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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 11-4-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me take this first moment of our broadcast since
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  Speaker 2: the final results of the elections across the nation to
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  Speaker 2: salute you, Larry Mendte, your entire team, Natalie, the Quiet Storm, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: And everybody else involved in your broadcast last night on this,
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  Speaker 2: the most listened to talk station in New York, 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: From 7 to 11, you had great guests. You were
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  Speaker 2: giving the facts. You were like Sergeant Joe Friday. Unlike
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  Speaker 2: other outlets, both on radio and TV, that were homers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they were either ready to commit Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 2: suicide based on the incoming results. Or they were dancing
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  Speaker 2: the Tarantella and you would have thought that they won Powerball. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you gave the facts. You let people understand
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  Speaker 2: what was transpiring from early in the evening to when
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  Speaker 2: you finally signed off.
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  Speaker 1: And you're here in the morning to do it all
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  Speaker 1: over again.
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  Speaker 2: So I salute you, Larry, and I salute our whole
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  Speaker 2: team that I know worked many, many hours in advance.
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  Speaker 2: The pre-show preparation that always is required when it's a
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  Speaker 2: really good election night show so great job great job
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  Speaker 2: team oh well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you yeah chris schweitzer was the producer last night
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  Speaker 3: and did a just a a wonderful job of putting
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  Speaker 3: it together and you know he's new to politics and
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  Speaker 3: he's new to doing a newscast and and doing a
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  Speaker 3: new show and he was he was just excellent in
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  Speaker 3: getting guests you know we had we had some tremendous
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  Speaker 3: guests last night but what a uh.
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  Speaker 1: Not to you, you had predicted.
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  Speaker 3: This, but I think to most people, the tsunami of this,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you used the right word, although it
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  Speaker 3: does line up to other wave elections in the past.
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  Speaker 3: So they're calling it a blue wave election was stunning.
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  Speaker 3: It was a stunning race, at least to me.
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  Speaker 2: I have a new term now. I just incorporated a
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  Speaker 2: new term. You know me, I'm always with the different phrases.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We know what PTSD means, right, under normal circumstances. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now you have a new term, post-Trump stress disorder. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of people out there who are going
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  Speaker 2: to be in denial for a while. You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to want to reach out and say, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: they stole the election. No, no, nobody has said that.
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  Speaker 2: It was so overwhelming in so many places, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: even an afterthought. And I just say, look, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: said to the Republican loyalists, the MAGA people, pretend I'm
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot, make me the center of the conversation,
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  Speaker 2: 30 rallies in 30 days. He said that 47 times. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the people of America certainly looked at it that way,
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  Speaker 2: because not only did you have an enormous turnout of Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: but in the last 10 days, as always happens, the
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  Speaker 2: independents broke and they didn't break for the Republicans, they
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  Speaker 2: broke predominantly for the Democrats. And that's why you have
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  Speaker 2: the final tallies that in many instances are either close
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  Speaker 2: to what the polls were saying or the polls had
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  Speaker 2: it completely wrong.
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  Speaker 3: No, in many of them, I think actually the polls
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  Speaker 3: were awful. The polls had it completely wrong. It's just
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  Speaker 3: not the way that people thought the polls would go.
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  Speaker 1: They went bigger.
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  Speaker 3: They went much bigger. I mean, Kathy Hochul, 20 points.
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul wins by 20 points. They called that race
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  Speaker 3: right after they showed it, right after the polls closed.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: They knew Kathy Hochul had won. Many of the races
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  Speaker 3: were like that. And there was just big surprises across
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  Speaker 3: the country. Races that were supposed to be safe, especially
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  Speaker 3: in the House, they went Democratic. This is exactly what
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  Speaker 3: a wave election looks like.
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  Speaker 1: This is it. And you're right.
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  Speaker 3: It is a referendum on the president. Listen, I think
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  Speaker 3: we'd be having a much different conversation this morning about
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  Speaker 3: the overall results had Iran not happened, because Iran was
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  Speaker 3: its own wave. It created all these other things. And
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  Speaker 3: I truly believe, because he said it many times, that
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  Speaker 3: he thought it would be over quickly and that it
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  Speaker 3: would be a feather in his cap, not something that
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  Speaker 3: was going to drag him down.
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  Speaker 1: And that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: And when that didn't happen, when it dragged on and
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  Speaker 3: dragged on, and I think the Iranians knew this, too.
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  Speaker 3: They knew very well about our midterms. He was done.
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  Speaker 3: He was crippled. He was handicapped at that point. And
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  Speaker 3: it was such a politically, let's forget about going after
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  Speaker 3: Iran because of their nuclear weapons. Just talk politically for
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  Speaker 3: a second. Politically, it was a horrible thing to do
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  Speaker 3: because it ended his presidency, basically. Because right now he's
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  Speaker 3: a lame duck. He's going to be a lame duck.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's going to have power to veto. He's
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  Speaker 3: going to veto and veto and veto. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you heard him last night when he was on Fox.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was good. I thought he reached across
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  Speaker 3: the aisle and said, look, I can work with you
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  Speaker 3: on certain things. Number one, I'll work with you on immigration.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to change the immigration laws, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to open the border again, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll work with you on the immigration laws. So
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  Speaker 3: I didn't expect that from him. I, he congratulated the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: He said they ran a great race and he said
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  Speaker 3: that they, they had the pulse of the people and that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and now they have to govern. And he said, and
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  Speaker 3: I have veto power. I'm going to veto, veto, veto
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  Speaker 3: anything I don't like, but I'd like to work with you.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the big winner last night was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people were saying the Democrats, no, the big winners talk radio,
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  Speaker 2: talk TV. I mean, we have colleagues, Larry, in both
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  Speaker 2: talk TV and talk radio who felt that they had
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  Speaker 2: to defend the indefensible with Trump as the president, really
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  Speaker 2: sounding stupid sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Now they'll be able to go on the offensive.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats will have Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, and
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  Speaker 2: they will have a big majority. And then Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: for as long as he lasts, because I think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to sack him. will be the majority leader in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. So this is like perfect for talk radio
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  Speaker 2: and talk TV. Talk radio and talk TV can now
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  Speaker 2: go on the offensive against Democrats. That's when people listen
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  Speaker 2: to talk radio and talk TV. When it's just defending
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, nope. It doesn't have the fire. It's not passionate.
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  Speaker 2: This will be passionate now. Now, the other thing, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: you have not returned the favor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little upset.
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  Speaker 2: I had created a business opportunity for myself yesterday. As
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm horrible in business. But I said, look,
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  Speaker 2: everybody has a podcast, even my plumber, my dentist.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, your plumber.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to listen to it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like I got time to listen to your freaking podcast.
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  Speaker 2: But I created the Curtis Sliwa political prediction marketplace. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody else has it. They're all into now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: betting on who's going to win campaigns. No betting on
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  Speaker 2: this one. But my first prediction out of the box, hey,
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  Speaker 2: could you play that once again and remind everybody, even
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  Speaker 2: though we did it in many forms. And I am
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  Speaker 2: predicting I'm going high for the Democrats, not because I
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  Speaker 2: was smoking anything that would get me high, but I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully you write this down. The Democrats will win 240 seats.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. See, I knew, I know you would have
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  Speaker 1: a jaundiced response.
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  Speaker 2: And the Democrats will end up with 53 seats in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. So, so far, I'm like one seat off
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  Speaker 2: with the Senate. And there are two we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about later, Mississippi and Alaska. Like, they're so microscopically close.
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  Speaker 2: They can go either way. And the House, even though
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  Speaker 2: that was considered high. And by the way, where's Jimmy Failure?
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  Speaker 2: He's hiding this morning, making fun of me, right? Hiding.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually on the low side, 240.
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  Speaker 3: You were on the low side because there's more House
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  Speaker 3: seats to be determined out there, and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be much higher than that. It is, and it is
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  Speaker 3: going to be kind of amazing. I'm really fascinated to
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  Speaker 3: see what the final figure was because there was House
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  Speaker 3: seats that were not in play. None of us talked
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  Speaker 3: about across the country, some locally, that went Democratic, that
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  Speaker 3: were considered safe seats. So, no, you did a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: You did a nice job of your predictions. And I
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  Speaker 3: think you tempered your prediction. I think you probably wanted
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  Speaker 3: to go higher, but you thought this is crazy. No.
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't think it was crazy. You said that.
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  Speaker 1: I can feel it. No, I said you all will
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  Speaker 1: think today is crazy, right?
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  Speaker 2: And naturally, Jimmy Failure, who was with us for an
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  Speaker 2: hour yesterday, 8 to 9, if you haven't heard it,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to go to the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: But you'll see how he was treating me as if
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  Speaker 2: I was a political piñata.
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  Speaker 1: No way, that ain't going to happen. Yeah, he sounded
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  Speaker 1: a little sarcastic to you. Was he this morning, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's hiding. He's stuck in for cover. But Larry's here
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  Speaker 1: to his credit.
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  Speaker 2: And right away he said to me as I came
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  Speaker 2: in the door this morning, because Larry's been doing marathon
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  Speaker 2: duty between the marathon with you, Natalie, and the pre-game
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  Speaker 2: for the election and then the overnight. Actually broadcasting and
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  Speaker 2: being here this morning. You are the marathon man here
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  Speaker 2: at 710WOR. But I am telling you, I listen to
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  Speaker 2: WOR all the time. It's going to make it a
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  Speaker 2: lot easier for our colleagues. Because I've heard some really
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  Speaker 2: stupid stuff coming up. out of the mouths of some
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  Speaker 2: of our colleagues here and other talk outlets defending the indefensible.
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  Speaker 2: They won't have to do it anymore. They can just
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  Speaker 2: go on the attack. Democrats, Democrats, you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: what they do best. They're going to actually feel, even
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  Speaker 2: though temporarily it's going to be a bummer.
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  Speaker 1: For the industry, for this thing that.
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  Speaker 2: This is what it is. This is what we have chosen.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to feel better, too, Larry. You're going to be, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you attack her.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, you're going to feel better. And finally, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to feel better.
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  Speaker 3: But finally, Fox News is going to get their ratings back, too,
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  Speaker 3: because now they can do what they always do well.
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  Speaker 3: And that's going to be going after the Democrats and watch.
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  Speaker 2: It's also what Trump did better. 2016, nobody expected him.
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  Speaker 2: He was on the attack. 2024, he was on the
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  Speaker 2: attack because he was out of office. But when he
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  Speaker 2: had to defend the presidency, he's not good playing defense. 2020,
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  Speaker 2: this time around midterms because he inserted himself. It's like
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  Speaker 2: he went in the ring and he put his chin out.
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  Speaker 1: Here, here, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, even when he's on the defense,
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  Speaker 3: he's on the attack. So that's the way he defends himself.
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  Speaker 3: When we come back, by the way, we'd love to
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  Speaker 3: hear from you. If you just need a shoulder to
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  Speaker 3: cry on, we're here for you. You want to talk
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