and that forced a run
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  Speaker 2: to score, but that didn't tie up the game. And tragically,
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  Speaker 2: the game ended at four to three when a bit,
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  Speaker 2: Would have been 4-4 and who knows what could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. They would have had momentum. But in the last
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  Speaker 1: three innings, Yankees did nothing, you see. And they had
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  Speaker 1: the home crowd. You heard the home crowd. The last
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  Speaker 1: four years, going into Yankee Stadium when they were in
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  Speaker 1: do-or-die situations, they've never been able to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: being the home team. So they have only themselves to blame.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know you're a real, true Yankee fan
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  Speaker 2: because just like every baseball fan across the country that
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  Speaker 2: loves their team, they go into every one of these
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  Speaker 2: series with excitement. Oh, you know what? We're going to
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  Speaker 2: get them. We're going to go get Tampa Bay. And
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  Speaker 2: at the end of it, it's always, well, they don't
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  Speaker 2: do this well and they don't do this well and
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  Speaker 2: they don't do this well and they don't do this well.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the ride I watched you take over the
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  Speaker 2: last week.
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  Speaker 1: Although, yeah, I was saying that part of this tradition
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  Speaker 1: now of if it ain't a home run, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. They strike out or they ground out. It's
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  Speaker 1: a very boring game. You wait for the homers, the homers,
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  Speaker 1: the homers. And with Tampa, you don't. You get good
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  Speaker 1: old-fashioned fundamentals. Same time, Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Diego Padres.
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  Speaker 1: San Diego Padres had three boomers right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of their lineup. Again, if it ain't a home run,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to win. And I'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: both these teams get into the World Series so that
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  Speaker 1: Americans can once again see the way baseball is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be played.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's not just the Yankees. Most teams play that way.
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  Speaker 2: There's most teams that just go for the long ball.
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  Speaker 2: And again, you know why it is? It's because of
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  Speaker 2: those ridiculous analytics. They believe the analytics tell them that
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  Speaker 2: hitting home runs is better than manufacturing runs because it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't always work. But We've seen time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: You know how we go through this cycle all the time?
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  Speaker 2: We had Moneyball and Smallball, and they showed us that
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  Speaker 2: this can work, and then they go back to hitting
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  Speaker 2: home runs, and now they're going to come back again.
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  Speaker 1: Although when I saw what looked like a Volpe home
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  Speaker 1: run be called by the umpires after watching the videotape
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  Speaker 1: a double, it reminded me back to, oh, It was
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  Speaker 1: Jeter's first year. He was a rookie, a rookie phenom.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees hadn't been in a World Series in like almost
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  Speaker 1: 20 years. And then all of a sudden, it's the
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  Speaker 1: eighth inning. It's against the Baltimore Orioles, the final American
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  Speaker 1: League championship before the World Series. Yankees went on to
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series, first in a month of Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy, Tony Tarasco, who had been a Met,
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  Speaker 1: gets under the fly ball on the right field line.
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  Speaker 1: And the kid, Jeffrey Meyer, reaches down with his glove.
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  Speaker 1: He's only 12 years old and snatches the ball. The umpire,
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  Speaker 1: Rich Garcia, called it a home run. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a home run. It was fan interference, but they had
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  Speaker 1: no video replay. And the Yankees went on to win,
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  Speaker 1: went into extra innings. And then the next game, the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles lost and the Yankees were in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: But I was in the stands for that one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the whole place went crazy. You could see. And Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Meyer became the star. He sold his glove for $ 23, 000.
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  Speaker 1: He went to Wesleyan College where he set a record
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  Speaker 1: for base hits, 189 hits in his scholastic season. He
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  Speaker 1: had pictures festooned all over his wall with Derek Jeter.
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  Speaker 1: It was, oh, great, great catch. Of course, Derek Jeter,
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  Speaker 1: great catch. Without that, right, the Yankees might have lost
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  Speaker 1: that championship to the Orioles. And then the bigger one.
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  Speaker 1: which is the Cubs were hurting for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: They hadn't even seen a World Series, never mind been
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  Speaker 1: in a World Series. They're five outs away from getting
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  Speaker 1: into the World Series against the Marlins. They're at home,
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  Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. There's a fly ball hit down the left
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  Speaker 1: field line. It's in foul territory. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Moses Alou is getting under. He's ready to jump into
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  Speaker 1: the stands to fetch it. But no, a Chicago Cubs fan,
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  Speaker 1: lifelong fan. You say at every home game, Steve Bartman, remember?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's world famous. Bartman was world famous. They were
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  Speaker 2: going to tar and feather him in Chicago. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: that one is the most famous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were up 3-0 at that time, but
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  Speaker 1: it caused the team to collapse. They lost that game 8-3,
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  Speaker 1: and then they went on to lose game 7 because
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  Speaker 1: of that. And that guy had to be in the
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  Speaker 1: witness protection program.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, in 2016, when they finally beat their curse,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs finally won a World Series. They did
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  Speaker 1: a very nice thing. I wouldn't have expected this of them,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you know people in Chicago. You worked in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I love the people of Chicago. What are you talking about? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Cubs fan, you're pissed off at this guy.
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  Speaker 1: They presented Bartman with an official championship ring. in 2016
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  Speaker 1: that's so cool he remained loyal he didn't move out
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  Speaker 1: of town because let's face it they were showing up
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  Speaker 1: outside of his apartment with pitchforks yeah yeah he had
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  Speaker 1: to have around the clock police security it was that.
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  Speaker 2: He was a celebrity he was on talk shows for
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  Speaker 2: a while everybody everybody wanted to talk to him but
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  Speaker 2: here's the question i want to ask because we have
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  Speaker 2: a disagreement about this yes that i watched the replay
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  Speaker 2: i just watched it again seconds ago That ball, had
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  Speaker 2: there not been fan interference, because he had his hands
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  Speaker 2: out over the wall, and it didn't hit his hands.
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  Speaker 2: It hit his arm. It is in his forearm, up
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  Speaker 2: near the elbows. Had he just let it go, it
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  Speaker 2: would have hit the top of the wall. Now, with
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  Speaker 2: the force of it going forward, you would think it
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  Speaker 2: would hit the top of the wall and then bounce
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  Speaker 2: into the stands. So my point is, it was a
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  Speaker 2: home run. It was going to be a home run.
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  Speaker 2: They made it a double because it was absolutely fan interference.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question it was fan interference. But what's ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: and what they didn't take into account, if it didn't
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  Speaker 2: hit his arms, it would have hit the top of
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  Speaker 2: the wall. Now, you could argue, and I think you
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  Speaker 2: did when we talked about this earlier, you could argue
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  Speaker 2: it would hit the top of the wall and bounce back.
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  Speaker 2: But I think 80% of the time it's going to
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  Speaker 2: hit that wall, a flat surface, and go forward. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess my point is the Yankees got robbed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's put it to our listeners, some of whom
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  Speaker 1: were maybe watching it or watched it on the videotape,
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  Speaker 1: because that has become the lead story as they play
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  Speaker 1: it over and over and over again. Yankee fans basically
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  Speaker 1: want to take the shredded bat of Mike Piazza against
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  Speaker 1: Roger Clemens and impale themselves with that when they watch
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  Speaker 1: this over and over. By the way, later on, Donald Trump...
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  Speaker 1: suggested that Roger Clemens be given the United States Medal
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  Speaker 1: of Honor, the Top Citizen Award, because he was being
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  Speaker 1: introduced by Roger Clemens yesterday in Texas. This guy is steroid!
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get all riled up about that.
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  Speaker 2: He really gets you. I got a feeling that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump may listen just to see what you're upset that
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  Speaker 2: he said. Then he says something the next day just
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  Speaker 2: to get you going again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the reason is even Roger Clemens was surprised. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: they won't even let me in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: You want to give me the Medal of Honor?
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  Speaker 2: You should be recognized somehow.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd love to hear from our listeners if, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: they saw that possible home run the way Larry did
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  Speaker 1: or what I concur with the umpires saying. that it
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  Speaker 1: was a double. And you probably already.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I got an email today from a
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  Speaker 2: very ticked-off listener who says he leaves talkbacks every single day.
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  Speaker 2: And he's won a t-shirt, but he said, what do
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  Speaker 2: come they won't just get me a radio? I've had
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  Speaker 2: some great ones. You've said there's been some great ones.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have some prejudice against certain people?
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  Speaker 3: Me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't you take part in this election process?
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  Speaker 6: I have no prejudice whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: There's some really.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain allegations out there, Natalie, you need to
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  Speaker 1: be aware of. And people say you're censoring their ability
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  Speaker 1: to win a C-Crane radio. There are some people who
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  Speaker 1: have never won a T-shirt. So, you know, he's one
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the game or she is one ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know if you've never won a T-shirt or
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  Speaker 2: if you've ever won a C-Crane radio so we can
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  Speaker 2: take a tally of all the people that haven't won yet,
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  Speaker 2: if you feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, up next, there she blows. Humpback whales or Fire
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  Speaker 1: Island plus a chance to see the live stage performance
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  Speaker 1: of A Bronx Tale, the one-man show starring Chaz Palminteri,
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  Speaker 1: a tried-and-true Yankee fan, I might add, at 825.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's like a real life version of free willy
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  Speaker 2: out in fire island well that didn't sound right free
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: willy out in staten island doesn't go really that well
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  Speaker 2: but i'm talking about whales and i'm talking about two
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  Speaker 2: humpback whales that were stranded for some time hours and
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  Speaker 2: hours and hours and i thought to myself when i
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  Speaker 2: first heard the story well when the tide comes back
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  Speaker 2: in they'll be fine and how much damage can it
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  Speaker 2: do to a whale? I mean, the whale breathes through
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  Speaker 2: its air hole, but no, apparently if they dry up,
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  Speaker 2: if it gets too hot, if they don't move around enough,
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  Speaker 2: it causes severe physical stress and can cause systematic failure,
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  Speaker 2: which means they could die. And so the people out
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  Speaker 2: there took it very seriously and they were stuck for hours.
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  Speaker 2: There was two of them, two very young, Very young
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  Speaker 2: orcas were out there. And it's amazing, all of the
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  Speaker 2: people that responded to this. Listen to this. NOAA responded,
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  Speaker 2: the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, the U.S. Coast Guard, Suffolk Police,
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  Speaker 2: the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, State Police.
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  Speaker 2: They had six organizations out there. And what they were
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  Speaker 2: doing was just trying to keep the whales wet, And
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  Speaker 2: a little cold until the tide turned around. They also
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  Speaker 2: were digging out sand from under the whales and the whales.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the happy ending of that story. They're free now.
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  Speaker 2: They're back.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, where were they found to be lodged in the sandbar?
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  Speaker 2: A sandbar they said they're shifting sandbars by the way
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  Speaker 2: because of the weather we've been having but um it's
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  Speaker 2: right off fire island.
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  Speaker 1: Oh right by cherry grove so we can call these
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  Speaker 1: the brokeback whales uh definitely trying to make it to
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  Speaker 1: shore i mean that's the gay enclave but i will
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  Speaker 1: tell you this for those that are interested in whales
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  Speaker 1: because they're making a comeback along with porpoises and dolphins
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  Speaker 1: and all other sea creatures you got to go to
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  Speaker 1: cold springs harbor they have The Whaling Museum, because they
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  Speaker 1: used to do whaling in Sag Harbor, in Greenport, where
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  Speaker 1: I actually spent two years with the Guardian Angels because
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  Speaker 1: they had a drug problem. And you hear people would
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  Speaker 1: regale all these tales about it was a huge whaling location.
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  Speaker 1: So if you get a chance and you want to
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  Speaker 1: see what that end of Long Island was like, go
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  Speaker 1: to Cold Springs Harbor, the Whaling Museum. It is incredible
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  Speaker 1: because remember, that's how you lit up houses. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you saw at night. It was all whale oil before
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  Speaker 1: they hit the big geyser there in Pennsylvania, remember? All
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  Speaker 1: that Earl was coming out and was no longer a
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  Speaker 1: need for whales in the same capacity.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some talkbacks. Anyway, the whales
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  Speaker 2: are okay now. That's the end of that story.
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  Speaker 7: Curtis, the Jeffrey Myers story has a backstory. Bobby Alomar
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  Speaker 7: apparently wished the death upon the home plate umpire's kids,
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  Speaker 7: one of which I believe had already passed. And Rich
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  Speaker 7: Garcia called that home run knowing that it was fan interference.
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  Speaker 7: I was in the upper deck behind home plate.
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  Speaker 1: Great game. Yeah, it was. So apparently Alomar was using
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  Speaker 1: a little Santaria there, was throwing a curse out. That's
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  Speaker 1: plausible if you understood the Alomar brothers. Yeah, that's very
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  Speaker 1: plausible to me. Larry, with regard to the home run,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't. I'm not sure. Even if it was a
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  Speaker 1: home run, it would have tied the game. There's no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee they would have gone on to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Very disappointing series with the Rays after what they did
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  Speaker 1: to the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 8: I've been a Yankee fan for 70 years, and this
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  Speaker 8: is really getting tough every postseason.
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  Speaker 9: They're just not getting it done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that. But it looked like had the
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  Speaker 2: fan not put his arms out there, it wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: hit his arms and it would have hit the wall
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  Speaker 2: and it would have been a home run. Then who
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  Speaker 2: knows what could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: They would have had momentum, which they hadn't had all
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  Speaker 1: series long. And remember, they lost the first game, only
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  Speaker 1: got one hit. Then they made errors galore in the
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  Speaker 1: second game. And now they actually had an opportunity because
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to be a level playing field.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to this talk back because this
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  Speaker 2: is somebody responding to what I just talked about a
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  Speaker 2: second ago, a guy that's never won the C crane
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  Speaker 2: radio and sent some emails, not only to me, but
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  Speaker 2: other people at the station complaining about it.
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  Speaker 7: Larry Curtis, tell that guy that wrote that letter.
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  Speaker 2: To go scratch because you guys picked me at least
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  Speaker 2: once a week and I don't even fill out the
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  Speaker 2: form for.
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  Speaker 10: The, for the t-shirt.
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  Speaker 11: And if he wants to see.
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  Speaker 12: Crane radio, tell him to go buy one.
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  Speaker 11: Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: Is that your husband there, Natalie? Is that your husband
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  Speaker 1: defending you? Some people were very kind.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not putting them on, but they were very kind
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  Speaker 13: about defending me in my honor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: They thought, how did they think it was you that
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  Speaker 2: I was coming after? Did it sound that way? Did
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  Speaker 2: you think that?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was a direct all-out attack, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I know you're a small part
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  Speaker 2: of the full committee. the academy that gets to pick
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  Speaker 2: that every week. I'm sure you fought for that guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you fought for him a couple of times.
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  Speaker 15: I love all the talkbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Keep them coming. They keep me amused during the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I love all my children equally. Let's get the Daria
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  Speaker 2: Alvinger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 14: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 15: Sunny, warmer, and breezy today. We'll see a high of
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  Speaker 15: 75 degrees. Well, let's just say it wasn't that New
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  Speaker 15: York played badly, but Tampa played a lot better. The Yankees'
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  Speaker 15: season comes to a close after they got beaten 4-3
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• 17:44
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• 17:56
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• 18:03
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• 18:06
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• 18:12
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• 18:15
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• 18:18
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• 18:22
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• 18:24
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• 18:27
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• 18:31
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• 18:42
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• 19:00
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• 19:03
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• 19:26
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• 19:36
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• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Krista Pike, the woman that got two lethal injections
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: and is still alive, is now speaking. And her lawyer
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: wants her sentence commuted. and he has a really fascinating
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: argument as to why. We'll talk about it when we
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: come back. It was a fascinating hearing.
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: Yesterday for Krista Pike, who was under lethal injections.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: She got two injections and lived, the only person in
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: history for that to happen to. And now she is
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: awake and she is talking. But the most fascinating thing
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: that happened, because it's going to be a huge legal
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: question at this point, is was she brain dead for
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a while? Now, her defense attorney, Randy Spivey, says yes,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: she was. He thinks she should be commuted anyway because
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: nobody should have to go through that twice. But if
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: she was brain dead for a while, under the law,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: she may not be executed again, although we're in a
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: strange legal area. I'll explain it to you very in
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a second, but I want you to hear from Spivey first.
• 20:49
  Speaker 18: We continue to ask Governor Lee to commute Krista's death sentence.
• 20:53
  Speaker 18: After all we have seen and all that we still
• 20:56
  Speaker 18: do not know, it is unimaginable that the state would
• 20:59
  Speaker 18: try to execute her again.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: So he's saying even if she wasn't brain dead, they
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: shouldn't do this again. And I get that argument as well.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: But listen to this. Her lawyers believe she was brain
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: dead following that botched execution. but then unexpectedly woke up
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and began talking, which is medically possible. So legally, if
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: an inmate is confirmed to be permanently brain dead or
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: lacks the mental capacity to understand why they are being punished,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the U.S. Supreme Court prohibits their execution under the Eighth
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Amendment of protection against cruel and unusual punishment. However, because
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: she regained consciousness... The state of Tennessee is really in
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: uncharted legal territory. So this case may go to the U.S.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Now, the question is whether with what she
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: went through, was it cruel and unusual? Did she actually die?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Was she brain dead? They're the key legal questions. And
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: if either of those things, the Supreme Court finds that
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: she died or it was cruel and unusual punishment, can
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: she be executed again? So it sounds like this is
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So if I'm to believe this lawyer, she was brain dead.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That meant when you look up on the screen, it's over.
• 22:25
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: But somehow it was a miracle, or as Natalie was suggesting,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: because of her satanic past. Maybe she's a witch. Maybe
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: she's a Wicca. My satanic past? No, her.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, her?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Obviously, because she's become a Buddhist since.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: People are saying that all over the line. I get that.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Let's hold off on the Satan stuff for just one second.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Just saying.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: As we deal with really what's going on, there are people,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: there are definitely people that have been brain dead or
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: have been pronounced dead in the past that have come
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: back to life. They've been resuscitated. So what he's saying
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: is she was brain dead and she was brought back
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: to life. I don't know if there's any medical evidence
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: of that, but to me, this is, first of all,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: it's a great story, but it's a fascinating legal case.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Now, imagine if that didn't happen. You might hide behind
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what people always hide behind, you know, HIPAA restrictions. You know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you can't know. What a person's medical condition. And this
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you'd have to know in order to make a judgment. Now, meantime.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Plus, she gives up that right. Now she's under the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: state care.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Well, put the juice in their caboose, Governor Bill Lee,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: because he had three others waiting to execute. Down in Texas,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott, who's in a neck and neck race.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: Holy.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Who knew it would be so close in Texas for him?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He had no problems giving the final okay to the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: execution of Jamal Howard, who had killed a convenience store clerk,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: shot him in the head, stole $ 114 and a carton
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of cigarettes in Huntsville. Man, that is a nasty prison.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They swabbed his arm. They didn't seem to have a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: problem doing lethal injection with him. I guess Texas gets
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it right and Tennessee just can't get it over. I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: still can't get over the fact that they swabbed their
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: arms before they find the vein to put in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: lethal injection. And by the way, we still I must
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: apologize to you, Natalie. I haven't been able to figure
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: out why it is she objected to getting electrocuted, wanted
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to choose hanging as the alternative, because she said initially,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: my veins are small. You'll never find a vein. You know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to cause all kinds of problems. That's a
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: reason she couldn't be put in the electric chair, which
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: was an option in Tennessee was she was a practicing
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Buddhist in jail. I cannot fathom that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, her having the small veins may
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: end up being the best thing that ever happened to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: her because now they may commute her death sentence. It
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: really sounds like that could happen in this case for
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: many reasons.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: By the way, she went through cruel and unusual punishment.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: She did. That's what the Eighth Amendment says. If you
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: can't be put through that, and if so, you can't
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: be put to death. So it's very possible. I'm not
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: saying it's going to happen, but it's very possible that
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: they commute her sentence on constitutional grounds.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is it's a political issue. Bill
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Lee is not running again. Marsha Blackburn stepping out of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Senate to run for governor is a Republican candidate.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: She goes, I'm governor. We're going to execute her. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all these races are so close. They're grabbing on. All
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the candidates are grabbing on to every conceivable issue. I'll
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: electrocute her. The Democrat obviously would not.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: It is amazing at this time of year, and it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: going to get ridiculous as we get closer, that everything
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: becomes a campaign issue. Well, you know this. Anything that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you do wrong, anything that somebody stumbles on, anything that
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: happens in the news, suddenly that's going to affect your race.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Well, up next, we don't have Rob Astorino with us today.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He's traveling, but we have the new Marist poll on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the governor's race in New York. And I did the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: polls on it, Larry. It's not bad for Bruce Blakeman.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: He's really gaining steam. We'll give you some oversight before
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: his one and one and only debate that's scheduled for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: October 13th with Governor Hochul up next. I got to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: tell you, if you're a supporter of Bruce Blakeman to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: beat Kathy Hochul, you got to be feeling good after
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: this Marist poll. Every poll that's of worthy viewing has
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: what you call pull tabs. That means they have extensively
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: bisected and dissected every conceivable angle of a potential election.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: They've made calls, texts, emails, because they know a lot
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of people don't answer phones. And obviously they had the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: way the registration goes. 30% independents, 31% Republicans, and about 38% Democrats.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You know, just in and around what the registration rates are.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And this was a good poll, even though it tends
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to lean left. So overall, they say he's 11 points behind,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: which is a better situation than Zeldin was in because
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Zeldin was pro-life and Blakeman is pro-choice. So that's not
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: going to hurt him in the final sprint. The only
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: problem he has is that if you are going to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: win the governorship and he's doing well in the suburbs
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and upstate and he's winning the independents because they break late,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he's got to get at least 30, 32 percent in
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the city of New York because the vote is weighted
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: so much in the city. Now, if you're looking at
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that and you're a team Blakeman, you say we got
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to put more effort in New York City. We can
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: get a few more percentage points up. We might be
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: able to not only narrow the gap, we may be
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: able to beat Kathy Hochul because of her unlikability. Over
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and over, you're seeing all these polls. People are not
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: happy with the direction of the state. They're not happy
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: with Kathy Hochul. In fact, Democrats statewide who do better
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: than she does, they're not even running for governor. First
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: is Zorhan, two, AOC. The only one doing worse is Schumer.
• 28:31
  Speaker 19: That's true.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: That is very true. Although I will say she still
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: was up double digits and she's still up over 50%.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I do know when you look into the independents and
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you look into upstate and you look into some other things,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: some of the polls that are underneath the polls, then
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you do see an opening for Blakeman. But I'm a
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: little disappointed that he's still in a poll behind double
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: digits and she still gets over 50%. So he definitely
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: has some work to do. And look, I'm rooting for him.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I want him to win. I think it'd be good
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: for the state. It's not just because I'm a Republican.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be good for everybody if Blakeman were
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: to win that. And he certainly is running on all
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the right things on electric bills, on affordability, on crime.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, he has a great story to tell. In
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the Long Island on crime. I mean, he has a
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: tremendous story to tell. So, listen, I am pulling for him,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: but I don't think the polling, I'm not as optimistic
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: about the polling at this moment. It can always change
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: as you are.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, having been used to doing these polls here.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and you can see the direction that some votes are going.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Because remember, a lot more independents are going to probably
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: break for him. They always break in like the last
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: two weeks. The independents are the last to break because
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they don't have loyalties. Like if I'm a Republican, you're
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: generally loyal to Blakeman. If you're a Democrat, you're loyal
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to Hochul. Independents are up for grabs, so it's good
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: that they're starting to break for Blakeman. The other thing is,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: just looking at his campaign, you and I, we were
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: both laughing our tuchuses off at his initial TV commercials.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: All of it was AI. It was horrible. You know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you say, how low budget? He was having a problem
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: getting money because they had denied him the matching funds
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that for the first time are available in statewide campaigns.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: over what the Democrats did, which was stack the panel.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So he had a late start. He's now surging in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: terms of his money. So I think the TV commercials
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: are sharp. He looks good. Some of the people who
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: are featured in the commercials look like real New York
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: State residents. They don't look like actors or actresses. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I just think if he can spend a little more
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: time in the five boroughs where his vote is and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the independent vote is, He might be able to pull
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: an upset because the unlikability for Hochul is huge. In fact,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: we have the Halloween parade coming up in Greenwich Village,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: which I'm always in with the Guardian Angels. Let me
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: tell you something. The perfect Wicked Witch of the East
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with the broom and the witch garb would be Kathy Hochul.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. And listen, I am rooting for
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman. I really like him personally, and I like
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: him as a candidate, and certainly he's a Republican. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: don't see what you're seeing right now. And listen, New
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: York all the time, I keep hearing this about people
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that run in statewide races for the last decade. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: it's Charlie Brown's football. I hear all the good signs. Oh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: this is going to happen. This looks pretty good. If
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you really dig down deep in the polls, you can
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: see how this is going to change. And it never,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: ever does.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: His only problem in the poll, and you saw this,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. He is not popular in New York State.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He's not popular in New York City. In fact, it's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: not his only problem, by the way. No, but it's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: one of the few states where he actually loses some
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: support from Republicans when you look at the breakouts, whereas
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in other states, he's very solid with the Republicans. And
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Bruce is loyal. As you see, he has not moved away,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: even though every ad we see on TV is MAGA, TRUMP. Bruce.
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Well, he can't move away. There's no way he can
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: move away. He can't lose Republican support.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: But the way he's navigating it, the way he started
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: very poorly, you know, it's all about momentum. And you
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can close a gap if you have the momentum. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: don't see momentum for Kathy Hochul. I just see a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: lot of unlike abilities in these polls.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I know, and I hate to be on the other
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: side of this, but sometimes reality puts you in an
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: uncomfortable position. And I think the reality is, at this point,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it would take a miracle for him to win.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Well, the one reality in this poll is Chuck Schumer,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the schlepper, the schmuck, the putz. He's dead on arrival.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Just imagine, hypothetically. The Democrats have the majority in the Senate.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And one thing I want to say is up in Maine,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they have four debates for the U.S. Senate, four debates
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in nine days. Remember, I'm the one saying you got
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to have debates. Iowa, two debates. There are debates all
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: over the country. Two is the limit, sometimes more. And
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: yet here in New York, one debate, one debate only.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That's nonsense.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: But it's a democratic state and the Democrat is in
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the lead and they get to call the shots. And
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that happens in state after state after state. If the
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: race was closer. there'd be a push for more debates,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: a real push for more debates.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It should be mandatory. The public is entitled to that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, in some states there's no debates. In some
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: states there are absolutely no debates because the person in
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: front who is already in office is winning by a lot.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: So this isn't that unusual. I agree with you. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: agree with you 100%.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Well, up next, we're going to be talking to John Decker,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: our WOR White House correspondent. The president has spent now
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: three different trips in Texas to help Paxton. But I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: was shocked to see that Governor Abbott, that I thought
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: would at least be double-digit ahead, he's so popular, is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: now in a neck-and-neck race against the Hispanic female Democrat
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in Texas up next after the news at 7.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: Our own John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent, once.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Again was the star of of the White House poll. John,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: you've got a lot of questions. And I want to
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: start off by asking you about Iran, because Iran, it's interesting,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: has really, you know, when you watch the local news,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: even the national news, it's now the third, fourth story.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't lead like it used to anymore. It's a
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: story that almost plays out in the background. And we
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: don't always get updates. So as of right now, where
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: does the war stand? And is there any hope of
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: it ending soon?
• 34:51
  Speaker 19: Well, the president says that talks related to ending the
• 34:57
  Speaker 19: war will really begin in earnest after the midterm elections.
• 35:00
  Speaker 19: He doesn't expect an end to the war before November
• 35:03
  Speaker 19: the 3rd. The president has said that essentially Iran is decimated.
• 35:09
  Speaker 19: And he also speaks about how A significant amount of
• 35:13
  Speaker 19: oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz, he says,
• 35:16
  Speaker 19: sometimes as much as or more than before the war
• 35:21
  Speaker 19: began in late February. That all being said, although you're right, Larry,
• 35:25
  Speaker 19: the war does not lead the newscast local or national.
• 35:29
  Speaker 19: What often does is just issues related to affordability, which
• 35:34
  Speaker 19: is the main issue in this midterm campaign, no matter
• 35:38
  Speaker 19: what race you're talking about all across the country.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, the president has stepped into Texas three
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: times now. I never originally would have thought that he'd
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: be spending so much time there trying to help Paxton.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: But I'm looking at the poll with Abbott, Governor Abbott,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: a very popular governor. And I think now, I think
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I realize why I and Larry a month ago were
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: talking about why he was putting the brakes on the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: AI data centers, the flock cameras. He's in a very
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: close race with Gina, you know, or Joseph, I'm probably
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: mispronouncing your name. Right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: The Democrat who's running against him. Is there a ripple
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: effect taking place in Texas in which Trump may not
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: be able to help the Republicans?
• 36:23
  Speaker 19: Well, that's if the polls are to be believed. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 19: don't know if the polls are accurate, but it is
• 36:30
  Speaker 19: pretty consistent that poll after poll. You just look at
• 36:33
  Speaker 19: all the polls that have been taken regarding, first of all,
• 36:36
  Speaker 19: the Senate race. And it's just all blue in terms
• 36:39
  Speaker 19: of the advantage that Tallarico has over Ken Paxton. As
• 36:43
  Speaker 19: for the governor's race, you know, the president went down
• 36:46
  Speaker 19: to San Antonio yesterday to campaign for both of these candidates.
• 36:51
  Speaker 19: Skipping that event was Governor Abbott. I think that's a
• 36:54
  Speaker 19: big mistake, you know, but that's what.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: He decided to do.
• 36:57
  Speaker 19: He said he had a fundraiser elsewhere in the state
• 37:00
  Speaker 19: the same time as this event in California. San Antonio,
• 37:04
  Speaker 19: I say you reschedule your fundraiser to be with the
• 37:07
  Speaker 19: president because the president's the one that's going to energize Republicans.
• 37:12
  Speaker 19: You spoke of the Republican Governor Abbott as being popular.
• 37:16
  Speaker 19: I don't know if that's the case. If he was popular,
• 37:18
  Speaker 19: polls wouldn't show this race as close as it is
• 37:21
  Speaker 19: right now, Curtis.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, you nailed it when you
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: talked about affordability being the number one issue right now.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: And that may be one of the big reasons since
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: we're in the middle of the midterm or we're nearing
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the end of a midterm election that it doesn't get
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the coverage that it used to. And certainly nothing really
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: is going on. There's no talks. But affordability is the
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: number one issue. And so Donald Trump got some bad
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: news when it came out that 30-year mortgage rates were
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: have hit the highest number in three years. And that's
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: just horrible timing for him and the rest of the Republicans.
• 37:59
  Speaker 19: Well, I asked the president about this yesterday as he
• 38:02
  Speaker 19: was departing the White House. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage
• 38:06
  Speaker 19: rate right now, average nationwide, 7.49%. As you point out, Larry,
• 38:11
  Speaker 19: it's the highest rate in three years. And that's just
• 38:15
  Speaker 19: decimating the The housing market, and the president acknowledged that.
• 38:18
  Speaker 19: He says that mortgage rates will come down after the
• 38:20
  Speaker 19: war concludes. And that may be the case, but there's
• 38:23
  Speaker 19: no end to the war in sight. And in the meantime,
• 38:26
  Speaker 19: it just makes it that much more difficult to buy
• 38:29
  Speaker 19: a new home or to move to a new home
• 38:32
  Speaker 19: if you're contemplating that, just because you might be locked
• 38:34
  Speaker 19: in to a mortgage that's 3% or less. It's difficult
• 38:38
  Speaker 19: to make that leap to another home if you're paying
• 38:42
  Speaker 19: a mortgage rate in the neighborhood of 7.5%.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: John Decker, I want you to look back. We had
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: anointed you our expert on the reflecting pool before our
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: nation's birthday, July 4th, 250th birthday. And the president was
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: rushing to get the reflection pool in shape. There's been
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: all kinds of problems since, but he won't give up
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: talking about vandals. When it was just even the contractor
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: themselves have said, hey, we just weren't up for the job.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: And I guess yesterday he was talking about, oh, yeah,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to make it vandal proof. Why doesn't he
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: just let this go?
• 39:19
  Speaker 19: I don't know. You'd have to ask the president that question.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: The U.S.
• 39:24
  Speaker 19: Attorney for the District of Columbia, as you know, dropped
• 39:28
  Speaker 19: charges against an individual charge. with vandalism. The federal judge
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: overseeing that case said you can't bring charges against that
• 39:35
  Speaker 19: individual again. And as you point out, this was a
• 39:38
  Speaker 19: botched job by the contractor. That's the reason why there's
• 39:43
  Speaker 19: so much work that's going on concerning the reflecting pool
• 39:48
  Speaker 19: at the Lincoln Memorial. So I I don't know why
• 39:50
  Speaker 19: he continues focusing on that particular issue. He was asked
• 39:54
  Speaker 19: about it yesterday. That's the reason why he brought it up.
• 39:56
  Speaker 19: But I don't know why he continues, speaking of vandals,
• 39:59
  Speaker 19: being responsible for all that damage at the reflecting pool.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: There is still a concern globally and in this country
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: about the pneumonic plague that we don't know exactly what
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: happened in Russia, and we're trying to get answers on it.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: And Donald Trump said yesterday they had a call set
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: up with Putin, I guess two days ago, to coincide
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: with Putin's birthday on Wednesday, which would have been yesterday.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Did that phone call happen?
• 40:26
  Speaker 19: Well, the president said that he was scheduled to speak
• 40:29
  Speaker 19: with Putin. That was when he left the White House
• 40:31
  Speaker 19: en route to San Antonio. I imagine the call happened,
• 40:33
  Speaker 19: given the time difference between D.C.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: And Moscow.
• 40:39
  Speaker 19: And I would imagine the president brought this up. I mean, certainly,
• 40:42
  Speaker 19: I know that Our diplomats have brought it up with Russia.
• 40:47
  Speaker 19: They want more information concerning this death of this lab
• 40:51
  Speaker 19: worker at that lab in Siberia. The World Health Organization
• 40:55
  Speaker 19: wants more information regarding the death of that lab worker.
• 40:59
  Speaker 19: Hopefully the president got satisfactory answers from President Putin. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 19: imagine he did speak with him yesterday, and maybe we'll
• 41:07
  Speaker 19: get a readout on that call, Larry, today.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Wait a second, John. You keep saying, I imagine he did,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: and he said he was going to, but there's been
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: no confirmation that he actually spoke with him?
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Well, no.
• 41:18
  Speaker 19: So no readout coming from the White House concerning that call.
• 41:21
  Speaker 19: That's what I'm referring to. And typically you do. You
• 41:23
  Speaker 19: get a readout either or both. from the U.S. side,
• 41:27
  Speaker 19: and in this case from the Russian side, but we
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: haven't seen that just yet. And the president, as you mentioned,
• 41:31
  Speaker 19: said that he was scheduled to speak with President Putin
• 41:34
  Speaker 19: to coincide with his birthday.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: You know, yesterday they had the debate in Iowa for
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Senate. The sitting senator, Ashley Hinson, the Republican
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: versus Josh Turek, the Democrat. And the two big issues there,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the heartland of America, was the war in Iran and tariffs.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: How do you see the rest of the way in
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: this sprint where there are so many close Senate races,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: which was unexpected a while back?
• 42:02
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it's really unexpected. And as a result, Democrats really
• 42:06
  Speaker 19: do have a path to win back control of the Senate.
• 42:09
  Speaker 19: I think at the very beginning of this cycle, it
• 42:12
  Speaker 19: was really hard to imagine that they would be able
• 42:15
  Speaker 19: to flip four seats, which would allow them to regain
• 42:18
  Speaker 19: control of the Senate. But I was one of those places, Ashley.
• 42:23
  Speaker 19: Hinson is a congresswoman. She's running for the U.S. Senate.
• 42:27
  Speaker 19: She's running to fill the seat of Joni Ernst, a
• 42:30
  Speaker 19: Republican who's stepping down. And recent polls actually show there's
• 42:34
  Speaker 19: a governor's race and there's a race for the Senate
• 42:36
  Speaker 19: in Iowa. And Democrats in both of those races, according
• 42:40
  Speaker 19: to polls, are leading. That's pretty remarkable given how much
• 42:44
  Speaker 19: President Trump won Iowa by in 2024, won it all
• 42:48
  Speaker 19: three times he competed. But, you know, those two issues
• 42:51
  Speaker 19: really are affecting Iowans. The war in the sense that
• 42:55
  Speaker 19: high diesel prices for all that farm equipment and tariffs
• 42:58
  Speaker 19: also related to the agriculture industry in Iowa impacted by
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: the president's terrorist policy. And then, you know, you could
• 43:06
  Speaker 19: just go around the country, all the other places. I'm
• 43:08
  Speaker 19: going to travel with the president coming up, not only
• 43:11
  Speaker 19: on Saturday, right now it's scheduled. We'll see if it
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: gets rescheduled, but he's traveling down South to Tennessee and
• 43:17
  Speaker 19: to Alabama for the Alabama Georgia game. And then next week,
• 43:21
  Speaker 19: Larry and Curtis, I'm on a two-day trip out west,
• 43:24
  Speaker 19: including all the way out to Alaska. And there's a
• 43:27
  Speaker 19: really competitive Senate race in Alaska as well. And the
• 43:30
  Speaker 19: president wants to help out Senator Dan Sullivan, help him.
• 43:34
  Speaker 19: to try to get over the finish line and win
• 43:36
  Speaker 19: a third term in the U.S. Senate.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing everything he can. He even offered $ 5, 000
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: to every adult American if he wins, and I'm surprised
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: that kind of just went away. People talk about it
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: every once in a while. I thought for sure even
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: the idea of that would have been challenged in court,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: but has it been?
• 43:56
  Speaker 19: Well, because there's nothing to challenge. As they say in.
• 44:00
  Speaker 19: In legal circles, the case isn't ripe yet because the
• 44:03
  Speaker 19: president hasn't done that yet. He's just making a promise.
• 44:06
  Speaker 19: So there's no lawsuit to be had. Now, there may
• 44:09
  Speaker 19: be one if two things happen. One, Republicans need to
• 44:13
  Speaker 19: retain control of the House and the Senate, and that
• 44:16
  Speaker 19: seems difficult. And then two, that proposal is actually introduced
• 44:22
  Speaker 19: as legislation in Congress. And I'll see if that happens.
• 44:27
  Speaker 19: We'll see if that happens. I don't think that the
• 44:31
  Speaker 19: votes are there to pass such a proposal. But, you know,
• 44:35
  Speaker 19: that's one of those things that the president is promising
• 44:38
  Speaker 19: out on the campaign trail in an effort to, you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 19: just really energize voters to support for Republicans who are
• 44:44
  Speaker 19: running in various offices, whether it's in the House or
• 44:47
  Speaker 19: the Senate.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: And then he'll be able to blame somebody else when
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: it doesn't pass. He wanted to do it, but it
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: didn't get passed. This is brilliant.
• 44:54
  Speaker 19: Well, yeah, I mean, I think that's right. Don't blame voters.
• 44:59
  Speaker 19: They don't vote for Republicans and retain control of Congress.
• 45:03
  Speaker 19: But I also think that, you know, when we look
• 45:05
  Speaker 19: down the road, you know, and you and I and
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: Curtis are speaking a few weeks from now after the midterms,
• 45:11
  Speaker 19: there will be blame that the president will, you know,
• 45:13
  Speaker 19: point fingers at. And I think he's going to point
• 45:15
  Speaker 19: his fingers at some of the candidates that were running.
• 45:17
  Speaker 19: You know, I would not be surprised if You know,
• 45:19
  Speaker 19: the president points fingers at Ken Paxton, even though he's
• 45:22
  Speaker 19: the one who put the thumb on the scale so
• 45:25
  Speaker 19: that Ken Paxton was the Republican nominee over John Cornyn,
• 45:28
  Speaker 19: the sitting incumbent Republican senator. But Ken Paxton has turned
• 45:32
  Speaker 19: out to be a really bad candidate this election cycle.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: That's for sure. He's like a blabbermouth and all of
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: his private conversations get recorded. Does he pat down donors
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: before he talks to them? Because we hear all of
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: his complaints that get aired nationally.
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: He should do that.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, John, we got to go.
• 45:52
  Speaker 19: Go to a metal detector or something.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. John Decker, W.O.O. White House and Washington correspondent,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: host of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: John Decker. That could be heard. on the iHeartRadio app.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Talk to you again soon, John. Thank you.
• 46:06
  Speaker 19: Thanks, Barry. Thanks, Curtis.
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: Bye-bye.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Well, Curtis's favorite performer, Ella Langley. You're going to be
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: upset at this. She's fallen from number one.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Ella who?
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Ella Langley. You love the song. I still don't know her.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Choose in Texas.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I've heard you singing it.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Choose in Texas.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was number one for 25 weeks. Longest run ever. Well,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: it has fallen. To somebody you like.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Raspberry.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: We have heard us talk about her before. She was
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: already a huge country music star. But overnight... She became
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: one of the biggest stars in the country.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Come on. And you insist that this was number one
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: 25 straight weeks.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I insist. Billboard says it was.
• 46:48
  Speaker 13: It's not growing on you yet?
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: No.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I think if we were to send Natalie Magliore into
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: the streets, and what is her name again?
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Ella Langley.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And ask people, do you know Ella Langley? You won't
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: even get one person to say who. Oh, come on.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Not true. Oh, I'll bet you. No, I think people
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: of a.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Certain age group don't know who she is. But hip
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: people know who she is.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Hip people?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Hip people know who she is. She's big. She's really big.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: She's everywhere on TV.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I've asked our program director, Tom Cuddy, who knows quite
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: a bit about the music industry all the years, that
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: he programmed FM stations. If, in fact, you can make
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: comparisons to what they claim now versus years ago, and
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: hopefully he'll get back to us with a detailed report,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: because I don't believe it. There's no answer after that buildup?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I don't believe it.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Well, they do go by streaming now, which is a
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: little bit different.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I agree. It's a hard comparison.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But it is the number one of... The moment.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: But you're still competing against your contemporaries. So yeah, it's
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: just like it was in the past. Before it was
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: album and single sales. Now it's streaming.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Declare me a doubting, Thomas. I doubt it. So who
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: replaced her as the queen?
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, your other favorite.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: The real queen. She won't give that stuff up. Attacking men.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: She's like the head of the man-haters club of America.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: When was the last one she did attacking men? A
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: few years ago.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Joe Jonas. No, she did four. Four drops. One of
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: them was against Joe Jonas now.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: She's married.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Give it up, lady.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Whatever inspires you to hit. She's become very rich doing
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: exactly what you said. Why would she give that up?
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: We know that.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: And by the way, you think there's a prenup there
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: with Kelsey?
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't.
• 48:38
  Speaker 20: Oh, come on.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: It has to be.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: I thought it's true love, the way she makes it sound.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: They both are.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Very, very rich. She is obnoxiously rich, but he's got
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of money, too.
• 48:48
  Speaker 13: I have no problem if they feel they need to
• 48:51
  Speaker 13: have it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: All I'm saying is, Kelsey, Kelsey, your day is coming.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: There will be four drop albums on your head.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Is that negative on everything?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: She is the president of the Man Haters Club of America.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: No, she's not. Let's get to some talkbacks.
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: Less than a month ago before these elections, can we
• 49:10
  Speaker 10: do a little test of polling?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Because I keep hearing this word polling.
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: This this mind-numbing ridiculous word called polling that doesn't make
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: any sense and doesn't mean anything to anybody.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Can you start checking out the polls from now until
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: election day and see how wrong they actually are and
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: then maybe after election day we could stop using that
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: word forever No, we shouldn't start using it forever. But
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: I understand exactly your anxiety about polling and the reason
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: you don't believe polling, because polling has been wrong. They've
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: been bad over the last few years, ever since cell
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: phones were came around. They were they've been actually bad.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: And they always seem to undercount Republicans. So that's the
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: only thing you can have some faith in.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: All these agreed to debates. There are more debates than
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen before between candidates who view their races
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: as close. That means their own internal polls, which they control,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: are suggesting that it's neck and neck.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, but they might be just as bad as the
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: regular polls.
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: Look, the.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: The governor's race in New York was lost for the
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: Republicans the day Donald Trump snubbed Elise Stefanik and refused
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: to endorse her and basically tacitly gave the run to Blakeman.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: People upstate don't know Blakeman. He's a great guy, I'm sure,
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: as a county executive, but he's never going to get
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: the city vote. He's never going to get the downstate vote.
• 50:38
  Speaker 19: It's just lost.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really well said. I'm not sure Elise
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Stefanik would do that much better, although I love her. Yeah,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: but that was a major mistake. But Bruce Blakeman, apparently,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: if this is true, the president will be joining him
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: upstate New York, which is unusual because he's avoided going
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: to blue states to be continued. Now let's get to
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger with the 730 News, Daria.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: You're right, Curtis.
• 51:04
  Speaker 15: He'll be here tomorrow. He'll be in the state tomorrow.
• 51:06
  Speaker 15: It's going to campaign up in Syracuse, actually. So you
• 51:09
  Speaker 15: are right about that. Sunny, warmer and breezy today. High
• 51:12
  Speaker 15: 75 degrees. One local team has been eliminated from the
• 51:16
  Speaker 15: playoffs and another one is on the brink. The Yankees
• 51:19
  Speaker 15: closed the books on their 2026 season after last night's
• 51:22
  Speaker 15: 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay. The Rays sweeping the ALDS.
• 51:26
  Speaker 15: And the Liberty must win tomorrow night if they want
• 51:28
  Speaker 15: to move on to the WNBA Finals. They trail Atlanta
• 51:31
  Speaker 15: 2-0 after last night's loss. Game 4 is tomorrow night
• 51:34
  Speaker 15: at Barclays. We are all Jane Doe. That is the
• 51:38
  Speaker 15: focus of rallies across the country in support of a
• 51:40
  Speaker 15: woman who claims she was gang raped at Cornell University
• 51:44
  Speaker 15: at a fraternity house in 2024. and other sexual assault victims.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: As Cornell students stage hours-long sit-ins and demand the expulsion
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: of Chi Phi fraternity members who remain on campus, Jane
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: Doe's attorney Thomas Jufra says his client is receiving death threats.
• 52:00
  Speaker 15: It comes as Cornell taps former acting U.S.
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review into
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: how it handled the initial report.
• 52:07
  Speaker 14: I think that's a systemic problem. I don't think it's
• 52:09
  Speaker 14: just Cornell that handles things that way.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: Meantime, Jufra described a swanning incident at his client's home
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: where her family was faced with a heavily armed law
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: enforcement response. Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 52:23
  Speaker 15: A Bronx man is under arrest. He's accused of pushing
• 52:25
  Speaker 15: his ex-girlfriend and their infant daughter off a balcony, killing her.
• 52:30
  Speaker 15: The baby is in critical condition. Angel Carrasco is charged
• 52:33
  Speaker 15: with murder, attempted murder, and a number of other offenses.
• 52:36
  Speaker 15: All eyes are on Isaias, which could be the first
• 52:39
  Speaker 15: Atlantic hurricane of the season.
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  Speaker 21: Millions bracing for Hurricane Isaias. Expected to make landfall along
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  Speaker 21: the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday, possibly
• 52:50
  Speaker 21: as a Category 2 storm. with a storm surge of
• 52:53
  Speaker 21: up to 7 feet and up to 10 inches of rain.
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  Speaker 21: Emergencies already declared in parts of Florida and Alabama.
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  Speaker 15: ABC's Sophie Flay. Now, this storm, which is not going
• 53:02
  Speaker 15: to be anywhere near us as far as the hurricane
• 53:04
  Speaker 15: is concerned, but we could feel some effects of it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 15: It's expected to bring some heavy rain to New Jersey
• 53:09
  Speaker 15: late this weekend and early next week. The Isles hosts
• 53:12
  Speaker 15: Chicago tonight. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm
• 53:16
  Speaker 15: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Daria. Well, Stephen A. Smith, who I like
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: very much, owes an apology, and I mean a real apology,
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: to one of the greatest football players of all time
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: who just retired because of a bout with mental illness.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: And Stephen A. Smith was incredibly inappropriate. We'll tell you
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: what he said. We'll play you what he said next.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: You may not know who Lane Johnson is because offensive
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: linemen aren't star players. They don't get a lot of
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: headlines or publicity. But Lane Johnson may be the best
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman to ever play. And if he's not, he's
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: at least in the conversation. When Lane Johnson played over
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: 17 years, the Philadelphia Eagles won two out of every
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: three games. Even in down years, they would win. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: they would make the playoffs almost every year. And a
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: lot of it was because of Lane Johnson. Some years
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: would go by and he wouldn't give up a sack. Well,
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: against the Rams, not this last weekend. Yeah, last weekend,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: he said he couldn't play for personal reasons. Now, a
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago, he missed five games because of
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: mental health problems. So everybody went, uh-oh. And now he
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: has announced that he is retiring. And again, it's because
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: of mental health reasons. And he says, I just have
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: to take care of myself. So everybody was applauding him.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Everybody was talking about what a great career. Everybody understood
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: except apparently Stephen A.
• 54:52
  Speaker 9: Smith. Four games in to the 20, to the 2026 season,
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: a dude that has been in the league forever sits
• 55:01
  Speaker 9: back and says.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I need to focus on my mental health. He laughed
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: at him at the end of that. Now he was
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: sitting with four other people and you should have seen
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: their faces.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: And they generally never give him a hard time because
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: they know with Stephen A. Smith, your time today, Could
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: be ended tomorrow being part of his colleagues.
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. But man, they did not like what he
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: was saying. And he went on for a long time,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: blasting Lane Johnson, accusing him of only quitting because the
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: team wasn't playing well.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: There's no way you're undefeated.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: You're winning football games.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: You're thriving. Everybody's got Super Bowl in their sights. You
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: walk away.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: You walk away because it's a very, very, very bad situation.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't look to be getting any better.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: And this brother say, hey, my life matters.
• 55:59
  Speaker 9: It's time.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call it quits. My mental health, my
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: mental Lord.
• 56:06
  Speaker 22: That's trouble for the Philadelphia Eagles, and everybody in the
• 56:09
  Speaker 22: city of brotherly love knows it.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a lie. That's an outright lie, because in
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia right now, all everybody is doing is praising Lane Johnson,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: doing accolades to him. hoping he gets better. That was
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: a lie. And Stephen A. Smith is from Philadelphia. He
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: should know better than that. He owes an apology. He
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: gave a half-hearted one last night. You need a full-throated apology.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: We don't need to hear that you had mental health problems, too.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: To tell you the truth, you're just trying to jump
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: on his bandwagon at this point and get some sympathy.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: He had real mental health problems. He had to give
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: up five games three years ago because of mental health problems.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: And he's been going across the country trying to help
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: other people with mental health problems and other players.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: It feels like doom. You just want to run away
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: and not.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Come back kind of thing.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of Nausea, a lot of throwing up
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: You threw up every day from this?
• 57:08
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: It got so bad. I was really starting to throw
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: up blood. Nerves really have tremors in my hands. This
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: is something I've dealt with for a long time.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: This is what happens when you're a shock jock and
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: you're looking for clicks. As you said, Stephen A. Smith
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the sports guy.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: He spent a lot of time in that town. He's
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: got a lot of contacts. He knows better. This reminds
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: me of when we were on the hunt to find
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Tom Kane Jr. Remember, he was missing in action. We
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: were having some fun at his expense because nobody knew.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: And then when he finally had that press conference, you remember?
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: And he finally revealed it was a mental health situation.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Remember how both you and I were like, oh, and
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: even his opponents and everybody said, yeah, that's a real
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: problem in America. Now, should he have continued running? I
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: say no, but that's a choice he made. And the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: voters will have to determine if he gets elected or unelected.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: But I remember the both of us were like, oh, man,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: how misjudged we were about his situation. It had nothing
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: to do with his physical health. It was a mental
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: health issue that Americans of all different backgrounds are going
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: through now. And for Stephen A. Smith to make really
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: cast dispersions and make fun and then a half-hearted apology
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: late at night where he suddenly he, oh, you know,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I had mental health issues. Come on, guy. He should
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: completely come clean and stop this.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: And he said people misunderstood what he said and he
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: was never putting him down. That's not true. We heard it.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: There's tape of it. You absolutely made light of the
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: fact that he had serious and still has serious mental
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: health problems. And the biggest lie he said was when
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: he said, and everybody in Philadelphia knows it, And everybody,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia is not buying this. That's such BS. And he
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: knows better. I don't know what he was trying to do.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I've ascribed to what you said a moment ago that
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: it was probably. just this is his thing and this
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: is for bites. He's going to get lots of views
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: now on YouTube. But is that worth it? Is it
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: worth it to make people feel small that have mental
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: health problems across the country for your own personal gain
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: for a few more clicks?
• 59:27
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: For a few more Benjamins in your paycheck? Is that
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: worth it? Really, you have to. And look, I like
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Stephen A.
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: Smith.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith has always been very good to me.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: I know him in Philadelphia. He's come through for me
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: a couple of times when nobody else would. So I
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: really appreciate him. But Stephen, you're wrong on this one.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: You were wrong, and I think you know you're wrong.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: We'd love to get some talkbacks on this. You just
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: go to the iHeartRadio app. You look for 710WOR, and
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: then you see the talkback feature. There's a microphone. You
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: record what you want to say. We'll play it on
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: the air. If you don't like it, you can rerecord it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: So the talkbacks are coming up.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: It is your home.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: it is the story that everybody's talking about, the alleged
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: gang rape at Cornell University and the Cornell 7. And
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore went out to find out what New Yorkers
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: thought about the case in her Beat on the Street.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, rallies are taking place across the nation
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: in support of Cornell University's Jane Doe and other sexual
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: assault victims.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: As Cornell students.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: stage hours-long sit-ins and demand the expulsion of Chi Phi
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: fraternity members who still remain on campus because the fraternity
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: has been shut down. Jane Doe's attorney says his client
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: is receiving death threats. And so there seems to be, really,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: if you're paying attention to it, new details coming out
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: every day and new allegations, the he said, the she
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: said stuff. So what questions do New Yorkers have surrounding
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: this case? That stems from an alleged gang rape at
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: a frat house in October of 2024.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 23: Is there anywhere where people can look to, like, see, like,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 23: case details, things like that? Like, more witness statements from, like,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 23: the girls if she was in a sorority? Like, also, like,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 23: what has, like, Cornell actually done for providing a sense
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 23: of security for the women on campus?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 22: Terrible that in order to get an education, such a school,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 22: which is a great reputation and great expense, they have
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 22: to risk getting raped. Disgusting and it's terrible that it
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 22: happened there and I hope the administration is doing, trying
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 22: to do something about it.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, as Governor Hochul appoints New York State Attorney
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: General Letitia James a special prosecutor, Cornell taps former acting U.S.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: into how it handled the initial report. Cornell administration says
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: it did investigate the allegations, saying it took the report
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: seriously and escalated it to the Title IX process all
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: those years ago. The chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: why couldn't I think of that word, was closed in
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: 2024 and remains barred from campus. So the question becomes,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: Could Cornell have handled it differently?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 24: Do they really have an option? I don't think so.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 24: Because it's like, one, you will lose funding. And that's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 24: kind of what it is, you know. It's just like,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 24: it's all money. But what sucks is like, even using money,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 24: it's like you can't, you know, it's like, what are
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 24: we going to do, boycott Cornell? Like, you know, it's
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 24: not going to happen.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 14: I think that's a systemic problem. I don't think it's
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 14: just Cornell that handles things that way. So, if anything,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 14: there needs to be a nationwide movement rather than a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 14: specifically Cornell-oriented movement in order to address the problem.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: Now, a lot of people speaking out about it on
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: social media, but what's the deal with people not being
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: able to address the situation in person when I approach them?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 24: Well, I mean, the internet is to contain people's discontent
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 24: in general. You know, that's why most things, political action,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 24: maintains itself on social media.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Well, either way, it's a delicate topic that leaves people frustrated,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: but feeling as though there's nothing they can necessarily do.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: Violence is normalized.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 24: Displacement is normalized. If it ever gets covered in death
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 24: by the mainstream media, at that point, it's already gotten
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 24: to the point where it's politically safe for the media. party,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 24: the state party.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 23: Knowing that this happens on school regularly, I mean, this
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 23: stuff with the fraternities and stuff, it's not new. So
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 23: knowing that school isn't even a place that you can
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 23: find safety is crazy.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 14: I think it's been that way for a very long time.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 14: A very long time. I think, if anything, people are
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 14: just speaking out more now than they did before. And
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 14: we have to get to the bottom of the white
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 14: privileged male issue. Although they weren't all white, we have
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 14: to get to the bottom of that issue.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: How did she all of a sudden inject that into
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the discussion?
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: White privilege. They weren't all white.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: And we haven't heard anybody mention that in all the
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: days leading up to this. But you had to find
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the one SWA sister with an attitude who had to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: inject race into this discussion.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: It probably isn't the only person. There's some people that
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: have agendas and it comes into everything you talk about.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: And it's a shame. I was really taken by very
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: early on there was a woman that said, where can
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: we get more information? Where can we see this? There
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: is a thirst out there to learn everything about this case,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: but obviously they can't put out everything right now. It's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: going to go to trial. And they can't now discriminate
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: in the trial at all.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: And also, there are places where people are putting out information, obviously,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: all over the internet. Cornell has its own information page
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: that they update. It seems to be daily about how
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: they feel they handled the initial incident. And obviously, they've
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: now put Yates in charge of an independent review. So
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: there are.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, though.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: I mean.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: anybody sort of starts Googling, you know, who Jane Doe
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: is and they're trying to figure it out. And there's a,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: a slew of information, not just on who, what her,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: who her prudential identity is or who she may be,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: but also, you know, the messages that are tied to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 6: this incident that are also coming up, you know, Snapchat
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 6: messages that there are pictures of, you know, what was discussed, uh,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: that night of, of this hours long incident. So the,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: There are things that people want to know, and there
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: are certainly more questions that I got on the street
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: that I didn't have answers for because none of us
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: have answers for it.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: And people are going to have to put forward everything.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: So just wait. Let the process play out because way
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: too much stuff is leaking out.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: I have a question. I'm the only one of the
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: four of us who has not gone to college. I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: speak at colleges. And when I walk the campus area,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I always like to walk the campus area on campus,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: off campus. Whenever I make reference, hey, what's that house
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: off campus? Oh, yeah, that's a frat. And they roll
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: their eyes. It's like apparently there's more eye rolling of
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: frats off campus than there are frats on campus. Is
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: there a differentiation?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: I went to a Jesuit university, Fordham University, and we
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 6: did not have we did not have frats. We didn't
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: have Greek life, which was one of actually the reasons
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: why I chose it.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I wasn't interested in that.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 8: Smart.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: That's so smart.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 6: So and, you know, we used to party at at the.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 6: at the sports houses, like the sports teams had houses,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: but there was never this us versus them mentality with
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: sports teams and stuff. It was different, and it wasn't
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 6: that long ago.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Sports teams that had houses? Oh, nothing bad's going to
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: happen there. I don't know what happened.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I stayed outside.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: You were too drunk at the time?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: I plead the fifth. Oh, you're doing a Dr. Fauci now, huh?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: You got it when we get into that stuff.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's really interesting what you got there. And
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're going to be doing a beat on
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: the street for this in the near future as well.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, as this story grows.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: And I do think that people are just so concerned
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: about where this leads safety on and off campus around colleges.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: And around the country.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: When we come back, there's a lot new when it
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: comes to the Cornell University case. So we're going to
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: continue on this story. That's going to happen right after
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: the 8 o'clock news.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Well, a lot more is.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Leaking out from the Cornell University Jane Doe case. And
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: the more that leaks out, the worse it looks for
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: the fraternity and the boys. A lot of the testimony
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: that they gave to the Cornell University police is now
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: making it out. And this is the one that's getting
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: played a lot. Because... If you listen to this frat
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: brother's answer and he was not involved, but he saw
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: what was going on. If you listen to his answer,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: count how many times he uses the word consensual.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: What people were saying was that there was like multiple
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: consenting adults in this room.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 12: There is a consensual act that took place.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Um, and that's, it's.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 12: That's really what the general... Yeah, that was 20.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Seconds, and he said.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 12: Consensual three times. And of course, the investigator... And what
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 12: we're seeing on these.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Tapes is that at first....
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: The police at Cornell University were slammed. They actually did
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: a pretty good job. It was the university that didn't
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: turn over all of the information to the authorities.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Dude, I was in college.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 25: In college, I wouldn't have been like, oh, that was
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 25: a sick consensual act last night, right?
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: I guess, how do they.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: Know it was consensual?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 9: I mean, I can't recall.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 12: Exactly what was said, but yeah, I mean, they, they
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: said that they had sex.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: With her, I guess.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This guy does not want, he wants to be
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: anywhere else, but in that room with interrogated right now,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: at one point he said, okay, now who did you
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: recognize in there? And he said, I was really drunk.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: I don't remember anybody. And he goes, seriously, you're a
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: frat brother. You don't remember anyone else that was there?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: Who did you go with? I don't remember. So he said,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: you know, you could be in a lot of trouble.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Just from what you're saying right now, you could be
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: in a lot of trouble. Let me play one other thing,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: because for the first time, we are actually hearing from
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: Jane Doe, although she has not been identified.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 11: I was prostituted, and I was held up like.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I'm sorry. This is... This is something different.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: There is a tape of the voice of Jane Doe.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: That's not what this is. This is what Jane Doe,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: this is Aaron Katursky, who you've heard on the air
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: here many, many times. Since you can't, they're not allowing
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: her voice to be heard unless it is manipulated a
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: little bit so you can't tell who she is. And
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: we have some of that. This is what she told
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: the investigators at Cornell University. And it's much different than
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: what you've heard elsewhere.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 11: I was prostituted and I was held up like bait
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 11: for a gaggle of men. She said, I remember a
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 11: dark room with shadows of men in and out constantly,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 11: and I remember feeling like there was a joke and
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 11: I was not in on it. She ended her testimony
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 11: with a plea to her school. Please make it safer
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 11: for those I love and the community at large. Remove
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 11: those boys from campus.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: What?
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: That is so much different than everything we were told
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: that she said to investigators, that she wasn't sure, that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: she said it was okay in the beginning, but it
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't later. Now, and he is reading from the document
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: itself and watching the tapes himself, he is giving a
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: much different story. Every time this story takes a turn,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: it gets worse for the frat and for Cornell University.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling it's going to take a major
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: turn tomorrow, and not because of what's happening at Cornell,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: but nearby in Syracuse. where the president of the United
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: States will be joining Bruce Blakeman on a campaign stop.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: As you know, he's already commented on Tish James being
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the special prosecutor assigned by Kathy Hochul. More importantly, there's
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: now a filed legal petition on behalf of Jilio Lopez,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: one of seven, by his attorney to remove Tish James.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: To him, her.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: replace her with a special prosecutor that would be appointed
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: by the governor who is free from actual or perceived
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: conflicts of interest or bias. And this is all based
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: on her initial, if you remember, the Facebook post she
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: made prior to her being appointed by the governor's special prosecutor.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: I'm holding her in my heart and in my prayers
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: to her and to all survivors. You're not alone. We
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: stand with you. She's also running for re-election. She's in
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: the middle of a campaign. I would suggest that for
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: the good of all, she should recuse herself. We know
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: she won't. But that the governor should take an opportunity
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: here to have a come-to-Jesus meeting with her and say,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: we're going to appoint a special prosecutor. This should not
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: become a case about whether you're prejudiced or not prejudiced,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: because then it takes away. And you know, tomorrow, I
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: believe that Donald Trump, his hate, much of it merited
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: for Tish James, will boil over to the fact where
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: he's going to spend half of his time talking about
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the Attorney General.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: He definitely will mention it. There's no question. It's not
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: going to be half. He will make mention of it somewhere.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: But we're getting now a taste because all the attorneys
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: are starting to come out, including the attorneys for some
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: of the frat brothers. We're getting a taste now and
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: a feeling for what is going to happen at the
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: trial when it comes up and what the defense is
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: going to be. And it sounds like the defense is
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: going to be everything was consensual. Everything was consensual. She
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: knew exactly what she was doing. She was very aware
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: of what she was doing. She voluntarily... took drugs, and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: she voluntarily took alcohol because that plays in the New
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: York state law. And so a couple of the attorneys
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: have come forward, including Andrew Miltenberg, who is a prominent
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: defense attorney. You can tell whoever this bro is, his
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: parents have money.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: To him, her affect was such that she was coherent
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: and capable of making a decision. And she was an
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: active and engaged participant in their sexual encounter.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: There was so much legal speak in that sentence that
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: to him it was consensual. And that may be all
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: that matters in the defense.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I think they're now trying the case in the
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: court of public opinion because they want to try to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: get ahead of all the leaks of what actually was
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: said to the initial investigators, first from Cornell University and
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: maybe to the police department itself of Ithaca. But I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: got to tell you, I just know that amongst the seven,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: there are conversations with the family that are probably footing
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: the bill for big legal expenses. Look, I'll go to
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: the attorney general. I'll speak to whatever ADA is assigned
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: to this from the state. And I'll say you're going
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: to be a cooperating witness because whoever is the first
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: to become the cooperating witness will go scot-free. You know,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: that's part of the deal. And then you have to
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: identify everybody who is in there. And if you lie,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: you perjure yourself, you could go to jail. I'll bet
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: you they're having those conversations as we speak.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: And that may happen. My feeling is it's not going
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: to happen. And the reason I do is because... And look,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: I know this is an unpopular thing to say, but
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: it's the absolute truth. And if there's an attorney out there,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: a defense attorney, I'd love for you to call in
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: as well and just say to me, yep, yep, that's
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. There is a strong defense, and
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: you're hearing it now playing out. And the strong defense
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: is that in the mind of those men, it was consensual.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: Everything she did made it seem like it was consensual.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: And then they're going to say, and this is going
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: to be the strongest part because of the ridiculous law
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: they have about voluntary intoxication in New York State. Then
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: they're going to say, and she was heavily intoxicated. She
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: was drinking so much when she was there. We offered
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: the ketamine. We told her what it was and she
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: took it voluntarily. So not only was she drunk and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: she shouldn't even be able to remember many of the
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: things that happened, but early in the night, She made
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: it plain that, yes, she was willing.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what has already been acknowledged by all
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: parties is she was 10 shots up. That means even
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: before she came to the frat house, she had had
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: 10 shots of some kind of liquor, probably hard liquor.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: And then it was the ketamine was made available to
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: her at the frat party by the frat brothers, the
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: two who were with her initially, and then the invitation
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: for others to come. In fact, the main guy, the goofball,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: I call him, the ringleader, was saying he was snorting
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: ketamine off of her stomach. You know, so again, the
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: big ramifications here are nationally. Other universities are beginning to
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: do a lot of soul searching about how they're handling
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: these kinds of cases. Because if I remember correctly, I
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: was saying about one out of every 10 undergraduates who
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: end up being either sexually harassed or sexually assaulted in
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: their four years of college. That's a hell of a lot.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It's not even just in college. It's in
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: high school. It's at camp.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: It's in the workplace.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's way too much of this. And that's
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: why Jane Doe was Me Too before. And it comes
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: up and it rises every 10 years. And I hope
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: in 10 years we don't have to hear about this again.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: But I think one of the good things that is
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: going to happen from this case, because you're going to
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: hear about this a lot as the case unfolds, is
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: the voluntary intoxication law finally is going to go away.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: And I would love to know who was fighting for that,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: because they've been trying to change that for a decade.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: Who was saying no, no? no, we can't, we can't
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: get rid of that law. If a person is intoxicated
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: beyond being able to say yes or no, it's their fault.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: It's not the person that's having sex with them fault.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: It's their fault. That's such a ridiculous law. And I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: don't think anybody else in the country has it.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: Larry, if you understand the culture of Albany and all
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: the sexual assaults and sexual harassment of legislators against females
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: and female interns, you know where that opposition is coming from.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: There's a term. Anything north, you know, these are legislators
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: who have to go up three days a week when
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: they're in session. Whatever happens north of Bear Mountain stays
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: north of Bear Mountain.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: They should be ashamed.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: No more.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: They should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. That's the most
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: ridiculous law in the country.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: And dangerous.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: Anyway, you might have noticed a disclaimer on your Reese's
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: peanut butter pumpkin. We'll tell you why. Plus, a chance
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: to see A Bronx Tale, the one-man show starring Chaz Palminteri,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: live on stage next.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Now, Curtis, I just handed you a picture. And it
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: is Hershey's, and they're putting out a brand-new peanut butter
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: pumpkin product. And that's what the picture looks like. They're
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: now being sued over that, or they were sued over
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: that because the candy inside didn't match the packaging. So
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: the person that bought it expected whatever was inside to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: look exactly like that. And they were sued for false advertising.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: This is a Reese's peanut butter cup, which is now
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: owned by Hershey's.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, And a frivolous lawsuit? What lawyer, what slip and
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: fall lawyer filed this lawsuit?
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Well, it was thrown out. The lawsuit was thrown out.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: Thank God.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: Guess what? They changed their packaging because of that.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: All the thousands of packages?
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 14: Yep.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: They had to change their packaging because of that. Because
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: they thought some guy, that was obviously some guy that said,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make some money. You know, they'll settle.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: They'll settle with me and they'll give me a few thousand.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: They didn't.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: It was thrown out. But the fact that they now
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: have to spend all this money to repackage.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 13: So, you know, on the package now, they still have
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 13: the pumpkin that looks like a jack-o'-lantern. But now there's
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 13: a disclaimer that basically says carving not on actual product.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: OK, fine. It's not a carving.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: There's no carving in the first place.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: And I get it.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I love.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: The Reese's pumpkin.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 13: I mean, it tastes just like a Reese's peanut butter cup,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 13: but it's just the texture and it's really big.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: But if you don't have.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 13: That carving on the package, it just looks like a blob.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: You know, it just looks like an oval.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 13: So you can't, I guess you had to put it on.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: What product in the world has to match its packaging?
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 19: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 13: And they do a Christmas tree. It doesn't really look
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 13: like a Christmas tree so much, but nobody cares. You
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 13: just want to eat it.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: So I assume you, Natalie, will be going to that
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: new movie made about Hershey's and how they established and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: they had an orphanage and a feel-good movie, you know,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: this holiday season while you're eating your Reese's peanut butter cups.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like a bad idea.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: Are you a big candy eater?
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 13: I am not a huge candy eater, but I really
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 13: do love a Reese's.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Reese's is wonderful. That's a good pick. That's a good choice.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Let's get to some talkbacks.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 9: Good morning, everybody. Stephen A. Smith is a fool.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: He says things to get likes. He has no substance.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 9: He has no relevance.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: People that listen to him are as dumb as he is.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, he's making 30 mil as the angry
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: black man. And so he's got to deliver on ESPN
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: every day. He's got other lanes that he speaks on
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: politics now. But what he said. basically about somebody suffering
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: from mental illness who has publicly acknowledged it, toured the country,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: spoken about the horrors and what to do about it,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: and then made light of it and laughed at him
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: for leaving the sport that he loved. What did he play,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: 17 years, right?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 17 years, and he was All-Pro almost every year. Listen,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: Stephen A., I like the guy. I really do. I
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: got to know him, and he's done right by me. But, man,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: you've got to set some barriers. I know this is
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: how you made your money, but every once in a while,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: it's going to come back to bite you. And it
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: just did.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 21: Wow.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 20: This Stephen A. Smith thing is a real head scratcher.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 20: What he said, obviously, was stupid and not well thought out.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 20: But let's not do the same thing where we are
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 20: haters and throw him under the bus and say he's
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 20: awful and overreact. That statement should not define his whole career,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 20: although it really was pretty bad. So let's step back.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: I won't. And my feeling is today you're going to
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: hear another apology from Stephen A. Smith because he really
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: blundered the apology that he gave last night.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 8: This Cornell University situation is just one in a string
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 8: of things that are happening in society over and over again,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 8: which just goes to show, and this is probably an
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 8: unpopular opinion, we need to get back to morality and
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 8: faith and other things that provide underpinnings to our youth
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 8: in terms of what's right and wrong.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was wonderful. Let's end on that.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, because now's your chance to win a pair of
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: tickets to see a Bronx tale.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: Tell your father where you got the money.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 9: I worked at Crap Games and the guys gave me tips.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 22: Crap Games?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 9: What Crap Games?
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: I told you I worked for Sonny and he gave
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 6: me tips.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: I knew it.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: It's the one-man show starring Chaz Palminteri. Live on stage Sunday,
• 1:24:58
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• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: be the caller number 16 at 800-321-0710. That's 800-321-0710. And
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: you're the winner. Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. But
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: with that, it's 8.30. Let's get the news from Daria. Morning, guys.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 15: Sunny, warmer, and breezy today. We'll see a high of
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 15: 75 degrees. A New Jersey transit bus slams into a
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 15: house in Englewood.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 26: The bus driver just started the route when the bus
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 26: smashed into the front of a house on Rockwood Place
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 26: in Englewood at 5.45 in the morning. The driver taken
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 26: to the hospital with injuries. The bus did not have
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 26: any passengers. It's unclear if anyone inside the house was hurt.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 26: NJ Transit officials are investigating the cause of the crash.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 26: I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 15: A Bronx man has been charged with murder, attempted murder
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 15: and other offenses after police say he threw his ex-girlfriend
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 15: and their eight-month-old daughter off her apartment balcony. The woman
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 15: Natalie Ramirez was killed. The baby is in critical condition.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 15: Forecasters are watching Hurricane Isaias, which could be the first
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 15: Atlantic hurricane of the season.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 25: Officials warn the storm could strengthen quickly as it moves
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 25: over warm Gulf waters. Florida has declared a state of
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 25: emergency in 25 counties, while Alabama has issued a state
• 1:26:09
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  Speaker 15: ABC's Melissa Adan and what will eventually be left of
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Daria. Well, we got Legionnaire's disease,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: new cases in New York City. We got pneumonic plague
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: in Russia. We also have measles outbreaks across the country.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great time. to talk to one of
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  Speaker 2: the best in the country, if not the best infectious
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  Speaker 2: disease expert, Dr. Gregory Poland about all of that. And ticks,
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  Speaker 2: I left that out. That's another thing to talk to
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: him about. Man, we got a lot to talk to Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Poland up next. Time to bring in a dear friend, Dr.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: Gregory Poland, health and medical expert who is a leader
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: in vaccines and infectious diseases. He's also director of research
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: at the Atria Research and Global Health Institute in New York.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: and co-author of a new book, The Illusion of Over, COVID-19, Speed, Trust, Power, Failure,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: and the System that Saved and Broke America's Public Health.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations on the new book. That's quite a title.
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  Speaker 9: Well, thank you. Yeah, it's a long one, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. Listen, there's so much to talk
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: to you about, and I want to start with ticks,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: because they're been, well, the most in 15 years, visits
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: to the emergency rooms in the area, in New York
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: City area and in the Northeast because of tick bites.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: We had a whole school district that now has eliminated
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: outdoor activity until further notice because of problems with ticks
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  Speaker 2: in the area. What is the big concern with ticks?
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  Speaker 2: What could it cause?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, these tick-borne illnesses are much more common than people think,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 9: and they cause a variety of diseases. In the Northeast Corridor,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 9: probably the most common is Lyme disease, something that a
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: lot of people have heard about. But there are other
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 9: diseases that occur too, like you've heard of alpha-gal syndrome. Babesiosis,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 9: a variety of diseases that can lead to real harm.
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  Speaker 9: So prevention of tick bites is really important.
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  Speaker 2: So preventing it in the first place, that means putting
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  Speaker 2: on some lotion or wearing long clothes, not wearing shorts
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  Speaker 2: when you're walking through the woods, that kind of stuff?
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  Speaker 9: Right, yeah. Staying out of brush and bushes, that kind
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  Speaker 9: of area, which is unfortunate because that's where kids want
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 9: to be, right? Running around. outdoors. And those are really
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 9: important things to do. And the other is when you
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 9: get a tick bite, the tick needs to be identified
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  Speaker 9: and potentially treatment started to prevent late complications.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Poland, it's Russia, Russia, Russia. Every way you go, you
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: scroll on your Smartphone or iPhone or whatever device you use,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: pneumonic plague, black plague, all coming from apparently a hospital
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: slash laboratory that was dealing with this pneumonic plague. We've
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: heard every conceivable explanation except not really from the Russians.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, let me add the proviso as you did
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 9: at the end because it's really important. We need Russia
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 9: to be forthcoming. We need transparency. WHO teams need to
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 9: be able to get in there and see what really happened.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 9: What we know is that a 28-year-old female laboratory worker
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 9: died of a severe pneumonia. Nothing has been reported yet,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 9: though she did work in a laboratory that deals with plague.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 9: Now there's speculation about a second case. Who knows? This
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 9: would be a little unusual because pneumonic plague is a
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 9: disease that's very severe. Anybody that she would have had
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: contact with would have gotten sick already and probably died already.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 9: So I'm skeptical about pneumonic plague, but we have very
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 9: few details.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm so upset about this story because it's so
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: easily preventable. Measles, there's been outbreaks across the country, Pennsylvania
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: and New Jersey. We are almost at 4,000 cases. That's
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: the most cases since 1991. And I'm sure you're on
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: the same page. We've talked about this before. 95% of
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: the people that get it are unvaccinated.
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  Speaker 9: Larry, it's just incomprehensible in this day and age of
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 9: the 21st century, and all due to misfounded fears and
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 9: myths and disinformation and government confusion. And New York itself
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 9: has got 108 cases, seven of them now in New
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 9: York City. There have been five deaths in Pennsylvania. This
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 9: is not just a benign childhood illness as many people
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 9: want to make it out to be. This is a
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 9: serious or is an illness that can have serious ramifications.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 9: And it is so easily preventable.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know. And the gentleman that now is living
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: in the– I shouldn't call him a gentleman. The scum
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: that is now living in this country that started all
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: of this, all of the disinformation for his own gain–
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: is now living in Texas, and he should be in jail.
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  Speaker 9: Where some of the biggest outbreaks have been. By the way,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 9: he was stripped of his medical license in England and
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 9: has been a source of a lot of mis- and disinformation,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 9: which is really unfortunate.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Pullen, we're getting clobbered here with Legionnaire's disease. which broke
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: out first in the Upper East Side, wealthy area, and
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, South Bronx, poor area. Now Queens, a senior
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: citizen housing complex, two cases hospitalized. Staten Island yesterday, two
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: cases hospitalized. And I don't hear anything from the city
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: any longer. Can this be transported airborne? How could it
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: be spreading all over the city?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. What's happening is with hot weather, With cooling towers
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 9: and air conditioning towers that are not adequately maintained, cleaned,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: et cetera, you are always at risk for a disease
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 9: like this. So they really have to get on top
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 9: of this. They have to have strict regulations, and they
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 9: have to enforce them. Regular testing and enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that. In a follow-up to Curtis's question, it
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: is springing up in one area, then springing up in another,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: and springing up in another. Can it go from one
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: area to another, or are these all individual cases?
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 9: They're individual cases, Larry and Curtis. Basically, what happens is
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 9: the bacteria grows in the water that sits stagnant in
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 9: these cooling and air conditioning towers. You then run that
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 9: water and it is airborne and aerosolized from that water
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 9: that you take a shower in or use. So that's
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 9: the source and that's the way to attack this.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: Dr. Gregory Poland, health and medical expert, a leader in
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: vaccines and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic and the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: president of the Atria Research Institute in New York. and
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: co-author of a new book, The Illusion of Over COVID-19 Speed, Trust, Power, Failure,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: and the System that Saved and Broke America's Public Health.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: Quite a title. Thank you so much, Dr. Gregory Poland.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice again. Thanks.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 9: And you.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: So yesterday, Larry, Natalie, our audience was the third anniversary
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: of the attack of October 7th by Hamas, the slaughter,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: the killings, the rapings, and then eventually the hostage taking
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: and the ordeal that people had to deal with as
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: their loved ones were kept in tunnels for months and
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: months and months. So the mayor started off today on
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: his social postings. and he bifurcated his post. So he
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: starts out fine. He says, you know, I have sympathy
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: for the victims of Hamas, and then did a quick
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: pirouette and started accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid, you know,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: what he generally does. And so any of the Jewish
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: gatherings during the day, major Jewish figures were condemning that.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: Then he himself ends up going to a rally for
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: peace that is held at night at Union Square by
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: a group that is definitely progressive, liberal, that has supported
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: him in the past called Pro-Peace Israel. It's a Jewish group.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: They're at Union Square. And they should have known there
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: would be trouble because when he left City Hall, the
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: pro-Palestinian demonstrators then followed on foot. And as they began
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: their commemoration, oh, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators just unloaded on Zoran
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Mandami and those that were there to commemorate the deaths.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: They called him a traitor. Not one more was the
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: response from the Jews who wanted peace. And they say,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: you sold out your people. And it just went from
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: bad to worse until eventually, 45 minutes later, the mayor left.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: The arguments continued, and then the police cleaned up the area.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: So another day, and the constant arguments that go back
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: and forth between Muslims and Jews or their supporters in
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: terms of who's right, who's wrong. I will tell you
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: this much, Larry. If you look at the pro-Palestinian demonstrators,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: the mayor should now have the impetus to to do
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: along with this police commissioner what Bruce Blakeman has done
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: in Nassau County. You cannot wear a mask unless you
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: have a religious exemption or medical exemption, and it's worked
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: in Nassau County. It has absolutely worked. They don't have
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: these demonstrations. I've looked at the faces of these people
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: as much as I can see. These are like Antifa people.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: This is like demonstration du jour. They throw a keffiyeh on,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: and they're covered. There's no photo recognition technology. And then
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: they go on a rampage. And it was just the
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: mayor should have just put out that initial statement. He
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have gone to any gatherings.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: No, he shouldn't have gone. He shouldn't have gone. And
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: he should stop trying to ride the fence. We all
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: know where you stand. We know that from your past
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: writings and your past comments. We know where you stand.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: And so he's getting exactly what he deserves. If he's
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: going to play both sides, he's going to be attacked
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: by both sides. Because before he did it, he picked
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: one side. So now, not only is he going to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: be attacked by... Jews, he's going to be attacked by
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: Muslims as well because they called him a traitor. They
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: said that now he supports genocide. So he can't win
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: by being a fraud. But he's not alone. All of
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: the little Mamdani's running across the country, they're all trying
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: to hide what they really believe. They're all the Manchurian candidate.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: Once they get in, it can be hell. I think
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like most Americans. I've had enough of this back
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: and forth.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: Let's start getting back to what's best for America, what's
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: best for our city instead of this It's going to
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: go on forever and ever and ever.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: But you understand, there's people that deeply believe this because
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: they are from those areas or they have a tie
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: to those areas.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: I totally understand.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: But it's not.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: A priority for the rest of us, and it's dominating.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: It's dominating its hate back and forth, and it's not
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: resolving any problems.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: It's only dominating when others talk about it, but they're
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: allowed to. They're allowed to feel the way. By the way,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: hate crimes are up 57% since he's been in office.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we've been talking a lot about the Cornell 7,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: the talk back of the morning, and winner of the
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: Curtis Lee and Larry Menti in the morning t-shirt has
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts about the larger issues with our youth.
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  Speaker 8: This Cornell University situation is just one in a string
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 8: of things that are happening in society over and over again,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 8: which just goes to show, and this is probably an
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 8: unpopular opinion. We need to get back to morality and
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 8: faith and other things that provide underpinnings to our youth
• 1:40:20
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