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Hour 3: Gloria Steinem. · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: You know, Larry, while the president awaits the appointment, we
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Speaker 1: think of a permanent White House spokesperson. I think yesterday
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Speaker 1: is an indication why he needs it. It was Vice
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Speaker 1: President Vance's opportunity to answer a series of questions and
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Speaker 1: obviously to make statements attributable to the president. probably Rubio
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Speaker 1: will be next, maybe Besnet next, the Treasury. I think
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Speaker 1: based on what I heard and saw yesterday, you got
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Speaker 1: to get somebody who's just on message and not running
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Speaker 1: for the presidency in 2028. Because when I'm looking at events,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, This guy's already looking at possibly Rubio challenging
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Speaker 1: him in the primary. We come after a week of
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz saying, I want to run. So why is
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Speaker 1: he doing the press conference when he may have an
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Speaker 1: alternative motive to say some of the things that he does,
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Speaker 1: rather than somebody who can just deliver the message that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, our president, wants delivered? before the nation and
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Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 2: Well, Trump allegedly thought he did a great job. I
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Speaker 2: watched the entire thing. I really enjoyed Vance. I think
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Speaker 2: he's a rock star, but he did say some controversial things,
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Speaker 2: at least that the media and you picked out as
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Speaker 2: being controversial, like Joe Biden.
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Speaker 3: I think that sense of commonality and common purpose that
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Speaker 3: we all had on 9-11, that's something that we should
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Speaker 3: really try every single day to get back to. And
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Speaker 3: if even just for a day, even if just for
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Speaker 3: a few hours, I would encourage people to tune in.
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Speaker 3: I'm also, as you guys can probably guess, I'm really
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Speaker 3: looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: that we'll have many, many intense intellectual conversations.
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Speaker 1: And, you know, it'll be great. And the reason he's
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Speaker 1: commenting on that is Joe Biden, it was announced, will
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Speaker 1: actually be attending the New York commemoration. We thought he had,
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Speaker 1: you know, the serious stage four prostate cancer, but apparently
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Speaker 1: he can't attend. Vice President Vance will be there. He
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Speaker 1: said a lot of nice things about that. Also, why
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Speaker 1: the president should be at the Pentagon. And he also
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Speaker 1: pointed out, hey, remember, there's Western Pennsylvania also. All of
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Speaker 1: these areas were hit on 9-11. I thought up until
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Speaker 1: that point, he did a very good job. No, he
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Speaker 1: said other things about it. He said we all can't
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Speaker 1: be in the same place at one time. Other presidents
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Speaker 1: have given speeches at the Pentagon before. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be representing the administration.
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Speaker 2: Four other presidents are going to be there. Everything he
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Speaker 2: said was on target. And then he wanted to be funny.
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Speaker 2: And it just wasn't the time. Man, it landed like
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Speaker 2: a thud, too. Nobody in the room reacted to that.
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Speaker 1: Intellectual conversation with Joe Biden, please.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a bad one. You know, if I
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Speaker 2: give him as much respect as I do all the time,
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Speaker 2: I'll give him respect on this one. I have a
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Speaker 2: feeling he went, oh, you know, inside. He realized that
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Speaker 2: was not the right time.
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Speaker 1: Or it may have been to score points with the president,
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Speaker 1: who any time you could take a shot at Joe Biden,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's more than happy to applaud that.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, at the end of any other statement,
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Speaker 2: you could take that shot. Not talking about being at 9-11.
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Speaker 2: You don't take that shot there. Here he is talking
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Speaker 2: about the war.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't call it a war. Right now, there is
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Speaker 3: no active shooting. I recognize there have been people places
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Speaker 3: where this is flared up. Major combat operations, again, major
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Speaker 3: combat operations lasted for about six weeks.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing about that. I actually agree with him.
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Speaker 2: If you remember, I kept saying in the beginning, this
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Speaker 2: isn't a war. I mean, we haven't sent any troops.
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Speaker 2: There's nobody on the ground. There's nobody fighting. I changed
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Speaker 2: when the president started calling it a war. When he
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Speaker 2: started calling it a war, I thought, well, I guess
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Speaker 2: it's a war now. I never lived up to that,
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Speaker 2: much like they called it the Libya war for a while,
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Speaker 2: and they stopped. But Libya wasn't a war. We weren't
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Speaker 2: involved in a war with them. That was mostly internal.
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Speaker 2: We were just applying pressure. I think that's the case
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Speaker 2: in this, too. So I think he's correct. But you're right.
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Speaker 2: He's stepping outside what the administration says.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also, let's face it, the rest of the
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Speaker 1: world looks at it as a war. I think most
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Speaker 1: Americans look at it as a war. We want it resolved. Right.
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Speaker 1: We want it resolved.
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Speaker 2: But here's the problem with it. I mean, you can
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Speaker 2: make the argument that it's not a war because it
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Speaker 2: doesn't live up to the past wars. I mean, President Obama,
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Speaker 2: when he was sending drones around the world and bombing
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Speaker 2: 18 countries if this is a war that's a war
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Speaker 2: and that wasn't called a war but the media immediately
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Speaker 2: called this a war and others jumped in on it
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Speaker 2: and i remember you jumped in on.
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Speaker 1: It well yeah because the president called it an excursion
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Speaker 1: which is a vacation i mean he didn't even realize
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Speaker 1: yeah he what the meaning of excursion is yeah.
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Speaker 2: He he misspoke on that and i know you keep
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Speaker 2: bringing that up but i If we want to bring
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Speaker 2: up misspeaking, we got a president that J.D. Vance is
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Speaker 2: going to be standing next to that did it constantly.
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Speaker 3: We've been quite successful up to this point. Gas, frankly,
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Speaker 3: could have been much, much higher were it not for
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Speaker 3: our efforts. But I'm not going to make a promise
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Speaker 3: about when it's going to return to $ 3. What I
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Speaker 3: will say is that we have to remember, why are
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Speaker 3: we doing this? Number one, it's so that Iran never
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Speaker 3: has a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: So he would not promise that gas prices are going
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Speaker 2: to come down.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has been promising that gas prices are going
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Speaker 2: to go down. I'm just giving you the points that
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Speaker 2: you were making that he went off the reservation a.
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Speaker 1: Couple of times. And again, part of his brain, you know,
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Speaker 1: he has two parts of his brain. I'm the vice president.
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Speaker 1: I'm loyal to Trump, which he is, even though he's
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Speaker 1: been opposed to this war. We know initially he was opposed,
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Speaker 1: but he's been very loyal. But he's also now looking
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Speaker 1: behind his back at Rubio, Ted Cruz and maybe others.
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Speaker 1: So this is a little bit towards 2028. I think
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Speaker 1: the problem with the administration is while he was saying
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Speaker 1: that and all eyes were on him, the Treasury Secretary
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Speaker 1: was with the G20 conference and the Russian who also
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Speaker 1: attended and blaming the Ukraine for the rising gas prices
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Speaker 1: because they keep bombing Russia's supply and Russia's refineries. It's
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Speaker 1: sort of like, okay, that's a war, this is a war,
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Speaker 1: so why don't we resolve this so we can be
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Speaker 1: paying under maybe $ 3 a gallon? Because you know that's
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Speaker 1: the main concern of many Americans is the price of
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Speaker 1: a gallon of gas, but more importantly, the price of diesel,
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Speaker 1: because diesel then affects the transport of all the goods
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Speaker 1: and the prices you get charged in the retail or
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Speaker 1: supermarkets or for products. So I think most Americans say, well, yes, sure.
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Speaker 1: Get these wars out of the way. If that's the
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Speaker 1: reason we're paying all this money.
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Speaker 2: You can't be like, let's just get this war out
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Speaker 2: of the way. You can't just pull out of the
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Speaker 2: war at this point. I mean, at this point, we're
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Speaker 2: in it. And at this point, we have one goal,
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Speaker 2: one goal and one goal only to make sure that
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Speaker 2: they won't have a nuclear weapon, which, by the way,
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Speaker 2: the world agrees with. Everybody agrees with that. The EU
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Speaker 2: agrees with it. Even Canada that we're fighting, they agree
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Speaker 2: with that. And so, yes, if we're in this, if
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Speaker 2: we're going to take this fight, if we're going to
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Speaker 2: waste all these resources on this effort, then you've got
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Speaker 2: to make it work. At this point, you can't pull out.
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Speaker 2: It's not just like, okay, it's going to be over with.
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Speaker 2: We've got a midterm coming up. We've got to win
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Speaker 2: the midterm. I think the gas prices are going to
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Speaker 2: come down. We'll see if those gas prices come down.
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Speaker 2: I think J.D. Vance is a rock star. And I
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Speaker 2: think that they have– I think it's an administration full–
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Speaker 2: of a lot of rock stars. You mentioned a couple
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Speaker 2: of them, Scott Besson. I think it's been amazing. I
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Speaker 2: also really like Marco Rubio. It's going to be really fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Now you have Hegseth apparently talking about running for president
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Oh God, please. No. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, no, he's put together a committee and everything.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's looking at it too. It is going
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Speaker 2: to be fascinating to see this race when we, when
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Speaker 2: it comes, because how much are they going to go
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Speaker 2: after each other?
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're going to go full throttle against one another.
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Speaker 1: And the Achilles heel that J.D. Vance has is he
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Speaker 1: will not extricate himself from Tucker Carlson. He was asked
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Speaker 1: that yesterday at the press conference. You would almost think
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Speaker 1: that they were long-lost friends. He will not denounce him. Now,
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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson has denounced the Republican Party. He has left
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party. He says, I'm going to start a
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Speaker 1: third party. That isn't going to hurt the Democrats. That
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Speaker 1: would hurt the Republicans in an election 2028. Now, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he's saying, well, I'll stay close to Tucker.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I can convince him not to launch a third party.
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Speaker 1: But it's too much of this. And the other candidates,
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Speaker 1: as you know, will denounce Tucker Carlson. All that you
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Speaker 1: mentioned will denounce Tucker Carlson. They will not embrace him.
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Speaker 1: And it's a very strange way. He talks about Tucker Carlson. Now,
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Speaker 1: as was mentioned with Rob Asherino in the 7 o'clock hour,
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Speaker 1: I believe Tucker Carlson's oldest son, works for J.D. Vance
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Speaker 1: in the vice president's office, or at least used to.
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Speaker 1: They're obviously lifelong friends. But the president was very quick
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Speaker 1: at a certain point after Tucker Carlson had an easy
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Speaker 1: pass in and out of the White House. Remember how
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Speaker 1: many times Tucker Carlson would show up? Just walk right in.
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Speaker 1: That easy pass was revoked. He was banned. Tucker Carlson said,
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Speaker 1: I renounce the Republicans. I'm leaving the party. I may
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Speaker 1: start a third party. Who cares?
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Speaker 4: Seriously.
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Speaker 2: He has very little impact anymore. Tucker Carlson is a
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Speaker 2: non-entity in this race, except for people who somehow want
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Speaker 2: to cause some disconsent. So, yeah, he's going to come up.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to come from the Republicans. It's going
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Speaker 2: to be like the Republicans talking about Hassan Piker. The
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Speaker 2: other side is going to bring it up to try
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Speaker 2: to stir up some discontent. But I wouldn't even have
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Speaker 2: mentioned it today. Tucker Carlson, nobody talks about him anymore.
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Speaker 1: Look at all the one percentage who kept somebody from
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Speaker 1: winning the presidency. Need I go back? Ralph Nader, the
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Speaker 1: Green Party candidate, Stein. There's a history of this. Let's
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Speaker 1: say he decided, no, I'm going to run. He gets 1%.
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Speaker 1: That could change the outcome of the election in 2028.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people say they're going to run, and
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Speaker 2: then they try to get the money, and they can't run.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see. We'll see if he does. I think
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Speaker 2: it's all talk right now, and I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of it is just to get some attention. Now, I
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Speaker 2: don't think he's going to run. I think he's a
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Speaker 2: complete non-entity. He made a mistake leaving Fox News.
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Speaker 1: Well, you never know by his numbers and the people
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Speaker 1: who watch him and the money that he's generated and
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Speaker 1: all the friends he has in the Persian Gulf and
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Speaker 1: the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a lot of friends overseas that pay him.
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Speaker 2: That's where he makes his money. Some of them are
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Speaker 2: our allies. Not so much on his podcast. Could New
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Speaker 2: York have a Dolly Parton day, plus a chance to
11:09
Speaker 2: see Air Supply coming up next?
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Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte in the morning, live from
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Speaker 1: the WOR Life Fact Studios. Larry, we just talked with
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Speaker 1: Natalie Magliore about all the stabbings and slashings in this
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Speaker 1: city attributed to emotionally disturbed persons. Apparently, another one just happened.
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Speaker 1: New York City cops shoot knife-wielding men. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: who charged at them on the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: he was emotionally disturbed, but we'll have more details right
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Speaker 1: before the nine o'clock hour before Mark Simone, actually his substitute,
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosato, is in today. Possibly more details on that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you something happier
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Speaker 2: and much nicer than that. The New York has legislation
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Speaker 2: right now in the state Senate to make September 25th
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Speaker 2: Dolly Parton Day. Now, think about it. Tennessee has already
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Speaker 2: done the same thing. And it's probably going to spread
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Speaker 2: across the country. New York would be the second state.
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Speaker 2: You know, September 25th, 925. Now, you'll remember they already
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Speaker 2: have May the 4th as Star Wars Day. You know,
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Speaker 2: May the 4th be with you. And so you're seeing
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Speaker 2: this happening a lot. But this one, I believe, is
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Speaker 2: way more special, and it's going to be enshrined in legislation.
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Speaker 2: And so it's a nice thing because who is nicer,
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Speaker 2: who is more iconic than– we couldn't even think of anybody–
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Speaker 2: than Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 1: Although with Labor Day upon us, some union people out there,
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Speaker 1: whether civil or in the private sector, say– Oh, do
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Speaker 1: we get a day off with pay on that day?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: September 25th is my anniversary. Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So it's already enshrined. I'm just so excited to share it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: This is awesome.
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Speaker 2: Now nine to five always is going to be part
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Speaker 2: of your anniversary.
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Speaker 1: I never thought of it.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to some talkbacks.
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Speaker 5: You can't tell me crime is down in New York.
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Speaker 5: I moved out in New York after 50 years because
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Speaker 5: of the crime. Look at the young lady with that
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Speaker 5: beautiful child, eight months old, stabbed to death on her
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Speaker 5: first day back from maternity. They can spew anything you want.
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Speaker 5: Tish and Mondami can tell the news anything fake and
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Speaker 5: people believe it.
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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Wise up, people in New York.
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Speaker 1: At least She's not meaning Jessica Tish and Mayor Zahn
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Speaker 1: using the term that Adams used over and over. Remember,
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Speaker 1: it's your perception. It's your perception. No, it's the reality
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Speaker 1: that this issue, that woman dying who just was on
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Speaker 1: maternity leave, the executive for Bank of America. This will
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Speaker 1: be remembered for a long, long time.
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Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think it's going to be
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Speaker 2: a catalyst towards change. Remember, now in two cities, including Washington, D.C.,
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Speaker 2: the nation's capital. There have been people that have been
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Speaker 2: arrested for fudging the numbers. So all of these Democratic
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Speaker 2: cities better watch out, including New York City, because I
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Speaker 2: do think they're fixing the numbers and they're just not
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Speaker 2: reporting some crimes. Larry Curtis, I'm a native New Yorker
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Speaker 2: for 65 years.
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Speaker 1: I'm not safe going into the city, but I don't even.
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Speaker 2: Know who's crazy because people have in their earbuds and
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Speaker 2: they're talking on their phone.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know who's crazy.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. The earbuds are the best thing
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Speaker 2: that ever happened to the homeless because if they just
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Speaker 2: put one in, it looks like they're talking to somebody.
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Speaker 1: And how many times have I been sort of fooled?
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking someone's talking to me. When they're not talking
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Speaker 1: to me, they're talking to somebody else. God only knows
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Speaker 1: where they are, but through their earbud.
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Speaker 2: And then you always get the index finger.
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Speaker 1: Through that blue phone.
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Speaker 2: Because you go to answer them and they put the
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Speaker 2: index finger up.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: For me, it's the middle finger. Any other business, you
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Speaker 1: can make numbers work any way you want them to work.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes we used to say in my old business, numbers lie.
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Speaker 1: You can skew them any way you want. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: they're trying really hard with these after summer stats. Again,
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Speaker 1: when you have a situation like this, these random, they
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Speaker 1: call it random attacks, slashing, stabbings, and when it results
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Speaker 1: in the death, look how many of you people, Natalie
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Speaker 1: and Larry, I say you people because you come in
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Speaker 1: from Jersey or wherever to work in New York City,
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Speaker 1: you identify with that woman who was just slashed, stabbed,
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Speaker 1: and killed. You can identify with her. Absolutely. You can't
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Speaker 1: apply a stat to that. No, I agree with you
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Speaker 1: a thousand percent. And by the way, the Justice Department
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Speaker 1: you're going after after other cities. New York.
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Speaker 2: Take a look at New York's numbers.
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Speaker 5: Just a little advice for Curtis when he's driving his
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Speaker 5: Pinto over the George Washington Bridge, getting.
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Speaker 1: Ready to throw the coins into the basket for the toll.
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Speaker 1: Just pop an 8-track in while your wife is reading
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Speaker 1: the math course directions.
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Speaker 2: Once you see the Sears, you may go left at
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Speaker 2: the Roy Rogers. And by the way, in Jersey, don't
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Speaker 2: talk on that flip phone of yours because you're going
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Speaker 2: to get pulled over.
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Speaker 1: And you can't toss coins any longer. Well, none of
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Speaker 1: that you could do. Your 8-track. Right.
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Speaker 4: The Sears.
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Speaker 1: It has to be a yellow pinto, though. I want
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Speaker 1: a yellow pinto to stand out. To stand out. Curtis, Larry,
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Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa, and Larry Menti in the morning. 710-WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, across the country, women are pausing to remember and
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Speaker 2: pay tribute to women's liberation icon Gloria Steinem. Not just women,
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Speaker 2: everybody is who died Wednesday at the age of 92.
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Speaker 2: Steinem became a symbol of feminism, advocating for women's reproductive rights,
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Speaker 2: equal pay, workplace equality. And now some of the people
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Speaker 2: that are leading that movement today, like Galia Paliga, who
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Speaker 2: is a state president for now, says that she only
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Speaker 2: got to where she is like many women did because
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Speaker 2: of Gloria Steinem.
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Speaker 1: Her changes were already in effect.
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Speaker 4: You know, so that I could go to school and
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Speaker 4: do computer science and was already more fairly treated.
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Speaker 2: She's amazing. She was a journalist. She was an editor.
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Speaker 2: She was a co-owner of magazines, including Ms. You know,
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Speaker 2: she was the pinnacle of the movement, and she is
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Speaker 2: an icon to today. And many of us remember at
17:43
Speaker 2: some of the rallies she would hold across the country
17:45
Speaker 2: here in New York City, but there was one in Washington, D.C.,
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Speaker 2: that to show you what her influence was, became a
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Speaker 2: global rally. And while she was there and speaking, she
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Speaker 2: talked about that. She talked about the fact that she
17:58
Speaker 2: just got word from Germany.
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Speaker 4: I was just talking with people from our many sister marches,
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Speaker 4: including the one in Berlin, and they asked me to
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Speaker 4: send a special message. We in Berlin know that walls
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Speaker 4: don't work.
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Speaker 2: You know, she got the presidential... medal for freedom from
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama and he phrased it pretty darn well.
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Speaker 1: Because of her work across America and around the world,
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Speaker 1: more women are afforded the respect and opportunities that they deserve.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's women today, Curtis, to this day that have
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Speaker 2: some liberties, that have some freedom that weren't there. It's
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Speaker 2: hard to remember that far back when women had difficulty
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Speaker 2: when it came to colleges and universities and in the workplace.
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Speaker 1: It was lucky she emerged. She became the face of
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Speaker 1: the now movement because with her was Betty Friedan. And
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Speaker 1: that was the stereotype that most guys wanted to believe. Yeah, yeah,
18:58
Speaker 1: you're all bra burners, bitch. And she would say, thank you.
19:03
Speaker 1: Thank you for calling me Beyonce or whatever you called me, Ms. Magazine.
19:08
Speaker 1: But a lot of people objected to the fact that
19:10
Speaker 1: in the promo that was run, I talked about how
19:13
Speaker 1: she was a CIA agent. No, she's not. You're making
19:18
Speaker 1: that up. No, no, no, no, no, no. I spent
19:20
Speaker 1: time in Toledo where she was born and raised. I
19:22
Speaker 1: remember being with a guy who said, man, I went
19:25
Speaker 1: to school with Gloria Steinem. And she was a damn
19:30
Speaker 1: good daughter because her mother, and boy, this is right
19:33
Speaker 1: in line with what we've been talking about, was assigned
19:37
Speaker 1: to a sanitarium for the mentally ill. She had a
19:40
Speaker 1: mental breakdown. Her father was an antique salesman. He just
19:44
Speaker 1: skipped and went to California, and she decided to stay
19:48
Speaker 1: with her mother. She was the youngest child. The oldest
19:51
Speaker 1: daughter went to Washington, D.C., and she cared for her mother.
19:55
Speaker 1: So obviously back then, you know, you get assigned to
19:58
Speaker 1: a mental sanitarium. You're the youngest daughter. You're caring for
20:02
Speaker 1: your mom. You decide once she's permanently assigned to that sanitarium,
20:07
Speaker 1: you got to You got to get out of Toledo.
20:10
Speaker 1: She goes to England. She has an abortion when it
20:12
Speaker 1: was illegal. It's 1957. She could have gone to jail.
20:17
Speaker 1: The doctor could have gone to jail. She wrote extensively
20:21
Speaker 1: about that. Went to India for two years. Wanted to
20:24
Speaker 1: find herself. And then when she came back, guess who
20:27
Speaker 1: recruited her into the CIA? An agent who said, you know,
20:32
Speaker 1: you're so good at what you do. You're so convincing.
20:36
Speaker 1: I want you to help to organize delegations of young
20:39
Speaker 1: progressive Americans to attend worldwide youth meetings sponsored by the
20:43
Speaker 1: Soviet Union. It was called Independent Research Service. Now, she
20:48
Speaker 1: was not a communist. She was opposed to communism. So
20:52
Speaker 1: she not only became the person organizing other young progressives,
20:57
Speaker 1: but encouraging them when they went with her to the
21:00
Speaker 1: satellite countries. Let's talk about rock and roll to the
21:03
Speaker 1: young people and wearing blue jeans, which is what they
21:06
Speaker 1: were prevented from having. And that's how you created cracks
21:11
Speaker 1: in the old Soviet support system. So she was a
21:14
Speaker 1: CIA agent. She was a Democrat. She voted for Adlai
21:18
Speaker 1: Stevenson against Eisenhower. But she was a virulent anti-communist. And
21:23
Speaker 1: then remember in 63— But.
21:25
Speaker 2: I want to point out, because if anybody had problems
21:27
Speaker 2: with you saying that, all of that is pretty well
21:30
Speaker 2: darn documented. Yes, it was absolutely the case.
21:33
Speaker 1: And she was proud of it, and thankfully she did that. Second,
21:37
Speaker 1: she was so good at morphing into whatever she had
21:40
Speaker 1: to be. Obviously, you have to be good to be
21:42
Speaker 1: a CIA agent and pretend— to be pro-Soviet while you're
21:46
Speaker 1: there in the Soviet Union in the satellite countries. She
21:49
Speaker 1: went undercover as a playboy bunny and exposed Hugh Hefner
21:54
Speaker 1: and in her writings talked about how all the women
21:58
Speaker 1: who achieved bunny status had to be checked for sexually
22:02
Speaker 1: transmitted diseases because, you know, Hefner wanted to have sex
22:05
Speaker 1: with them. And boy, that put chink in his arm because,
22:09
Speaker 1: you know, he was out of Chicago at that time.
22:11
Speaker 1: He was every male's image of what a virulent man
22:15
Speaker 1: should be. This woman was good at what she did.
22:19
Speaker 1: Once she became the person who had a lead in effort,
22:23
Speaker 1: stay out of her way.
22:25
Speaker 2: You know, she did a whole lot more with the CIA,
22:28
Speaker 2: and it is all fascinating as you look at it.
22:31
Speaker 2: You're right. She was in Europe. They were getting her
22:34
Speaker 2: to recruit people against the Soviet Union. But when she
22:39
Speaker 2: got back here, the CIA helped her to establish an
22:42
Speaker 2: organization called the Independence Research Service. She remained an employee
22:48
Speaker 2: of that group well into the 60s. They held a
22:51
Speaker 2: big youth festival there. And she wrote about the CIA
22:55
Speaker 2: in her 2015 memoirs. And she said, listen, it was
23:00
Speaker 2: a necessary evil to get to where I wanted to be.
23:04
Speaker 2: They gave me power. They gave me money. And they
23:09
Speaker 2: gave me an ability to recruit in Europe and to
23:12
Speaker 2: recruit in America. And I would not have been able
23:16
Speaker 2: to do that without them. So what she's saying is, yes,
23:20
Speaker 2: some of the work was for the CIA, but all
23:23
Speaker 2: of it, I didn't keep my eye off the ball.
23:26
Speaker 2: I was constantly thinking about the women's movement.
23:28
Speaker 1: Yep. And she never had children of her own, but
23:31
Speaker 1: she's the stepmom of the actor Christian Bale because she
23:36
Speaker 1: had married his father, David Bale. And boy, there were
23:40
Speaker 1: all kinds of men who were dating Gloria Steinem. in
23:44
Speaker 1: the 70s when she was a jet setter. I mean, globally,
23:48
Speaker 1: they all wanted Gloria Steinman to be out there with
23:52
Speaker 1: them at a restaurant, a party, a gathering, because she
23:56
Speaker 1: was such a good looker, very intellectual, and obviously a
24:01
Speaker 1: very forceful feminist. So in her passing in 92 years, imagine,
24:07
Speaker 1: she went from when Hitler became the Fuhrer, that's the
24:12
Speaker 1: year she was born, to now the emergence of AI.
24:17
Speaker 1: So there will be lots of tributes to Gloria Steinman
24:21
Speaker 1: all throughout the week and into next week. But up next,
24:25
Speaker 1: we're going to give you an update on that Brooklyn
24:27
Speaker 1: Bridge shooting today of an emotionally disturbed person by the NYPD.
24:32
Speaker 1: And more importantly, what's being done before the big commemoration
24:37
Speaker 1: next Friday. Same time, same place next Friday. We'll have
24:40
Speaker 1: our own commemoration on 9-11. taking place here at 710WOR.
24:46
Speaker 1: Another emotionally disturbed person with a knife in his hand,
24:50
Speaker 1: waving it around, disorderly. Citizens on the Brooklyn side of
24:55
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge called 911. This was at 4.30 in
24:59
Speaker 1: the morning before we started our program. They surrounded him.
25:03
Speaker 1: He charged the police. They shot him. Multiple shots were fired,
25:07
Speaker 1: shell casings everywhere on the Brooklyn side. Manhattan side of
25:11
Speaker 1: the bridge was open. They closed the Brooklyn side for
25:13
Speaker 1: a further investigation. But here we go again. Emotionally disturbed person.
25:19
Speaker 1: We don't know where he was living at the time,
25:21
Speaker 1: whether the street or shelter or maybe at his own apartment.
25:24
Speaker 1: We'll get more details as the day goes on. But
25:27
Speaker 1: there have been a series of these situations now. And
25:30
Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen. They're going to hang
25:32
Speaker 1: it on the cops. Why did you have to shoot them?
25:34
Speaker 1: We should have mental health experts out there responding. Well,
25:38
Speaker 1: every one of these mayors, from de Blasio to Adams,
25:40
Speaker 1: now Zorin has had a chance to do that, and
25:42
Speaker 1: they haven't done it.
25:43
Speaker 2: Because it's an idiot idea.
25:45
Speaker 1: That's why.
25:46
Speaker 2: Because they're going to end up getting killed. So you
25:49
Speaker 2: won't have the person that's now threatening people being killed.
25:53
Speaker 2: You'll have people trying to help him being killed. What
25:56
Speaker 2: we need to do in this country, and I'll say
25:58
Speaker 2: this over and over and over again, For the good
26:02
Speaker 2: of the mentally ill person and also for the good
26:06
Speaker 2: of the police force and for the good for the
26:08
Speaker 2: citizens who will be threatened by this person, we need
26:11
Speaker 2: to be able to put people away and get them
26:14
Speaker 2: the help they need. And we used to be able
26:16
Speaker 2: to do that. That's ended, and it was partially society's
26:20
Speaker 2: fault because they overextended and they treated people very poorly.
26:26
Speaker 2: we got to do this again and do it the
26:28
Speaker 2: right way.
26:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we just talked about how Gloria Steinem cared
26:31
Speaker 1: for her mother in Toledo in a sanitarium because she
26:35
Speaker 1: had had a mental breakdown, cared for her. I mean,
26:38
Speaker 1: there is a way to do it properly, and you
26:40
Speaker 1: are correct. Now, meantime, as we approach 9-11, and next
26:44
Speaker 1: week we're dedicating a lot of our broadcasting to the
26:47
Speaker 1: lead-up to the commemoration, Julie Menon, city council speaker, was
26:51
Speaker 1: surrounded with other council people talking how they're going to
26:54
Speaker 1: spend a million dollars to make available trips to the
26:58
Speaker 1: 9-11 museum on the part of kids who go to
27:02
Speaker 1: public schools. And I'm saying to myself, 25 years, and
27:08
Speaker 1: you now extricate a million dollars from a $ 42 billion
27:12
Speaker 1: Department of Education budget in which there is nothing in
27:17
Speaker 1: this that says you have to bring the children there.
27:19
Speaker 1: Because when I asked my sons, hey, do you talk
27:22
Speaker 1: about 9-11 in the schools? They've all gone to public schools. No, Dad,
27:25
Speaker 1: why don't they talk about it? Well, they don't want
27:27
Speaker 1: to hurt anybody's feelings. So unlike our generation that grew up,
27:31
Speaker 1: Larry and I know you, Natalie, remember the Pearl, remember
27:34
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor. It was driven into us. One-third of our
27:38
Speaker 1: population was born after 9-11. Most of them had no
27:42
Speaker 1: idea about 9-11 or what transpired because most of these
27:45
Speaker 1: schools won't even address it.
27:48
Speaker 2: We've got to stop placating minorities in our country. Not
27:51
Speaker 2: large minorities, but small minorities of people. We have to
27:55
Speaker 2: stop placating and making sure that nobody is ever offended.
28:00
Speaker 2: It is a bizarre thing, and it's just some residue
28:04
Speaker 2: from the whole woke movement in our country. Finally, can
28:08
Speaker 2: we get rid of that stuff? By the way, with
28:09
Speaker 2: Julie Menon, I don't know how to feel about her.
28:12
Speaker 2: I mean, when she first came in, it looked like
28:13
Speaker 2: she was going to take on Zora Mamdani, and I
28:16
Speaker 2: thought the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
28:18
Speaker 1: Did I not warn you?
28:19
Speaker 2: And then I thought, wait a second, that's not working
28:21
Speaker 2: out the way she said it was.
28:22
Speaker 1: Going to happen. I warned you, Larry!
28:24
Speaker 2: All right, well, Curtis also said he knows where Jimmy
28:27
Speaker 2: Hoffa is buried this morning, and the talkback of the
28:30
Speaker 2: morning and winner of the Curtis Sliwa and Larry Minty
28:33
Speaker 2: in the morning t-shirt had a message for me for
28:38
Speaker 2: some reason.
28:39
Speaker 1: Forget about it, Larry. You know Curtis knows where all
28:42
Speaker 1: the bones are buried. Remember, underneath the Pulaski Skyway that
28:48
Speaker 1: both of you take home the jersey, in that dump
28:52
Speaker 1: there that was run by the Genovese, in a 55-gallon
28:56
Speaker 1: drum are the remnants of Jimmy Hoffa.
28:59
Speaker 2: Let me just see. That's the 57th place I've been
29:02
Speaker 2: told he's been buried. And it's Friday, so we're going
29:05
Speaker 2: to award the Talkback of the Week a C-Crane Radio.
29:09
Speaker 2: He was not very happy about this. This Talkback coming
29:13
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29:15
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29:18
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29:22
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, you know, you got these hipsters, these nitwits.
29:26
Speaker 1: They'll sit out in anything just to look like they're cool.
29:29
Speaker 1: They make me sick.
29:31
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