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Opening Segment 10/19/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Slewa, Menti, they're better together.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Slewa and Larry Menti in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I concur with that statement, better together. Because essentially,
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  Speaker 2: I'm urban boy. I was never a member of the
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  Speaker 2: 4-H club. I don't live in the suburbs. But Larry Menti,
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  Speaker 2: you and our producer Natalie, you live in what I call,
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  Speaker 2: leave it to be the land, father knows best, little
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  Speaker 2: house in the prairie. You're out there where most of
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  Speaker 2: our listeners are, the suburbs. And there is an article
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  Speaker 2: that says, especially October, December, the deer have the urge
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  Speaker 2: to merge. They're all over New Jersey roads looking for sex.
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  Speaker 2: And state officials are warning you better crawl along some
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  Speaker 2: of these roads because if they have that instinct that
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  Speaker 2: there's a buck on the other side or a doe
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  Speaker 2: on one side, man, that's it. They're running right across
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  Speaker 2: that asphalt right in front of your vehicle. Correct or
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  Speaker 2: not correct? No, it's absolutely correct. The weirdest thing is,
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  Speaker 2: as I've complained several times on the air here, my
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  Speaker 2: backyard is usually filled with deer. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: no deer. Like the last couple of weeks, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't seen any of the baby deer or the
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  Speaker 1: fawns or the bucks or the does. Nobody's been out there.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess it's like mating season in America. They're
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  Speaker 1: all going to the singles bars.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm just thinking, I haven't seen them walking
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  Speaker 3: around in the past two weeks either.
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  Speaker 1: Where are they going? Well, they're looking for love. In
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  Speaker 1: all the wrong places. They're out there searching. In all
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  Speaker 1: the wrong places.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The roadways. On the roads.
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  Speaker 4: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: Especially at dusk and dawn, they just come bolting out.
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  Speaker 3: And I know the areas, I'm sure you do too, Larry,
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  Speaker 3: where they tend to jump out on you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's anywhere. I mean, it happened down the
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  Speaker 1: block from my house. Oh, yeah. So I was driving
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  Speaker 1: here to work just a couple of years ago and
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  Speaker 1: a big buck jumps like out of the woods right
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  Speaker 1: in front of my car and I veered off and
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  Speaker 1: I hit a rock. And so I called the insurance
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  Speaker 1: company and the insurance company said, don't worry, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: care of it. You know, these bucks, they're a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: So the guy called another, you know, you give all
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  Speaker 1: the information to the first guy, then somebody else calls
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  Speaker 1: you back that's going to handle it. He calls me
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  Speaker 1: back and he says, wow. He goes, listen, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: care of this car. It's horrible when you hit a deer.
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  Speaker 1: They can do big damage. And I go, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit the deer. And he went, okay. I'll pretend
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  Speaker 1: you didn't say that. Luckily, we're not recording right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I went, why? And he goes, because if you
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  Speaker 1: hit the deer, you get 100% coverage. If you veer
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  Speaker 1: off and you have an accident, well, part of that
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  Speaker 1: is your fault. And you only get half to 60%.
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  Speaker 1: I went, what? So if I were to kill the deer...
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  Speaker 1: I would have made out. I would have done much better.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, well, as it is right now, you're still
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  Speaker 1: going to do much better if you can just say
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  Speaker 1: that you hit the deer. If you can agree with
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  Speaker 1: me that you hit the deer.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, you know what? It's coming back to
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  Speaker 1: me now. I went right for it. I think I
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  Speaker 1: must have hit my head and I was confused. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I hit the deer.
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  Speaker 2: So now let me ask you this, Larry. With your
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  Speaker 2: peripheral vision that you proved you have, as this big
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  Speaker 2: buck jumps right in front and you veer away and
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  Speaker 2: crash into the wall, on the other side, did you
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  Speaker 2: happen to see a doe flashing.
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  Speaker 1: Her tail in this direction? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you, it was weird. It's a one-lane road,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's not a lot of road. And there's,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, I hit rocks. There's like a rock wall.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's thick brush. It came flying out of
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  Speaker 1: the brush. But I think you're right. He probably was
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  Speaker 1: on the prowl. Why else would do that? Unless something
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  Speaker 1: was chasing it.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently the key months are October, December. This is
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  Speaker 2: the mating season. And they go just absolutely kookalamunga.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've actually, you know, and I live in a
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  Speaker 3: smaller area. Same thing, you know, one lane roads and everything.
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  Speaker 3: They come out all the time. A few years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I was out on Route 3, probably near Clifton. You know,
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  Speaker 3: not a place you would normally think you see deer.
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  Speaker 4: Six lanes. This deer comes out. I could see it
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  Speaker 4: coming from the other side. He gets to it. It's
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  Speaker 4: like a steeplechase. It goes over the barrier, then into ours.
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  Speaker 3: And you see, thank goodness, it's, you know, 4 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, so it's not as many cars on
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  Speaker 3: the road.
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  Speaker 4: I had never seen anything like that in my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: We have an eight-foot fence in the front of our
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  Speaker 1: house with little spikes at the top. We had a
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  Speaker 1: deer jump that.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Then he got hit by a car. It was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Don scared it away, and it went running and
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  Speaker 1: jumped and then made it over the fence but got
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  Speaker 1: hit by a car. Don caused the death of that deer?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to assume it died as it limped away.
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  Speaker 1: We'll rewrite.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you my one experience. It was on
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island where you were born, Natalie. It's an island.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When I lived there, I never saw a deer because
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  Speaker 3: it was like 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm campaigning there. This is in 2021 against Eric Adams.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy's with me. We're near the South Shore. They claim
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  Speaker 2: there are about 2,500 white-tailed deer there. And she sees
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  Speaker 2: the deer and tells the guy driving the campaign van,
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  Speaker 2: pull over, pull over.
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  Speaker 1: She starts feeding the deer. Oh, no. A guy from Staten, like, hey, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was going to vote for you, but, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a New York state law.
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  Speaker 1: You can't feed the deer. I said, you want to
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  Speaker 1: try to tell my wife that?
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  Speaker 4: What was she feeding them? What did she have on her?
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  Speaker 2: A combination like bird seed, other things that she keeps together.
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  Speaker 2: She's always feeding the animals. But they all started coming
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  Speaker 2: to her. She has this ability, like, That is weird.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's strange. He must have some type of
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  Speaker 1: innate ability because most deer, you start walking at them,
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  Speaker 1: they take off. First of all, they stare you down.
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  Speaker 4: Stare you down.
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  Speaker 1: Because they want to know, are you serious? Are you
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  Speaker 1: walking towards me? And then at a certain point, they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: I think the way they got there, because they weren't
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  Speaker 2: normal to Staten Island, it's an island, is they swam
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  Speaker 2: across that Arthur Kill Killman Cull from New Jersey and
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  Speaker 2: where I'm surprised that toxicity didn't incinerate them. That's one
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  Speaker 2: of the most polluted waterways. But the closest point is
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  Speaker 2: Perth Amboy to Tottenville. You could hit a golf ball
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  Speaker 2: from one side to the other. I think that's probably
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  Speaker 2: where the deer then migrate to Staten Island. Because obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's a hell of a lot better being in Staten
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  Speaker 2: Island than New Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because they weren't going over the Bayonne Bridge. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I'm still stunned that Nancy was able to
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  Speaker 1: approach the deer and it didn't run. She is the
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  Speaker 1: female version of Dr. Doolittle.
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  Speaker 2: When she visits her mom in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania...
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  Speaker 2: She walks up to the fence. The deer see her
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  Speaker 2: and immediately run to her. She feeds the deer.
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  Speaker 1: And naturally, people who see that in the nearby houses say,
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  Speaker 1: please don't do.
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  Speaker 2: That, lady.
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  Speaker 1: You're just going to encourage them all.
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, some people view the deer as if
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  Speaker 2: they're Agent Orange in hooves because they just consume everything
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  Speaker 2: like your wife does.
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  Speaker 1: They're giant rats is what they are.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of giant rats.
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  Speaker 1: You have a giant rat in your house? No. I
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  Speaker 1: hope not.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the biggest rat this morning coming in. Cat size.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen a rat in a long time coming in.
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  Speaker 1: They're everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. This one was huge right in front
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  Speaker 4: of our building.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, put a saddle on it and ride it around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they try everything.
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  Speaker 2: Like with the white-tailed deer in Staten Island, one thing
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  Speaker 2: about Staten Island that's good, you can't hunt there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like in New Jersey, they have a hunting season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be a crazy place to hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Hell yeah. But they use non-lethal vasectomies.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So they shoot the deer, mostly the bucks.
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  Speaker 2: They shoot them with a dart, you know, that basically
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  Speaker 2: drops them.
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  Speaker 1: They're still alive. And then they use this vasectomy. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine a vasectomy on a deer? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are guys, right, who say, well, I
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  Speaker 2: want a vasectomy because I don't want to get caught
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  Speaker 2: cheating or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But my God, a vasectomy.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently it's cut the herd in half from the
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  Speaker 2: 2,500 that I remember back in 2021 when I inquired
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  Speaker 2: of people out there, along with their wild turkeys, which
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  Speaker 2: are all over the place, going up.
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  Speaker 1: And down Highland Boulevard. The lights change, Larry. It's a
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  Speaker 1: green light. It's on Seaview. I run out there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking the cars are going to hit the wild turkeys,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And everybody goes, ah, they cross every day.
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  Speaker 2: They wait for the light to turn green.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. They're safer out here on Highland Boulevard,
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  Speaker 1: the most heavily trafficked, I might add, of all the thoroughfares. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Than anybody else. We would love to know if you've
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  Speaker 1: seen any horny deer. And if you have decided, man,
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  Speaker 1: if I could only give them a vasectomy, go to
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  Speaker 1: single day, so I'm sure they have some stories. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 2: How many times have you looked through your scroll and
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  Speaker 2: you've seen pictures of either crocodiles or alligators just.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up out of the water? You know, you see
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  Speaker 1: their beady eyes. Gone. Well, it happened in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: And Larry's going to guide everybody out there who thinks
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  Speaker 2: that it's paradise in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Except down there, you've got to watch the gators. All
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  Speaker 1: of that up next.