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

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  Speaker 1: Styling and profiling today, you know, normally Larry and Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: when I join you in studio here as part of
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  Speaker 1: the I Heart Confab, I'm either wearing the red sateen
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  Speaker 1: jacket or occasionally my blue sateen jacket that says the
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  Speaker 1: People's Mayor. Yeah. You know, with my name on it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously very narcissistic. You are always dressed in character.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. And always the red beret. Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But can you describe, both Larry and Natalie, the accoutrements
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  Speaker 1: that now are part of my fashionista look today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll just say that when I first saw you,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, he's either going to a wedding or
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  Speaker 2: he's going to a funeral. That's what I thought. But
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  Speaker 2: then I thought, well, maybe you actually wear the guardian
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  Speaker 2: angel stuffs to weddings and funerals, so maybe it's not that.
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  Speaker 2: You're correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, see?
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  Speaker 2: So then I'm thinking, well, maybe it's not that. Is
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  Speaker 2: he trying... Well, then you'd have to take the beret
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  Speaker 2: off to sneak into somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Which I did remember in the two debates. Remember how
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  Speaker 1: people said, you take that beret off, I'll vote for you.
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  Speaker 1: Less people voted for me in 2025 than 2021.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis, you were on with Larry one morning and we had.
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  Speaker 5: A talkback that said that.
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  Speaker 2: We had several talkbacks.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and we mentioned that to you and then we
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  Speaker 4: felt bad that you did it.
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  Speaker 6: We're like, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I did it because I figured, look, I wore
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  Speaker 1: the beret against Eric Adams all the time. All these
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  Speaker 1: people are saying, I would have voted for you if
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  Speaker 1: you took the red beret off.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what? I got two-thirds less votes this time around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that really works. What's funny is all those talkback people
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  Speaker 2: were convinced if you just took the beret off. And
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  Speaker 2: then in the debates, they went, oh, maybe not. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason that I'm styling and profiling today, as
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Full suit. Nice suit, by the way. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It is a big day for all the animal welfare
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  Speaker 1: people who have dedicated their lives to ending the horse
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  Speaker 1: carriage industry and sending the horses out to pasture. There
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  Speaker 1: is a bill that will do that today that will
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  Speaker 1: be debated and voted on in the city council.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a fait accompli.
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  Speaker 1: You don't. enter a bill on the floor if you're
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  Speaker 1: the speaker, as Julie Menon is, without having the votes.
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  Speaker 2: But they have a big rally at 12 noon in
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  Speaker 2: City Hall Park. Was never invited.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't expect to speak, but, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge Curtis because... He and his wife were
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  Speaker 1: in the forefront of this. Thank you very much. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Having been invited to be up in the peanut gallery,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where obviously people are forced to sit and
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  Speaker 1: they're not able to boo or applaud.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they have to do one of those. That's
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  Speaker 2: not right. And I'm saying to myself, wow.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe if I just come in a suit and
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  Speaker 1: tie with the berets. like I did in the campaign,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to come up with
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  Speaker 1: an excuse. Well, you're not the people's mayor. That's an
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  Speaker 1: insult to John Mondami, who's in city hall. So I
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  Speaker 1: figured I'm going to eliminate all possibilities of why they
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  Speaker 1: might keep me out for that historic vote.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed because I put out a public
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  Speaker 2: plea yesterday to Vicky Palladino, who is going to be
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  Speaker 2: at that rally to invite you.
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  Speaker 1: And I know she listens. So I'll do it one
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  Speaker 1: more time. Vicki, it is a wrong. It's a wrong
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  Speaker 1: that can easily be righted. And all you need to
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  Speaker 1: do is call Curtis, call the station and let us know. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: please come.
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  Speaker 2: We'll acknowledge you because it really is a slight and
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  Speaker 2: it's a big oversight on your part.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they can be fixed easily. She stood with the
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  Speaker 1: horse carriage owners yesterday in city hall. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: apparently go for a temporary restraining order, but The one
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  Speaker 1: person who's no longer in council who would have done
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  Speaker 1: this is Robert Holden.
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  Speaker 2: He is a true believer.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I was able to speak at that city
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  Speaker 1: council chamber.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Natalie, you got to repost that.
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  Speaker 1: When I hit the two-minute mark and they yanked the
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  Speaker 1: microphone right from me because the chairwoman, Lynn Shulman, the councilwoman...
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  Speaker 1: who hates me and actually hates the animal welfare people,
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  Speaker 1: but was forced to do it by Julian Mennon, yanked
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  Speaker 1: the microphone, and everybody went crazy and all, and started applauding.
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  Speaker 2: I'll throw you all out. No, you won't, lady.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to come in, suit and tie, and
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  Speaker 1: see if they try to keep me out of the
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  Speaker 1: rally or keep me out of the historic vote, and.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be here tomorrow. Remember the guy who pioneered this?
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  Speaker 1: They never mentioned his name, our own Barry Gray, who
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  Speaker 1: invented talk radio here at WOR, was the first to
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  Speaker 1: take on that issue.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not horses.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the Wild West, you know, where a guy
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  Speaker 1: would be riding along and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pull out a six shooter and start shooting.
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  Speaker 2: At another guy in a horse.
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  Speaker 1: What a road rage incident on the George Washington Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: at least the upper level entrance from the Manhattan side.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting all the details, man.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of our listeners out there, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: because you're in their cars now listening. have probably experienced
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  Speaker 1: a road rage incident or felt that, man, my life
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  Speaker 1: is in jeopardy. I've really pushed this a little too far.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Here, I'm shocked. I actually looked up the statistics
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  Speaker 2: on road rage. 96% of drivers have witnessed or been
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  Speaker 2: engaged in road rage. 89% report being a victim of
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  Speaker 2: an aggressive driver. 37% of aggressive driving and road rage
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  Speaker 2: incidents involve a firearm.
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  Speaker 7: 37%.
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  Speaker 2: That is scary. Leading to 116 road rage related deaths
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  Speaker 2: in a single year across the country. And there's, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say, I was telling you earlier,
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  Speaker 5: that is one of my biggest fears is that if I,
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  Speaker 5: you know, cut somebody off by accident.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it happens, right?
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  Speaker 5: You know, you don't realize you did something and then
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  Speaker 5: the person starts going nuts and then you start waving
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  Speaker 5: your hand. that somebody would have a weapon and just
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  Speaker 5: do exactly what we saw that.
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  Speaker 4: Happened on the GWB.
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  Speaker 2: Or try to run you off the road. There's a
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  Speaker 2: million things that they can do.
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  Speaker 1: They chase you.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everybody's seen that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. No, I've had that. I've had that happen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the turnpike every single day, and I've seen
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  Speaker 2: it every single day, especially the people that pull up
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  Speaker 2: like inches from you and back of you.
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  Speaker 5: And then you could see them window to window, and
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  Speaker 5: they're staring at you, and they're pointing at you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Here's some tips on what to do in those situations.
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  Speaker 2: Avoid eye contact, which I always look right at the people.
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  Speaker 2: Returning rude hand gestures, which you just said you did.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a rude hand gesture, but you waved them off.
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  Speaker 2: Or yelling back. Create space. Safely slow down, change lanes,
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  Speaker 2: or let the aggressive driver pass. Do not go home
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  Speaker 2: if they're following you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's good advice.
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  Speaker 2: Drive to the nearest police station or a well-lit public
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  Speaker 2: space instead of heading home and then call 911. The
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  Speaker 2: last one is one that I'm embarrassed about. It says
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  Speaker 2: consider a dash cam so you can record the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I'm embarrassed about it is because my daughter
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  Speaker 2: gave me one for Christmas and I never installed it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's very insulted by that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never thought about having that, but it's probably
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  Speaker 5: a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't want to do that because it records
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  Speaker 1: all your conversations, as we saw with the two terrorist
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  Speaker 1: kids from Bucks County on their way to throw those
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  Speaker 1: bombs outside of Gracie Mansion, remember? Their entire conversation was
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  Speaker 1: recorded by the dash cam, unbeknownst to them.
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  Speaker 2: They're guilty.
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  Speaker 1: They're going away forever. But let me make mention there
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  Speaker 1: was a great episode with Larry David. He's in the car,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently he cut off a biker. And the biker
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  Speaker 1: comes up on his side. And then Larry David reaches over,
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  Speaker 1: puts on the MAGA cap as the biker is screaming
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  Speaker 1: and yelling at him.
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  Speaker 2: And then the biker goes, oh, I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thumbs up. One of the great episodes.
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  Speaker 9: Smart.
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  Speaker 1: But let's give the details of what happened. A retired
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  Speaker 1: NYP narcotics detective. He retired in 2001 after getting into
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  Speaker 1: a shootout with three gunmen while he was off duty
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  Speaker 1: at his family's laundromat in Brooklyn. He got hit in
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  Speaker 1: the chest. He got hit in the hand. Victor Romero.
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  Speaker 1: And then he had to take a disability pension. So
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  Speaker 1: he was out of the department for 2001. But he
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  Speaker 1: became a driver. They call it executive protection, corporate security.
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  Speaker 1: Lives in Havistraw, New York, in Rockland. He's assigned to
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  Speaker 1: protect and drive around executives. So you would think the
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  Speaker 1: guy's cool, calm, and collected. Well, not on this occasion.
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  Speaker 1: As he was going up, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people listening right now, he's on the Manhattan side, he's going.
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  Speaker 2: Up to the upper deck. A lot of times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the traffic conflates.
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  Speaker 1: It goes lower deck, upper deck, and then there's that
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  Speaker 1: way you can actually go towards the Cross Bronx Expressway,
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  Speaker 1: which at times you see people like really starting to
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  Speaker 1: argue with one another. And there was another guy, Corrin Irvine,
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  Speaker 1: who had grown up in Flatbush, worked for Con Ed.
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  Speaker 1: He was in a Volkswagen dark blue hatchback. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: some kind of road rage incident occurred at that location
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  Speaker 1: before they even got onto the bridge. And this poor guy, Corrin,
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  Speaker 1: a bullet came through the back windshield that they attribute
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  Speaker 1: to the former detective, the guy named Victor Romero. He
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  Speaker 1: gets shot in the shoulder. You could survive that. But
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  Speaker 1: the bullet then goes right into his head.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 1: And then he crashes halfway across the bridge because he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to drive across the bridge because where are you
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  Speaker 1: going to stop on the bridge? Crashes into the pole.
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  Speaker 1: They take him to Englewood Hospital, and unfortunately he died.
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  Speaker 1: But a road rage incident like so many others. That's
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  Speaker 1: why Nancy oftentimes will yell at me. Well, you drive
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  Speaker 1: because when she's behind the wheel, god forbid she thinks
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  Speaker 1: she was cut off she starts beeping the horn speeding
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  Speaker 1: up she wants to go side by side and start
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  Speaker 1: giving the finger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. Don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy, would you please calm down? I'll give you some Prozac.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make an incident out of this.
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  Speaker 2: If my wife's exactly the opposite, she's the one that
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  Speaker 2: causes road rage all the time. And she's not sure
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  Speaker 2: why she doesn't know what she's doing. She like Mr. Magoo.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's exactly the case. I'll talk to her on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: There's some guy that's really upset with me. He's pulled
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  Speaker 2: up next to me. He's yelling out of his window.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what I did. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: just ignore him. Just don't look at him. No, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't even know what I did. I just,
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  Speaker 2: I mouthed, I'm sorry. But this, every time I talk
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  Speaker 2: to her, there's one of these people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, beeping the horn, speeding up, or giving the finger.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the universal language.
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  Speaker 2: F you. You might set it off right there. Or
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  Speaker 2: what the hell are you doing? The hands go up.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Put your hands on the wheel. Well,
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  Speaker 2: of the races that are considered toss-up for Senate, one
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  Speaker 2: of the ones that has been widening a little bit
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  Speaker 2: towards the Democrats and towards Amy Acton, who is running
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  Speaker 2: against Vivek Ramaswamy, who you remember when he ran for president,
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  Speaker 2: that one is starting to widen a little bit in
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  Speaker 2: favor of the Democrats. And because of that, it's desperation time.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks to go, it's difficult to move polls that much,
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  Speaker 2: more than a few points, and to sway voters that
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  Speaker 2: much in the waning days. So Vivek Ramaswamy has put
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  Speaker 2: on an ad that has been nationally controversial. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason it's nationally controversial is because Amy Acton and her brother,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, both of them, have had a tenuous,
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  Speaker 2: I'll put it that way, relationship with their mother and
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  Speaker 2: their stepfather, accusing them of sexual misconduct and accusing them
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  Speaker 2: of abuse, child abuse. As a matter of fact, the
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  Speaker 2: stepfather was charged with that. And so this is the
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  Speaker 2: ad that Vivek Ramaswamy has put out, starring Amy Acton's mother.
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  Speaker 2: I received a lot of abuse. Well, that's her brother.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. You know, it's awful to see this. It's
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  Speaker 2: awful to... You know, it's awful to... This is Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acton responding to it. I'm sorry, I had ad up here,
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  Speaker 2: but let me let you hear this. This is Amy
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  Speaker 2: Acton responding to her mother saying... that I love her
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  Speaker 2: very much, but she's a liar and you can't believe
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  Speaker 2: a word she says. You know, it's awful to see this.
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  Speaker 4: It's awful to see her this way.
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  Speaker 7: And it's even more incredible to see that my opponent
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  Speaker 7: has taken advantage of someone who is clearly not well,
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  Speaker 7: who is older.
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  Speaker 1: And this is totally in line with who he is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ramaswamy, to his point, her point, has taken complete
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  Speaker 2: responsibility for the ad and defends it.
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  Speaker 9: I would love for this race and this election to
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  Speaker 9: be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 9: Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that had nothing to do with what the ad said.
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  Speaker 2: So that was not an explanation that went well. But
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you... That's what he was asked. He
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  Speaker 2: was asked about the ad.
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  Speaker 9: To be clear, this is not new. Her mother has
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  Speaker 9: spoken out for years. And I don't know Amy Acton's mother,
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  Speaker 9: and I've never met Amy Acton either. What I do
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  Speaker 9: know is that Amy Acton has been repeatedly and serially
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  Speaker 9: dishonest during this campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see this as a petty move of it?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see it as a petty move? On behalf
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  Speaker 2: of her mother to speak out? Her mother chose to
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  Speaker 2: speak out. She spoke out several years ago. That's between
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton and her mother. On behalf of the ad
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  Speaker 2: being put out.
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  Speaker 9: For our part, we believe that the best way to
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  Speaker 9: do this would be to have an open debate between
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  Speaker 9: the two candidates.
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  Speaker 2: She has not debated, but this right now, when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to public opinion, is not going well for Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: He's being attacked nationally. Now, in my belief, I think
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  Speaker 2: if the mother has spoken out before and the mother
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  Speaker 2: has something to say, I think it's fair game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure what goes too far in politics these days.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I believe goes too far? When you
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  Speaker 2: raid someone else's house, when you try to put them
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  Speaker 2: in prison, when you try to hurt their livelihood, and
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  Speaker 2: you use the Justice Department to do that. That, I think,
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  Speaker 2: goes too far. But the same people who are slamming
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  Speaker 2: this ad, they had no problem when that was done
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  Speaker 2: to Donald Trump when they thought he was going to
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  Speaker 2: run for president again.
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  Speaker 1: There's a rule of thumb, though, Larry. Leave the mother
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  Speaker 1: out of it. You can go at the father. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the father here, stepfather, was indicted for raping her and
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  Speaker 1: then fled to Pennsylvania. And the mother, the biological mother,
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  Speaker 1: sided with the stepfather. Now you have the brother who's
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  Speaker 1: come out and said, exactly, man. We were homeless. 12
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  Speaker 1: years old, you know, our mother basically decided to go
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  Speaker 1: with the stepfather and not care for us after this
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  Speaker 1: horrible time.
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  Speaker 2: But notice, you go to Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: And in that first debate, remember I talked about the
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  Speaker 1: Rock'em Sock'em debate, El-Sayed and Rogers, and Rogers talked about
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  Speaker 1: how great his mother is, which he really is, a patriot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, working, raising the family. And then he turned
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  Speaker 1: to El-Sayed and said, and your mother supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: This time he obviously labeled El-Sayed a Muslim Brotherhood guy.
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  Speaker 1: Never mention the mother, because I'll bet you in the
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  Speaker 1: focus groups, That was like, oh, that might be true, Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: but don't mention the mother. Fathers, yeah, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: beat them up. Leave the mothers alone. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of like, remember that book, Mommy Dearest? Who was that?
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  Speaker 1: Joan Crawford, right? About Joan Crawford.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't do that. And I think this is
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  Speaker 1: going to cost him. Now, the sitting senator who replaced J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance when he went on to become vice president, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the one who Donald Trump admires his ass. he's behind
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  Speaker 1: in his race to Sherrod Brown. He distanced himself so
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  Speaker 1: quick from this. He condemned this ad. But Vance didn't.
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  Speaker 2: No, Vance. Want to hear it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And now the media and the Democrats in the state
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  Speaker 8: of Ohio are obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: Because guess what?
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  Speaker 8: Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: which calls it out like it is and calls Amy
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: Acton a liar.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Man, he's Mr. Family Values guy. You know, I've converted
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to the Roman Catholic faith.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He chose to do this.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Look, he's decided not to do other things for Trump,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: like he will not endorse Bibi Netanyahu like Trump has.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I think this was a mistake on his part to
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: go in there and get involved in this. And then
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: remember this, that other race that you first brought to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: our attention involving the U.S. Senator Moreno, his former son-in-law,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: who was embattled with his former wife and kids who
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: accused him of all kinds of horrors.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He refused to drop out. Boy, Ohio, which would have
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: been red.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I'm thinking more and more,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: this has become such a trauma state that it may
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: become blue.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: It may, but it's going to be, and I believe
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: it's going to be because the media, once again, is
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: putting its thumb on the scales. They're making this so
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: big and such a big issue. I mean, How many
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: times does an ad make it onto the national news?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: This one did. This one did. And it's not the
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: first time. It's nothing more. It's cringy. It's cringy.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: But especially when you find out that the stepfather was
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: indicted for raping her and then fled prosecution in Pennsylvania
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and the mother decided to go with the stepfather. But.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Al-Said. I shared this with
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Natalie and obviously with Larry. You talk about a guy
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: who's going to places that no Muslim would ever go before.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: The Upper Peninsula in Michigan, that is MAGA country. That
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: is Trump land. That's hunters.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on. You're giving him credit for that? He
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: has to.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let me explain to you how he's done it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: He hasn't gone up there as Al-Said the Muslim. He's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: dancing to country-western tunes. He's got the belt buckle on.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: You would think he was in Fort Worth, you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the stockyards, those mile-long bars.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And then he's got an American red, white, and blue
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: cowboy hat on. And see, I thought that ad was
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: more embarrassing than the mother. coming out because he was
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: so obviously trying to patronize these people. I mean, I'd
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: be insulted. He was doing a line dance, holding his buckle,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and the hat he had is a cowboy hat. Not
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: just a cowboy hat. It's a cowboy hat that was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: an American flag. And he's on, he's dancing, and it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: country music playing. Come on!
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: He was singing to your favorite song, 9 to 5,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. Yes, he was.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: With Dolly Parton in the back.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Then he goes south. He does Eminem things. He's doing rap,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you know, like he's a DJ. And then he's in
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the gym, because unlike Zora Mondami, who couldn't lift his
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: body weight, This guy's a lifter, so you see him
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: with these muscle guys, you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Know, white and black.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 285 at both turns, and he's buffed. He is
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: trying to pull out every available vote. Rogers is taking
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it right down the middle. He goes, my family is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: all patriotic. Everyone in my family has served, including his wife.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I know who served in Iraq. So that's what the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: choice is going to come down to.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: He's real. I think Rodgers is going to win this
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: actually easily. I think it's going to be a few
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: points because everything you hear coming out of Michigan is
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: bad about El-Sayed. And I'm not sure Michigan's going to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: fall for him having an American flag on a cowboy hat.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Well, let me give you the demographics. The key vote
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: is the African-American vote. Total, that's 12% of the overall vote.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And most of it is down in Detroit, Wayne County. Pontiac, Saginaw, Flint.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I've been to all those places. And they control the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Democratic machine, the African-Americans. They don't like the fact that Muslims,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: who are 2% of the vote, are growing in strength
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and beginning to become real leaders in the Democratic Party.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: They don't like that because the African-Americans run the Democratic
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Party south in Michigan.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: So we'll see. But the polls show that he's doing
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: poorly among Democrats, among black Democrats.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but, you know, Barack Obama comes in on the weekend.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And notice, Trump is going north to the Upper Peninsula
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: on the same day that Barack Obama will be in
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Detroit to try to get out the black vote. The
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Jewish vote is about one and a half percent.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It's split. They're always split on these issues, and it's 2%
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: of the Muslim vote. Always split. In the past, they
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: have voted 85% in Michigan. It's down to 50% and 60%.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: They lost a lot. He's lost a lot of Jewish votes.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: It's only 1.5%. Always split.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You're going to have, just like with Zoran Mandami, he
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: got 30% of the Jewish vote.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not arguing the percentage on that. I'm arguing the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: fact that they're split. No, they're leaving El-Sayed, that's for sure.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: The conversation continues.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: You're like me, suited down here. I'm going down to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the rally that they may not let me into in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the vote at city council to get rid of the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: horse carriage industry.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: I think that Larry and I have full confidence you'll
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: find your way in. You'll find your way in. I'm
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: just shocked that you don't have horses on your tie. Yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: I was thinking how you're wearing a tie today.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Where are the horses?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I only have cat ties.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, well, we got to get him a horse tie now,
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: I guess.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm surprised.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Wait a second. Do you have cat ties? I believe it. Really? Yeah,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and bow tie. Cat bow tie.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's cute.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You have to come in wearing the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: cat bow tie. I will.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Next time.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I promise you I will. But now, question.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Polly Market, what would their rating be of my potential
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of getting into this rally and eventually the vote in
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: city council?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: What would Polly Market say?
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: 36%.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: 36?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: But you're a New York City icon.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: No, I've been iced out.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: Talking about icons, these horse-drawn carriage rides.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: Ah!
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: That after decades of debate.
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: And this past summer when an 18-year-old tourist was killed
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: in a carriage crash, that's really what started, that reignited
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: this push to get rid of them.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: This could be the final trot for the industry.
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: The end of an era after 150 years. Some New
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: Yorkers say don't let the door hit you.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: It's heartless, those poor things.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Clomping through.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, our feet hurt when we walked, imagine.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: The horses here, they faint. They're not in good conditions.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: They live in a building. They don't have any pasture. Like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: if they were going to do it, I think that
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: they should at least have, like, a pasture that they
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: bring them out to and maybe make them work once
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a week, but they're overworked. They're thirsty, and they're in
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: dirty conditions.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: When it comes to the horses, they never look happy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: and it's kind of a rip-off anyway, so... What's the
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: point of, I don't know how much people spend nowadays
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: on them damn things, but I'm sure they're not going
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: into like the care for them anyway.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: A carriage ride these days now costs about $ 100 for
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: 25 minutes, right? My one question is, how do you
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: know a horse is happy?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: They ain't getting nothing. They're getting ugots. They're getting bupkis
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: out of that $ 100.
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: And I've been down to those stables. They are building
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: concrete buildings. Somebody likened them to a parking garage, in
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: a sense. You know, New York City doesn't really have
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: room for these pastures that we were talking about.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: You know how much a carriage ride first cost when
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: it started in 1863? Could you take a guess?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: What, a nickel?
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: 25 cents a ride, each passenger. So it's really, inflation
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: really kicked in. And I bet you the ride was longer.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: Now this New Yorker, not so sure we should be
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: doing away with an entire industry.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: A lot of people are going to be out of work.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: That's their livelihood. Personally, I like buses. You have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: look at it in a whole, is it dangerous?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Could be.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: Traffic out here is not like it was before. When
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: they first started, things are different now. Do I think
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: they should ban it? No, I think they should have
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: a designated part of the park where they can continue
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: to give people rides because that's what tourists come for.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: They come for the horse ride.
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: Well, there is a designated part of the park where
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: carriages are allowed to go. They're restricted to the inner
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: park drives and specific pickup locations.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: So apparently.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: That's not enough for advocates who want to get rid
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: of these things. Now, the transit union says it's ready
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: to sue if this measure goes through, saying as soon
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: as the ink dries, they want a TRO, a temporary
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: restraining order. Even though it has a clause that sets
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: up a horse-drawn cab industry transition plan by April of 2027,
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: the MTA even says, come work for us.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I think they should.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Why not?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Well, who would know the streets better than a horse
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: carriage rider, huh? Good benefits, great pension.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Man, it's a good thing.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: But if you're.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Manning a horse and carriage, you like the freedom of
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: being outside. But pensions and benefits are always great.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's the trade-off here. Now, horse-drawn carriages are great.
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: Really the pinnacle, arguably, of New York City tourism. Everybody
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: knows they're there. But pedicabs could be ready to fill
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: that gap. An industry true New Yorkers seem to hate
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: even more.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Those pedicabs are ridiculous.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: They're very expensive.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: The other one gives you a ride around the park.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: It's really pretty.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: It's nice.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Scam.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: If you're stupid enough to fall for it, I don't
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: know what to tell you.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: When did it become like that? All of a sudden
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: people want to take these pedicab rides.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They play music.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: And they're like, they look cute.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: $ 400 for like two miles. I'm the little bike guys
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: with a little music. And I just want to be
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: part of your skin.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Nah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I love the woman that said I look cute in
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a pedicab. That's why I want to be in one.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: But it's true. People do it for the Instagram moment.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: They take the picture because there's the neon light behind them.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And the ivory, all the ivy and all the leaves.
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: And you're going through New York City and it's playing
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: Frank Sinatra's New York, New York or Empire State of
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Is that it?
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: And they're blasting and then they almost hit you, people say.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: And it's a lot of fun for New Yorkers to
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: navigate them. But really.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Well, you should do an ad for pedicabs. That was
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: But really, we're talking about these horses which.
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: If the ban goes into effect, it's June 2028. So
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: it's going to take some time. You'll still see them
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: and their droppings.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: You will.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: But you, they're really resistant to this. But I know
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: you've been, Curtis, you've been really.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Let me give credit to Side Talk, Choice of the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Gen Z Nation. They're the ones who posted me drinking.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Out of the trough.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was disgusting.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: The water.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Do you know how many hits? I can't believe you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Did you get sick?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: No.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: That's why you've been hacking it up these past few days.
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: You got sick from the trough.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: That's disgusting.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: You probably have like a horse. You probably have like
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: a horse.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: A horse.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Oh my God, we got to get you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: To a doctor.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I just put it together.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I just put it together. Excuse me. This is my
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: day here, Natalie Migliore. It got a million clicks.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And I think this is the video that put it
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: over the top.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, you are absolutely right. He's got some kind of
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: weird horse disease.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: He needs a horse tie, and he's got to get
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: to the doctor.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: By the way.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Natalie Bigliore is going to be back tomorrow. Do I
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: go to the horse vet? Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: At 7.50.