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

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710 WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 1: So you were down in the streets to sort of
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  Speaker 1: get the sense of people's loss with the passing of
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: How was it, Natalie?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a legacy that transcends generations. Dolly Parton,
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  Speaker 3: really everyone celebrating her life with fans like Jane Fonda
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  Speaker 3: or friends, I should say, giving back. touching tributes saying,
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  Speaker 3: Fonda says, more than anyone she has ever known, Dolly
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  Speaker 3: will always be with us because she was so present,
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  Speaker 3: so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven
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  Speaker 3: into all of our lives and hearts forever. That was
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  Speaker 3: one of the first tributes I saw when it happened.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that a lot of people are are
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  Speaker 3: really taking that into account. Dali, not just an American icon,
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  Speaker 3: but known worldwide.
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  Speaker 2: She had a great heart.
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  Speaker 4: She was just wonderful. She was a wonderful person. She
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  Speaker 4: was full of goodness and kindness, and she loved her family.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of hers, but the name is
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  Speaker 1: very familiar. She's been around for decades, years. And it's sad.
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  Speaker 2: She's a legend.
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  Speaker 1: She's been around forever, man. I was a little child
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  Speaker 1: watching her on TV.
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  Speaker 5: I never was really too much into that. But when
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  Speaker 5: I heard about it, obviously I was devastated because she
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  Speaker 5: was like a legend for country music. And I know
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  Speaker 5: she did so much for the people in that community
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  Speaker 5: and even the queer community.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I didn't think about that one of
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  Speaker 2: your talkbacks said? The longevity. of her career. She's been around,
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  Speaker 2: like he said, from when I was a little kid.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was grown. Trust me, he was a
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  Speaker 3: grown man. So Dolly was long an ally of the
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  Speaker 3: LGBT community, often saying in interviews that it wasn't her
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  Speaker 3: job to judge others. She told Larry King, judging others
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  Speaker 3: was God's job, and she had plenty of things to
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  Speaker 3: do other than God's job. Dolly wasn't just a singer.
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  Speaker 3: She was a successful businesswoman, but an avid philanthropist. She
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  Speaker 3: always said she knew who she was, encouraging people to
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  Speaker 3: find out who they were and to do it on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of her famous quotes. People weighing in on
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  Speaker 3: how she managed to stay so true to herself while
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  Speaker 3: also donating so much.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's pretty much awesome that she did that
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  Speaker 2: and kept it real and did her thing and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of positivity.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, she.
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  Speaker 2: Will be missed. It's all to her, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: type of person she was, real person.
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  Speaker 4: She just had a kindness and she didn't have a
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  Speaker 4: lot else to do with her money, I suppose. She
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  Speaker 4: made a lot of it, so... She was just generous
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  Speaker 4: and kind.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, no one has to give to people. So
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  Speaker 5: the fact that she did that out of the goodness
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  Speaker 5: of her heart and she gave so much of what
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  Speaker 5: she has to people that don't have anything or little
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  Speaker 5: to anything, especially for the fans or people that don't
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  Speaker 5: even know her, it's inspiring.
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  Speaker 3: So inspiring that the Empire State Building glowed pink for
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  Speaker 3: her last night and the president. ordered flags be flown
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  Speaker 3: at half-staff in her honor.
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  Speaker 2: She was an icon, so I think it should happen.
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  Speaker 2: Each president does their own thing, you know? It's not
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  Speaker 2: changing anything I do, so. To her testament, she deserves
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  Speaker 2: whatever she gets. She was a real person.
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  Speaker 5: I think that it's awesome. I know that the flags
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  Speaker 5: are not usually flown half-mass for civilians, so that was
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  Speaker 5: really cool to see, and I did see the Empire
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  Speaker 5: State Building last night. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's on track to get her Broadway musical
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  Speaker 3: still That's supposed to open on what would have been
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  Speaker 3: her 81st birthday, December 7th. But really, guys, her legacy
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  Speaker 3: is just it's almost it's not controversial.
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  Speaker 2: In a way.
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  Speaker 3: You've got people from all political points of views, all
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  Speaker 3: walks of life who know her, who love her and
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  Speaker 3: who are happy to honor her.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Well, she never was political. You understand? I don't ever
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  Speaker 1: remember her siding with somebody running for office or a
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  Speaker 1: particular issue. And like I said, you could see her
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  Speaker 1: entertaining with a group of rebels there wearing confederate caps
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  Speaker 1: right next to the drag queens, and they're all getting along.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know of anybody else who could have been
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  Speaker 1: able to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: She's so smart to do that. I mean, you never
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  Speaker 2: saw her at the White House. You've never seen her
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  Speaker 2: at any political event. You've never seen her appearing with
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  Speaker 2: a politician. In all those years and decades, that was brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: And that had to be planned. That had to be
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  Speaker 2: thought out.
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  Speaker 3: She was brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She was a smart woman.
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  Speaker 3: And she would say that. She would say the jokes
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  Speaker 3: on everyone else. They think I'm this blonde. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: even blonde.
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  Speaker 5: That's what she would say.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore, that was great. She'll be back tomorrow at
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  Speaker 2: the exact same time.