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Hour 2: Ed Sheeran’s Philly concert · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, as Curtis just mentioned a second ago, I was
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  Speaker 1: at the Ed Sheeran concert at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: And before I get to talking about what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the concert, let me tell you something I learned just
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  Speaker 1: walking in the front door, actually just driving up to
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, that the media is worse than I thought.
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  Speaker 1: The media just lies. For some political advantage. It's what
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  Speaker 1: they hope to be true and not what they know
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  Speaker 1: to be true. And let me tell you how I
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  Speaker 1: knew that. That as I'm driving up, I heard, we
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  Speaker 1: got there earlier because we heard there was going to
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  Speaker 1: be all these protesters, right? Didn't the media say that?
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  Speaker 1: Expect hundreds, maybe thousands of protesters outside.
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  Speaker 2: I saw eight.
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  Speaker 3: Eight!
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  Speaker 4: Eight!
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  Speaker 1: Now, apparently a little bit earlier, just to be clear
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  Speaker 1: and just to be honest and do not what the
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  Speaker 1: media does, apparently a little bit earlier, there were as
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  Speaker 1: many as 30. But I guess when they looked around
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  Speaker 1: and they saw that it wasn't a big showing, most
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  Speaker 1: of them went home. So it was just about eight
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  Speaker 1: crazies that were out there. And I know it was
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  Speaker 1: eight because I was stopped in traffic and I counted them.
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  Speaker 1: So that didn't happen. Then I get inside and I'm
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  Speaker 1: expected to find almost an empty stadium. Remember? They were saying,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way this is going to be sold out.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much blowback against Ed Sheeran that it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be almost empty. Half full. It was sold out.
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  Speaker 1: It was absolutely sold out. And so, reporting on this
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  Speaker 1: story is suspect from the very beginning. But you know
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  Speaker 1: the story by now that Macklemore, a washed-up rapper who's
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  Speaker 1: trying to make a comeback, hasn't had a hit in
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  Speaker 1: a decade. Even then, he had one, maybe two, thrift shop,
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  Speaker 1: and that was probably it. He was trying to make
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  Speaker 1: a comeback. Ed Sheeran was kind enough to put him
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  Speaker 1: on his bill as the opening act, and he makes
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  Speaker 1: a political statement against Israel and pro-Palestine, which then started
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  Speaker 1: off a torment for or a torrent of activity after that,
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  Speaker 1: where the promoter was dropping Macklemore, Robert Kraft said he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't perform in Boston, other owners of venues said they
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  Speaker 1: can't have Macklemore, and then people quit on him after that,
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran, all the other opening acts. Even his band
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  Speaker 1: left him. His band left him. But he still performed
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia with no band and no opening act. But
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  Speaker 1: he did have an opening statement.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be an activist musician, but this has put me
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of an important and passionate argument about
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  Speaker 5: freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on
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  Speaker 5: the planet.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you just heard there, there was
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  Speaker 1: silence when he read this statement. So there was almost
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  Speaker 1: 100,000 people and there was silence.
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  Speaker 5: I have tried in my career not to be a
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  Speaker 5: political commentator of any kind because I want my music
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  Speaker 5: and shows to be about unity, not division, about humanity,
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  Speaker 5: not politics.
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  Speaker 1: And then he made the comment that made news after that.
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  Speaker 5: What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival
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  Speaker 5: on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
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  Speaker 5: What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
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  Speaker 5: My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation
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  Speaker 5: and loss of civilians' lives, of children's lives.
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  Speaker 1: But then he said it's important no matter what because
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  Speaker 1: he owed it to his fans for the tour to
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  Speaker 1: go on.
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  Speaker 5: My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone
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  Speaker 5: and that matters hugely to me. Honoring my commitment to
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  Speaker 5: my fans is also completely central to who I am.
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  Speaker 5: And that is why I'm here tonight on my own
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  Speaker 5: and continuing my current tour.
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  Speaker 1: And then he got a standing ovation at the end
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  Speaker 1: of that because people were appreciative that they weren't going
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  Speaker 1: to hear. He said, that's it. That's no more politics.
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  Speaker 1: I made my statement. There's no more politics. And then
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  Speaker 1: he said, but I wasn't going to let you down.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to show up tonight. And he got
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation. And I will tell you, he said
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  Speaker 1: at the very end that this is the best show
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  Speaker 1: I've ever done. Curtis, he didn't have a band with him.
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  Speaker 1: So he had to play every instrument recorded. And he
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  Speaker 1: did it live. So he would play backup guitar, record it.
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  Speaker 1: Then he'd put the guitar down, he'd go sing backup vocals,
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  Speaker 1: and you saw this all play out as he's doing it.
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  Speaker 2: As if he were in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he sang the song, and he's hitting
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  Speaker 1: foot pedals for the drums, for the backup guitar. The
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  Speaker 1: whole time he's singing, it was amazing. It was an amazing...
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the most talented people I have ever.
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  Speaker 2: Seen in my life. To do that in a stadium,
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  Speaker 2: I could see... You do that in a club, right?
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  Speaker 6: But a stadium with all the acoustics and all... That
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  Speaker 6: is absolutely phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And the energy he has, he was running around the stage.
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  Speaker 1: He did a couple of rap songs, which I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like that much, but he was performing and he was
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  Speaker 1: going crazy. You could see he was pouring himself out,
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  Speaker 1: but at the whole time he's doing all the music.
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  Speaker 1: Now he did have a band show up for a
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  Speaker 1: few songs, friends of his that said, look, what do
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  Speaker 1: you need? Anything you need, just tell us. And they
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  Speaker 1: flew out from LA and he said, I wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to ask them to do the whole concert. because they
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  Speaker 1: had three days to learn my songs. He said, so
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  Speaker 1: let's do three or four songs with them. So they
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  Speaker 1: played with them.
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  Speaker 6: So everybody was happy by the time the concert was
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  Speaker 6: wrapped up.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody left getting better than they expected. Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you one thing that happened. Another thing that happened
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't got as much play. And I tried to,
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  Speaker 1: I recorded it and I tried to pull sound of it,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't hear that, doesn't sound that well. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to describe it. So at one point
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  Speaker 1: near the end of the concert, he's exhausted now. You
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  Speaker 1: can see that. And he sits down and everybody applauds
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  Speaker 1: as he's sitting down. And he said, look, I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen tonight. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: when I heard the news, I thought that there might
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  Speaker 1: be a terrorist attack. I thought there was going to
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  Speaker 1: be hundreds of protesters outside. And He said, I even
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  Speaker 1: had a walkway to go through the middle of the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, no, let's not do that because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know how you were going to react. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if somebody was going to throw something at me
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  Speaker 1: or tackle me or attack me on the walkway. So
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  Speaker 1: I said, get rid of that. And I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, but the love you've showed me tonight gives
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  Speaker 1: me a lot of hope about this country and about
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  Speaker 1: the world. And he goes, I can't tell you how
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  Speaker 1: much I appreciate you and the love you showed me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And the place went crazy. They stood up. They applauded.
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  Speaker 1: He broke down in tears.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can't tell you how much we appreciate that
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  Speaker 6: you went to the concert so you could report to
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  Speaker 6: us what actually took place in the event as opposed
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  Speaker 6: to all these other third party or fourth party sort
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  Speaker 6: of responses. The one thing that he did make his
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  Speaker 6: political statement, I think it reflects what most Americans think.
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  Speaker 6: He said October 7th was horrific. So he dealt with
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  Speaker 6: that right away. But then he said what's going on
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  Speaker 6: in Gaza is a catastrophe, unjustifiable, and it's disproportionate to
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  Speaker 6: what had originally happened on October 7th, horrific, when Hamas
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  Speaker 6: invaded Israel and slaughtered and raped and destroyed and then
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  Speaker 6: took hostages. I thought that was very well said. I
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  Speaker 6: think it's reflected in polling of Americans now who are
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  Speaker 6: very down on Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. We'll see that
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  Speaker 6: this week when he comes in for the U.N. General
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  Speaker 6: Assembly speech on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: So he felt he had to say something.
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  Speaker 6: And I think what he said was a balanced response,
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  Speaker 6: which really is a reflection what I think a lot
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  Speaker 6: of Americans are thinking.
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  Speaker 3: He is.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Macklemore for a second. That scum. I
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  Speaker 1: really hate the man. I do, because I think he
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  Speaker 1: made it very difficult. And I saw how difficult it
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  Speaker 1: was for Ed Sheeran when he broke down in tears
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  Speaker 1: that nothing like this has happened to him. Good friends,
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  Speaker 1: he said during the concert. Good friends turned on me. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people I called to say help. they weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to help. And he said, my whole band left me.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what? That band may not work again
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  Speaker 1: because he now found out he can do this all
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  Speaker 1: by himself. And he said at one point, this is
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  Speaker 1: the best concert I've ever done in my life. But Macklemore,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot more to say about him because Macklemore
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  Speaker 1: has a history of anti-Semitic stuff, not just anti-Israel, anti-Semitic stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the most famous was in 2014. This ruined
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  Speaker 1: his career, by the way, when he walked on a
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  Speaker 1: stage in Seattle wearing a dark wig, a fake beard,
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  Speaker 1: and a prominent prosthetic hook nose. And everybody said at
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  Speaker 1: the time, oh, he's dressing up like a Hasidic Jew.
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  Speaker 1: He's dressing up like a Jew. He's making fun of
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  Speaker 1: Jews because he's made fun of them in the past.
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  Speaker 1: He denied that, but the backlash on that really ended
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  Speaker 1: his faltering career. So this isn't the first time he's
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  Speaker 1: done something like this. And anybody that supports this scum
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  Speaker 1: now should be ashamed of themselves.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, he's a martyr now. He's going to
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  Speaker 6: get dates. He's going to make a lot of money.
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  Speaker 6: And the one who didn't expect the blowback is Kraft
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  Speaker 6: and his son. Because now everything that we already knew
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  Speaker 6: was negative about Bob Kraft, and there's a lot, has
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  Speaker 6: just poured forth and they've associated him. We hadn't heard
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  Speaker 6: the name Epstein in a long time, right? We haven't
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  Speaker 6: heard anything about the Epstein files. Well, Kraft happens to
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  Speaker 6: appear in the Epstein files a few times. He's not
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  Speaker 6: a prominent friend of Epstein, you know, like, uh, Woody
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  Speaker 6: Allen and Bill Gates, but now that's come forward. And
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  Speaker 6: then negative things about his son who helps him in
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  Speaker 6: running the new England Patriots and Gillette stadium. By the way,
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  Speaker 6: I think, uh, Ed Sheeran. I keep saying Sheeran. Will
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  Speaker 6: be at the Gillette Stadium, I think, to 27th and 28th.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 6: The Krabs are catching a lot of blowback. I don't
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  Speaker 6: think he ever fathomed how much stuff would come back
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  Speaker 6: up and be aimed at him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe anything anymore. After going to that concert,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe anything anymore. I don't believe he's getting
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  Speaker 1: the blowback that they claim he's getting. I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: any of this. I think that there's a loud, angry
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  Speaker 1: voice in this country that are misled that has been
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  Speaker 1: leading the coverage and everything online. And I found out
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  Speaker 1: with my eyes that it just wasn't true. that it
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't true, that Ed Sheeran had huge support, bigger
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  Speaker 1: than Macklemore could ever have. By the way, when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, I want to talk about a hero pilot
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  Speaker 1: that risked his own life to save the lives of hundreds.
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• 11:41
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• 11:46
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  Speaker 1: well the pilot of an F-16 in Michigan whose name
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  Speaker 1: is not being released as of yet I just checked
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  Speaker 1: again is being hailed as a hero because he was
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  Speaker 1: flying an F-16 and apparently he is a well-established pilot
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  Speaker 1: that had some military training. And he was flying this
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  Speaker 1: F-16 over Traverse City when he lost control of it.
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  Speaker 1: And he was able, he was going down, but he
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  Speaker 1: was able to glide it miles away from any homes
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  Speaker 1: to a field and where one man, only one house
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  Speaker 1: was there anywhere near it, the home owned by Benjamin Vierberg,
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  Speaker 1: who was the first one to run over to find
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  Speaker 1: out if this pilot was okay, because it was quite
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  Speaker 1: a crash landing.
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  Speaker 8: I went over to him, and I was like, don't move,
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  Speaker 8: because I remember I took some CPR stuff back in
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  Speaker 8: the day, and they were like, tell the guy not
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  Speaker 8: to move. So I told him, don't move. He said
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  Speaker 8: he could wiggle his toes, so I assumed... Like he
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  Speaker 8: wasn't paralyzed. He had this pain in his lower spine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The condition is that he has right now is he's serious,
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  Speaker 1: but he's, it's not critical and he's expected to live.
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  Speaker 1: But Mr. Weyerberg said what everybody else said about him.
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  Speaker 8: Just want people to know that this guy is a
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  Speaker 8: hero because he could have crashed into Traverse City and
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people would have died potentially.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of amazing, I mean, to have that wherewithal.
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  Speaker 6: Now, on a much smaller scale, we didn't have time
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  Speaker 6: to cover this, but the congressman who was running for
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  Speaker 6: governor of Wisconsin, the Republican, was coming home from a
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  Speaker 6: Lincoln Day dinner in Wisconsin. And remember, he was in
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  Speaker 6: a single-engine plane with the pilot, and they crashed into
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  Speaker 6: Lake Wasua. And then they swam to shore. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: that guy, the congressman could have been dead, right? Boy,
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  Speaker 6: there's something going on in the Midwest there. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: that's Michigan, as you mentioned, Traverse City. And this was Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 6: where it's a neck-and-neck race for the governorship. Now, thankfully,
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  Speaker 6: he's okay. The pilot was okay. Boy, there must be
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  Speaker 6: something going on there in the ether.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was a glider that went down recently,
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  Speaker 1: and that scared the hell out of me because I
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  Speaker 1: took glider lessons one time down in Florida because my
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  Speaker 1: uncle did it, and he took me up. Man, when
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  Speaker 1: you're in a glider and that plane in front of
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  Speaker 1: you detaches the rope, the pulling you, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: just here, like you're nothing, no engine, nothing. It's the
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  Speaker 1: scariest thing in the world, but it was fun. Landings
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  Speaker 1: aren't fun. I wouldn't think so. I've seen them from
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  Speaker 1: World War II when the gliders land. It's a rough,
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  Speaker 1: rough land. Let's get some talkbacks. You wanted to talk
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: about the elderly person who ran into a restaurant in Lavalette.
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  Speaker 9: I'm glad Natalie Vaca's okay, but obviously this is a
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  Speaker 9: good argument for having to take away old people's licenses
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  Speaker 9: or make them take a test again at a certain age.
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  Speaker 9: Because some of these old timers are more dangerous than
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  Speaker 9: people that are impaired. They just shouldn't be on the
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  Speaker 9: road at a certain point.
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  Speaker 1: Most states make you go back to get your license
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  Speaker 1: every two years. Some are one year if you're over
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  Speaker 1: a certain age, which is a smart thing to do.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe they should have a driver's license.
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  Speaker 6: I think the worst part is because they know they
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: can't drive at the same rate as everyone else, they
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: stay in a lane and go extraordinarily slow, which causes
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  Speaker 6: everyone to almost get into a fender bender.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought this up. It's like Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Magoo, you know?
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  Speaker 10: It's like, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought this up because I want to
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  Speaker 1: give my public service announcement, which I've done about a
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  Speaker 1: dozen times. The left lane is for passing, all right?
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  Speaker 1: You can't drive in that lane going below the speed
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  Speaker 1: limit when everybody's trying to get somewhere. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: cause an accident. Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: So if you grew up in the 60s, protest songs
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  Speaker 11: about wars. I've always been the case with artists, Woodstock,
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  Speaker 11: you name it. So Macklemore, I mean, a two-minute song
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  Speaker 11: and saying free Palestine, that deserves craft overreacted.
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  Speaker 1: That never deserved to be banned.
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  Speaker 11: It didn't say anything that was anti-Israel, and it's not
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  Speaker 11: the only one who's saying it that's happening.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think what happened here is because of Kraft's
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  Speaker 6: response and he lobbied the other owners of stadiums that
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  Speaker 6: had booked the concert with Macklemore opening up for Sheeran.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Did I get that right? Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Sheeran. Right.
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  Speaker 6: It has made Macklemore a martyr. He is going to
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  Speaker 6: make a lot of money now. He's going to get
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  Speaker 6: a lot more attention. I think Kraft should adjust. stuffed
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  Speaker 6: it and not said anything.
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  Speaker 1: He was the opening act at the behest of someone else.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your concert.
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  Speaker 12: Larry, you're 100% right that you can't believe anything anymore.
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  Speaker 12: I went to two different parties on two days this
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  Speaker 12: weekend with a bunch of people from 30s up until 50s,
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  Speaker 12: so older, and not one was talking about this.
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  Speaker 13: Not one.
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  Speaker 12: Not a single person brought up Macklemore, brought up any
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  Speaker 12: of this. People did bring up that they were trying
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  Speaker 12: to get to the concert. Some were leaving to go
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  Speaker 12: down to Philly.
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  Speaker 2: No one brought up Macklemore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get this false belief of reality from social media,
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  Speaker 1: which is always wrong and always has an agenda. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's get the news at 7.30 with Daria Albinger. Daria.
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  Speaker 14: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 15: Partly sunny, breezy today. We'll see a high of 69 degrees.
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  Speaker 15: It's a gridlock alert day with the U.N. General Assembly
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  Speaker 15: getting underway.
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  Speaker 13: It's going to be chaotic in the mayhem, but we'll
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: just muster through it. The U.N. 's neighbors are bracing
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: for lockdowns and backups.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You have to plan a lot.
• 18:14
  Speaker 13: So does the NYPD and the Secret Service. President Trump
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: addresses the General Assembly on Tuesday. and meets with Ukrainian
• 18:22
  Speaker 13: President Volodymyr Zelensky. As the U.S. tries to broker a
• 18:26
  Speaker 13: deal to de-escalate the fighting with Russia, the president will
• 18:29
  Speaker 13: also meet with interim Venezuelan President Delsi Rodriguez.
• 18:34
  Speaker 15: ABC's Sonia Rincon, the president, will meet with Mayor Mamdani
• 18:38
  Speaker 15: this afternoon. If this isn't a sign of the times,
• 18:40
  Speaker 15: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will address the General Assembly this week.
• 18:45
  Speaker 15: He's going to talk about the advantages and the potential
• 18:48
  Speaker 15: problems with artificial intelligence. A community is in mourning a
• 18:52
  Speaker 15: teenage girl died after the e-bike that she was on
• 18:55
  Speaker 15: slammed into a truck in the East Village.
• 18:57
  Speaker 16: NYPD officials say the incident happened Friday night near East
• 19:01
  Speaker 16: 14th Street and First Avenue in the East Village. 15-year-old
• 19:05
  Speaker 16: Daria Surkov and a 16-year-old girl were on the e-bike
• 19:08
  Speaker 16: when they collided with a garbage truck. Both girls were
• 19:11
  Speaker 16: taken to a hospital and Surkov later died from her injuries,
• 19:14
  Speaker 16: with friends and family holding a vigil to honor Surkov,
• 19:17
  Speaker 16: who has been described as sassy. An online fund has
• 19:20
  Speaker 16: also been set up to help pay for funeral expenses.
• 19:23
  Speaker 16: The truck driver remained at the scene and no arrests
• 19:26
  Speaker 16: have been made. Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 19:30
  Speaker 15: President Trump has some new plans for the Triumphal Arch
• 19:32
  Speaker 15: that he wants to build in D.C. He says the
• 19:34
  Speaker 15: military has requested that it be used for national security purposes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 15: to house, store, and have the ability to deploy large
• 19:42
  Speaker 15: numbers of drones. He's also saying it would allow snipers
• 19:45
  Speaker 15: on the roof and the plaza areas. The Jets, the Mets,
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: and the Yankees all lost. The Giants are in L.A.
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: to take on the Rams in Monday Night Football. Next news,
• 19:53
  Speaker 15: 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria. Well, as you know, I can defend
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump on just about everything because I believe in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: most of the things he does, but not this one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has banned certain news outlets and certain reporters
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: from the White House. We'll talk about how that's going
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to fail when we come right back. Alicia Keys and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: friends are joining the 2026 Global Citizen Festival lineup. They
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: joined previous announced performers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wycliffe Jean.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Lenny Kravitz, John Lennon, Lainey Wilson, and many others with
• 20:32
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• 20:37
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• 20:41
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• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Citizen app for more information. Well, Donald Trump has finally
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: had it with CNN, MSNOW, and Politico. the three most
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: biased of the left-leaning media. And so he has done
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: something that I think anyone who's been a reporter in
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: their life just gets squeamish about, just rails at. It
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: is the worst thing that somebody can do, and it's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a government official denying access to the media, the fourth estate.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So they can't be held accountable. Now, I'm not sure
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: he's doing it because he can't be held accountable because
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he's the most accessible president in history and he answers
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: every question and all of those outlets will still have
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: other access to him. But right now, they've been going
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to the White House and as they pass their, as
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: they go over the scanner with their press credential, their
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: White House press credential, they're getting a big red alarm
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and they're being told, They're being denied access. They are
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: going to be back in. But let's go to the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: beginning of this story. Here's Donald Trump.
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: Politico and MS Now, which nobody ever heard of, and CNN,
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: which is doing very poorly. The reason they do so
• 22:06
  Speaker 14: poorly is because they have no credibility. And if they
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: had credibility, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: we are banning them.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, we are.
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: And there may be others to follow.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Well, if they have no credibility and they can't hurt you,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: why are you so annoyed at them? Brian Stelter, though, however,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: back when Trump was in office the first time, was saying–
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: or I guess it was when Obama was in office– said, yes,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: they should pull the credentials of Fox News. So he's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: not the first one to be annoyed with this. Fox
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: should be viewed as a political tool.
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: And that raises a question.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Should it be a part of the White House press pool?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: You know, should it be afforded the privileges that come
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: with news gathering, even though they do have some news
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: reporters at the White House? You're saying they're primarily a
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: political tool. So should that be reassessed, Zerwick?
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: Listen, I really do.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I think it's a discussion we need to have.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So on the left, there was a lot of people
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: that have been talking a lot of times about pulling
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the press credentials of Fox News and just never did it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, to his credit, over the weekend,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: President Obama had a news conference and he was at
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: some event and just decided he would speak to the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: reporters for a moment and said, look, this is just silly.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: You just can't come to... the White House press briefings
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: anymore because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: trying to think what would have happened if I had said,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you know what, Fox News, you're out of here.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: It's unimaginable. Now, here is why the whole thing is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: so ridiculous. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: President tried it back in 1977. to ban the media,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: certain media outlets that he didn't like, certain reporters that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: weren't liked. And in Sheryl versus Knight, they ruled that
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the First Amendment limits the ability of the White House
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and Secret Service to arbitrarily deny a press pass to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a journalist. The court established that once the White House
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: sets up press facilities for credentialed reporters, it cannot deny
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: or revoke access based on the content or viewpoint of
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a journalist's reporting. So the courts have already decided on this.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's been judicial law now for almost 50 years. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: so for him to do this now, I think he
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: must know that, right?
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I mean— Yeah, but it's, again, it's a distraction that
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: the Republicans don't need. I think he's tailgating on what
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Pete Hegseth did as the Secretary of War. Remember, he
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: banned a certain number of media outlets from coming to
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: the Pentagon for briefings. Then later on, we find out
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: from servicemen and servicewomen, they're sending pictures of the destruction
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: done by the Iranians to American bases in the Middle
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: East and So you need the press to be there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: You need the press to ask questions, whether they're right wing,
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: left wing. You know, Larry, the difference is when I've
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: traveled the world, they'll straight up tell you, oh, we're
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: left wing, we're right wing. But in America, everybody likes
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: to say, oh, no, we're fair and balanced. Remember, that
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: used to be the Fox line. They changed that. No,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: everybody has a certain bent. Let the people decide what
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: they're going to watch or what they're going to listen
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: to or what they're going to read and then come
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: to their own conclusions.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But you need that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I think the problem is you don't have enough space
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: because of all the new media types.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: But the White House itself doesn't doesn't determine who makes
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it into the White House briefing room. I mean, they
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: can open it up to more people. But it's usually
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the White House Press Association.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: They may need that ballroom once it's finished to be
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: able to house. Because you have the old media, right,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: the mainstream. You have all the new media. You have podcasters.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: You have everybody else. You may need that ballroom essentially
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: to house all the different people who want to be
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: available at a White House press conference.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: By the way, the one that denied access, the case
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in 1977 that was settled finally by the courts— That
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: was Lyndon Johnson. So that was a Democratic president who
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: was also upset. The guy used to work for the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: nation and did a derogatory report, they felt. And so
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: they denied him access. But that's been settled. This is
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: settled law. So the president's just trying to make a point.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I don't like you and I have some power over you.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But this is quickly going to be thrown out. But
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be immediate unless he gets an
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: emergency ruling tomorrow. by an appellate court and uh... or
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the first court that it goes to unless somebody tries
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to take it right to the supreme court but uh...
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: as of right now they're out so for the next
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: week or so at least you're gonna have no cnn
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: reporting no Politico reporting, and no MS Now reporting from
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the White House.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Ah, up next, Natalie Migliore in the streets talking about
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: the march of the despots, dictators.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And tyrants. It's UN General Assembly week. The traffic will
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: be tied up in knots.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I'm still taken by that three-year-old boy whose life was
• 27:31
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• 27:36
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• 27:52
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• 27:55
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• 28:00
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• 28:50
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• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Now it's 7 10 wor speed on the street with
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: natalie migliore so natalie up from the streets and the
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: suites uh finding out how new yorkers are reacting to
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: the march of the despots dictators and tyrants again to
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: the un general assembly tying the streets up in a knot.
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah everybody uh loves it it's really Hold.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: On a second. We got to get you amplification here.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, here I am. Here I am.
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: And so are the more than 100 world leaders who
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: are converging on New York City.
• 29:34
  Speaker 15: They tried to mute me, but I got stuff to say.
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: And so do the people. Look, OK, world leaders converging
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: on New York City. Midtown Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: Drivers and pedestrians, that includes all of us, really, should
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: expect roving street closures near U.N. headquarters and around town.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: Midtown Manhattan for the rest of the week. New Yorkers
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: will also see more police officers on the streets. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: if you're walking past certain high echelon or high class
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: hotels that might be considered, you might see some security
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: tents outside and they might hold you up as the
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: dignitaries are moving to and fro and wherever. OK, so
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: nothing necessarily new here for the people who live and
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: work in New York.
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: I just work here.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: I'm usually in and out.
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: So I don't really have too much of an opinion
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: on that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: But it can become overwhelming when you're trying to travel.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: What doesn't it do?
• 30:28
  Speaker 17: Train delays, crowding, unnecessary blockage of certain areas. But I
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: understand safety of our ambassadors and stuff like that. But yeah, no,
• 30:38
  Speaker 17: it does bring a large crowd to the city.
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: I feel like that's just New York. You get used
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: to it, honestly.
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: I've been here my whole life.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: There's traffic all the time.
• 30:46
  Speaker 14: A bunch of people just deal with it if you're
• 30:48
  Speaker 14: coming to New York.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're dealing with it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: Now, the president is starting his week in New York
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: meeting with Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion, their first official
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: meeting since the pair met at the White House in February.
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: Trump is also set to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: and French President Emmanuel Macron in New York. So far,
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to New York
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: later this week, but those two don't have any meetings
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: on the books so far, okay? However, Jewish New Yorkers
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: are awaiting Netanyahu's arrival.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: He's going to be well received. There's a lot of
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: support for him. Bibi's doing a great job under tough circumstances.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: The whole world is against him. Can't wait for him
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: to come and greet him at the UN.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: With open arms. If there's any type of gathering when
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: he comes here, I would like to be there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 18: The government, the prime minister of Israel is not perfect.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: The government.
• 31:51
  Speaker 18: The mayor of this city is far from perfect. The president,
• 31:55
  Speaker 18: love him, not like him, not perfect. Me, Michael Rapaport,
• 31:58
  Speaker 18: I'm not perfect. He'll be received.
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: Yes, now that was comedian Michael Rapaport. He was also
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: on Traders. I caught up with him on the street.
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: He couldn't quite get out that Netanyahu would be respected.
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: He went to go say it a few times and
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: he stopped short of saying that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: He probably wasn't aware that The prime minister, Bibi, will
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: come in Thursday morning, give his speech at the General
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Assembly and leave right away. He's not even spending the day.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: And that's partially a lot of Jewish New Yorkers have
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: said that's, you know, the rhetoric that has sort of
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: been built up blaming Mamdani for this sort of divisive.
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: narrative that he's created around Israel. A lot of New
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: Yorkers on the street say that now.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Just an aside really quick. Michael Rappaport is running for mayor.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he says that. He has said that. Get into
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the ring of fire, pal. Get into the ring of fire.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: He did say that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: I have him.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: We have him on social media saying that we have
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a video.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: We'll post that of him saying that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: But he did say that if there was a better
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: candidate to do the job, he would. Like he's he
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: just wants somebody to run this city.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He wants attention is what he wants.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: Now, they feel that or Jewish New Yorkers feel that,
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: you know, the mayor incites division and Rappaport has been
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: a very vocal opponent, not just towards Mamdani, but the U.N.
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: vocalizing long standing criticisms the U.N.
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: Has faced.
• 33:30
  Speaker 18: The UN is a corrupt organization.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: The UN should be shut down.
• 33:33
  Speaker 18: The UN is a garbage organization that should be shut down.
• 33:37
  Speaker 18: And I urge James Dolan to try to purchase the
• 33:40
  Speaker 18: building and turn it into a practice facility for the
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: Knicks and the Rangers. Bring the Knick players to Manhattan.
• 33:46
  Speaker 18: They can live in Manhattan. They don't have to live
• 33:48
  Speaker 18: in the suburbs. No disrespect to the suburbs. The Knicks
• 33:50
  Speaker 18: should be practicing in New York City. And I urge
• 33:54
  Speaker 18: James Dolan to buy the building of the UN and
• 33:57
  Speaker 18: shut that dump, corrupt, building an organization down for good.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, I hope he's serious about running. This would be
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: so much fun.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Problem with James.
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: It would be so much fun to listen to that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Imagine the debates.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Right. The problem with that is James Dolan doesn't pay
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: property tax now on Madison Square Garden.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Forty eight million a year.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: He's going to pay property tax on the United Nations building. Not.
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: I just love how my interview went from like really
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: heavy politics and talking about the U.N. and all of
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: the political tensions to like, let's turn it into a
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: Knicks facility.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Well, up next, guess who's coming to lunch?
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is going
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: to Gracie Mansion to meet with Mayor Mondami. We'll break
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: it down for you up next. But, Natalie, we'll see
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: you same time, same place tomorrow at 7.50.