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Highlights of Curtis & Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Oh, no, Larry this morning.
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Speaker 2: Last night he was with us, Tom Cuddy, the great
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Speaker 2: program director, Mark Simone, and so many others who were
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Speaker 2: part of this iHeart thing of our largest radio con
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Speaker 2: comfab in the nation, in the world, and we were
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Speaker 2: celebrating National Radio Day with a panel discussion. I'll get
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Speaker 2: into it in the seven o'clock area. Best panel discussion
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Speaker 2: I have ever heard, and I've heard a lot of
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Speaker 2: them involving radio, and it's always I, I.
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Speaker 1: Me, me, me, me, I No, none of that, none
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Speaker 1: of that. Great moderator.
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Speaker 2: I thought Chris I thought he was when I first
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Speaker 2: met him here, when the Tom Cuddy did the shit
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Speaker 2: and put me together with Larry Mente. I believe it
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Speaker 2: was March ninth, I met who I thought was Jim
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Speaker 2: Carrey's brother, the president of iHeart here, you know, in
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Speaker 2: the Tri State area, Steven. I really thought he was
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Speaker 2: Jim Carry's brother. I said, I don't think I should
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Speaker 2: say that, probably not. He did a great job moderating,
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Speaker 2: and then they brought out the superstars on stage. Charlemagne
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Speaker 2: the God, Oh my god, he he blew the roof off.
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Speaker 2: He made some incredible statements about the importance of radio obviously,
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Speaker 2: Jim Kerr, who we discussed yesterday, Angie Martinez, and boy
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Speaker 2: the woman who was from Z one hundred, Danielle.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Danielle.
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Speaker 3: You can't you can't miss her New York accent.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, bunks girl. I think went to Saint John's University.
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Speaker 2: Out Yes, outstanding.
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Speaker 1: I mean I didn't leave. It was pouring cats and dogs.
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Speaker 2: I can't say that in the house, obviously, with Nancy
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Speaker 2: training cats and dogs. I got my dress shoes on,
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Speaker 2: you know, I had to dress appropriately. Uh pretty much
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Speaker 2: ruined them last night on the way home. I'll get
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Speaker 2: into that momentarily. And I thought of another thing that
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Speaker 2: I can't say in our house. The cat got your tongue,
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Speaker 2: because that's that's generally what I would have been saying
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Speaker 2: to you, Chris the quiet storm. Yeah, on loan from
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone who's assisting Natalie who's still recovering at home
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Speaker 2: of putting the sand bags together. Yeah, I know, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: you got you got heavy rains. Everybody got heavy rains.
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Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, Chris, You've done an
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Speaker 2: outstanding job. The cat got your tongue for no more
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Speaker 2: now and later in this hour we're going to do
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Speaker 2: interpretation of gen Z talk because you're gen Z and
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Speaker 2: obviously Natalie Migliori and a lot of people listening now
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Speaker 2: are parents and grandparents, ons and uncles, and they have
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Speaker 2: no idea what your generation is talking about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta help them out who we're here for exactly.
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Speaker 2: But did I not try to help everybody out yesterday
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Speaker 2: in advance of the floods? I mean, I told you
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Speaker 2: build your noa Zark. You did two of everything, Natalie,
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Speaker 2: your location in Jersey at a start, putting the sandbags together,
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Speaker 2: the gondolas. Our own Larry Mente, who has the herculean
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Speaker 2: task of bringing his son down in North Carolina to
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Speaker 2: enroll in law and I said it was Elon Musk University.
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Speaker 4: It's not.
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Speaker 2: But he's he probably hydro planed home last night from
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Speaker 2: that great panel discussion. He waited until the last second
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Speaker 2: to leave. So we hope the best for Loarry today
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Speaker 2: as he makes the rest of that journey.
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Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I wish I had been
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Speaker 1: wrong about my predictions last night. I am the only
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Speaker 1: one here I think, at WOR who believes in global
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Speaker 1: warming climate change. Most of them believe in climate change.
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Speaker 1: Like Larry says, it's climate change. No, no, I go
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Speaker 1: the whole nine yards, global warming and climate change. We
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Speaker 1: keep producing heat from burning fossil fuels. Where do you
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Speaker 1: think that heat goes?
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Speaker 2: You think it goes up there in the atmosphere and
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Speaker 2: lands on the moon of March. No, no, stays within
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Speaker 2: our stratosphere and the world. The globe is getting hotter
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Speaker 2: and hotter. Just look at Europe and then they have
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Speaker 2: flash floods all summer long.
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Speaker 1: Look at them, and look at the rest of our country.
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Speaker 2: Indiana still don't have power restored, flash floods underwater. But
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Speaker 2: let's look at our own Tri state area. First off,
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Speaker 2: let's get the New Jersey report from Natalie. What was
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Speaker 2: it like in your neck of the woods when the
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Speaker 2: rains came.
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Speaker 3: Down, drenching rains, you know, just the rains that just
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Speaker 3: keep coming almost It reminds me of that late afternoon
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Speaker 3: summer Florida rain where it just comes down in buckets.
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Speaker 4: That's what it was like yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, at my first time down in Florida in the
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Speaker 2: early sixties, visiting my haunts and uncles who fled New
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Speaker 2: York City. When Jackie Gleeson, who had the top rated
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Speaker 2: variety show on the weekends with our Carnie and the
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Speaker 2: June Tailor Dance. It says, come on down to Miami
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Speaker 2: Beach and have my extended family did.
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Speaker 1: And you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: I don't know where in the middle of a hot, sweltering,
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Speaker 2: humid afternoon in Florida, buckets of rain and.
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Speaker 1: Then it will go back. Yeah, sunshine, heat and humidity.
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Speaker 3: Again, that's exactly what it was like, because it's not
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Speaker 3: rain that we normally have around here.
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Speaker 1: It's that different type of rain.
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Speaker 2: So let's look at the phenomenon of the day. Remember
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Speaker 2: it was what two three weeks ago, you, Natalie reported
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Speaker 2: how a tornado touchdown not far from you, right, completely unusual.
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Speaker 1: Yep, these things never happened in our area.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what back to back, belly to belly it
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Speaker 2: was in New Jersey yesterday. It was a Long beach
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Speaker 2: in Nassau County. And this was the reaction of a
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Speaker 2: person who was right there on the boardwalk.
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Speaker 1: Holy, it's the tornado. Wow, typical Long Island people. He
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Speaker 1: doesn't even sound freaked out. Chris, get out here that
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Speaker 1: one more time. Place. Holy, it's a tornado.
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Speaker 2: Wow, They've never had that in Nassau County, Suffolk County.
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Speaker 2: But as bad as it was in all your locations,
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Speaker 2: it was worth Ray Stagic was absolutely correct. The floodwatch
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Speaker 2: that he was alerting us to yesterday was for the
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Speaker 2: five boroughs, and oh boy, we got smashed. And I
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Speaker 2: was getting reports from people stuck on the BQE the
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Speaker 2: l I E. Both lanes going east and west shutdown. Flooding,
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Speaker 2: massive flooding in the outer boroughs. But nowhere was it
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Speaker 2: worse than in the subways of New York City. So
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Speaker 2: let me take you on a little trip to Curtis
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Speaker 2: Leewit trip. I knew I was gonna ruin my dress
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Speaker 2: shoes because as this great panel discussion was going on,
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Speaker 2: iHeart celebrating National Radio Day. I don't think anyone else
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Speaker 2: in the business did. I'll take it back if in
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Speaker 2: fact I'm wrong. But you could look out at as
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Speaker 2: great venue Park two. Try to on Park Avenue, second
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Speaker 2: time I've been there.
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Speaker 1: Great.
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Speaker 2: You go upstairs to start the evening, you see the
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Speaker 2: Empire State Building. You can reach out and touch it,
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Speaker 2: and then you go downstairs and that's where they have
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Speaker 2: the hole the assembly hall where you could reach out
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Speaker 2: and touch everybody sitting on the stage. But there's also
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Speaker 2: huge windows, so you see the rain coming down in buckets,
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Speaker 2: I mean buckets, and I'm saying to myself, well, they
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Speaker 2: go a good pair of shoes. Eventually, when this ends
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Speaker 2: and I have to try to make my way to
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Speaker 2: the subway, but nobody left.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was in rapt attention.
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Speaker 2: But by the time I made one down on the
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Speaker 2: Number six train, I ended up going to Grand Central.
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Speaker 2: Took to shut all across to Times Square and that's
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Speaker 2: where it was tied up in knots. There was no
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Speaker 2: movement of the one, two and three train for like
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Speaker 2: two two and a half hours. Now, remember we're right
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the normal tourist sees. We're not
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Speaker 2: talking about the soccer crazies you know from Europe, in
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Speaker 2: South America and parts unknown who flooded the city during
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Speaker 2: World Cup, Go go go, you know the Norwegians. We
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Speaker 2: could have used the Norwegians. They would have been rowing
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Speaker 2: through all the flooding areas. Yes, but tourists are coming
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Speaker 2: up to me. They recognize me, and it's saying how
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Speaker 2: do I get I said, You're not going anywhere. Get ready,
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Speaker 2: you're sweating you're schitzing. You're next to homeless people, mostly disturbed.
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Speaker 2: The stenches overwhelming, they're gagging. Some of them are passing
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Speaker 2: out back to back, belly to belly. People could not
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Speaker 2: move and there was absolutely no one struct auctions coming
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Speaker 2: from the amplification. This is a professional radio station, professional
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Speaker 2: radio distributor of content. iHeart, so you gotta have top
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Speaker 2: quality amplification. But forget about the MTA money taking agency.
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Speaker 2: In the midst of this emergency, people are dropping like flies.
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Speaker 2: They don't know what to do. It's like fix the
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Speaker 2: damn system. You raise the fares and service gets worse.
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Speaker 2: And the one time you really need instructions coming to
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Speaker 2: you is in a time of flooding and emergencies where
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Speaker 2: you don't know where the hell you can go to
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Speaker 2: get the hell out of there. People were stuck there
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Speaker 2: for like two two and a half hours and all
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Speaker 2: they would hear on occasion.
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Speaker 1: But so did somebody fix that? Yes, of course they can.
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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Come on, you go.
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Speaker 2: To Europe, you go to South America, they don't have
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Speaker 2: those problems. You go down to the railroad stations, they
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Speaker 2: have proper, beautiful.
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Speaker 3: They run on time, they're fast.
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Speaker 2: So as I look down in the tracks, because people
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Speaker 2: were saying to me, Curtis, Curtis, I'll come all the flooding,
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Speaker 2: I said, you see all the trash there, and they
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Speaker 2: catch basins, they never remove it. So what do you
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Speaker 2: think when the flood comes in and it's nobody's fault.
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Speaker 2: The rain is dropping so fast, as Ray Stagic said,
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Speaker 2: one to two three inches an hour, that's gonna all
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Speaker 2: go into the subway five. But the catch basins can
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Speaker 2: handle it if they're regularly cleaned out, which they're not.
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Speaker 2: And so I decided, look, I'm gonna spend two and
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Speaker 2: a half hours here being the air traffic controller for
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Speaker 2: all these people because no cops, no MTA employees, the motormen.
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Speaker 2: I know nothing, it's not my job. Conductors, I know nothing.
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Speaker 2: You know, like Sergeant Schultz, you know of Solid thirteen.
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Speaker 2: I know nothing. It was an absolute catastrophe, a disaster.
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Speaker 2: And you say this us, Bruce Blakeman, if you have
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to take out Kathy Hokel, you have got
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Speaker 1: New York's new wake Up Call. Curtis Leewah and Larry
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Speaker 1: Minty in the Morning on sevent ten WR.
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Speaker 4: Right on Time.
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Speaker 2: Rob Astorino, former county executive man who had challenge Andrew
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Speaker 2: evilized cuoma On did a great job in running for governor.
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Speaker 2: But he's been traveling the country going to where all
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Speaker 2: the primaries have taken place for Senate candidates and House candidates,
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Speaker 2: and he brings that all to our Newsmax and also
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Speaker 2: obviously on his show here WR Saturdays from four to five,
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Speaker 2: Rob will what about seventy two days out of November third,
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Speaker 2: the midterm elections, and I gotta say, it's starting to
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Speaker 2: look like the Democrats could potentially win the majority of
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Speaker 2: the Senate. Why do you think these changes are transpiring
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Speaker 2: so quickly now?
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I think part of it is it's cyclical.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: We're in this basically the sixty year of a presidency,
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Speaker 5: which is never good, and you know, people have some
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Speaker 5: problems with the economy and some issues. Trump arrangement syndrome
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Speaker 5: still still there, and you know, and then there's some
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Speaker 5: candidates that the Republicans put up there aren't the greatest,
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Speaker 5: like in Texas, but I see, the biggest issue right
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Speaker 5: now is Republicans are sitting on just brinks trucks full
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Speaker 5: of money and they have not unloaded it yet. And
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Speaker 5: with seventy two days to go, you know, you every
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Speaker 5: day that Republicans aren't spending what they should against their
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Speaker 5: opponents and defining their opponents is a win for the
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Speaker 5: Democrat and you've got to change things quickly. So I
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Speaker 5: Elon Musk apparently is gonna spend like two hundred million
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Speaker 5: dollars on Republican's behalf. Trump and his packs are sitting
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Speaker 5: on like a half a billion plus. You know, they
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Speaker 5: got the Senate campaigns, the House, what are they doing.
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Speaker 5: You've got races all over that should not be should
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Speaker 5: not be close, like Alaska, like Texas, Ohio. We're gonna
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Speaker 5: lose North Carolina, and you know Maine is a toss up.
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Speaker 5: I mean, think about what that would bring if the
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Speaker 5: Democrats take over again. We had just a slight taste
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Speaker 5: of the chaos with Biden. When the actual crazies are
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Speaker 5: in there running everything, I mean, the country will be
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Speaker 5: unrecognizable and and we won't be laughing anymore. So I
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Speaker 5: still think there's time for Republicans to win. I still
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Speaker 5: think they can win Michigan with Rogers. I still think
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Speaker 5: in the end, Texas is going to be Texas and
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Speaker 5: tall Rico will be defined for what he is. Alaska
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Speaker 5: has got this stupid rank choice vote and too Dan
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Speaker 5: Sullivan's running, so who knows what the heck is going
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Speaker 5: to happen there. But it's it's scary, It really is scary.
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Speaker 2: Curtis, Well, you're correct, because I don't know why they're
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Speaker 2: sitting on the money like a hen would an egg
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Speaker 2: ready to hatch it. Look at Kathy Hockle, she just
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Speaker 2: looked at that Siana Pole, she lost half her lead
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Speaker 2: to Blakeman, who's surging. She just put a dump out
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Speaker 2: the other day. I mean, you know, she's sitting on
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Speaker 2: a lot of cash. I gotta say, even though I
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Speaker 2: disagree with Hockel, it's a well done ad. It's not
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Speaker 2: Ai and what does it talk about? Affordability, cost of living,
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Speaker 2: the war in Iran? All three of these things Republicans
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Speaker 2: have to carry into the midterms because Trumpet time seems
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Speaker 2: to be distracted on those issues.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I mean, I this happens every presidency.
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Speaker 5: You know, as it gets deeper and deeper into the
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Speaker 5: end of the term, people start to tune it out.
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Speaker 5: And that's just natural. And it's going to happen for Trump.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna it's gonna happen for the next president as
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Speaker 5: it happened in the presidents before, and that party kind
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Speaker 5: of suffers, you know, because people they just think everything
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Speaker 5: is the same, right. Trump is a Republican, so all
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Speaker 5: Republicans are like Trump, and that's not the case. You know,
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Speaker 5: a lot of these races too, Alaska, Texas for instance,
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Speaker 5: some others. There's a lot of specific issues in that
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Speaker 5: state that people are talking about. Other than you know,
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Speaker 5: the economy or Trump or the war. And and you
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Speaker 5: know you and I talked about this on the show too,
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Speaker 5: right with Larry. The AI data centers are becoming a
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Speaker 5: major major issues. Mike Rogers in Michigan now just kind
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Speaker 5: of backtracked a little bit and said he supports a
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Speaker 5: one year moratorium. Texas is a lot closer than it
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Speaker 5: should be. Even in the governor's race, Abbott was very
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Speaker 5: much in favor of AI data centers. He's backtracking. So
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Speaker 5: it's a very big issue in the next seventy two
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Speaker 5: days and Republic.
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Speaker 1: That's actually cuts across both.
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Speaker 5: You know both. That's why Hope will of course put
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Speaker 5: the the moratorium. She wasn't stupid on this one.
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Speaker 2: Now, the President himself is no fan of mail in ballots.
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Speaker 2: It clearly does not work in California, where they could
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Speaker 2: be counting well past the election date a week or more.
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Speaker 1: Yet, Florida, they've streamlined it ever.
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Speaker 2: Since their disaster in two thousand, where we had to
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Speaker 2: find wait for eight weeks of deliberations and the United
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Speaker 2: States Supreme Court to determine that Bush forty three had
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Speaker 2: beat Gore.
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Speaker 1: They really tailored it a.
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Speaker 2: Third of Floridians vote by mail and they have their
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Speaker 2: results that night. No complaints, Nobody says, you know, oh,
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Speaker 2: you know, influencing the election. Why can't we get everything
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Speaker 2: to function the way Florida does, where you have all
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Speaker 2: these tools in the toolbox, but everything is decided by
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Speaker 2: the night of the election.
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Speaker 5: And Florida had two time zones. The Panhandle is a
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Speaker 5: separate time zone. And they get it right.
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Speaker 4: They get it right.
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Speaker 5: Immediately because they know what they're doing. They confronted their
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Speaker 5: problems with the you know, Bush versus Gore. Look, California,
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Speaker 5: California gets the results they want to get right. They
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Speaker 5: take their sweet ass time because they got to figure
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Speaker 5: out which bags account and which bags out. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's it's.
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Speaker 4: Not that hard.
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Speaker 5: It really and truly is isn't because when you either
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Speaker 5: mail in or on the machines that you know the readers,
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Speaker 5: they're done. The minute you shut that off, they're tabulated.
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Speaker 5: You just really send that result into the Central Bard
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Speaker 5: of Elections and.
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Speaker 4: Boom, the results tabulate.
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Speaker 5: I don't see why it takes that long.
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Speaker 4: It should never take that long.
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Speaker 5: So it's incompetence and then maybe the corruption work.
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Speaker 2: Well, it can work as it worked for the President
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Speaker 2: who won the seven battleground stage and won the popular
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Speaker 2: vote by using all the rules in the toolbox well
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Speaker 2: ahead of time. And let's just hope that the whole
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Speaker 2: process can reform itself to give the voter an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to know that each and every vote really does count.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know in these elections like Michigan, where
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Speaker 5: Detroit is notorious for coming in late looking at what
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Speaker 5: they need, that's where the Republicans better have their election
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Speaker 5: integrity teams, you know, scattered about it all the voting
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Speaker 5: places and polling places, same thing in like an ann
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Speaker 5: arbor where it's all kookie left baccos, you know, same thing,
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Speaker 5: but we always put in we don't emphasize that as
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Speaker 5: much as we should, and we need to.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Rob Aschenarino.
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Speaker 2: New York's New wake Up Call, Curtious Sleewa and Larry
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Speaker 1: The Morning one wr exactly number one.
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Speaker 2: That's a fact, not the fiction you hear over from
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Speaker 2: the shot Shock. But some of the best parts of
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Speaker 2: this show that involved Larry, who's away today transporting his
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Speaker 2: son for the start of his college semester, is when
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Speaker 2: Joel Knumaya joins US film journalists and wr moving minute
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Speaker 2: hoax and I want you to indulge me for a second, Joe,
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Speaker 2: because I'm gonna call this the Good, the Bad, and
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Speaker 2: the Ugly.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready for it?
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Speaker 4: I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: Currently, Tom Holland can't get any bigger than Tom Holland
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Speaker 2: obviously star of the Bust them Out Brand New Day
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Speaker 2: Spider Man movie, but he's also in Odyssey. He married
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Speaker 2: the leading lady. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Now,
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Speaker 2: how do you get to be in two movies at
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Speaker 2: the same time that they're coming out in the same
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Speaker 2: summer season and marry the leading lady?
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Speaker 4: I think you just find the magic ay fall of
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Speaker 4: the genie in the bottle and you make your w
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Speaker 4: that happens, by the way, I love Churtis, but then
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Speaker 4: you hope so funny dud because I didn't like the
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Speaker 4: Spider Man movie, I'm okay with the I just want
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Speaker 4: to say I'm okay with the Spider Man movie before
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Speaker 4: we go further. I don't mind the Spider Man movie.
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Speaker 4: I just like the other Spider Man movies better. Oh,
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Speaker 4: let's just go on to that.
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Speaker 2: Joe, aren't you afraid of all those Spider Man fans
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Speaker 2: out there just besieging you. I mean you finally, you
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Speaker 2: finally gave it a three and a half stars because
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Speaker 2: Larry sort of nudged you.
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Speaker 1: But you were stuck.
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Speaker 4: I was stuck it through. Well, I've got my spider
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Speaker 4: I'm jen X. By the way, you guys were talking
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Speaker 4: about generation, I'm jen X. So I've got my old
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Speaker 4: spidy webshooter from like the early seventies that I have.
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Speaker 4: So if anybody I've got my spidy Webs, yes, I'm
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Speaker 4: not scared.
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Speaker 1: That's that's my salvation.
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Speaker 2: Now let me take from the good that's obviously Tom Holland,
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Speaker 2: who couldn't be doing any better, to the bad. I
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Speaker 2: noticed it acted David Crumbhols, who's only forty eight years old,
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Speaker 2: it's spent thirty years in the business, who was a
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Speaker 2: pe in a number of great movies, Oppenheimer and others.
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Speaker 2: He's called it quits and says I'm fighting for roles.
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Speaker 2: It off for less money now and less opportunities than
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Speaker 2: the way it used to be in the nineties. Is
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Speaker 2: that what other actors and actresses are facing in Hollywood.
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Speaker 4: It's a good problem. I mean, it's a good question.
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Speaker 4: It's a sad problem. I think David crmos is really good.
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Speaker 4: He was in the Springsteen movie last year. By the way,
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Speaker 4: he played Supergirl's father, and I didn't like the Supergirl movie,
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Speaker 4: but he played Supergirl's father a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 4: when that movie came out. I think he's great, and
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Speaker 4: I think it's such a shame that it's you know
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Speaker 4: what this is. This is the disparity between a great
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Speaker 4: character actor and actors like Tom Holland and others who
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Speaker 4: you know, Timothy Shallomey, who get those lead roles, and
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Speaker 4: those those character actors are often those guys are sometimes
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Speaker 4: fighting for scraps or they're fighting for roles. I remember
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Speaker 4: when back when Sideways came out and Paul Giamatti, who
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Speaker 4: one of the best actors we've got, wasn't nominated for
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Speaker 4: an Oscar. The other three actors were, but he wasn't.
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Speaker 4: And he's since been nominated twice, once for Cinderella Man
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Speaker 4: and once for The Holdovers. But he's an actor that
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Speaker 4: you think, I'll see anything with Paul Giamati in it,
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Speaker 4: but he's not getting Tom Holland money. And it's it's
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Speaker 4: they serve different roles. But it's really a shame that
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Speaker 4: somebody like Crumbhols is hanging it up because because he's
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Speaker 4: got to fight for roles like that. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: there's only a few character actors that sometimes get that status.
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Speaker 4: Sam Rockwell's another one. I love him. He's great. John
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Speaker 4: Malkovich for decades has been in one of those actors,
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Speaker 4: and I think he might finally get his oscar for
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Speaker 4: this movie that's coming out called Wildhorse nine. Who knows.
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Speaker 4: That's just a guess. But it's a shame. It's the
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Speaker 4: it's the constant pull between the artists and sort of
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Speaker 4: the and the business, right between the ones who who
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Speaker 4: can put on the Spider Man costume and the ones
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Speaker 4: who can.
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Speaker 1: Now Joe join me.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to join my colleagues in shag Aftra and
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Speaker 2: go out on strike when the nanny told radio people, no,
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Speaker 2: we don't need you, but we're gonna stop AI right
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Speaker 2: in its tracks. Remember we discussed early on with Larry
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Speaker 2: and yourself, the AI generated Val Kilmer movie.
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Speaker 4: Uh right, right?
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Speaker 1: Is that out?
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Speaker 4: No? I don't think there's a release date for it yet.
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Speaker 4: It's a you know, it's one of those things that
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Speaker 4: his family approved it, and Kilmer himself was sort of
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Speaker 4: an odd, you know, quirky, odd guy who liked that
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Speaker 4: kind of stuff. It's all as deep as the grave.
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Speaker 4: And he died in twenty twenty five at the age
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Speaker 4: of sixty five. But he allowed his image to be
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Speaker 4: sort of used for that. So who knows what's gonna
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Speaker 4: happen with that. There's lots of rules that they're putting down,
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Speaker 4: and I think they need to, but he allowed that
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Speaker 4: to happen. So he wanted his his his image to
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Speaker 4: be used for this film that he had signed up for.
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Speaker 4: Who knows what will happen. It will be interesting to
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Speaker 4: look at, but I don't know if that's gonna be
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Speaker 4: I don't think that's good for the business at all.
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Speaker 4: And I know, like you, I'm I'm I'm very anti
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Speaker 4: AI and especially when it comes to things like that.
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Speaker 4: You know, there was there was things in the remember
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Speaker 4: they would kind of use actors from previous movies, so
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Speaker 4: like Fred Astaire and they would whatever and bring them
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Speaker 4: on Boguart to sell pepsi or coke. Same kind of
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Speaker 4: thing I think is going to happen. And I think
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Speaker 4: that's a scary thing, and actors have a right to
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Speaker 4: fight for it, to fight against it.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: And yesterday Joe is National Radio Day celebrated by all
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Speaker 2: of iHeart and they have gone on record as saying,
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Speaker 2: we use AI actual intelligence, we will not use AI
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Speaker 2: artificial intelligence. There are very few in the business world
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Speaker 2: that involved entertainment who will make a stand like that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love that kind of thing, and I
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Speaker 4: think that the more stand we take. And whenever I
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Speaker 4: write anything for places, I always you know, let folks
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Speaker 4: know there's no AI. I'd rather cut off my hands
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Speaker 4: than use AI. And I think that that kind of
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Speaker 4: thing is when it comes to artistry, when it comes
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Speaker 4: to Hollywood, you can feel it, you could like And
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Speaker 4: that's one of the reasons why I think The Honesty
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Speaker 4: was such a huge success. People felt the actual will
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Speaker 4: you know, the actual ship, the actual cave, the actual
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Speaker 4: island or whatever that was filmed on it. I mean,
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Speaker 4: there's some CGI or whatever, but people can feel when
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Speaker 4: it's fake. And that was one of my things about
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Speaker 4: last week's with the end of Oak Street. You know,
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Speaker 4: I know you can't get a real dinosaur, you know,
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Speaker 4: those guys cost a lot of money. But I feel
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Speaker 4: like when you when you when you are watching this
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Speaker 4: all the CGI stuff, it just drains it of all
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Speaker 4: the creativity. And that's one reason why I think that
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Speaker 4: the Odyssey was a huge success. It was very non AI,
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Speaker 4: non non fake looking, and I think that's a that's
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Speaker 4: a positive, that's a benefit. People like that.
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Speaker 2: One thing I can say, Joe Nomeyer, I don't know
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Speaker 2: you as long as Larry. You know, we will put
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Speaker 2: together and then ship this partnership by Tom Cutty. But
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Speaker 2: you're not a fagacy. You're not a fagacy. You know
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Speaker 2: what a fugacy is.
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Speaker 4: I I think I do. Why don't you remind me fake.
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Speaker 2: Phony fraud who uses AI artificial intelligence. That's about the
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Speaker 2: highest commendation I can give you, Joe.
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Speaker 4: I take it to heart. Thank you, Sarah. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 4: I am not I tell you awear
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Speaker 2: That with honor, with honor, the same same time, same place,
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Speaker 2: next week upon Larry's return to take a gift