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Hour 2: Central Park safety · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: My ladder, Larry, Natalie, our audience.
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Speaker 2: We are in a cycle of tremendous voting turnout, as
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Speaker 2: we've seen with our early voting, setting all time records.
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens on Election Day six days away here.
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Speaker 2: They just finished the voting in Brazil. All time phenomenal turnout.
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Speaker 2: Neck and neck right to the end. Incredible democracy in action.
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Speaker 2: France in six months will have a democracy in which
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Speaker 2: the election takes place and it's going to be huge
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Speaker 2: turnout far right far left but yesterday Israel's turnout was
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Speaker 2: incredible as we discussed the other day Larry I said
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Speaker 2: you know Israel has very strict rules about voting it's
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Speaker 2: one day And if you happen to be somewhere else
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Speaker 2: in the world, I think there are 630,000 Israelis around
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Speaker 2: the world who could vote. You must get on a
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Speaker 2: plane and come and vote at any number of the
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Speaker 2: voting locations that you're registered in for your vote to count.
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Speaker 2: They estimated they'll probably be about 50,000 when all the
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Speaker 2: votes are counted up. So at the end of the
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Speaker 2: night yesterday, there was interpretations, because all the votes have
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Speaker 2: not been counted yet, that the two leading candidates in
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Speaker 2: their party slates were neck and neck. Obviously, Bibi and
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Speaker 2: his far right, he's Likud, and he has other far
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Speaker 2: right parties with his coalition. And Gatti was not that
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Speaker 2: far from him in terms of politics and his coalition.
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Speaker 2: And then the surprise was the phenomenal turnout. of the
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Speaker 2: two Arabic parties, which had their highest turnout to date
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Speaker 2: because they're able to vote. Now, if they live in
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Speaker 2: the West Bank, there's 3 million there. They can't vote, obviously.
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Speaker 2: We know people in Gaza, that's not part of Israel.
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Speaker 1: They can't vote.
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Speaker 2: But there are so many Arabs in the rest of Israel.
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Speaker 2: Christian and Muslim who cast their votes. And they're expected
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Speaker 2: to get anywhere from 18 to 19 seats in the Knesset.
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Speaker 2: Knesset has 120 members who sit. In order to win,
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Speaker 2: you have to have 61 seated. Nobody ever wins in
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Speaker 2: the first round. And so now it's going to be
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Speaker 2: dependent on who can negotiate with some of the other
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Speaker 2: parties to see if they'll give out cabinet positions. Resources
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Speaker 2: to groups. It's definitely quid pro quo that takes place
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Speaker 2: as to who will be the next prime minister. But
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Speaker 2: the real shot caller who could emerge here because normally.
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Speaker 2: He's almost like a figurehead. The president of Israel is Herzog.
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Speaker 2: He is elected by the Knesset. And his really most
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Speaker 2: important action is, when you have elections like this, he's
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Speaker 2: the one who has to sit down and basically be
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Speaker 2: like King Solomon. He has to try to decide whether
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Speaker 2: the votes show that the majority of Israelis demand change,
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Speaker 2: then he could appoint a prime minister based on that, or...
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Speaker 2: He can say, guess what? Just like has happened recently
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Speaker 2: where they had like four or five elections in a
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Speaker 2: very brief period of time. We got to go back.
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Speaker 2: We got to know the results. We got to go back.
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Speaker 2: We got to do it all over again. So again,
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Speaker 2: it's democracy in action. It's a phenomenal turnout of Israelis
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Speaker 2: and people living overseas who took the time and paid
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Speaker 2: the cost to come all the way back to cast
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Speaker 2: their ballots. So again, no matter who ends up winning,
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Speaker 2: You know, people came out to 12,000 polling locations. The
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Speaker 2: votes are tabulated by hand, and that hand count is completed.
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Speaker 2: They take it to a regional hub where they are
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Speaker 2: electronically recorded. This is what democracy is all about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the most important thing right now is that
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Speaker 1: it doesn't look like anyone's going to have a majority.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's updates from five different reporters from the
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Speaker 1: New York Times who are in Israel right now, and
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Speaker 1: they give constant updates. They say at this point, 60%
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Speaker 1: of the ballots have been voted and the voting is
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Speaker 1: continuing and the exit polls that have been done. Now
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Speaker 1: don't read a lot into this because the exit polls
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Speaker 1: have been awful in Israel, awful. But if you take
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Speaker 1: the exit polls at their face value with 60% of
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Speaker 1: the votes in, no one is going to have a majority.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. And this is going to
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Speaker 1: play out for a while. There's even one scenario, and
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Speaker 1: this is the most extreme scenario, where they would vote again.
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Speaker 1: As you said, Curtis, there's going to be some jockeying
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Speaker 1: going on right now and trying to get other votes.
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Speaker 1: But the way it is right now, listen to this.
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Speaker 1: The two Arab parties are projected to get 18 seats
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Speaker 1: in the 120-seat Knesset. So now, normally, that wouldn't mean anything.
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Speaker 1: because they wouldn't have any power. When there's a split
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Speaker 1: like this, they are now going to have some power.
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Speaker 1: I don't see a scenario anyway that they give up
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Speaker 1: any of those seats, either of the parties, to Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 2: No, they've made that very clear. But what's interesting about
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Speaker 2: the Arab parties, I found this interesting when I was there,
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Speaker 2: one of them is a Zionist Arab party. The other
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Speaker 2: Arab party, and again, it involves Christians and Muslims, is
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Speaker 2: opposed to the way the state of Israel exists now,
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Speaker 2: like some of the ultra-Orthodox who are not Zionists because
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Speaker 2: they say Israel can only exist when the Mashiach returns. Man,
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Speaker 2: no matter where you turn in Israel, everybody has a
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Speaker 2: different point of view. There are different party factions. But
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Speaker 2: this has to be consolidated if you are going to
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Speaker 2: have a government with cabinet members. And if you're a
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Speaker 2: small party and you qualify, there's normally like 10 parties
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Speaker 2: that qualify. Man, you can demand anything.
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Speaker 1: Because you could go to Bibi and say this. Then
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Speaker 1: you go to Gaddi and you say this. But that
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Speaker 1: ain't going to happen. Because it's really a strange scenario
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Speaker 1: right now. And this is what I was getting at.
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Speaker 1: that these two parties could decide who is going to
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Speaker 1: be in charge in Israel. Those two parties. And since
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Speaker 1: there is no way they're going to go with Netanyahu,
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Speaker 1: This remarkable scenario shows that if they go with Eisencott,
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Speaker 1: he would then topple Netanyahu. But in essence, he's weakening
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Speaker 1: himself because he's doing a deal with the devil. So
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Speaker 1: you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
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Speaker 1: But that's the scenario that's playing out right now in Israel. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he said he's not going to do that. The others
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Speaker 1: who are non-Arabic have said they're not going to do that. Now,
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Speaker 1: things could change. They did it once before. They had
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Speaker 1: an interim government for a year. Bibi has served now
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Speaker 1: 19 out of 20 years. There was one year one
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Speaker 1: of the Arab parties became part of the coalition. That
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Speaker 1: didn't last long. So, again, I say watch Herzog. When
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Speaker 1: did Eisenkot say that, that he wasn't going to do that? Oh,
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Speaker 1: early on in the process. Because they've been making a
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Speaker 1: big deal of the fact that he's been wishy-washy on
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Speaker 1: that whole thing in the New York Times as they
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Speaker 1: said he would do anything to build a stable Zionist government.
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Speaker 1: And when asked about the Arab parties, this might have
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Speaker 1: just been happening now. He is not counting that out
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Speaker 1: at this point.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think the key thing is you look at Herzog,
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Speaker 2: you look at what he's– for people who are saying, well,
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Speaker 2: who's Herzog? We remember when President Trump visited Israel, spoke
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Speaker 2: at the Knesset. Remember halfway through his remarks, he looked
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Speaker 2: at Herzog in front of all 120 members of the
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Speaker 2: Knesset and their guests and said, Herzog, you should pardon Bibi.
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Speaker 2: Who's up on corruption charges. Now, Herzog did not pardon Bibi.
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Speaker 2: You know, that would have been a pre-pardon. He hasn't
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Speaker 2: gone to trial yet. But you say to yourself, man,
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Speaker 2: if you're Herzog, that was embarrassing. Because that was Trump
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Speaker 2: going too far into the process of a foreign government.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see how this plays out. I don't see
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Speaker 2: much difference between Bibi and Gadi. Gadi used to be
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Speaker 2: the chief of the military government. He wants to continue
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Speaker 2: battling Hezbollah. He wants to continue to be in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: He just doesn't want to level Iran. Bibi wants to
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Speaker 2: level Iran, wants regime change. He said, no, no, I
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Speaker 2: like the Trump philosophy of breaking their backs economically and
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Speaker 2: bombing their nuclear weapons capacity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just going to stay in the moment for
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Speaker 1: a second because let's play this out. If this is
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Speaker 1: a possibility, and the New York Times says it is,
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Speaker 1: if Gadi needs those Arab representatives... They're going to want something.
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Speaker 1: They are going to want something in return. And that
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Speaker 1: is not only going to kill the credibility of Gotti,
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Speaker 1: but it is also going to empower them. If this
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Speaker 1: plays out the way it looks like it's, it's going
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Speaker 1: to have to play out. Now, if he refuses and
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Speaker 1: then there's nobody. This could go on for weeks as
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Speaker 1: all these negotiations go on, and then there could be
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Speaker 1: another election. So we'll see how power hungry he is.
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Speaker 1: But apparently, just recently, when asked specifically about that, he
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Speaker 1: would not answer the question. So it leads you to
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Speaker 1: believe that he's thinking about it. You know, I didn't
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Speaker 1: find this election as fascinating as I do right now.
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Speaker 1: Because of the way this thing is playing out. This
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Speaker 1: is going to be a real life, in the moment,
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Speaker 1: day by day, political drama in Israel that's going to
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Speaker 1: have a big effect on this country, too. and our
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Speaker 1: relationship with Israel going forward. But the fact that you're
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Speaker 1: going to have all these strange bedfellows to figure out
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Speaker 1: who is going to run Israel in the future is
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Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that movies are made of.
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Speaker 2: Well, Bibi is preparing the country if he does get reelected.
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Speaker 2: for what he calls a bypass economy based on cryptocurrency,
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Speaker 2: because he says there are going to be sanctions on
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Speaker 2: Israeli banks. And he said, prepare for the end of
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Speaker 2: billions of U.S.
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Speaker 3: Aid.
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Speaker 1: It's over.
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Speaker 2: It's only a matter of time. We will have to
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Speaker 2: become a more self-sufficient super-sparter. He rolled back on those remarks,
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Speaker 2: but obviously, if he gets elected— That's the direction he
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Speaker 2: is going to go as Israel has become a pariah
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Speaker 2: to some countries in the world.
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Speaker 1: But up next, he's my doctor.
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Speaker 2: He should be everybody's doctor, especially if you have situations
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Speaker 2: that he is an expert on.
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Speaker 1: You know who we're talking about, Dr. Gil Lederman.
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Speaker 2: You hear him here at 710WOR. And we are at
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Speaker 2: the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And he's going
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Speaker 2: to cue us up on what people should be doing,
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Speaker 2: plus a chance to see comedian John Mulaney at 825.
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Speaker 2: On the line right now, Dr. Gil Lederman, host of
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Speaker 2: Radio Surgery New York, right here at 710WOR at midnight
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Speaker 2: and on the weekends. Doc, it's the end of Breast
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Speaker 2: Cancer Awareness Month, and what are some of the things
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Speaker 2: that our listeners really need to be aware of?
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Curtis. Thank you, and thanks, Larry, and thanks, Natalie,
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Speaker 3: who I know is the brains behind the operation. You're laughing,
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Speaker 3: but you know it's true.
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Speaker 1: I'm laughing because she laughed.
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Speaker 3: Well, we know the brains. We have to acknowledge the brains,
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Speaker 3: and that's the way it is. WR is fantastic, and
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Speaker 3: she's fantastic. So why are we here today? Well, we're
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Speaker 3: here actually every day as breast cancer awareness because 325,000
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Speaker 3: women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer. More than
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Speaker 3: 40,000 die a year of breast cancer. So it's a
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Speaker 3: vicious disease and I see it every day. And I've
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Speaker 3: been talking about it for 40 years since I came
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Speaker 3: to New York. When I came to New York, the
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Speaker 3: major hospitals, the big superstars were doing mastectomies on 97%
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Speaker 3: of women. In my practice, 90% of women were keeping
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Speaker 3: their breasts even back then, 40 years ago. So there's
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Speaker 3: big differences. I think a lot of reasons women don't
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Speaker 3: get screening is they're afraid of losing their breast or
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Speaker 3: having their body distorted by unnecessary surgery. So I think
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Speaker 3: lesson number one is one in eight women will get
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Speaker 3: breast cancer in their lifetime. So women need to examine
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Speaker 3: their own breasts. Women need to see their physician about
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Speaker 3: examining their breasts. Women need to get mammograms and ultrasounds
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Speaker 3: on an annual basis. And there's nothing to fear. The
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Speaker 3: worst thing is to have undiagnosed or advanced breast cancer.
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Speaker 3: So it's much better to be diagnosed early. You find
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Speaker 3: it early and the success rate is dramatically higher. You
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Speaker 3: find it late and it's dramatically less. So early bird
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Speaker 3: catches the worm and women can get checked out for
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Speaker 3: almost all conditions, whether it's breast cancer, pap smears, or colonoscopy.
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Speaker 3: These are all things that every woman should be doing
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Speaker 3: on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: It's so important that you said that because I just
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Speaker 1: looked at studies and for the first time, in the
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Speaker 1: last couple of decades, breast cancer is on the rise
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Speaker 1: right now, and especially among the young who are not
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Speaker 1: getting the necessary mammograms and the necessary checkups. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure, except that something you said really stuck out
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Speaker 1: to me. You said they're afraid of losing their breasts,
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Speaker 1: but aren't they also afraid of dying?
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Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing that I see so many, I
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Speaker 3: spend my life with, cancer and radiation. And there's people
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Speaker 3: who fear the medical consequences more than dying. And we
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Speaker 3: need to really change dynamics. And if you come to
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Speaker 3: my practice, many women now with breast cancer are having
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Speaker 3: treatment with not even a lumpectomy or mastectomy. So in
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Speaker 3: the past, we were a big advocate to do lumpectomy
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Speaker 3: and radiation. Many women are taking advantage of our program
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Speaker 3: where we actually treat breast cancer with no surgery. no
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Speaker 3: deforming whatsoever. And it's very appealing. You can't imagine how
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Speaker 3: it appeals to so many women who otherwise don't want
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Speaker 3: to see their doctor. So I think fear of distorting
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Speaker 3: the body is one thing. Fear of dying is another thing.
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Speaker 3: I just spoke to a prominent member of WOR staff
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Speaker 3: whose own sister is just diagnosed with breast cancer. So
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Speaker 3: it's not so far from any one of us. I
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Speaker 3: see it every day. It's not so far from you
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Speaker 3: at WOR. or from anyone in society, if you think
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Speaker 3: about one in eight women will get breast cancer, go
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Speaker 3: down the street and count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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Speaker 3: One of those women are going to get breast cancer.
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Speaker 1: Dr.
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Speaker 2: Lederman, a few years ago, a number of well-known women
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Speaker 2: were opting to get preemptive mastectomies, which it blew my mind.
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Speaker 2: Has that sort of trend stopped?
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, most of that was in a BRCA positive.
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Speaker 3: So there's a genetic condition in men and women, BRCA condition,
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Speaker 3: where women are at higher risk for breast cancer and
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Speaker 3: ovarian cancer. Angelia Jolie was a woman I think you're
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Speaker 3: alluding to, and she wrote a letter, an article in
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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal or New York Times saying why
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Speaker 3: she got bilateral mastectomy. I think her mother had breast cancer.
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Speaker 3: And that led to a big push in getting double mastectomies.
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Speaker 3: I thought, if Angela Jolie can get it, then why
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Speaker 3: shouldn't I get it to save my life? And I've
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Speaker 3: seen many women who have done that. But the trend,
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Speaker 3: as you say, and you're correct, is moving away from that.
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Speaker 3: There's excellent treatment for women with breast cancer without deforming surgery.
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Speaker 3: And we've been a big advocate for decades. And many women,
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Speaker 3: as I say, come here because they just do not
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Speaker 3: want to be deformed.
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Speaker 1: Really important messages from you, Dr. Lederman. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: And people can reach out to you at 212choices, right? 212choices?
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Speaker 3: They can reach out to me. They can listen to
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Speaker 3: your show. They can listen to WR. And they can
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Speaker 3: listen to Natalie, who's the brains behind the organization.
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Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing. I just laughed at the face she made.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 3: Okay, it's all unanimous here.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 1: Gil, Bill Lederman, host of Radio Surgery New York at
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Speaker 1: midnight and on the weekends. Really important to listen to
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Speaker 1: what he has to say because, as you can hear,
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Speaker 1: he's out in front on all of these issues. Dr. Lederman,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, and God bless you all.
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Speaker 2: Right on time, Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, heard every
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Speaker 2: Sunday night from 8 to 11 here on 710WOR. The
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Speaker 2: lead story yesterday, Anthropic, only in business five years, going
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Speaker 2: to end up possibly putting out an IPO, and they
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Speaker 2: think they can raise $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion more than
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk. But explain this to me. They lost $ 81 billion.
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Speaker 2: How is it that people are going to be investing
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Speaker 2: money in a company that reports that they lost $ 81 billion?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's the price of doing business and starting a
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Speaker 4: business like this. I mean, we remember when Amazon started,
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Speaker 4: they could not turn a profit for a long time.
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Speaker 4: Tesla could not turn a profit for a long time.
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Speaker 4: And then what happens is as these companies establish themselves,
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Speaker 4: as the customers understand the need for what they are
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Speaker 4: putting out there, that's when the money starts to come in.
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Speaker 4: And obviously, we know Tesla has done pretty well. Amazon
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Speaker 4: has done pretty well. That's what we expect with Anthropic
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Speaker 4: because AI is becoming part and parcel for every company.
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Speaker 4: And the kind of tools that Anthropic is putting out
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Speaker 4: right now, yes, the coders are playing with them. The
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Speaker 4: business people are playing with them. But when companies need
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Speaker 4: to subscribe to AI as a service to run pretty
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Speaker 4: much everything that they're doing, that's where a company like
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Speaker 4: Anthropic can do really well.
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Speaker 1: You know, I get these messages all the time that
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Speaker 1: are really weird. Like, why won't you write me back
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Speaker 1: as if it's someone that knows me? Or there's something
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Speaker 1: wrong with your phone. We need to talk to you immediately.
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Speaker 1: You know, please answer this text. I don't answer any
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Speaker 1: of them because I just think it's a good idea.
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Speaker 1: I think that if they really needed me, they'd call me.
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Speaker 1: Are these scams? Are these people trying to scam me?
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. I mean, the scams are everywhere. And
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Speaker 4: it's funny, right now we're in, you know, obviously political season.
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Speaker 4: So we're getting a lot of those texts as well.
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Speaker 4: But no matter what, look, if you're getting a text message,
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Speaker 4: it's funny you say that because I got a text
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Speaker 4: message the other day and it said, hey, Rich, can
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Speaker 4: we discuss this business proposal or whatever? And I just
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Speaker 4: deleted it. And my wife comes home. She goes, hey,
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Speaker 4: did you get that text from Jeff, our neighbor? I said, what?
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Speaker 4: I just deleted it because I just assume anyone that's
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Speaker 4: writing anything like that is a scam. And so it
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Speaker 4: was a misunderstanding. I had to go into my deleted text,
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Speaker 4: recover his conversation. And we're going to talk, it's not
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Speaker 4: a business proposal. He wanted to pitch me on doing
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Speaker 4: a story. But my point is, I just assume it's
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Speaker 4: all fake. So yes, if you're getting a link in
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Speaker 4: anything that's incoming, you have to be very critical of.
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Speaker 4: If you're making the action a little bit safer, but
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Speaker 4: if you're Googling for a phone number, if you're going
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Speaker 4: to a random website, making a purchase from there, oh,
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Speaker 4: have to be careful.
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Speaker 1: And there's a big one right now with the it's
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Speaker 1: they're saying that's the ftc and you have to deactivate
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Speaker 1: your phone is that right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah this one i mean there's just so many of
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Speaker 4: these going around the latest is you get a call
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Speaker 4: someone says they're an ftc official and And they say
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Speaker 4: that your phone number has been listed doing illegal business
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Speaker 4: activities overseas. So we need you to cooperate or we're
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Speaker 4: going to shut off your phone number immediately. Now, as
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Speaker 4: you can imagine, some people that get this call may
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Speaker 4: be a little disoriented and saying, wait, what? I can't
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Speaker 4: get rid of my number. I've had this forever. And
20:26
Speaker 4: so they will threaten to disconnect unless you send money
20:29
Speaker 4: or personal information. Do not do any of that stuff.
20:32
Speaker 4: Hang up. If it's a problem, they will get in
20:35
Speaker 4: touch with you the right way.
20:39
Speaker 2: Now, Rich, last Friday, there were lines and lines for
20:43
Speaker 2: the new Apple first foldable iPhone. What's your review of
20:49
Speaker 2: the opening days for all those who waited for hours
20:53
Speaker 2: and hours to.
20:54
Speaker 1: Get that in their hand?
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, you're always going to have the Apple
20:59
Speaker 4: early adopters and the fans of this company want to
21:03
Speaker 4: test what's new from them. And the foldable phone, the
21:06
Speaker 4: iPhone Duo, yes, it went on sale on Friday. $ 2, 000,
21:09
Speaker 4: not an inexpensive proposition, but it's kind of neat. You've
21:13
Speaker 4: got this screen on the outside that's a little small,
21:16
Speaker 4: a little bit wide, and then you've got this nice
21:19
Speaker 4: big screen on the inside. Now, I will tell you,
21:21
Speaker 4: the outside screen is kind of a pain. We're very
21:24
Speaker 4: used to our current phones that have a nice long screen.
21:27
Speaker 4: This one is very short, so you don't see all
21:29
Speaker 4: of the content at once. Apps are trying to rewrite
21:33
Speaker 4: their code to make these apps look better. It's not
21:36
Speaker 4: always the case. But on that inside screen, it's just
21:40
Speaker 4: quite incredible. You have basically the equivalent of an iPad
21:43
Speaker 4: mini in your pocket. And in fact, in my review,
21:46
Speaker 4: that is how I use this device the most. I
21:48
Speaker 4: found myself just sitting on the couch, scrolling through websites,
21:52
Speaker 4: watching videos, reading magazines, all on that nice inner screen.
21:57
Speaker 4: It could also work as a Kindle because it has
21:58
Speaker 4: a matte finish. So I like that aspect. The biggest
22:02
Speaker 4: issue to me is the lack of Face ID. This
22:06
Speaker 4: does not use Face ID. It goes back to a
22:08
Speaker 4: fingerprint sensor, which I know sounds, okay, fine, we can
22:11
Speaker 4: do that. It takes a lot longer to open and
22:14
Speaker 4: use this device than you can imagine. And so it
22:17
Speaker 4: takes a little bit of work and you do notice
22:19
Speaker 4: that as you're using it. That's the biggest downside, I think.
22:22
Speaker 1: You know, of all the social media sites, I think
22:25
Speaker 1: the one that is, and they are legion, the amount
22:30
Speaker 1: of social media sites, the one that is the most impressive,
22:33
Speaker 1: the one really stands alone is YouTube and it's been
22:37
Speaker 1: around for a long time and nobody really has ever
22:41
Speaker 1: taken it on. I guess that's going to change now.
22:44
Speaker 4: That's going to change because Instagram, who famously does not
22:48
Speaker 4: like long form video on there, they are going to
22:52
Speaker 4: now allow certain creators to upload videos in a horizontal
22:56
Speaker 4: version up to 90 minutes long. And why are they
22:59
Speaker 4: doing this? Well, YouTube is eating their lunch when it
23:02
Speaker 4: comes to podcasts and daily shows. And basically anyone that thinks, okay,
23:08
Speaker 4: where can I upload this video? They're going to YouTube
23:11
Speaker 4: and Instagram has been great. And TikTok has been great
23:13
Speaker 4: for short form content, but guess what? A lot of
23:16
Speaker 4: people like watching long form content too. And there's a
23:19
Speaker 4: lot more podcasts out there that are doing this. And
23:21
Speaker 4: so Instagram is now allowing this to happen with certain podcasters, comedians, influencers,
23:27
Speaker 4: And basically, it'll be the same thing. You're scrolling through Instagram,
23:30
Speaker 4: watching a real version of it, like a vertical video.
23:33
Speaker 4: And then you go, oh, that's interesting. They said something cool.
23:35
Speaker 4: Let me tap in and I can watch the entire
23:38
Speaker 4: video on Instagram or I can send that video to
23:40
Speaker 4: my TV.
23:41
Speaker 2: Rich, real quick, Microsoft is offering buyouts to 30% of
23:46
Speaker 2: their personnel, claiming it's because of AI. What prospects do
23:51
Speaker 2: those men and women have if they take the buyout
23:55
Speaker 2: in the future?
23:57
Speaker 4: Well, kind of a tough time right now for buyouts.
24:00
Speaker 4: 60,000 people is almost a quarter of their workforce. That's
24:02
Speaker 4: a lot of people looking for jobs in the time
24:05
Speaker 4: where companies are adapting. Microsoft, make no mistake, they're not
24:09
Speaker 4: hurting for money. They're just changing where they spend their money.
24:12
Speaker 4: So all these people that are being offered this buyout, Copilot, Finance,
24:18
Speaker 4: Human Resources, Xbox, Windows, those are all the places that
24:22
Speaker 4: are fine where the places are growing and is people
24:25
Speaker 4: in sales, marketing, security, engineering. They can't leave. So it's
24:29
Speaker 4: about redistributing where they're spending their money. But these 60,000 people, yeah,
24:34
Speaker 4: they're going to be put in a job market where
24:36
Speaker 4: every company right now is saying, I'm not sure we
24:38
Speaker 4: need to hire people right now because AI is changing
24:40
Speaker 4: our business as we speak. Let's just sit and wait
24:43
Speaker 4: and see when the dust clears to figure out what
24:45
Speaker 4: we're going to do next.
24:46
Speaker 1: Well, that's horrible news. Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, is
24:49
Speaker 1: heard Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m. on WOR.
24:54
Speaker 1: You can also talk to Rich at Rich on Tech
24:57
Speaker 1: on Instagram. He also has a lot of information there.
25:00
Speaker 1: Check it out. Thanks a lot, Rich.
25:03
Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
25:04
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
25:05
Speaker 1: When we come back, Natalie Migliore has her beat on
25:08
Speaker 1: the street, and she talks to New Yorkers about those
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Speaker 1: recent attacks in Central Park and if they feel safe there.
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Speaker 1: Natalie's next.
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Speaker 2: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Ah,
25:24
Speaker 2: so today, coming from Central Park up to the suites here,
25:30
Speaker 2: but not because of the marathon, which is good news.
25:33
Speaker 2: You were there for what reason?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we were there because of the NYPD boosting patrols
25:39
Speaker 5: in Central Park as they continue searching for that suspect.
25:43
Speaker 5: who raped a woman at knife point over the weekend.
25:46
Speaker 5: So I will be going back to Central Park later
25:49
Speaker 5: today for the marathon. But we're really there talking to
25:52
Speaker 5: people who live in the area. And there's no shortage
25:55
Speaker 5: of reaction from New Yorkers who heard about this attack
25:58
Speaker 5: on a 39-year-old woman being attacked, being pulled into a
26:02
Speaker 5: wooded area near East 66th Street and Fifth Avenue around
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Speaker 5: 9 p.m.
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Speaker 1: Saturday.
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Speaker 6: I live on Central Park West. I often walk through
26:12
Speaker 6: the park. I just said to my husband this morning,
26:14
Speaker 6: I don't feel safe walking through the park anymore.
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Speaker 7: Now it's terrible because I was concerned it was right
26:20
Speaker 7: off of Fifth Avenue on 66th Street. It wasn't like
26:23
Speaker 7: in the middle of the park. So that was quite shocking.
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Speaker 8: It's heartbreaking for sure, especially knowing that's part of my
26:30
Speaker 8: daily commute is to go past that entrance.
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Speaker 1: But it's not surprising.
26:35
Speaker 8: Disappointing, but not surprising.
26:37
Speaker 5: Okay, now note, you heard from all women. Because take
26:41
Speaker 5: a listen when I ask a guy if he's concerned
26:43
Speaker 5: about a walk through Central Park, specifically at night.
26:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have very much to say about it, sorry.
26:50
Speaker 7: And that's what you get.
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Speaker 1: Was every guy like that?
26:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, they don't necessarily stop all the time either.
26:59
Speaker 5: Neither do women. But yeah, not very afraid or concerned
27:06
Speaker 5: in a sense.
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Speaker 1: Well, not about rape.
27:08
Speaker 4: Right.
27:08
Speaker 2: I mean, when's the last time a guy said, man,
27:11
Speaker 2: I got to watch my back so I don't get
27:12
Speaker 2: raped except in jail.
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Speaker 9: Right.
27:15
Speaker 1: Fair point.
27:16
Speaker 2: I mean, so.
27:19
Speaker 1: You want to expound on that, Natalie? Just you're right.
27:23
Speaker 5: And I'm going to keep moving on.
27:26
Speaker 4: No, but.
27:26
Speaker 1: Because this is a serious matter, and this.
27:28
Speaker 5: Attack was the fifth reported attack in the park so
27:31
Speaker 5: far this year.
27:33
Speaker 1: So the suspect.
27:34
Speaker 5: Remains on the loose, and police have released images of
27:37
Speaker 5: who they're looking for over the past couple days.
27:39
Speaker 1: But New Yorkers, they know the cardinal rule.
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Speaker 9: No, I'm not going in the park at night because
27:44
Speaker 9: you have to be cognizant of your surroundings and be
27:47
Speaker 9: able to put yourself in situations and take yourself out
27:50
Speaker 9: of situations. And one of the things you don't do
27:52
Speaker 9: as safety is go running late at.
27:54
Speaker 1: Night in the park.
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Speaker 7: I grew up in Manhattan all my life. I've never
27:58
Speaker 7: gone in the park at night, except I've gone ice
28:01
Speaker 7: skating in Wallman Rink. But there's hundreds of people around
28:05
Speaker 7: and music. But as far as taking any of my
28:09
Speaker 7: dogs in the park at 9, 10, 11 o'clock for
28:12
Speaker 7: their last walk, I just don't think it's advisable.
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Speaker 6: I don't think a lot of stuff happens in the
28:17
Speaker 6: park in the middle of the night. I think the
28:20
Speaker 6: unfortunate incidents that have just happened were sort of random,
28:23
Speaker 6: but it's still better to take precautions.
28:27
Speaker 5: Now, the victim wasn't necessarily taking a stroll through the park.
28:31
Speaker 5: She is said to be homeless. And if you do
28:34
Speaker 5: walk through Central Park, especially during the day, you will
28:37
Speaker 5: see people getting There are people who sleep in the park.
28:40
Speaker 5: There are a lot of them who are now living
28:42
Speaker 5: in Central Park. So honestly, a lot of people telling
28:46
Speaker 5: me they've really started noticing a difference in their sense
28:49
Speaker 5: of safety once the pandemic hit and things just changed.
28:54
Speaker 9: I don't think enough is being done to take care
28:57
Speaker 9: of the mentally challenged that are out in the street.
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Speaker 9: And I think that definitely plays a part in being careful.
29:04
Speaker 8: Social care networks are not where they need to be.
29:07
Speaker 8: There's been an increase in hostile architecture. Just the way
29:10
Speaker 8: that unhoused people are treated is really upsetting and really disturbing,
29:15
Speaker 8: and the lack of care for the members of our
29:17
Speaker 8: community that need that mental health help.
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Speaker 7: I don't know the solution. Somebody else needs to figure
29:22
Speaker 7: it out. But it's definitely the mental health of the
29:25
Speaker 7: people that are doing this.
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Speaker 5: Now, one council member says this is the second attack
29:31
Speaker 5: on a woman in the park in the last week.
29:33
Speaker 5: The NYPD is also looking for a trio of suspects
29:36
Speaker 5: who attacked and robbed a woman on the 18th. So
29:39
Speaker 5: it 10 days ago now. But when it comes to it,
29:43
Speaker 5: the women who I spoke to, you know, they tie
29:47
Speaker 5: this back to mental health, but we don't know at
29:50
Speaker 5: this point what's behind the motive of the suspect who
29:54
Speaker 5: was in Central Park until cops get him and interview him.
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Speaker 2: Well, I can only tell you just by being in
30:00
Speaker 2: the park so often, a lot of emotionally disturbed persons
30:03
Speaker 2: who live in the park. And again, if we're going
30:07
Speaker 2: to allow people not to get mental health care, where
30:10
Speaker 2: are they going to go? Subway, Central Park, they're going
30:13
Speaker 2: to go places. And if they have an episode, unfortunately,
30:17
Speaker 2: you may end up being victimized by them. So de
30:21
Speaker 2: Blasio did nothing. Adams did nothing. Zoran does nothing. And
30:24
Speaker 2: the problem is growing. That's very well said. And by
30:27
Speaker 2: the way, speaking for the men, they're afraid, too. That's
30:30
Speaker 2: why they don't want to talk to you. They're afraid.
30:32
Speaker 2: Their head's on a swivel when they walk through any
30:34
Speaker 2: dark area in Newark, especially the park. So they were
30:38
Speaker 2: just cowards not to talk to you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
30:40
Speaker 5: That's so nice of you to say that. But at
30:42
Speaker 5: least you're, you know, I think a lot of people say, though,
30:45
Speaker 5: that living in New York, you just have to be aware,
30:48
Speaker 5: wherever you are.
30:49
Speaker 7: Yeah.
30:49
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Natalie Migliore will be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.
30:55
Speaker 1: When we come back, one of the biggest stories in
30:58
Speaker 1: the country right now is the turnout in this midterm election.
31:03
Speaker 1: And we are going to focus specifically on Texas, which
31:07
Speaker 1: is one of the hottest races in the country. So hot,
31:11
Speaker 1: Donald Trump had to go there twice in one day.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that after the 8 o'clock news.