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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh man, let me tell you something. I gotta tell you, Larry. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, gotta mention, Natalie's away today, but in
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  Speaker 1: her stead is Chris the Quiet Storm, on loan from
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, producer extraordinaire. You wanna get at least one
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  Speaker 1: word out before we get started here, Chris? If you
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  Speaker 1: were in politics, you would be a disaster. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing I'm not in politics, then. I'm glad I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: How many words was that? A lot. More than one
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  Speaker 1: or two. You're feeling good today. A little bit, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're a little spunky today. I went to bed early
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  Speaker 1: last night, so. Wow. He may not be quiet today.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine when he's texting or responding? You're probably
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys who just uses simple acronyms. Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: No explanations. No, I actually do like.
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  Speaker 3: Putting, like, correct grammar in my text messages oh i
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  Speaker 3: put commas and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know do you really yeah wow yeah i don't know
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  Speaker 1: this is.
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  Speaker 2: More than you have talked and i've worked with you
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  Speaker 2: for a year and this is more than you've talked
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  Speaker 2: any other time did you take a shot of something No.
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  Speaker 1: Did you use the Larry Menti remedy of 15 caffeinated
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  Speaker 1: cups of coffee?
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a coffee guy. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into it momentarily. Kathy Hochul could
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  Speaker 1: have used that coffee in her debate against Blakeman and
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  Speaker 1: Tish James against Saritha, the AG debate. We didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to talk about because of all the
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  Speaker 1: news last week. But yesterday, I was taking a victory
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  Speaker 1: lap to Central Park. It's like 150 horses. that are
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  Speaker 1: involved in the horse carriage industry with the drivers. And
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  Speaker 1: the drivers are used to me heckling them. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're all screaming to me, you'll never be mayor, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never be mayor, you're a bum. You know, go get
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  Speaker 1: a job, go get a real job. So I take
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  Speaker 1: all that abuse and I walk up to the horses
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  Speaker 1: and I'm patting their mane and I'm saying, hey, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: hang on. You got two years. If you can make
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  Speaker 1: it through two years of this torture, you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to frolic with your buddies out there at some horse sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great. And then as I'm making the rounds
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  Speaker 1: and trying to answer some of the questions of the
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  Speaker 1: horse carriage drivers who would actually talk to me about
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  Speaker 1: how they can segue into a career so they can
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  Speaker 1: pay their bills and not get evicted, I passed a statue.
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  Speaker 1: You got to look at it, ladies and gentlemen, right
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  Speaker 1: before you hit Strawberry Fields. right before the spot at
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  Speaker 1: the Dakota where John Lennon was assassinated back in 1980.
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  Speaker 1: There is this huge statue in Central Park. Almost nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows who it is. I do because my dad told
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  Speaker 1: me and educated me. It's the former Senator Stephen Douglas,
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  Speaker 1: who had the greatest debates of all time, Larry, with
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  Speaker 1: then Abraham Lincoln. 1858, they were running for the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Douglas... was assumed to be the winner, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in advance. But he allowed for seven debates. He was
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat. The Republican Party was just being formed. That
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  Speaker 1: came about for the presidential election, and Lincoln won in 1860.
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  Speaker 1: And Larry, these were three-hour debates all over Illinois, as
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  Speaker 1: my dad explained. People came from everywhere. Reporters covered it
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  Speaker 1: for newspapers all across the nation. And that's really how
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln established himself as the anti-slavery guy.
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  Speaker 2: And Stephen Douglas was pro-slavery. But there were so many
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  Speaker 2: other issues they discussed. It was slavery for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: Almost all of it was about slavery. But listen to
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  Speaker 2: the format and compare it to the debates of today.
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  Speaker 2: One hour opening address. One hour opening address.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Then an hour and a half counter address. So you
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  Speaker 2: give the other guy 30 more minutes, I guess, to
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  Speaker 2: talk about what you just said. Then on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: a 30 minute rebuttal. And so they allowed Douglas to
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  Speaker 2: open four times and Lincoln to open three times. So
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  Speaker 2: they had seven debates, but this was the format. So
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  Speaker 2: do they ever go back and forth at all?
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  Speaker 1: Not sure. My dad never explained that. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that till I just read it. But the point is, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: there was no audio back then. There was no amplification.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like today. You get a microphone in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. So even if you're soft spoken, you could
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  Speaker 1: be heard by a crowd. And these people came from everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Huge crowds. Journalists from all over the country came. who
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  Speaker 1: then teletyped their stories in the next day, which were
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  Speaker 1: carried on the front pages of the major periodicals. And
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  Speaker 1: that's really how Lincoln established himself as a great orator.
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  Speaker 1: But I give credit to Stephen Douglas. He could have said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm way ahead. I'm the established U.S. senator. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody's going to beat me. Why do I have
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  Speaker 1: to submit myself to seven debates? There is no rules.
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  Speaker 1: There were no rules back then that you had to
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  Speaker 1: do seven debates. In three hours, there had to be
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  Speaker 1: a bathroom. break, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my God, three hours. And do you think,
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  Speaker 2: you said there's huge crowds. There's no way a crowd
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  Speaker 2: stuck around for three hours. But then again, maybe because
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing better to do back then.
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  Speaker 1: But they were great orators, both of them. But three hours?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how great of an orator you are. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that, wait a second, the three-hour tour, right? Remember?
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  Speaker 1: What was that? Gilligan's Island. Gilligan's Island, right? But they
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  Speaker 1: came from everywhere. The way his mind works. All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, a sitcom from the 60s and 70s comes back.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, you know how people show up for Trump rallies?
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  Speaker 1: They'll show up a day or two early. They showed
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  Speaker 1: up early to be able to get into a position
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  Speaker 1: where they could hear the debate. Again, no amplification whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: And I say there should have been established long ago
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  Speaker 1: a prerequisite that if you're running for political office, that
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  Speaker 1: you have to submit yourself to a minimum of two debates.
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  Speaker 1: I want to turn to your state of New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you a fact here, though, to add
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  Speaker 2: to what you were just saying. More than 70,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: Back then. Back then.
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  Speaker 2: 70,000 is a lot of people. More than 70,000 people
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  Speaker 2: attended the seven joint debates in total. And they averaged
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  Speaker 2: 10,000 to 12,000 spectators at a time. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: no arena. There's no microphones. They were probably telling each
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  Speaker 2: other what was said. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you, in fact, I had this discussion with
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cuddy the other day, you know, in the recovery
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  Speaker 1: of my voice. I used to blow out my voices,
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  Speaker 1: going to rallies, raising my voice, and then you bruise
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  Speaker 1: your vocal cords. You couldn't do that. If they bruise
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  Speaker 1: their vocal cords, there's no voice specialist you could go to.
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  Speaker 1: There's no special medication. That's it. Other than maybe knocking
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  Speaker 1: back some Jack Daniels and hoping that would work, which
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  Speaker 1: all of them did back then. This is amazing. 10,000
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  Speaker 1: to 12,000 people. Again, like you said, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: they could hear what Douglas and Lincoln were saying unless
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  Speaker 1: they had come early, you know, like days early and
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  Speaker 1: they got a good position. It was word of mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the funny thing is, the reason I was saying
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  Speaker 2: is word of mouth is because during the Gettysburg Address,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember, they had people sitting on other people's
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  Speaker 2: shoulders and then repeating what he said. And they just
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  Speaker 2: keep going back in the crowd to repeat what he
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  Speaker 2: just said. So it must have been the same thing
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  Speaker 2: there or something similar.
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  Speaker 1: So I pay homage in Central Park to the statue
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  Speaker 1: of Stephen Douglas. Because he submitted to allow for that.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have to. Now, think of all the people
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  Speaker 1: who are ahead in the polls or in incumbent slurry
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of these states. Oh, no, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to do a debate. Oh, I'll do one debate
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  Speaker 1: at like 3 o'clock in the morning on some UHF
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  Speaker 1: station just to say I did it. I use New
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  Speaker 1: York as an example. Let's compare it with New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You had great debates in New Jersey leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter pilot, Jarrell, winning over Jack Cittarelli. See, I
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  Speaker 1: got it right. Yeah. He's been saying Cittarelli. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: Cittarelli goes through a primary. He has debates. Shirell goes
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  Speaker 1: to a primary. She has debates. And then in the final,
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  Speaker 1: they're the two finalists. They had two debates. Now that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's because it was close and there was no incumbent.
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  Speaker 2: And the problem is if one person says no, they
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  Speaker 2: can't have a debate. And to your point, I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you. I think debates are healthy. I think debates
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  Speaker 2: are important because how else are you going to make
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  Speaker 2: up your mind? You want to see how they're going
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  Speaker 2: to handle things on their feet. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we do need a law. I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get federal money, if you want to accept
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  Speaker 2: federal money, you have to accept debates. And I said debates,
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  Speaker 2: at least two debates. That would be wonderful. Or another
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  Speaker 2: way to do it, is if someone says, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to show up to the debate, still give
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  Speaker 2: the other guy the airtime. Give the other guy the airtime.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be an hour or two hours.
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  Speaker 2: It could be 15 minutes or half an hour. But
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  Speaker 2: he gets free airtime because you said no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to talk about it later. Tallarico versus Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: He had a town hall meeting at CNN last night. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: that was hopefully for CNN. They wanted a debate. Paxton
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  Speaker 1: has yet to agree with 20 days to go. So
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I was talking about. That would be wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing that town hall is the way to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you could do that over and over again. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is many of the races don't get as much publicity. Right,
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  Speaker 2: but let me applaud you.
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  Speaker 1: You chose yesterday, and please go to our Instagram account,
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  Speaker 1: Facebook account. You'll see Larry talking about a guy I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know about, Justin Murphy. I learned from you.
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  Speaker 1: he had great hair. But I actually started looking at
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  Speaker 1: the clips based on your commentary of he smoked Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 1: He's running for the U.S. Senate. He's a Republican candidate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: just imagine he has one debate under his belt. Cory Booker-
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't aired really anywhere. Right. But if there were
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  Speaker 1: two mandatory debates on network, then Cory would have to
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  Speaker 1: buckle down for a second debate because word would get out, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: this guy smoked Cory Booker.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, if you go on social media and
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  Speaker 2: just search his name, he's all over the place because
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  Speaker 2: his answer on Iran was especially great. And if If
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  Speaker 2: you're a conservative, you're really going to love him, too,
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  Speaker 2: because he espouses all conservative issues. I mean, seriously, he
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  Speaker 2: was a placeholder. He was a sacrificial lamb in this race.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody thought he was going to do anything. And he
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  Speaker 2: got up there, man, and he made a name for himself.
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  Speaker 2: So Justin Murphy, he will be a name you're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear running for Congress. He's going to run for
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  Speaker 2: something else. This is not the last we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear of him.
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  Speaker 1: We would never have known that, most of us, if
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  Speaker 1: not for your commentary on our Instagram and Facebook account.
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  Speaker 1: which caused me, who didn't know him, I am pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about some Jersey politics, to start looking into Clips
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  Speaker 1: and say, damn, this guy's good. Not only that, like
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  Speaker 1: Larry said, man, he's got one thick mane of hair
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  Speaker 1: that every politician running would definitely want. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to get your feedback on this on our
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  Speaker 1: talkback because it's hit and miss. Maine, they've had five
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  Speaker 1: debates in nine days for the U.S. Senate position. That's
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  Speaker 1: a close race.
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  Speaker 2: You can see why everyone that has debates is a
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  Speaker 2: close race, which, by the way, can we also talk
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  Speaker 2: about Cory Booker? That was great that he had a debate.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have to have that debate. But I think
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  Speaker 2: he thought he was going to really trounce him. I
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  Speaker 2: think he went into it going, I'm Cory Booker. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take care of him.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Hochul thought. She had an easy pass with Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: He did a smackdown. And the one we couldn't talk about, Saritha.
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  Speaker 1: I can't pronounce her last name. Shame on me. She's
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  Speaker 1: the Attorney General candidate, Republican Parliamentary, former U.S. Attorney, Eastern District.
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  Speaker 1: She ripped Tish James. She killed her in that debate.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine? People would hear the buzz. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: got to look at this woman, Saritha. She tore up
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  Speaker 1: Tish James if there were a second debate. Shame, shame
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  Speaker 1: that we don't have that in honor of Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: and Stephen Douglas, who had seven debates.
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  Speaker 2: We, uh, we want to hear your talkbacks by the way,
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  Speaker 2: on all of this, how important are debates to you?
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree with us? Everybody should hold debates. If
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  Speaker 2: they're going to run for office, go to the I
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  Speaker 2: heart radio app. And is it ever, you ever changed
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  Speaker 2: your mind because of a debate? That would be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the I heart radio app and leave us
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  Speaker 2: a talkback. You could win a Curtis Lee, when Larry
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  Speaker 2: every day to our favorite talk back in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget the best talk back of the week
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  Speaker 2: takes home a sea crane radio. When we come back, well,
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  Speaker 2: we did a, uh, A lost cat that was gone
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  Speaker 2: for a year and a half the other day. How
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  Speaker 2: about a small dog lost in Yellowstone with all those
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  Speaker 2: wild animals and survives? Plus a chance to see Journey
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  Speaker 2: at 825. Well, this is a huge story in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's a big national story. I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: a hint of what happened. In the Casper Star Tribune,
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  Speaker 2: which is the biggest paper in Wyoming, and in the
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  Speaker 2: Wyoming Tribune Eagle, both had the exact same headline yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Luna's alive. Now, Luna is an 18-pound dog. And Luna
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  Speaker 2: was on a trip to Yellowstone. He shouldn't have been.
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  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to take bets. You're not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: take bets there. But they took a bet and they
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  Speaker 2: left it in the resort next to Yellowstone. And when
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  Speaker 2: the maid showed up, Luna ran. Now, there are wolves
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  Speaker 2: in Yellowstone. There are bears in Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 1: Coyotes.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody assumed Luna was dead. But guess what? After
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  Speaker 2: 34 days, they found Luna.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some variable weather and Luna has been seen
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  Speaker 1: off and on throughout the Canyon area. And very, very fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he was found.
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  Speaker 2: He was found. He was found down drinking water. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's only 18 pounds. He lost half his body weight
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  Speaker 2: in that time. So apparently he wasn't eating well. He
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  Speaker 2: took your advice and he didn't eat the rats in Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 2: But they now are saying... Please, please, please don't bring
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  Speaker 2: any animals at all to Yellowstone. People try to sneak
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  Speaker 2: them in all the time because they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get a dog sitter. They don't want to pay for
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  Speaker 2: a kennel. And they bring them to the resort. But
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  Speaker 2: the maid comes in. Dog runs out. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: lose your dog.
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  Speaker 1: That's an amazing story. Let me give you an update
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  Speaker 1: on the story you brought to our attention a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Barn Owls, who have flocked over to the Water
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  Speaker 1: Tower on 76th between Columbus and Central Park West. It's
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  Speaker 1: the papa, the mama. And the three little outlets. So yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: as I was making the victory laps around Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: talking to all my horse friends, as the drivers were
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  Speaker 1: casting aspersions against me, because in 2028, the horse carriage
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  Speaker 1: industry is over. I said, look, on my way home,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop there. Larry, traffic congestion, birders everywhere, telescopes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, binoculars, guys with the safari hats on and
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  Speaker 1: the shorts, whoop-a-woo, whoop-a-woo, making sounds, trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: attention of the birds. It was incredible. How are the
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  Speaker 1: birds reacting to all this? Well, I only saw the
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  Speaker 1: one head of one of the adults. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: the other adult or the three because, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: mostly nocturnal. They're up. They're wide awake like I am
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  Speaker 1: late at night roaming through the skies looking for food,
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  Speaker 1: which are the rats on the ground. And unfortunately, like
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  Speaker 1: Flacco found out, you eat the rats. If they've ingested poison,
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  Speaker 1: it could affect your neurological ability to stay alive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big fear right now. Let's get to
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  Speaker 2: some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 6: It's really frustrating and really disheartening, disheartening even more, knowing
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  Speaker 6: that Democrats are always going to win in elections in
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  Speaker 6: New York. They could have the worst candidates and put
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  Speaker 6: the best on, like that woman, Saritha, against Tish James.
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  Speaker 7: She absolutely roasted her. Tish James looked like a deer
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  Speaker 7: in headlights. She was, like, totally outclassed. She didn't know
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  Speaker 7: what to do. You know, that woman is so smart, intelligent, bright.
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  Speaker 7: She would make a great attorney general.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she would agree with you a thousand percent. The
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  Speaker 2: problem problem is you're probably the two percent of people,
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  Speaker 2: the voters that saw that debate. Everybody saw clips of
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  Speaker 2: it on social media. At least I hope they looked
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  Speaker 2: at it. But, you know, nobody saw.
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  Speaker 1: But see, if networks had to put it on statewide elections,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. If you knew there was a
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  Speaker 1: second one, you would have heard the buzzing. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: missed the first, but I ain't going to miss the
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  Speaker 1: second one because people hate this, James. Think of all
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  Speaker 1: the people who hate this game. Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: Larry and Curtis, thank you so much for talking about
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  Speaker 4: debates and the importance in history. One of the most
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: famous debates in my parents' era was the JFK-Nixon debate
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  Speaker 4: on camera, where Nixon was sweating profusely, looked really uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 4: changed the course of the election and the course of history.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for all you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people that heard it on the radio thought Nixon won.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: People that saw it in television thought JFK won. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: used to work there at WBBM. That's where they had
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: that debate. Now, let's get the news at 6.30 with
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger.
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  Speaker 8: Morning, guys.
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: Sunny and much cooler today. You'll notice it when you
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: step outside. 62 degrees will be the high. Showers likely
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: late tonight. The city council is expected to vote next
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: week to end the carriage horse rides in Central Park,
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: but Mayor Mamdani says they won't forget the men and
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: women who make a living that way.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of.
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  Speaker 10: This entire conversation, I have always spoken about the importance
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: of taking care of the workers in this industry because
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: they have earned their livelihoods from this work. They should
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: not be ones that are simply left as an afterthought
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: of what comes after this.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: MTA CEO Janne Lieber says many of the drivers could
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: be a good fit for city transit jobs. We get
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: the second of this week's two reports on inflation today.
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: The producer price index reflects costs on the wholesale level
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: before they reach consumers. They are expected to show that
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: inflation is running hotter than usual, like yesterday's consumer price
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: index reported. Meanwhile, a new survey of New Jersey residents
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: finds it's harder than ever for residents to make ends meet.
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  Speaker 11: New numbers out suggest the struggle to afford basic necessities
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: is intensifying in the Garden State. According to a new
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: Rutgers-Eagleton poll, two-thirds of residents found it difficult to afford
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: gas and transportation costs. That's up about 10 percentage points
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: from the same poll in March. About 60% say they
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: have difficulty affording health care and medical costs. That's a 5%
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: increase over the past several months. Ashley Koenig with the
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: poll says what we're seeing is less about how many
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: New Jerseyans are struggling and more about how intense the
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: struggle is.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Liz Warner, WOR News. If you stop online at Stop
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: and Shop, check your credit or debit card statements. The
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: chain's website's been hacked. Stop and Shop's Dutch parent company
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: has pulled the sign offline for the time being. Some
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: in-store shoppers say they were affected, too. Yesterday, some of
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: them say they couldn't access their rewards. The Devils host
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: the Rangers tonight. The Islanders skate in Ottawa. Next news,
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's got all the drama. The U.S. Senate raised
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: $ 500 million, already spent more pouring in each day, either
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: for Tallarico, the Democrat, or Paxton, the Republican.
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  Speaker 1: Now with all the great elections around the country, many
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of them neck and neck. And we've seen some of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the debates and the public appearances. None is better than
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the race for the U.S. Senate seat that Cornyn has
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to give up because he lost the primary to Paxton
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: because of the support that Trump gave Paxton, not Cornyn.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And the emergence of somebody we didn't know, Tallarico, a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: state legislator from Austin. And. $ 500 million combination, both sides,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: poured into this campaign so far with 20 days left.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: That's like at a presidential level. Larry, $ 9 million a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: day for Paxton from that special fund that Trump has
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and the RNC, they will not lose. They said, we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: cannot lose Texas. And so they're pulling out all the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: stops to try to stop this guy, Tallarico. He's not
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: man enough. He's not Christian enough. He's not a meat eater.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He's not Texas enough. And then the other day, In Tyler, Texas,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: you can't get any more Texan than that. J.D. Vance
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: gets off Air Force Two. He does the rally right
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there at the airport. And they start warming up the crowd.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you know, there are
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: people in the crowd. And we love you, J.D. We
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: love you. That happens at every rally. And this was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: his response, which really, if you listen strongly, was directed
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: at supporters and Tallarico himself.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, the crowd got it. Oh, the crowd, wait till
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you hear it. The crowd got it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Now, before we get.
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: Started, I love you too, sir.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: In a totally platonic way, to be clear.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: I'm the vice president, not James Tallarico.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But I got to... See, the crowd got what he
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: was saying. You know, when I, one time I had
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to go to College Station, which is where Texas A &
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: M is, And some people there did not like me
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: as I was speaking about the guardian angels in Houston.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And I'll never forget a guy in the crowd gets up,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you know, got the cowboy hat on, well-spoken. He goes, hey,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: guardian angel man, only two things come from Texas, steers
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and queers. You don't look much like a steer. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: that narrows it down a bit. Donut Guardian ain't your man.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: What the hell did I say? The crowd went absolutely crazy,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: so I acted like I couldn't hear what he said.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Good move. That's a veteran move. What the hell was
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I going to say? The crowd loved the line. Obviously,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it's a line they've used for years.
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But I just decided this is a no-win proposition here,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: no-win proposition.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, Tallarico, his position on all of those issues is weird,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: is really weird. Now, he's changed a lot of them.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Now he's changing everything that he apparently believed in all
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of his life until he decided to run for the Senate.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But Tallarico, I'm worried about him only because he's very
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie-like. in that he changes a lot of what
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he believes in to win, or he changes a lot
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: of what he believes in, or he tries to cover
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: up his past. It keeps coming up, but he constantly,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: over and over again, is now morphing into something that
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: he's not.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He's weird.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Remember he said, how many sexes were there? I think
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: it was like a dozen sexes.
• 24:59
  Speaker 12: I've missed the mark on some of my past statements.
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: I will be the first to admit it. What I
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: meant is that there are two sexes and then there's
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. I obviously
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: didn't say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: are two.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That's a huge difference to go from six sexes now
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to say there's two and everybody else has genetic abnormalities.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: That's a conservative position.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, super. And he hides now behind the fact that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he was a Presbyterian divinity student before he got involved
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in politics. They're really trying to hone in and claim
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he's gay. They want to see the medical records of
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: his two weeks of being off the campaign trail. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: got to tell you, he said he had the flu.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: That's BS. There's no way he had the flu when
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: he was out for two weeks. That's a complete lie.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the donors who have given him about
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: $ 200 million to run this campaign must have been screaming
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at whoever they gave the money to. Where the hell
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: is this guy?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I'd be willing to bet anybody right now, I'll bet
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: anybody Paxton wins that election. And one of the reasons
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say that Paxton wins the election, well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: two reasons actually. One is that State after state after
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: state after state, and especially in Texas, they undercount Republican
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: votes in the polls. Republicans sometimes just don't take part
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: in the polls, and they always underrepresent Republicans in the polls.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: And in the last six midterms and presidential elections, they've
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: undercounted Republicans by as many as four points. So that's
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: number one. But the other thing is, it's a red state.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: And I've heard this throughout history. This guy's going to win.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: This guy's going to win. Oh, they have a hot, new,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: shiny object that's going to win. And in Texas, Republicans
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: always win the statewide offices.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You know, four years ago, that's a slam dunk. But
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the population flow into Texas from California, New York, all
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the blue states, it has the biggest population growths. A
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: lot of those folks are blue. Oh, you seem like
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you're hoping. It's not that I'm hoping. Put your fingers crossed.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'll take you back. Tallarico maybe is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: your kind of guy because you're not a steer, right?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: What the? Chris, you're not going to weigh in on that?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to be the producer.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I think now is a good time for me to
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: be the quiet storm again. I'm not going to take
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a side on this debate. I'll take you up on that, Beto.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I believe it'll be very close, but I think Tallarico
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: will edge it out only because a lot of people
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: just don't like people.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any way Tallarico wins this race.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: First of all, his poll numbers are going the wrong way. Secondly,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the public opinion on him is going the wrong way.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And third, it's Texas... Texas always in the end goes red. So, again,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I'd be stunned, but we have to figure out what
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: we're going to bet because I want it to be, well,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: maybe not embarrassing because I could lose.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So, we'll figure out.
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: Yes, we will.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We'll figure out what we're going to bet. But up next,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we're going to go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. No, we're not
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: talking about the Amish and the spread of measles. That's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: But there is a certain corruption that is taking place
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: there that Larry is going to bring to all of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: your attention that may be taking place in other parts
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of the country, too. Lancaster leads maybe in this. Maybe
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: others follow up next.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I hear the saying the devil's greatest feat is convincing
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: people he didn't exist. That is the same thing with
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: voter fraud. How many times have you heard Democrats out
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: there saying there's no voter fraud? They keep saying this.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: They keep claiming elections are stolen. There's no proof of that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And then we.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Have 6,000 people that turns out were registered for years
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: for a couple of elections in New Jersey that weren't
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: in the country legally. And I wonder where that investigation
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: is going. We haven't heard anything about that since Mikey
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Sherrill talked about it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So are they going to all get the vote again? Well, now,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: this problem has raised its ugly head in Pennsylvania, specifically
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: in Lancaster County. And you've got to give a lot
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: of credit to the people of Lancaster County who did
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: their due diligence and looked at things. They didn't just
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: go ahead and say, well, I guess this might happen,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: it may not happen.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It was the.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: DA there that got word from, listen to this, the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: election offices of the different county and state organizations were
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: looking through all of the papers they were getting in
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: for registration, right? And they were looking at them and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: they noticed something a little bit unusual.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: The elections office received approximately 2,500 applications at or near
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the deadline for registering to vote. While preparing to process
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: these applications, staff noticed that numerous applications appeared to have
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: with unknown signatures, and some were previously registered voters, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: the signatures on file did not match the signatures on
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: the application.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: 2,500 of them they've found so far. Now, of course,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: they're going back over everything and looking again, but most
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: of them Most of them are fraudulent.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Thus far of the investigations that we have completed, we
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: have determined that 60% have been fraudulent.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That's Heather Adams, by the way. She's the DA in
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Lancaster County, and she says it's not just in Lancaster County.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: We are aware of at least two other counties that
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: receive similar applications that are currently being investigated. At this point,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: we have confirmed violation of our crimes code as well
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: as our elections code.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Here's how this works, Curtis.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: You know, when you go to the mall or you
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: go to the supermarket, there's somebody out there and they're saying, yeah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: let's get you registered. Let's get you registered. Well, they
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: are sometimes just getting their information. They're not registering them.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: And then they register them without them knowing, you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: or they'll ask for their information for something completely different.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And then they'll get them registered. That's why the signatures
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: were all the same. Because they weren't getting their signatures.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Or they were just looking them up to try to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: get information on them and then registering them without them knowing.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: This is super serious. Should be the lead story. The
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: governor should have to respond to this, Shapiro. But he said, Lancaster,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: what do you mean? Measles with the Amish community? Because
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that's the one that's getting all the play all over
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the country. You're absolutely right. And I want to credit
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: our producer who is not with us today. She'll be
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're stuck. I mean, we have the quiet storm, Chris,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: who has replaced her on loan from Mark Simone. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: she has lined up an interview. with a postal supervisor
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: about all the mail theft. Now, this is not the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: same as... No, this is bigger. But how many people
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: send their ballots in, mail ballots? The president has decided,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I can't beat this this time around, so vote by
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: mail if you have to. If you're voting by mail
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and your ballots are being stolen out of the blue mailboxes,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you'll never know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's horrible. We're talking about thousands here, though. We're
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: talking about thousands of people that are being registered fraudulently
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: just so they could steal their votes. A long time ago,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I did a show on the radio where I asked
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: people to call in if they saw something funny going
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: on at the polling places. And do you know, Curtis,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: at least three people called in and said, I went
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: to vote and they told me I voted already?
• 32:50
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: So they're just stealing votes. And if this is happening,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: thank God for this woman in Lancaster County. If they're
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: stealing votes in Lancaster County, and she said two other
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: counties at least that she knows of, You know this
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: is happening across the country. Well, you know it happened
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: in Jersey, too. You know this is happening across the country,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: which now completely explains why the Democrats did not want
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the SAVE Act.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Makes so much sense. 80% of the Americans, even Democrats
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: who are registered voters, want the SAVE Act. Want it
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: so that you have to prove who you are with,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you know, proper government ID when you go and cast
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: your ballot. They don't want it. And for reasons that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you have just brought to our attention.
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: They're cheating. You can't hide it anymore.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: It's being found in county after county and in state
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: after state. This is a huge problem that, by the way,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: when Donald Trump comes out afterwards, after this election coming up,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't go his way and he says votes
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: are stolen, look no further. than Lancaster County or look
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: no further than New Jersey and realize what must be
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: happening in a state like California. Coming up next, we
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: got our White House correspondent, John Decker, just back from Alaska,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: just back from a one-on-one with Donald Trump. We'll talk
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to him about it after the 7 o'clock news. Well,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: it's good to be John Decker. John Decker got to
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: go to Alaska with the president for his rally there.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Then he had a one-on-one interview with him. So let's
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: bring him in and find out. How That Went, John Decker,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: WOL White House and Washington correspondent. He's host of the podcast,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker, that you
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: can find on the iHeartRadio app. So it seemed like
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: it was a pretty successful rally. I'd love to hear
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: about your interview with the president, but tell me why
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: this pipeline that he said is going to go through
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: now is so important to Alaska.
• 34:55
  Speaker 15: Well, it's important because energy prices are higher there than
• 34:59
  Speaker 15: pretty much anywhere in the entire country, Larry. It is
• 35:03
  Speaker 15: so remote that anything that can bring down energy prices
• 35:07
  Speaker 15: is welcome news. Now, the pipeline, it's not like you
• 35:10
  Speaker 15: snap your fingers and the pipeline is built. We're talking about,
• 35:14
  Speaker 15: in a best-case scenario, it being completed by 2030. That's
• 35:20
  Speaker 15: a ways off four years away. That's a best-case scenario.
• 35:23
  Speaker 15: So it's welcome news. But it's interesting that the news
• 35:27
  Speaker 15: is coming, you know, with 21 days or so to
• 35:30
  Speaker 15: go until the midterms. You know, I think that for
• 35:33
  Speaker 15: certain individuals, constituents in Alaska, they may be skeptical about
• 35:39
  Speaker 15: certain promises that are made by any politician being made
• 35:43
  Speaker 15: in the final weeks of the campaign.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: This happens all the time, though, during midterm elections. The
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: presidents come and they know what the local issues are
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and they do something as a gift.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: To try to help get votes, right? This happens years. Absolutely.
• 35:58
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's been happening probably since the dawn of our country.
• 36:01
  Speaker 15: You know, you make promises, you know, in the weeks
• 36:05
  Speaker 15: leading up to an election. And President Trump is no
• 36:07
  Speaker 15: different than anybody else. You know, he's made some promises
• 36:10
  Speaker 15: as it relates to Iowa. There's a very close Senate
• 36:13
  Speaker 15: race in Iowa. You know, he's made promises in other
• 36:17
  Speaker 15: states as well. And of course, the big promise is
• 36:19
  Speaker 15: that if Republicans retain control of the House and the Senate,
• 36:23
  Speaker 15: the president says that will mean a $ 5, 000 check to
• 36:27
  Speaker 15: every American adult. So that's quite a promise to put
• 36:30
  Speaker 15: out there weeks ahead of the midterm as well.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: John Decker, while you were away in Alaska or on
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: your way to Alaska, we were introduced to the new
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: press secretary, Katie Zachariah. Seemed to me and a lot
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of other people that she had a Rough ride on
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: her first day. You've dealt with so many press secretaries.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: What would you advise as she moves forward? Well, you're right.
• 37:02
  Speaker 15: Katie, who I got a chance to know and meet
• 37:05
  Speaker 15: on this two-day trip, she was on the trip, chatted
• 37:09
  Speaker 15: with her for a little bit. She's the 18th White
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: House press secretary that I'm dealing with now. And, you know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 15: I watched her press conference while I was out at
• 37:19
  Speaker 15: Andrews Air Force Base awaiting to board Air Force One.
• 37:23
  Speaker 15: She only took three questions, had a 14 minute long briefing,
• 37:28
  Speaker 15: and that's not going to cut it. You have to
• 37:30
  Speaker 15: take a lot more questions than that. You have to
• 37:33
  Speaker 15: get away from reading everything out of what you've brought
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: to the lectern. and you have to be comfortable with
• 37:42
  Speaker 15: speaking about domestic policy and foreign policy. It means working
• 37:46
  Speaker 15: really hard. Someone who appears on Fox News and does
• 37:50
  Speaker 15: a five-minute hit cannot jump in and be the White
• 37:53
  Speaker 15: House press secretary. It's not an easy job, and so
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: I think that anyone that takes that job, including Katie,
• 38:00
  Speaker 15: needs to recognize that you need to put in some
• 38:02
  Speaker 15: hard work if you want to be good at that job,
• 38:05
  Speaker 15: and I must tell you that Caroline Leavitt, I think,
• 38:09
  Speaker 15: set the bar really high. So I think she's being
• 38:11
  Speaker 15: judged by the standard that Caroline set. I said that
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: when she left in August, you may recall this, I
• 38:17
  Speaker 15: said she will have some big shoes to fill, whoever
• 38:21
  Speaker 15: is the person that the president names to replace her.
• 38:23
  Speaker 15: And Katie has some big shoes to fill now that
• 38:27
  Speaker 15: she has that job.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: When you said that 14 minutes is not going to
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: cut it, I've heard that a lot. I've heard that
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: on CNN. I've heard criticism of her for that. So
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I take it you're not buying the excuse that the
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: president said, no, I want to get you out there today,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: but they did have this flight that you had to
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: get on?
• 38:48
  Speaker 15: Because there was a significant amount of time between the
• 38:51
  Speaker 15: conclusion of that press briefing and the time that the
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: president actually left the White House to board Marine One
• 38:58
  Speaker 15: out to Andrews. So she could have, you know, even
• 39:01
  Speaker 15: a half hour briefing, you know, 15 minutes longer, but
• 39:06
  Speaker 15: I think she certainly could have done time-wise, and I
• 39:09
  Speaker 15: think it would have been more satisfactory for her. You
• 39:13
  Speaker 15: get better like anything, whatever sport you're talking about, with practice,
• 39:18
  Speaker 15: and you're just not going to get better if you
• 39:20
  Speaker 15: just do 14 minutes. You got to take all those
• 39:23
  Speaker 15: questions and get good in terms of how you deal
• 39:26
  Speaker 15: with the White House press corps, and you know, I
• 39:28
  Speaker 15: think that that is one of those areas where I
• 39:30
  Speaker 15: would recommend for her to have lengthier briefings than just
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: 15 minutes, 15 minutes at length if she wants to
• 39:38
  Speaker 15: get better at the job.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: John, I know this president is barnstorming. He loves to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: do this. This is the part of the job he
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: really loves. informing the audience, entertaining the audience, and engaging them.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: But I look at every race he goes to, Republicans,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: if they aren't ahead, they're like at 46, 47, 48,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: tight races. His numbers are at 36, maybe 38. I'm
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: saying to myself, hey, wait a second, how is he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: a help to the Republicans? Because the Democrats, they just
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: jump all over the fact that he's coming in and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: hit him with his negatives.
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: Well, as the president has pointed out, you know, I
• 40:18
  Speaker 15: went to, let's see, I went to one, two, three
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: campaign rallies in two days, one in Alaska, one in Arizona,
• 40:28
  Speaker 15: and one last night in Montana. I just got back
• 40:31
  Speaker 15: a few hours ago, by the way. I landed literally
• 40:34
  Speaker 15: three hours ago at Andrews. And I think what the
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: president points out is that he's really popular within the
• 40:41
  Speaker 15: Republican base.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And he is.
• 40:42
  Speaker 15: He's maintained that popularity. It's true. So the president believes
• 40:46
  Speaker 15: that if he can energize that base to get them
• 40:49
  Speaker 15: out in the kind of numbers that they typically come
• 40:51
  Speaker 15: out in a presidential election year, Republicans will do well
• 40:56
  Speaker 15: enough to maintain control of the House and the Senate.
• 40:59
  Speaker 15: And so that's the reason behind these various campaign rallies,
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: even in red states like Montana and like Alaska. That's,
• 41:08
  Speaker 15: I think, behind the president's thinking. I asked the president yesterday,
• 41:13
  Speaker 15: before we departed from Arizona to Montana, why are we
• 41:17
  Speaker 15: even going to Montana? It's a red state, Mr. President.
• 41:20
  Speaker 15: Why aren't you going to Michigan? It seems like I
• 41:22
  Speaker 15: said to the president, it seems like you're playing defense.
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: And he gave me a lengthy answer. He said, no,
• 41:28
  Speaker 15: it's important that I energize the base. It's important that
• 41:31
  Speaker 15: I energize the MAGA base. And so that I think
• 41:35
  Speaker 15: is entering the president's thinking in this campaign schedule.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the MAGA base, like my wife, watches every
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: single one of these rallies because they're in that Fox
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: sub-channel that we get in streaming. So she's watching it.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter that he's in Montana. He might as
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: well have been in New Jersey because she's going to
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: watch it anyway. So I think, I believe he understands that.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And John, and correct me if I'm wrong on this,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: but I thought always the traditional theory with midterms is
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: you've got to get your base out. You have to
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: get the people energized and out. And if he can
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: do that, he's going to win a couple races.
• 42:15
  Speaker 15: Well, that is the case. And I think that that
• 42:18
  Speaker 15: is correct. It's also correct to say that independent voters
• 42:22
  Speaker 15: typically decide elections. And that's the reason why the president
• 42:25
  Speaker 15: won in the manner that he won in 2024. It's
• 42:29
  Speaker 15: because independent voters.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly.
• 42:32
  Speaker 15: Broke for Trump over Kamala Harris. The problem now is
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: that if you look at poll after poll after poll,
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: his public approval rating with independents has declined precipitously. And
• 42:45
  Speaker 15: that's the reason why you see his poll numbers now
• 42:48
  Speaker 15: in the mid-30s, even lower in some polls. But they're
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: not in a good place right now. And it's those
• 42:54
  Speaker 15: independent voters that I believe Larry and Curtis will decide
• 42:58
  Speaker 15: who controls both the House and the Senate, for the
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: next two years.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Now, one thing we're not hearing much about is what
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: we're going to do about the Iranian escalation of hitting
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: tankers in the Straits of Hormuz with rockets and how
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: their surrogates, the Houthis, are in an almost full-scale war
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: with the Saudis. It would almost seem to me, John Decker,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: they're daring the president to re-engage with before the midterm elections,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: do they have any plans at all to deal with
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: this growing problem?
• 43:30
  Speaker 15: Yeah, the president says he's evaluating that, you know, and
• 43:33
  Speaker 15: I don't think he has much time because, you know,
• 43:35
  Speaker 15: we speak so often, Curtis, about the Strait of Hormuz,
• 43:38
  Speaker 15: that impact of shutting it down and, you know, the
• 43:41
  Speaker 15: threat that Iran poses in the Strait is having on
• 43:44
  Speaker 15: oil prices. Well, the Houthis, they're threatening to essentially shut
• 43:49
  Speaker 15: down the Red Sea, and that also could impact in
• 43:52
  Speaker 15: a very real way oil.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Prices as well.
• 43:54
  Speaker 15: And the president does not want to see that at all,
• 43:57
  Speaker 15: especially with the midterms, you know, now 20 days away. So, yeah,
• 44:02
  Speaker 15: that could force the president's hand in terms of reengaging
• 44:06
  Speaker 15: with the Houthis, helping out the Saudis and their fight
• 44:10
  Speaker 15: against the Houthis. The president just simply hasn't made a
• 44:14
  Speaker 15: decision on that front just yet.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: All right, John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent, host
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. John, thanks
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: as always. Get some rest.
• 44:28
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Will do. Have a good one. Bye-bye. See
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you later.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: When we come back, well, the Plaza Hotel.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Is going to shut down, Curtis, for four years.
• 44:39
  Speaker 16: Yep.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: A lot of people had weddings. A lot of people
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: had vacations planned. This kind of came out of nowhere,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: plus a chance to see Journey at 825. The Plaza
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Hotel is going to temporarily close down, but for four years.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Starting in January of 2027, there is restoration being made
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: to the historic facade. It is one of the most
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: iconic hotels, maybe the most iconic hotel in In New York,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: you've seen it in lots and lots of movies, most
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: notably Home Alone, where he actually stayed there at the hotel.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of people upset about this, Curtis,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: because they had many, several weddings planned. I've been to
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: two weddings there. I mean, I know it's the place
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: in New York to go and have a wedding. So
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: there's people that had weddings planned that now have to
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: make other plans. And there's people that had vacations and
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: they've had rooms. And I want to know how long
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: they knew this was going to happen.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you the president of the United States, Donald Trump,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: will comment on this today because he owned the plaza
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in 1988. Remember, he's the one that let them come
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: in and do Home Alone. He's in one of the
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: scenes there. Remember, that was part of the quid pro quo.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I let you use it because it's so iconic. You see,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: it's landmarked. So there's a Qatari firm that owns it now,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: but it's managed by Americans. A lot of people don't
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: realize in the back there are condos that have already
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: been purchased. So you're going to be able to continue
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to live in your condos. It's really the front part
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: where a lot of the rooms are. And I got
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: to tell you, one of my greatest memories as a
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: little kid. I'm with our family that came in from
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Chicago to see my dad, who was from Chicago. You know,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: our extended, we're taking them through Central Park. We're taking
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: them to all the sites. And my dad says, let's
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: stop at Trader Vic's, which used to be that ticky
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: tacky bar in the basement. Very famous in the plaza.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I think they closed in the late 90s. And they're
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: sitting down and they're all having, you know, they're all imbibing.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: And they look at me and they said, well, what
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: can we order for Curtis? They ordered me my first
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Shirley Temple. A Shirley Temple. And I thought I was
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: like an adult until later on. Guys would say to me,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: you drank a Shirley Temple? Boy, between going to Texas
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and being compared to a steer and a queer earlier
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: in the show, and now having to admit I thought
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I was drinking an adult beverage, a Shirley Temple, and
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: guys would be making fun of me when I would
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: tell that story. But that's one of my fondest memories.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: The other thing, Larry, on the top, a billionaire had
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the penthouse, the penthouse, the whole roof. And this guy
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: was from China, CCP guy, direct from President Xi. He
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: would host fundraisers for Republicans and Democrats. I remember going
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: up there for a Republican fundraiser, all the big shots,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention their names. And I look
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: at the guy and I say, I know you. He goes, yeah,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I know you too. And I looked at Nancy, and
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I said, we're getting the hell out of here. This
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: place is probably wired up like a Christmas tree by
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the FBI. Eventually, he was found guilty of laundering money.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: They shipped him back to Red China. But he owned
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: that whole penthouse up top.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: A lot of people get married there, and I feel
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: so bad for them. The last time I was at
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: a wedding there, it was Jody Applegate and Michael Kay. Oh,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: the best Jody Applegate. Oh, she's, I love her. I
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: just love her. And you know who oversaw it? You
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: know who, you know, did the vowels and everything?
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. Oh, he used to love doing that as mayor. See,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: that's one of the perks. We haven't seen Zoran do that.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Eric Adams, I don't think he did that. Comrade Bill
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: de Blasio, by the way, was late to his own
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: wedding by a half hour from smoking the Maui Waui
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and Hindu Kush. Yeah, Rudy used to love doing that. Yeah,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: it was amazing.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: It was an amazing wedding, and they're still together, and
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: they're doing well.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: By the way, Michael K., nephew of the great Danny
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Aiello from the Bronx. They were both from the Bronx.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Graduate of WFUV, broadcasting in Fordham. All right, let's get
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: some talkbacks. I think it's silly not to put the
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: horse carriages in Central Park. Why not? It's quaint. People
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: celebrate their anniversaries. They make proposals, birthdays, tourists come and
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Why not take a nice ride in a horse carriage
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: in Central Park? Well, pal, you're a dollar short and
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: a day late. We've been lobbying this ever since WOR
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: broadcasted Barry Gray in the late 60s and 70s. He
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: was the main advertiser. And it's coming to an end, 2028.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I actually had conversations with horses. You can see some
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: of the posts. Did they talk back? Well, we have
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: a way of talking to one another. I heard. It's
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: called huzz. You know what that means, Chris? Of course not.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Just in case you wanted to say anything, we know
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: you know nothing. That's what he was saying.
• 49:45
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 49:46
  Speaker 14: I understand.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Let's get a talk back.
• 49:50
  Speaker 17: I heard Justin.
• 49:53
  Speaker 13: Murphy the other day for the first time i was
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: absolutely blown away by his passion and his uh command
• 50:03
  Speaker 13: and this guy is really going places i'm going to
• 50:08
  Speaker 13: be watching him and i certainly will be voting for
• 50:12
  Speaker 13: anything he's running for And by the way, yeah, I
• 50:15
  Speaker 13: love his hair.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got great hair. I agree with you a
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: thousand percent. This isn't the last time we've seen him.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: He made a name for himself in that debate.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: In my opinion, Tallarico took two weeks off because he
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: needed a rest for his brain.
• 50:34
  Speaker 18: He would have taken longer off if he wasn't called
• 50:37
  Speaker 18: out on it.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: The other thing is, Trump runs circles around these Democrats.
• 50:43
  Speaker 11: He's 80 years old, and he is on fire.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: That's right. You're right.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I never put those two together. That's really good. Tallarico
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: had to take a rest for some reason, allegedly the flu.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Which nobody's buying. I mean, I don't think he had
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: a sex operation or anything, but.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: This is not the way some Republicans are claiming to
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: undo his transgender status. I get that reverse surgery.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: But I mean, he definitely had a mental health vacation, which,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: by the way, in the middle of a campaign, really?
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Now let's get the news at 7.30 with Daria Albinger.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Daria. Morning, guys.
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: Sunny and much cooler today with a high of 62
• 51:22
  Speaker 9: degrees and showers likely late tonight. So drink to this
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: or maybe don't. Bodega owners want to sell beer, wine.
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: They already sell beer. They want to sell wine and
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: liquor at their stores, but not if liquor store owners
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: have their way.
• 51:34
  Speaker 19: Assemblywoman Amanda Septino says the move would help small business
• 51:38
  Speaker 19: owners make more money.
• 51:40
  Speaker 20: No one is looking to kill liquor stores.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: We are simply looking to make sure our.
• 51:45
  Speaker 19: Community has an opportunity to share in the prosperity.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: That exists in the market today.
• 51:50
  Speaker 19: The bodega owners who support the change say they're in
• 51:52
  Speaker 19: favor of it due to the rising cost of doing business.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 51:59
  Speaker 9: Police are looking into the death of a five-year-old girl
• 52:01
  Speaker 9: in Queens. Officers found the child unresponsive at a home
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: that they'd been called to where they say an assault
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: had taken place. There are no arrests yet. A new
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: report claims the Trump administration is trying to build a
• 52:13
  Speaker 9: case against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, which could get her deported.
• 52:17
  Speaker 17: The Minnesota Democrats' Washington, D.C. area home was searched by
• 52:21
  Speaker 17: federal agents on Monday. who were reportedly seeking evidence of
• 52:25
  Speaker 17: fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, among other things.
• 52:29
  Speaker 17: On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials as
• 52:33
  Speaker 17: saying the probe was aimed at building a case to
• 52:36
  Speaker 17: strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her.
• 52:40
  Speaker 17: Omar was born in Somalia in 1982 and came to
• 52:44
  Speaker 17: the U.S. with her family in 1995. I'm Michael Kastner.
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: Pope Leo's canceled public appearances through the 20th of this
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: month as he recovers from lung cancer surgery. The Vatican
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: says he's doing well and that he's eating and he's
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: up walking. Tesla will unveil its new Roadster electric sports
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: car tonight. The long-awaited vehicle is said to feature cold
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: gas thrusters that were developed with SpaceX. So when you
• 53:08
  Speaker 9: turn it on, Got that big engine sound that we
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: associate with sports cars. Devils host the Rangers tonight. The
• 53:13
  Speaker 9: Islanders skate in Ottawa. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once.
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: I'm Dariel Albinger on 710WOR.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, I beg you. I beseech you, Larry. You know
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the comedian Shane Gillis. He played mean Saturday Night Live.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: You remember Chris, the debate last November 1st? He was Curtis.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: It was Cuomo. There was Johan Mondami. I'm getting all
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: these calls, people thinking that I know Shane Gillis about
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: what he had to say, the opening monologue, Saturday night
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: for Saturday Night Live, in lieu of what's happening in Cornell.
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  Speaker 1: Larry's going to have to take this. I'm not taking
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the weight for this. No way. Stay tuned for this. Larry,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I need you to throw me a lifeline. I'm getting
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: all these calls from reporters about Shane Gillis, the comedian,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: his opening remarks for Saturday Night Live Saturday. as their
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: messages that they leave on the phone say, you know,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: in lieu of what has happened at Cornell, the rape case.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Shane Gillis played you in that debate on
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: November 1st of 2025 on SNL, where you had Cuomo,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the Cuomo character, you had the Zoran character, and Shane
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Gillis was you in the red beret. You have any comments, Mr. Sliwa?
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  Speaker 1: And very uncharacteristically, a few of them called back and said,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: are you okay, Curtis? You're always available. Sometimes you actually
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: volunteer comments when we haven't even called you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's delve into this a little bit. You know
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Shane Gillis, right? He's a funny guy. You like his comedy,
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Larry. Man, I'm walking a tightrope here. All
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I know him, to be honest with you, and we've
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: had these discussions before, is when I found out that
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: he played me in Saturday Night Live in the debate
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  Speaker 1: with the Red Beret, and I thought he did an
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: outstanding job. Here he is.
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  Speaker 21: I'm thrilled to be here and not getting shot in
• 55:06
  Speaker 21: the back of a yellow cab five times by the
• 55:09
  Speaker 21: Gottis and Gambinos as I was famously in 1992, 1993,
• 55:13
  Speaker 21: and 94. But I'm the right choice to be your
• 55:19
  Speaker 21: next mayor. No offense to my opponents, Mr. Cuomo, and
• 55:22
  Speaker 21: I believe I'm saying this right, Zoltar Rob Zombie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he was great. Even Chris laughed at the quiet storm.
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  Speaker 1: So that's pretty much all I know about the guy,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: other than they consider him controversial.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, he's always been controversial. He's always been edgy.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what he's like? He's like the funniest
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: guy in the bar. That's who he is. It's like
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: bar humor. And that's what made him what he is. But,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: you know, SNL, he was supposed to be a cast member.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: He was the biggest rising star in the country. He
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: won the biggest comedy festival in the country, the Just
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: for Laughs Comedy Festival. And after that, it launched him
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: and everybody wanted him. He had HBO specials. He got
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Showtime specials. He got a Netflix special, and then SNL
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: wanted to have him. And then they looked back at
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: his podcast that he did, which, by the way, was
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: a subscription podcast that broke records. He made a lot
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: of money on that podcast. And then they listened to
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: some of the things he said, and they called him
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: into legal, and they said, did you say this? And
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: he said, oh, yeah, I said that. And they said, well,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure we can have you on the show
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  Speaker 2: if you said that. He goes, oh, there's a lot
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: So he was very forthcoming. You don't even have to
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: listen to any more of the old tapes. There's a
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: lot more than that. But now he's hosted the show
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  Speaker 1: three times, and this is what he's in trouble for.
• 56:52
  Speaker 21: Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long,
• 56:53
  Speaker 21: I didn't know women just dress like whores now. Look,
• 56:58
  Speaker 21: I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe. Have you
• 57:01
  Speaker 21: seen it?
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I've seen it. The shorts? Have you seen the shorts?
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: It was neon. You know what?
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it off here. I'm going to
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: have better judgment. I was going to let it go.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: To a certain word, and I've been asking everybody at
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: the radio station, can I play this? And I gave
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: you a thumbs up.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think you're trying to set me up.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to play it.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to play it there. It's another word for, well,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to say that. But I think
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: the controversy is not so much what he said, But
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the timing of it in the middle of the Cornell
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: seven case, he's been labeled a misogynist, a sexist. It
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: is an outrage out there. I think, in fact, it
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: was a male who called him out first, not even
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: the whole host of females who are coming after him.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: So this is what you get with comedy. That's why
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: I've never before ever come out and tried to defend
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: comedians because they can change on a dime. It's not
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: like politicians or anyone else. This is this guy's act.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: This is his act.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: He's the everyman guy in the bar that says some
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: outlandish things and is the funniest person in your group.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: In the people you hang out with, He's the funniest
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: person in that group. And that's what he is. He's
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: never tried to be more than that. And SNL knew that.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure SNL knew what he was going to
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: say and okayed it. So you can blow back all
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: you want. You can criticize him all you want. You're
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: just going to make him bigger. He's going to be
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: more popular. Do you know that he has the record?
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: He has the record for a comedy show. He had
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: over 73,000 people show up for him at Lincoln Financial Field.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: No comedian has come close to getting that kind of number.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, reporters, you want to comment about Shane Gillis,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: you can call Larry. Larry, I think you somehow identify
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: with him, not because this is your style of talking,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: but your roots. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Harrisburg. I think you have
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: a lot in common with this guy. I wish I
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: had his talent. I mean, I wish I was as
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: funny as him, but no, I mean, he's. he's very funny. He's,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: he might be the top comedian in the country right now.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: He might be the top comedian in the country right now.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: And there's no taking that away from him. So all
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the people on social media who are getting upset at him,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: go look at his other stuff. This is what he does.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: If you're going to be mad at somebody, be mad
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: at SNL. Well, I saw him host the roast of
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. I thought that was great. And then he
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: hosted the ESPY Awards. I thought that was great. So
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: you're a big fan. Not going to say that, Larry. No,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you are.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: You're a big fan. You've always liked him. You love
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: the impression he did.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Of me, of course. If it's about me, yes.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm not answering questions about what he said. So
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: what did you think about what he said? You didn't
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: play the whole thing. So, Larry, because you decided to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: actually take out the straight edge razor and eliminate some
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: of the more controversial elements of what he said, I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: recuse myself. Well, would you like me? I'll do it,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: but this is only because you're telling me to. I'm
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: forcing you. I'm forcing you. You would like to hear
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
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  Speaker 21: Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 21: I didn't know women just dress like whores now. Look,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 21: I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Have you seen it? I've seen it, the shorts. Have
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: you seen the shorts?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 21: Those neon, they're like the only, they're like artificial bait colored.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 21: The wrinkles go like around the cheeks and all combine
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 21: at the butthole.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, isn't it time for Natalie Migliore to come in?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Kelly Clarkson and a battle with that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: little shop on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: I just, just for the record, I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: play that. I played it because Curtis forced me to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: play that. And, uh, he's a huge fan. And if
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: you want to comment from Curtis, how do they get
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: hold of you?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: How do they get hold of you? Do you have
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: the number? I do not know. Don't worry about it, Larry.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Call Larry Menti. Get a comment from Larry Menti, Shane Gillis'
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: number one fan.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: Well, we already talked about Natalie Migliore. She's coming up
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: next with her Beat on the Street.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Fruits and vegetables ground into capsules so you can get
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: the most out of each.
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  Speaker 21: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Natalie, from the streets to the suites, this reminds
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: me of what's going on with the Hollywood trendoid Kelly
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  Speaker 1: Clarkson and these guys and gals who own this little shop,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: mom and pop shop on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. She
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: is relentless in terms of her pounding them on her
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: social media. What gives?
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  Speaker 19: Okay, well, if you haven't heard about Kelly Clarkson fighting
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 19: with a Brooklyn store over a singing bird, let me
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 19: fill you in since.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: You've been gone. Okay, we're going to be rolling. Do
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: you know since you've been gone the songs?
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  Speaker 9: No?
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 17: Okay, that's one of her songs.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I got it.
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  Speaker 19: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good, Chris. Good contribution there.
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  Speaker 19: Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 19: To buy a $ 15, 000 automated bird from a store in Brooklyn.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 19: Apparently Kelly Clarkson's been waiting too. Are people seeing this story?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 8: I've heard about it and I like Kelly Clarkson so
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: I tend to trust her.
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  Speaker 19: I'm surprised that she would take that tactic and it
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 19: was a back and forth.
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  Speaker 9: No one was giving up.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully they'll resolve it.
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  Speaker 22: Probably going to go down a whole rabbit hole now
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 22: because I saw people talking about Kelly Clarkson for a little,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 22: but I was like, oh, I kind of didn't think
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 22: anything of it.
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  Speaker 19: It's been days and the sparring on social media has
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 19: not stopped. The singer alleges she walked into the store
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  Speaker 19: and And one of the employees offered or allegedly insinuated
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 19: she couldn't afford the piece of art and then offered
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 19: her a cheaper option.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 19: It was a bird that was affixed to the wall
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 19: that we've seen pictures of it now that.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Stuff comes out of its mouth.
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  Speaker 14: I guess.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Its beak. Its beak.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 19: After taking to social media... The store said the bird.
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  Speaker 19: I don't know how to explain it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Your description is so good I can almost see it.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 19: Well, you know, it's like I actually sat on a
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 19: bench the other day in New York City and looked
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 19: over and it looked like one of the birds that landed.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 19: It looked like it looks like a real bird, like
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 19: it looks like a bird, but it's just sitting on
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: a wall.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 19: The store said the bird is literally built into the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 19: wall and they wouldn't be able to sell it. But
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 19: Kelly Clarkson's like, no, because of you, I can't have
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 19: this singing bird. And what do people think about how
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 19: social media comes into this?
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  Speaker 23: I'm just surprised that she didn't go directly to the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 23: owner and say.
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  Speaker 8: Look, this is what happened.
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  Speaker 19: And instead of going on social media, it doesn't seem
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 19: like that's something Kelly would do.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 22: I think it's interesting just the, like, fighting over social media. Like,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 22: for me, I'm just like, that's, I feel like something
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 22: we shouldn't do. Like, is that serious? Let's take it
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 22: out in person. You know, because I feel like it
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 22: just makes everyone look bad in the end, fighting it
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 22: out over social media.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 14: I think they wanted it handled on social media to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 14: get their name out there so more people would come
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 14: to them.
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  Speaker 2: I love that you acted out Kelly Clarkson. We're going
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: to get cameras in here pretty soon. And people have
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: to watch just for your segment.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 23: I know.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Because you were extremely animated. Oh, you would have won
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: American Idol with that. Thank you. That was really good.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: American Idol.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you. So did she.
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  Speaker 19: Okay, well, the store has said they're receiving a ton
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 19: of backlash.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Okay? They've
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: now bumped the price up. from $ 15, 000.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: That's what this bird had cost, to $ 15 million.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: She could afford it.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: It could go to so many other things that would
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: be better for society.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: That's insane.
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  Speaker 24: There's just no words for that.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 24: Well, if somebody wants a $ 15 million bird, then I
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 24: guess they can have a $ 15 million bird.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 19: The consensus is that The store is sort of proving
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 19: its point that the bird is not for sale. In
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 19: a sense, that's what people were kind of saying on
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 19: the street. But a video of the whole encounter was released.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 19: And behind these hazel eyes, I see Miss Independent walking
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 19: in the.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Store by herself.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 19: Wearing a pretty baggy outfit, she was in a bright
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 19: yellow shirt, much like the other people in the crowded store.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 19: She's not dressed much differently than the people in the store.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 19: It only lasts a few minutes, and by the time
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 19: Clarkson makes her way through the store, she's by the door,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 19: she has her piece, and then she's already gone.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: Right now, it's really difficult to be a happy customer.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 8: in a lot of places, but at the same time,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 8: the staff are trained to do what the staff are
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 8: trained to do, so it's hard to know.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 24: I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with Kelly Clarkson
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 24: because you just get the impression when you walk into
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 24: certain places that they judge you by what you're wearing.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 24: You don't know what my tax return looks like. You
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 24: have no idea how much money I make, so I'm
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 24: going with Kelly Clarkson.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 14: It depends on where you go. I think you see it.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 14: You hope you don't see it, but yeah, if you
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 14: don't look a certain way or dress a certain way,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 14: people are going to look at you down and that
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 14: you're not worthy or something.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 19: It speaks to the reputation she's built with the public.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 19: It speaks to this reputation that people trust her.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: She's this Southern charm.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 9: You could see it.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: And people in Hollywood are standing up for her, too,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: saying she's the nicest person in the world. Oh, yeah,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: because they want to come on her show. You know,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: every time they want to promote a song or promote
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: a movie. I'm not sure they're dying to get on
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: the Kelly Clarkson show.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: She's supposed to be leaving the show. Right, but... They,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: the owners and operators, who are like geeks, these guys
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: and gals, you know, it's a very niche thing. They've
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: said the woman makes these things in Seattle. They would
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: put her in touch with the woman and she could
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: customize it. But they weren't going to sell the one
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: they had. Hey, Kelly, doesn't matter who the hell you are.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: It ain't for sale, diva.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Here's how it's going to end. Kelly Clarkson's going to
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: go back there. They're going to take pictures together. Everything
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: is nice. She's going to give money to charity, and
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: it'll all go away. It'll have a nice, happy ending.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sure her publicist is telling her that right now.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: She's going to support a bird sanctuary?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe, something like that.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 19: You know, no matter how this ends, I made seven
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 19: Kelly Clarkson song references.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Throughout this story.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 16: I heard them.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I caught all seven, but yeah,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: that was really good. Yes, I tried.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, leave us a talk back if you caught all
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: seven of the references.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore will join us tomorrow, same time, same place.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Up next, Cornell and now Chicago University. But first, the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: news at 8.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Well, this is one of those stories you hear about
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: and you think, well, that can't be true. I mean,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: in the middle of this Cornell 7 controversy and the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: alleged gang rape, another alleged gang rape, this time at
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: Chicago University, or the University of Chicago, I should say,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: again at another frat. A woman says she was assaulted
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: in the early hours this past Sunday at the Alpha
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Epsilon Phi fraternity. She apparently went there with several friends,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: so it happened Saturday going into Sunday. It was a
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: frat party, and she and her friends, they went down
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: to the basement there was apparently two levels of dance
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: floors so the except for the person that's saying that
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: she was raped all the other friends have gone public
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: and they have been talking about what happened so there's
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: the three of them they went down in the basement
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: they all started dancing together And then all of a
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: sudden they lost track of their friend. They don't know
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: where she went. So they searched the house. They were
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: looking everywhere. And eventually they found on the top floor
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: a small group of men cheering outside a locked bathroom
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: in the basement. And they were saying things, according to
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: her friend, saying things like, when is it my turn?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I want to get in there. So they, her friends
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: jimmied the lock on the door and forced their way in.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: And they found her friends sitting on the floor, slumped
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: against the wall with her clothes and her undergarments pulled down.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: The man whom her friend had been kissing had his
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: hands on her wrist at the time. So her friend
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: began saying, make it stop. Get me out of here.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: That's the friend that was assaulted saying that. So the,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: Two that she came in with began screaming and the
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: man left immediately as soon as he started screaming. She
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: and her friends then carried the woman out of the
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: bathroom and outside the fraternity house. They chased one of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the men, the three of them. The scene was captured
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: on video. You can go see it on social media.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: In the clip, Miss Lara yells at the man, Miss
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Lara is the friend, accusing him of assaulting her friend.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: And the man yelled back, she wanted to. She wanted to.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: And the friend then swatted the man with her hands
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: as he continued to run away. And they immediately went
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: to the police. And it is under investigation right now.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Still no charges. But this is a sickening story if
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: it all plays out the way it's being described by
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: her friends.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: But Curtis... Who in their right minds.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: And I guess that's the important part of that statement,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: in their right minds, because they were probably all drugged
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: up and drunk. With this playing out, Cornell University is
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: now an international story. It's not just a local story.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: This is an international story. With this playing out and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: all these women now being emboldened and coming forward and
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: talking about incidents they've had in their past, what idiots...
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: at a frat at the University of Chicago would engage
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: in this type of behavior. They know, first of all,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: that it's a crime. They know, secondly of all, that
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: they'll probably get thrown out of the university. But third,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: with everything that is going on around the world, they
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: know now they're going to be international villains.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Let's face it, that's a very good university. When we
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: talked about the mail that was stolen, remember? The mother
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: and father were sending a nice card wishing that their
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: son have a good first year. He had just traveled
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: out to the University of Chicago. It's really a stellar
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: place that a lot of people want to go to.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: So by themselves, individually, autonomously, would these men, young men,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: have done this? Probably not. But in a group setting, Larry,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: although I've never experienced fraternity life, I never even got
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: to college, only one time. I spoke at Drake University
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: in Des Moines, and they welcomed me to the frat
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: that sponsored it afterwards. But there was an adult supervisor,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: so to speak, that was there. They were drinking, but
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: nothing that got out of hand. So I never really
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: experienced it. But I have heard all the horror stories
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: of what goes on in these frat houses, more so
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: than the sorority houses, and that a guy like Bill Maher,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: known as Mr. Party Animal, who had gone to Cornell,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that, has called for the ending of
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: all Greek life.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that might happen across the country. Here's
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: the thing, though. You said you'd never been to one.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: I've been to several frat parties when I was growing up,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: several at a lot of universities, including the University of Pennsylvania.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: So that was an Ivy League school. They had the
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: best of all the frat parties. And I had a
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: couple of friends that went there. I've never heard any
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: So they keep saying this is prevalent at these frat parties.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: I've been probably to a dozen, and I've never seen
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: anything that comes close to this. So I don't know
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: if this is new. Maybe it's in the last decade.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: But now the fact that there are two that happened,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: the University of Chicago and Cornell University of all places,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're right.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: They are two. These are elite schools.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Outstanding sources of education.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: But, man, I'm stunned. I don't even know what to say.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: I am stunned by this behavior. Well, I think now
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: because it is the topic of conversations throughout the nation,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: anything that transpired. Look, there's a case going on, University
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: of Oregon. Case going on, I believe it's University of Arizona,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: not Arizona State. anything that happens now on any campus
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: or off campus, especially involving fraternities more so than any
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: other group, is going to get additional attention, and it should.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: And like you said, how in the midst of all
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: of this attention to what transpired, the Cornell 7, the
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: case that is just every day you can't escape it,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: would you even think of engaging in this kind of activity?
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: And you can't blame it on, well, we did drugs,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: we did alcohol, you know, uh you know this is
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: what happens when.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: A lot of guys get together this one is worse
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: than cornell because she started out wanting to have a
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: threesome with the two guys and then it got out
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: of hand so there's a there's a lot of unknown
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: in that story if this as the eyewitnesses say it
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: played out which we don't know yet we can't prejudge
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: everything in this But if this played out the way
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: it's being described, this is horrid. These guys not only
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: should be thrown out of the university, they should be
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: thrown in jail.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: And think of it. Most parents who are sending their
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: kids to the University of Chicago might try to change
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: their mind by saying, you know, off campus, it's very dangerous. Correct. Chicago,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: crime capital of America. Who's thinking I'm sending my kids
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: to this prestigious university, University of Chicago, and they're in
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: danger on campus from on-campus students. We're not talking about
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: outsiders who come in off and then do crazy things
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: on campus, but from the students themselves. Now, just a
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: quick update, if I can, Larry, on the Cornell situation.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Everybody's doing a deep dive on all past cases of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: assault done by male students against female students, sexual assaults. Apparently,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Cornell has only expelled two of 16 students found responsible
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: for a series of recent sexual assaults. That ain't good.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: And the Cornell Press, who gave an endless interview to
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: the New York Times front page to try to save
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: his job, apparently was grilled by the Faculty Senate over
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: the handling of this case and other previous cases. And
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: he's facing a vote of no confidence. Now, if you
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: get a vote of no confidence from the Faculty Senate,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: you're going to dig in your heels and say, I'm
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: not going? You know, you would think you would see
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: that handwriting on the wall, resign and get out of
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: there now and allow somebody else to come in and
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: clean up the mess.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the students have done the same thing. So, no,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: I think it's just a matter of time because he
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: has done this the worst way possible. Every time there
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: is a new incident or every time there is new
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: information about the incident that happened, he is reactive instead
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: of proactive. constantly he's doing things after the fact. And
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: that's not good enough. That's certainly not good enough. And
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: by the way, somebody's got to go. And it's going
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: to be the president. I mean, he's the one that
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: has to go. Again, I am worried about this story.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: I want to watch it play out. But in the meantime,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: we know there's a problem. It really doesn't matter. We
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: know that there's drugs. We know that there's group sex.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: We know that there's alcohol. And so there's a lot
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: of things we know for a fact. And the things
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: that we know for a fact are too much.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: So I think, Larry, now I understand why the quiet storm, Chris,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: on loan to us from the Mark Simone show, he's
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: here today because Natalie is away. She'll be back tomorrow.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: would always go home on the weekends from Seton Hall
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: with his, what is his, Playboy? What would you call that? What,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: my Xbox? Yeah, your Xbox. And you wouldn't hang around
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: on the campus all weekend long at Seton Hall for
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: all the frat and sorority parties. No, I was not
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: doing that. I was going home and playing video games.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: All right, but was that a reason? No, I wasn't
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: necessarily afraid of that. I wasn't a big partier or drinker.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't start drinking alcohol until I was 22.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: 22? Yeah, I know. Good for you. A little bit
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: of a square. You're a real Mama Luke.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: I got so blasted one time when I was like 16,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't drink for eight years after that. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: I thought I was going to die.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: And you know when you really know it because you
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: think you can handle it. Same thing for me about
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: the same age. You start mixing drinks, and you are
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: so sick for days afterwards. You understand what the adults
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: told you, the male adults. Never mix your drinks.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: Before we get to the next story, I just was
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: checking some of the Chicago papers. They're expecting charges today
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: in that gang rape. The police department's getting a lot
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: of heat, a lot of heat right now. So I'm
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: sure we'll be talking about that tomorrow.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: Up next... I need just a few moments of your time, Larry, Chris,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: and audience, to do a commemoration, the passing of one
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: of the greatest participants in the International Federation of Competitive
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Eating that ever existed in the world. All kinds of contests.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm calling for Nathan's Famous to put their flags
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: at hand. Larry and the Silent Storm, Chris, on loan
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: to us. Natalie away today. She'll be back tomorrow. Chris
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: is always with us. Do you know that? He does
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: stuff for the show. He's just not in this.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in another little side room by myself.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: We'd never know because we never hear you shake up. True, fair.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, I'm taking just a
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: few moments to do a commemoration. As you know, the sport,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: and it is a sport now, the International Federation of
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Competitive Eating with the Nathan's Famous Contest on July 4th.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: The number one show on ESPN, 12 noon. The whole
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: world watches. But a lot of people don't realize every week...
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: There's a competitive eating contest somewhere in the world where
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: there is prize money. If you're good, they'll fly you in,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: put you up. You can make a lot of money. Obviously,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: the champion of all champions now is the Jack Armstrong,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: who was found many, many years ago to take out Kobayashi,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: the Japanese champion, and that is Joey Chestnut. And he
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: competes in a lot of contests and wins a lot.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: But the guy who won most of those other contests
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: was Timothy Janis. What a story. Timothy Janis is born
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: in Farmington, Connecticut. He does well in school. He comes
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: to Wall Street. He's a traitor. He's doing great. They
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: have a St. Patrick's celebration at his firm. And he
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: finds out that down the block there's a corned beef
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: and cabbage eating contest. You know, they do these kind
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: of things, drink celebrations. He competes. He wins. He's now
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: got the bug. He leaves the Wall Street firm that
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: he was making a lot of money in. and decides
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: to go out on the road and compete in the
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: International Federation of Competitive Eating. He's named the rookie of
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the year. He set all-time records. Four pounds of tiramisu.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: You know what that's like? That's all cream. That's impossible
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: to take down. It's delicious. But in six minutes, 11
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: pounds of ramen in eight minutes, 71 tamales in eight minutes.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: And what he did was he would watch tapes of
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: his competitors. He had notebooks filled with analytics and data.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: He had eating strategies and unfortunately yesterday passed away from
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: lung cancer at the age of 49. I think it's
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: incumbent on Nathan's Famous, the most famous address in all
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: of Coney Island, to make sure the flags are at
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: half staff in his honor, Timothy Janus, at least for
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: a week. This guy is everything you wanted to know
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: about a competitor. That's amazing. Let's get to some talkbacks.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Now I want some tiramisu.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 14: I'm a woman.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 18: I work out, I swim, I'm in great shape. And yes,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 18: they do dress like whores. These young girls, I said,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 18: oh my God, do the parents know? And what they
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 18: do is they come in sweats, they come in loose tops,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 18: and they take them off in the locker room. He's right. Listen,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 18: you know what? I don't care what anybody else does.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 18: It doesn't offend me. But my friends, we've all commented that.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: He's talking about Shane Gillis, who was on SNL and
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: got blowback for saying exactly what she just said. But
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of women that agree. Yeah,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: that's exactly how they dress. You're still not talking about it, huh?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I'm making no comment since Shane Gillis played me in
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: the debate last year on Saturday Night Live. That's all
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: I know about Shane Gillis. He knows how to wear
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: a red beret. The owners of the shop took the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: wrong approach.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 17: They should have apologized and they should have sent her
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 17: the bird.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: As a gift. It would have blown over right away.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: But no, they had to fight it.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 21: And I believe they lied.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: About the situation. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they lied. I don't know who's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: telling the truth. But I do think this is going
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: to end with Kelly Clarkson going back to the store.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: Excuse me. This is like David taking on Goliath, right?
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: David is the shop owner taking on the Goliath who's
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson. I want... David to prevail.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's punching down. I will bet you, I will
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: promise you that there's a publicist right now saying you
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: just got to go back to that shop.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 24: Natalie Migliore, you are the hero of the moment. I
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 24: did hear all seven references and that was awesome. But
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 24: going back to the remark about she's the nicest woman
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 24: in showbiz, they used to say that about Rosie O'Donnell too.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 24: So just take that into account. Her show, she's ending
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 24: her show. Her life is kind of a mess right now.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 24: So this was not necessary at all. And I'm siding
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 24: with the shop owner.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: She's right about Rosie O'Donnell. Remember she had that mid-morning
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: program on ABC. She ate Twinkies. She had nice jokes.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: She's a Long Island girl. We never knew about her
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: politics and her insanity.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: I told you the story about the one time I
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: was out in L.A. to cover the Super Bowl, and
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: I went to the comedy club, and she was there.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: I interviewed her, and then she wanted to know if
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: I wanted to stay at her house on the beach.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: Well, you were safe. I was safe. Now we know
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: that about... I said to everybody.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: Well, all the comics knew. And I said to some
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: of my comic friends, I said, Rosie O'Donnell, I think
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: she just hit on me. And they went, nope, no,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: she didn't. No, she didn't. Just trust me.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Up next, you may have remembered. We have to get
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: the news first. Oh, I'm sorry. I can't wait to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: get to this story.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: How can you forget now the woman we could never forget,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger, who is waiting patiently with the news.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 9: Always waiting patiently. And if I can hear Journey again,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 9: I will wait a few more minutes. Sunny and much
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 9: cooler today with a high of 62 degrees. Showers likely
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: late tonight and then we're going to see a turn
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: toward fall after that. Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 9: expected to be arraigned today in federal court here in
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 9: New York on additional charges.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 25: A new indictment shows that prosecutors are now charging Maduro
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 25: and his wife with conspiring to torture political opponents and Americans.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 25: This is in addition to drug trafficking charges they already face.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 25: The two have been locked up since their capture by
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 25: the U.S. military in their home back in January. They
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 25: have pleaded not guilty to accusations they transported thousands of
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 25: tons of cocaine to the U.S. Maduro was then as
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  Speaker 1: I was so anxious to get to this story about
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Nancy Mace, rising star in the MAGA movement a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago. Then she took to the floor of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: was on C-SPAN. One hour, went off on her fiancé,
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  Speaker 1: two businessmen, accused them of rape, of videotaping it. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: thought she was out of her mind. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: woman scorned has no, I forget the term that they
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  Speaker 1: use there, Larry. But it turns out she was right.
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  Speaker 1: These three guys were arrested yesterday. I never thought that
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  Speaker 1: this case would ever see the light of day. We'll
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  Speaker 1: give you those details up next. You know, Larry, a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago, Nancy Mace, Republican MAGA at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Charleston, South Carolina, was on the rise. She couldn't
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  Speaker 1: run for Senate. in South Carolina because of Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 1: alive at that time and Tim Scott but she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be the governor and everybody was saying oh she
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  Speaker 1: definitely can be the next governor And then she took
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  Speaker 1: to the floor. Every congressman, congresswoman has an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: take to the floor for one hour. It's covered on C-SPAN,
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  Speaker 1: and they can talk about anything under the sun. I
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to see it on a replay, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: at the time. I thought it was the cringiest, most
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  Speaker 1: unhinged thing I had ever heard in my life. She
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  Speaker 1: was really, I mean, angry, uh, She was screaming at
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  Speaker 1: her former fiancé and his two business partners. She ended
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  Speaker 1: up saying, you've booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell.
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  Speaker 1: She's holding up a sign with their pictures on it,
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  Speaker 1: their names. You know, this is what sometimes crazy people do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these kind of rants. But this was on
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  Speaker 1: the floor of the house, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: at that point said, wow, it's over. It's over. You
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. as a congressperson, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and if you can, if you can
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  Speaker 1: play maybe some of what she was saying on that
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  Speaker 1: day on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she talks about two separate incidents, and let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about who these people are. It is Patrick Bryant, who
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  Speaker 2: was her fiancé at the time, along with two other men,
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  Speaker 2: John Douglas Osborne and Eric Bernard Bowman. And you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to keep those names on the top of your head
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  Speaker 2: because we're going to be talking about them again in
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  Speaker 2: a second. But she went through some computer drives that
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  Speaker 2: she found. She found these computer drives and she put
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  Speaker 2: them in her computer and she looked and she was
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  Speaker 2: stunned at what she saw. First, she saw some pictures
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  Speaker 2: of women that were being taken when they weren't aware
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  Speaker 2: they were being taken.
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  Speaker 9: The women raped.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, that's not the right one.
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  Speaker 26: I found more photos, this time of female employees. I
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  Speaker 26: found photos of wives of male employees. Photos of girlfriends
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  Speaker 26: and women who very clearly didn't know their private parts
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  Speaker 26: were being filmed and photographed.
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  Speaker 2: So they found dozens of photos, dozens and dozens and
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  Speaker 2: dozens of photos that were being photographed up the skirt
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  Speaker 2: or when they were in the men's room or when
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  Speaker 2: they were in the women's room and.
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  Speaker 1: It was underneath the toilet. So these are bizarre, weird pictures.
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  Speaker 1: But then, rape.
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  Speaker 26: The women raped.
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  Speaker 9: On those tapes that I saw.
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  Speaker 26: The women raped that I spoke to over the course
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  Speaker 26: of the last year. The stories of these women were
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  Speaker 26: all too familiar. Now I know why. My memories of
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  Speaker 26: that night are just flashes in and out of the dark,
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  Speaker 26: flashes in and out of the night. I was raped
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  Speaker 26: that night.
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  Speaker 2: That was when she was 16. She said the photos
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  Speaker 2: that she saw of a woman being raped who had
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  Speaker 2: obviously been drugged brought it back to her what happened
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  Speaker 2: to her when she was 16 because she says she
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  Speaker 2: was loaded with alcohol and then drugs and then came
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  Speaker 2: to conscience every once in a while to see that
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  Speaker 2: she was being raped by several people over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: So Cornell University, University of Chicago, Nancy Mace, these fiancés,
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  Speaker 2: and they've now been arrested, Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, At that time, I said, hell hath no
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  Speaker 1: fury like a woman's corn, because it was directed at
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  Speaker 1: her fiancé and his two business associates. But as you said,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just her. It was other things she saw,
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  Speaker 1: video photos in the file involving other women. She said
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  Speaker 1: some underage. One of those victims compared her experiences to
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  Speaker 1: that of Jane Doe. They had all the goods. They
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  Speaker 1: did a complete investigation, South Carolina police authorities, and you
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  Speaker 1: are correct. They arrested her former fiancé and the two
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  Speaker 1: business partners. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, Larry, most people in the
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  Speaker 1: world of politics thought she was unhinged, she was crazy,
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  Speaker 1: and that, oh my God, what has happened?
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  Speaker 2: She's just destroyed her career. It turned out she was correct.
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  Speaker 2: She was correct. And I'll tell you what, if she
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  Speaker 2: was a Democrat, they would have believed her. If she's
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: a Republican, she's crazy. And now they hope they look
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  Speaker 2: like fools. She's getting out. She thinks that politics is
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: disgusting now. And I don't blame her. Politics is disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: And they went after someone who was a rape victim
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  Speaker 2: and made.
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  Speaker 1: Fun of her.
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  Speaker 2: And now she said she's not running for political office again.
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  Speaker 2: After this term is done, she's retiring and she's going
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  Speaker 2: to go into the private sector. And good for her
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  Speaker 2: because she was slimed. And now we find out, of course,
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  Speaker 2: she was just telling the truth. It always seems to
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  Speaker 2: be the case, doesn't it? Politics is disgusting sometimes. And
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those cases. They went after a
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  Speaker 2: rape victim who saw other evidence of people being raped
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  Speaker 2: and they made fun of her. And the press was
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  Speaker 2: right there with them. The media, CNN, MSNBC, they slimed
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  Speaker 2: her too.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on them. Shame on them.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they feel embarrassed today. I'd like to see apologies.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt we'll get it in the middle of a midterm,
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  Speaker 2: but we should.
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  Speaker 1: They have the documentary evidence now. She was spot on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I doubted her. I'm sorry, because it
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: sounds so unhinged, like hell hath no fury like a
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: woman's corn. She was spot on. Anyway, up next... Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of a woman and a man, the second debate, see,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: they get a second debate. This is what should be mandatory.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, who's like Glenn Slice, he's always on TV,
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  Speaker 1: he'll go to any interview. The congressman from up in
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  Speaker 1: Rockland County in Westchester fighting for his political life against
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  Speaker 1: the cookie-cutter cardboard cutout of what Democrats know can be
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  Speaker 1: a winning ticket based on the two in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Military veteran, stellar record. put her in the mix, and
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  Speaker 1: they had a debate last night, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: analyze it and discuss it. One of the most.
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  Speaker 2: Watched races, one of the most hotly contested races in
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  Speaker 2: the country, one of the races that will decide the
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  Speaker 2: fate of the House of Representatives is New York's 17th
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  Speaker 2: Congressional District, which is Rockland County and a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of Westchester County. And this race is so big. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to this, Curtis. This race is so big. that normally
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  Speaker 2: in a congressional race, it gets no coverage. It gets
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  Speaker 2: no coverage, gets no TV coverage, no TV station's going
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  Speaker 2: to air it, and it usually is something you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see in line or you'll see clips of it
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  Speaker 2: on social media. This one was on PIX11. How often
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: do you see a congressional race on a major television station?
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: I'll play a little bit of it just so you
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  Speaker 2: can hear it, but everybody said exactly what you would
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  Speaker 2: expect them to say. Kay Conley, she was going after Trump.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: And Hochul was going after Mamdani and going after Hochul.
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  Speaker 23: You saw how quickly my opponent wanted to get off
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  Speaker 23: of this topic. And that's because five data centers were
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  Speaker 23: built on his watch. And now there are three more
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  Speaker 23: on the way.
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  Speaker 1: I support local control of zoning.
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  Speaker 16: The five data centers in Rockland County that were built
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  Speaker 16: were built before I was in elected office.
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  Speaker 1: They were approved by a Democrat. Blame you, blame them.
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  Speaker 1: Blame you, blame them. Now we can go to ICE.
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  Speaker 23: What we are seeing right now with the conduct of
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  Speaker 23: ICE is posing a public safety hazard. The same things
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  Speaker 23: that we expect of our local law enforcement, we should
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  Speaker 23: expect of our federal law enforcement.
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  Speaker 16: Kathy Hochul's disastrous new law, which Kate Conley supports, making
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 16: New York a sanctuary state, prohibits cooperation between local law
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  Speaker 16: enforcement and federal immigration officials.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, ICE needs reforms.
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  Speaker 16: I've said repeatedly, body cameras, no masks, identifiable uniforms.
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  Speaker 2: I could go back and forth and back and forth
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  Speaker 2: and back and forth, but they said exactly what you
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  Speaker 2: would expect them to say. And I don't think, and
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  Speaker 2: I've read a lot of the people that have written
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  Speaker 2: about it, I don't think anybody thought there was a
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  Speaker 2: clear winner or loser.
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  Speaker 1: No, but it's part of this Democratic strategy. Find a
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  Speaker 1: woman who's been in military service. She was serving a
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  Speaker 1: long time. So you don't have this Swalwell problem that
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: you sometimes have with male candidates increasingly more and more.
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  Speaker 1: And they are neck and neck. I want this race over.
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  Speaker 1: It's 20 days left. I want it over tomorrow. I've
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: never seen more commercials in my life. You know, one
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: minute it's Kate Conley. She's a hydro with Zoran Mondami,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on her shoulder. Next minute it's Lawler. They
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: turn him into a hydro with Donald Trump on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Way too many commercials. Sometimes they play for them within
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: one break on a network. For them. For just one race. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it is one of the races that's going
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: to decide who has control of the House. So it's
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: one of the biggest races we're going to be talking
• 1:38:11
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