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Rob Astorino, WOR and NewsMax host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Time, Larry and Natalie, for our colleague Rob Astorino. You
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  Speaker 1: can hear him on his own show, Saturdays, 4 to 5,
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  Speaker 1: right here at 7, 10 WR, but right on time.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, I sat down yesterday and I did the
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  Speaker 1: polls on this Marist poll. And I'm telling you, I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling a Blakeman surge here. He's winning independence, which, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, generally doesn't happen until the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: The unlike abilities for Hochul continue to be there. And
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  Speaker 1: he seems like he's got a tight campaign now. The
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  Speaker 1: commercials are good. He's going to the right places. He's
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  Speaker 1: with Trump in Syracuse today. What's your perception?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I've been saying this, Curtis, consistently. The numbers for
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  Speaker 2: Hochul are not where they need to be. Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: They're soft. She's unlikable. They don't think the state's going
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  Speaker 2: in the right direction. And Blakeman, as you said, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: independency has consistently been winning. OK, so that with regard
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  Speaker 2: to upstate New York still going with with a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: And that's actually people say, oh, they always go Republican.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't been that way in the last decade. They've
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  Speaker 2: gone Democrat as well. And, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: upstate New Yorkers have left or died. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's changed a little bit. But he's also she's also
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  Speaker 2: not doing well in the suburbs and Long Island's included
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  Speaker 2: in that. So the other key thing in Long Island,
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  Speaker 2: all the town supervisors are up. Most of them are Republican.
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  Speaker 2: So they're going to be pulling out the vote, too.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things working in Blakeman's direction
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  Speaker 2: this year. I go back to my polling in 2009
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  Speaker 2: when I won my county executive race. I was losing
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  Speaker 2: by seven or eight points in a two to one
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  Speaker 2: Democratic county late in the election. And it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you can't win. You can't win. And I won by 13.
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  Speaker 2: That was a huge swing. Same thing when I was
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  Speaker 2: running for governor. Now, I lost the race by 12
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  Speaker 2: and a half or whatever it was. But the poll
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  Speaker 2: in the public polling had me down by 30 points
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  Speaker 2: going into Election Day. And, you know, we picked up
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  Speaker 2: 20 points because people actually voted. So the point is,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot happening. Look at the numbers, but don't
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  Speaker 2: rely totally on the numbers. People still have to vote,
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  Speaker 2: and they're in a pissy mood right now for the
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  Speaker 2: right reasons. I don't know if you guys saw the debate.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to forget this, but last night, and
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  Speaker 2: of course it was on New York One, because that's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing the Democrats will do. They only want
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  Speaker 2: to do debates on cable to limit people being able
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  Speaker 2: to see it instead of on Channel 4 or 7, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But that Attorney General debate here in New York, Saritha
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  Speaker 2: Kamatareddy is an unbelievable candidate. She sliced and diced Tish
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  Speaker 2: James last night on everything. It was so embarrassing to
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  Speaker 2: watch Tish James try to hum, you know, hum and
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  Speaker 2: a hum and a hum in her way through this
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  Speaker 2: on the Cornell situation, on ice, on everything. It was
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  Speaker 2: really embarrassing. And I hope people... Take a look at
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  Speaker 2: Sarita Kamatureti for Attorney General, because God knows we need
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  Speaker 2: a change there. She was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we should talk about more of that on Monday
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  Speaker 3: and pull some of the bites and some of the
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  Speaker 3: sound from that so we can play it for people.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll try to get to that on Monday. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there was so much going on last night, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Things like that get lost, and especially because of the
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  Speaker 3: outlet that's running it. But I wanted to talk to
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  Speaker 3: you about the polls because you talked about them a
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  Speaker 3: moment ago. You talked about your own poll, how it
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  Speaker 3: was wrong in Westchester County. I saw Harry Enten talking
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  Speaker 3: about the polls and how bad they were in the
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  Speaker 3: last election. And every single time it seems to favor Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: So I started to do a deeper dive on in it.
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  Speaker 3: And Real Clear Politics does a great job at looking
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  Speaker 3: at the polls and looking at their potential bias. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to this. They studied 18 polls. over a 10-year period.
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  Speaker 3: And how many of you do you think favored Republicans
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  Speaker 3: of those 18?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say zero.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's four. It's four. So 14 to four. But
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  Speaker 3: listen to some of the Democratic bias. For instance, let's
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  Speaker 3: pick out Monmouth University right down the road. 84% of
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  Speaker 3: the errors they made favored Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: 84%.
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  Speaker 3: And so the problem is, as you well know, people
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  Speaker 3: see polls and sometimes it suppresses the votes. You got
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  Speaker 3: to ignore the polls. You have to, I know it's
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  Speaker 3: a necessary evil, but I think that you would counsel people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, vote with your heart, not with the polls.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a hundred percent. I also wish if I had
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  Speaker 2: my way, I would ban polling to be public because
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  Speaker 2: it has so skewed the debates and the elections and
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  Speaker 2: people like, Like you said, they're like, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: out because my candidate is winning big or my candidate
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  Speaker 2: is going to get clobbered or whatever. And so people
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  Speaker 2: don't go out or they follow the leader. They want
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  Speaker 2: to be with the winner. So they vote for who
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  Speaker 2: they think the polls are telling them they're going to win.
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  Speaker 2: And I would love if I could snap a finger
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  Speaker 2: and do one thing, it would be to ban public polling.
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  Speaker 2: Just stop it. People make up your own freaking minds.
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  Speaker 2: But having said that, I've seen this all the time. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: they're not always wrong. And generally speaking, they're within reason.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, you have a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: brewing at once and people have to vote and things
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  Speaker 2: get skewed in these numbers. And there's such an overemphasis
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  Speaker 2: on this, like it is a horse race with not
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  Speaker 2: actual people being involved in it. So hopefully, I honestly
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  Speaker 2: believe the timing is right. And think about how crazy
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  Speaker 2: this is, guys. You've got Republican states that are struggling, right?
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are doing much better, at least in the polls,
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  Speaker 2: in these red states. And in purple and blue states,
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  Speaker 2: you've got Republicans doing better. Republicans can actually win in Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: They're winning in Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: In Minnesota, she's winning to FOIA. So it's a crazy year.
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  Speaker 1: One last thing on the polls, though. They are very consistent. Affordability,
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  Speaker 1: cost of living, war in Iran, almost every poll you
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  Speaker 1: look at, how do the Republicans overcome that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one other thing, though, about the polling, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been very consistent, and the pollsters admit this, it is
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  Speaker 2: very difficult to get accurate responses from certainly people in
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  Speaker 2: rural areas and people who have been voting for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That's a question that if they do not ask in
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  Speaker 2: a poll... It is skewed. Who did you vote for
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  Speaker 2: in 2024 for president? Because that is that is much
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  Speaker 2: more reliable than not having that question asked. And that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I look in polling right away, whether they
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  Speaker 2: ask that question or not. But, yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: affordability is no question. I mean, some of the states
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  Speaker 2: I was just in Nebraska, which is very red. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're struggling in the polling. They're going to win,
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  Speaker 2: I think. But, yeah, the affordability issue is a big
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  Speaker 2: it's a big issue. There's no question about it. The
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  Speaker 2: question is whether people want to put a long-term solution
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  Speaker 2: by giving the Democrats power or not.
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  Speaker 3: What were you doing in Nebraska?
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  Speaker 2: Pete Ricketts, the senator there, I was with him for Newsmax,
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  Speaker 2: so we were together for Monday. And, you know, look, again,
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska will come home. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: Pete Ricketts is going to win, but it's tighter than
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  Speaker 2: it should be, at least in the polling. And the
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  Speaker 2: bad part about this is, national republicans have to divert
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  Speaker 2: money so they're pulling the plug in north carolina looks
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  Speaker 2: like they're pulling the plug in georgia and they're sending
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  Speaker 2: that money to other states like texas and michigan and
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  Speaker 2: even kansas which wasn't they haven't voted for a democrat
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  Speaker 2: for senate since the 1930s literally but they're sending money
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  Speaker 2: there to prop up their candidate.
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  Speaker 3: So people can see that out on monday what time.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know i don't i don't know when it's
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  Speaker 2: going to air oh you're bad.
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  Speaker 3: You're really bad at promoting things newsmax is going to
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  Speaker 3: be upset with you rob astorino Host of the Rob
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  Speaker 3: Bastarino Show on WOR, Saturdays, 4 to 5 p.m., and
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  Speaker 3: host of Saturday Agenda, 1 to 3 p.m. on Newsmax.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: It will air tomorrow on my show on Newsmax.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, perfect. Former Westchester County executive.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Rob.