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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, Larry, look who's here.
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  Speaker 2: It's on loan from Mark Simone, Chris, The Quiet Storm.
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  Speaker 3: I've been trying to get him to shut up. My God,
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  Speaker 3: that guy just talks and talks and talks.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they say about me, yeah. Let's give you
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  Speaker 1: an IQ test here. Proud graduate of Seton Hall, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Natalie, Natalie, right? Proud graduate of Seton Hall,
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  Speaker 1: our producer.
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  Speaker 2: What do you notice that's different about this studio today
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  Speaker 2: as we begin the morning show?
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  Speaker 1: I notice your hat looks a little bit different. Do
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  Speaker 1: not refer to it as a hat. Sorry, your beret.
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  Speaker 1: Your beret looks a little bit different. My apologies.
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  Speaker 3: That beanie?
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  Speaker 1: Or a tam. You know, if it had the little
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  Speaker 1: twister on top, it would be called a tam. It
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  Speaker 1: looks a little fresher. Well, let me give you the
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  Speaker 1: origin of this.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Larry, remember we joined all our colleagues at iHeart, sales, promotions,
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  Speaker 2: all the shows, all the morning shows were present. And
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  Speaker 2: I was publicly humiliated and embarrassed in front of our
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  Speaker 2: colleagues because Elvis Duran of Z100, while surrounded by his posse,
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  Speaker 2: looked at me and pointed because he had seen that
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  Speaker 2: the sales department had a Halloween party the night before
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  Speaker 2: and they were wearing red berets. And he goes, gee,
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  Speaker 2: the red berets on the sales department seem to be
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  Speaker 2: so much better than yours. I noticed, Curtis, you have
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  Speaker 2: your red satin jacket and a dingy, dirty, what color
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  Speaker 2: is that beret?
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  Speaker 3: See, I like the old beret. I liked the old beret.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, what do they call it in fashion
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  Speaker 3: when a beret, a distressed.
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  Speaker 1: It was distressed. It had life to it. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you've been a few places. You're right, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: But I made the classic mistake of telling my wife, Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: who is a groupie of Elvis Duran and his show, that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, your hero humiliated me today. And she goes,
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  Speaker 2: over what? And then I explained, you know, that he, he,
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  Speaker 2: Basically said I need a new red beret. And so
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  Speaker 2: when I go to sleep at 10 at night, I
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  Speaker 2: wake up at 1.30 in the morning and I begin
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  Speaker 2: to do my show prep because that's the quietest time
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  Speaker 2: of the day it is for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking around for my red beret. Gone. Gone. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a panic. You know, this is like you
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  Speaker 1: just lost your wallet, right? I'm tossing everything.
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  Speaker 2: She probably disposed of it, incinerated it. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: And then there was the backup beret. The backup beret
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  Speaker 2: was out and I said, oh man, how could she
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  Speaker 2: do that to me? And so now I have to
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  Speaker 2: style and profile and break in a brand new red beret.
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  Speaker 3: Here's why you should feel okay about it. Because I
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  Speaker 3: will be honest to God, honest with you. I didn't notice.
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  Speaker 3: When you came in, I didn't notice that it was
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  Speaker 3: a different beret. And if he didn't tell you, Chris,
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  Speaker 3: now you be honest now, if he didn't tell you
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  Speaker 3: it had changed, would you have noticed?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't notice before he said something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, see?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like maybe throughout the span of the show
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  Speaker 5: of the morning, I might have figured it out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're barely awake for the span.
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  Speaker 2: Of the show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even though I love the support you have
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  Speaker 2: lent me in this issue against my wife and Elvis Duran,
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  Speaker 2: when is the last time you were at an eye
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  Speaker 2: check at the Department of Motor Vehicles?
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  Speaker 1: Because, I mean, it's a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: Is it really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's big.
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  Speaker 3: I really, honest to God, this isn't like a bet.
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  Speaker 3: Honest to God, I didn't notice the difference, and I
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  Speaker 3: still don't.
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  Speaker 1: There was wear on, like, the seams of his old one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it that way. I like it that way. But, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the wife has prevailed because of Elvis Durant.
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  Speaker 1: Part two.
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  Speaker 2: I walked into a Chase Bank yesterday. I had to
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  Speaker 2: get documents notarized, a whole series of documents. And I
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  Speaker 2: had the old torn and tried and true Red Beret
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  Speaker 2: on my head. So a young man is notarizing it.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, you know, we saw that video you
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  Speaker 2: put up about mailbox theft because it's systemic everywhere. And
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  Speaker 2: he goes, you know, most of my day is spent
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  Speaker 2: with people like you.
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  Speaker 1: I know what he meant. My age, you know, boomers.
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  Speaker 2: Walking in here screaming because their checks were stolen that
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  Speaker 2: they sent in the mail. And the first thing I
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  Speaker 2: tell them is, don't mail your checks in the mailbox. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is your generation, Chris. Telling my generation, don't trust
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  Speaker 2: the blue mailbox. Don't put checks or things of value
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  Speaker 2: in the mailbox. You know, bring it, as he said,
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  Speaker 2: bring it to the post office or give it to
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  Speaker 2: your postal carrier. He said people still insist on writing checks.
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  Speaker 2: They're angry at me. I'm warning them, even though I
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  Speaker 2: got to try to track down these checks. Even our
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  Speaker 2: own Natalie Migliore. has said that her parents are old school.
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  Speaker 2: They write checks.
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  Speaker 1: They mail checks.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how many times she tells them and her
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  Speaker 2: sister tells them, you know, there's a good chance that
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  Speaker 2: check may not arrive where it's supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, you could be a victim of theft. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: They keep writing checks and mailing them. This is your thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've been on this now for a while.
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  Speaker 2: This is a crusade. It's a campaign.
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  Speaker 3: You should call your hand-holding friend, Mom Donnie, and see
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  Speaker 3: if you can do a PSA.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he wants people not to have the mail-in
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  Speaker 1: votes counted, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's the elderly vote.
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  Speaker 3: He wants them stolen. I got it. It's the only
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  Speaker 3: vote that he didn't win, the elderly vote.
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  Speaker 2: But in reality, there's five days left of voting. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care who you're voting for. I want you to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to do it by mail-in votes,
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  Speaker 2: because now you're really pressing it. You know, normally it
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  Speaker 2: might take the U.S. Postal Service three days to deliver
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  Speaker 2: a ballot. It has to be delivered by the time
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  Speaker 2: your balloting ends, whether in New Jersey or New York
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  Speaker 2: on election night. We don't have the extended afterwards, like California,
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  Speaker 2: what is it, 300 days the mail-in ballot.
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  Speaker 1: Can arrive afterwards.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Then it can be added to the account. So please
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  Speaker 2: bring your mail-in ballot to your local post office or
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  Speaker 2: give it to your postal carrier. Do not put it
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  Speaker 2: in the blue mailbox because of all the theft that's
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  Speaker 2: taking place.
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  Speaker 3: This brings up a lot of really interesting questions. Do
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  Speaker 3: you use the mail anymore? When was the last time
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  Speaker 3: you and your generation mailed a letter? Me personally, like
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  Speaker 3: a letter, I don't use the mail very often.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes when I sell clothes online, I'll go to the
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  Speaker 5: post office and drop it off.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a second. You sell clothes online?
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  Speaker 5: Not regularly, but some of the old things in my closet.
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  Speaker 5: I've made a couple hundred dollars over a year.
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  Speaker 3: Like on eBay? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Not eBay specifically, but a site similar to that that's
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  Speaker 5: just for clothes, like secondhand clothes. When I have things
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  Speaker 5: that I've gone through my closet, I'm like, I haven't
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  Speaker 5: worn this.
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  Speaker 1: In three years.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't bring your tip to that?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: This?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this shirt? Yeah, I just got this, like, a
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  Speaker 1: few months ago. Let me ask you a question. The strokes, man.
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  Speaker 2: You don't go through your closet and then say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give this to Goodwill or the shop.
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  Speaker 5: No, there are certain things that I give to Goodwill.
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  Speaker 5: And then there are certain things, like, it's usually, like,
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  Speaker 5: old sports jerseys. I have old sports jerseys. And I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I could get, like, 30, 40 bucks for this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: I give hundreds of dollars to Goodwill. I give so
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  Speaker 3: much to Goodwill. Just the special ones I sell. There
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  Speaker 3: you go. Now, we're immersed in marathon coverage.
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  Speaker 2: Larry and Natalie will be taking it from beginning to
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  Speaker 2: end on Sunday. But yesterday, a specialist at Northwell Staten
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  Speaker 2: Island University Hospital published his research.
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  Speaker 1: Remember about 60 years ago, Larry?
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was a teenager, and they were telling
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  Speaker 2: older people at that time, you need to take 10,000
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  Speaker 2: steps a day.
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  Speaker 1: You'll live a long life. You'll have less problems.
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  Speaker 2: 10 000 steps a day well this guy the specialist
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  Speaker 2: at northwell staten island university hospital said you know that
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  Speaker 2: would take you two hours of walking every day.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody took that seriously nobody took that seriously did you
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  Speaker 3: oh you probably do 10 000 steps anyway yeah yeah
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  Speaker 3: yeah it didn't affect me you didn't even count no
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  Speaker 3: no i don't i don't know anybody that saw that
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  Speaker 3: and said i gotta get my 10 000 steps and
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  Speaker 3: i know people that walk every day which just to
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  Speaker 3: keep an elf you know but I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 3: ever took that seriously.
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  Speaker 1: What's he saying?
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  Speaker 4: How many?
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  Speaker 2: He said taking fewer than 2,000 steps is considered sedentary,
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  Speaker 2: meaning you're inactive. You're more subject to have medical issues.
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  Speaker 2: So he said try to get it up to like 5,000, 6,000, 7,000,
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  Speaker 2: and in smaller increments. Don't try to take on too
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  Speaker 2: much at one time. But it's still, look, most people
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  Speaker 2: are not going to run a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: Most people are not going to run. or jog.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the best alternative for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our listeners out there is get out and just start
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  Speaker 2: walking around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of people, especially older walking. I
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  Speaker 3: think that message has gotten through, but if it didn't anybody,
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  Speaker 3: they should get out and walk. And here's what I
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  Speaker 3: want to know about the, uh, about the post office.
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  Speaker 3: How many of you are still mailing letters in a mailbox?
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  Speaker 3: It'd be interesting because I don't think I have in
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  Speaker 3: a while. I usually had to go to the post
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  Speaker 3: office or just do it online. That's a pretty interesting question. Also,
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  Speaker 3: is there a piece of clothing that you're so attached
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  Speaker 3: to that you will not get rid of it, like
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  Speaker 3: the beret that was thrown in the trash?
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  Speaker 2: If I know my wife, Nancy, she disposed of it
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  Speaker 2: way away from the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: See, he could have sold that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That would fetch some money.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no question.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you see, unlike you, you uber-capitalist looking to
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  Speaker 2: make money, I would have donated it to a charity.
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  Speaker 2: You know how sometimes they'll have it before the charity event.
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  Speaker 2: They'll have different things showcased. How much will you bid
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  Speaker 2: for this?
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  Speaker 3: Auction it off. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can auction it. Yeah, somebody else can make
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  Speaker 1: money from it.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what you said.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Somebody's selling it. It doesn't have to be him
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  Speaker 1: selling it. A church could sell it.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, probably like a squirrel, you know, hiding nuts, has
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  Speaker 2: hid it somewhere. But that's a great idea. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to say to you, look, I give up. No mas,
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  Speaker 2: no mas. I got to wear the new beret. But please,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of charities, animal welfare charities.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: That we subscribe to.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you donate my beret to them so they
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  Speaker 2: can auction it off?
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  Speaker 3: That's a way to get your old beret back.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: You just say, hey, I need it back because I
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  Speaker 3: want to auction it off. for a pet charity or
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  Speaker 3: a dog charity or something, and she'll go for that
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  Speaker 3: cat charity. Yeah, but she'll do it herself. She'll say,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not giving it to you. His hands are never
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  Speaker 3: touching that beret again. Yeah, she's way too smart for that. Well,
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  Speaker 3: there's so much going on with the midterm, so much
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  Speaker 3: going on with Donald Trump traveling around the country. And
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  Speaker 3: of course, we have that scandal playing out in Alaska
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  Speaker 3: that we just told you about a moment ago. That's
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  Speaker 3: why we're fortunate to have John Decker. John Decker is
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  Speaker 3: the WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of
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  Speaker 3: the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
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  Speaker 3: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. And John,
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  Speaker 3: we're fortunate to have you this morning because I know
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  Speaker 3: you traveled with the president to Alaska. You interviewed him there.
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  Speaker 3: And there was rumblings about this potential scandal that the
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  Speaker 3: Peltoa campaign kept saying, no, no, no, that's ridiculous. And
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  Speaker 3: now we find out from the New York Times that
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  Speaker 3: it may be all true. What did you hear when
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  Speaker 3: you were there? And are you surprised at this outcome?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not surprised by the outcome and the reporting
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  Speaker 4: in the New York Times, which has not been matched
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  Speaker 4: by anybody. That's because this reporter was so good. He
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  Speaker 4: has all of his sources locked up in terms of
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  Speaker 4: this story. And do I have any doubts about the
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  Speaker 4: veracity of this story?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Now, when I was out in Alaska, Senator Dan Sullivan,
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  Speaker 4: who I interviewed, spoke about this. He believed that there
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  Speaker 4: was essentially dirty tricks being perpetrated by the Peltola campaign
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  Speaker 4: as it relates to the constituent named Dan Sullivan also running.
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  Speaker 4: And the Peltola campaign denied any such involvement in Dan Sullivan,
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  Speaker 4: the constituent, wanting to run for the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate.
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  Speaker 4: I think that this has a major impact on that race.
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  Speaker 4: And I say that thinking before that story came out
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  Speaker 4: that Mary Peltola was going to win that race. And
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  Speaker 4: she may still win that race. Remember, they have a
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  Speaker 4: lot of early voting there. A lot of votes have
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  Speaker 4: already been cast. So this story may not have the
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  Speaker 4: kind of impact that it would have had had it
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  Speaker 4: come out, let's say, two months ago. But it will
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  Speaker 4: have an impact. And in a very close race, I
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  Speaker 4: think it will have a negative impact on Mary Peltola.
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  Speaker 4: And as a result, I think that Dan Sullivan is
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  Speaker 4: going to eke out a victory in that race.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, John Decker, I see people who are running around
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  Speaker 2: the White House extolling the virtues of the New York Times.
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  Speaker 1: Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize. I thought for all these years
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  Speaker 1: it was fake news.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. They're a Pulitzer Prize-worthy news organization when they come
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  Speaker 4: out with a story that benefits the administration, right? That's
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  Speaker 4: what we're seeing here. This was great reporting on the
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  Speaker 4: part of this reporter. I think there's just one reporter
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  Speaker 4: involved in this, and boy, he really was able to
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  Speaker 4: track things down. He even had a former campaign manager
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  Speaker 4: for Mary Peltola actually go on the record and talk
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  Speaker 4: about how the Peltola campaign was involved. in looking for
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  Speaker 4: an individual.
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  Speaker 1: In the voter rolls who had.
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  Speaker 4: The same name as the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 4: And they got somebody, this person from a remote fishing
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  Speaker 4: village in Alaska, to decide to run for the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 4: He got 2.5% of the vote in the primary, but
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  Speaker 4: that was enough to move him on to the general
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  Speaker 4: election where the top four finishers are competing. And so
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  Speaker 4: we'll see. We'll see ultimately what happens. next Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a while, by the way, for us
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  Speaker 4: to know who wins that particular race. And the reason
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  Speaker 4: I say that is based upon what happened in the primary.
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  Speaker 4: It takes a while to count votes from certain remote
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  Speaker 4: parts of Alaska. And to get a final vote count,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to take a few days.
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  Speaker 3: What I really loved about the story, and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to appreciate this, is not only a journalist, but an attorney.
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  Speaker 3: was how a few of the people that were involved
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  Speaker 3: and the sources that were involved, especially the named sources
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  Speaker 3: like the campaign manager, tried to pull out at the
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  Speaker 3: very end. And the New York Times wrote that entire thing,
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  Speaker 3: that why they weren't going to allow it to be
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  Speaker 3: pulled out and why they tried to pull out. I
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  Speaker 3: thought that was fascinating. Not only was it a good read,
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  Speaker 3: but it is also smart on their part because it
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  Speaker 3: stakes their claim higher. to this is why we did
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  Speaker 3: it and this is why it's legal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just straight shooting with the readers explaining what
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  Speaker 4: happened behind the scenes. Those individuals went on the record.
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  Speaker 4: On the record, they cooperated with the reporter in going
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  Speaker 4: on the record describing what happened, describing how this constituent
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  Speaker 4: named Dan Sullivan ultimately was recruited to run for this
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  Speaker 4: Senate seat. And I think that that's a good thing
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  Speaker 4: for a news organization, trying to win credibility with readers
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  Speaker 4: and maintain its credibility. And the New York Times did
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  Speaker 4: a good job in terms of doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, John Decker, if I had invested in Cheesecake Factory stock,
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably be swimming in dough. The two superstars of
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  Speaker 2: their respective parties, President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 2: can't stop talking about Cheesecake Factory when attacking one another,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: including even the Treasury Secretary went to the local Cheesecake
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Factory there in the greater D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Area. Have you ever seen anything like this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have, because, you know, both Barack Obama and
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, it's pretty clear, they're not fans of one another.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: And in the 2024 campaign for president, in the 2016
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: campaign for president, in the 2020 campaign for president. They
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: both said unflattering things about each other. They do not
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: hide their dislike for each other. So no, it doesn't
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: surprise me at all. And, you know, you have to
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: go back all the way to when President Barack Obama
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: was in the White House as president, that White House
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Correspondents Dinner, in which he devoted pretty much his entire
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner to insulting a
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: private citizen named Donald J. Trump.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: You know, you're a veteran at the White House. You've
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: been through several administrations. And I know you've been through
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: these scenarios that we're about to see where an opposing
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: party either takes one of the chambers of Congress or
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: both of them and what that means. So what can
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: we expect from your experience over the next couple of
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: years in both of those scenarios? They take one, they
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: take the House, and the Democrats I'm talking about take
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: the House and then lose the Senate, or if they
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: win both?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, if you had asked me yesterday before
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: this news regarding the New York Times story about the
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Peltola campaign, I would have said that I think the
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Democrats will win both the House and the Senate. So
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I think the Alaska race changes things in terms of
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: my calculations. I think that after the midterms, Democrats will
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: control the House, they won't control the Senate, but it
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: will be a very narrow majority. And also keep in mind,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I think Susan Collins is going to win. And she
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: is one of those independent-minded Republicans, along with Lisa Murkowski,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: which means that the president cannot always count on a
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: unified Republican Party to support all of his nominations, for instance.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: So it's not as simple as just saying, you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: one is controlled by the House, the House is controlled
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: by the Democrats and the Senate is controlled by Republicans.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a really narrow victory
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: for Republicans in the Senate in particular. What it means?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: It means that the president's legislative agenda will stall. He
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: can't get things through Congress. And as a result, I
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: think it's going to frustrate him. The other day, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: asked the president about this, Larry. I asked the president,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: are you prepared for political gridlock after the midterms? And
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: You know, the president, I think it's so interesting because
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: for most politicians, you ask that question, Larry and Curtis,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: they say, I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals. First
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: of all, we're going to win. I'm not going to
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: talk about a hypothetical situation. The president actually took the
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: question on and he said, well, if we lose, he
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: actually said it, if we lose, it will mean that
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I will veto everything that comes my way if Democrats
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: control both houses of Congress. And then that will force them,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the president told me, to compromise, to compromise on legislation.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: So the president's prepared for that possibility. The president's prepared
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: for being bipartisan. Bipartisanship should Republicans lose control of both
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the House and the Senate.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: John, the president is on his way to South Carolina.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: He should take residency there because of all the golf
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: courses in Myrtle Beach. Why is he there so much?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: This Graham campaign seems to be losing the support of
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: some well-known Republicans.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Well, you're right. So Ralph Norman is a congressman, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: he was in that runoff Republican Senate primary against Darlene Graham.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: And he lost. And he's still really angry about it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: He's in his early 70s. He spent his whole life
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: in Republican Party politics. He saw this as a great
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: opportunity to finally be a U.S. senator. And then what
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: does President Donald Trump do? He says, I'm endorsing someone
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: who's never been a politician, the sister of Lindsey Graham.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: And that's angered his family in particular. His entire family
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: has publicly said, we are voting for Annie Andrews, the
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: opponent of Darlene Graham. I don't know if that impacts
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the way other Republicans feel or the way the supporters
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: of Ralph Norman feel, but the president is very nervous.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: This race has gotten very close. There's been polling which
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: shows that the race is now tied statistically, and the
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: president feels it's necessary to go down to South Carolina
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: for another time to help out Darlene Graham with another
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: campaign rally.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Well, you made a couple of predictions. You talked about
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan and you talked about Maine. What do you
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: think about Michigan and Texas?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Two different things. So I think that it's interesting that
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you asked me that question, Larry, because I think that
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: of these two states, it's where both parties have flawed candidates.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Republicans have a flawed candidate in Texas with Ken Paxton
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: for all of the scandals and political baggage that he has.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: And Democrats have a flawed candidate in Abdul El-Sayed for
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: all the reasons that we know. His support of Hassan Piker,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: his campaigning with Hassan Piker, the things that he said
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: out on the campaign trail even before running for the U.S. Senate.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I think that in Texas, that's going to be the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: big surprise of this election cycle, because a Democrat hasn't
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: won statewide since 19... What's her name? Governor....
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Help me out here.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Early 90s. Ann Richards? Ann Richards. Thank you so much, Larry.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Since Ann Richards won statewide, that's going back to the
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: early 90s. But I think that James Tallarico is going
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: to pull out a victory there. I talked to so
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: many Texas Republicans when I was down at the Republican...
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: midterm convention in early September. And they told me, this candidate,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: their candidate, Ken Paxton, is so bad. They told me
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: at that time, he's just not going to win. So
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I think that that's going to be the surprise of
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: this midterm election. As it relates to Michigan, I know
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: what the betting markets say. The betting markets say Abdul
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Sayed is going to win. I know what the polls say.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: They say Abdul El-Sayed's going to win. I think they're wrong.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I think that Mike Rogers is going to win that
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: race And it's because El-Sayed is a flawed candidate for
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: all the reasons that we know. And so, interestingly enough,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: it will be a pickup, the way I see it,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: for Democrats in Texas and a pickup for Republicans in
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: the state of Michigan.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Wow, that was great, John. I'll tell you what, I've
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: always avoided asking you about races and who you thought
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: was going to win because I thought you wouldn't answer.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: But man, that analysis was perfect. Way to go. That
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: was great. Well, I say way to go. You've been
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: doing this for years. John Decker, WR, White House, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Briefing Room, with John Decker, which can be found on
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, John. That was fascinating.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Bye-bye. So Curtis, as you know, it's a big year
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: for the TCS New York City Marathon as we celebrate
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the 50th anniversary of the first Five Barrow Marathon. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: joining us now is Rob Similcare. He is the CEO
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: of the New York City Roadrunners. He's been working around
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the clock. That's the organization, by the way, the Roadrunners,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: behind the TCS New York City Marathon. Hey, Rob, thanks
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: for joining us. What does this milestone anniversary mean for
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: the race, mean for the city, and everyone who was
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a part of the incredible history? Thank you.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: It's great to be with you again. Thanks for being
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: with us. And we wanted to make a really big
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: deal of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Five Borough
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: New York City Marathon. And It's been really great. We've
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: seen how people have embraced it because the city loves it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: It's the best day of the year in New York City.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: The idea of a five borough marathon, it may seem
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: obvious now, but back in 1975 and 76, when they
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: were kind of cooking this idea up and trying to
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: get the city on board with it, it was kind
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: of a crazy idea. No city, no big city had
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: ever really done anything anything like this. Boston had the
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Boston Marathon for sure, but that's a little bit of
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: a different situation. The Boston Marathon starts out way out
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: of Boston, outside the city in the suburbs, and gradually
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: works its way in. But there had never been a
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: city the scale of New York that did a street
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: marathon like this. The marathon used to do loops in
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Central Park in the years before it moved to the
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: five boroughs. So we're celebrating the people who had the
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: idea originally, Ted Corbett, the original president of New York
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Roadrunners and an Olympic marathoner himself. He was the first
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: to really say, what if we made this a five-barrel marathon?
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: But others thought it was crazy. Then you had Percy Sutton,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: who was the Manhattan Borough President at the time. He
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: heard the idea and said, actually, I think we can
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: make this happen. And he had the political connections to
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: go to the mayor, Abe Beam, at the time to
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: pitch this idea. And Mayor Beam said, you know what?
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: I think we can do this. At the time, Larry,
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: that they agreed to do it in 76, it was
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: going to be a one-time thing to celebrate the bicentennial
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: of the United States. So this wasn't even meant to
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: be an every-year thing. But it turned out to be
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: so special that they did it again and again. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: the other, you know, what we call the trailblazers were
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: George Spitz, who kind of had the political connections. George Hirsch,
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: who's still with us, the only one of the pioneers
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: of the trailblazers who's still with us, who, you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: helped get the publicity and helped raise the money for it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: And then, of course, Fred LeBeau.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Who was the longtime race director of this as well.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And everybody knows.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: About the marathon and how important it is to not
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: only the racing community, but to New York City and
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: how it's grown to be the biggest of the marathons,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: a global event.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: But what people don't realize, I think, or at least
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: us in the media don't talk about it enough, is
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: how much money you've raised because of your partners. And
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: I understand this is the 20th anniversary of of the
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: official charity partner program. So if you can talk about
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: how people can get involved in that and also what
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: it is meant to the marathon.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Well, let's start with how much money you've raised. It's amazing.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: It's become a huge part of the marathon every single year.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: And you're right.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: This is the 20th anniversary of the TCS New York
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: City Marathon Charity Program. And we decided one of the
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: things we wanted to do to commemorate this anniversary was
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: to go really big when it comes to fundraising. And
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: so This year, for the first time ever, we set
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: a goal of raising $ 100 million for charities in this event.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: We've got over 650 nonprofit organizations, a heavy focus on
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: New York-based charities, especially this year. And we're thrilled to
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: be able to report that we're hitting that goal. We
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: just got a report the other day, and we are
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: going to be able to hit that goal. We've actually
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: already crossed that threshold of $ 100 million raised for charities
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: this year So it's an incredible accomplishment. We've got about
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: 15,000 runners in the race this year who are putting
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: meaning to their miles by raising money for this multitude
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: of causes.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And if you're.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Interested in being a part of supporting that, you can
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: either go find a runner who you know is running
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: for a cause or go to our website at nyr.org.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: You'll see all the different charities. One of those charities
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: is Team for Kids, which is our very own charity
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: at New York Roadrunners that helps us put on all
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: the free youth events, and all the programs we have
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: for kids and adults, including this past weekend, the weekend
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: before the marathon, when we had almost 5,000 kids in
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: all five boroughs running in the TCS New York City
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Marathon Kids Kickoff, a totally free running event for all
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: these kids and families that was really helping us create
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: that next generation of marathon runners.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: You know, you talked about the hundred million for this year,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: but you've been doing this for a while and it's
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: grown every single year. The number, the amount of money
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: you've raised since this started is astronomical. And my understanding
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: is it's 700 million. Is that right?
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's right. And it's, it's grown every year.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: You know, it's, it's been, it's just a huge part
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: of what has, I say this marathon has changed the world.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: It really has changed the world. It has changed countless lives.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: We've had over a million people finish this race over
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: the years since it started. Those lives were changed and
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: think of the lives that were changed by all that
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: fundraising as well. The nonprofits that were able to take
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: that money and turn it into helping people in a
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: myriad of different ways. There are organizations that are fighting disease,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: there are organizations that are helping people get educated, that
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: are helping with homelessness and other social issues. Everything you
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: can think of is represented within that group of 650
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: nonprofits we've got in the program this year.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the reasons the marathon is so special
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: to New York, and I didn't realize this, and thank
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: you so much for allowing 710WOR and myself and everybody
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: here to be a part of the marathon, the small
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: part of the marathon. It's when I'm in a hotel
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: staying overnight for the next morning and I get to
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: meet all the people around the world. that have saved
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: all year for this moment. This is a pinnacle for them.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: So you have made dreams come true for tens of
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: thousands of people, and it's still growing. How many people
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: are running this year?
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: We expect, Larry, about 60,000 finishers this year. We're always
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: waiting to see how things play out with who cancels.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: People are canceling right up to the last day before
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: the marathon, so we track that number. But right now
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: we're expecting over 60,000. That'll be the first time in
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: the history of the event.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Rob Similcare, New York Roadrunners Chief Executive Officer, the organization
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: that puts on the TCS New York City Marathon. Thank
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: you so much for your time.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Appreciate it.