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Hour 3: Macklemore controversy · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, this Macklemore controversy is a nagging controversy in that
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  Speaker 1: it won't go away. As a matter of fact, it
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  Speaker 1: at least has the appearance, the appearance of growing bigger.
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  Speaker 1: That's because the people that are on Macklemore's side are
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  Speaker 1: the loudest. And so it's hard to figure out where
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  Speaker 1: America stands on this, where middle America stands on this.
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  Speaker 1: whether they care at all about this. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, I'd love to hear from you in the talkback.
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  Speaker 1: You just go to iHeartRadio app and you hit the
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  Speaker 1: talkback feature and then leave us something. You look for
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  Speaker 1: 710WOR on the iHeartRadio app and hit the talkback feature.
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  Speaker 1: But it's such a big story right now that reporters
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C., We're asking some of the Congress people and,
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  Speaker 1: of course, every single member of the squad, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm saying it's hard to gauge if it's just
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  Speaker 1: the loud left or it is across America. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you proof in one second that it's not across America.
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  Speaker 1: Here's AOC being asked about Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if Ed Sheeran comes on the radio while you're
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  Speaker 2: driving along, are you changing the channels?
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I can't listen to Ed Sheeran anymore. My God, I
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  Speaker 1: loved him for the longest time. She said she was
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  Speaker 1: a big fan. Now I can't even listen to him
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  Speaker 1: anymore because he did nothing. He did nothing wrong. But
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  Speaker 1: he had to jump on. He had to jump on
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  Speaker 1: the anti-Israel bandwagon to be acceptable, to be acceptable to AOC.
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  Speaker 1: What about Congresswoman Tlaib?
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  Speaker 4: Folks like Ed Sheeran and everybody side with the billionaire class,
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  Speaker 4: with those that can benefit financially and benefit personally from
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  Speaker 4: the status quo.
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  Speaker 1: You know, shame on them. I think it turns around
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  Speaker 1: and comes right back on them. Yeah, the Ed Sheeran blowback,
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  Speaker 1: I don't get at all. He is the nicest guy
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  Speaker 1: in the music industry, according to everyone. Here is a
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  Speaker 1: guy that tries to avoid controversy all of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And now he's in the middle of it because of
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  Speaker 1: this selfish idiot, Macklemore, who's trying to make a comeback.
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  Speaker 1: He put out a statement yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters, criticism of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is
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  Speaker 3: a criticism of you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't do it at somebody else's concert.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to be the biggest problem. You just don't
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  Speaker 1: do it at somebody else's concert. You're not even the headliner.
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  Speaker 1: It's a gift that you got to open for Ed Sheeran,
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  Speaker 1: and look how much you screwed the guy. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe that. And by the way, this isn't a guy
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  Speaker 1: that just as attacked Israel. In a couple of concerts,
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  Speaker 1: he attacked America. Yeah, f * * * America.
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  Speaker 5: And there you go. That's your hero.
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  Speaker 1: There's your hero. But I really am starting to truly
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  Speaker 1: believe this is really just the crazy left. These are
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  Speaker 1: the people that go after ICE. These are the people
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  Speaker 1: that protest all the time. You know why I feel that?
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  Speaker 1: Because as Curtis mentioned a moment ago, he is going
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  Speaker 1: to appear at Lincoln Financial Field.
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  Speaker 5: It's sold out.
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  Speaker 1: It's been sold out for a while. And nobody was
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  Speaker 1: coming for the opening act. Trust me. They were all
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  Speaker 1: going for Ed Sheeran. So when I saw he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be at Lincoln Financial Field, I went to
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  Speaker 1: try to get tickets. I thought, oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I would love to go see Ed Sheeran. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him before. I've seen him at Lincoln Financial Field before.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to go see him again. I couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: a ticket. Everything is high priced. Up in the front, $ 800, $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all resale at this point. He is completely
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  Speaker 1: sold out. And it seems to me, that people who
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  Speaker 1: are supporting him want to go see him. So it
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  Speaker 1: may be that this isn't going to hurt his tour.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually going to help his tour. And the more
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  Speaker 1: that AOC, Tlaib, and the crazy left go after him,
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  Speaker 1: the more popular he's going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let me take you back, Clary. There's history here.
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  Speaker 5: I know you don't like to hear it. Country Joe
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  Speaker 5: and the Fish. Remember Country Joe and the Fish? Sure
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  Speaker 5: I do. How many times did they scream out, F-U-C,
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  Speaker 5: you know what? as part of their song against America
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  Speaker 5: during the Vietnam War.
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  Speaker 1: At Woodstock, especially.
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  Speaker 5: Not just there.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know they did, but it was Woodstock. That's famous.
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  Speaker 5: Right, but all over. This is all part of music. Counterculture,
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  Speaker 5: making political statements. Some people don't want to do politics. Clearly,
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  Speaker 5: Ed did not want to do politics, although now things
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  Speaker 5: have surfaced where he was very pro-Ukrainian, you know, raising money.
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  Speaker 5: to support the Ukrainians when they were being attacked by Russia.
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  Speaker 5: So he did take a stance. That's fine. But the
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  Speaker 5: point is, this is all part of music.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. There has been protest groups, yes. And
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  Speaker 1: during Woodstock and during the Vietnam War, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: agreed with them. Everybody agreed with them right now.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second. How do you bifurcate that? Because it
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  Speaker 1: kind of went away after that. I mean, yes, there
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  Speaker 1: was a huge protest in this country over the Vietnam War.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of the acts were supported by everybody
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  Speaker 1: when they were doing that. So it wasn't a counterculture
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  Speaker 1: at that point to do it. At Woodstock, almost everyone
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  Speaker 1: was up there against the Vietnam War. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: way anymore. That's the problem I have with history sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: You take a point in history and you try to
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  Speaker 1: relate it to today. Not many acts are that political.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's not many out there that
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  Speaker 1: are doing well by giving just a political concert. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I think you go Bruce Springsteen,
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  Speaker 1: end of list.
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  Speaker 5: Coldplay, Coldplay's been pro-Palestinian. Who is that? Chris Martin, I
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  Speaker 5: think he's the lead guy. He's always wearing a Palestinian
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  Speaker 5: flag on his shirt. There are some different groups. But
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand. This has always been a part of
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  Speaker 5: the musical scene. You either accept it, you don't accept it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what world.
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  Speaker 1: You live in, Larry. You had to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the 1970s to give an example. I mean, it just
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  Speaker 1: hasn't because people now want to be successful and they
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  Speaker 1: want to make money. and you don't want to offend
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  Speaker 1: many people in your audience or anybody in your audience.
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at all of the top acts
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  Speaker 1: now and throughout the last two decades, not going back
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  Speaker 1: to the 1970s, everybody's tried to stay away from politics
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  Speaker 1: as much as possible.
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  Speaker 5: Look, it's up to the artist. It's up to the
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  Speaker 5: person doing it. If they can attract an audience, good.
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  Speaker 5: If they can't attract an audience, they'll be In a
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  Speaker 5: venue that maybe there's 2,000 people, you know, that get
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  Speaker 5: sold tickets. He was the opening act.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was the opening act.
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  Speaker 5: Again, Ed shows him as the opening act. You were
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  Speaker 5: saying yesterday something about, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, he approved him. He didn't choose him. He approved
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  Speaker 1: him as the opening act. That's a big difference.
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  Speaker 5: That's a huge difference. This guy is such a big star,
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  Speaker 5: Ed Sheeran. You know damn well. They've had a friendship.
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  Speaker 5: They've agreed they've had a friendship. And in fact, yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: a little more information came out. So apparently everything was
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  Speaker 5: fine after MetLife, even with the controversy that emerged. Until
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  Speaker 5: all of a sudden the owner and operator of the
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  Speaker 5: New England Patriots and obviously the venue that they are
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  Speaker 5: playing in the 28th and 29th, because they're on a
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  Speaker 5: North American tour until December. Then they start a South
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  Speaker 5: American tour after the beginning of the year. So Bob
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  Speaker 5: Kraft talks to Sheeran and says, I want you not
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  Speaker 5: to have Macklemore as your opening act. And so Ed
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  Speaker 5: Sheeran did have conversations with Macklemore and they went back
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  Speaker 5: and forth. And so it was Ed Sheeran who determined,
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  Speaker 5: I can't have you.
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  Speaker 1: You're given part of the story and not the entire story.
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  Speaker 1: And the full story is he wanted $ 2 million to
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  Speaker 1: be donated to pro-Palestinian charities. One million by him, and
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  Speaker 1: he would give one million. So yes, he agreed that
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  Speaker 1: Macklemore was not going to help with ticket sales. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 5: But we didn't get everything. They are friends. Ed clearly understands, Sharon,
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  Speaker 5: that Macklemore has been pro-Palestinian in the past and has
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  Speaker 5: said pro-Palestinian things. So they've split. They've gone on their ways.
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  Speaker 5: Macklemore now has a renewed career because he's going to
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  Speaker 5: be invited to venues on his own. Especially in Europe,
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  Speaker 5: you go to Ireland or Scotland or a place like Spain,
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  Speaker 5: you'll pack the house and they'll bring their Palestinian flags.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe he won't do so well in America. We'll
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  Speaker 5: see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all because he kneecapped Ed Sheeran. Good for him.
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  Speaker 1: Way to go. That was wonderful. You got to play
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  Speaker 1: on the biggest stage that you've ever got to play on.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you do? You make it horrible for
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  Speaker 1: the opening act.
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  Speaker 5: So you're saying your prediction for Saturday... when they're at
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  Speaker 5: the facility in Philadelphia, Lincoln Field. Packed house, nobody will
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  Speaker 5: be flying Palestinian flags, no empty seats. Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's going to be empty seats. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely sold out, and it's difficult to get tickets to,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you want to sit anywhere close to the stage.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, was I done?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to say, unrelated to that, I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to bring you back to 2023, right after the October
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  Speaker 5: 7th attack, that horrible attack.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Remember the Dallas Cowboys are playing the Philadelphia Eagles in
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  Speaker 5: their home stadium, Lincoln Field. And George Norcross, big Democratic honcho,
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  Speaker 5: owned the Philadelphia Inquirer for a while. He has his
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  Speaker 5: box there. He put up an Israeli announcement. American flag together,
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  Speaker 5: you know, right on the, and the owner, Lurie, because
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  Speaker 5: he has the lease. He doesn't own the state. He told,
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  Speaker 5: you tell him to get those flags down there, even
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  Speaker 5: though Black Lives Matter was all over the stadium. Remember,
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  Speaker 5: they dragged Norcross out. And remember who stayed in the
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  Speaker 5: box behind because he's a Dallas Cowboy fan? El Jefe.
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  Speaker 5: Chris Christie. He wouldn't leave with his buddy Norcross. So
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  Speaker 5: there have been situations like this. Let it play out.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see what happens. I think Ed Sheeran will have
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  Speaker 5: a great career, but he's going to catch a lot
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  Speaker 5: of bull. I wanted to ask you, I forgot about Pink,
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  Speaker 5: because Pink was at the top level of performers. She's
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  Speaker 5: the one who weighed in on this first against Macklemore.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people wondered because she got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of blowback. But then she eventually said, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I was born Jewish. I just wanted to let you know.
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  Speaker 5: But you know a story about her. Where did she
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  Speaker 5: come from originally?
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  Speaker 1: She's from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody knew she was going to make it big at
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  Speaker 1: that time. And she is feisty as hell. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you remember. Of course you remember. Everybody remembers
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  Speaker 1: when Kanye West– went up and took the microphone from
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and said, Beyonce should have won that award.
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  Speaker 1: When he went backstage, Pink got right in his face
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  Speaker 1: and said, try that S with me. Try that with me.
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  Speaker 1: And she was surrounded, if you remember, by these off-road bikers.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so- He kept going, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I apologize, but she was red-faced and ready to take
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  Speaker 1: him on.
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  Speaker 5: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a tough one. Is Hollywood making a comeback?
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  Speaker 1: There are signs that they are, plus a chance to
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  Speaker 1: see Richard Marks next. Well, I'll tell you what, Spider-Man
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  Speaker 1: Brand New Day just fell for the first time from
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  Speaker 1: number one at the box office. Box office weekend after
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  Speaker 1: weekend after weekend. It was number one, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: movie came around. And now it is the highest grossing
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  Speaker 1: movie of all time at the domestic box office with
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  Speaker 1: 936.7 million. So it's definitely going to go over a billion. domestically,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big deal. So I hope you rub it
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  Speaker 1: in Joe Neumeier's face. Because remember, you caused him to
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  Speaker 1: up his rating to 3.5% because he was at 3%.
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  Speaker 5: And you were like, what? What is wrong with you, Joe?
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  Speaker 5: And then you shamed him into that. So I hope
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  Speaker 5: you really just rub this into his face. Will he
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  Speaker 5: be on with us tomorrow, Natalie? Joe Neumeier is always
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  Speaker 5: on with us. Our movie reviewer on front. That's the plan. Please,
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  Speaker 5: rub it in his face.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll appreciate that. I would love to. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be proud to do it. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talk back, so let's get to them. First, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the school systems and the regents going away.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 8: I graduated from Brooklyn Tech in the late 80s, and
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  Speaker 8: I took the regents exams. It was no big deal,
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  Speaker 8: but I think this day and age, you know, just
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  Speaker 8: get rid of it. I mean, the school system has
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  Speaker 8: failed our children for four years, so what the heck?
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  Speaker 8: Just let them pass and let them get their diploma,
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  Speaker 8: be able to get some work. Have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have the Regents, you're kind of burying
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  Speaker 1: the evidence, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but Larry, when you travel the country and I
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  Speaker 5: ask you, do you have Regents? We don't have Regents.
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  Speaker 1: No, nobody does.
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  Speaker 5: Right, so maybe we don't need Regents. The rest of
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  Speaker 5: the country somehow survived without Regents.
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  Speaker 9: Guys, Ed Sheeran made a statement and a comment that
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  Speaker 9: so many people and artists, Hank Williams Jr., Kid Rock,
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  Speaker 9: so many others are coming forward and say, we'll open
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  Speaker 9: up for you. We have no problem doing that. Jason Aldean,
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  Speaker 9: I believe, said it. This guy is going to be fine.
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  Speaker 9: He even said, these guys, I should be open enough
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  Speaker 9: for them. That's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. You're right. You're exactly right.
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  Speaker 5: Big stars.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine Jason Aldean opening up for him, opening
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  Speaker 1: for somebody? What a statement that would be. Jason Aldean
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  Speaker 1: sells out.
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  Speaker 5: I like Jason, but he's associated with Trump, as you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they're all conservatives.
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  Speaker 5: I know. And please don't, Kid Rock, please. Put him
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  Speaker 5: on the sideline. Don't associate him with Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 1: I think the phone call ends when Jason Aldean calls.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Did I say yes fast enough?
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  Speaker 10: I think a good example of politics in modern music
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  Speaker 10: would be a successful band like U2 lecturing Americans about politics. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 10: they're from Ireland charging over $ 500 for general admission. And
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  Speaker 10: you got powerhouses, country bands like the Dixie Chicks who
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  Speaker 10: got canceled speaking out against.
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  Speaker 9: The Iraq war.
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  Speaker 10: And America and the president at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great examples. I forgot all about the Dixie Chicks.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Dixie Chicks because they did it overseas.
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  Speaker 5: Their whole idea was, hey, you're going to attack the country,
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  Speaker 5: criticize the country at that time, do it here and
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  Speaker 5: terra firma U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Of A.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's where most of the blowback came from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 6: I want to weigh in on all of these artists
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  Speaker 6: going on stage. and promoting their own political beliefs and ideologies,
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  Speaker 6: and trying to indoctrinate all of their fans that are
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  Speaker 6: going out. Listen, I went to the Rush concert, okay,
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  Speaker 6: at Madison Square. I went to two shows, and Geddy
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  Speaker 6: Lee did not mention anything about politics. We had a
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  Speaker 6: great time. We enjoyed music, and everybody left and right
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  Speaker 6: were holding hands and singing together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way to do it. It's welcoming to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to make anybody in your audience feel alienated.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to have a political concert, say that
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time. Why not do what you have with
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  Speaker 1: the movie rating systems, right? If it's going to be political,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you have a P there. Possible political. That's it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I like about Springsteen when he goes
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  Speaker 1: politics is he tells people. He says this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a political concert.
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  Speaker 2: Why are the Democrats so afraid of dying from A.I.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be dead from climate change soon anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Very good.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, I have an important question for Mr. Larry Menti.
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  Speaker 8: I'm coming out of Philly for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 8: and I always eat at two cheesesteak places every time,
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  Speaker 8: different places. Can you recommend your favorite cheesesteak place? Mine
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: is John's Roast Pork right by the Ikea. That's top
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  Speaker 8: of my list. I've eaten at over 10 cheesesteak places
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  Speaker 8: over the past few years.
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  Speaker 5: Have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really good choice. Don't go to the
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  Speaker 1: touristy places. Don't go to Pat's. Don't go to Jim's.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go all the way to Roxborough to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: get this, but go to Roxborough and go to Della Sandro's.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be amazed at their cheesesteaks, and I
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  Speaker 1: try to get them as much as I can. There
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  Speaker 1: will be a line, but trust me, it is worth
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  Speaker 1: the wait.
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  Speaker 7: Forget the blue mailbox. Why do we need the post office?
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  Speaker 7: We do not need the United States post office. It
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: could go away and nobody's going to miss it. All
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: I get is junk in my mailbox. Those people come
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: here to bring junk. Everybody else can do a better
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: job than the U.S. post office.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Get rid of them. Remember, at the end of the
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: show today, I give you an update on mail theft.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Remember. Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 830 News, Daria.
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  Speaker 11: Cloudy, warm, and muggy today. You might want to take
• 17:36
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• 17:38
  Speaker 11: this afternoon and a high of 80 degrees. We are
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: learning more about the cost of the war with Iran,
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: especially on how it's impacting U.S. military assets.
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  Speaker 12: A rare look at the toll it's taking on American
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: military assets.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: In the region.
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  Speaker 12: ABC News obtaining images sent to us by active service
• 17:56
  Speaker 12: members who we are not naming show the extent of
• 17:59
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• 18:03
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  Speaker 11: ABC's Mary Bruce, New Jersey's Attorney General's Office, is looking
• 18:08
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• 18:11
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• 18:14
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• 18:17
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• 18:21
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• 18:31
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• 18:34
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• 18:38
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• 18:40
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• 18:43
  Speaker 13: died in June after collapsing and then later evidence showed
• 18:46
  Speaker 13: the horse had a lethal amount of a highly toxic shrub.
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: I'm Scott Pringle, WDOR News.
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• 18:57
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• 18:59
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• 19:02
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• 19:05
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• 19:09
  Speaker 11: Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Act.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: On to the Senate.
• 19:13
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• 19:16
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• 19:19
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• 19:23
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• 19:29
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• 19:34
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• 19:47
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• 19:51
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 20:04
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• 20:06
  Speaker 10: Up next.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Larry Mendte has all the details. It is a story
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: that is becoming a national story as we speak, the
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Philly serial killer. And right now, don't miss our iHeart
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  Speaker 1: Just a shocking story, a sickening story out of Philadelphia
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that you're hearing early on. It's going to be national
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: news for... The next several weeks, a house of horrors
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: was found in the Olney section in a modest house
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And there they believe seven women were killed.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: They have identified five of them as some missing women.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So five of them have been identified. They're still going
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: through videos to find out if the other two were there.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Let me back up a little bit. The home is
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: owned by Raymond Horsch. Now, he died last year at
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the age of 82, so he escaped all the trouble.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But apparently, the pornography that he was shooting in that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: house and Please, anyone in the media, stop calling him
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a filmmaker. Stop saying he was an avant-garde filmmaker. He
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: shot porn. That was it. And he shot some sick porn.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He's a sick, disgusting pornographer. And please, stop trying to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: elevate what he did. He's also a murderer. So he
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: would lure these women to his house. He and his son, Eugene,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: who apparently has taken over the family business. He and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: his son Eugene would lure these women into his house
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  Speaker 1: for money, and then they would have sex acts with them,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and then they would kill some of them. And he
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: recorded everything. There is over a million videos. And online
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: videos and videos on tapes all over the house and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: photographs all over the house, over a million of them.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And they are sickening. As they're going through it, the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: police have to take breaks because they're watching horrible stuff.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: They're watching women getting choked till they're unconscious and sometimes
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: killed on video. And it's woman after woman after woman.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: So there's hundreds of these women. Now, some of them
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: apparently survived. Some of them didn't. They went into the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: house and they never came back. So how did this
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: go on for years and years and years and nobody
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: knew about it? Well, everybody knew he made pornography in
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Everybody did. Even the kids would say, that's
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the pornographer right there. You know, they knew who Raymond
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Horsch was. But his son apparently wasn't as careful as Raymond.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So his son last, in June, June 19th, was hanging
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: out in his BMW, his black BMW, apparently porn does
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: bring in some money, outside of Independence Hall. And a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: park guard saw him there, thought, man, he's parked illegally
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and he's there a little bit too long, thought it
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was a drug dealer. So this park trooper went over
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and asked him who he was and wanted to see ID.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And the woman gave the ID of Blair Tanzelli when he,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that was the license that she had. So he ran it,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, of course, the woman's been missing for 10 years,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Blair Tanzelli. And then they thought, okay, this is serious.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: They called the NYPD. They got it. They got a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: search warrant for his place. And you should hear the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: cops describing this. They said it was stunning what they
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: had inside there. And when they got all the videos
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and they saw women being choked, women being killed on camera,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they realized, my God, this is a serial killer. This
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: is a father and son serial killing team. And they
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: have been working there for years. So they don't know
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: how many women it's going to be. They believe seven
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: right now. Five they've identified. They believe there's two more
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that they've seen. But they're only 30% through this. So
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this could be one of the most horrendous crimes in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: history when it's all said and done.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I've seen the picture of the son. He's heinous.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: So is the father.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: I've seen the pictures of some of the victims so far.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: They appear to be white women. I don't know if
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: it's sort of the MO of what we saw with
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the Gilgo Beach murders, obviously different with Architect Rex, but
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: they had been street hookers that he just killed. Some
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: of them he brought into his basement. Nobody saw anything.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: What kind of neighborhood is this in Philly? I mean,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: you've covered every conceivable story in Philly that– Other than
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: the kids knowing that's the pornographer's house, that nobody might
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: ever have called in, you know, a request for some
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: kind of police intervention or some kind of investigation.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a mixed middle class community. It's pretty nice.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: The house was pretty nice. Um, they are all connected houses.
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  Speaker 1: They're not exactly row homes though, because they don't all
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: look the same, but it's, it's that kind of neighborhood.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And so it's a very old neighborhood and only on
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: two Avenue. And so, um, there was nothing that stood
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: out about it except for the fact. Now the neighbors
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: all knew what was going on in there. Everybody knew,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: except for the murder, they knew there was porn being
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: shot in there. And he was well known as a filmmaker, Raymond. So, uh,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Women coming in and out, that wouldn't seem all that
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: unusual if you're a filmmaker. Of course, if you meet
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a young actress, they're going to come in, they're going
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to audition for you. So I guess he got away
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: with it all this time because, you know, nobody bothers
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: nobody in those neighborhoods. And also, it all seemed feasible.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Are the bodies disposed of in the basement of the house?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. No, they can't find the bodies.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: None of the bodies.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: And only the son is alive.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so only the son will be able to talk
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: about this and tell us what happened. Right now, there's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: still a huge investigation going on. If you watch some
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of the national newscast, we just saw it on Fox
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a second ago. If you watch Fox, they have a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: huge police presence in the area, including what looks like
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a mobile crime lab. So this is going to probably
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: take days. I mean, they've been investigating this since mid-June.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And they're just now talking about it. So this is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: going to be one of the biggest stories over the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: next several weeks. And this man is going to go
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: down in history, he and his son, Raymond and Eugene Horsch,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: as the only father-son serial killers and one of the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: worst serial killers in history.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Larry, for bringing that to our attention. Any other developments,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: please keep us in touch with this story. It's going
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: to have national, international ramifications.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. When we come back, well, Benjamin Netanyahu is coming
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to town. What kind of reception is he going to get?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it when we come back. Well, it's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: official now. Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to New York to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: speak to the General Assembly of the UN next week.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And now all the questions are, will there be a protest,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: which it sounds like there will be, and will Zoran
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Mamdani be at that protest? You'll remember that he said
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: he was going to have him arrested. Then he found
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that he couldn't have him arrested. And then he said, well,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: maybe people will go out and protest. So the question is,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Are you urging people to go out and protest?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: To New Yorkers, I have never encouraged them to protest.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: What I have always told them is that they have
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the right to do so in this city. We respect
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that right, and this is a city that is proud
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: of the Constitution, proud of the First Amendment.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And will continue to do so. Did he urge people
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to go out there?
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Of course he did. But by the way, who knows,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: maybe Macklemore will show up. There's going to be a
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: lot of protests. There's been a big buildup to this.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: He becomes the Speaker of the General Assembly. With everybody else,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: it's going to tie up the city in knots. You know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the President will speak, Trump, before he meets with Xi
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: later on at the White House. So it's going to
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: be a big week. But I wouldn't be surprised since
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Macklemore's not going to be with Ed Sheeran on Saturday
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: in Philly if he's not at the protest on Sunday
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: in New York that kicks off the week. Also, update,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: as I said. Yesterday, if you didn't hear it, go
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: back on the podcast to the opening six o'clock hour
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: where I stopped two of the bands. on their motorbike
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: stealing mail which is a problem throughout our tri-state area
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: they go up to the blue mailboxes and with their belts,
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: and they're fully covered up. In some instances, they don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: even bother covering up, and they put stick-em on the belt,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: and they put it through this slot that had been
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: made even thinner to make your mail, and then they
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: pull it out. They go fishing. And I caught them
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: just in the beginning of that act with this stick-em
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: while they were preparing the belt. They had the letter
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: there that they had just opened, the first one. It
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: was to Chicago. And it turned out, Natalie, you were actually–
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: who the fine people were that had written it. I
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: read it on the air. They were fine people. Beautiful
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: note to their son who was just starting college in Chicago.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I think I found them. I did leave an email.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I have not gotten an email back. Don't know what
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: that means. And either I have the wrong email or
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I think she's probably thinking I'm a scam artist, which
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't blame her.
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: So, you know, I'm going to try again.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Well, if that fails, I will deliver it personally because
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: it is a wonderful, wonderful card they sent to their
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: son just starting college. I believe it's what? University of Chicago, right?
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Don't worry about it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: I just hope when I knock on the door to
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: return the original letter, they don't say, Curtis, thank you, but.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Why didn't you drop out? Yeah.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. Why didn't you drop out?
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: We're going to resolve this before the end of the weekend.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Why don't you send the email when they see it's you?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: They might email you back. That's true. Why didn't you
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: drop out?
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: That's true, Natalie. But also, just a PSA, do not
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: drop your mail in the blue mailbox. Bring it to
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: the post office. Give it to your postal delivery guy.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Because if not, you're Santa Claus. And there's a very
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: good chance the mail's going to be stolen.
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And the talk back in the morning and winner of
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti in the morning T-shirt
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: made us laugh at his sarcastic humor. I'm never confident.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Why are the Democrats so afraid of dying from AI?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Will they be dead from climate change soon anyway?
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: That was great.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Congratulations. And remember, the Talkback of the Week will win
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• 32:44
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• 32:48
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• 32:52
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• 33:00
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