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Hour 1: Where was James Talarico? · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Larry, Natalie, our audience. What a Columbus Day parade
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  Speaker 1: up Fifth Avenue yesterday. The weather couldn't be better. Tremendous turnout,
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  Speaker 1: especially from Jersey groups. An inordinate number. I'm there every year,
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  Speaker 1: so I get a pretty good idea who shows up.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of Jersey groups, a lot of Jersey groups.
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  Speaker 1: And it was really, I think, in response to two things.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, two weeks before the mayoral election, Team Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: was assembling what would have been the largest contingent ever
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  Speaker 1: for the parade. I mean, they had a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: They were flush with cash, hiring people, Italian-Americans. They were
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  Speaker 1: going to storm up Fifth Avenue. And they were surging
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  Speaker 1: in the polls at that time, except Larry and Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: a tsunami hit. First time ever, the Christopher Columbus parade
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  Speaker 1: was canceled. So everybody who had gone last year had
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  Speaker 1: to pack up their bags and go home. So they
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  Speaker 1: were like itching to be able to come out. And
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  Speaker 1: now the fact that Zoran Mondami, who's done everything to
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  Speaker 1: disparage Christopher Columbus, giving them the finger to the statue
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  Speaker 1: near where he lived and represented Astoria, would not attend
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  Speaker 1: any of the festivals, not even Italian heritage festivals. He
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  Speaker 1: basically distant dismissed Italians. They turned out in force, not
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  Speaker 1: only in the parade, but But along the barriers, because
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  Speaker 1: normally it's a long parade. You start at 44th Street.
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  Speaker 1: You start going up Fifth Avenue. You pass St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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  Speaker 1: You go all the way up to 70th Street. And
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  Speaker 1: for a while there, once you got past 59th Street,
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  Speaker 1: once you passed the Plaza Hotel, it got thin. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd got thin. Not this time. The crowd was thick.
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  Speaker 1: And they were there because they wanted a vent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: wanted a vent against Zoran. Zoran wasn't there. So the
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  Speaker 1: first groups that were marching up, you had Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: She got booed along the way. Tish James, the attorney general,
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  Speaker 1: she actually got the most boos because, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: her alone existence is to be the bane to Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump prosecuting him. She's hoping in the future if a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat wins in 2028, she'll be selected. God forbid. The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: attorney general says she in her alone debate against the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: she was bashing Trump. And then Tom DiNapoli, the controller,
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  Speaker 1: nobody booed him.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew who he was?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they know who he is, but he's been there forever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Plus, he's a paisan. Didn't applaud, really?
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  Speaker 1: Just.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, they were respectful. Oh, there he is. Okay, hi.
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  Speaker 1: They were respectful.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: But it was telling, because Zohan Nadia, his surrogate, is
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  Speaker 1: Governor Hochul, and so she had to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: slings and arrows and the boos all along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it. I saw that part of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I saw? You know where I saw
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  Speaker 2: the parade and they showed the people being booed and
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  Speaker 2: all that on CBS last night? Yes. I saw it
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  Speaker 2: on CBS. You know who else was on? Who's that?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, where's the mayor? The mayor should be here. All
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  Speaker 1: parades matter. See, that was my tagline in the first
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  Speaker 1: debate between Cuomo, Zora, and myself at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the debate. Zoran would not commit to going to festivals
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  Speaker 1: and parades. And I tagged that line at hashtag all
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  Speaker 1: parades matter.
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  Speaker 2: But right off the bat, you led the beast. That
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  Speaker 2: was it. They threw to the video. That's what came up.
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  Speaker 1: If Cuomo had been there and he's been MIA, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's busy. Just paid $ 10 million in cash for his
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  Speaker 1: mansion out next to Fredo, Chris Cuomo out in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even hang out in New York City anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So I was the go-to guy. And boy, what a
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  Speaker 1: great reception in the parade. You see, I waited in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Once every entourage passed through, the politicians, then
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  Speaker 1: obviously the cultural groups. That's how I knew how many
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  Speaker 1: Jersey groups, you know, from Garfield and Bloomfield and you
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  Speaker 1: name it. Every field in New Jersey was represented by Italians.
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  Speaker 1: It was really good. And they're big listeners, Larry, big
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  Speaker 1: listeners to WR. And again, I also used it as
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  Speaker 1: a focus group because I didn't walk until the last contingents.
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  Speaker 1: And so it gave me a chance as people were
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  Speaker 1: coming up, you know, taking pictures, telling me how they
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  Speaker 1: had abandoned WABC because they were saying also, Gee, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if I wanted to listen to what's going on in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be listening to WABC. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are great. You cover all the issues. And they were
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  Speaker 1: going on and on. And they liked the fact that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they throw a little Italian in, a little Bades in.
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  Speaker 1: It was really a good day for WOR. We had
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  Speaker 1: our own Matt Lee interview. Natalie Magliore, she was out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to play her cutbacks. Got so many Natalies here,
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  Speaker 1: it's confusing. There's so many Natalies. And then Nadia Comaneci
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  Speaker 1: doing the news. That's confusing to me. All these Natalies. See,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be careful because my wife's name starts
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  Speaker 1: with N, Nancy. That's right. And I can't mention any
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  Speaker 1: of you women. As a mistake, the worst thing you
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  Speaker 1: could do with your wife. Call her the wrong name? Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of your exes or any, like, well, who is Nadia?
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  Speaker 1: Who is, what?
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  Speaker 2: Nadia, who is Nadia?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who is Nadia? Nadia Comaneci, a gymnast from Romania. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: she won gold medals. A crush on her when you
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  Speaker 1: were a kid or something? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That name sticks out. I didn't mean to laugh, but
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard Natalie before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first time. You've messed up her name
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  Speaker 2: a bunch, but never heard Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: But she was out there working the crowd, doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job. We'll hear from her at 754. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you, it was such a great day
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  Speaker 1: of Italian pride and Italian culture on view. Not so
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  Speaker 1: much talk about Columbus. You know, Christopher Columbus, he had
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  Speaker 1: like a mixed card, but more about contributions of Italian
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  Speaker 1: Americans over the years. So I was proud to be
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  Speaker 1: representing 710WOR. And man, we were getting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: positive feedback as people were very disturbed with WABC because
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  Speaker 1: all Israel, all the time, you know, Islam versus Jews,
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  Speaker 1: mandami to terrorists, sort of tied to that. So they're
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  Speaker 1: coming on over. And it's been proven in the ratings.
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  Speaker 1: And coming on over, that's another good sign. Another great
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  Speaker 1: focus group.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's wonderful. You know, Mamdani really confuses me. There's
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  Speaker 2: a cockiness about this guy. Like, he doesn't need certain people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the attitude he seems to have. He
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  Speaker 2: seems to have, I don't need them. They didn't elect me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need them. I'll win re-election without them. Which isn't–
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  Speaker 2: when you're mayor, when you become mayor, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: put that aside. When you become mayor, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: represent everybody. And if this is important to them, it
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  Speaker 2: should be important to you. And kudos– I've never said
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  Speaker 2: this before. Kudos to Kathy Hochul and kudos to Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: They knew they were going to get booed. They knew it,
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  Speaker 2: and they still marched. Yeah, they smile, and they act oblivious.
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  Speaker 2: What I don't like is all the politicians now most,
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  Speaker 2: they have a rope in front of them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they have police with a rope, so you can't even
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  Speaker 2: get near them, which is ridiculous. I mean, a rope?
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  Speaker 1: Come on. This is the Columbus Day Parade.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't Hochul have a rope?
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  Speaker 1: She had a rope. You know who started this? Eric Adams,
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  Speaker 1: for some strange reason. He had a rope, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're all doing the rope.
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  Speaker 2: It looks weird.
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  Speaker 1: So what goes on? Two people hold two ends of
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  Speaker 1: the rope and kind of walk along with her.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen this?
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  Speaker 3: No, I have, but I just want to describe it
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  Speaker 3: to people, for people who haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not meant to keep crazies out. It's meant to
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  Speaker 1: keep Larry journalists like yourself away from them. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be bothered having to answer questions while they're
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  Speaker 1: being booed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing is the rope is right on them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They keep moving with the rope, so it doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: keep anyone away. So if you've noticed during the parade,
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  Speaker 2: reporters kept going up, and they still needed people to
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  Speaker 2: push them away. The rope doesn't do a thing. It
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  Speaker 2: just looks silly. You look like barn animals.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever see those big.
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  Speaker 2: inflatable bubbles that you could go into and you roll
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  Speaker 2: in it. They should just put them in the big bubbles.
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  Speaker 2: They could just roll through the parade. I would go.
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  Speaker 2: If they wouldn't do that, I would go to the
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  Speaker 2: Columbus parade.
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  Speaker 1: The best one.
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  Speaker 2: Waving.
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  Speaker 1: In its last four years was Comrade Bill de Blasio,
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  Speaker 1: the part-time mayor, the dope from Park Slope, was smoking
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  Speaker 1: Maui Waui and Hindu Kush at night. Part-time mayor. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: get up until like, uh, 10.30, 11 o'clock, went to
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  Speaker 1: do a workout at a YMCA in Park Slope, even
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  Speaker 1: though he was in Gracie Mansion. Lucky if he put
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  Speaker 1: in six hours a day. He speaks Italian well. His
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  Speaker 1: mother is from Provincia in the north there. So he's
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  Speaker 1: got the roots. The only problem with him is he
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  Speaker 1: did something that trumped it with Sarah Palin. When Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Palin became the vice presidential candidate of John McCain, unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 1: She came right to Times Square in Familia, which is
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  Speaker 1: the big chain, pizza chain. It's owned by Albanians. They
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  Speaker 1: provided pizza, and Trump was hosting her. Sarah Palin ate
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  Speaker 1: the slice the way you're supposed to. You know, folded it.
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  Speaker 1: Trump ate it with a knife and a fork. like
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  Speaker 1: de Blasio did when he went to Goodfellas on Highland
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard in Staten Island. He said, well, we're from the north.
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  Speaker 1: We eat it with a knife and a fork. But truly,
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  Speaker 1: he had Italian roots. Last four years, he marched in
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus State Parades. He got booed unmercifully. He deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: He was oblivious, waving as if he had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the middle finger meant, what all the Italian curses meant. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're number one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're number one.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to show its part. In fact, remember recently,
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  Speaker 1: when Zoran was booed at that night memorial on October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the friendly Jewish group that invited him there and
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  Speaker 1: then the pro-Palestinians came and booed him. Remember when he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what I signed up for. Exactly. When
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  Speaker 1: you sign up and you're the mayor... You've got to
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  Speaker 1: try to be at all these festivals and parades, if
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  Speaker 1: at all humanly possible. But he has figured out Italians
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  Speaker 1: used to be 14% of the population in the five boroughs.
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  Speaker 1: Most of them now are in Staten Italy, Staten Island,
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  Speaker 1: where Natalie was from. Now they're only 6% of the vote.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so it's not a big voting group. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to vote for Zola. How pathetic is that?
• 10:44
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  Speaker 2: to be really excited about this next story. Remember we
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  Speaker 2: had that rare barn owl up on the west side,
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  Speaker 2: on the upper west side? Remember that? Well, now there's
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  Speaker 2: a whole family of them. A whole family of these
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  Speaker 2: rare owls.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that amazing? I don't know their names. Plus
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  Speaker 2: a chance to see Journey at 825. Now, you'll remember
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about a
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  Speaker 2: rare barn owl being spotted in Manhattan, and the birders
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  Speaker 2: were all excited about it, and people have been going
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  Speaker 2: trying to spot the owl. Well, now, not only are
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  Speaker 2: they going to spot one, they'll spot five. There's a
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  Speaker 2: whole family that are on the Upper West Side, and
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  Speaker 2: the birders couldn't be more excited.
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  Speaker 1: But it's amazing. Five owls.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's seen the five owls before in New York City. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they're nocturnal, so if you want to spot them, here's
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  Speaker 2: where they hang out. They're apparently nesting, because it's a
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  Speaker 2: female owl, a male owl, and it looks like three
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  Speaker 2: young owls. Owlets, do you call them? Yeah, owlets. The
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  Speaker 2: water tower on 76th Street at Central Park West. So
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  Speaker 2: they're easy to spot now. It used to be that
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  Speaker 2: people were trying to find the owl and they were
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  Speaker 2: going all over the Upper West Side. Now you know
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  Speaker 2: where they're nesting. So they're going to nest there. They're nocturnal,
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  Speaker 2: so you have to get out there at dusk if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get a good picture of them. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: all of those birders out there with those long lenses
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  Speaker 2: trying to get a close-up shot of them. And some
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  Speaker 2: of the pictures that have been posted on the Internet
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  Speaker 2: are just gorgeous pictures. There is a real concern, though,
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  Speaker 2: with these owls in the city. And this is the concern.
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  Speaker 2: This is from a woman at the Bird Alliance. Rats
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  Speaker 2: in New York City are often poisoned by rodenticide meant
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  Speaker 2: to kill the rats.
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  Speaker 3: But actually what it does is kill the predators that feed.
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  Speaker 1: On those rats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Jessica Wilson with the Bird Alliance. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer to that would be.
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  Speaker 2: Go out and feed the owls?
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, that was what led to the demise of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous owl of all time, Living Owl, because
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  Speaker 1: obviously it did not supersede what we grew up. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: don't pollute. If you give a hoot, don't pollute.
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  Speaker 2: Hoot the owl. Right, hoot the owl.
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  Speaker 1: With Flockle, Flockle escaped from the Central Park Zoo. We
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  Speaker 1: still don't know if somebody extricated. Yeah, probably that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And lived for a year. And remember, I and Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: we went to the documentary, which was really good. And
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  Speaker 1: it pointed out all the birders who dedicated their life
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  Speaker 1: to tracking Flockle. Because Flockle was not staying in one location.
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  Speaker 1: He would fly all the way to the Lower East Side,
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  Speaker 1: West Side, East Side. He was all around the town.
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  Speaker 1: And it was interesting, the conclusion. Is it better to
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  Speaker 1: be free for a year, unencumbered, or to live your
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  Speaker 1: whole life in a cage. And so the fact would be, imagine,
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  Speaker 1: so you have Papa Owl, you have Mama Owl, you
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  Speaker 1: have three Owlets. Would it be better for them to
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  Speaker 1: live freely even though they're going to survive on the rats,
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  Speaker 1: which are everywhere in the wee hours of the morning?
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  Speaker 1: But some of them have been poisoned or ingested poison,
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  Speaker 1: and that will impact on the neurological system of these owls,
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  Speaker 1: just like he did with Flaco, causing Flaco to fly
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  Speaker 1: into a building, which ultimately led to its death.
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  Speaker 2: These are gorgeous, though. You have to take a look
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  Speaker 2: at the pictures. They are just gorgeous. You'll probably go
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  Speaker 2: up and see them.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, just a question for Curtis.
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  Speaker 5: My son-in-law, he's Italian. He says all these Italian words
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  Speaker 5: that I don't understand. He calls mozzarella mozz and ricotta
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  Speaker 5: and gabagol and all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: His mother yells at him all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, when you.
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  Speaker 5: Speak proper Italian, is it cool to speak like that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. Yes, it's the dialect. So my
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  Speaker 1: background is Bades, but they're the Calabres. They're the hard-headed ones. Napolitano,
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  Speaker 1: they're from Naples. And Siciliano, they're chiches and zips. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: thinks of them as real Italians. They all have their
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  Speaker 1: own little colloquial expressions in the dialect, especially when it
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  Speaker 1: gets to the cursors. But the FCC, they don't even
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  Speaker 1: monitor La Mega, all the Spanish curses over there. They
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  Speaker 1: never would be able to figure out the Italian curses.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. When you do Italian, you get this, like,
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  Speaker 2: dinero lip. Yeah. Oh, you do it on purpose?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It comes from my grandfather. I imitated him. And so
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  Speaker 1: when I say, sfaccino, schivosa.
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  Speaker 6: He does.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino, comes to life in me.
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  Speaker 2: It sounded a little German.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that Steuben Day parade this Saturday, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to give us the overview because nobody pays attention
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  Speaker 1: to that parade, which has a great history. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: the Germans were prejudiced against more than any other immigrant group,
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  Speaker 1: more than any combined.
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  Speaker 2: And Baron von Steuben probably won the American Revolution for us.
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  Speaker 2: So he was an American hero. And he was also
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  Speaker 2: a gay American hero. So they should combine the both parades.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, was he gay?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. He liked the young men in Valley Forge. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 1: Daria.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Mostly sunny, mild, and muggy. That'll be a fun parade.
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  Speaker 7: High 71 degrees, three weeks to the election. The governor
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  Speaker 7: of New York and the Republican who wants a job
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  Speaker 7: are going to meet tonight for their only debate.
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  Speaker 3: Spectrum New York One is hosting the debate in New
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  Speaker 3: Several polls show Governor Hochul with a double-digit lead, with
• 17:24
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• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump on the campaign trail in Ohio last night,
• 17:35
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• 17:38
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• 17:42
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• 17:45
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  Speaker 6: The 48-year-old had been shot and was found next to
• 18:06
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• 18:11
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• 18:14
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  Speaker 7: Pope Leo will undergo surgery today at a hospital in
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• 18:26
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• 18:33
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Up next, the heated race for the Senate in Texas
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: involves Tallarico, MIA. Ten days, he says, because of the flu.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He was up here in New York. I would have
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: held his hand for him to take a flu shot.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that and so much more up next. Wow. Tallarico, Tallarico, Tallarico.
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  Speaker 1: They can make a song out of that. A neck
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and neck race. He's slightly ahead in the polls against Paxton.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And he had taken a trip up to New York
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: City on the 28th and 29th of September. In fact,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: he made a stop here with our sister station, Power
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: 105 with Charlemagne Tha God, who's now also on Netflix.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So It covers the nation, especially it's very black-centric. Remember,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he had survived that very tough primary against Jasmine Crockett,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: who's like out of control, but she was definitely SWA's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: sister with attitude. So he's trying everything to cultivate the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: black folk, because a lot of blacks were saying, no, no,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I don't. like the way you treated Jasmine. So he
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: comes to New York. He goes to a fundraiser with
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: De Niro. De Niro hosts it for him. He's on
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: top of the world. He goes back to Austin. He
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: has the New York blue flu. At least this is
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what he says initially. So He sits in his home
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: in Austin for anywhere from 10 days to two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He is off the radar screen. And you know, in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a nationally watched campaign, if you're gone for even two days, Larry,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the conspiracies begin to emerge.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd he go?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Well, the conspiracies have immersed, and it was from he
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: had a sexually transmitted disease to he had mental health problems.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It was all over the place. And some of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: people that were saying it were saying it on their
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: podcast and on social media as if they had sources
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to tell them this is definitely what happened. And he
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: claims that he just had the flu. And now, because
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: it's become such a big story in Texas— They keep
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: releasing stuff to debunk all of the misinformation they claim
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that's out there. They released, the campaign released, time-stamped, verified
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: home security camera photos showing him at his Austin residence
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: every day from October 1st to October 8th. Wait a second,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that's only seven days. Or eight days.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's interesting. Anywhere from 10 days to two weeks,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he was off the radar screen.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And that only accounts for half of them. And the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Linder Center of Hope, issued an official statement explicitly confirming
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that Tallarico never received treatment at their facility for any
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: mental health problems because somebody said that he was seen
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: going in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, outside Cincinnati, a private plane flew to some landing
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: strip and he went in there for a few days
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: just to get his head together. And they even had
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: apparently a phone conversation with The podcaster kept badgering somebody
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: who answered the phone at this facility. Well, is he there?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Is he there? Is he there? No, no, he's not.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Nobody by that name. Is it possible that he might
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: have checked out? Well, that's a possibility. And that's the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: cut that they use. And, oh, my God, you know
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: who picked up on this? Elon Musk with his millions
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of ex-followers. Megyn Kelly with her millions of followers. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the guy, I couldn't figure out why he would do
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: this because he's the golden boy in California. Especially whoever
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: gets elected mayor there is going to be a disaster.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: He could be in the waiting. Spencer Pratt, he started
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: spreading the rumors. Republicans started spreading the rumors. So now
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: he has a special town hall meeting tomorrow night, Wednesday,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: October 14th, with CNN, partly to clear the air and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: partly to try to call out Paxton into a debate.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Apparently Paxton isn't so... desirous to get into a bait
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: with this guy because he's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: He is pretty good. Paxton's pretty good, too. I mean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Paxton was an attorney general. He's been in courtrooms all
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: his life. I don't know what he is, what exactly
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: he is hiding from. I think that even though the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: polls are close, Paxton's acting like he hasn't won. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I think he's really counting on the Republican vote to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: come out for him. Just the way he's acting is strange.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: But Donald Trump, almost every time he appears anywhere, talks
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: about Telerico. He calls him Telefrico because of some of
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the things he's done in his past. Always makes fun
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: of the fact that he doesn't eat meat in Texas.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's a big deal and says he doesn't like steak.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: But he talked about the illness. You were supposed to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: keep your distance because of COVID. You know, they all
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: had the mask. You know, this guy Telefrico still wears
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: a mask. And he had... The longest flu ever recorded.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: He was away for like almost 14 days. It was.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It was the longest flu ever recorded in history. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that's why everybody was curious about it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: The other factor that may have contributed to this, I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: would say, yeah, first of all, he's a young guy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: He looks like he's in relatively good health. I mean,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we're not talking grassly 93, you know, the U.S. Senator
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: from Iowa, and you would say, oh, my God, if
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: he had the flu, he might die. But he has
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: diabetes type 1. And I always get confused between diabetes
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: type 1 and diabetes type 2. Can these things actually
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: trigger a problem?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Type 1 is, as my son has it, type 1
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: diabetes is a little bit more severe than type 2 diabetes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Type 2 diabetes, you can beat. You can get it
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: from being overweight and maybe some other physical problems. But
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: exercise and some drugs, you can really keep it under
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: control and even beat it. Type 1 diabetes is for life.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And they used to call it juvenile diabetes. And so
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: if he has type 1 diabetes, that is a big deal.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And that means he has to take insulin all the time.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But he shouldn't put him out for two weeks. I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that is not an excuse for being out for two weeks.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And Paxton has been after him, of course, from the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: I've been in a lot of races. This is the
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: strangest one I've ever seen. I've never had a candidate
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: disappear for almost two weeks. doing no public appearances, no
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: explanation of why until now. And then suddenly, after missing
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: appearance after appearance, canceling event after event, he suddenly shows
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: up at a musical festival, not to speak, but just
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: to walk around. It's been a very strange two weeks.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: He was odd. There's video of that festival as well.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: He was odd there. Usually he's glad-handing all that stuff.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: There was points where he looked like a zombie when
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: he was walking around.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, our head of security had told me
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: when he came to visit with Charlemagne the God, Power 105,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to do that interview. Oh, you just missed Tallarico as
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you were leaving. I would have held his hand and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we would have taken that flu vaccine together.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And then we would have known for sure that it
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: wasn't the flu. You see, I mean, I'll do it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I would have done it for Natalie. I encouraged to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: do it. She got her flu vaccine. I did.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I'll hold hands with anybody.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Did you get yours?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yes. The week after.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought we were just talking about. going and
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: getting a flu shot together.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: No, I got the flu shot. We could go get
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the shingle shot together if you'd like.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: No, I keep putting off the shingle shot.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'll hold you. I'll hold you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I'll ask the CVS nurse to hold my hand.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I only have one ask and things like that. Please
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: don't have a sweaty palm because it reminds me of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: when I shook Richard Nixon's hand in the White House.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That was the sweatiest, coldest hand I have ever shaken
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in my life.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Whose head did you shake? Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon, wow.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they gave me the award as Newspaper Boy
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of the Year, and then they kicked me out of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the White House because I asked one question. Sorry I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: asked the question to the president. You promised in 68
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to get us out of the Vietnam War. Now you've
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: gotten us into a secret war in Laos and Cambodia.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: How old were you?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I was 16. Wow. And they shined their boots on
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: my backside, kicked me to the curb, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and that was it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a little inappropriate for getting an award
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: from him.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: But I was correct.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Good for you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Secret war. In Laos and Cambodia, you liar. See, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: didn't trust politicians then either.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: His picture has been on the ban list of the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: White House ever since. Ever since then. I'm sure you
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: can't get in now if you wanted to get in.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, well, there's going to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: be some big problems. It actually started yesterday, but most
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: people were off starting today because of the portal bridge construction.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: But they keep saying it's for the good. It's going
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to be great forever. Just five weeks, five weeks of
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: major inconveniences. We'll talk about that when we come back.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: But first, I want to talk about LifeVac. I really
• 28:02
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• 28:14
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• 28:16
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• 28:21
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• 28:31
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• 28:36
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• 29:09
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• 29:14
  Speaker 2: you can be ready the next time it counts. Well,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: construction of the new portal bridge in New Jersey is
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: almost finished. It's getting close. There's a light at the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: end of the tunnel. It's five weeks away now, but
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: this is going to be the worst part. Remember, there's
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: been some disruptions. You've been warned about them for the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: most part. There's been some disruptions as they get this
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: new bridge. together. But for the next five weeks, there's
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: only going to be one track available to cross the bridge.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: And so because it has that one track, they have
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: to come out with a special schedule. So there's going
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to be Big service disruptions for the next five weeks
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: for this final phase. The final portion of the project
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: includes transferring all train operations from the old bridge to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: the new span. And that's why they mean both are
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: going to be out. So that's why there's only one
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: track they're going to be using at a time as
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: they transfer all of the service. So during the next
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: five weeks, here's who's will be affected. Trains will operate
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: on the one track, as I said, Service between Newark-Penn
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Station and Secaucus will be extremely limited, resulting in fewer
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: trains running into New York-Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: and North Jersey coastlines. In addition, there's going to be
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: no Midtown direct service on the Morristown line, Gladstone Branch,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: or Boontown line on weekdays during the construction period. Amtrak
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: is going to try to help out, and they're going
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: to operate eastbound trains over the new Portal North Bridge
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: while the work is underway. The same process was used
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: for westbound trains, you're going to remember, back in February.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of information there. I'm hoping if
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you travel those lines, you're going to already be up
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: on all this. The big thing is you've got to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: either leave earlier, or you're going to have to drive in,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: or you're going to have to take a bus in.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: For five weeks. And then they tell you, they promise you,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Chris Colori from New Jersey Transit says it's going to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: be glorious. It's going to fix all our problems. It's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: going to be wonderful after that. But for five weeks,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I heard, Curtis, I heard people interviewed on the news
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: today because it actually started today. Yeah. Or yesterday, I
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: should say. It started yesterday. And they were all saying, oh,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: this isn't too bad. I can get used to this.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: It's not too bad. I came early. I didn't really
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: need to. And then it turns out it was a holiday.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Of course, Columbus Day. But what I don't understand, with
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the Bayonne Bridge, to make room for the super tankers
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: going through the Arthur Kill Kill Van Call, they spent
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a billion dollars to lift the bridge so the super
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: tankers could pass underneath. Money well spent. The problem I've
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: always seen with this portal bridge, it was built in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: 1910 to connect the Pennsylvania Railroad to Penn Station in
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: New York City, is this Truss Swing Bridge. You know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: when there's a sizable boat underneath, all traffic stops, the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: bridge swings out over the Hackensack River to come back,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and at times it's gotten stuck. No matter how much
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: DW40 oil you put on the gears, it stays in
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: place for a while because it's so old. I understand
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: why they have to build a completely new bridge, but
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: why they wouldn't have tried to elevate the bridge so
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: that you don't even have to worry about it swinging
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: out as a truss bridge is beyond me.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably because my only guess will be, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I'll look into this, this was much more efficient and
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: probably less costly. Then raising that bridge because they it's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: an old bridge and they'd still have to rebuild a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: lot of it. So why not just start from scratch
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and get a brand new bridge and be able to
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: do everything you wanted to? You're probably limited if you
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: use an old bridge.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: So this means if it delays any further than the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: five weeks of hell, the commuters will have to go through.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: less people from New Jersey will be coming into New
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: York City. Is this what this means? Yeah, they're going
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to stream. I'll bet you a lot of offices, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Leave us a talk back about this if you normally
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: take Jersey Transit and you're going to be affected by
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: this over the next five weeks. Tell me if there's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: already plans that have been made at your business for
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: this disruption, or they're just saying, oh, sucks to be you,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: leave earlier.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they promise the old bridge will be completely
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: demolished by 2028. It's always delay, delay, delay, delay. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: just don't understand. Look at Red China, how they build
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: their trains. Not only bullet trains, but they have trains
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: going through buildings. They have trains going up into the atmosphere.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It seems we're almost primitive. When we deal with our railroads.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: It'll be done soon enough. This happens every once in
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a while. Well, WOR White House correspondent John Decker is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: going to be traveling with the president to Alaska. We'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: talk to him after the 7 o'clock news.