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Hour 1: Curtis the night mayor · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, as you know, both Larry and Natalie and our audience,
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  Speaker 1: there's a whole group of people out there who have
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  Speaker 1: labeled me the nightmare. That's what they call me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're the nightmare. Because I roam the streets. I'm nocturnal. Subway, streets.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really important that when they call you
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  Speaker 2: a nightmare, we get the spelling down properly. Is it
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  Speaker 2: N-A-Y-O-R or M-A-R-E at the end?
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  Speaker 1: Or K-N-I-G-H-T. That's what I was just thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I could see you as a knight.
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  Speaker 1: Put you in a suit of armor.
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  Speaker 4: To tell you the truth, when you first started with us,
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  Speaker 4: and we obviously get a lot of social media about you,
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  Speaker 4: and people were.
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  Speaker 1: Calling you the Nightmare, and I was like, is that
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  Speaker 1: a good thing or a bad thing? I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 3: Like Nightmare on Elm Street.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: But no, it is. It's a great thing. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a criminal out there, you don't want to face
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa. After 12 o'clock, it's the witching hour. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: good happens after 12 midnight. So if you're at a bar,
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  Speaker 1: if you're at a club, whatever it is, nothing good happens.
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  Speaker 1: And especially if you're in the streets, you really got
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  Speaker 1: to watch your back then. It's all kinds of problems.
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  Speaker 1: There's homeless, emotionally disturbed. There are people who want to
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  Speaker 1: rob you. But there is a group of criminals now
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  Speaker 1: that we know exists, and we've talked about this. At
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  Speaker 1: 4 o'clock in the morning, it's their witching hour. They
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  Speaker 1: know that they will be unmolested out there by law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement because there are no cops out in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: So we just talked about that issue in Middle Village.
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  Speaker 1: The sewer guy is coming out. Notice what time did
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  Speaker 1: they emerge? 4 a.m. in the morning. because they know
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  Speaker 1: there are no cops around. The other one is the
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  Speaker 1: case that I've been on repeatedly, and I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it here from time to time. In fact, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to call it a public service announcement because I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: so many emails and texts from people from all over
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  Speaker 1: the tri-state area who've had this happen to them. The
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  Speaker 1: theft of your mail When you do what you were
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  Speaker 1: taught to do as a kid, remember when your parents
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  Speaker 1: first brought you to one of those blue mailboxes, told
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  Speaker 1: you how to open it up, told you how to
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  Speaker 1: put the mail in? We're sending this to your grandpa
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  Speaker 1: and grandma. You know, it's their wedding anniversary. Here, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: put it in, put it in, right? And yet there
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  Speaker 1: is theft of the mail on a regular basis. Even
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  Speaker 1: our program director, Tom Cuddy, has sent me videos of
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  Speaker 1: theft of mail in Connecticut, broad daylight. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: roll up, they're on their motorbikes. They don't even bother
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  Speaker 1: covering their face. They might as well be waving at
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  Speaker 1: all the cameras and they just steal the mail. And
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  Speaker 1: I've described it before as to how they do this
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  Speaker 1: and how I chase them out of the neighborhood. And
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  Speaker 1: I had had a confrontation with some of them and
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  Speaker 1: they had gone away for a while, but I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know they're going to come back and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to come back in force. It doesn't matter. I've alerted
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  Speaker 1: the 80th precinct on the West side, West 82nd. They
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  Speaker 1: treat me like a person of no consequence. the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Postal Inspectors, because this is a federal crime. When we
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  Speaker 1: were growing up, we were told, I remember my father, oh,
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  Speaker 1: anybody stealing the mail, you know, you walk into the
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  Speaker 1: post office at 10 Most Wanted, your picture could be
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  Speaker 1: up there because you don't steal the mail. They don't
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  Speaker 1: play around. And you would see the postal officers. They
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  Speaker 1: carry guns. They have badges. They don't play around. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been on their case. In fact, even on
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Magliore, remember, she took photographs of mail outside a mailbox,
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  Speaker 1: broad daylight, not far from where we broadcast iHeart, all
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  Speaker 1: dumped on the ground. You could see that these banditos
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  Speaker 1: went through the mail. You know, they sliced it open.
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  Speaker 1: If there was nothing of value in it, like a
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  Speaker 1: gift certificate or a check or anything, or cash, which
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  Speaker 1: sometimes older people will send.
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  Speaker 3: What do they do with checks?
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  Speaker 1: They wash them. So it's like a place you go
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  Speaker 1: where they'll actually take and bleach the checks, and then
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  Speaker 1: they'll write it in, and then they'll try to cash it,
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  Speaker 1: and they have all kinds of contacts to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So it can be quite lucrative, but it's all based
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  Speaker 1: on volume. So I've been chasing these guys in the
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  Speaker 1: wee hours of the morning, and the cops have warned them, man.
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  Speaker 1: You may not know this guy with that red beret,
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  Speaker 1: but you do not want to meet him. He's on
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  Speaker 1: a mission and he's here to stop you. And it
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  Speaker 1: stopped for a while. So two guys early this morning,
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  Speaker 1: I see them. Brand new motorbike, same color, same make,
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  Speaker 1: same model. No license plates, of course, not in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. They're dressed all in black. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: have the baklavas around their face. They have the black
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  Speaker 1: wool caps on.
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  Speaker 3: And they're right on the corner.
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  Speaker 1: And I can see they're like they're preparing to go
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  Speaker 1: into action to steal from the blue mailboxes. So like
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  Speaker 1: a ninja, I sneak up on them from behind. And
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  Speaker 1: I have, if you notice, notice I don't have my
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  Speaker 1: dress shoes. I have my sneaker shoes on. So they
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  Speaker 1: can't hear me coming. And then I scream it. Get
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  Speaker 1: the F out of my neighborhood. And I bump one
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  Speaker 1: and he drops what he has. And look at this.
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  Speaker 1: I showed it to you, Larry. They were in the
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  Speaker 1: process of putting the stickum on the belt because they
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  Speaker 1: take their belt and they put it down the slot
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  Speaker 1: of the blue mailbox, which they now make the slot
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  Speaker 1: so tiny thin you can barely get the mail in.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: He's showing me an envelope and taped on the front
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  Speaker 2: of it, I guess just glue stuck on the front
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  Speaker 2: of it. It says, glued traps for mice and insects.
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  Speaker 2: And he was so excited when he came in today.
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  Speaker 2: He said, look at this, look at this.
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  Speaker 3: I got him.
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  Speaker 2: And so I thought he had a mouse problem because
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  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Don't you have cats?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: We have no rat, no mice problem. In fact, a
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  Speaker 1: cockroach doesn't even feel safe scurrying along the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was trying to figure out what you were
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  Speaker 3: doing with a glue trap for mice, but it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they were. They were preparing their belt.
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  Speaker 1: They were going to go on their mission. And they
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  Speaker 1: had it stuck on this one letter. It was to
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  Speaker 1: an address in Chicago. And let me read this, because
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly people of our generation who send letters in cart. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you even have the card that was inside.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I doubt there was any money. Who knows? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: they snatched whatever money.
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  Speaker 3: This is legal?
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  Speaker 1: This is legal.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the outside of the car says, amazing. Wahoo. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Well done. You did it. Yay. You can tell it's
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  Speaker 1: like a family. We are all rooting for you and
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to visit. Call us anytime. We love you
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  Speaker 1: so much and miss you already.
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  Speaker 4: Awful that that person isn't getting that.
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  Speaker 1: Mom. And it's too.
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  Speaker 3: They will now.
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  Speaker 1: They will now.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to send it there. And we are also
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  Speaker 1: proud of you as you take this big step forward
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  Speaker 1: towards starting college. We know it will be an exciting
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  Speaker 1: next four years for you as you pursue your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: You know that. We know that. We'll support you with
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  Speaker 1: whatever you need. I mean, this is heartfelt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: These are grandparents?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what that is?
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  Speaker 1: No, parents. They're the parents? Mom. XOXO mom. So you
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  Speaker 1: say to yourself, this is our generation. This is how
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  Speaker 1: we communicate. Remember? Oh, you trust the U.S. mail. You know,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the blue mailbox. Guess what? They steal
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  Speaker 1: the mail. Most of it is of no value to them.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just discard it. They throw it on
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  Speaker 1: the street. And so there is no effort on the
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  Speaker 1: part of the NYPD or the U.S. Postal Inspectors to
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  Speaker 1: stop these banditos. So I'm taking it on my own.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure that this card gets to
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  Speaker 1: the person. The address in Chicago is on it. But
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  Speaker 1: now you've seen the evidence. And if they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to do anything about it, I'm taking matters into my
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  Speaker 1: own hands. So to you and Tom Cuddy and the
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  Speaker 1: ownership and management of iHeart, If I happen to miss
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  Speaker 1: a morning, don't worry about it. I'll be out in
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  Speaker 1: an hour. Don't worry, 80th Precinct. You can sit on
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  Speaker 1: your ass there and do nothing, but you'll release me
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  Speaker 1: in an hour because unless you kill somebody, everybody gets
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  Speaker 1: released in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, nice job.
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  Speaker 2: That's really great that you're doing this because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that send some heartfelt notes that never
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  Speaker 2: get there.
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  Speaker 1: Don't put it in the blue mailbox. Go to your
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  Speaker 1: post office or your postal guy or gal when they
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  Speaker 1: come to give you the mail. Give them the mail
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be mailed out. Do not put it
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  Speaker 1: in a blue box or you're playing Santa Claus. And
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  Speaker 1: if there's any value in that, you can forget about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what, too. When you were reading
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  Speaker 2: that note... I used to love to get letters. You
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  Speaker 2: don't get letters anymore or cards anymore. Everybody just emails
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  Speaker 2: you now.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I got a couple of cards when I was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: home recuperating from surgery for my knee.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, a lot of people, a lot of texts,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of calls. But I got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: cards and it was so nice.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My sister, who.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately has passed, used to write letters all the time.
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  Speaker 2: used to write letters constantly. So you'd, you'd get, you'd
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  Speaker 2: look forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's special. When you get a hand written letter,
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  Speaker 1: you realize, wow, whoever wrote this, put a lot of
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  Speaker 1: effort into it. This is not junk mail. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a, Curtis Lee, we're running for mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Please send me money so I can become your next mayor.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, boom, this is a personalized note. And
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  Speaker 1: you really, no matter how many other messages you get,
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  Speaker 1: those are the ones you always remember. You save them.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I used to, I still have my sister's letters that
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  Speaker 2: meant so much to me. My dad did the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: My dad wrote to everybody. And he used to tell
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  Speaker 2: stories about them and make up poems about them. And
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  Speaker 2: everybody has saved my dad's stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So, Larry, if I have to do what I have
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  Speaker 1: to do, and only I know what has to be done,
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  Speaker 1: you all have to forgive me. if I happen to
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  Speaker 1: be missing an action one morning in broadcasting here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a little paperwork. You know, the cops. I'll be out
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  Speaker 1: before the cops finish the paperwork. But this has got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. And if Jessica Tisch, the NYPD commissioner, won't
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  Speaker 1: prioritize this or the U.S. Postal Service, it is a
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  Speaker 1: federal crime. And remember, they also follow the guys and
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  Speaker 1: gals in the morning. You run into them on the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon little bicycles, you know, with the trailer behind them.
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  Speaker 1: The porch pirates, they also come out at 4 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning because they know there are no cops around.
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  Speaker 4: I just can't stop thinking about this mom who put this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, letter.
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  Speaker 3: In there for her son.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling the same thing. And I'm thinking, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: If there was money in it and it's gone, it's gone.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But she might think that she sent it. Her son
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  Speaker 4: never responds. Then she gets angry at her son. Like,
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  Speaker 4: how could he not even like call me after that note?
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  Speaker 4: And it could spiral into like a whole family feud now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point. That's a really good point.
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  Speaker 3: You saved a lot of heartache. You did. You just
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  Speaker 3: saved a whole lot of heartache.
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  Speaker 1: Think of how many thousands every day this happens to.
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  Speaker 3: So now if you were to get arrested, I'd do
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  Speaker 3: the show by myself?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Oh, boy. Look at his face. But I expect
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  Speaker 1: now in the chance that Alvin Bragg may hear it's
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa, America's number one vigilante, and decide to make
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  Speaker 1: an example of me, will my... Fellow brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: in solidarity, pony up the money, the bail money to
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  Speaker 1: get me out.
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  Speaker 3: Eventually.
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  Speaker 1: How many days after? After two or three shows. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: on that note, we've resolved the missing bodega cat issue,
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  Speaker 1: but there are quite a few twists and turns there
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  Speaker 1: in Park Slope in Brooklyn. Plus, a chance to see
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  Speaker 1: Richard Marks at 825.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jabal the cat is back. I don't remember, and
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  Speaker 2: you would know better than me, Curtis and Natalie. You'd
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  Speaker 2: know better than me. Has a cat, a bodega cat,
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  Speaker 2: ever gotten this much attention?
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  Speaker 5: Never.
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  Speaker 1: See, the rules were before you didn't even want to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge you had a bodega cat because the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Health would come and fine you heavily, both the city
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  Speaker 1: and state. Until recently, they passed legislation, you can have
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  Speaker 1: a bodega cat. Thank God. But, oh, boy, this little
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  Speaker 1: kitten has received more attention than any bodega cat in
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  Speaker 1: the history of bodega cats. A little jabal, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On first segment, every single newscast last night, every single newscast,
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  Speaker 2: there was the face of this cat.
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  Speaker 3: So the cat has returned. That is the big story.
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  Speaker 2: But remember, after the phone call yesterday— where the woman
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  Speaker 2: just called that was one of the two people.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't take the cat.
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  Speaker 2: The guy with her took the cat, but she was
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  Speaker 2: there and she pet the cat and they were walking
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  Speaker 2: down the street on video. And somebody even ran after
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  Speaker 2: them and said, no, no, no, no, no. That belongs
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  Speaker 2: to the guy that runs that bodega. And they kept going.
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  Speaker 2: And so you'll remember, and I want to play this
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  Speaker 2: for you again, because it's important. It plays into everything.
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  Speaker 2: She made a phone call yesterday and, and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring the cat back.
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  Speaker 3: And he kind of blew it.
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  Speaker 5: She called me. She said, I'm going to bring you
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  Speaker 5: the cat now. I'm ready. I have my clothes on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to bring it to you.
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  Speaker 7: How do you feel?
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  Speaker 1: I feel good, honey. I feel relaxed.
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  Speaker 5: I feel, you know, relief.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Did she say anything?
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  Speaker 5: Why she picked up the cat?
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  Speaker 9: I asked.
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  Speaker 5: She said, I don't see no store. I said, you're lying.
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  Speaker 5: There's one store there and the guys who follow you
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  Speaker 5: Told you the cat belongs to the store. And you
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  Speaker 5: stole the cat. But you don't want to give it
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  Speaker 5: to them. But say, anyway, anyway, I'm going to bring it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, she said she'd bring it in an hour,
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  Speaker 2: and she never did. And she didn't bring it because
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  Speaker 2: she thought she'd be charged.
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  Speaker 3: Because he said, you stole my cat.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this could have been easy. She could have brought
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  Speaker 3: it back to him.
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  Speaker 2: He could have taken it. No harm, no fuss. But
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  Speaker 2: now she's scared. So what do they do? She has
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  Speaker 2: someone else.
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  Speaker 1: She has her stepson, probably of the guy she was with,
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  Speaker 1: bring the kitten to the local precinct in Park Slope. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then they go and they detain her and not
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  Speaker 1: even the guy who took the cat.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So no matter what she was going to do, she
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  Speaker 2: was going to get arrested. Had she taken the cat back,
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  Speaker 2: To the owner of the bodega, she probably never would
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  Speaker 2: have been arrested.
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  Speaker 1: No, nobody gets arrested in Park Slope. Remember, that is
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  Speaker 1: the most progressive liberal area in the world. But now
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  Speaker 1: it's become a big issue. The bottom line is the
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  Speaker 1: kitten is back with the owner of the bodega. The
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  Speaker 1: kitten had replaced his 17-year-old cat who recently died who
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  Speaker 1: had been with him in the bodega. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: great story. It just warms your heart. Except you got
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  Speaker 1: to be wondering right now if the woman is like
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  Speaker 1: saying to herself, and why am I being detained in
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  Speaker 1: the precinct?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure she's told him that.
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  Speaker 1: It was my boyfriend, as you can see in the video,
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  Speaker 1: who took the cat.
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  Speaker 3: And I was the one that tried to take it back. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I called the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He said I stole it. It wasn't me. It was
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  Speaker 1: my boyfriend.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to some talkbacks. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 6: My taxes are paying for the United States Postal Service
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  Speaker 6: to go out and catch these thieves that are robbing mail.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: And Curtis Lewa, who doesn't get paid, who is smart
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: enough how to find them, finds them. Maybe, Curtis, you
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: should give a training class to the United States Postal
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: Police and secure our mail.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I will. And I'll do it voluntarily. No charge to
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: the taxpayers. I will. You're like a ninja. You sneak
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: up on them. Except my methods afterwards, not my muster
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: constitutional approval.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Another talk back.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: I am so sad and disgusted.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: You are correct.
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: But so happy to hear you having brought that story.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: About the little girl.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: This is just a sign of our times. And it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: just unbelievable. Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: And I'm going to share it with people who I
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: know do not listen to your radio station.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe they'll listen now. She's talking about the story
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: of a six-year-old girl in Washington Borough in Warren Township
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: who was raped in the middle of the night, kidnapped
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: out of her room and raped by someone who was
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: in the country illegally and nobody covered it. except for
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: a couple of outlets that should be mentioned. Channel 12
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: covered it. The local radio stations there covered it. NJ.com
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: covered it. Fox in Philadelphia covered it. None of the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: network stations in New York covered it, and they had
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: the chance to make up for that last night. They
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: didn't cover it again. If you would have switched things
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: around a little bit, this would have been a national story.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: But this little girl got no love from the media,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: and they should be ashamed. Let's get to Daria Albinger
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: now with the 6.30 news.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Few clouds, warmer and humid today, a high of 78 degrees.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: More Silicon Valley executives are calling for safer AI development.
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: Three of them were in the same room yesterday.
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: Anthropics Dario Amadei, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, and OpenAI's Sam Altman
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: speaking at a tech conference days after Amadei called on
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: the industry to hit the brakes out of concern that
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: AI poses a looming existential threat to humanity.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Let's invest more in safety.
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: The CEO of the most valuable company on Earth, whose
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: chips power the industry, saying this.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: We don't need any new laws.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: We don't need new regulations.
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: Huang rejecting the idea that speed and safety are a trade-off.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: ABC's Karen Hua.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: Well, first it was AI, and now New York City
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: public school students are being blocked from YouTube as city
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: council officials look into further limits on screen time in
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: the classroom. The husband of a woman who was found
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: dead in her Brooklyn apartment on Monday... has been arrested
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: and charged with her murder. Police say her son helped
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: catch them.
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: Maria Inez Granda was found dead with head trauma inside
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: her Bay Ridge apartment Monday morning after a call for
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: a wellness check on the 59-year-old from her son. On
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: a hunch, the son drove Monday to the Sunset Park
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: apartment where his mother's husband, Mauricio Granda, used to live
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: and found him inside. The Daily News says he blocked
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: traffic as he waited for police to show up. They
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: arrested the 47-year-old Tuesday evening and charged him with murder.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: At least three people are dead after a news helicopter
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: crashed last night in Los Angeles. The traffic porter, the pilot,
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: and a pedestrian on the ground. The Federal Reserve will
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: wrap up its latest meeting today. It's expected to raise
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: interest rates by a quarter percent to try and bring
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: down inflation. The Yankees beat Minnesota. The Mets fell to Baltimore.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: on 710 WOR.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Well, the Lindsay Clancy case is still in the news,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: and now we're hearing from more and more jurors. The
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: one juror who was the holdout is getting death threats.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Another juror said there was a cause bigger than the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: three children. We'll talk about that. You'll hear from them
• 19:48
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• 20:36
  Speaker 1: This Lindsay Clancy case gets ever more complicated, even though
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the jury made its decision. It was a mistrial, one
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: holdout juror, and yet it's taken on a life of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: its own. The jurors have all gone home. Some chose
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to be interviewed. Some chose, hey, I just want my anonymity.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to normal life. Well, the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: judge yesterday had to seal the names of the 12 jurors.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: who he announced are facing a real and present risk
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to their lives. Many of them have contacted the court
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and say they fear leaving their homes. There are people outside,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: whether they have an agenda or they're sleuths, you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: they're like self-appointed Nancy Grace. They're trying to, they want
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to interview the juror to connect the dots. One juror
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: has been threatened. Personal information of another has been posted.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: We know the woman was arrested. One of the demonstrators
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in pink would film them as they were going to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and from deliberations. And the holdout juror that you had
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: applauded for maintaining his belief system and not caving to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the majority has been identified as a Haitian American who
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: lives in the area. Already, people have found out that
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: on a previous occasion, he was arrested for domestic violence.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: That case was dismissed. And Governor DeSantis has said, hey, guy,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: come on down to Florida. We'll give you sanctuary. This
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and then you say to yourself, like, if the D.A.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: there decides, let's go for a second bite at the apple,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you know, to get the criminal charges. How are you
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: going to be able to get a jury now?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: The big controversy with the one holdout is that he
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: had faced charges of assaulting his own wife. He grabbed
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: her by the neck and threw her into a chest
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: of drawers. They have dropped the charges a little bit
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: later on, but there was a restraining order and they
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: finally divorced. And the reason that's a big deal right
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: now is had the judge known that ahead of time,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: he never would have been on that jury. It never
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: would have happened. So the fact that that was withheld
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: is becoming a big thing right now, considering that is
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the one holdout. And then they, as you were talking
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: about with the jurors that are being interviewed, you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: they're asking for anonymity. Well, half of them have been
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: out there and wanted the TV time and, and a
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: new juror has come forward. And listen, I think this
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: is really sickening that they thought she claims that They
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: thought that they were giving a symbol, that they were
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: making a statement, that they were making a change for
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the entire country with their ruling. So in the entire interview,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't hear her talk about the children.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: She talked about women. And so the.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Women that seemed to be on that jury, and there
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: were nine of them, seemed to have taken over and
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: they had a bigger, bigger issue that they were fighting for.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: It was almost like a protest on the streets.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: I think that we all felt the enormity of our decision.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: We didn't know what was going on outside of that room,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: but we knew that we had a chance to get
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: a conversation started that could change something, that could maybe
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: stop this from ever happening again.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: So they were thinking well beyond the case. The only
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: thing that mattered to me, as I've said from the beginning,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: are those three children. That was the only thing that mattered.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: That apparently didn't matter to the women on the jury.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: This was a big statement about women's rights and postpartum depression,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and it became bigger than the case. And the case
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: was the most important thing. And even when the interviewer said, well,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: you know, when you're saying all this, you're showing a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: little bit of bias.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: She said, How can you have bias if only women
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: can go through postpartum depression? Only women can go through
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: postpartum psychosis. Only women can deliver a baby. That's not bias.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: That's just a fact.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So males can't have empathy. And by the way, you
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: just defined bias. That's a bias you have. And it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: a bias that you have because you're a woman. But
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to separate that when you're on a trial
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: and you're looking at three children being murdered by their mother. Now,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: all the other stuff you talked about, you can take
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: into account. But that shouldn't be the only thing. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: that's the only thing she talked about. Well, I like
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the one statement she said.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Which cuts through everything we've heard in the House of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Representatives and Senate when they're doing interviews of potentially people
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: becoming judges and stuff. She said only a woman can
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have a baby. She made that very clear because, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how many Democrats have been flummoxed? You do realize that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: only a woman can deliver a baby in the world.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: How many times have Democrats, you know, when they're being,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you know, asked?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: They can't even define a woman.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So believe me, they're confused in a lot of things.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: This is this notion that when you see the jury
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in a high profile case, this is not true in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: low profile cases, that the jurors are not going to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: realize all the attention. It's being focused on the case.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, they knew.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, they knew.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And they knew, and they wanted to make a stand
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: for the entire country. This was not the trial of
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: this woman. This became a movement in the jury room.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Well, remember how we discussed on Nowhere Near at the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: level of O.J.? That jury also was making a statement. Remember,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it was... a racial division in the country it's never
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: happened to white people why does it happen you know
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: yeah he's guilty there's no doubt OJ is guilty but
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: how come it has to happen to a black guy
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: remember how some of the jurors were like what so
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you deal with that and if
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you're the DA now how do you push forward for
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a second case realizing how you're going to get an
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: honest jury pool of men and women who are going
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to say hey I'm just going to deal with the facts.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: You get more men Oh, you can't do that. You
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: get a little bit more men. Yeah, well, you can
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: split it half and half.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: They'll say you can't do that. Why?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Why does it have to be a majority of anybody?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Isn't that being sexist? Isn't that being... The majority of
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: men went with the women. The two other men went
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: with the women.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, so.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't think you can do it just
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: based on gender or race. You just proved my point. Constitutionally,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you can't do that. But to be discussed another day. Constitutionally,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you can pick anybody you want. Constitutionally, the jurors get
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to pick who they want. Up next, the City Council
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: of Danbury, Connecticut voted nearly unanimously to approve non-citizen legal
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: residents serving in their police department. They are out of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: their mind. I'll tell you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: What, it gets to the point where you just want
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to give up. There's so much craziness, especially in Democratic
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: states and Democratic cities.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: That after a while you hear a story and you go.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: We should just have a civil war. We should split.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Let the Democrats run half the country. Let the Republicans
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: run half the country. Because in the half that the
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Democrats run, they'll be in debt. They'll be high crime.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And they'll just, it will destroy itself. Because this is
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the type of story that makes me feel that way.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: The Democrat-dominated city council of Danbury, Connecticut, voted nearly unanimously
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to approve non-citizen legal residents to serve as police officers.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: And the vote was 18 to 2. And one of
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the Democratic, it was almost all Democratic, one of the
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Democratic council members said, this sends a message to our
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: immigrant community at large that you are all welcome in Danbury.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: So this is the same party that lent 8 to
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: 10 million people over the southern border illegally. The same
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: party that came up with sanctuary city policies, which has
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: been a nightmare ever. Both for city budgets and for
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: crime across the country that are now saying, hey, guess what?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: You want to be a police officer? We'll let you
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: do that, too. It doesn't matter if you were a U.S.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Citizen. it's it curtis to me that's crazy time.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Well apparently the whole state has this as a standard
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: i don't know how many other cities or municipalities or
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: towns or villages uh utilize that but let's look at
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: danbury itself i've been there many times it's right on
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the border of new york and 90 000 residents nice
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: community they have 160 cops There was no talk of
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: there being a shortage of police officers. You know, sometimes
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a municipal police department, oh, we're like 40, 50 officers down. No, no, no.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: They just decided to do this. By the way, starting pay, $ 70, 000.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: You know what starting pay is for NYPD? $ 38, 500. So
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you get double the amount. You can work up to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: $ 97, 000 plus you have extras, you know, overtime and special
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: duties and all that. So it's not like they were
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: having a hard time getting recruits or possibly men and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: women who wanted to join the department. No, they just wanted,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: as you said, to make this statement that if you
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: were DACA or if you had a green card, you
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: weren't a total citizen, we welcome you on board.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Again, why?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Why the extreme measures? You weren't short of police officers.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: You were meeting your quota of what you needed each
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: year as there were retirees. You just wanted to make
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a statement. But I think the bigger concern.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: You're trying to use common sense.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You're just trying to use— common sense does not apply to
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: almost any Democratic policy these days.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: None.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: And I used to agree with Democrats on a lot
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: of things, a lot of things in the past. They've
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: gone so far to the left, I don't agree with anything.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: But you see, I think they're relying on the state
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: statutes for police. They're saying, well, this is what the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: state now calls for. We can do this. So that
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: means whatever community you are in the state of Connecticut,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: from the border with Rhode Island to the border with
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: New York, you could do exactly what they did and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: rely on the state statutes. Right.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You exactly got it. The state says you're allowed to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: do this. They still have to do it. They don't
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: have to do it. They're not forcing it. They're just saying,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: if you want to, you can do this. But they're
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: making news because apparently this is the first. And this
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: is the first time it's happening. And it's 18 to
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: 2 that they're saying this. So the only good thing
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: about it is that maybe now we don't have to
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: pay benefits to these people. Maybe now they have a
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: working salary, so they're not going to be sucking from
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: the teat of the federal government.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: All the time. This is the problem, the creep. It's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: right on the border with New York. It's not all
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that much difference between the politics of Connecticut, as you know,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and New York. It's blue and blue. What community in
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: New York is going to look at Danbury right on
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: its border and say, well, if they're doing it, we
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: should be able to do it, too. You know how
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: this all starts. And you say to yourself. Wait, you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: have more than enough capable recruits. You're not in a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: recruiting crunch. It's not like you're 60 officers down, all
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: hands on deck, emergency, emergency. You're not at that point.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: The big argument for having more migrants here is that
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: they take jobs Americans don't want. You're telling me Americans
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: don't want a $ 70, 000 job to be a law enforcement?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: To start? That's double the NYPD?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Of course they do. You're taking jobs at this point.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: You're taking jobs away, which is exactly what the Republicans
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: have said from the very beginning. No, this is horrible
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that this is happening. And what you said is extremely scary.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Will this now spread? Because if it does, it really
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: is time to split up the country.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Up next, Macklemore is off the Ed Sheeran tour. But, oh, man,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's all blown up with every element in this that
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you can imagine. And we're going to get into all
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the layers of this up next after this 7 o'clock news.