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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Lee
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  Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wo R. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just came through the tunnel here at Ihearts sevent
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  Speaker 2: It's all red.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it could be the locker room for the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead Stadium now moving to Kansas. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like Dorothy, you know, clicking her red shoes. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: festooned all in red, red satine jacket, red beret, feeling
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  Speaker 1: like Sanni Claus and also having received a gift to
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  Speaker 1: be able to broadcast all of you and our new
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  Speaker 1: found talk radio station seven to ten WR that Nancy
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  Speaker 1: and I listened to as often as possible. And she
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  Speaker 1: joins me right now as she joined me at many
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  Speaker 1: times on WABC. No longer our place to be where
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  Speaker 1: they were always bashing, Curtis. But I know you're busy
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for our trip ahead the next two days,
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  Speaker 1: as we'll be dealing with family members on your side
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  Speaker 1: of the family. So I'd like it just to give
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  Speaker 1: everybody here an idea who you are and where you
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  Speaker 1: came from. As long term listeners here at seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten war.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's a pretty tall order. But let's see. So
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  Speaker 2: where I came from. I grew up in Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: I graduated from Stonybrook, I went to law school in Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 2: and once I got to Brooklyn, I never looked back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love being in the city, and living
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  Speaker 2: in Brooklyn was the first time that I had discovered
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  Speaker 2: all of these cats that wander around outside. And that's
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  Speaker 2: when I first discovered the concept of the colony cats
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  Speaker 2: and all the people out there who were taking care
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  Speaker 2: of them, and you know, had like regular groups of
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  Speaker 2: outdoor cats because as you know, the shelter system is
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  Speaker 2: so filled up, and unfortunately, you know, they're a kill
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  Speaker 2: shelter in the city, so you know, they bring them in,
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  Speaker 2: they warehouse them a bit, and then after that happens,
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  Speaker 2: they euthanize them pretty quickly, even when they don't really
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  Speaker 2: have any significant types of problems. So, you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: not a great place to be. And I realized that
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  Speaker 2: there's this incredible community of people out there who are
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  Speaker 2: doing exactly what you know, it's passionate. I'm passionate about,
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  Speaker 2: which is taking care of them, realizing that they can
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  Speaker 2: live outside as long as you know, it's done within
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  Speaker 2: like the structure of the colony, which is making sure
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  Speaker 2: they're spade and neutered, providing them with houses, especially in
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  Speaker 2: inclement weather like right now where it's cold outside, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, feeding them on a regular basis, so that's
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  Speaker 2: way they have a food source. So I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's the And then Ned, I met you
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  Speaker 2: about ten years ago or so, and you know we've
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  Speaker 2: been together ever since, So that's that's me in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember you were living in Sunset Park at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and you said, there are cats living in the alleyway,
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  Speaker 1: you know, swear all the garages were. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see Anny. I walked through the alleyway. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see Anny. And then you walked through and you
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  Speaker 1: made this sound like the female version of Doctor Doolittle.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, cats were coming out of every Nikrannian
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  Speaker 1: corner and they were rubbing up against your leg, the
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  Speaker 1: tails in the air, all of them with all of
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  Speaker 1: their own unique personalities as I observed them, and there
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  Speaker 1: were so many people just like yourself, mostly women, some
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  Speaker 1: men out of pocket who care for these animals, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: in distress, will also serve as a barrier because their
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  Speaker 1: presence keeps the rats, the mice, the rodents away, and
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  Speaker 1: so they earn their keep many times over without there
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  Speaker 1: having to be pest asides and all other kinds of
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  Speaker 1: alternatives they used to try to eliminate the rats and
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  Speaker 1: the mice that you'll never eliminate. You could have daytime
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  Speaker 1: with them, but you can keep them at bay. What
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  Speaker 1: was it like when people would turn to you and
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  Speaker 1: it'll call you a cat lady or disparagingly make fun
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  Speaker 1: of you because you and others were reaching into your
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  Speaker 1: pocket spending your own money to care for these animals.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, well, first of all, I don't get
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  Speaker 2: offended by people, you know, I usually try to explain
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  Speaker 2: it to them, because you know, the mis inception I
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  Speaker 2: would get a lot of times is like somehow I
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  Speaker 2: brought them there, Like I created these cats that I
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  Speaker 2: try to you know, you have to explain no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many of them that live outside all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and what I'm doing is basically caring for the ones
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  Speaker 2: that are here. And if if for some reason, if
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  Speaker 2: someone calls, like the you know, the shelter to come
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  Speaker 2: pick them up, it just creates a vacuum in that area,
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  Speaker 2: and then what happens is other cats in the area
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  Speaker 2: move in. There's just so many cats you don't see
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  Speaker 2: them all the time. So I'm you know, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: tough skinned, like I wouldn't really take it when people
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  Speaker 2: are getting annoyed. But that's why you also have to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you take care of these things in a
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  Speaker 2: decent basis. So for example, you know, you don't leave
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  Speaker 2: the food around, you don't do things that are going
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  Speaker 2: to clearly bother neighbors, and you know, create nuisance. So
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  Speaker 2: as long as and again that's also why you want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you get the cats fixed. I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's essential. You can't keep having the kittens around.
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  Speaker 2: And then plus when they're fixed, they calm down a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the the aggression that happens with the mail
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  Speaker 2: cats when they're not fixed, I mean, it's all territory. Also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can get their behavior to a point
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  Speaker 2: where you know they're I mean again they're they're the
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  Speaker 2: same as the indoor cats. It's just they need, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the very specific attention because it's a tough it's a
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  Speaker 2: tough time out there. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: cats that just inavertently stumble on poisons things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: Like I would have to explain to people, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't inadvertently throw things down, because that happens a lot too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it always bothers me in the winter. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you see a lot of people throwing down the
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  Speaker 2: like rock salt. The city throws down the rock salt.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually dangerous for animals because they use like the
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  Speaker 2: cheapest variety. So you know, you have this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tough life for them out there. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just you know, I'm very compassionate. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 2: have people who you know, you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: everyone can understand it if you explain it to them,
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  Speaker 2: and then if they don't understand it after that, then
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  Speaker 2: to heck with them, because you know, they're living creatures
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  Speaker 2: and I can't see any justification for letting someone's dislike
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  Speaker 2: of them ever stop the behavior of caring for animals.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what I loved about Wisconsin when I was up
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  Speaker 1: there organizing Guardian Angels and Milwaukee is they don't use
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  Speaker 1: rock salt because they had, you know, years ago, they
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  Speaker 1: had feet of snow it's not like that as it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. But they would put down a brine
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  Speaker 1: of parmesan cheese, a brine, yeah, and naturally, I mean
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  Speaker 1: even some people, you know it's old parmesan cheese. They'd
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  Speaker 1: be down there, you know, licking the asphalt. But there
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  Speaker 1: were so many other alternatives, and I think one singular
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  Speaker 1: thing that comes across is I've noticed some time to
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  Speaker 1: time you'll be walking the streets where we live and
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  Speaker 1: you'll see some pigeons in distress and you'll feed them.
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  Speaker 1: Some people will refer them as rats with wings, others
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  Speaker 1: as basically the official bird of New York City. Fact
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  Speaker 1: that i'd been elected mayor, as you know, on the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail, I said, we would have taken the New
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  Speaker 1: York City flag. It's like some indescript bird on there.
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  Speaker 1: I would put a pigeon. That's what New York City
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  Speaker 1: is known for. And I noticed some people would be
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  Speaker 1: talking and she's feeding the pigeons, and I will walk
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  Speaker 1: up to them and I'd say, you got a problem
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  Speaker 1: with that, Oh no, Curtis, No, you know that's my wife, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: You got a problem with that? No? No, And then
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  Speaker 1: they have spikes that they yeah, the windowsills.
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  Speaker 2: The aggression against the pigeons I find really really distasteful.
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  Speaker 2: To your point, the spikes that are allowed to be
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  Speaker 2: put up and then now you have pigeons that are maimed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that to me. I can't believe that's even
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  Speaker 2: legal that that happened. But I definitely catch a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guff for throwing down the bird seat with the pigeons.
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  Speaker 2: But then usually the people who are saying something to
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  Speaker 2: me are walking their dog who's urinating on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm not really sure where they are on their
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  Speaker 2: high horse telling me anything about friendliness of animals, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, to eat it on, I guess right, yeah, And.
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  Speaker 1: It's a much better remedy. If you don't want pigeons
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  Speaker 1: flocking around, you just put up a plastic owl. It's
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  Speaker 1: like in cornfields when they put up scarecrows. That has
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  Speaker 1: the same impact without damaging the pigeons. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: horrific death that they suffer because they get impaled. And
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  Speaker 1: some people in their minds, you know, that's a OK.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the broader issue is you know, and
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  Speaker 1: again it's what I based both of my campaigns on
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  Speaker 1: and running for New York. One of the many issues
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  Speaker 1: animal welfare at Mahatma Gandhi. You know, there will be
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  Speaker 1: people who criticize him because they hate animals. He said
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  Speaker 1: that a society that does not take care of its
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  Speaker 1: animals does not take care of its people. And you
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  Speaker 1: have seen how much time and energy we in the
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  Speaker 1: Guardian Angels, with your help, have put into caring for
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  Speaker 1: the homeless and the emotionally disturbed because we don't take
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  Speaker 1: care of them, and we don't take care of our animals.
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  Speaker 1: The abuse the dogs that are raised to fight and
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  Speaker 1: kill and maim, and nothing is done to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned when spading and neutering, it would go
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  Speaker 1: a long way and keeping these many animals God's creatures
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  Speaker 1: out of harm's way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and again that's the whole goalposts of everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to have the breeder animals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no reason to keep creating you know,
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  Speaker 2: these you know, dogs and cats when the reality is
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  Speaker 2: there's not enough home for them all together. So I
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  Speaker 2: absolutely think that that has to stop right away. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't be having neck on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be able to travel the vision with your mother,
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  Speaker 1: Beth who just celebrated her birthday, who I believe out
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  Speaker 1: in Bohemia really introduced you to the life of people
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  Speaker 1: who dedicate themselves to animal would I be correct on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My mom's like first job, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: when she, uh, you know, got a job in Long
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  Speaker 2: Island was working at an animal shelter, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a veterinarian office. Rather, so during the weekend when
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  Speaker 2: she would be working, I would go in with her.
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  Speaker 2: So it was as though they were all like I
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  Speaker 2: had a whole bunch of cats and dogs that I
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  Speaker 2: could visit because they were the ones who were sort
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  Speaker 2: of waiting in the the kennels, like if either they
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  Speaker 2: were recovering or maybe they were for adoption. So that
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  Speaker 2: was actually very cool. I mean. And I also grew
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  Speaker 2: up with having a dog and cats in the household,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I'm just very familiar with them in general.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, and you know, of course, growing
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  Speaker 2: up in Long Island it's a lot more nature, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, you would you just you know, you see
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  Speaker 2: things more often. Like I had a neighbor next to
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  Speaker 2: me who had, believe it or not, chickens and roosters
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  Speaker 2: and things like that like a little farm going on,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, it's just a much more natural to
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  Speaker 2: see these animals.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the defining moment for me with you and your
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  Speaker 1: passion for animals was in that first campaign when I
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  Speaker 1: ran against Eric Adams twenty twenty one, and I warned
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  Speaker 1: everybody he would be corrupt and we would have chaos,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody listened. About halfway through the campaign and you
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  Speaker 1: were scrolling on the internet the death row list that
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  Speaker 1: they put up from the Animal Care and Control the shelters,
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  Speaker 1: because these are kill shelters, they are not no kill shelters.
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  Speaker 1: And you said, I got to run to East New
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  Speaker 1: York Lindon Boulevard to the animal shelter there that is
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  Speaker 1: now closed to rescue this cat. And I remember you
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  Speaker 1: had cold and they said, yeah, well we're opening five
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  Speaker 1: And I said, Nancy, you can't go down there on
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  Speaker 1: your own. I mean, that's right by Saint Fort Shanada's
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  Speaker 1: that's on Linen Boulevard, that psychology. No, you can't go there.
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  Speaker 1: That's oh no, that's Cyper Sells.
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  Speaker 2: They have drive by shootings.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you. Yes, we got in the
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  Speaker 1: animal welfare van of the Guardian Angels and we were
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  Speaker 1: driving halfway there. We were on Woodhaven Boulevard. It was
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  Speaker 1: like two o'clock in the afternoon, and they called you
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  Speaker 1: and just relate to our listeners all throughout the Tri
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  Speaker 1: State area. In the world the insensitivity of the people.
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  Speaker 1: They're knowing you were on your way to rescue this
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  Speaker 1: cat that was on death row.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had already basically secured the rescue of
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  Speaker 2: this small kitten, and those are the ones that are,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, first to be put down in
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  Speaker 2: the shelters a lot of times because if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have someone to bottle feed them, they you know, they
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  Speaker 2: don't have full time staff like that. So we were
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  Speaker 2: on our way and I got to call that the
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  Speaker 2: medical team. Ultimately they decided, well, well, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this cat's gonna, you know, farewell, so we're just going
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  Speaker 2: to euthanize it, like you know. And that to me
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  Speaker 2: was incredible because when you adopt these cats, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times when they do have any potential medical issues,
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  Speaker 2: they're not footing the bill for any of the medical care.
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  Speaker 2: So it's whether it's on them to you know, relinquish
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  Speaker 2: the animal knowing that any medical care you have to supply.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no cost to them to allow you
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  Speaker 2: to take that animal home. So again they just decided, well,
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  Speaker 2: we took a second look, and we don't really think
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  Speaker 2: this this cat's gonna you know, farewell, so we're just
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  Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and euthanize it, knowing I was on
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  Speaker 2: my way to get this cat. So that was really heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, people need to know. My wife was crying
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  Speaker 1: for days. She pulled the vehicle over and I vow
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  Speaker 1: to you right then, I said, if I become the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: this becomes a priority. Can you imagine.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other side note to that was because
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  Speaker 2: you want to mention that story about what happened with
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  Speaker 2: the animal care and control. Right away they pulled my
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  Speaker 2: ability to actually get these animals from the shelter as
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  Speaker 2: like a stick of to youth type moment, apparently because
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  Speaker 2: they don't like when people tell the truth about what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the shelter system. So right away they
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  Speaker 2: took me off the list of being able to adopt
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  Speaker 2: these animals. So that was a real nice touch.
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  Speaker 1: So to all of our critics out there, including the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States, I remember less Maria Bartoloma.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the show Fox Business in the White House,
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  Speaker 1: and he was railing against you and I for rescuing cats,
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  Speaker 1: and if I was elected, they would be in Gracie Mansion.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself while I'm watching him almost
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  Speaker 1: with great delight, attacking us, saying, excuse me, mister president,
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  Speaker 1: you realize in the room you're in now was another
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  Speaker 1: great Republican president called Teddy Roosevelt who had eighty animals
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  Speaker 1: at the White House when he was president, dogs and
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  Speaker 1: cats in the White House, right where you're sitting now
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  Speaker 1: speaking to Maria Bartoloma.
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  Speaker 2: But of course he.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't care about that, he who cares only about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, we got it.
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