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Opening Segment 10/1/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: New York wakes up with Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti, 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees win, Yankees win, Yankees win. We'll describe that victory
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  Speaker 1: as they swept the Red Sox, annihilated them, two games.
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  Speaker 1: So go back to Boston. Cry in your Boston baked beans,
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  Speaker 1: your Boston cream pie, everything Boston. I hate you. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in 86, when the Mets played the Red Sox in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, Larry, I hate both teams equally. When
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  Speaker 1: people ask me, who are you rooting for? I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like Switzerland. I hate them both equally, the Mets
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  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox. So I couldn't be happier this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I was happy last night. But then the number
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  Speaker 1: one Yankee fan in our family came home. It's not me.
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  Speaker 1: It's Nancy. Nancy, who actually spent a summer driving a Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Softee truck out at Lankron Conkamo in Suffolk County and
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  Speaker 1: then Wine Dench. Wine Dench is the equivalent of being
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  Speaker 1: in the South Bronx. It's like damned if you do,
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  Speaker 1: damned if you don't. You're going to get robbed going
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  Speaker 1: out there, but that was the only route available. So
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  Speaker 1: she could go to every Yankee home game. Wow. That's
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  Speaker 1: how fanatical she was. And still is. So she comes
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  Speaker 1: in from a business meeting. They had a goodbye business dinner.
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  Speaker 1: They had been up in Albany doing business and some
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  Speaker 1: of their colleagues were heading off. So they were wrapping
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  Speaker 1: it up at a dinner last night and she came
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  Speaker 1: in and she was completely traumatized. So immediately I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, she got mugged. What happened? And it
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  Speaker 1: takes her about five minutes to compose herself. And then
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  Speaker 1: she dictates to me what she had went through earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the evening at this dinner. Nice restaurant. Everybody's getting along.
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  Speaker 1: She happens to look out the window and on the street,
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  Speaker 1: main thoroughfare, she sees a woman slapping a young boy.
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  Speaker 1: She estimates a young boy about six or seven years old. Slapping,
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  Speaker 1: slapping the young boy. Young boy apparently is like wanting
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  Speaker 1: to grab on. to the woman. So she's assuming it's
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  Speaker 1: his mother. And so she goes, let me go outside.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go outside and make a call.
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  Speaker 1: She's not making a call. She's faking the call on
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone and she watches. And then she sees
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  Speaker 1: this woman, African-American woman wind up. And I mean, punch
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  Speaker 1: the boy. I mean, seriously hard. So she closes the
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  Speaker 1: cell phone and she decides, I got to do an intervention.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is walking by as if nothing's going on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they've got window shades on their eyes, cotton balls in
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  Speaker 1: their ears, a zipper on their mouth. Typical of New
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  Speaker 1: York City of late. And she goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: woman and goes, why did you just hit this young boy?
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  Speaker 1: That's my son. That's my son. You mind your own business,
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  Speaker 1: you effing white bitch. And then she goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: And Nancy again. tries to do an intervention, tries to
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  Speaker 1: calm the situation. She sees the young boy is completely traumatized.
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  Speaker 1: Young boy is crying. He's nervous. He's shaking. She's trying
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  Speaker 1: to calm down the situation. This woman would not be
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  Speaker 1: calmed down. She was emotionally disturbed. And Nancy has been
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  Speaker 1: with me when I do interventions with emotionally disturbed persons.
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  Speaker 1: So she was clear on that. And she realized there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing she could do. Nobody called 911. Nobody did anything.
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  Speaker 1: They just kept moving, moving. So she goes back inside.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Naked City, you know, in 2026, where
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  Speaker 1: this goes on on a regular basis. Men and women
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  Speaker 1: just acting out in the streets in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: And people were oblivious to it. So she's sitting down
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  Speaker 1: with her colleagues. And then all of a sudden, this
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  Speaker 1: woman comes charging in, grabbing her son, continuing to berate Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: putting a finger in your face. Imagine every invective, racially
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  Speaker 1: charged invective you can imagine. Everybody in the restaurant is stunned.
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  Speaker 1: She will not stop this woman. Continuous. And she's holding
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  Speaker 1: her son and grabbing him along. And she's saying, she's
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  Speaker 1: saying to the young boy, you tell him I'm a
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  Speaker 1: good mother. You tell him I'm a good mother. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a great mother. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. And she's yelling
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  Speaker 1: and yelling. And Nancy is going, oh, man, what am
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  Speaker 1: I going to do if she attacks me? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have to defend myself. She's clearly emotionally disturbed. The
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  Speaker 1: other patrons are shocked. You imagine you're in a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: They're shocked. It just so happens James was filming this.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope to be able to post it. But
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  Speaker 1: eventually what happens is the management and the waiters and waitresses,
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  Speaker 1: they just start pushing her out the door. They call
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  Speaker 1: the cops. Cops didn't come.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask how long it took before anybody intervened
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  Speaker 2: at all, including the people that work there?
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  Speaker 1: My wife estimates anywhere from eight to ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Screaming at the top of her lungs. And again, people
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  Speaker 1: in New York City are used to this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people just wailing away, screaming, hollering, yelling for, you know,
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  Speaker 1: endless time. So she eventually is pushed outside. But before
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  Speaker 1: she goes outside as she's dragging her son, the son
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  Speaker 1: looks at James and says, please help me, help me,
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  Speaker 1: help me. That's what traumatized my wife. Not the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she was being verbally assaulted and physically threatened and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was racially charged in words that were
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  Speaker 1: being used. But the fact that the little boy was
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  Speaker 1: looking at them like, please help me, help me. And
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  Speaker 1: my wife said to me, you know, I'm normally not
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  Speaker 1: in favor of people separating children from their parents, especially
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  Speaker 1: the mother, and sending them to foster care. That can
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  Speaker 1: be a nightmare. But in this situation, this boy is
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  Speaker 1: going to be traumatized for life. God only knows if
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  Speaker 1: he survives. What is going to happen in his mindset? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those who are abused end up tending to
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  Speaker 1: be abusers. Or be violent. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so you think of a little boy like that,
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  Speaker 2: and you try to find... in your heart how possibly
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  Speaker 2: someone could commit the most vile crimes that are committed
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  Speaker 2: in New York City and across the country.
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  Speaker 1: There's the reason. That's the reason. It's upbringing. The police
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  Speaker 1: have been told, back off. You know, we want mental
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  Speaker 1: health people with you. This goes back to de Blasio, Adams,
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  Speaker 1: and now with Zorhan Mandat. No, we need mentally health
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  Speaker 1: trained people. So the cops don't even bother responding anymore
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  Speaker 1: because they know what the call is. It's an EDP call.
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  Speaker 1: They're very specific. When a 911 call comes in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the operator who takes the 911 call says, is this
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  Speaker 1: person appearing to be emotionally disturbed? And so you actually
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  Speaker 1: hear on some of the tapes, yeah, EDP reported at
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  Speaker 1: such and such. And the cops are like, what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do? Well, what's supposed to happen when
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  Speaker 1: an EDP is called in? Does no one show up? No,
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  Speaker 1: the cops normally would have. But increasingly more and more,
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  Speaker 1: they get chastised when they do. And so they just decide,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they tell us we're not qualified to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this. They tell us they want mental health trained
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  Speaker 1: individuals to deal with it. What are we supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do when we get there? We're told, leave the person alone.
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  Speaker 1: Don't take them into custody. Don't even take them for
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  Speaker 1: a psychiatric observation at Bellevue in which they get cut
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  Speaker 1: loose in 24 hours. It's insane. Look, even Natalie today,
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  Speaker 1: although it may not have been an emotionally disturbed person,
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  Speaker 1: you were coming to work. And some guy was screaming
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  Speaker 1: and yelling. How far away did you hear it? Two blocks.
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  Speaker 3: I walked by a guy screaming at a coffee cart guy.
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  Speaker 3: And he was actually in a Yankee jersey. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking maybe he's a holdover from the game, drunk all night.
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  Speaker 3: And he was yelling so loud and, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: his face, pointing and pointing. And there were people around
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  Speaker 3: just walking by. Some didn't even, like, try to avoid it.
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  Speaker 3: I went around them so I didn't have to go
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  Speaker 3: by them. And some guy was there texting. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: how can nobody– this is insane.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the city has become. We're almost like
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  Speaker 1: immune to this. And I can only tell you because
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  Speaker 1: I deal with EDPs all day long. Like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: coming to work on the subway. So there were two
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  Speaker 1: of them mumbling to themselves. One of them hitting his
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  Speaker 1: head on the side panel of the subway. And I
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  Speaker 1: went up to him and I cautioned him. I said, hey, guy,
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  Speaker 1: you're hurting yourself. They don't belong in the streets and
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  Speaker 1: the subways. They need to be given– I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: And I wish they could just take these people and
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  Speaker 2: get them help. And I think would all be safer.
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  Speaker 2: So I agree with you. But that's we keep saying
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  Speaker 2: that keep saying that keep saying that keep saying that.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have someone assaulting another human being and
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if it's her child, I can see
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  Speaker 2: a slap. I can see a spank. I don't approve
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  Speaker 2: of that. But I can at least understand that when
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  Speaker 2: you are beating your child, that's a crime. That's a crime.
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  Speaker 2: And that should be responded to. So when a phone
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  Speaker 2: call goes out and says there's someone on the street
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  Speaker 2: beating a child, doesn't matter if it's their child at
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  Speaker 2: that point. It really doesn't matter. That's child abuse. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why the story you tell is so upsetting. That
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  Speaker 2: your wife was the only one that intervened. And that
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  Speaker 2: nobody intervened. And what is really ugly... is the fact
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  Speaker 2: that that continued in a restaurant and nobody, including the
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  Speaker 2: restaurant ownership, intervened for eight to 10 minutes, eight to
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  Speaker 2: 10 minutes. No, there's something really, really wrong in this city.
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  Speaker 2: If that can, if that can continue to happen. And
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  Speaker 2: I understand why people are moving out. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just the taxes. It's this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for instance, when I was lecturing at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, I and Nancy were
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  Speaker 1: staying downtown Philadelphia, right near Center City, right near City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: South Broad Street, a lot of nice hotels there, emotionally
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  Speaker 1: disturbed people outside harassing their clients. I mean, you could
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  Speaker 1: tell they were emotionally disturbed. They weren't just homeless. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: being done. This is happening all over the country time
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  Speaker 1: and time again. So we have empty spaces in mental
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  Speaker 1: health care facilities. Empty. I know that for a fact
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  Speaker 1: in New York. And yet on October 13th, when we
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  Speaker 1: get the one and only debate, there should be at
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  Speaker 1: least two or more. I doubt seriously if the subject
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  Speaker 1: of mentally impaired people will be brought up to either
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  Speaker 1: the governor Hochul or the challenger Blakeman. in the course of,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a one-hour debate. That's it. This is
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  Speaker 1: a serious issue in our state.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And just like all of those people walked
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  Speaker 2: by and ignored what was happening on the streets, and
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  Speaker 2: just like all of us walk by people talking to
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  Speaker 2: themselves and possibly violent and threatening people every day, that
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  Speaker 2: we walk by saying, well, thank God they're not threatening me.
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  Speaker 1: We're the problems. That's the problem. That's the problem. And.
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  Speaker 2: It is exacerbated by the fact that if you were
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  Speaker 2: to do anything, it would be your fault. So I
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  Speaker 2: understand the reaction, but all of that has to change.
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  Speaker 2: And we had a guy that ran for mayor that
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  Speaker 2: said he was going to hire all these mental health professionals.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: If you're making a phone call when somebody is mentally
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  Speaker 2: disturbed and nobody comes, where are the thousands? You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: That people finally just move away. That's the only way
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  Speaker 2: you can deal with it, is just to get away.
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  Speaker 1: Side issue here, Larry. Our own Natalie Magliore spotted a
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  Speaker 1: guy robbing mail this morning out of the blue mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: At what time? 4.57 in the morning when there are
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  Speaker 1: no cops around. You see? It's systemic, and nobody's doing
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  Speaker 1: anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, can you call it a sweep
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  Speaker 2: when it's only two games? Yeah, I guess. Yankees sweep
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, plus a chance to see Stevie Wonder.
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  Speaker 2: Sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden. That's coming up at 825.