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

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  Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti in the morning, 710 WOR. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, what a gorgeous Sunday fall day
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  Speaker 1: it was yesterday. And it's so nice to have you back, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: because I know you are in marathon.
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  Speaker 2: Mode next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: This Sunday coming up, November 1st, we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: on the air from 8 to noon with Larry and
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  Speaker 3: Tim McLoone. We have a new race commentator this year.
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  Speaker 3: She's going to be fabulous. To tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 3: it is one of my favorite days of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And as the marathon says, the best day of the
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  Speaker 3: year in the best city in the world. And it's
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  Speaker 3: true because I think Larry has felt that now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's amazing to me? So we get to
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  Speaker 5: stay overnight, you know, the night before. And you meet
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  Speaker 5: all the people in the hotels. They come from everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Australia, Belgium, Japan. Man, and this is– they work all
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  Speaker 5: year for this moment just to come to New York
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  Speaker 5: and run in the New York City Marathon. So it's
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  Speaker 5: a whole bunch of dreams coming true. So it's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of fun. I am so happy how much you
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  Speaker 5: have to work on this because then I don't have to.
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  Speaker 5: She does– She does everything. I mean, it's amazing how
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  Speaker 5: much work she does.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much prep. People don't realize for such a
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  Speaker 1: huge event like that, Natalie is working morning, noon, and night,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to show up, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: No, he does his fair share. I mean, the TCS
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  Speaker 3: New York City Marathon does their share for sure, but
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  Speaker 3: the broadcast is a lot. We've got four races going
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  Speaker 3: on at one time, plus all the regular people, as
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  Speaker 3: I call them. We have reporters all over the city.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a lot of fun. And this year,
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  Speaker 3: it's the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the original
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  Speaker 3: Five Borough New York City Marathon because, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: it started as a four loop around Central Park.
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  Speaker 5: It's really grown. It's amazing what the New York Roadrunners
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  Speaker 5: have done with this. I will tell you, I was
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  Speaker 5: in a Zoom meeting with Natalie during the week and
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  Speaker 5: there's a whole lot of people on it.
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  Speaker 4: All these people are on it. So I'm watching it.
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  Speaker 5: And then my son goes to leave and take the car,
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  Speaker 5: and I have to run to him and say, what
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  Speaker 5: are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing? I didn't know my mic was on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One of those Zoom problems. Everyone's like, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: At least you didn't have your pants down to your
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  Speaker 1: knees or your ankles like some of these commentators did
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  Speaker 1: during the lockdown and pandemic. Wow, that was him. People
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  Speaker 1: lost careers over that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, CNN.
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  Speaker 1: God.
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  Speaker 3: But I hope you're all going to be with us
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  Speaker 3: because it's going to be a lot of fun this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I congratulate you both. I congratulate iHeart, obviously, WOR for
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  Speaker 1: carrying the race. I'd like to go the day before
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  Speaker 1: when they have the pasta run at Tavern on the
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  Speaker 1: Green because, you know, they want to carb up, carb up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where they all come and assemble. So it
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  Speaker 1: makes it easy for me. Hey, where you from?
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  Speaker 2: And you know me. I always like, where you from?
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  Speaker 2: Where you from? Where you from?
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be great. I hope they have
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  Speaker 1: the weather that we had this past weekend. Starting on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: where all of a sudden they had the.
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  Speaker 2: Apple foldable iPhone launch.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody who was 30 years old and younger,
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  Speaker 1: they had foldable chairs. Never mind the first foldable smartphone.
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  Speaker 1: They had foldable chairs. They were out there early. The
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  Speaker 1: lines were around the block. It was a weekend of lines. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: all the Gen Zers were out, and they were lining
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  Speaker 1: up at the favorite food emporiums. For food that you
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  Speaker 1: would say, why would you wait on line for an hour?
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  Speaker 2: For food. Made no sense.
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  Speaker 1: And then yesterday, Larry and Natalie, probably the best of
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  Speaker 1: the three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, just a gorgeous full day.
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  Speaker 1: I went and I watched the early voting on the lines.
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  Speaker 2: It was heavy.
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  Speaker 1: And I was stunned by the fact that when I
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  Speaker 1: would question people– Not all that many knew who Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blinken was. He didn't have anything negative to say about him,
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  Speaker 1: like you would typically, oh, Republican, I hate him, and Trump.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't know who he was, which
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  Speaker 1: seems to jive with the polls, because I've said, starting
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  Speaker 1: on Labor Day, he's run an extremely good campaign. I
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  Speaker 1: thought a better campaign than Zeldin, plus he's pro-choice. That
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  Speaker 1: didn't resonate on the lines yesterday, but there were lines everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you went.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I will tell you what, over the weekend, I
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  Speaker 5: was just grim-pa. So I went to my daughter's flag
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  Speaker 5: football game. She was in a national tournament and they
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  Speaker 5: almost won. They got to the championship, almost won. She
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  Speaker 5: was interviewed for the first time. Oh, really? And he
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  Speaker 5: was interviewed, yeah, by Flag Football Magazine, which I guess
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  Speaker 5: is only online.
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  Speaker 4: And then the best thing ever.
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  Speaker 5: About being a grandfather is the three little kids dressing
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  Speaker 5: up for Halloween. And we went through a neighborhood where
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  Speaker 5: all the businesses- you know, give out Halloween stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man, it is the best ever.
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  Speaker 5: It is my middle child, my middle grandchild, Lily, dressed
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  Speaker 5: up like Anne of Green Gables.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: She's 10. She's red, Anne of Green Gables at 10
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  Speaker 5: years old.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you were busting your buttons and bridges with pride. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, they were all great. It was wonderful, all three
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  Speaker 4: of them. It was wonderful. Timmy was Darth Vader. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was just.
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  Speaker 5: That's the whole, yeah, you know, he's six and he's
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  Speaker 5: Darth Vader. And it was just, it is exactly why
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  Speaker 5: you want to be a grandpa. It's so much better
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  Speaker 5: being a grandpa.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you mentioned Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Next Saturday night is the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, tens of thousands of people. That's last year.
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  Speaker 1: Remember a lot of people dressed up like me.
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  Speaker 4: That's a little different than this, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 5: Totally.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really– I feel for all the candidates running,
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  Speaker 1: both Democrats and Republicans and a few independents, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the last weekend before November 3rd.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the attention is going to be on the Greenwich
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  Speaker 1: Village Halloween Parade because– I mean, close to 100,000 people
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  Speaker 1: in all different costumes.
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  Speaker 2: That's Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Then Sunday, the New York City Marathon, which is an
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  Speaker 1: international extravaganza. So if you're trying to get last-minute attention–
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  Speaker 1: You'd be lucky if you make the cut on the
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  Speaker 1: nightly news.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: And I think everybody has to realize that all of
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  Speaker 1: these candidates have been running for about a year straight,
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  Speaker 1: around the clock. They've gone to all kinds of events.
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  Speaker 1: They've had to put their personal lives on hold. It
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  Speaker 1: is not, as you know, Larry, covering a lot of
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  Speaker 1: races as you have. It is not easy for the
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  Speaker 1: candidates and especially their families. So whether they win or lose,
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  Speaker 1: I congratulate them all and their volunteers and their staff because,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people decide not to get involved in
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  Speaker 1: running for politics.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the factors.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you that you handled losing better than
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  Speaker 5: I've ever seen of a candidate. Because I have a
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  Speaker 5: lot of friends that have run for office. And it's
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  Speaker 5: devastating when they lose to them. You don't even hear
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  Speaker 5: from them for like a month or a month and
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  Speaker 5: a half. They have to get over it. And I
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  Speaker 5: asked somebody what it was because he lost in a
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  Speaker 5: tough race for Congress. And I asked him, you know,
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  Speaker 5: what hurts so much? Like, why do you remove yourself
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  Speaker 5: from society for a while? And he says, it is
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  Speaker 5: the ultimate rejection. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm so used to having been rejected.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look at me.
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  Speaker 2: Kicked out of a prestigious high school, Brooklyn Prep. One
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  Speaker 2: of the best.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously rejected by quite a few women over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Fired many times in radio that I've been doing for
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  Speaker 1: 35 years. So after a while, you're like 72, you realize.
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  Speaker 2: I'm lucky to be where I am because of all
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  Speaker 2: the rejection. So you just flow.
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  Speaker 1: And actually, the campaign turned out to be a very
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  Speaker 1: good thing for me. Because many more people were exposed
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  Speaker 1: to who I was, what I do, what I've done
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  Speaker 1: in my whole life, especially those who were 30 and younger.
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  Speaker 1: We call them the Gen Zs. So you just can't be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't crawl. into a hole and get
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  Speaker 1: very depressed, although I realize why many people would. They
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  Speaker 1: put everything into it. They're like Bruce Blateman. All 62 counties.
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  Speaker 1: That's a gargantuan task to go all throughout the state
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  Speaker 1: of New York, whether it's Pennsylvania, the same thing, from
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. That's a gargantuan task.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas, California.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, California.
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  Speaker 1: Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You know, from Camden on up to Hudson County, the
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  Speaker 1: most corrupt county in America.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the problem with New Jersey is they have no
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  Speaker 5: TV market.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So you don't get the TV ads. If you do
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  Speaker 5: get the TV ads, you've got to pay for them
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  Speaker 5: in two markets, and they cost a fortune. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Jersey's a little bit tougher than you think of.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought about that because you have to pay
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  Speaker 3: the Philly market for the South Jersey and up here
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  Speaker 3: in New York for the Northern New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Super expensive. So, again, I know you all have your
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  Speaker 1: favorite candidates out there. And so far, hate is going
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  Speaker 1: to drive the vote for both sides. But when all
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  Speaker 1: is said and done, you know, I congratulate all the candidates,
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  Speaker 1: their staff and their volunteers, because this is what democracy
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  Speaker 1: is about.
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  Speaker 5: And it hurts when you lose. I mean, it really
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  Speaker 5: does hurt. So remember that as well. No, wait a second.
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  Speaker 5: These guys are playing a part, an important part of
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  Speaker 5: the process, win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, Tom Cuddy, our program director, picked me off
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  Speaker 1: the ground and said.
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  Speaker 2: You're better together.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, I got joined with you
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  Speaker 1: on the best talk radio station in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: 710 WR.
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  Speaker 2: So how does it get any better than that?
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  Speaker 1: After you lose a mayoral race?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'd love to hear about the election. If you'd
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  Speaker 5: like to talk about Curtis losing mayoral race, we'd love
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  Speaker 5: to hear from you. If you just want to talk
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  Speaker 5: about politics and what you think is going to happen,
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  Speaker 5: that's fine. What you did this weekend. You know, I'd
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  Speaker 5: love to hear from the grandpas out there on how
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  Speaker 5: wonderful it is. You know what it is? What being
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  Speaker 5: a grandfather is? It is all the joy of being
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  Speaker 5: a parent with no responsibility because.
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  Speaker 4: You get to leave. When things go wrong, you go up.
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  Speaker 2: See you later.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you can handle that.
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  Speaker 3: And can I put one thing in for talkbacks this week?
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: If you know someone running the marathon, give us a
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  Speaker 3: shout out. We'd love to hear about them. Because we're
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  Speaker 3: going to be playing a Team Inspire feature during the week.
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to hear some people like, it's incredible
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  Speaker 3: why and how people run.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we have audience members out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of people in those segments that have overcome things
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  Speaker 5: in their lives. And it's amazing. They just overcame all
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  Speaker 5: the obstacles they had. and yet they can still run
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  Speaker 5: a marathon. God bless them. Go to the iHeartRadio app
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